i-manager's Journal on Electrical Engineering (JEE)


Volume 12 Issue 2 October - December 2018

Research Paper

Solar Powered Obstacle Avoiding Lawn Mower

P. S. V. Kishore* , P. Suresh Kumar **, Smruti Dash ***, K. Ramesh ****
*-**** Assistant Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Vignan's IIT, Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Kishore, P. S. V., Kumar, P. S., Dash, S., and Ramesh, K. (2018). Solar Powered Obstacle Avoiding Lawn Mower. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 12(2), 1-5. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.12.2.14169

Abstract

The cost of fuel is getting increased and the effect of gases being emitted from the burnt fuel is weakening the ozone layer. Carbon emission has also become a big challenge in today's world. Therefore, by using solar power, we can reduce carbon footprints. Lawn mowers are becoming popular now-a-days. Grass cutting being a tedious work for human beings, can be simplified by using an automatic grass cutter, which can be performed without a physical person being present. While cutting the grass, there are some obstacles, which obstruct the cutting of grass and sometimes the blades of the machine get damaged, so it is necessary to avoid obstacles. For that we have to identify the obstacles first and then we have to change the path of the lawn mower. Supplying power to the lawn mower is a big issue while designing the model. In this paper, the authors have used a solar panel to charge the battery and the power stored in the battery is utilized to power the electric motors, which will rotate the blades to cut the grass.

Research Paper

Soft Computing Approach to detect Fault in Induction Motor

Pratap Sekhar Puhan* , Sudarsan Behera**
*Professor, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Telangana, India.
**Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science Engineering, Sreenidhi Institute of Science and Technology, Telangana, India.
Puhan, P. S., and Behera, S. (2018). Soft Computing Approach to Detect the Fault in Induction Motor. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 12(2), 6-14. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.12.2.14845

Abstract

Soft Computing based intelligent system plays an important role in the process of diagnosis and detection of different types of faults in induction motor in the recent age. This paper presents two soft computing approaches to detect and diagnosis of bearing fault in induction motor. Radial basis function and feed forward back propagation technique in neural network controller with Park's Transformation is used in this work to increases the accuracy level. First the Neural networks structure is formed by taking the number of neurons and various functions involved such as Tan sigmoid, log sigmoid. Taking stator current three phase signals from the Machine fault simulator converts it to two phase Signal using PARK'S Transformation. Then the model is tested and trained. The results shows that both FFBPN and RBFNN gives better results when PARK'S Transformation Implemented, However if it is minutely checked radial basis function technique in neural network gives more encouraging results which be utilize in Induction motor for setting of on line condition monitoring effectively.

Research Paper

Differential Evolution Algorithm Based TID Controller for Autonomous Hybrid Power System

V. S. R. Pavan Kumar* , U. Salma**
* Ph.D Scholar, Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
** Associate Professor, Department Electrical and Electronics Engineering, GITAM (Deemed to be University), Visakhapatnam, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Neeli, V. S. R. P. K., and Salma, U. (2018). Differential Evolution Algorithm Based TID Controller for Autonomous Hybrid Power System. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 12(2), 15-23. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.12.2.14780

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to design a load frequency controller for Autonomous hybrid power system with heuristic optimization approach like Differential Evolution Algorithm. A novel controller such as TID (Tilt-Integral-Derivative) Controller is employed to suppress the oscillations in the system that occurs due to variation or disturbances. The gain values of the controller are obtained by the DE algorithm. In order to allivate the effective nature of the proposed controller the responses are compared with the conventional PID controller in all test conditions applied. The DE tuned TID controller resembles stronger robustness properties than the conventional PID controller.

Research Paper

Comparison Between Inverter Control Techniques in Grid Connected Solar Photovoltaic Systems

Sushil Kumar Gupta* , Aarti Ahlawat**, Diksha Gupta***
* Professor, Department of Electrical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
** Post-graduate, Department of Electrical Engineering, Deenbandhu Chotu Ram University of Science and Technology, Sonipat, Haryana, India.
*** Project Engineer, Wipro Technologies Ltd, Greater Noida, India.
Gupta, S. K., Ahlawat, A., and Gupta. (2018). Comparison Between Inverter Control Techniques in Grid Connected Solar Photovoltaic Systems. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 12(4), 24-31. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.12.2.14334

Abstract

This paper deals with interaction of 10 kW Solar PV system with grid and study of real power flow from Solar PV to the load and to the grid. The proposed PV power plant system is modeled using MATLAB/Simulink software and its performance is studied. The whole system deals with simulation of a PV panel, MPPT controller, boost converter, and 3ɸ VSI and the control algorithms used in the system. The Solar Photovoltaic system has a MPPT tracking system with DC-DC boost converter to track the maximum power from the solar panels. The MPPT technique implemented in this system is the Modified Perturb and Observe method which is used to improve the efficiency of the system. The interface between grid and solar PV is carried out through a Voltage Source inverter and thus eliminating the current harmonics based on a control technique used in Voltage source inverters. The analysis and control design of grid connected PV inverter using PI control technique is performed in synchronous d-q rotating reference frame to achieve maximum output voltage response and active power. The SPWM (Sinusoidal Pulse Width Modulation), SRFT (Synchronous Reference Frame Theory) and IRPT (Instantaneous Reactance Power Theory) inverter techniques are implemented to control the proposed solar photovoltaic system. A current control strategy with PWM technique is proposed to provide pulse for VSI. This system demonstrates the elimination of harmonics and improves power factor.

Research Paper

A New Photovoltaic Topology with Reliable and Reactive Power Capability

B. Obulapathi* , Shaik Hussain Vali**
*Junior Research Fellow, Visvesvaraya National Institute of Technology (VNIT), Nagpur, Maharashtra, India.
**Assistant Professor and Research Scholar, Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering, JNTUACEP, Andhra Pradesh, India.
Bobulapathi, B., and Vali, S. H. (2018). A New Photo Voltaic Topology with Reliable and Reactive Power Capability. i-manager’s Journal on Electrical Engineering, 12(2), 32-41. https://doi.org/10.26634/jee.12.2.15058

Abstract

The photovoltaic technology is one of the base sources of distributed generations for future generation, but it lacks certainty in power production. Absence of transformer in DC/AC conversion will reduce the cost and volume of the PV inverter. The absence of transformer creates galvanic isolation problem that produces leakage currents between grid and PV panel. The grid connected PV inverters with bipolar SPWM is able to supply active and reactive power to grid. The bipolar SPWM has high switching losses and voltage stress across the filter inductor, which is double the supply voltage. The conventional unipolar SPWM mitigates voltage stress and switching losses, but it lacks reactive power capability. In this paper, a new topology is proposed to give solutions to the above mentioned problems associated with reliability, leakage currents, and reactive power capability in a single topology. A transformerless H6 inverter is used to reduce leakage currents. A modified unipolar SPWM technique is applied to H6 inverter to mitigate voltage stress and switching loss with reactive power capability. A battery storage system is also connected between PV panel and inverter to make PV system reliable at least in power supply.