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A New Approach For Wind Turbine Placement Problem Using Modified Differential Evolution Algorithm, Hüseyi̇n Hakli Jan 2019

A New Approach For Wind Turbine Placement Problem Using Modified Differential Evolution Algorithm, Hüseyi̇n Hakli

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Energy use is increasing worldwide with industrialization and advancing technology. Following this increase, renewable energy resources are increasingly preferred to reduce the costs of energy production. Wind energy is preferred as a renewable energy resource because it is clean and safe. Wind turbines are used to meet the demand for wind energy. They are placed close to each other to generate higher amounts of energy. However, the wake effect problem arises in these types of layouts, and this hinders the turbines from producing the desired yield. A modified differential evolution (MDE) algorithm was proposed in this study to solve the …


A Transmission Optimization Algorithm For Smart Load Controllers, Ohyoung Song Jan 2019

A Transmission Optimization Algorithm For Smart Load Controllers, Ohyoung Song

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper introduces a transmission optimization algorithm for wireless transmissions between smart load controllers and a corresponding gateway in wireless personal area networks, where smart load controllers connect several electrical appliances through their corresponding load interfaces, measure the power consumption from each electrical appliance connected to the load controller, and control on/off switching through its load interface. The aim of this paper is to reduce the traffic load of power consumption data in electrical appliances used in the building area network and the smart grid network. The proposed algorithm allows the smart load controller to efficiently reduce traffic load even …


Antenna Selection And Transmission Power For Energy Efficiency In Downlink Massive Mimo Systems, Adeeb Salh, Lukman Audah, Nor Shahida Mohd Shah, Shipun Anuar Hamzah, Hasan Saeed Mir Jan 2019

Antenna Selection And Transmission Power For Energy Efficiency In Downlink Massive Mimo Systems, Adeeb Salh, Lukman Audah, Nor Shahida Mohd Shah, Shipun Anuar Hamzah, Hasan Saeed Mir

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Massive multiinput-multioutput (M-MIMO) systems are crucial for maximizing energy efficiency (EE) in fifth-generation (5G) wireless networks. A M-MIMO system's achievable high data rate is highly related to the number of antennas, but increasing the number of antennas the system raises energy consumption. In this paper, we derive ergodic EE based on the optimal transmit power and joint optimization antenna selection (AS) with impact pilot reuse sequences (PRSs). We apply Newton's method and the Lagrange multiplier to derive jointly optimized AS and optimal transmission power under the effect of PRSs. The proposed algorithm prevents repeated searching for joint optimal AS and …


Design Of A Substrate Integrated Waveguide Matrix Amplifier, Shabnam Ahamadi Andevari, Gholamreza Moradi Jan 2019

Design Of A Substrate Integrated Waveguide Matrix Amplifier, Shabnam Ahamadi Andevari, Gholamreza Moradi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Developments in microwave systems have increased the need for matrix amplifiers, which provide both high gain and wide frequency bands. The aim of this paper is to design a novel 2x4 matrix amplifier with a substrate integrated waveguide (SIW)-based power divider and combiner and a microstrip gain equalizer in the X and low Ku frequency bands. The proposed amplifier can be easily integrated with any microstrip, rectangular waveguide, or SIW-based circuits. The analysis and design of the amplifier is performed using two full wave simulators with different computational techniques (finite element method and finite integration technique) to verify the results. …


Global Stabilization Of A Class Of Fractional-Order Delayed Bidirectional Associativememory Neural Networks, Zhanying Yang, Xiaoyun Tang, Jie Zhang Jan 2019

Global Stabilization Of A Class Of Fractional-Order Delayed Bidirectional Associativememory Neural Networks, Zhanying Yang, Xiaoyun Tang, Jie Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper focuses on the stabilization problem of a class of fractional-order bidirectional associative memory neural networks with time delays. Based on feedback control, a sufficient condition is derived to achieve the global stabilization of systems by using the fractional inequality, the Lyapunov stability theory, and the comparison principle. In particular, this kind of control scheme is proved to be robust in the presence of external disturbances when the feedback gains are sufficiently large. In addition, a condition is obtained to achieve the global quasi-stabilization of systems with some external disturbances, and the corresponding error bound is estimated. Finally, some …


