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Article
Equal Incremental Fuel Cost Approach for Multi Area Operation of Power System

Sudhakar A V V, Karri Chandram, Jaya Laxmi A, Sudhakar A V V, Karri Chandram, Jaya Laxmi A

Pages: 145-151

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This paper presents a novel approach, Equal Incremental fuel cost (λ-Concept) approach, for solving Multi Area Economic Dispatch (MAED) problem. It is a simple approach and developed from the basic observation of incremental fuel cost of an area. The proposed approach has been tested on 4-area system with four generators in each area and a large 2-area system consists of 120 generators. The suggested algorithm has been tested extensively by considering the different tie line power transfer limits and useful recommendations are provided. Further, the impact of tie line power transfer limits on total fuel cost is also discussed. It is found from the test cases that the proposed method is shown to be robust, very fast and extensible to include a large class of problems. The simulation results of the proposed method have been compared with the existing methods.

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Equal Incremental Fuel Cost Approach for Multi Area Operation of Power System

Sudhakar A V V, Karri Chandram, Jaya Laxmi A, Sudhakar A V V, Karri Chandram, Jaya Laxmi A

Pages: 10-16

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This paper presents a novel approach, Equal Incremental fuel cost (λ-Concept) approach, for solving Multi Area Economic Dispatch (MAED) problem. It is a simple approach and developed from the basic observation of incremental fuel cost of an area. The proposed approach has been tested on 4-area system with four generators in each area and a large 2-area system consists of 120 generators. The suggested algorithm has been tested extensively by considering the different tie line power transfer limits and useful recommendations are provided. Further, the impact of tie line power transfer limits on total fuel cost is also discussed. It is found from the test cases that the proposed method is shown to be robust, very fast and extensible to include a large class of problems. The simulation results of the proposed method have been compared with the existing methods.

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Feasibility Study of Off-Grid Rural Electrification in Iraq: A Case Study of the AL-Teeb Area

Husam A. Salim, Jabbar R. Rashed

Pages: 251-263

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In developing nations, such as Iraq, supplying power to isolated and rural border areas that are not connected to the grid continues to be a problem. At present, fossil fuels, which are significant causes of pollution, supply around 80% of the world’s energy demands. Nonetheless, drastically reducing reliance on fossil fuels has many reasons, including depleting global fossil fuel supplies, increasing costs and growing energy needs. The present study examines the electrical requirements of the Al-Teeb area, a city situated in the eastern region of Iraq, close to the Iranian border. This region has not been researched despite its tourism and oil significance. Despite the unpredictable expansion of many isolated locations in Iraq in recent years, the number of generation stations has not changed. Supplying energy to these places will require considerable time and money. Photovoltaics (PV), wind turbines (WTs), diesel generators (DGs), batteries and converters combined on the basis of their compatibility under three distinct scenarios comprise the system’s components. Considering the lowest net present cost (NPC) and cost of energy (COE) of all the examined scenarios, PV, WTs, batteries and DGs are the most economical solutions for the Al-Teeb area. Number of PV (1,215), number of WTs (59), number of DGs (13), number of batteries (3,138), number of converters (47), COE (0.155 US$/kWh), NPC (14.2 million US$) and initial capital cost (4.91 million US$) are revealed by the results. Finally, the results are confirmed using another global optimization method, namely, modified particle swarm optimization.

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Encrypted Vehicular Communication Using Wireless Controller Area Network

Mohammed Al-Qaraghuli, Saadaldeen Rashid Ahmed Ahmed, Muhammad Ilyas

Pages: 17-24

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In this paper, we focus on ensuring encrypted vehicular communication using wireless controller area network performance at high node densities, by means of Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) algorithms. We analyses the effect of the vehicular communication parameters, message-rate, data-rate, transmission power and carrier sensing threshold, on the application performance. After a state-of-the-art analysis, we propose a data-rate DSRC algorithm. Simulation studies show that DSRC performs better than other decentralized vehicular communication algorithms for a wide range of application requirements and densities. Vehicular communication plays one of the most important roles for future autonomous vehicle. We have systematically investigated the impact of vehicular communication using the MATLAB application platform and achieved an accuracy of 93.74% after encrypting all the communications between the vehicles and securing them by applying the encryption on V2V communication in comparison with the existing system of Sensor Networks which stands at 92.97%. The transmission time for the encryption is 165 seconds while the rate of encryption is as low as 120 Mbps for the proposed awareness range of vehicles to vehicle using DSRC algorithm in Wireless-Controller Area Network for communication. Experimental results show that our proposed method performs 3% better than the recently developed algorithms.

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Mobile radio propagation path loss simulation for two districts of different buildings structures in Mosul-city

Farhad E. Mahmood

Pages: 78-82

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In this paper two theoretical models have been considered for the prediction of path loss for two different districts in Mosul city, using MATLAB 7.4 program. The Walfisch-Ikegami (W-I) model for uniform heights and similar buildings in the Karama district . The other model is Okumura-Hata (OH) model applied for irregular and dissimilar buildings in the Almajmoa'a district. The information buildings heights are obtained from the civil Eng. Depart. in Mosul university. In this paper it can be shown that The effect of distance in regular area (karama) on path loss is about 10 dB larger than irregular area (Almajmoa'a), and The effect of varying antenna height in regular area (karama) on path loss is about 7 dB greater than irregular area (Almajmoa'a) for 40 meter variation.

