IEEE INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS SOCIETY NEWSLETTER
ISSN 0746-1240 September VOL. 52, NO. 3 2005
Highlights
of the current issue
President’s Column
by Bogdan Wilamowski
2
Editor’s Column
by Marco Liserre
3
Call for Nominations
by James Hung
4
Society News
by Terry Martin
4
Around The World
IECON 2005
Book News
by Marian Kazmierkowski
6
10
New Technology
by Marcian Cirstea
11
Electronic Systems Integrated Modeling
and Optimized Digital Controller
Prototyping – a Novel (HDL) Approach
CERN, Geneva
see page 7
President’s column
President:
New Technical
Committees:
a great success !
In July we held our second AdCom meeting of this year. This time the meeting
was held together with ISIE’05
(International Symposium on Industrial
Electronics) in Dubrovnik, Croatia. We
approved several conferences and some
new documents such as Guidelines for
Special Sections/Issues prepared by
Ramu Krishanan and we authorized
Charlie Einolf for negotiation on
Mechatronics issues. We heard many
interesting reports from the recently
formed new Technical Committees and it
seems that technical activities are revitalized. There were a couple of issues
on which decisions were postponed to
the next AdCom to be held in November.
The large number of newly formed technical committees raised concerns among
some of our AdCom members; according to our bylaws, Chairs of these
Committees are appointed by the
President and once they are appointed
they have the same voting rights as
other AdCom members. This may hypothetically lead to a situation where the
President is appointing a majority of voting AdCom members. Two solutions
were proposed: (1) to remove voting
privileges from Committee Chairs or (2)
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Prof. Bogdan M. (Dan) Wilamowski
Department of Electrical & Computer Engineering
200 Broun Hall, Auburn University, AL 36849-5201, USA,
1-334-844-1629 (office), 1-334-844-1809 (fax)
E-mail: wilam@ieee.org
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~wilambm/
President Elect:
to have required AdCom consent for
each TC Chair appointment in a similar
way as currently Editor-in-Chiefs are
appointed.
Another issue without clear decision
from the AdCom was how to handle conference papers submitted to our journals.
If the enhanced version of a conference
paper with a modified title is submitted to
a journal then, according to IEEE regulations, 60% of the paper content should
be new. An alternative solution, which is
already used by other societies, is to
consider for publication in our
Transactions, conference papers as they
are with the same title and the same contents. In the latter case, the same paper
can be seen twice in the electronic
library XPLORE, once as a conference
paper and the second time as a journal
paper. We did not reach a consensus in
Dubrovnik on how to solve this issue.
AdCom and ISIE’05 conferences were
held in one of the most beautiful places
on the Earth and ISIE’05 had a record
high attendance. Also, our ICM’05
(International
Conference
on
Mechatronics) was held in Taiwan and
doubled in number of attendees. The
conference in Taiwan was interesting
also from the perspective that for the first
time the concept of a virtual conference
using multimedia presentations was
introduced by Ren Luo. Many authors
instead of attending the conference prepared multimedia presentations including movies with experiments. We are
considering using this new approach
with some of our other conferences
(most likely with ISIE’06 in Montreal).
Before the end of 2005 we will have
three other IES conferences: ETFA’05 in
Catania, Italy in the second part of
September; IECON’05 in Raleigh, North
Carolina in the beginning of November;
and ICIT’05 in Hong Kong in the middle
of December. I hope to meet some of
you at these conferences.
Bogdan Wilamowski
Dr. Charles W. Einolf, Jr.
3007 Argentina Place, Mitchellville, Maryland 20716, USA,
1-301-218-0162 (home)
E-mail: c.einolf@ieee.org
Vice President for Conferences:
Prof. Leopoldo G. Franquelo
Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela Superior de Ingenieros,
Dpto de Ingenieria Electronica, Camino de los
Descubrimientos s/n, 41092 Sevilla, SPAIN, 34-954-487365 (office), 34-954-48-7373 (fax)
E-mail: leopoldo@gte.esi.us.es
Vice President for Membership Activities:
Prof. Rokuya Ishii
Div. of Electrical & Computer Eng., Yokohama National
University, Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama, 2408501, JAPAN, +81-45-339-4127 (office), +81-45-338-1157
(fax)
E-mail: ishii@ynu.ac.jp
Vice President for Publications:
Prof. Ramu Krishnan
The Bradley Department of Electrical Engineering,
Virginia Tech, 461 Durham Hall, Blacksburg, VA 240610111, USA , 1-540-231-4311 (office),
1-540-231-3362 (fax)
E-mail: kramu@vt.edu
http://www.ecpe.vt.edu/faculty/ramu.html
Vice President for Technical Activities:
Prof. Karel Jezernik
Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University
of Maribor, Smetanova 17, SI-2000 Maribor, SLOVENIA,
386-2-220-7300 (office),
386-2-220-7315 (fax)
E-mail: karel.jezernik@uni-mb.si
http://www.ro.feri.uni-mb.si/
Vice President for Workshops and Small Conferences:
Prof. Carlo Cecati
Dipartimento di Ingegneria Elettrica, Università degli Studi
dell'Aquila, Poggio di Roio, 67040 L'Aquila
39.0862.434450 (office), 39.0862.434403 (fax)
E-mail: c.cecati@ieee.org
http://ice.ing.univaq.it/it/principale.htm
Vice President for Planning and Development:
Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi
Department of System Design Engineering
Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama,
223-8522, JAPAN, 81-45-566-1726 (office), 81-45-5632754 (fax)
E-mail: ohnishi@sd.keio.ac.jp
http://www.sd.keio.ac.jp/staff/ohnishi.html.en
Secretary:
Prof. Terry Martin
Department of Electrical Engineering, University of
Arkansas, Bell Engineering Center, Rm. 3217,
Fayetteville, AR 72701, USA, 1-479-575-6047 (office)
1-479-575-7967 (fax)
E-mail: tmartin@uark.edu
Treasurer:
Prof. John Hung
Electrical & Computer Engineering Dept., Auburn
University, Auburn, AL 36849-5201, USA ,
1 334 844-1813 (office), 1 334 844-1809 (fax)
E-mail: j.y.hung@ieee.org
http://www.eng.auburn.edu/~jhung/
IEEE Transactions Editors:
Transactions on Industrial Electronics
Prof. Marian P. Kazmierkowski
Institute of Control & Industrial Electronics, Warsaw
University of Technology, ul. Koszykowa 75a, Warsaw, 00662, POLAND, +48-22-628-0665 (office)
+48-22-625-6633 (fax)
E-mail: mpk@isep.pw.edu.pl
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Editor’s column
Transactions on Industrial Informatics
Prof. Okyay Kaynak
Bogazici University, Bebek, 80815 Istanbul, TURKEY
90-212-287 2475 (office), 90-212-287-2465 (fax)
90-216-368-6688 (home)
E-mail: o.kaynak@ieee.org
http://mecha.ee.boun.edu.tr/kaynak.htm
More pages for the
future Newsletter
Transactions on Mechatronics
Prof. Ren Luo
President, National Chung Cheng University, 160, SanHsing, Ming-Hsiung, Chia-Yi, Taiwan, R.O.C.