Increasing Bluetooth Low Energy Communication Efficiency By Presetting Protocol Parameters, Dusan Hatvani, Dominik Macko Jan 2019

Increasing Bluetooth Low Energy Communication Efficiency By Presetting Protocol Parameters, Dusan Hatvani, Dominik Macko

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Standard protocols are important regarding the compatibility of devices provided by different vendors. However, specific applications have various requirements and do not always need all features offered by standard protocols, making them inefficient. This paper focuses on standard Bluetooth Low Energy modifications, reducing control overhead for the intended healthcare application. Specifically, the connection establishment, device pairing, and connection parameter negotiations have been targeted. The simulation-based experiments showed over 20 times reduction of control-overhead time preceding a data transmission. It does not just directly increase the energy efficiency of communication; it also prolongs the time for sensor-based end devices to spend …


Enhancing Face Pose Normalization With Deep Learning, Anil Çeli̇k, Nafi̇z Arica Jan 2019

Enhancing Face Pose Normalization With Deep Learning, Anil Çeli̇k, Nafi̇z Arica

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this study, we propose a hybrid method for face pose normalization, which combines the 3-D model-based method with stacked denoising autoencoder (SDAE) deep network. Instead of applying a mirroring operation for the invisible face parts of the posed image, SDAE learns how to fill in those regions by a large set of training samples. In the performance evaluation, we compare the proposed method to four different pose normalization methods and investigate their effects on facial emotion recognition and verification problems in addition to visual quality tests. Methods evaluated in the experiments include 2-D alignment, 3-D model-based method, pure SDAE-based …


Sentence Similarity Using Weighted Path And Similarity Matrices, Reza Javadzadeh, Morteza Zahedi, Marziea Rahimi Jan 2019

Sentence Similarity Using Weighted Path And Similarity Matrices, Reza Javadzadeh, Morteza Zahedi, Marziea Rahimi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Sentence similarity is the task of assessing how similar the two snippets of text are. Similarity techniques are used extensively in clustering, summarization, classification, plagiarism detection etc. Due to a small set of vocabularies, sentence similarity is considered to be a difficult problem in natural language processing. There are two issues in solving this problem: (1) Which similarity techniques to be used for word pair similarity and (2) How to generalize that to sentence pairs. We have used the weighted path, a WordNet-based similarity assessment, and the paraphrase database to obtain word pair similarity values. Thereafter, we extracted maximum values …


Application Of Fuzzy Logic On Astronomical Images' Focus Measures, Alaa Hamdy, Farag Elnagahy, Islam Helmy Jan 2019

Application Of Fuzzy Logic On Astronomical Images' Focus Measures, Alaa Hamdy, Farag Elnagahy, Islam Helmy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Focus accuracy is an essential factor that affects the quality of astronomical observations. The accurate measurement of celestial objects' properties depends on focus. Automatic focusing is necessary for celestial imaging systems. This paper presents a modified focus measure operator. It also proposes the use of fuzzy logic to transform images because of its tolerance of imprecise and incomplete data. The focus operators are applied to two sequences of star clusters' observations. The experimental results show that the suggested measure's overall score exceeds those of previous operators.


Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang Jan 2019

Research On The Dynamic Networking Of Smart Meters Based On Characteristics Of The Collected Data, Yaxin Huang, Yunlian Sun, Xiaodi Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In order to accurately collect the electricity usage information from the smart meter which uses the power line for communication, this paper proposes the method of dynamic networking to enhance the reliability of the smart meter communication. We shall firstly establish a logical topology between the smart meter and the concentrator with reference to their communication paths within the power supply range of the same transformer, and then grade smart meters, and choose the relay for each level network based on the selection methods of relay, and finally use the improved ant colony algorithm to choose the optimal communication path …


A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz Jan 2019

A Novel Map-Merging Technique For Occupancy Grid-Based Maps Using Multiple Robots: A Semantic Approach, Aki̇f Durdu, Mehmet Korkmaz

