A critical evaluation on maximum power point tracking methods for partial shading in PV systems

J Ahmed, Z Salam - Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, 2015 - Elsevier
As photovoltaic (PV) system suffers considerable energy loss due to partial shading (PS),
various approaches have been proposed to mitigate this problem. Among these, improving …

Path tracking of an autonomous ground vehicle with different payloads by hierarchical improved fuzzy dynamic sliding-mode control

CL Hwang, CC Yang, JY Hung - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy …, 2017 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A hierarchically improved fuzzy dynamical sliding-model control (HIFDSMC) is presented to
address the autonomous ground vehicle (AGV) path tracking problem. The proposed …

Wheel slip control of EVs based on sliding mode technique with conditional integrators

R De Castro, RE Araújo… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a new control system, based on field programmable gate array
technology, targeting the powertrain control of multi-motor electric vehicles (EVs). The …

Embedded control in wearable medical devices: Application to the artificial pancreas

S Zavitsanou, A Chakrabarty, E Dassau, FJ Doyle III - Processes, 2016 - mdpi.com
Significant increases in processing power, coupled with the miniaturization of processing
units operating at low power levels, has motivated the embedding of modern control systems …

Robust stability analysis and systematic design of single-input interval type-2 fuzzy logic controllers

T Kumbasar - IEEE Transactions on Fuzzy Systems, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent results on fuzzy control have shown that interval type-2 (IT2) fuzzy logic controllers
(FLCs) might achieve better control performance due to the additional degree of freedom …

FPGA-based reconfigurable control for fault-tolerant back-to-back converter without redundancy

M Shahbazi, P Poure, S Saadate… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, an FPGA-based fault-tolerant back-to-back converter without redundancy is
studied. Before fault occurrence, the fault-tolerant converter operates like a conventional …

Novel control algorithm for MPPT with Boost converters in photovoltaic systems

J Ramos-Hernanz, JM Lopez-Guede… - International Journal of …, 2017 - Elsevier
The great advances in efficiency and performance of photovoltaic modules would not be
very useful if they do not work close to their maximum power point (MPP). In this paper a …

A comparison of simulation and hardware-in-the-loop alternatives for digital control of power converters

A Sanchez, A de Castro… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Debugging digital controllers for power converters can be a problem because there are both
digital and analog components. This paper focuses on debugging digital controllers to be …

All-on-chip dq-frame based D-STATCOM control implementation in a low-cost FPGA

CA Sepulveda, JA Munoz, JR Espinoza… - IEEE Transactions …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In power electronics equipment, digital control is essential to obtaining a proper operation of
the devices. Typical implementations of this control use microprocessors, digital signal …

Sensorless predictive peak current control for boost converter using comprehensive compensation strategy

Q Tong, Q Zhang, R Min, X Zou, Z Liu… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
For a sensorless predictive-peak-current-controlled boost converter, the output voltage
steady-state error cannot be eliminated by voltage loop PI controller. The basic cause for this …