+886-5-272-0400 (office), +886-5-272-0401 (fax)
E-mail: luo@ieee.org
Newsletter Editor:
Dr. Ing. Marco Liserre
Politecnico di Bari, Dipartimento di Elettrotecnica ed
Elettronica, via E. Orabona 4, 70125 Bari, ITALY
+39-080-5963433 (office), +39-080-5963410 (fax)
E-mail: liserre@ieee.org
http://www-dee.poliba.it/dee-web/Ricerca/labconverter/staff/liserre.htm
AdCom members:
Term expires 2005:
G. A. Capolino, Gerard.Capolino@ieee.org
M. W. Condry, condry@intel.com
L. Gomes, lugo@uninova.pt
I. Nagy, nagy@elektro.get.bme.hu
K. Ohishi, ohishi@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp
X. Yu, x.yu@rmit.edu.au
A. Colombo awcolombo@ieee.org
Term expires 2006:
Mo-Yuen Chow, chow@eos.ncsu.edu
H. L Hess, hhess@uidaho.edu
I. J. Rudas, i.rudas@ieee.org
M. Ulieru, ulieru@enel.ucalgary.ca
P. J Werbos, pwerbos@nsf.gov
R. Schoop, ronald.schoop@modicon.com
S. O. Bogosyan, s.bogosyan@uaf.edu
Term expires 2007:
C. Couto,ccouto@dei.uminho.pt
J. M. Fuertes, josep.m.fuertes@upc.edu
G. P. Hancke, ghancke@eng.up.ac.za
Y. Hori, y.hori@ieee.org
J. J. Lee, jjlee@ee.kaist.ac.kr
K. F. Man, eekman@cityu.edu.hk
A. Malinowski, olekmali@ieee.org
Senior Members:
F. Aldana, f.aldana@ieee.org
G. Buja. g.buja@ieee.org
T. Fukuda, fukuda@mein.nagoya-u.ac.jp
F. Harashima, f.harashima@ieee.org
T. Hasegawa, CQP00300@niftyserve.or.jp
H. Hashimoto, hashimoto@iis.u-tokyo.ac.jp
J. Holtz, j.holtz@ieee.org
O. Kaynak, o.kaynak@ieee.org
K. W. Lim, elelimkw@nus.edu.sg
R. Luo, luo@ia.ee.ccu.edu.tw
K. Ohinishi, ohnishi@sd.keio.ac.jp
J. Pimentel, jpimente@kettering.edu
J. Uceda, uceda@upmdie.upm.es
H. Wo, wo@lucent.com
A. Weaver, weaver@virginia.edu
R. Zurawski, zurawski@jsisa.com
M. I. Valla, valla@venus.fisica.unlp.edu.ar
T. S. Low, tslow@rp.edu.sg
Life Members:
R. Begun, r.begun@ieee.org
C. J. Chen, c.j.chen@ieee.org
G. Cook, gcook@gmu.edu
C. Einolf, ceinolf@attc.org
P. Gold, p.gold@ieee.org
H. Haneda, h.haneda@ieee.org
T. Hori, hori@hori.elec.mie-u.ac.jp
V. Huang, victor@auctorcorp.com
J. Hung, jhung@utk.edu
J. D. Irwin, jdirwin@eng.auburn.edu
R. Ishii, ishii@dnj.ynu.ac.jp
H. Mergler, hwmergler@aol.com
T. Nagle, t.nagle@ieee.org
A. Pietrzykoski, a.pietrzykoski@ieee.org
M. Greene, greene@eng.auburn.edu
R. Krishnan, kramu@vt.ed
F. Harashima, f.harashima@ieee.org
Y. K. Wo.
This newsletter is a work-in-process Unfortunately I could not incorporate all
experience ! This issue is clearly differ- these great technical contributions in this
ent from the previous ones. There is a newsletter as it is limited to 16 pages,
different cover page, without the tradi- and I had to preserve the informative
tional column of the president. This now appeal of the newsletter. We had lots of
has an honorable space on the second activity both in the society (AdCom and
page. The main cause for this was the Education Committee on page 5) and in
dead time I experienced while compos- the chapters (Meetings in Wuppertal on
ing the ultimate pieces of this mosaic. page 8 and in Lausanne/Geneva on
While waiting for the final contributions, I page 7). Moreover, the IES conferences
wondered how to catch your attention, and workshops are growing, under the
hence the choice to put the
supervision of Leopoldo and Carlo, and
picture from CERN (credit
need some space: IECON 2005
goes to Dr. Ingo Hahn and
(page 6), ISIE 2005 (page 9), ICIT
Manuel Kennel) on the
2005 (page 10), ISIE 2006 and
front cover as CERN parAMC 2006 (pages 13-14) and
tially hosted a mega-meetmany others (see the calendar
ing of the IEEE, described in
on pages 13 and 16).
this issue on page 7.
It is a pity not to be able to pubHowever, the newsletlish great papers immeter is not only chang- Typical aircraft starter-generator: you diately. Hence I have
ing its aspect but it is
asked to increase the
will find more in “Power Electronics
Reliability in the More Electric
also growing in the
number of pages. Soon
Aircraft” soon in IES Newsletter
number of contribuwe will have a 20 page
tions. In this sense
newsletter! I foresee
this year's ISIE Conference (see page 9) that even this will not be enough, and
was even more successful for me. hopefully the newsletter will evolve in
Having met many distinguished something bigger that will give more
researchers, I received a good number advantages to IES members: we will
of high level technical papers that will be see!
published in coming issues. Papers in Even if the space seems never to be
the future issues will cover many topics, enough, something is missing from this
from the more electric aircraft (we will newsletter. I would encourage to submit
read a very interesting paper by Kamal short letters, briefly addressing technical
Al-Haddad who will be General Chair of issues. I hope that you will all take the
ISIE 2006, to be held in Montreal, opportunity to give a brief opinion view
Canada, July 9-13 - The deadline for on what you think will excite our
papers submission is December 20 - the research interest in the future.
Call for Papers is on page 14) to welfare
Marco Liserre
robotics.
Contributions Welcome
Information for Authors
Material for Opinions, Chapter News,
Professional Activities, Technical
contributions should be e-mailed
directly to the editor
(liserre@ieee.org). All the material
has to be send as plain text, RTF, or
DOC files. Send figures and photographs as separate TIF files (300 dpi)
Please submit materials for consideration according to the schedule:
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Society News
Report of the Administrative Committee
of the IES held in Dubrovnik, June 2005
Prof. Terry Martin, IEEE-IES Secretary
President Dan Wilamowski reported
that IES is healthy technically and
financially. He presented information
from the recent TAB meeting relating to
IEEE as follows: IEEE membership is
continuing to decrease; a survey of
members that did not renew their IEEE
membership; income sources for IEEE;
IEEE recommends including a 20%
overhead charge for all conferences;
two new IEEE councils were created,
the Systems Council and Electronic
Design and Automation Council, IES is
part of the Systems Council; societies
are allowed to go over budget up to 3%
with approval of TAB; most societies
(including IES) are going to put their
past publications in electronic format
on IEEE Explorer; IES is very conservative with expenditures compared to
many other societies; IES spends a
very small amount on awards compared to other societies; revenue distribution of publication revenues was
changed; IES will be moved from
Region 10 to Region 6.
Treasurer John Hung presented the
financial report. The net worth of IES at
the end of 2004 is $2.9M. IES had a
$1M surplus for 2004. This increase is
due largely to conference income and
the periodical income. The periodical
income has a one time distribution
from the Transactions on Mechatronics
that has been accumulated over several years. In the future, the income from
the Transactions on Mechatronics will
be distributed each year. IES continues to be healthy financially. The proposed budget for 2006-2007 was
approved.
James Hung, chairman of the
Nominations Committee, issued a call
for nominations for AdCom members.
A call for nominations will be sent out
via email in the near future. He also
discussed the procedure followed by
the committee (see the box on the
right).
Terry Martin, chairman of the
Constitution and Bylaws Committee
presented changes in the Bylaws that
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would change Technical Chairs from
voting to nonvoting AdCom members.
The rational behind the changes in the
Bylaws came from the following two
concerns that had been presented to
AdCom dinner: Charles Einolf, President-Elect of the
IES with Prof Yuchi Hori and Prof. Kouehi Ohnishi,
Vice-President for Planning and Development.
the
Constitution
and
Bylaws
Committee. 1) Technical Chairs are
voting members of AdCom that are
appointed by the President, and this
allows the President to appoint a fairly
significant portion of the voting membership of the AdCom. 2) Since the
current plans of IES are to increase the
number of Technical Committees, the
voting role of the elected AdCom member will diminish. The Constitution and
Bylaws Committee will consider additional input and report back at the next
AdCom meeting.
Rokuya Ishii presented a report on IES
membership. Various suggestions
were presented to increase membership.
Seta Bogosyan reported that the
Educational Committee needed addi-
tional members, and if you are interested to please let her know. The goals
are to provide educational support and
continuing education in IES areas of
interest to professionals and students
all over the world with an aim to gain
publicity and visibility and to increase
and sustain IES membership. They
plan to achieve the goals via the following tools: a website, worldwide forum,
cooperation with industry, IES co-sponsored conference site activities, and
invitation and sharing of guest lecturers
with interested academic/industrial
institution.
Karel Jezernik reported that nine new
technical committees were presented
in the last issue of the IES Newsletter.