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Map merging is a noteworthy phenomenon for cases such as search and rescue and disaster areas in which the duration is quite significant when gathering information about an environment. It is obvious that the total mapping time decreases if the number of agents (robots) increases. However, the use of multiple agents leads to problems such as task allocation schemes and the fusing of local maps. Examining the present methods, it is generally observed that the common features of local maps have been found and the global map is formed by obtaining related transformation between local maps. However, such implementations may …


A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy Jan 2019

A Distributed Load Balancing Algorithm For Deduplicated Storage, Prabavathy Balasundaram, Chitra Babu, Pradeep Rengaswamy

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

While deduplication brings the advantage of significant space savings in storage, it nevertheless incurs the overhead of maintaining huge metadata. Updating such huge metadata during the data migration that arises due to load balancing activity results in significant overhead. In order to reduce this metadata update overhead, this paper proposes a suitable alternate index that tracks the data blocks even when they migrate across the nodes without explicitly storing the location information. In addition, a virtual server-based load balancing (VSLB) algorithm has been proposed in order to reduce the migration overhead. The experimental results indicate that the proposed index reduces …


A New Model To Determine The Hierarchical Structure Of The Wireless Sensor Networks, Resmi̇ye Nasi̇boğlu, Zülküf Teki̇n Erten Jan 2019

A New Model To Determine The Hierarchical Structure Of The Wireless Sensor Networks, Resmi̇ye Nasi̇boğlu, Zülküf Teki̇n Erten

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Wireless sensor networks are one of the rising areas of scientific research. Common purpose of these investigations is usually constructing optimal structure of the network by prolonging its lifetime. In this study, a new model has been proposed to construct a hierarchical structure of wireless sensor networks. Methods used in the model to determine clusters and appropriate cluster heads are k-means clustering and fuzzy inference system (FIS), respectively. The weighted averaging based on levels (WABL) defuzzification method is used to calculate crisp outputs of the FIS. A new theorem for calculation of WABL values has been proved in order to …


A Depth-Based Nearest Neighbor Algorithmfor High-Dimensional Data Classification, Sandhya Harikumar, Akhil A.S, Ramachandra Kaimal Jan 2019

A Depth-Based Nearest Neighbor Algorithmfor High-Dimensional Data Classification, Sandhya Harikumar, Akhil A.S, Ramachandra Kaimal

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Nearest neighbor algorithms like k-nearest neighbors (kNN) are fundamental supervised learning techniques to classify a query instance based on class labels of its neighbors. However, quite often, huge volumes of datasets are not fully labeled and the unknown probability distribution of the instances may be uneven. Moreover, kNN suffers from challenges like curse of dimensionality, setting the optimal number of neighbors, and scalability for high-dimensional data. To overcome these challenges, we propose an improvised approach of classification via depth representation of subspace clusters formed from high-dimensional data. We offer a consistent and principled approach to dynamically choose the nearest neighbors …


Decision-Making For Small Industrial Internet Of Things Using Decision Fusion, Tuğrul Çavdar, Nader Ebrahimpour Jan 2019

Decision-Making For Small Industrial Internet Of Things Using Decision Fusion, Tuğrul Çavdar, Nader Ebrahimpour

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a new field of Internet of Things (IoT) that has gained more popularity recently in industrial units and makes it possible to access information anywhere and anytime. In other words, geographic coordinates cannot prevent obtaining equipment and its data. Today, it is possible to manage and control equipment simply without spending time in an operational area and just by using the IIoT. This system collects data from manufacturing and production units by using wireless sensor networks or other networks for classification of fault detection. These data are then used after analysis to allow …


Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay Jan 2019

Possible Effects Of Dielectrophoretic Fields In The Brains Of Mri Operators And Ms Patients: A Radiologically Isolated Syndrome Evaluation, Cahi̇t Canbay