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Tuning of Load Frequency PID Controller of Electric Power System using Metaheuristic Algorithms

Pasala Gopi Research Scholar, E E E, Dr. P. Linga Reddy Professor, E E E

Pages: 30-42

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This paper investigates Load Frequency Control of multi area inter connected power system having different turbines with PID controller. The gain values of controller are optimized using different Metaheuristic Algorithms. The performance and validity of designed controllers were checked on multi area interconnected power system with various Step Load Perturbations. Finally, the performance of proposed controllers was compared with conventional controller and from the result it was proved that the proposed controller exhibits superior performance than conventional controller for various Step Load Perturbations.

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A Multiplier-less Implementation of Two-Dimensional Circular-Support Wavelet Transform on FPGA

Jassim M. Abdul-Jabbar, Zahraa Talal Abede, Akram A. Dawood

Pages: 16-28

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In this paper, a two-dimensional (2-D) circular-support wavelet transform (2-D CSWT) is presented. 2-D CSWT is a new geometrical image transform, which can efficiently represent images using 2-D circular spectral split schemes (circularly- decomposed frequency subspaces). 2-D all-pass functions and lattice structure are used to produce 1-level circular symmetric 2-D discrete wavelet transform with approximate linear phase 2-D filters. The classical one-dimensional (1-D) analysis Haar filter bank branches H 0 (z) and H 1 (z) which work as low-pass and high-pass filters, respectively are transformed into their 2-D counterparts H 0 (z 1 ,z 2 ) and H 1 (z 1 ,z 2 ) by applying a circular-support version of the digital spectral transformation (DST). The designed 2-D wavelet filter bank is realized in a separable architecture. The proposed architecture is simulated using Matlab program to measure the deflection ratio (DR) of the high frequency coefficient to evaluate its performance and compare it with the performance of the classical 2-D wavelet architecture. The correlation factor between the input and reconstructed images is also calculated for both architectures. The FPGA (Spartan-3E) Kit is used to implement the resulting architecture in a multiplier-less manner and to calculate the die area and the critical path or maximum frequency of operation. The achieved multiplier-less implementation takes a very small area from FPGA Kit (the die area in 3-level wavelet decomposition takes 300 slices with 7% occupation ratio only at a maximum frequency of 198.447 MHz).

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Novel Memory Structures in QCA Nano Technology

Ali H. Majeed, Esam Alkaldy, Mohd S. Zainal, Danial MD. Nor

Pages: 119-124

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Quantum-dot Cellular Automata (QCA) is a new emerging technology for designing electronic circuits in nanoscale. QCA technology comes to overcome the CMOS limitation and to be a good alternative as it can work in ultra-high-speed. QCA brought researchers attention due to many features such as low power consumption, small feature size in addition to high frequency. Designing circuits in QCA technology with minimum costs such as cells count and the area is very important. This paper presents novel structures of D-latch and D-Flip Flop with the lower area and cell count. The proposed Flip-Flop has SET and RESET ability. The proposed latch and Flip-Flop have lower complexity compared with counterparts in terms of cell counts by 32% and 26% respectively. The proposed circuits are designed and simulated in QCADesigner software.

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Evaluation of Electric Energy Losses in Kirkuk Distribution Electric System Area

Sameer S. Mustafa ., Mohammed H. Yasen, Hussein H. Abdullah, Hadi K. Hazaa

Pages: 144-150

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Correct calculations of losses are important for several reasons. There are two basic methods that can be used to calculate technical energy losses, a method based on subtraction of metered energy purchased and metered energy sold to customers and a method based on modeling losses in individual components of the system. For considering the technical loss in distribution system included: transmission line losses, power transformer losses, distribution line losses and low-voltage transformer losses. This work presents an evaluation of the power losses in Kirkuk electric distribution system area and submit proposals and appropriate solutions and suggestions to reduce the losses . A program under Visual Basic was designed to calculate and evaluate electrical energy losses in electrical power systems.

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Mosul University WLAN Security: Evaluation, Analysis and Improvement

Omar Ahmed Hachum

Pages: 138-143

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In this paper, Mosul University Wireless Local Area Network (MUWLAN) security will be evaluated. The evaluation was made to test the confidentiality, integrity and availability of the MUWLAN. Addressing these issues will help in ensuring tighter security. After the evaluation, serious security pitfalls were found that can allow any attacker to have access to the MUWLAN and uses their internet service. Based on the obtained results, suggestions for improvement were made to tighten the security of Mosul University wireless local area network. Keyword : - WLAN security, WEP encryption, PTW attack, Wireshark, MITM attack, SSLStrip attack.

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Advanced Neural Network-Based Load Frequency Regulation in Two-Area Power Systems

Mohammed Taha Yunis, Mohamed DJEMEL

Pages: 145-155

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In this paper, enhancing dynamic performance in power systems through load frequency control (LFC) is explored across diverse operating scenarios. A new Neural Network Model Predictive Controller (NN-MPC) specifically tailored for two-zone load frequency power systems is presented. ” Make your paper more scientific. The NN-MPC marries the predictive accuracy of neural networks with the robust capabilities of model predictive control, employing the nonlinear Levenberg-Marquardt method for optimization. Utilizing local area error deviation as feedback, the proposed controller’s efficacy is tested against a spectrum of operational conditions and systemic variations. Comparative simulations with a Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) reveal the proposed NN-MPC’s superior performance, underscoring its potential as a formidable solution in power system regulation.

