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Real Time Evaluation Of Boom And Drogue Occlusion With Aar, Xiaoyang Wu Mar 2022

Real Time Evaluation Of Boom And Drogue Occlusion With Aar, Xiaoyang Wu

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have seen a rise in popularity. Various navigational algorithms have been developed as a solution to estimate a UAV’s pose relative to the refueler aircraft. The result can be used to safely automate aerial refueling (AAR) to improve UAVs’ time-on-station and ensure the success of military operations. This research aims to reach real-time performance using a GPU accelerated approach. It also conducts various experiments to quantify the effects of refueling boom/drogue occlusion and image exposure on the pose estimation pipeline in a lab setting.


Feasibility Of Fireball Trail Detection Using Ground-Based Gps Receivers, Ian R. Moffett Mar 2022

Feasibility Of Fireball Trail Detection Using Ground-Based Gps Receivers, Ian R. Moffett

Theses and Dissertations

The feasibility of using GPS data to detect fireballs is analyzed by first modeling the fireball’s trail diffusion and plasma chemistry to get a resulting ion density profile of the trail over time. The signal perturbation caused by the fireball trail is simulated for a ground receiver using an analytic solution for diffraction from a Gaussian lens. Five cases were modeled with varying initial peak ion densities and altitudes taken from fireball and reentry vehicle data. This paper shows that it is feasible to detect a fireball trail using GPS if the fireball has a sufficiently high initial ion density, …


Examining Failures Of Kc-135s Using Survival Analysis, Vanessa I. R. Unseth Mar 2022

Examining Failures Of Kc-135s Using Survival Analysis, Vanessa I. R. Unseth

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Air Force manages an inventory of 396 KC-135 Stratotanker aircraft. With mission capability rates falling and total non-mission capability supply rates increasing, it is necessary to take a deeper look at recurrent failures. The study applies non-parametric and semi-parametric survival models to a dataset retrieved from LIMS-EV to look at the duration(s) until failure for the KC-135. Results of non-parametric models show cumulative failure rates increase as sorties or flight hours increase. In addition, semi-parametric models or Cox proportional hazards models with frailty confirm that locations or air bases are not associated with recurrent failures.


Malware Detection Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis, Matthew A. Bergstedt Mar 2022

Malware Detection Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis, Matthew A. Bergstedt

Theses and Dissertations

Many physical systems control or monitor important applications without the capacity to monitor for malware using on-device resources. Thus, it becomes valuable to explore malware detection methods for these systems utilizing external or off-device resources. This research investigates the viability of employing EM SCA to determine whether a performed operation is normal or malicious. A Raspberry Pi 3 was set up as a simulated motor controller with code paths for a normal or malicious operation. While the normal path only calculated the motor speed before updating the motor, the malicious path added a line of code to modify the calculated …


Evaluating Secure Enclave Firmware Development For Contemporary Risc-V Workstations, Samuel D. Chadwick Mar 2022

Evaluating Secure Enclave Firmware Development For Contemporary Risc-V Workstations, Samuel D. Chadwick

Theses and Dissertations

The emergence of the open-source RISC-V ISA empowers developers and engineers, device manufactures, industry leaders, nation-states, adversaries and allies alike with the unique opportunity to re-evaluate existing Trusted Computing paradigms. Emerging open-source security mechanisms facilitate the proliferation of Confidential Computing principles. These technology standards aim to provide secure enclave computing as a fundamental computing attribute, inherent within the RISC-V ISA specification. Security enforcement within these enclaves are handled by performing computation in memory-isolated, hardware-based, software-defined TEEs. This research evaluates the firmware development procedures required to implement Keystone Enclave on new unsupported hardware. Expressly, this effort extends Keystone SM firmware components …


Automated Reconstructions For The Digital Forensic Examiner Workflow, Ryan P. Montgomery Mar 2022

Automated Reconstructions For The Digital Forensic Examiner Workflow, Ryan P. Montgomery

Theses and Dissertations

One product of a digital forensics examination is a reconstruction of events recorded in the media. A reconstruction places all of the case relevant trace into temporal, identity and associative relationships. Creating this reconstruction is a manual and time consuming process for the examiner. This thesis presents AIER. AIER integrates automation, abstraction and visualization into the Autopsy forensic software to improve the reconstruction process. The integration utilizes a custom Autopsy ingest module to extract and abstract artifact data and an interactive graph-based timeline visualization module. These improvements to the forensic examiner workflow are evaluated through a series of use cases.


