Design and Experiments of Coaxial Contra-Rotating Sugarcane Base Cutter with Time-Frequency Control

2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Xiuheng Wu ◽  
Jiahao Qin ◽  
Shaochun Ma ◽  
Wanhao Zhang ◽  
Zhenghe Song

Abstract. A laboratory-based cutting platform with speed control was developed to investigate the cutting mechanism for the support-cutting of sugarcane. A coaxial contra-rotating base cutter was designed to facilitate sugarcane support-cutting in a laboratory setting. The cutting platform, which consists of two discs with cutting blades, was driven by two variable-frequency electric motors. To manipulate the speed of each motor independently, a time-frequency controller was designed to handle system nonlinearity and to maintain system stability subject to speed variation. To validate the cutter design, a series of idle running tests and cane-cutting tests were implemented using the laboratory-based cutting platform. The results indicated that the rotating speed of the two cutting discs could be adjusted smoothly. The controller capped the overshoot under 1% in the speed step response and kept the fluctuation of the speed difference of the two cutting discs at less than 2.5 rpm. Evaluating the cane quality of support-cutting against free-cutting showed that support-cutting decreased the stubble damage rate from 22.67% to as little as 6.67%. The results also suggested that the time-frequency-controlled cutting platform was feasible for subsequent investigation for a better understanding of sugarcane support-cutting, such as the variation of energy consumption or stubble damage rate with different rotating speed or different blade shape, which will provide constructive suggestions for the future base cutter design. Keywords: Base cutter, Support-cutting, Cutting platform, Time-frequency control.

Author(s):  
Jacob D. Southern

The main objective of this study is to prove that an electromagnetic solenoid valve can be controlled accurately and have a rapid response time while not having to linearize the system. An electromagnetic solenoid valve can neither be slow nor have large amounts of error due to the small distances between the pressure ports and the accuracy of the system they are used to control. The valve modeled for this study was an automotive transmission solenoid valve. The solenoid valve has three ports: supply, exhaust, and controlled pressure. For simplification, this model only considers moving the spool to a specific port location, which will be user specified. The controller used for this system was a nonlinear time-frequency controller that uses Daubechies-3 wavelets for signal transformation. Once, the controller was optimized it was able to control the system accurately and with a rapid response time. The system is able to reach the desired input and maintain zero error in two tenths of a second with out greatly over shooting the desired input. Overall, this system is physically possible to control the way the simulation predicts because all of the parameters used in the simulation are from a real solenoid valve.


Author(s):  
Jishu Mary Gomez ◽  
Prabhakar Karthikeyan Shanmugam

Background & Objectives: The global power system is in a state of continuous evolution, incorporating more and more renewable energy systems. The converter-based systems are void of inherent inertia control behavior and are unable to curb minor frequency deviations. The traditional power system, on the other hand, is made up majorly of synchronous generators that have their inertia and governor response for frequency control. For improved inertial and primary frequency response, the existing frequency control methods need to be modified and an additional power reserve is to be maintained mandatorily for this purpose. Energy self-sufficient renewable distributed generator systems can be made possible through optimum active power control techniques. Also, when major global blackouts were analyzed for causes, solutions, and precautions, load shedding techniques were found to be a useful tool to prevent frequency collapse due to power imbalances. The pre-existing load shedding techniques were designed for traditional power systems and were tuned to eliminate low inertia generators as the first step to system stability restoration. To incorporate emerging energy possibilities, the changes in the mixed power system must be addressed and new frequency control capabilities of these systems must be researched. Discussion: In this paper, the power reserve control schemes that enable frequency regulation in the widely incorporated solar photovoltaic and wind turbine generating systems are discussed. Techniques for Under Frequency Load Shedding (UFLS) that can be effectively implemented in renewable energy enabled micro-grid environment for frequency regulation are also briefly discussed. The paper intends to study frequency control schemes and technologies that promote the development of self- sustaining micro-grids. Conclusion: The area of renewable energy research is fast emerging with immense scope for future developments. The comprehensive literature study confirms the possibilities of frequency and inertia response enhancement through optimum energy conservation and control of distributed energy systems.


Author(s):  
Chi-Wei Kuo ◽  
C. Steve Suh

A novel time-frequency nonlinear scheme demonstrated to be feasible for the control of dynamic instability including bifurcation, non-autonomous time-delay feedback oscillators, and route-to-chaos in many nonlinear systems is applied to the control of a time-delayed system. The control scheme features wavelet adaptive filters for simultaneous time-frequency resolution. Specifically Discrete Wavelet transform (DWT) is used to address the nonstationary nature of a chaotic system. The concept of active noise control is also adopted. The scheme applied the filter-x least mean square (FXLMS) algorithm which promotes convergence speed and increases performance. In the time-frequency control scheme, the FXLMS algorithm is modified by adding an adaptive filter to identify the system in real-time in order to construct a wavelet-based time-frequency controller capable of parallel on-line modeling. The scheme of such a construct, which possesses joint time-frequency resolution and embodies on-line FXLMS, is able to control non-autonomous, nonstationary system responses. Although the controller design is shown to successfully moderate the dynamic instability of the time-delay feedback oscillator and unconditionally warrant a limit cycle, parameters are required to be optimized. In this paper, the setting of the control parameters such as control time step, sampling rate, wavelet filter vector, and step size are studied and optimized to control a time-delay feedback oscillators of a nonautonomous type. The time-delayed oscillators have been applied in a broad set of fields including sensor design, manufacturing, and machine dynamics, but they can be easily perturbed to exhibit complex dynamical responses even with a small perturbation from the time-delay feedback. These responses for the system have a very negative impact on the stability, and thus output quality. Through employingfrequency-time control technique, the time responses of the time-delay feedback system to external disturbances are properly mitigated and the frequency responses are also suppressed, thus rendering the controlled responses quasi-periodic.