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Self-Powered Wide Area Infrastructure Based on WiMAX for Real Time Applications of Smart Grid

Firas S. Alsharbaty, Qutaiba I. Ali

Pages: 92-100

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This work presents a wireless communication network (WCN) infrastructure for the smart grid based on the technology of Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMAX) to address the main real-time applications of the smart grid such as Wide Area Monitoring and Control (WAMC), video surveillance, and distributed energy resources (DER) to provide low cost, flexibility, and expansion. Such wireless networks suffer from two significant impairments. On one hand, the data of real- time applications should deliver to the control center under robust conditions in terms of reliability and latency where the packet loss is increased with the increment of the number of industrial clients and transmission frequency rate under the limited capacity of WiMAX base station (BS). This research suggests wireless edge computing using WiMAX servers to address reliability and availability. On the other hand, BSs and servers consume affected energy from the power grid. Therefore, the suggested WCN is enhanced by green self-powered based on solar energy to compensate for the expected consumption of energy. The model of the system is built using an analytical approach and OPNET modeler. The results indicated that the suggested WCN based on green WiMAX BS and green edge computing can handle the latency and data reliability of the smart grid applications successfully and with a self-powered supply. For instance, WCN offered latency below 20 msec and received data reliability up to 99.99% in the case of the heaviest application in terms of data.

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Optimizing the Performance of MOS Stacks

Sherif M. Sharroush

Pages: 85-98

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CMOS stack circuits find applications in multi-input exclusive-OR gates and barrel-shifters. Specifically, in wide fan-in CMOS NAND/NOR gates, the need arises to connect a relatively large number of NMOS/PMOS transistors in series in the pull-down network (PDN)/pull-up network (PUN). The resulting time delay is relatively high and the power consumption accordingly increases due to the need to deal with the various internal capacitances. The problem gets worse with increasing the number of inputs. In this paper, the performance of conventional static CMOS stack circuits is investigated quantitatively and a figure of merit expressing the performance is defined. The word “performance” includes the following three metrics; the average propagation delay, the power consumption, and the area. The optimum scaling factor corresponding to the best performance is determined. It is found that under the worst-case low-to-high transition at the output (that is, the input combination that results in the longest time delay in case of logic “1” at the output), there is an optimum value for the sizing of the PDN in order to minimize the average propagation delay. The proposed figure of merit is evaluated for different cases with the results discussed. The adopted models and the drawn conclusions are verified by comparison with simulation results adopting the 45 nm CMOS technology.

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Estimation of the Consumer Peak Load for the Iraqi Distribution System Using intelligent Methods

M. A. Al-Nama, M. S. Al-Hafid, A. S. Al-Fahadi

Pages: 180-184

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The drastic increase of residential load consumption in recent years result in over loading feeder lines and transformers for the Iraqi northern area distribution system especially in the city of Mosul. Solution for this problem require up to date research consumers load study to find the proper solution to stop excess overload in the transformers and the feeders. This paper include the regional survey for samples of consumers representing typical types of different standard of living and energy consumption by distributing questioners contain list of information such as load type in daily use. Also current readings are recorded for the individual consumer for the months of the year 2006. In addition to those readings, energy consumption is recorded once every two months. The registered readings are used in conjunction with the list of questionnaires to find a sample (for different loads) that coincide with the list of questionnaires for current and energy readings. Resulting in the feasibility of using the sample to know the peak value of current for any consumer even if he is not included in the list of questionnaires and for any new consumer, since it become possible to decide the size of the transformers and feeder lines, to overcome the problem of overloading in any part of the distribution system. The Artificial Neural Network (ANN) is used in this paper to find the above mentioned sample.

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Internet of Things Based Oil Pipeline Spill Detection System Using Deep Learning and LAB Colour Algorithm

Muhammad H. Obaid, Ali H. Hamad

Pages: 137-148

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Given the role that pipelines play in transporting crude oil, which is considered the basis of the global economy and across different environments, hundreds of studies revolve around providing the necessary protection for it. Various technologies have been employed in this pursuit, differing in terms of cost, reliability, and efficiency, among other factors. Computer vision has emerged as a prominent technique in this field, albeit requiring a robust image-processing algorithm for spill detection. This study employs image segmentation techniques to enable the computer to interpret visual information and images effectively. The research focuses on detecting spills in oil pipes caused by leakage, utilizing images captured by a drone equipped with a Raspberry Pi and Pi camera. These images, along with their global positioning system (GPS) location, are transmitted to the base station using the message queuing telemetry transport Internet of Things (MQTT IoT) protocol. At the base station, deep learning techniques, specifically Holistically-Nested Edge Detection (HED) and extreme inception (Xception) networks, are employed for image processing to identify contours. The proposed algorithm can detect multiple contours in the images. To pinpoint a contour with a black color, representative of an oil spill, the CIELAB color space (LAB) algorithm effectively removes shadow effects. If a contour is detected, its area and perimeter are calculated to determine whether it exceeds a certain threshold. The effectiveness of the proposed system was tested on Iraqi oil pipeline systems, demonstrating its capability to detect spills of different sizes.

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Design and Implementation of Wireless 4-20 mA Current Simulator

Ali F. Halihal Nassiriyah

Pages: 155-163

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This paper presents new device to simulate and inject a 4-20 mA current signal to PLC and control on this signal wirelessly. The proposed simulator device has been designed and implemented by a PIC 18f4520 microcontroller and an Ethernet click. This device is connected to Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) via Wi-Fi router using TCP/IP protocol. The simulator has two channels for 4-20 mA current output signals with two channels for digital output signals, controlled by a laptop or a smart mobile. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate the usefulness of the Wi-Fi wireless technology for remote controlling on the 4-20 mA output current signal and the digital output signal in the designed simulator device. The experiments indicate that the proposed wireless simulator outputs the 4- 20 mA current with high accuracy and very fast response. The experiments also indicate that the proposed wireless simulator is easy, comfortable and convenient practically to use in the test operations of protections, interlocks and integrity of analog input channels for PLC compared to the wired simulator.