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Frequent use of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) devices, which are major contributors in understanding health problems in the human body, is a subject that needs to be taken into consideration both for patients and for operators who are constantly in the vicinity of devices. In this context, electromagnetic impact assessment of an MRI device was performed at the point where the patient entered the device. Dielectrophoretic fields induced by radio frequency (RF) coils of an MRI scanner on male and female operator brain models were computed by using dispersive electrical medium parameters. The main cause of induced secondary dielectrophoretic fields …


Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman Jan 2019

Heart Attack Mortality Prediction: An Application Of Machine Learning Methods, Issam Salman

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The heart is an important organ in the human body, and acute myocardial infarction (AMI) is the leading cause of death in most countries. Researchers are doing a lot of data analysis work to assist doctors in predicting the heart problem. An analysis of the data related to different health problems and its functions can help in predicting the wellness of this organ with a degree of certainty. Our research reported in this paper consists of two main parts. In the first part of the paper, we compare different predictive models of hospital mortality for patients with AMI. All results …


Line Independency-Based Network Modelling For Backward/Forward Load Flow Analysis Of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, Reyhaneh Taheri, Alimorad Khajezadeh, Mohammad Hossein Rezaeian Koochi, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari Jan 2019

Line Independency-Based Network Modelling For Backward/Forward Load Flow Analysis Of Electrical Power Distribution Systems, Reyhaneh Taheri, Alimorad Khajezadeh, Mohammad Hossein Rezaeian Koochi, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper a straightforward method for line independency-based modelling of electrical power distribution systems is proposed. The proposed method can determine the backward and forward sweeping routes of distribution systems for calculating line currents and bus voltages. To do that, the method identifies the independent lines in consecutive steps. An independent line is a line in the distribution system whose current does not depend on the current of other lines in the system. The proposed line independency-based network modelling is required to be performed only once and prior to the load flow analysis. The output of the proposed method, …


The Impact Of Demand Response Programs On Upfc Placement, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari, Mehdi Ehsan, Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad Jan 2019

The Impact Of Demand Response Programs On Upfc Placement, Abbas Sharifi Nasab Anari, Mehdi Ehsan, Mahmud Fotuhi Firuzabad

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Demand response (DR) and flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) devices can be effectively used for congestion management in power transmission systems. However, demand response program (DRP) implementation can itself affect the optimum location of FACTS devices, which is one of the main issues in power system planning. This paper investigates the impact of DRPs on unified power flow controller (UPFC) placement. The harmony search algorithm is employed to determine the optimum locations and parameter setting of UPFC in a long-term framework. The optimization problem is solved with different objectives including generation and congestion cost reduction, as well as loss reduction. …


Comparative Evaluation Of A-B-C And Stationary Frame Of Reference For Permanent Magnet Brushless Dc Motor Drive Applied For Generation Of Switching Pattern, Manish Trivedi, Ritesh Keshri Jan 2019

Comparative Evaluation Of A-B-C And Stationary Frame Of Reference For Permanent Magnet Brushless Dc Motor Drive Applied For Generation Of Switching Pattern, Manish Trivedi, Ritesh Keshri

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper focuses on the evaluation of the operation of permanent magnet brushless DC (PM BLDC) motor through the control implemented in the natural reference frame (a-b-c frame) and the stationary reference frame ($\alpha-\beta$ frame). To a large extent, ripple-free torque and attainment of higher torque-speed characteristic depend on the gating pulses/switching patterns of the inverter employed. PM BLDC motor requires injection of the square wave current for the maximum torque per ampere, so the reference is required to be generated and tracked accordingly. The effectiveness of the strategies of pulse-width-modulation-based current control in the a-b-c plane and, the case …


A Comparative Study On Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition, Md. Atiqul Islam Rizvi, Kaushik Deb, Md. Ibrahim Khan, Mir Md. Saki Kowsar, Tahmina Khanam Jan 2019

A Comparative Study On Handwritten Bangla Character Recognition, Md. Atiqul Islam Rizvi, Kaushik Deb, Md. Ibrahim Khan, Mir Md. Saki Kowsar, Tahmina Khanam