Five technical committees have set up
web pages. A Committee on Technical
Committees for the evaluation of technical committee activities has been
formed. The members are: Karel
Jezernik (Chair), Charles W. Einolf, Jr.,
Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo, Krisnan
Ramu, and John Hung. Financial allocations were made to various technical
committees based upon requests
received by Committee on Technical
Committees.
Various details were presented by
Leopoldo G. Franquelo related to conferences. A report from ISIE05 was
presented by Nedjeljiko Peric.
Leopoldo Garcia Franquelo thanked
Nedjeljiko Peric for an excellent conference. Dave Irwin presented a report for
IECON05. At this time, over 800
papers have been submitted for
Call for Nominations
Prof. Jim Hung
Chair of the Nomination Committee
The Nomination Committee of the IES
solicit the nomination of candidates
for IES AdCom members for the term
2006-2008. Each candidate must be a
member of IES. The nominator must
also be a member of IES.
Please send nominations to
Professor Jim Hung (jhung@utk.edu)
no later than September 30, 2005.
Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter
review. The conference is November 610, 2005 in Raleigh, North Carolina.
Gerard-Andre Capolino presented a
report for IECON06. The call for papers
website is almost ready. The conference is November 7-10, 2006.
Carlo Cecati presented a summary of
the
Small
Conferences
and
Workshops. He also noted that technically
co-sponsored
conferences
require publication on IEEE-Xplore.
Carlo presented the Guidelines for
Technical Co-sponsorship.
The
Guidelines
for
Special
Sessions/Issues presented by Ramu
Krishnan were approved. Ramu also
presented the Publications Committee
Policy & Operations Document that will
be considered at a later AdCom meeting. Ramu requests that suggested
changes and comments be sent to him
or anyone else on the Publications
Committee. Ramu Krishnan also
solicited comments from the AdCom
about the possibility of reviewing and
publishing papers from conference
proceedings into TIE and TII journals.
This appears to be an accepted practice in other IEEE Societies. Various
concerns were expressed by the
AdCom members. The Publications
Committee will continue their discussion on this issue and report back to
the AdCom at a later meeting.
Marian Kazmierkowski presented the
report on the Transactions on Industrial
Electronics.
All papers are now
accepted electronically. Beginning
August 2005 there will be a mandatory
US$160 per page for papers in excess
of eight pages. Statistics regarding the
TIE were also presented.
Okyay Kaynak presented a report on
the Transactions on Industrial
Informatics. The February issue was
late, May issue was on time, and
August issue will be early. There will be
additions to the Editorial Board in the
future. The page count is estimated to
be between 280 and 284 for 2005.
Additional promotion actions will be
taken for advertising. Efforts are being
made to get TII into ISI.
Marco Liserre presented a report on
the IES Newsletter. Format of the
newsletter has changed to a three column format. The goals are to increase
the technical content and publish IES
focused specials like: IES Fellows and
Membership special. The number of
Prof. Seta Bogosyan reports on
the IES Education Committee Activties
IES
Education
Committee (EC) had its
first public activities during and after ISIE’05 in Dubrovnik.
Thanks to the opportunity provided by
ISIE’05 organizers, the IES-EC Chair
Seta Bogosyan organized the first discussion session of the committee at
the ISIE’05 conference site on “What
IES Education Committee can do for
industry and academia”. During the
session, EC activities were introduced,
volunteers were sought, suggestions
were taken and a survey was conducted to better serve our members. Many
thanks to Professors Peric, Petrovic,
Jezernik, and Franquelo, as well as to
the participants who have stayed in
touch with IES- EC with their valuable
suggestions. After ISIE’05 in the beautiful town of Dubrovnik, SchneiderElectric located in another picturesque
European town, Selingenstadt, hosted
a mini workshop organized by IES-EC
on July,13. First, Dr. Bogosyan made
Armando Colomb, Chair of the Techical Committee on
Industrial Agents talks with Prof. J. David Irwin,
General Co-Chair of IECON 2005
pages will increase by 25%.
Contributions to the Newsletter are
welcome (plain text and figures as separate TIF files, submit by email to liserre@poliba.it).
George Fodor addressed the AdCom
with concerns and issues that he has
about the operation of the IES AdCom.
After some discussion, Charles Einolf
assured George Fodor that as
President-Elect he would see that the
items discussed would be addressed.
Charlie Einolf thanked George Fodor
for attending the meeting and providing
his input.
Kouhei Ohnishi presented ideas relat-
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a presentation on the goals and activities of IES-EC. This was followed by
Dr. Colombo from Schneider-Electric,
introducing the European Networks of
Excellence IPROMs and Dr. Schoop
from the same company, who talked
about the Schneider HUB Department.
Following the presentations, in-depth
discussions were conducted on how
IES-industry links would actually be
improved, how IES-EC website and
web-based forum could be put in action
to better serve this collaboration and
what Schneider will do to participate.
The details and outcomes of this workshop will soon be announced to the Ad
Com and IES members.
For now, IES-EC would like to thank
Schneider-Electric for a very productive workshop, for their tremendous
hospitality in beautiful Selingenstadt
and the considerable step they have
taken in strengthening IES-industry
links!
ed to long range development of IES such as, coordination between publishing and technical activities. The suggestion was made to use round table
discussions at conferences.
Charlie Einolf presented the draft
Publication and Marketing Agreement
between IEEE and ASME. Some of the
issues are as following: IES will have
two representatives on the management committee. Each society is
responsible for representative travel.
IEEE to apply up to 50% of packaged
product income to TM expense.
The IES AdCom authorized the IES
President-Elect to negotiate and execute the Publication and Marketing
Agreement
with
RAS
and
ASME.Future AdCom meetings are as
follows: November 5 & 6, 2005 in conjunction with IECON’05, Raleigh, NC,
USA. March 25 & 26, 2006 in conjunction with AMC’06, Istanbul, Turkey. July
13 & 14, 2006 in conjunction with
ISIE’06, Montreal, Canada. November
10 & 11, 2006 in conjunction with
IECON’06, Paris, France.
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Around the world
Invitation to IECON 2005, Raleigh, North
Carolina, USA, Nov. 6–10, 2005
Prof. Mo-Yuen Chow and Prof. J. David Irwin,
General Co-Chairs
Dear IES Colleagues and Friends,
It is our pleasure to share with you the
IECON05 status. IECON05 has six
technical tracks: (1) Computer and
control systems, (2) Power electronics,
(3) Motors and drives, (4) Sensors and
actuators, (5) Industrial informatics,
and (6) Mechatronics and robotics, and
eleven special session tracks.
(http://www.adac.ncsu.edu/IECON05)
We have 840 papers submitted to
IECON05. Among the papers, we have
on the order of one hundred papers in
the special sessions. Due to the limited
slots available, the acceptance rate of
the conference papers (including both
oral and poster sessions) is around
60%. In response to many requests,
we will also have more poster sessions
in order to further promote the interactions among authors and audiences.
We plan to have seven parallel tracks:
four regular paper tracks, one special
session track, and two poster sessions. In addition to the quality of the
papers, some of the conference highlights are:
Three prominent keynote speeches:
HUMAN ADAPTIVE MECHATRONICS
by Dr. Fumio Harashima, President of
Tokyo Denki University, Japan.
TOWARDS INTELLIGENT DISTRIBUTED SYSTEMS by Dr. Ronald
Schoop, VP Engineering, Schneider
Electric, Germany.
ELECTROTEXTILES: CHALLENGES
AND OPPORTUNITIES by Dr.
Behnam Pourdeyhimi, Professor and
Associate Dean in the Textile
Engineering, North Carolina State
University, USA.
Two outstanding panels:
TECHNOLOGY
ADVANCES
IN
POWER
ELECTRONICS
AND
MOTOR DRIVES
Organizer and Moderator: Dr. Bimal K.
Bose, Panelists: Introduction and
Perspective: Dr. Bimal K. Bose,
University of Tennessee. Power
Semiconductor Devices: Dr. Anton
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Mauder,
Infineon
Technology,
Germany. Power Converters: Dr. H.
Akagi, Tokyo Inst. of Technology ,
Japan. Motor Drives: Dr. Victor R.
Stefanovic,
V.S.
Drives,
USA.
Advanced Control: Dr. Marian P.
Kazmierkowsky, Warsaw University of
Technology , USA .