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Design and implementation of monitoring and warning (IOT) system for electricity poles

Jumana Amer AL-Hammoudi, Basil H. Jasim

Pages: 105-111

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There are many serious accidents on human life caused by electric current columns, and it is possible for the Internet of Things to find solutions to prevent the risks that occur, as in many fields such as medicine, agriculture, industry and others. In this paper, we will show monitoring and tracking of the current that passes through the electrical poles and the possible leakage, in addition to monitoring the temperature and humidity in the area, and knowing the condition of the light in the column according to morning and evening, this proposed system that will perform a general purpose added to the region. using Open source NODE MCU board, GPS positioning, current sensor, temperature and humidity sensor that provide desired data via open source platforms that we have chosen to be ThingSpeak that easily to handle.

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Authentication Healthcare Scheme in WBAN

Abdullah Mohammed Rashid, Ali A. Yassin, Abdulla J. Y. Aldarwish, Aqeel A. Yaseen, Hamid Alasadi, Ammar Asaad, Alzahraa J. Mohammed

Pages: 118-127

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A wireless body area network (WBAN) connects separate sensors in many places of the human body, such as clothes, under the skin. WBAN can be used in many domains such as health care, sports, and control system. In this paper, a scheme focused on managing a patient’s health care is presented based on building a WBAN that consists of three components, biometric sensors, mobile applications related to the patient, and a remote server. An excellent scheme is proposed for the patient’s device, such as a mobile phone or a smartwatch, which can classify the signal coming from a biometric sensor into two types, normal and abnormal. In an abnormal signal, the device can carry out appropriate activities for the patient without requiring a doctor as a first case. The patient does not respond to the warning message in a critical case sometimes, and the personal device sends an alert to the patient’s family, including his/her location. The proposed scheme can preserve the privacy of the sensitive data of the patient in a protected way and can support several security features such as mutual authentication, key management, anonymous password, and resistance to malicious attacks. These features have been proven depending on the Automated Validation of Internet Security Protocols and Applications. Moreover, the computation and communication costs are efficient compared with other related schemes.

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A Comparative Study of Deep Learning Methods-Based Object/Image Categorization

Saad Albawi, Layth Kamil Almajmaie, Ali J. Abboud

Pages: 168-177

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In recent years, there has been a considerable rise in the applications in which object or image categorization is beneficial for example, analyzing medicinal images, assisting persons to organize their collections of photos, recognizing what is around self-driving vehicles, and many more. These applications necessitate accurately labeled datasets, in their majority involve an extensive diversity in the types of images, from cats or dogs to roads, landscapes, and so forth. The fundamental aim of image categorization is to predict the category or class for the input image by specifying to which it belongs. For human beings, this is not a considerable thing, however, learning computers to perceive represents a hard issue that has become a broad area of research interest, and both computer vision techniques and deep learning algorithms have evolved. Conventional techniques utilize local descriptors for finding likeness between images, however, nowadays; progress in technology has provided the utilization of deep learning algorithms, especially the Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) to auto-extract representative image patterns and features for classification The fundamental aim of this paper is to inspect and explain how to utilize the algorithms and technologies of deep learning to accurately classify a dataset of images into their respective categories and keep model structure complication to a minimum. To achieve this aim, must focus precisely and accurately on categorizing the objects or images into their respective categories with excellent results. And, specify the best deep learning-based models in image processing and categorization. The developed CNN-based models have been proposed and a lot of pre-training models such as (VGG19, DenseNet201, ResNet152V2, MobileNetV2, and InceptionV3) have been presented, and all these models are trained on the Caltech-101 and Caltech-256 datasets. Extensive and comparative experiments were conducted on this dataset, and the obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed models. The obtained results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed models. The accuracy for Caltech-101 and Caltech-256 datasets was (98.06% and 90%) respectively.

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Increasing WSN Lifetime using Clustering and Fault Tolerance Methods

Sama Hussam Sabah, Muayad Sadik Croock

Pages: 94-99

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Energy consumption problems in wireless sensor networks are an essential aspect of our days where advances have been made in the sizes of sensors and batteries, which are almost very small to be placed in the patient's body for remote monitoring. These sensors have inadequate resources, such as battery power that is difficult to replace or recharge. Therefore, researchers should be concerned with the area of saving and controlling the quantities of energy consumption by these sensors efficiently to keep it as long as possible and increase its lifetime. In this paper energy-efficient and fault-tolerance strategy is proposed by adopting the fault tolerance technique by using the self-checking process and sleep scheduling mechanism for avoiding the faults that may cause an increase in power consumption as well as energy-efficient at the whole network. this is done by improving the LEACH protocol by adding these proposed strategies to it. Simulation results show that the recommended method has higher efficiency than the LEACH protocol in power consumption also can prolong the network lifetime. In addition, it can detect and recover potential errors that consume high energy.