Improving Anonymized Search Relevance With Natural Language Processing And Machine Learning, Niko A. Petrocelli Mar 2022

Improving Anonymized Search Relevance With Natural Language Processing And Machine Learning, Niko A. Petrocelli

Theses and Dissertations

Users often sacrifice personal data for more relevant search results, presenting a problem to communities that desire both search anonymity and relevant results. To balance these priorities, this research examines the impact of using Siamese networks to extend word embeddings into document embeddings and detect similarities between documents. The predicted similarity can locally re-rank search results provided from various sources. This technique is leveraged to limit the amount of information collected from a user by a search engine. A prototype is produced by applying the methodology in a real-world search environment. The prototype yielded an additional function of finding new …


Applications Of A Lightning Proxy To Generate Synthetic Lightning For Use In Physics-Based Image-Chain Models, Bryan G. Castro Mar 2022

Applications Of A Lightning Proxy To Generate Synthetic Lightning For Use In Physics-Based Image-Chain Models, Bryan G. Castro

Theses and Dissertations

A method of generating synthetic lightning through the use of a convective available potential energy (CAPE) times precipitation rate (P) proxy is applied over three distinct climatological zones of the world for a single warm season: central and southern AZ of the United States, central Cuba, and North Korea. Global Forecast System (GFS) 0.25° by 0.25° forecast data for June, July, and August of 2019 is used to provide 6-hourly CAPE and precipitation rate, while Global Lightning Dataset (GLD360) data for the period 2016 to 2020 is used to provide observed lightning strokes. A five-year lightning climatology study is conducted …


Using Generative Adversarial Networks To Augment Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Classification Training Sets, Benjamin J. Mccloskey Mar 2022

Using Generative Adversarial Networks To Augment Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Image Classification Training Sets, Benjamin J. Mccloskey

Theses and Dissertations

A challenging task in computer vision is finding techniques to improve the object detection and classification capabilities of ML models used for processing images acquired by moving aerial platforms. This research explores if GAN augmented UAV training sets can increase the generalizability of a detection model trained on said data. To answer this question, the YOLOv4-Tiny Object Detection Model was trained with aerial image training sets depicting rural environments. The salient objects within the frames were recreated using various GAN architectures, placed back into the original frames, and the augmented frames appended to the original training sets. GAN augmentation on …


Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network With Prediction Smoothing And Adversarial Class Thresholds, Noah M. Miller Mar 2022

Bayesian Convolutional Neural Network With Prediction Smoothing And Adversarial Class Thresholds, Noah M. Miller

Theses and Dissertations

Using convolutional neural networks (CNNs) for image classification for each frame in a video is a very common technique. Unfortunately, CNNs are very brittle and have a tendency to be over confident in their predictions. This can lead to what we will refer to as “flickering,” which is when the predictions between frames jump back and forth between classes. In this paper, new methods are proposed to combat these shortcomings. This paper utilizes a Bayesian CNN which allows for a distribution of outputs on each data point instead of just a point estimate. These distributions are then smoothed over multiple …


Applying Models Of Circadian Stimulus To Explore Ideal Lighting Configurations, Alexander J. Price Mar 2022

Applying Models Of Circadian Stimulus To Explore Ideal Lighting Configurations, Alexander J. Price

Theses and Dissertations

Increased levels of time are spent indoors, decreasing human interaction with nature and degrading photoentrainment, the synchronization of circadian rhythms with daylight variation. Military imagery analysts, among other professionals, are required to work in low light level environments to limit power consumption or increase contrast on display screens to improve detail detection. Insufficient exposure to light in these environments results in inadequate photoentrainment which is associated with degraded alertness and negative health effects. Recent research has shown that both the illuminance (i.e., perceived intensity) and wavelength of light affect photoentrainment. Simultaneously, modern lighting technologies have improved our ability to construct …