CURRENT
CHALLENGES
AND
OPPORTUNITIES OF INDUSTRIAL
ELECTRONICS IN US GOVERNMENT AGENCIESOrganizers: Dr. MoYuen Chow and Dr. J. David Irwin,
Moderator: J. David Irwin, Dr. Jim
Cheng (Army Research Office), Dr.
Brendan Godfrey (Air Force Office of
Scientific Research), Dr. Steve Jurcsyk
(NASA Langley Research Center), Dr.
Paul Werbos (National Science
Foundation)
Six excellent tutorials
“Grid Converters and their Control in
Distributed
Power
Generation
Systems” by Drs. Marco Liserre,
Remus Teodorescu and Zhe Chen
“Power Electronics and Motor DrivesTechnology Status and Trends” by Dr.
B. K. Bose
“Industrial Agent Technologies” by Dr.
Mihaela Ulieru
“Matrix Converter Technologies” by
Drs. Patrick Wheeler, Jon Clare and
Christian Klumpner
“From Neural Networks to the
Intelligent Power Grid: What it Takes to
Make Things Work” by Dr. Paul
Webros
“Servo Drives - State of the Art and
Modern Developments” by Drs. Ing. J.
M. Pacas and Ing. R. M. Kennel
Technical tours: Advanced Diagnosis,
Automation, and Control (ADAC)
Laboratory,
Advanced
Energy
Semiconductor Power Electronics
Center (SPEC)
… More to come, Golf tournament
We would also like to thank the sponsors for their financial and/or technical
supports to IECON05.
In addition to the high quality technical
program that is a trademark of
IECONs, Raleigh, NC has a variety of
outstanding local attractions within 30
minutes drive (http://www.raleighnc.org/). Other world wide famous
locations such as Smoky Mountains,
Outer Banks, Kitty Hawks, Pine Hertz,
Washington DC, Williamsburg, etc.,
are all within comfortable driving distance. If interested, we will be glad to
help with your tour arrangements.
We will do all we can to ensure that
IECON05 is a technical rewarding and
personally enjoyable experience for
you.
We look forward to seeing you at
IECON05, Nov. 6 – 9, 2005 in Raleigh,
NC, USA.
Prof. Bimal K. Bose received the IEEE Power
Electronics Society William W. Newell Award
(2005) "for outstanding achievements in the
interdisciplinary field of power electronics"
Dr. Bose is a recipient of 8 IEEE
Awards/Honors that include IEEE
Power Electronics Society Newell
Award (2005), IEEE Millennium Medal
(2000), IEEE Meritorious Achievement
Award in Continuing Education
(1997), IEEE Lamme Gold Medal
(1996), IEEE-Industrial Electronics
Society Eugene Mittelmann Award (for
life-time achievement in Power
Electronics) (1994), IEEE Region 3
Outstanding Engineer Award (1994),
IEEE-Industry Applications Society
Outstanding Achievement Award
(1993),
IEEE Life Fellow (1996)
(Fellow in 1989). He is also the recipient of Calcutta University Mouat
Gold Medal (1970), GE Silver Patent
Medal (1986) and GE Publication
Award (1985). Dr. Bose received the
B.E. degree in 1956, M.S. degree in
1960 and Ph.D. degree in 1966.
Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter
The Joint IAS/PELS/IES German Chapter
meets at EPFL, Lausanne, and CERN,
Geneva, Switzerland, on June 2-3, 2005
The international chapter meeting took
place in conjunction with a workshop
and a seminar program at Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne,
i. e. Swiss French speaking technical
university. Many international guests
attended the workshop and technical
seminar on June 2nd, 2005, with lectures about the IEEE Future Energy
Challenge 2005, the PSIM simulation
environment, hybrid fuel cells for transportation and stationary power generation, and the opportunities and market
needs for power electronics and power
systems.
The social meeting took place at the
restaurant de Dorigny of EPFL with a
view on the beautiful scenery of lake
Leman up to Mont Blanc massif. Local
organizer Prof. Rufer of EPFL opened
the banquet. Interesting discussions
about technical and other issues developed. Society presidents of IAS
(Landis Floyd), PELS (Rik De
Doncker), IES (Charles Einolf) and
also past IAS 2000 president (Caio A.
Ferreira) were present at the banquet.
The organizers' gratitude for support of
the meeting was expressed during an
awards ceremony.
On June 3rd, 2005, more than 60 participants listened to the different lectures at EPFL. First Prof. Paul
Sunderland gave an overview about
the school of engineering of the EPFL.
The school of engineering has an
annual budget of about 90 million US$.
Research topics besides are reflected
in different trans-disciplinary centers,
namely space, brain&mind, Bernoulli,
biological engineering and energy.
EPFL in sum has 6400 students (2004)
and 3120 employees. Faculty members come up to 50% from
Switzerland, up to 25% from USA and
up to 20% from all over Europe, where
it has been ranked within the top 10
universities.
The second lecture given by Dr.
Francois Marechal introduced the institute of energy sciences. Dr. Marechal
explained the different research topics,
being related to each other, i. e. systems analysis, electromagnetic, fluid
mechanics, heat and mass transfer
and thermodynamics.
In the following Prof. Jean-Jacques
Simond, head of the laboratory for
electrical machines, presented insights
about the modern design of high power
generators. His special approach to
solve the design of a 6-phase synchronous machine for a 20 MW gas compressor turbine is a machine with solid
iron rotor with excitation and damper
windings. Within the stator a double
Charles Einolf, President-Elect of IES with Rik De
Doncker, President of PELS
winding scheme is used, where the
first three phases are translated
against the second three phases by an
angle of 30° to eliminate the 5th and
7th harmonics of the flux linkage. With
this translated double stator structure it
is possible to suppress the 6th harmonic of the produced torque.
The next lecture given by General
Chairman and host Prof. Alfred Rufer
described an example of multi-disciplinary research in the field of a hybrid
energy storage system. His approach
uses compressed air and super-capacitors. Prof. Rufer explained the thermodynamics of pneumatic energy storage
with some examples for the adiabatic,
the isochoric and the isobaric state
transitions needed to understand the
hybrid energy storage system, and presented a novel UPS with compressed
air and super-capacitors which uses a
maximum efficiency point tracking control. The efficiency of the pneumatic
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motor is less than 20%, leading to the
suggestion to replace it by a hydraulic
motor. This system and further setups
for research and education
- such as a model railway or an electric
scooter - have been demonstrated during a subsequent lab tour.
In the following Dr. Eric Carroll of ABB
Switzerland gave an overview about
high power semiconductor development and manufacturing. After a comparison of the safe operating areas
(SOA) of IGBTs and IGCTs insights in
the most advanced development of
high SOA IGBTs with special switching
self-clamping mode (SSCM) have
been given. The presentation of theleading Swiss Power Semiconductor
company concluded with an introduction to new diode developments, optimizing especially critical snap off
behavior.
The digest of Swiss and European
High Tech research and development
was complemented by the presentation of Prof. Johann Kolar, ETH Zürich.
After an introduction to ECPE, the
European Center for Power Electronics
- aiming at the promotion of research,
innovation, education, publicity and
technology transfer in the area of
power electronics in Europe - he
described particular research work carried out in cooperation with ECPE at
his Power Electronic Systems
Laboratory: This comprised topics like
hybrid EMI filtering and matrix converters - especially sparse matrix converters including all-SiC versions to be
operated at 150 kHz switching frequency. By successful integration, a power
density of 25 kW/l has already been
achieved, being a basis to work on the
challenging number of 50 kW/l for the
future.
An unforgettable highlight of the chapter meeting was the visit of European
Research Center CERN in Geneva. Dr.
Frederic Bordry of CERN power electronics group introduced the history of
CERN, which has been founded in
1954; . . .continues on page 9
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From the Emperor’s coach to the O-Bus !