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Chaos Algorithm versus Traditional and Optimal Approaches for Regulating Line Frequency of Steam Power System

Ahmed A. AbdElhafez, Ali M. Yosuf

Pages: 120-126

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Load Frequency Control (LFC) is a basic control strategy for proper operation of the power system. It ensures the ability of each generator in regulating its output power in such way to maintain system frequency and tie-line power of the interconnected system at prescribed levels. This article introduces comprehensive comparative study between Chaos Optimization Algorithm (COA) and optimal control approaches, such as Linear Quadratic Regulator (LQR), and Optimal Pole Shifting (OPS) regarding the tuning of LFC controller. The comparison is extended to the control approaches that result in zero steady-state frequency error such as Proportional Integral (PI) and Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controllers. Ziegler-Nicholas method is widely adopted for tuning such controllers. The article then compares between PI and PID controllers tuned via Ziegler-Nicholas and COA. The optimal control approaches as LQR and OPS have the characteristic of steady-state error. Moreover, they require the access for full state variables. This limits their applicability. Whereas, Ziegler-Nicholas PI and PID controllers have relatively long settling time and high overshoot. The controllers tuned via COA remedy the defects of optimal and zero steady-state controllers. The performance adequacy of the proposed controllers is assessed for different operating scenarios. Matlab and its dynamic platform, Simulink, are used for stimulating the system under concern and the investigated control techniques. The simulation results revealed that COA results in the smallest settling time and overshoot compared with traditional controllers and zero steady-state error controllers. In the overshoot, COA produces around 80% less than LQR and 98.5% less than OPS, while in the settling time, COA produces around 81% less than LQR and 95% less than OPS. Moreover, COA produces the lowest steady-state frequency error. For Ziegler-Nicholas controllers, COA produces around 53% less in the overshoot and 42% less in the settling time.

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WSNs and IoT Their Challenges and applications for Healthcare and Agriculture: A Survey

Mohammed Mehdi Saleh

Pages: 37-43

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Nowadays, the Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) has materialized its working areas, including environmental engineering, agriculture sector, industrial, business applications, military, intelligent buildings, etc. Sensor networks emerge as an attractive technology with great promise for the future. Indeed, issues remain to be resolved in the areas of coverage and deployment, scalability, service quality, size, energy consumption and security. The purpose of this paper is to present the integration of WSNs for IoT networks with the intention of exchanging information, applying security and configuration. These aspects are the challenges of network construction in which authentication, confidentiality, availability, integrity, network development. This review sheds some light on the potential integration challenges imposed by the integration of WSNs for IoT, which are reflected in the difference in traffic features.

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Analysis Study for Rabobank Group ICT Incident by using Fuzzy and Heuristic Miner in Process Mining

Rachmadita Andreswari, Frista Millenia, Juan Rizky, Salma Haniyah, Shofian Mufti

Pages: 35-42

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The decline in the marketing volume of Rabobank Group ICT is a serious incident as it can hinder the implementation of an increasing number of software releases for business development. The Service Desk Agent records the activities that occur to find out the problems experienced in the form of an event log. Process mining can be used to generate process model visualizations based on event logs to explicitly monitor the business. Fuzzy Miner and Heuristic Miner algorithms can be used to handle complex event logs. In this study, an analysis of the Rabobank Group ICT incident was carried out with process mining using the Fuzzy Miner and Heuristic Miner algorithms. Process mining is done by discovery, conformance, and enhancement. Based on the results of the study, it is known that the division of the work area is not good enough to cause a team to work on a lot of events while there are other teams that only work on one event. Therefore, it is necessary to have a clear and balanced division of domains and workloads so that incidents do not recur.

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Autonomous Navigation of Mobile Robot Based on Flood Fill Algorithm

Ayad Mohammed Jabbar

Pages: 79-84

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The autonomous navigation of robots is an important area of research. It can intelligently navigate itself from source to target within an environment without human interaction. Recently, algorithms and techniques have been made and developed to improve the performance of robots. It’s more effective and has high precision tasks than before. This work proposed to solve a maze using a Flood fill algorithm based on real time camera monitoring the movement on its environment. Live video streaming sends an obtained data to be processed by the server. The server sends back the information to the robot via wireless radio. The robot works as a client device moves from point to point depends on server information. Using camera in this work allows voiding great time that needs it to indicate the route by the robot.

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Second-Order Statistical Methods GLCM for Authentication Systems

Mohammed A. Taha, Hanaa M. Ahmed

Pages: 88-93

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For many uses, biometric systems have gained considerable attention. Iris identification was One of the most powerful sophisticated biometrical techniques for effective and confident authentication. The current iris identification system offers accurate and reliable results based on near-infrared light (NIR) images when images are taken in a restricted area with fixed- distance user cooperation. However, for the color eye images obtained under visible wavelength (VW) without collaboration among the users, the efficiency of iris recognition degrades because of noise such as eye blurring images, eye lashing, occlusion, and reflection. This work aims to use the Gray-Level Co-occurrence Matrix (GLCM) to retrieve the iris's characteristics in both NIR iris images and visible spectrum. GLCM is second-order Statistical-Based Methods for Texture Analysis. The GLCM- based extraction technology was applied after the preprocessing method to extract the pure iris region's characteristics. The Energy, Entropy, Correlation, Homogeneity, and Contrast collection of second-order statistical features are determined from the generated co-occurrence matrix, Stored as a vector for numerical features. This approach is used and evaluated on the CASIA v1and ITTD v1 databases as NIR iris image and UBIRIS v1 as a color image. The results showed a high accuracy rate (99.2 %) on CASIA v1, (99.4) on ITTD v1, and (87%) on UBIRIS v1 evaluated by comparing to the other methods.