Development Of A Methodology For The Quantification Of Reaerosolization Of A Biological Contaminant Surrogate Particle From Military Uniform Fabric, George D. Cooksey Mar 2022

Development Of A Methodology For The Quantification Of Reaerosolization Of A Biological Contaminant Surrogate Particle From Military Uniform Fabric, George D. Cooksey

Theses and Dissertations

During a mass casualty medical evacuation after a bioaerosol attack, a decontamination method is needed that is effective at both decontamination and preventing the secondary hazard of biological particles reaerosolizing from contaminated clothing. However, neither the efficacy of current decontamination methods nor the risk of biological particle reaerosolization is significantly explored in existing literature. The goals of this thesis were to develop a repeatable methodology to quantify the reaerosolization of a biological contaminate off Airman Battle Uniform (ABU) fabric swatches, and to test the efficacy of one decontamination method (high-volume, low-pressure water) using 1 mpolystyrene latex (PSL) spheres as a …


A Framework For Assessing Facility-Level Vulnerability And Risk To Extreme Weather Events, Blake A. Gawlik Mar 2022

A Framework For Assessing Facility-Level Vulnerability And Risk To Extreme Weather Events, Blake A. Gawlik

Theses and Dissertations

Intensifying extreme weather events, tied to the rise in the global average temperature, put global built infrastructure at risk. This presents a daunting challenge for organizational leaders who are tasked to determine how best to adapt current infrastructure to uncertain future events. To develop adaptation plans and policies, vulnerability and risk must be downscaled to an actionable scale, such that planners, designers, and engineers can make adaptation recommendations. However, previous research has largely assessed risk at coarser scales, e.g., regional, national, or global. These assessments are informative, but do not help those tasked to lead adaptation to make detailed, actionable …


The Impacts Of Climate Uncertainty On Streamflow In Andes, Antioquia, Colombia, Kristen R. Roberts Mar 2022

The Impacts Of Climate Uncertainty On Streamflow In Andes, Antioquia, Colombia, Kristen R. Roberts

Theses and Dissertations

Natural hazards, such as hurricanes, wildfires, floods, and droughts impact human systems that rely on predictable patterns in the natural elements with which they interact. Skillful prediction of the impacts of climate change on linked, human-natural systems, like surface water resources, can help ensure physical risks within vulnerable communities are mitigated, resource sustainability is maximized, and intersectoral markets continue to contribute to socioeconomic stability. Due to water resources being a primary conduit through which climate uncertainty impacts people, economies, and ecosystems, its study is worthy of investigation; particularly, where those resources are uncertain and demanded by a variety of competitive …


The Role Of 3d Ct Imaging In The Accurate Diagnosis Of Lung Function In Coronavirus Patients, Ibrahim Shawky Farahat, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Maha Bilal, Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Waleed Aladrousy, Samir Elmougy, Ahmed Elsaid Tolba, Moumen El-Melegy, Ayman El-Baz Mar 2022

The Role Of 3d Ct Imaging In The Accurate Diagnosis Of Lung Function In Coronavirus Patients, Ibrahim Shawky Farahat, Ahmed Sharafeldeen, Mohamed Elsharkawy, Ahmed Soliman, Ali Mahmoud, Mohammed Ghazal, Fatma Taher, Maha Bilal, Ahmed Abdel Khalek Abdel Razek, Waleed Aladrousy, Samir Elmougy, Ahmed Elsaid Tolba, Moumen El-Melegy, Ayman El-Baz

All Works

Early grading of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), as well as ventilator support machines, are prime ways to help the world fight this virus and reduce the mortality rate. To reduce the burden on physicians, we developed an automatic Computer-Aided Diagnostic (CAD) system to grade COVID-19 from Computed Tomography (CT) images. This system segments the lung region from chest CT scans using an unsupervised approach based on an appearance model, followed by 3D rotation invariant Markov–Gibbs Random Field (MGRF)-based morphological constraints. This system analyzes the segmented lung and generates precise, analytical imaging markers by estimating the MGRF-based analytical potentials. Three Gibbs …


2022 March - Tennessee Monthly Climate Report, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University Mar 2022

2022 March - Tennessee Monthly Climate Report, Tennessee Climate Office, East Tennessee State University

Tennessee Climate Office Monthly Report

No abstract provided.