Dr. Ingo Hahn and Manuel Kennel report on the IEEE IAS/PELS/IES German
Chapter Meeting at Wuppertal University
The first meeting of the IEEE a train used by the German emperor machines and drives, presented some
IAS/PELS/IES German Chapter in Wilhelm II and his wife 100 years ago. topics about the investigations done in
2005 was organized by the Electrical The "Schwebebahn" is supplied by an the field of sensorless speed and posiMachines and Drives Laboratory at aluminium rail with a voltage of 600 V tion control of electrical machines,
Wuppertal University (Prof. Dr.-Ing. and operates on a track with 13.3 km namely the asynchronous machine
Ralph Kennel) and started in the after- length. Each train needs 30 minutes to and the permanent magnet synchronoon of April 7th at the railway station cover the distance. The maximum nous machine.
of Solingen, which is located close to speed is 60 km/h. After returning to the In the sequel Prof. Detlef Krahé, head
Wuppertal. From there the chapter workshop of the "Schwebebahn" the of the institute of digital signal processmembers were transferred to the work- members of the chapter had the oppor- ing and electroacoustics, gave an
shop of the "Solinger Stadtwerke" tunity to watch a movie about this spe- overview about the research activities
(public transport company of Solingen) cial transport system, which carries and the results in the field of active
by a special transport system - the O- around 70 000 people each day and is noise control and its' applications.
Bus (trolley bus).
The last lecture
This bus uses dc
was given by Dr.
voltage of 600 V
Wolfgang Fischer,
and is one of only
chair for power
two trolley bus syselectronics,
tems in Germany.
M a g d e b u r g
The O-bus transUniversity, about
ports nearly 50% of
his investigations in
all
passengers
using
simulation
within Solingen city
tools.
- 60 000 daily. The
The lectures were
chapter members
followed by the
had the opportunity
chapter
awards
to watch the modceremony:
Prof.
ern drive technolo- Old and new technology: on the left the"Kaiserwagen" (emperor's coach), a train used by the German emperor Werner Leonhard,
gy of the O-Bus. Wilhelm II and his wife 100 years ago; on the right the O-Bus (trolley bus), working with a dc voltage of 600 V, one Life
Fellow,
of only two trolley bus systems in Germany
Two
engineers
received
the
from the company
Chapter Award with
Kiepe Elektrik answered all questions still the safest public transport system
an induction motor trophy for his scienconcerning technical details of the worldwide. The day closed with a nice tific contributions about "Nachhaltige
used power electronics components dinner in the guest house of the Energieversorgung aus regenerative
within the trolley buses.
Wuppertal University.
Quellen", i. e. sustainable energy supOne of the newest trolley buses trans- The second day the faculty of electrical ply using regenerative sources, and his
ported the visitors to the next highlight engineering, information and media continuous support of the chapter.
- the unique and world-famous technology was presented by Prof.
Schwebebahn (suspension railway) of Bernd Tibken. One topic was the
Wuppertal. This system is more than implementation of bachelors and mas100 years old - the trains are hanging ters degrees at german universities,
"the wrong way around" under rails, while leaving the "Dipl.-Ing." degree in
which are built mostly above the river the future. Furthermore Prof. Bernd
Wupper or over the streets of Tibken presented the institute of autoWuppertal. The workshop of the matic control. Actual research activities
Schwebebahn was visited. Within the are in the field of arithmetic interval
workshop all replacement parts are theory, image processing in the loop,
produced, because the Schwebebahn intelligent control systems and
is unique in the world.
Lyapunov based control of dynamical
Afterwards the visitors took a ride on systems. Next Prof. Joachim Holtz,
Detail of the O-Bus (trolley bus)
the "Kaiserwagen" (emperor's coach), emeritus of the institute of electrical
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Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter
Prof. N. Peric, ISIE 2005 General CoChair and Prof. I. Petrovic, ISIE 2005
Technical Program Co-Chair report on
the successful ISIE 2005 held in
Dubrovnik, Croatia, June 20-23, 2005
The International Symposium on
Industrial Electronics, ISIE 2005, took
place on June 20-23, 2005 at
International Center of Croatian
Universities in Dubrovnik, Croatia, and
was sponsored by IEEE Industrial
Electronic Society and University of
Zagreb. We felt that ISIE 2005 provided an inspiring forum for discussion to
more than 300 scientists from more
than 40 countries around the world. In
our view, 304 papers selected from a
submission pool of 446 papers are a
testimony to an increasing appeal of
Female group "FA Linðo" at the Opening Ceremony
the symposium.
The ISIE 2005 Technical Program was
of very high quality, including 34 oral
sessions, 3 poster sessions, 7 special
sessions, 1 student forum oral session,
1 student forum poster session, and a
Mini Track on Automotive Control consisting of 6 oral sessions. We express
our gratitude to our distinguished
keynote speakers for extraordinary lectures: Prof. Manfred Morari, ETH
Zürich, (Lecture title: "Hybrid Systems:
Theory,
Computation
and
Applications"), Dr. George Fodor, ABB
Automation Technology Products,
(Lecture title: "A Formalism for
Electronics-recursive
Software
Architectures - Industry Challenges
and Competitive Edges") and Prof.
Kouhei Ohnishi, Keio University
(Lecture title: "A Touching Motion").
The Technical Program was additionally enriched by five tutorials, two round
tables and two industrial presentations.
Tutorials were given by outstanding
Professors: Bimal K. Bose (USA),
Marcian Cirstea (UK), Mohamad
Farooq (Canada), Joachim Holtz
(Germany), and Okyay Kaynak
(Turkey) and Andon V. Topalov
(Bulgaria). At the first round table The
Key Role of ICT for Manufacturing –
Increasing Europe's Competitiveness
was discussed with keynote speakers
Dr. Erastos Filos (EU Commission) and
Mr. Darinko Bago (Konar-Electrical
Industries Company, Croatia), while
the second one addressed the
Accreditation and the European Higher
Education Area with keynote speakers
Prof. Branko Jeren (Croatia) and Dr.
Kruno Hernaut (Siemens, Germany).
Both
industrial
presentations
“Networks
for
Innovation
and
Cooperation: New Infrastructure for
Science and Industry (Bayern
Innovative, Germany) and Low floor
tramcar (Koncar-Electrical Industries
Company, Croatia)” attracted significant attention of the participants since
they were not typical commercial presentations.
Beside the technical program participants had an opportunity to enjoy a rich
social program comprising Welcome
Reception, Opening Ceremony, Gala
Dinner and an enchanting concert of
the Zagreb Saxophone Quartet (held
on Monday evening at the charming
Rector's Palace). We are convinced
that these events helped in creating a
warm and stimulating atmosphere
which characterized ISIE 2005
Gala Dinner: Prof. Wilamowski greats the audience.
Behind are: from left to right Prof. Karel Jezernik,
Prof. Nedjeljko Peric and Prof. Ivan Petrovic
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. . from page 7 at that time it was a
joint venture between 12 countries,
while actually CERN counts 20 member countries and 7000 users of the
particle accelerators. The budget is
about 1000 M CHF per year, used for
the mission to study particle physics.
Dr. Francesco Navarria, physicist of the
university of Bologna researching at
CERN, explained such particles, i. e.
quarks, leptons and neutrinos. The
biggest accelerator of CERN is the
Large Hadron Collider (LHC) which is
located in an underground cavern 100
m below ground. The circumference of
the LHC is about 27 km. The accelerator under construction is intended to
produce two particle beams with an
energy of 7 TeV each. This energy is
10 8 times higher than the energy of
an electron beam in a TV tube. The
beam will be focused by magnetic
fields provided through nearly 8000
superconducting magnets with a flux
density of 8.4 T. For generation the
LHC needs more than 1.700 power
electronic converters which operate up
to 20 kA; the energy stored within is
nearly 10 GJ. Each particle beam has
an energy of 360 MJ. This is about half
of the energy needed to melt 1000 kg
of copper. Throughout the circumference of the LHC there will be five big
detectors installed.
The participants of the chapter meeting
got the opportunity to visit the construction hall built for Compact Muon
Solenoid (CMS) experiments. The
detectors proved to be extremely complex high tech assemblies with gigantic
dimensions, consisting of parts coming
from all countries participating in CERN
research.
Dr. Ingo Hahn and Manuel Kennel
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Book news
Prof. Marian P. Kazmierkowski
presents
“The Industrial Information Technology
Handbook” by Richard Zurawski
CRC Press, 2005
Hardcover, 1936 pages,
ISBN 0-8493-1985-4
This new handbook has appeared in
CRC Press’ Industrial Electronics
Series with David J. Irvin from the
Auburn University, Alabama as Series
Editor. Dr Richard Zurawski is well
known IEEE Industrial Electronics
Society volunteer, who founded and
organized the conference series “IEEE
International Conference on Emerging
Technology and Factory Automation –
EFTA”.