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recognition of handwritten Bangla characters has drawn considerable attention recently. The Bangla language is rich with characters of various styles such as numerals, basic characters, and compound and modifier characters. The inherent variation in individual writing styles, along with the complex, cursive nature of characters, makes the recognition task more challenging. To compare the outcomes of handwritten Bangla character recognition, this study considers two different approaches. The first one is classifier-based, where a hybrid model of the feature extraction technique extracts the features and a multiclass support vector machine (SVM) performs the recognition. The second one is based on a …


Turkish Lexicon Expansion By Using Finite State Automata, Mustafa Burak Öztürk, Burcu Can Buğlalilar Jan 2019

Turkish Lexicon Expansion By Using Finite State Automata, Mustafa Burak Öztürk, Burcu Can Buğlalilar

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Turkish is an agglutinative language with rich morphology. A Turkish verb can have thousands of different word forms. Therefore, sparsity becomes an issue in many Turkish natural language processing (NLP) applications. This article presents a model for Turkish lexicon expansion. We aimed to expand the lexicon by using a morphological segmentation system by reversing the segmentation task into a generation task. Our model uses finite-state automata (FSA) to incorporate orthographic features and morphotactic rules. We extracted orthographic features by capturing phonological operations that are applied to words whenever a suffix is added. Each FSA state corresponds to either a stem …


An Improved Tree Model Based On Ensemble Feature Selection For Classification, Chandralekha M, Shenbagavadivu N Jan 2019

An Improved Tree Model Based On Ensemble Feature Selection For Classification, Chandralekha M, Shenbagavadivu N

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Researchers train and build specific models to classify the presence and absence of a disease and the accuracy of such classification models is continuously improved. The process of building a model and training depends on the medical data utilized. Various machine learning techniques and tools are used to handle different data with respect to disease types and their clinical conditions. Classification is the most widely used technique to classify disease and the accuracy of the classifier largely depends on the attributes. The choice of the attribute largely affects the diagnosis and performance of the classifier. Due to growing large volumes …


Empirical Single Frequency Network Threshold For Dvb-T2 Based On Laboratory Experiments, Bundit Ruckveratham, Sathaporn Promwong Jan 2019

Empirical Single Frequency Network Threshold For Dvb-T2 Based On Laboratory Experiments, Bundit Ruckveratham, Sathaporn Promwong

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

DVB-T2 broadcasting with a single frequency network (SFN) allows an efficient management of frequency utilization and extends the coverage area, which will enable more people to view a broadcast. The SFN mode also increases the concentration of the signal in overlap areas. However, some difference of overlap areas in actual use of SFN networks may have some degradation of the received signal due to the effect of the SFN. In this research, we analyze SFN broadcasting in SISO mode. This paper represents the effects of delays on the SFN signal over different delay times within the guard interval (GI) by …


Application Of Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Features For Multilevel Subject-Dependent Emotion Recognition, Hamzah Lotfalinezhad, Ali Maleki Jan 2019

Application Of Multiscale Fuzzy Entropy Features For Multilevel Subject-Dependent Emotion Recognition, Hamzah Lotfalinezhad, Ali Maleki

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Emotion recognition can be used in clinical and nonclinical situations. Despite previous works which mostly used time and frequency features of electroencephalogram (EEG) signals in subject-dependent emotion recognition issues, we used multiscale fuzzy entropy as a nonlinear dynamic feature. The EEG signals of the well-known Database for Emotion Analysis Using Physiological signals dataset was used for classification of two and three levels of emotions in arousal and valence space. The compound feature selection with a cost of average accuracy of support vector machine classifier was used to reduce feature dimensions. For subject-dependent systems, the proposed method is superior in comparison …


Empirical Model Development For The Estimation Of Clearness Index Using Meteorological Parameters, Fakhar Alam, Saif Ur Rehman, Shafiqur Rehman, Muhammad Jahangir, Muhammad Shoaib, Imran Siddiqui, Intikhab Ulfat Jan 2019

Empirical Model Development For The Estimation Of Clearness Index Using Meteorological Parameters, Fakhar Alam, Saif Ur Rehman, Shafiqur Rehman, Muhammad Jahangir, Muhammad Shoaib, Imran Siddiqui, Intikhab Ulfat