2018 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 2633-2639 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Soleimani ◽  
J. Mazloum

Power systems include multiple units linked together to produce constantly moving electric power flux. Stability is very important in power systems, so controller systems should be implemented in power plants to ensure power system stability either in normal conditions or after the events of unwanted inputs and disorder. Frequency and active power control are more important regarding stability. Our effort focused on designing and implementing robust PID and PI controllers based on genetic algorithm by changing the reference of generating units for faster damping of frequency oscillations. Implementation results are examined on two-area power system in the ideally state and in the case of parameter deviation. According to the results, the proposed controllers are resistant to deviation of power system parameters and governor uncertainties.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 343-359 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azzeddine Benlamoudi ◽  
Rachid Abdessemed

This paper deals with the application of an autonomous Self-Excited Induction Generator (SEIG) in a small wind power conversion system (WPCS). Such conversion system has capability to supply power demand of the loads with constant voltage and frequency, for which a power managing method is proposed. Voltage Sourced Converter (VSC) along with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) is used to handle power flow between the SEIG and loads. The proposed control scheme, using a single voltage closed-loop control, is found to be suitable to regulate both voltage and frequency. The WPCS is modelled in MATLAB/Simulink and Power System Block-set (PSB). Simulation results show that Voltage Frequency Controller (VFC) has ability to keep the voltage and frequency constant in spite of perturbations.


Author(s):  
Meng-Kun Liu ◽  
Eric B. Halfmann ◽  
C. Steve Suh

A novel control concept is presented for the online control of a high-speed micro-milling model system in the time and frequency domains concurrently. Micro-milling response at high-speed is highly sensitive to machining condition and external perturbation, easily deteriorating from bifurcation to chaos. When losing stability, milling time response is no longer periodic and the frequency response becomes broadband, rendering aberrational tool chatter and probable tool damage. The controller effectively mitigates the nonlinear vibration of the tool in the time domain and at the same time confines the frequency response from expanding and becoming chaotically broadband. The simultaneous time-frequency control is achieved through manipulating wavelet coefficients, thus not limited by the increasing bandwidth of the chaotic system — a fundamental restraint that deprives contemporary controller designs of validity and effectiveness. The feedforward feature of the control concept prevents errors from re-entering the control loop and inadvertently perturbing the sensitive micro-milling system. Because neither closed-form nor linearization is required, the innate, genuine features of the micro-milling response are faithfully retained.


2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrey A. Kapelyuhovskiy ◽  
Alexandra A. Kapelyuhovskaya ◽  
Elena P. Stepanova

Author(s):  
Xiaotong Tu ◽  
Yue Hu ◽  
Fucai Li

Vibration monitoring is an effective method for mechanical fault diagnosis. Wind turbines usually operated under varying-speed condition. Time-frequency analysis (TFA) is a reliable technique to handle such kind of nonstationary signal. In this paper, a new scheme, called current-aided TFA, is proposed to diagnose the planetary gearbox. This new technique acquires necessary information required by TFA from a current signal. The current signal is firstly used to estimate the rotating speed of the shaft. These parameters are applied to the demodulation transform to obtain a rough time-frequency distribution (TFD). Finally, the synchrosqueezing method further enhances the concentration of the obtained TFD. The validation and application of the proposed method are presented by a simulated signal and a vibration signal captured from a test rig.


Sensors ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 20 (18) ◽  
pp. 5307
Author(s):  
Yeying Tao ◽  
Wei Jiang ◽  
Bin Han ◽  
Xiaoqing Li ◽  
Ying Luo ◽  
...  

A piecewise frequency control (PFC) strategy is proposed in this paper for coordinating vibration isolation and positioning of supporting systems under complex disturbance conditions, such as direct and external disturbances. This control strategy is applied in an active-passive parallel supporting system, where relative positioning feedback for positioning and absolute velocity feedback for active vibration isolation. The analysis of vibration and deformation transmissibility shows that vibration control increases low-frequency position error while positioning control amplifies high-frequency vibration amplitude. To overcome this contradiction across the whole control bandwidth, a pair of Fractional-Order Filters (FOFs) is adopted in the PFC system, which increases the flexibility in the PFC design by introducing fraction orders. The system stability analysis indicates that the FOFs can provide a better stability margin than the Integral-Order Filters (IOFs), so the control gains are increased to get a better performance on the AVI and positioning. The PFC based on FOFs can suppress the peak amplitude at the natural frequency which cannot be avoided when using the IOFs. The constrained nonlinear multivariable function is formed by the required performance and the stability of the system, then the controller parameters are optimized effectively. Lastly, the effectiveness of the proposed method is verified by experiments.


Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (17) ◽  
pp. 3223 ◽  
Author(s):  
Liu ◽  
Zhang ◽  
Zou

This paper presents an active disturbance rejection control (ADRC) technique for load frequency control of a wind integrated power system when communication delays are considered. To improve the stability of frequency control, equivalent input disturbances (EID) compensation is used to eliminate the influence of the load variation. In wind integrated power systems, two area controllers are designed to guarantee the stability of the overall closed-loop system. First, a simplified frequency response model of the wind integrated time-delay power system was established. Then the state-space model of the closed-loop system was built by employing state observers. The system stability conditions and controller parameters can be solved by some linear matrix inequalities (LMIs) forms. Finally, the case studies were tested using MATLAB/SIMULINK software and the simulation results show its robustness and effectiveness to maintain power-system stability.


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