This year 10th EFTA’05
Conference will be held in Catania,
Italy on 19-22 September, 2005.
The handbook is organized into two
parts. The first part presents material
covering new and quickly evolving
aspects of Information Technology (IT)
and the second part introduces cuttingedge areas of industrial IT. The whole
book consist of 7 chapters: Computer
Software and Web Technologies, The
Internet and IP Networks, Industrial
Communication Systems, The Internet,
Web and IT in Industrial Automation
Design, Intelligent Sensors and Sensor
Networks, Real-Time Embedded
Systems, Integration Technologies.
The description of technical material is
in the form of tutorials and technology
overviews, combining fundamentals
and advanced material. It contains 112
contributed reports by industry experts
and some of the academic and
research
institutions
worldwide.
Several of the reports on recent developments and trends are presented for
the first time to the public.
I do not hesitate to recommend this
new attractive handbook to wide audience of engineering educators, students and engineers in industry whose
are interested in Industrial IT.
Fragrant Harbour, The East to Meet West in Hong Kong Style
ICIT2005, Hong Kong, December 14-17, 2005
There are countless reasons why
Hong Kong is a popular destination for
tourists and businessmen alike. For
professionals, there are numerous
conference halls and world class
hotels to choose
from.
For
the
tourists, there are
many sights to be
seen, shops that
will cause serious
damage to credit
cards and restaurants that will satisfy the taste buds.
Hong Kong is a
fusion of east and
west, old and new. There is no other
city like it. It is a true cosmopolitan city
with a buzzing lifestyle that has failed
to lose its Chinese identity. Hong Kong
is famous for its crowded streets, the
skyscrapers, international finance,
great food and its efficiency. Hong
Kong in many ways is still a major
shipping port in although for the 21st
10
Century, the prosperous "Fragrant
Harbour" encompasses other industries in the business sector and international financial market.
For a night out in the town, Lan Kwai
With
all
these
attractiveness,
ICIT2005, December 14-17, 2005, is
surely providing you a unique opportunity to experience the living style of the
East with Hong Kong flavor. In addition, please do not
miss a post conference tour to picturesque Guilin and
Kunming of China
as a separate
event. Details of
the
conference
can be accessed
from the website,
Fong in Central is the place to be. The
street is on a steep hill with bars lined
up on either side, perfect for bar hopping. Wan Chai, the former red light
district of Hong Kong also has many
good bars and clubs. The bars in Hong
Kong close in the early hours of the
morning, giving you plenty of time to
visit as many as possible.
http://www.icit2005.hk.
I look forward to seeing you and your
family in Hong Kong, and ICIT2005 in
particular.
Kim Man
Technical Chair and Chief Organizer of
ICIT2005
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New technology
Electronic Systems Integrated Modeling and Optimized
Digital Controller Prototyping – a Novel (HDL) Approach
Eur.Ing.Dr. Marcian Cirstea,
Anglia Polytechnic University, East Road, Cambrige, UK
Abstract
This paper is concerned with the holistic Modeling of power electronic systems and rapid design and prototyping
of associated digital controllers [1], [2].
The novel method deals with the functional Modeling of integrated electronic
systems using the behavioral features
of Hardware Description Languages
and then targeting Field Programmable
Gate Arrays (FPGAs) for the implementation of the Optimized digital controllers. Two case studies of using
VHDL for power electronic system
Modeling, simulation, controller design
and implementation are briefly presented. The control systems, based on
neural networks and fuzzy logic, are
implemented using (FPGAs). There
are major advantages of the new
approach, such as: a unique Modeling
and evaluation environment for complete power electronic systems, the
same environment (VHDL) is used for
the digital controller design and compact FPGA rapid prototyping, fast
design development, short time to market, a CAD platform independent
model, reusability of the model/design,
generation of valuable IP, Concurrent
Engineering basic rules (unique EDA
environment and common design database) are fulfilled. A specific advantage
demonstrated by the two case studies
presented is that the implementation of
artificial intelligence algorithms is facilitated / streamlined. The new Modeling
approach is validated experimentally.
Introduction
The fast progress of VLSI technology
and Electronic Design Automation
(EDA) techniques in recent years has
created the opportunity for the development of complex and compact high
performance controllers for power
electronic systems. Nowadays, the
design engineer is using modern EDA
tools to create, simulate and verify a
design, and, without committing to
hardware, can quickly evaluate complex systems and ideas with very high
confidence in the "right first time" correct operation of the final product. The
proposed novel approach extends the
traditional use of Hardware Description
Languages for VLSI digital circuits
design, in particular Very high-speed
integrated circuit Hardware Description
Language (VHDL) [3], to encompass
the holistic Modeling of power electronic systems, including modern fuzzy and
neural controllers [1], [2]. The outcome
is a design environment that allows all
aspects of the system to be considered
simultaneously, therefore maximizing
operational performance in order to
achieve high efficiency and power
quality. Successful innovation often
means a design that achieves a desirable cluster of performance characteristics, subject to certain constrains, and
holistic Modeling of complex technical
systems can constitute the first step
towards novel designs of high performance.
The new method is correlated with a
powerful international movement and
leading edge research, directed
towards the development of holistic
models for complex electronic systems. The EDA international community has joined forces in year 2000 under
Accellera [4], assuming the mission to
drive forward the worldwide development and use of standards required by
systems, semiconductor and design
tools companies, which enhance a language-based design automation
process. Recently, the Industrial
Electronics Society of the IEEE has initiated the setup of a new technical
committee concerned with low power
electronics and system-on-chip for
industry [5].
The material of this paper falls well
within the scope of this new committee.
The designs presented in the case
studies are performed using VHDL, so
that versatile reusable design modules
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are obtained, and Field Programmable
Gate Arrays (FPGAs) are targeted for
implementation. The electronic systems were tested by simulation and
laboratory experiments. The results
validate the novel VHDL Modeling /
FPGA rapid prototyping approach.
The novel design approach
Traditionally, mathematical models
have been developed to evaluate the
functionality of global engineering systems. However, the practical development of each part of the system needs
then to be separately addressed. This
often involves the use of other CAD
tools and/or different software platforms, with the design itself being
developed in a different environment.
Recent advances in CAD methodologies / languages has brought the functional description of design and practical hardware implementation closer.
VHDL enables the underpinning mathematical description and the electronic
design implementation to be simultaneously addressed in a unique environment, supported by most major
Computer Aided Engineering platforms; synthesis tools can compile
VHDL designs into a large variety of
target technologies. Complex power
electronic systems, with elements such
as electric motors, generators, power
converters and a variety of control systems can be modeled using this holistic approach [1], which offers benefits
like:
- potential to deal with increased system complexity by evaluating its
behavior at an early design stage and
simultaneous implementation of various control strategies,
- a model that can deal with non-linearity, by using artificial intelligence,
- it provides a unique platform for
investigating different topologies of the
system under study.
A Hardware Description Language
such as VHDL enables a top-down
design approach, which begins with
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Modeling an idea at an abstract level,
and proceeds through the iterative
steps necessary to further refine this
into a detailed system. A test environment is developed early in the design
cycle. VHDL allows the designer to
develop and simulate ideas fast, without getting caught-up in the details of
implementation. As the design evolves
to completion, the language is able to
support a complex detailed digital system description and the test environment will check compliance with the
original specification. Concepts are
tested before investment is made in
hardware / physical implementation. In
terms of holistic Modeling of power
electronic systems, VHDL offers
advantages such as:
- Simultaneous consideration of the
mathematical aspects of engineering
systems (functional / behavioral
description) and the detailed electronic
hardware design, in the same unique
environment, normally supported by all
major Computer Aided Design platforms.
- Ability to handle all levels of abstraction. The system can be simulated as
an overall model during all stages of
the electronic controller design, which
can be subsequently targeted for "system on a chip" silicon implementation.
- Fast implementation & relatively short
time to market of new electronic controller designs.
- Hardware Implementation of Artificial
Intelligence is facilitated.
- Versatile reusable models / design
modules are generated, in accordance
with modern principles of design reuse.
Simulation results are valuable to
check the behavior of the VHDL model,
but on many occasions it is the hardware validation that provides significant information before the decision is
taken to invest in an Application
Specific Integrated Circuit (ASIC = any
IC designed and built specifically for a
particular application).