A New Way To Trace Sars-Cov-2 Variants Through Weighted Network Analysis Of Frequency Trajectories Of Mutations, Paul W. Bible, Qiang Huang, Qiang Zhang, Qiaoxing Liang, Fangfang Zheng, Ying Wang, Yuantao Hao, Yu Liu Mar 2022

A New Way To Trace Sars-Cov-2 Variants Through Weighted Network Analysis Of Frequency Trajectories Of Mutations, Paul W. Bible, Qiang Huang, Qiang Zhang, Qiaoxing Liang, Fangfang Zheng, Ying Wang, Yuantao Hao, Yu Liu

Computer Science Faculty publications

Early detection of SARS-CoV-2 variants enables timely tracking of clinically important strains in order to inform the public health response. Current subtype-based variant surveillance depending on prior subtype assignment according to lag features and their continuous risk assessment may delay this process. We proposed a weighted network framework to model the frequency trajectories of mutations (FTMs) for SARS-CoV-2 variant tracing, without requiring prior subtype assignment. This framework modularizes the FTMs and conglomerates synchronous FTMs together to represent the variants. It also generates module clusters to unveil the epidemic stages and their contemporaneous variants. Eventually, the module-based variants are assessed by …


Persistence And Mitigation Of Pfas Within Concrete Stormwater Drainage Infrastructure, Jason R. Mcdonald Mar 2022

Persistence And Mitigation Of Pfas Within Concrete Stormwater Drainage Infrastructure, Jason R. Mcdonald

Theses and Dissertations

The persistence, fate, and transport of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, which have been shown to have adverse effects on human health, have been previously studied in environmental media such as soils and groundwater. This study investigates concrete, a medium that is rarely studied but frequently present in instances where PFAS originating from AFFF releases and spills have occurred. Used heavily throughout aviation firefighting, AFFF poses environmental hazards due to the length of PFAS degradation and toxicological implications, thus its classification as a forever chemical. From the very limited reports to date, studies have suggested very slow release from concrete, potentially …


Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen Mar 2022

Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Traffic speed estimation plays a key role in various situations, ranging from individual's trip planning to urban traffic management. Despite many studies on short-term prediction, there is only a limited number of studies focusing on long-term prediction and only a couple of them does go beyond 24 h. On the contrary, this study presents a novel hybrid architecture using location-based traffic characteristic for traffic speed estimation up to 7 days. In this architecture, the introduced mean filtering estimation (MFE) model and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network are jointly utilized for minimizing the error for traffic flow estimation. Both MFE …


Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi Mar 2022

Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The problem of detecting similar documents plays an essential role for many real-world applications, such as copyright protection and plagiarism detection. To protect data privacy, the new version of such a problem becomes more challenging, where the matched documents are distributed among two or more parties and their privacy should be preserved. In this paper, we propose new privacy-preserving document similarity detection schemes by utilizing the locality-sensitive hashing technique, which can handle the misspelled mistakes. Furthermore, the keywords' occurrences of a given document are integrated into its underlying representation to support a better ranking for the returned results. We introduced …


Critical Speed Calculation Of A Refurbishment Of 11mw Hydro Power Plant Unit, Ahmet Seli̇m Pehli̇van, Dario Kraljevic, Ivan Triplat, Beste Bahçeci̇ Mar 2022

Critical Speed Calculation Of A Refurbishment Of 11mw Hydro Power Plant Unit, Ahmet Seli̇m Pehli̇van, Dario Kraljevic, Ivan Triplat, Beste Bahçeci̇

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Hydro generator design is a significant issue in terms of safety, efficiency, and energy production sustainability. One of the most crucial issues about design criteria is to satisfy the needs of the project?s critical speed. In this work, the critical speed calculation of an 11 MW hydro power plant was investigated with several design steps. Numerical solution methodologies were implemented using ARMD?. A generator design was developed, and the implementation of the rotor was carried out in Antalya, Turkey. Vibration and displacements of the hydro generator are adequate. The generator unit is active for 3 years and have never encountered …


