CURRENT STATUS OF CONTROL STRATEGIES IN ENERGY RECOVERY SYSTEMS IN ELECTRIC VEHICLES

There is currently an increasing demand for electric vehicles that require greater autonomy and energy efficiency when driving them. Control strategies in energy recovery systems are crucial to optimize the amount of energy returned to the battery and to ensure safety and stability for the user. In this paper, active fault tolerant control systems (AFTC) and passive fault tolerant control systems (PFTC) with other specialized control strategies (Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Perturbation Rejection Controllers) are compared with classical PID controllers.The results of the simulations show that, keeping the battery voltage constant, returns of about 12% of the battery charge capacity are achieved while the braking time of the vehicles is reduced.

Highly safe and stable lithium–metal batteries based on a quasi-solid-state electrolyte

A ZIF-69-SN quasi-solid-state electrolyte enables high safety and stability in lithium–metal batteries.

Cable Temperature Alarm Threshold Setting Method Based on Convolutional Neural Network

Power cable is used more and more in the power network, and its significance to the safety and stability of the power network is increasingly prominent. Especially in the urban power grid, the high voltage cable is related to the normal production and life of the city. Because of the particularity of the laying environment, it is very difficult to find and eliminate the fault points once the cable faults occur, which seriously affects the reliability of the power grid. Currently, 25% of cable faults are caused by elevated cable temperature, so it is important to set the cable temperature alarm threshold accurately. In this paper, a method of setting temperature alarm threshold using convolutional neural network is proposed. Experiments show that this method is 60% more accurate than other methods.

Research prospect of autonomous driving decision technology under complex traffic scenarios

Decision-making system is the essential part of the autonomous vehicle “brain”, which determines the safety and stability of vehicles, and is also the key to reflect the intelligent level of autonomous vehicles. Compared with simple scenarios such as expressway, urban traffic scenarios have the characteristics of complex and frequent interaction between traffic participants. Carrying out in-depth research on complex traffic scenarios and optimizing autonomous decision-making algorithms are the key methods for the purpose of promoting the application of autonomous driving technologies. In the future, we can further combine the artificial intelligence methods such as cognitive or knowledge map, behaviour prediction of traffic participants, and humanoid intelligence, so as to enhance the intelligent level of autonomous driving.

Robust Self-Triggered Control for Nonlinear Cyber-Physical Systems with State Constraints under DoS Attacks

This paper is concerned with the event-based control problem for nonlinear cyber-physical systems (CPSs) with state constraints. A novel security control strategy consisting of a self-triggered mechanism is developed to decrease the network communication loads to the most extent on the basis of ensuring system safety and stability. The maximum capability of the designed self-triggered mechanism to resist denial-of-service (DoS) attacks occurring in controller-actuator (C-A) and sensor-controller (S-C) channels synchronously is also analyzed. In particular, we prove that the security control strategy guarantees the system safety and stability without resulting in Zeno behavior. Finally, a numerical example is provided to demonstrate the prominent effectiveness and the advantages over the existing results.

Energy from the Waves: Integration of a HESS to a Wave Energy Converter in a DC Bus Electrical Architecture to Enhance Grid Power Quality

The need for environmental protection is pushing to a massive introduction of energy production from renewables. Although wind and solar energy present the most mature technologies for energy generation, wave energy has a huge annual energy potential not exploited yet. Indeed, no leading device for wave energy conversion has already been developed. Hence, the future exploitation of wave energy will be strictly related to a specific infrastructure for power distribution and transmission that has to satisfy high requirements to guarantee grid safety and stability, because of the stochastic nature of this source. To this end, an electrical architecture model, based on a common DC bus topology and including a Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) composed by Li-ion battery and flywheel coupled to a wave energy converter, is here presented. In detail, this research work wants to investigate the beneficial effects in terms of voltage and current waveforms frequency and transient behavior at the Point of Common Coupling (PCC) introduced by HESS under specific stressful production conditions. Specifically, in the defined simulation scenarios it is demonstrated that the peak value of the voltage wave frequency at the PCC is reduced by 64% to 80% with a faster stabilization in the case of HESS with respect to storage absence, reaching the set value (50 Hz) in a shorter time (by −10% to −42%). Therefore, HESS integration in wave energy converters can strongly reduce safety and stability issues of the main grid relating to intermittent and fluctuating wave production, significantly increasing the tolerance to the expected increasing share of electricity from renewable energy sources.