Field-Programmable Gate Arrays
(FPGAs) are a special class of ASICs,
which differ from mask-programmed
gate arrays in that the programming is
done by end-users, with no IC masking
steps. The cheapest and fastest way to
validate VHDL code is via a prototype
board containing re-programmable
devices such as FPGAs. The advan12
tages of using this route are:
- Allows electronic controllers' hardware validation that provides significant information before the decision is
Fig. 1 FPGA controlled induction motor system.
taken to invest in an ASIC.
- It shortens the time to correct any
design problem and it ensures an error
free design before permanent ASIC
implementation.
- The prototype board can be used for
the hardware testing of other system
components.
The general benefits of holistic
Modeling of systems, combined with
the advantages of VHDL and FPGAs,
enable the efficient investigation of
new engineering / power electronic
system topologies employing complex
electronic controllers, with efficient use
of resource.
Case studies
A. Neural PWM Induction Motor Drive
This example formulates an improved
induction motor predictive current control algorithm compared to that proposed in [6], by not ignoring the stator
resistance and incorporating an on-line
inductance estimator that allows a
more accurate internal voltage calculation. A new neural networks induction
motor control method that combines a
predictive PWM current control strategy with the neural approach is analyzed [7], [1]. The method avoids part
of the calculations used by classical
vector control. The design is performed
using VHDL, so that a versatile
Fig. 2 Timing simulation - 6 PWM control channels
reusable design module is obtained
and FPGA is targeted for hardware
implementation. The controller operation is based upon a symmetrical
three-phase equivalent circuit of the
induction motor. The drive system (
Figure 1) was tested by VHDL simulation and laboratory experiments.
The VHDL controller design includes
neural networks and classical digital
circuits. The equations describing the
PWM inverter and the motor were digitized and, in conjunction with the digital
controller, were transformed into a
holistic behavioral VHDL system
model, which was simulated.
As shown by the VHDL simulation
results illustrated in Figure 2, which
were confirmed by experimental tests,
the control system generates the
appropriate PWM switching signals for
the 6 IGBTs in the power inverter. This
current control strategy can be applied
to a range of power systems, providing
a relatively simple digital controller.
B. Fuzzy Logic Controller for Stand
Alone Synchronous Generators
A second example describes the study
and design of an electronic control system allowing variable speed operation
of diesel driven stand alone synchronous generators [8], [1]. The system is
shown in Figure 3. A fuzzy logic based
control scheme, which can isolate the
final output frequency of the system
from the effects of speed variations, is
simulated and designed. The fuel valve
of the diesel engine is dependent on
the d.c. link voltage input to the controller.
The complete system was modeled
and simulated using VHDL and then
the circuit design of the controller was
synthesized and implemented into a
Xilinx XC4010 FPGA for rapid prototyping.
Figure 4 shows the d.c. voltage
response (experimental result) to a
load current step increase (from 10 A to
20 A, at 20s), with the fuzzy logic
FPGA controller connected to the system. The desired d.c. voltage is set at
250 V. The graph shows that the controller is successful in stabilizing the
generator system.
The main achievements of this system
are:
- the control system maintains the out-
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Montfort University, 2000.
[8] J. Khor, "Intelligent Fuzzy Logic
Control of Generators", PhD, De
Montfort University, UK, 1999.
[9] http://www.celoxica.com
SCALNET 2005
International Conference of Science
and Technology on Scalable Systems
and Computer Networks Design and
Applications
October 12-14, 2005
http://www.scalnet.org/
ICPE 2005
Fig. 3. Fuzzy Logic Controlled Stand Alone Diesel Driven Generator
put voltage at the desired magnitude
and frequency against changes in Vdc
which arise from changes in speed
and/or load, thus allowing the system
to operate at the most efficient speed
at all times.
- the system provides a suitable platform for the study of efficient diesel
engine variable speed generators.
Conclusions
A novel Modeling technique is proposed for the holistic investigation of
power electronic systems. This is
based on Hardware Description
Languages and allows rapid FPGA
prototyping of the controllers. The sample controllers were developed from
idea, through the design and simulation stages, to complete systems in a
short time, giving further advantages
such as high degree of flexibility, a reliable framework for design verification
and high confidence in the correct first
time operation.
The VHDL approach also provides
multiple choices for the implementation
target technology and universal compatibility of the design with respect to
multiple existing modern CAD tools.
This allows the easy integration of
electronic controller models in complex
system models.
It can be estimated that HDL based or
similar holistic Modeling methodologies (like Handel-C, [9]) will be increas-
ingly used in the future. There is a wide
range of applications for FPGA controlled power electronic systems in
automation, robots, electric drives,
generator systems,etc..
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements are due to Dr.
Andrei Dinu and Dr. Jeen Ghee Khor
for their research on the case studies
presented, which validated the new
power electronic systems Modeling
approach. Thanks are also due to
Newage AVK SEG Ltd., Stamford, UK,
for their support in carrying out the
experimental tests for the second case
study, to Prof. Malcolm McCormick for
his general support and to De Montfort
University, Leicester, UK.
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Motor Drive Systems", PhD Thesis, De
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International Conference On power
Electronics And Intelligent Control For
Energy Conservation
Warsaw, Poland, October 17-19, 2005
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VC 2005
Virtual Concept 2005
Biarritz, France, November, 8-10,
2005
http://www.virtualconcept.estia.fr/
ICIECA 2005
International Conference on Industrial
Electronics and Control Applications
QUITO, Ecuador, Nov. 29 – Dec. 3
2005
http://www.icieca2005.org/
CIMA 2005
Computational Intelligence: Methods
& Applications
Instanbul, Turkey, Dec. 15-17, 2005
http://www.cima2005.org/
ICELIE 2005
International Conference on ELearning on Industrial Electronics
Hammamet, TN, Dec. 18-20, 2005
ICEIS 2006
International
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Engineering of Intelligent Systems
Islamabad, Pakistan, January 14-15,
2006
ISSCAA 2006
1st International Symposium on
System and Control in Aerospace and
Astronautics
Harbin, China, January 19-21, 2006
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Instrumentation,
Control
Information Technology
Japan, August 2006
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Call for Papers
2006 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics ISIE’06
9 -13 July 2006, ÉTS-Downtown Montréal, Québec, Canada
The purpose of this IEEE international conference is to provide a forum for presentation and discussion of the state-of-art of Industrial
Electronics and related areas. Topics within the scope of the symposium will include:
Computer and Advanced Control Systems: Advanced control and measurement, computer and microprocessor-based control, signal
processing, estimation and identification techniques, application specific IC's, Nonlinear and adaptive control, Optimal and robust control,
Intelligent control, industrial applications of neural networks, fuzzy algorithms, evolutionary computing, and intelligent systems,
instrumentation subject to critical conditions. Automotive, marine and aero-space control and all other control applications.
Power Electronics and Electrical Drives: Power electronic devices and systems, Integrated power electronics, Modeling simulation
and control of power electronics, DC-DC conversion, AC/DC Modern rectifiers, distributed power system, UPS, Active and hybrid filtering,
power line conditioners, Photovoltaic, electromagnetic compatibility EMI/EMC., AC and DC drives modeling and simulation, micro machines,
Special application of machines and Drives, advanced traction control of electric vehicles and electric trains, electrical drives for ships and
aerospace, Electric machines reliability, faults and Diagnostics techniques.
Power System: Energy transmission and distribution, static VAR and harmonic compensations, FACTs, power management, intelligent
power system control, Power Systems Reliability, Diagnostics, Electricity Market liberalization. Energy efficiency, distributed power
generation using low level polluted sources, power system harmonics and power quality, grid connect and distributed generation.
Signal and Image Processing: Digital signal processing theory, methods, DSP implementations, Sensor array and multichannel
processing, Speech processing, Image and and multidimensional signal processing, Real-time multimedia signal processing, Computer vision,
Emerging signal processing areas, signal processing in education.
System Simulation and Software Development: Advance techniques in Real time and off line simulation. Real time simulation of
power system, industrial drives and electromechanical devices. Real-Time Embedded Systems, High Performance Computing, Virtual Reality,
Industrial process simulation, Flight, automotive, and ship simulators.