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Reduced Area and Low Power Implementation of FFT/IFFT Processor

Shefa A. Dawwd, Suha. M. Nori

Pages: 108-119

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The Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) and Inverse FFT(IFFT) are used in most of the digital signal processing applications. Real time implementation of FFT/IFFT is required in many of these applications. In this paper, an FPGA reconfigurable fixed point implementation of FFT/IFFT is presented. A manually VHDL codes are written to model the proposed FFT/IFFT processor. Two CORDIC-based FFT/IFFT processors based on radix-2and radix-4 architecture are designed. They have one butterfly processing unit. An efficient In-place memory assignment and addressing for the shared memory of FFT/IFFT processors are proposed to reduce the complexity of memory scheme. With "in-place" strategy, the outputs of butterfly operation are stored back to the same memory location of the inputs. Because of using DIF FFT, the output was to be in reverse order. To solve this issue, we have re-use the block RAM that used for storing the input sample as reordering unit to reduce hardware cost of the proposed processor. The Spartan-3E FPGA of 500,000 gates is employed to synthesize and implement the proposed architecture. The CORDIC based processors can save 40% of power consumption as compared with Xilinx logic core architectures of system generator.

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Healthcare Monitoring and Analytic System Based Internet of Thing

Bahaa S. Mostafa, Abbas Hussain Miry, Tariq M. Salman

Pages: 30-36

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In this work, a healthcare monitoring system-based Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) is proposed, implemented, analyze it by artificial intelligence using fuzzy logic. Atmega microcontroller was used to achieve the function of the proposed work and provide the area for monitoring and Analytic(decision) to the caretakers or doctors through putting the results in the platform. In this paper, the heart rate pulse sensor and infrared temperature sensor are chosen, which give skin temperature and room temperature to provide their results to the caretaker. The decision that gives the patient is in a normal state, or the fuzzy logic does an abnormal state or risk state. The fuzzy logic is used for it accurate and fast in processing data and gives a result very closer to the reality in smart health services. IoMT enables the doctors and caretakers to monitor the patient easily at any time and any place by using their intelligent laptops, tablets, and phones. Finally, the proposed system can contribute to the construction of a wide healthcare monitoring system in the unit or in the department that follows on for the hospital. Therefore, Doctors can improve the accuracy of the diagnosis, as they receive all the patient data necessary.

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A Performance Study of Wireless Broadband Access (WiMAX)

Maan A. S. Al-Adwany

Pages: 125-129

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WiMAX (worldwide interoperability for microwave access) is one of the wireless broadband access technologies which supplies broadband services to clients, but it surpasses other technologies by its coverage area, where one base station can cover a small city. In this paper, WiMAX technology is studied by exploring its basic concepts, applications, and advantages / disadvantages. Also a MATLAB simulator is used to verify the operation of the WiMAX system under various channel impairments and for variety of modulation schemes. From the simulation results, we found that WiMAX system works well in both AWGN and multipath fading channels, but under certain constraints that are addressed in this paper.

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Enhancement Spectral and Energy Efficiencies for Cooperative NOMA Networks

Haider S. Msayer, Husham L. Swadi, Haider M. AlSabbagh

Pages: 57-61

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The tremendous development in the field of communications is derived from the increasing demand for fast transmission and processing of huge amounts of data. The non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system was proposed to increase spectral efficiency (SE) and improve energy efficiency (EE) as well as contribute to preserving the environment and reducing pollution. In the NOMA system, a user may be considered as a relay to the others that support the coverage area based on adopting the reuse of the frequency technique. This cooperation enhances the spectral efficiency, however, in the cell, there are other users that may affect the spectral allocation that should be taken into consideration. Therefore, this paper is conducted to analyze the case when three users are available to play as relies upon. The analyses are performed in terms of the transmitted power allocation in a fair manner, and the system's performance is analyzed using the achievable data rates and the probability of an outage. The results showed an improvement in throughputs for the second and third users, as its value ranged from 7.57 bps/Hz to 12.55 bps/Hz for the second user and a quasi-fixed value of 1,292 bps/Hz for the third user at the transmitted power ranging from zero to 30 dBm.

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Fuzzy-Neural Petri Net Distributed Control System Using Hybrid Wireless Sensor Network and CAN Fieldbus

Ali A. Abed, Abduladhem A. Ali, Nauman Aslam Computer Science & Digital Techniques, Northumbria Univ. nauman.aslam@northumbria.ac.uk, Ali F. Marhoon

Pages: 54-70

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The reluctance of industry to allow wireless paths to be incorporated in process control loops has limited the potential applications and benefits of wireless systems. The challenge is to maintain the performance of a control loop, which is degraded by slow data rates and delays in a wireless path. To overcome these challenges, this paper presents an application–level design for a wireless sensor/actuator network (WSAN) based on the “automated architecture”. The resulting WSAN system is used in the developing of a wireless distributed control system (WDCS). The implementation of our wireless system involves the building of a wireless sensor network (WSN) for data acquisition and controller area network (CAN) protocol fieldbus system for plant actuation. The sensor/actuator system is controlled by an intelligent digital control algorithm that involves a controller developed with velocity PID- like Fuzzy Neural Petri Net (FNPN) system. This control system satisfies two important real-time requirements: bumpless transfer and anti-windup, which are needed when manual/auto operating aspect is adopted in the system. The intelligent controller is learned by a learning algorithm based on back-propagation. The concept of petri net is used in the development of FNN to get a correlation between the error at the input of the controller and the number of rules of the fuzzy-neural controller leading to a reduction in the number of active rules. The resultant controller is called robust fuzzy neural petri net (RFNPN) controller which is created as a software model developed with MATLAB. The developed concepts were evaluated through simulations as well validated by real-time experiments that used a plant system with a water bath to satisfy a temperature control. The effect of disturbance is also studied to prove the system's robustness.