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The clearness index is an indispensable parameter required for the design and analysis of solar energy systems. In the absence of measured values for a specific location, the clearness index can be estimated from other measured meteorological variables. In this study three meteorological parameters, sunshine hours, monthly mean values of the temperature difference ($\Delta$T), and cloudiness, are used to develop empirical models for the estimation of clearness index. The empirical models are developed for five major cities in Pakistan (Karachi, Multan, Lahore, Islamabad, and Quetta). For empirical model development, long-term data (1991 to 2010) of monthly average clearness index, sunshine …


Computation Of Stability Regions For Load Frequency Control Systems Including Incommensurate Time Delays, Şahi̇n Sönmez Jan 2019

Computation Of Stability Regions For Load Frequency Control Systems Including Incommensurate Time Delays, Şahi̇n Sönmez

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This article studies the impact of incommensurate communication time delays on stability regions defined in proportional-integral (PI) controller parameter space for a two-area load frequency control (LFC) system. Distributed power generations and large power plants increase the complexity and control issues of interconnected power systems. In interconnected power systems, LFC systems need to have complex communication networks to exchange data between control center and geographically dispersed generations. The receiving/transmitting of remote measuring data through communication infrastructures causes inevitable time delays, which adversely affect controller performance and stability of the LFC system. Time delays introducing feedback control loops of a multiarea …


A Generalized Switching Function-Based Discontinuous Space Vector Modulation Technique For Unbalanced Two-Phase Three-Leg Inverters, Watcharin Srirattanawichaikul Jan 2019

A Generalized Switching Function-Based Discontinuous Space Vector Modulation Technique For Unbalanced Two-Phase Three-Leg Inverters, Watcharin Srirattanawichaikul

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper presents a discontinuous space vector modulation technique for unbalanced two-phase three-leg inverters. This technique is based on the shift-angle and generalized modulation algorithm obtained for generating the unbalanced two-phase output voltage. Furthermore, the discontinuous switching sequence intends to improve the commutations of power switching devices in each inverter leg that achieves a minimum number of switching state changes in one sampling cycle. Therefore, the switch commutations can be reduced by one-third in one main period. The step-by-step procedure of the modulation algorithm for easy implementation in a digital control platform is discussed. The performance of the developed modulation …


A Control Scheme For Maximizing The Delivered Power To The Load In A Standalonewind Energy Conversion System, Saeed Heshmatian, Davood A. Khaburi, Mahyar Khosravi, Ahad Kazemi Jan 2019

A Control Scheme For Maximizing The Delivered Power To The Load In A Standalonewind Energy Conversion System, Saeed Heshmatian, Davood A. Khaburi, Mahyar Khosravi, Ahad Kazemi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this paper, a control scheme is proposed for maximum power point tracking (MPPT) in a variable speed standalone wind energy conversion system (WECS) with permanent magnet synchronous generator. A MPPT algorithm is designed trying to eliminate the main deficiency of the conventional perturbation and observation (P&O) method, which is the challenge of choosing a proper step size and the unwanted trade-off between accuracy and speed. The designed algorithm properly addresses this drawback and significantly improves the MPPT performance. Another important issue is to ensure fast and accurate tracking of the optimal reference point obtained from the MPPT algorithm and …


Automatic Prostate Segmentation Using Multiobjective Active Appearance Model In Mr Images, Ahad Salimi, Mohammad Ali Pourmina, Mohamma-Shahram Moien Jan 2019

Automatic Prostate Segmentation Using Multiobjective Active Appearance Model In Mr Images, Ahad Salimi, Mohammad Ali Pourmina, Mohamma-Shahram Moien

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Prostate cancer is the second largest cause of mortality among men. Prostate segmentation, i.e. the precise determination of the prostate region in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), is generally used for prostate volume measurement, which can be used as a potential prostate cancer indicator. This paper presents a new fully automatic statistical model called the multiobjective active appearance model (MOAAM) for prostate segmentation in MR images. First, in the training stage, the appearance model, including the shape and texture model, is developed by applying principal component analysis to the training images, already outlined by a physician. Then noise and roughness are …