System Integration, VLSI and Telecommunication: Intelligent sensors, devices and actuators, multi-sensor fusion, micro/nano
technology, wireless and wire line communication circuits, polymer electronics, instrumentation electronics, MEMS, system integration,
System on Chip (SoC). Remote sensing applications, Analog Electronics, VLSI, Microelectronics and Optoelectronics, micro sensors, sensors
design and applications.
Industrial Information Technology: Robotics, industrial vision, motion control, autonomous mobile robots, electrical vehicles,
intelligent transportation, factory communications, flexible manufacturing system, industrial automation, process automation, automation
systems for power distribution, CAD/CAM/CAT/CIM and LANs, industrial applications of internet technologies, multimedia, and wireless
communications. Virtual Reality, Intelligent Systems, Visualization and Simulation.
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systems, Electrical vehicles, intelligent transportation, Mechatronics Synchrotronics. Distributed control and learning system, Mechatronic
tools and systems for surgical procedures. Gaz sensing, vision systems and applications, Submicrometric positioning, Rotating Ultrasonic
Sensors, Mechatronics and manufacturing. Control with self learning, and micro actuators.
Industrial Electronics Engineering Education: New development approaches for world wide industrial electronics engineering
education. Software, hardware, on site, and E-learning’s technologies
Submission of papers: Authors are invited to submit their manuscripts in the form of full papers allotted 6 Proceedings pages.
Special Session Proposals: Proposals are sought from those wishing to organize a special session. A special session consists of six
papers, which should present a unifying theme from a diversity of viewpoints.
Tutorial Proposals: The Symposium Committee intends to arrange tutorials to be held prior to the Conference, and solicits proposals for
appropriate subjects. The submission of papers, proposals for tutorials and special sessions will be at. http://www.isie2006.com
Contact address
Deadlines
ISIE2006 C/O Prof. Kamal Al-Haddad general co-chair
Reception of papers :
December 20th, 2005
ETS-Dept of Electrical Engineering
Paper acceptance notification:
February 25th, 2006
1100 Notre Dame Ouest, Montréal, Québec,
Camera-ready papers and registration: April 29th, 2006
http://www.isie2006.com
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Industrial Electronics Society Newsletter
AMC’06 – ISTANBUL
Call for Papers
General Chair
Prof. Asif Sabanovic
Sabanci University, Turkey
asif@sabanciuniv.edu
Prof. Kouhei Ohnishi
Keio University, Japan
ohnishi@sd.keio.ac.jp
The 9th International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control
March 27-29, 2006
Program Co-Chairs
Prof. Kiyoshi Ohishi (Asia and Oceania)
Nagaoka University, Japan
ohishi@vos.nagaokaut.ac.jp
Prof. Vadim Utkin (America)
The Ohio State University, USA
utkin.2@osu.edu
Prof. Karel Jezernik (Europe and Africa)
University of Maribor, Slovenia
karel.jezernik@uni-mb.si
Sponsors: IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, Sabanci University
Technical Sponsors: Society of Instrument & Control Engineers - SICE,
IEE Japan Industry Application Society
AMC’06 – Istanbul is the ninth in a series of biennial workshops that brings together researchers active in the field of advanced motion
control to discuss current development and future perspectives in motion control technology. The workshop will be held in Istanbul, Turkey
Hilton Hotel on March 27-29 2006.
Technical Topics
1. Haptics and Robotics in Medicine
2. High Accurate Positioning/Tracking Control of Electric Motors
3. Control in Micro/Nano Motion Systems
4. Intelligent Identification, Observation and Control of Complex Nonlinear Motion Control Systems
5. Advanced Motion Control in Robotics/Handling Devices and Machine Tools
6. Control of Biped Walking Robots and Mobile Robots
7. Advanced Traction Control of Electric Vehicles and Trains
8. Visual Servo Systems and Image Processing in Motion Control
9. Soft Computing (AI, Evolutionary Computing) Application to Motion Control
10. Actuators and Sensors, System Integration, Communication Technology in Motion Control
11. Other Related Topics
Submission of Papers: Perspective authors are invited to submit an abstract and extended summary or preferably full paper (no more than 6
pages) in English electronically (PDF format) formatted as follows. First Page: title, authors, mailing address, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses, 200 words abstract and the submission area. Second and succeeding pages: extended summary, figures and references. It
should include a clearly defined problem statement supported by the relevant references. It should state why the work was undertaken and
what is its outcome. The development description should be comprehensive enough to allow the assessment of the work’s originality and
contribution to the technical area. Our mail address is amc06@sabanciuniv.edu.
Special Sessions: The Workshop will feature several special sessions and invited sessions. If you are interested in organizing a special
session, please contact AMC’06 Secretariat.
Paper Acceptance: Each accepted paper must be presented at the Workshop within 20 minutes period and the manuscript must be
accompanied by a paid registration in order to be included in the Proceedings. All conference participants, including authors and session
chairpersons, must pay the conference registration fee and their own travel expenses.
For the further information and/or inquiry, please contact:
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Society Calendar
presented by Prof. Leopoldo G. Franquelo,
Vice-President for Conferences and by Prof.
Carlo Cecati, Vice-President for Small
Conferences and Workshops
ETFA 2005
ICIT 2006
EPE-PEMC 2006
10th IEEE International Conference
on Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation
Catania, Italy, September 19-22, 2005
http://www.diit.unict.it/etfa2005/
2006 IEEE International Conference
on Industrial Technology
Renaissance Mumbai Hotel and
Convention Centre, Mumbai, India,
December 15-17, 2006
http://www.iitkgp.ac.in/icit2006/
Deadline: TBA
12th International Power Electronics
and Motion Control Conference
Congress Centre Bernardin, Portoroz,
Slovenia, September 4-6, 2006
http://www.ro.feri.uni-mb.si/epepemc2006/
Deadline: November 25, 2005
IECON 2005
The 31th Annual Conference of the
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Raleigh, North Carolina, USA,
November 6-10, 2005
http://www.adac.ncsu.edu/IECON05/
ICIT 2005
2005 IEEE International Conference
on Industrial Technolog
City University of Hong Kong, Hong
Kong, December 14-18, 2005
http://www.icit2005.hk/
ETFA 2006
12th IEEE International Conference
on Emerging Technologies and
Factory Automation
Prague, Czech, March or September
2006
r.zurawski@ieee.org
Deadline: TBA
IROS 2006
2006 IEEE/RSJ International
Conference on Intelligent Robotics
and Systems
Beijing, China, October 9-13, 2006
http://www.iros2006.org/
Deadline: February 15, 2006
ICIEA 2006
http://www.bmf.hu/conferences/icm2006/
The 9th IEEE International Workshop
on Advanced Motion Control
Istanbul, Turkey, March 27-29, 2006
http://fens.sabanciuniv.edu/AMC06/
Deadline: October 30, 2005
1st IEEE Conference on Industrial
Electronics and Applications
Marina
Mandarin
Singapore,
Singapore, May 24-26, 2006
http://ewh.ieee.org/r10/singapore/ie/IC
IEA2006.html
Deadline: October 1, 2005
Deadline: TBA
WFCS 2005
SPEEDAM 2006
ISIE 2006
2006 IEEE International Workshop on
Factory Communication Systems
Turin, Italy, June 28-30, 2006
http://wfcs2006.ieiit.cnr.it/
Deadeline: January 10, 2006
International Symposium on Power
Electronics,
Electrical
Drives,
Automation and Motion
Taormina, Italy, May 23-26, 2006
http://www.speedam.org/
Deadline: October 31, 2005
ICM 2006
IEEE International Conference on
Mechatronics
Budapest, Hungary, July 3-5, 2006
2006 IEEE International Symposium
on Industrial Electronics
Montreal, Quebec, Canada, July 9-13,
2006
http://www.isie2006.com/
Deadline: December 20, 2005
IECON 2006
The 32th Annual Conference of the
IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
Paris, France, November 7-10, 2006
http://www.iecon06.iut-amiens.fr/
Deadline: TBA
AMC 2006
ROMAN 2006
15th IEEE International Workshop on
Robot and Human Interactive
Communication
Hatfield, UK, September 06-08, 2006
http://www.ro-man.org/
Deadline: TBA
ICEM 2006
International Conference on Electric
Machines
Chania, Crete Island, Greece,
September 2-5, 2006
http://www.ntua.gr/ICEM2006/
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