Design And Aerodynamic Analysis Of A Vtol Tilt-Wing Uav, Hasan Çakir, Di̇lek Funda Kurtuluş Mar 2022

Design And Aerodynamic Analysis Of A Vtol Tilt-Wing Uav, Hasan Çakir, Di̇lek Funda Kurtuluş

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The aerodynamic design and analysis of an Unmanned Air Vehicle, capable of vertical take-off and landing by employing fixed four rotors on the tilt-wing and two rotors on the tilt-tail, will be presented in this study. Both main wing and the horizontal tail can be tilted 90°. During VTOL, transition and forward flight, aerodynamic and thrust forces have been employed. Different flight conditions, including the effects of angle of attack, side slip, wing tilt angle and control surfaces deflection angle changes, have been studied with CFD analysis. For a Tilt-Wing UAV, there are challenges like high non-linearity, vulnerability to disturbances …


Developing A Fake News Identification Model With Advanced Deep Languagetransformers For Turkish Covid-19 Misinformation Data, Mehmet Bozuyla, Akin Özçi̇ft Mar 2022

Developing A Fake News Identification Model With Advanced Deep Languagetransformers For Turkish Covid-19 Misinformation Data, Mehmet Bozuyla, Akin Özçi̇ft

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The massive use of social media causes rapid information dissemination that amplifies harmful messages such as fake news. Fake-news is misleading information presented as factual news that is generally used to manipulate public opinion. In particular, fake news related to COVID-19 is defined as 'infodemic' by World Health Organization. An infodemic is a misleading information that causes confusion which may harm health. There is a high volume of misinformation about COVID-19 that causes panic and high stress. Therefore, the importance of development of COVID-19 related fake news identification model is clear and it is particularly important for Turkish language from …


The Analysis And Optimization Of Cnn Hyperparameters With Fuzzy Tree Modelfor Image Classification, Kübra Uyar, Şaki̇r Taşdemi̇r, İlker Ali̇ Özkan Mar 2022

The Analysis And Optimization Of Cnn Hyperparameters With Fuzzy Tree Modelfor Image Classification, Kübra Uyar, Şaki̇r Taşdemi̇r, İlker Ali̇ Özkan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The meaningful performance of convolutional neural network (CNN) has enabled the solution of various state-of-the-art problems. Although CNNs achieve satisfactory results in computer-vision problems, they still have some difficulties. As the designed CNN models are deepened to achieve much better accuracy, computational cost and complexity increase. It is significant to train CNNs with suitable topology and training hyperparameters that include initial learning rate, minibatch size, epoch number, filter size, number of filters, etc. because the initialization of hyperparameters affects classification results. On the other hand, it is not possible to make a definite inference for the hyperparameter initialization and there …


A Novel Instrumentation Amplifier With High Tunable Gain And Cmrr Forbiomedical Applications, Riyaz Ahmad, Amit Joshi, Dharmendar Boolchandani Mar 2022

A Novel Instrumentation Amplifier With High Tunable Gain And Cmrr Forbiomedical Applications, Riyaz Ahmad, Amit Joshi, Dharmendar Boolchandani

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

A new design of current mode instrumentation amplifier (CMIA) with tunable gain and low voltage operation capability is proposed in this paper, which is suitable for biomedical signals processing, especially in electrocardiogram (ECG). It consists of a new design of current differencing transconductance amplifier (CDTA) and dual z copy CDTA (DZC-CDTA). The gain of the proposed CMIA is controlled by a MOS-based tunable resistor. The main advantage of the proposed CMIA is its high gain that can be tuned over a significant range with the help of two resistances. The performance of the proposed instrumentation amplifier is evaluated through simulation …


A Factor Graph Optimization Mapping Based On Normaldistributions Transform, Kedi Zhong, Yuansheng Liu, Jiansuo Yang, Ming Lu, Jun Zhang Mar 2022

A Factor Graph Optimization Mapping Based On Normaldistributions Transform, Kedi Zhong, Yuansheng Liu, Jiansuo Yang, Ming Lu, Jun Zhang