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Design Efficient Vedic-Multiplier for Floating-Point MAC Module

Fatima Tariq Hussein, Fatemah K. AL-Assfor

Pages: 182-189

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Multiplication-accumulation (MAC) operation plays a crucial role in digital signal processing (DSP) applications, such as image convolution and filters, especially when performed on floating-point numbers to achieve high-level of accuracy. The performance of MAC module highly relies upon the performance of the multiplier utilized. This work offers a distinctive and efficient floating-point Vedic multiplier (VM) called adjusted-VM (AVM) to be utilized in MAC module to meet modern DSP demands. The proposed AVM is based on Urdhva-Tiryakbhyam-Sutra (UT-Sutra) approach and utilizes an enhanced design for the Brent-Kung carry-select adder (EBK-CSLA) to generate the final product. A (6*6)-bit AVM is designed first, then, it is extended to design (12*12)-bit AVM which in turns, utilized to design (24*24)-bit AVM. Moreover, the pipelining concept is used to optimize the speed of the offered (24*24)-bit AVM design. The proposed (24*24)-bit AVM can be used to achieve efficient multiplication for mantissa part in binary single-precision (BSP) floating-point MAC module. The proposed AVM architectures are modeled in VHDL, simulated, and synthesized by Xilinx-ISE14.7 tool using several FPGA families. The implementation results demonstrated a noticeable reduction in delay and area occupation by 33.16% and 42.42%, respectively compared with the most recent existing unpipelined design, and a reduction in delay of 44.78% compared with the existing pipelined design.

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Radio Contact Establishment Out of Iraqi Boarder using Nicosia Ionosonde Real data

Ahmed Kadhim Hassan

Pages: 103-107

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Although the advanced technology in satellites and optical fiber communication systems exists now a day, but the researches in HF sky wave propagation for Mesopotamia (Iraq) area is suffered from shortage. In this paper, the novelty is that the communication path from Baghdad to any distance out of Iraqi border had been predicted, calculated and measured experimentally by using real data (Ionogram) supplemented by Nicosia Ionosound station 1000Km from Baghdad and a radio station model TS-130SE as a transmitter. The Predicted results generated by using MATLAB and NTIA/ITS software package like VOACAP. Radio communication using TS-130SE with 36 countries had been done experimentally. A comparison between the theoretical and experimental results was done. The experimental results were in the range of the predicated results which emphasis proposed method Presented in this paper .

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Advancements and Challenges in Hand Gesture Recognition: A Comprehensive Review

Bothina Kareem Murad, Abbas H. Hassin Alasadi

Pages: 154-164

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Hand gesture recognition is a quickly developing field with many uses in human-computer interaction, sign language recognition, virtual reality, gaming, and robotics. This paper reviews different ways to model hands, such as vision-based, sensor-based, and data glove-based techniques. It emphasizes the importance of accurate hand modeling and feature extraction for capturing and analyzing gestures. Key features like motion, depth, color, shape, and pixel values and their relevance in gesture recognition are discussed. Challenges faced in hand gesture recognition include lighting variations, complex backgrounds, noise, and real-time performance. Machine learning algorithms are used to classify and recognize gestures based on extracted features. The paper emphasizes the need for further research and advancements to improve hand gesture recognition systems’ robustness, accuracy, and usability. This review offers valuable insights into the current state of hand gesture recognition, its applications, and its potential to revolutionize human-computer interaction and enable natural and intuitive interactions between humans and machines. In simpler terms, hand gesture recognition is a way for computers to understand what people are saying with their hands. It has many potential applications, such as allowing people to control computers without touching them or helping people with disabilities communicate. The paper reviews different ways to develop hand gesture recognition systems and discusses the challenges and opportunities in this area.

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Analog Programmable Circuit Implementation for Memristor

Fadhil Rahma Tahir, Saif Muneam Ramadhan

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In this work, a new flux controlled memristor circuit is presented. It provides a tool to emulate the pinched hysteresis loop. When driven the memristor by a bipolar periodic signal, the memristor exhibits a “pinched hysteresis loop” in the voltage-current plane and starting from some critical frequency, the hysteresis lobe area decreases monotonically as the excitation frequency increases, the pinched hysteresis loop shrinks to a single-valued function when the frequency tends to infinity. The design model numerically simulated and the physical implementation is achieved by using a field programmable analog array (FPAA). The circuit can be modeled and implemented with a changeable nonlinear function blocks and fixed main system blocks. The simplicity of the specific design method makes this proposed model be a very engaging option for the design of the memristor .

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Design of a Wide Dual-Band Coplanar Probe Feed Antenna for WLANs Applications

Nabil Eyad Abdulhussein, Abdulkareem S. Abdullah

Pages: 13-16

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This paper presents a new design to obtain wide dual-band operation from a coplanar probe feed antenna loaded with two shorted walls. The lower band of proposed antenna has a 10 dB bandwidth of 611 MHz (24.18%) around the center frequency 2527MHz, and the upper band has a bandwidth of 1255 MHz (27.88%) around the center frequency 4501MHz. The obtained bandwidths cover WLANs operations on all bands. The bandwidth of the first operating frequency covers ISM band (2400- 2483.5) MHz, which is required by IEEE 802.11b, g and Bluetooth standards, and the bandwidth of the second operating frequency covers U-NII1 (5150-5350) MHz band, which is required by IEEE 802.11a and HiperLAN2 standards, and also covers U-NII2 (5470-5725) MHz and U-NII3/ISM (5725-5825) MHz bands, which are required by IEEE 802.11a standard. A three dimensional finite-difference time-domain (3-D FDTD) method is employed to analyze the proposed structure and find its performance. The simulated results are compared with the experimental results.