Development of Active Packaging Based on Agar-Agar Incorporated with Bacteriocin of Lactobacillus sakei

In the search for new biodegradable materials and greater microbiological safety and stability of perishable food products, this study aimed to develop a bioplastic antibacterial film incorporating bacteriocin for application in commercial curd cheese and monitoring of microbiological stability. Films with good handling characteristics as well as physical, barrier, and mechanical properties were obtained. Regarding the antibacterial activity, the microbial reduction was demonstrated in a food matrix, obtaining a reduction of 3 logarithmic cycles for the group of coagulase positive staphylococci and from 1100 to <3.00 MPN/g in the analysis of thermotolerant coliforms. Therefore, the film presented food barrier characteristics with the external environment and adequate migration of the antibacterial compound to the product, contributing to the reduction of contamination of a food with high initial microbial load.

A Conversion Protocol for 2W Telephone Signal over Ethernet in a Private PSTN

In this paper, we proposed a protocol to convert 2W telephone analog signals to Ethernet data in a private PSTN 2W tactical voice system. There are several kinds of operational problems in the tactical telephone network where 2W telephone copper lines are installed hundreds of meters away from the PBX in a headquarter site. The reason is that it is difficult to install and maintain the 2W telephone copper cable in severe operational fields and to meet safety and stability operational requirements of the telephone line under lighting and electromagnetic environments. In order to solve these challenging demands, we proposed an efficient method that the 2W analog interface signals between a private PBX system and a 2W telephone is converted to Ethernet messages using the optical Ethernet data communication network already deployed in the tactical weapon system. Thus, it is not necessary to install an additional optic cable for the ethernet telephone line and to maintain the private PSTN 2W telephone network. Also it provides safe and secure telecommunication operation under lightning and electromagnetic environments. This paper presents the conversion protocol from 2W telephone signals over Ethernet interface between PBX systems and 2W telephones, the mutual exchange protocol of ethernet messages between two converters, and the rule to process analog signal interface. Finally, we demonstrate that the proposed technique can provide a feasible solution in the tactical weapon system by analyzing its performance and experimental results such as the bandwidth of 2W telephone ethernet network and the transmission latency of voice signal, and the stability of optic ethernet voice network along with the ethernet data network.

Analysis on Construction Technology and Reinforcement Technology of Building Foundation

In the field of construction engineering, foundation engineering plays a critical role. In actual construction, we must first effectively regulate the foundation construction to ensure the safety and stability of the entire building in order to improve the overall quality of the project. It's also important to look into the technologies that go into building foundations. The construction technology and reinforcing technology of building foundations are examined in this study as a reference.

Analysis of Changes in Land Use/Land Cover and Hydrological Processes Caused by Earthquakes in the Atsuma River Basin in Japan

The 2018 Hokkaido Eastern Iburi earthquake and its landslides threaten the safety and stability of the Atsuma River basin. This study investigates land use and land cover (LULC) change by analyzing the 2015 and 2020 LULC maps of the basin, and its impact on runoff and sediment transport in the basin by using the soil and water assessment tool (SWAT) model to accurately simulate the runoff and sediment transport process. This study finds that the earthquake and landslide transformed nearly 10% of the forest into bare land in the basin. The simulation results showed that the runoff, which was simulated based on the 2020 LULC data, was slightly higher than that based on the 2015 LULC data, and the sediment transport after the earthquake is significantly higher than before. The rate of sediment transportation after the earthquake, adjusted according to the runoff, was about 3.42 times more than before. This shows that as the forest land decreased, the bare land increased. Conversely, the runoff increased slightly, whereas the sediment transport rate increased significantly in the Atsuma River basin after the earthquake. In future, active governance activities performed by humans can reduce the amount of sediment transport in the basin.