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

This paper aims to achieve highly accurate mapping results and real time pose estimation of autonomous vehicle by using the normal distribution transform (NDT) algoritm. A factor graph optimization algorithm (FGO-NDT) is proposed to address the poor real-time performance and pose drift errors of the NDT algorithm. Smooth point cloud data are obtained by multisensor calibration and data preprocessing. NDT registration is then used for lidar odometry and feature matching. The global navigation satellite system (GNSS) data and loop detection results are added to the factor graph framework as the pose constraint factors to optimize the pose trajectory and eliminate …


Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr Mar 2022

Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The transverse flux motor (TFM) is an ideal choice for direct drive high torque applications owing to its proven higher torque density compared to the radial flux and axial flux motors. TFM motors have several merits to be used for spacecraft applications, considering the everlasting demand of the industry for reduction in power and mass. This paper investigates the various cogging torque mitigation techniques for transverse flux motor to be effectively used as the drive motor for precise position control spacecraft requirement. The paper discusses the basic design variables of surface mounted TFM (SM-TFM) that are to be considered for …


Modeling And Evaluation Of Soc-Based Coordinated Ev Charging For Powermanagement In A Distribution System, Murat Akil, Emrah Dokur, Ramazan Bayindir Mar 2022

Modeling And Evaluation Of Soc-Based Coordinated Ev Charging For Powermanagement In A Distribution System, Murat Akil, Emrah Dokur, Ramazan Bayindir

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The importance of using clean energy in electrical energy generation and transportation network planning has recently increased due to carbon footprint rising. In this direction, the use of electric vehicles (EV), known as ultra-low carbon emission vehicles, has become widespread in addition to renewable energy sources (RES) such as wind and photovoltaic (PV) power generations. The trend of EVs to be preferred the primary means of transport has revealed the effects of charging an additional load on the grid. There is a need to create coordinated charging methods by considering the approaches for real-time charging models of EVs. In this …


Reactive Power Sharing And Voltage Restoration In Islanded Ac Microgrids, Khurram Hashmi, Rizwan Ali, Muhammad Hanan, Waseem Aslam, Abubakar Siddique, Muhammad Mansoor Khan Mar 2022

Reactive Power Sharing And Voltage Restoration In Islanded Ac Microgrids, Khurram Hashmi, Rizwan Ali, Muhammad Hanan, Waseem Aslam, Abubakar Siddique, Muhammad Mansoor Khan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Microgrids (MG) are a new and innovative concept in modern distribution networks. Several challenges are associated with the operation and control of MG networks. Active and reactive power sharing among energy resources interfaced through power electronic conversion stages is a major challenge. Although active power sharing can be achieved under varying scenarios, sharing of reactive power between distributed generation units is difficult to achieve. This paper presents a novel and innovative control scheme to ensure sharing of reactive power between Distributed generation units within an autonomous, islanded AC microgrid. A framework composed of novel multiagent moving average estimators is proposed …


45-Nm Cds Qds Photoluminescent Filter For Photovoltaic Conversionefficiency Recovery, Victor Juárez-Luna, Daniel Sauceda-Carvajal, Ivett Zavala-Guillen, Enrique Rodarte-Guajardo, Francisco Carranza-Chávez, Carlos Villa Angulo Mar 2022

45-Nm Cds Qds Photoluminescent Filter For Photovoltaic Conversionefficiency Recovery, Victor Juárez-Luna, Daniel Sauceda-Carvajal, Ivett Zavala-Guillen, Enrique Rodarte-Guajardo, Francisco Carranza-Chávez, Carlos Villa Angulo

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Different energy loss mechanisms have restricted the breakthroughs in concentrated photovoltaic/thermal (CPVT) hybrid solar systems that use photoluminescent filters. Re?ected and transmitted light, emission spectrum, nonideal absorption, Stokes shift (proportional to $f_1 f_2$), overlapping absorption, and scattering of light are mechanisms in photoluminescent filters that restrict optical efficiency to below theoretical limits. In addition, increases in temperature by light concentration affect the operation of photovoltaic cells and photoluminescent filters because of an increase in molecular motion and collisions that consequently lead to energy loss. Meanwhile, nanocrystals or quantum dots (QDs) from groups II VI hold electrical, optical, chemical, and physical …