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Design & Implementation of a Mobile Phone Charging System Based on Solar Energy Harvesting

Qutaiba I. Ali

Pages: 69-72

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The ability to harvest energy from the environment represents an important technology area that promises to eliminate wires and battery maintenance for many important applications and permits deploying self powered devices. This paper suggests the use of a solar energy harvester to charge mobile phone devices. In the beginning, a comprehensive overview to the energy harvesting concept and technologies is presented. Then the design procedure of our energy harvester was detailed. Our prototype solar energy harvester proves its efficiency to charge the aimed batteries under sunlight or an indoor artificial light.

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Off-line Signature Recognition Using Weightless Neural Network and Feature Extraction

Ali Al-Saegh

Pages: 124-131

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The problem of automatic signature recognition and verification has been extensively investigated due to the vitality of this field of research. Handwritten signatures are broadly used in daily life as a secure way for personal identification. In this paper a novel approach is proposed for handwritten signature recognition in an off-line environment based on Weightless Neural Network (WNN) and feature extraction. This type of neural networks (NN) is characterized by its simplicity in design and implementation. Whereas no weights, transfer functions and multipliers are required. Implementing the WNN needs only Random Access Memory (RAM) slices. Moreover, the whole process of training can be accomplished with few numbers of training samples and by presenting them once to the neural network. Employing the proposed approach in signature recognition area yields promising results with rates of 99.67% and 99.55% for recognition of signatures that the network has trained on and rejection of signatures that the network has not trained on, respectively.

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Epileptic detection based on deep learning: A review

Ola M. Assim, Ahlam F. Mahmood

Pages: 115-126

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Epilepsy, a neurological disorder characterized by recurring seizures, necessitates early and precise detection for effective management. Deep learning techniques have emerged as powerful tools for analyzing complex medical data, specifically electroencephalogram (EEG) signals, advancing epileptic detection. This review comprehensively presents cutting-edge methodologies in deep learning-based epileptic detection systems. Beginning with an overview of epilepsy’s fundamental concepts and their implications for individuals and healthcare are present. This review then delves into deep learning principles and their application in processing EEG signals. Diverse research papers to know the architectures—convolutional neural networks, recurrent neural networks, and hybrid models—are investigated, emphasizing their strengths and limitations in detecting epilepsy. Preprocessing techniques for improving EEG data quality and reliability, such as noise reduction, artifact removal, and feature extraction, are discussed. Present performance evaluation metrics in epileptic detection, such as accuracy, sensitivity, specificity, and area under the curve, are provided. This review anticipates future directions by highlighting challenges such as dataset size and diversity, model interpretability, and integration with clinical decision support systems. Finally, this review demonstrates how deep learning can improve the precision, efficiency, and accessibility of early epileptic diagnosis. This advancement allows for more timely interventions and personalized treatment plans, potentially revolutionizing epilepsy management.

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Traffic Offloading in LTE System Based Heteroge- neous Networks

Mahmood F. Mosleh

Pages: 152-160

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The continuous growing developments in the traffic of mobile data limits the data throughput and capacity of cellular networks. “Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets)” are efficient solution to realize such demands. However, in HetNets, the congestion on the overloaded cellular network can be increased when the traffic of data is pushed from a cellular network to the Wi-Fi. In practice, offloading the cellular data traffic to a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) depending on the signal quality is a broadly deployed method to solve such problem. The use of Device to Device (D2D) communication further enhances the traffic offloading in WLAN systems and helps to obtain better throughput, end-to-end delay and network load. However, the critical offloading potential and its impacts on the whole performance is not totally understood. In this paper, the offloading of Long Term Evolution (LTE) traffic is presented using a WLAN for voice and video applications. A comparison is performed among two WLAN mecha- nisms; Distributed coordination function (DCF) and Point Coordination Function (PCF). As well, the effect of add- ing a D2D technology to the PCF is discussed. The WLAN effectively offloaded nodes at their Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio (SINR) becomes more than a specific threshold. Results presented that the PCF mechanism outper- forms the DCF one in terms of packet loss ratio, throughput and the maximum load of the entire network. In addi- tion, the use of a D2D serviced in the PCF helps in further reduction in the network load.

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Combined Sliding Mode Control with a Feedback Linearization for Speed Control of Induction Motor

Aamir Hashim Obeid Ahmed, Martino O. Ajangnay, Shamboul A. Mohamed, Matthew W. Dunnigan

Pages: 19-24

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Induction Motor (IM) speed control is an area of research that has been in prominence for some time now. In this paper, a nonlinear controller is presented for IM drives. The nonlinear controller is designed based on input-output feedback linearization control technique, combined with sliding mode control (SMC) to obtain a robust, fast and precise control of IM speed. The input-output feedback linearization control decouples the flux control from the speed control and makes the synthesis of linear controllers possible. To validate the performances of the proposed control scheme, we provided a series of simulation results and a comparative study between the performances of the proposed control strategy and those of the feedback linearization control (FLC) schemes. Simulation results show that the proposed control strategy scheme shows better performance than the FLC strategy in the face of system parameters variation.

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