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Keynote
Speaker-1
Computational Challenges
in the Simulation of Modern Electrical Power Systems Roy Crosbie, Professor Emeritus, California State University, Chico Developments in power
electronics, control techniques, renewable energy sources and security
concerns have produced a surge of interest in the challenges of modeling and
simulating modern electrical power systems. For many years the simulation of
power systems focused largely on established techniques such as load flow
analysis to support the effective operation of public utility generation,
transmission, and distribution systems. Computational techniques and
algorithms, developed in the 1960�s and 70�s by pioneers such as Dommel and
others led to the production of legacy codes like the Electromagnetic
Transients Program (EMTP) which has dominated� the approach to the simulation of electrical power systems
until quite recently. This situation is changing
rapidly driven by developments in power electronics as higher-power,
higher-voltage, higher-speed controlled switches are made available.
Conversion of the raw electrical output from renewable sources such as solar
and wind generators into a suitable form for connection to the grid is
another driver of change as is the need for more customized electrical energy
supplies for special needs. As a result there is now a strong focus on the
conversion of electrical power between alternating and direct current forms.
High-voltage direct-current (HVDC) transmission has long been a technology
used in special situations such as the underwater d.c. cables that connect,
for example, the UK and European grids, or New Zealand�s North and South
Islands, or the transmission of hydro power from the US Pacific Northwest to
Southern California. DC links are also used to stabilize the grid as in the
Kingsmede link in the UK or to connect a.c. systems with different
frequencies as in the Japanese 50Hz to 60Hz connection. These established
technologies are now becoming critical to a much broader range of power
applications. The next generation of all-electric Navy ships, for example,
will need power systems that feature large numbers of converters to customize
the electrical power to a wide range of loads including direct electric
drives and high-energy pulsed loads. Connection of renewable sources to the
grid, more localized control of electrical power for special requirements,
and security issues are all driving these advances in technology. These developments necessitate significant changes in the way power
systems are simulated. Rapidly switching pulse-width modulation controllers
are now widely used to control converters that couple a.c. and d.c.
subsystems. Simulation step sizes of 50 μS, the standard for many years,
must be reduced to the order of 1 microsecond or less to accommodate
increasing switching frequencies. This factor has had a particularly
significant effect on real-time simulation where special processors based on
digital signal processors (DSPs) or field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs)
are being used to achieve these frame times. DSPs use parallel pipelined floating-point arithmetic units and a
more conventional programming approach with efficient optimizing C compilers
that take advantage of the parallel architecture of the processor. Frame
times as low as 2 μS have been achieved using four DSPs on a single PCI
board for a power electronics benchmark consisting of 23 differential
equations, 12 switches, and two PWM controllers. FPGAs feature large numbers
of gates, registers, and other digital logic elements that can be configured
in a very flexible manner to perform arithmetic and logical operations. This
provides an architecture that can be configured to the structure of the
required computation whereas conventional programming is more a case of
structuring the program to match the fixed architecture of the processor. The
FPGA, however, suffers from the disadvantages that it is more suited to
fixed-point arithmetic (floating point is possible but is much more expensive
in its use of FPGA capacity), and the programming method is significantly
different to that of conventional processors typically used for simulation
applications. A graphical approach is available in which the user lays out
the arrangement of the functional units and this schematic is converted to
the hardware development language, VHDL, and then compiled. Alternatively the
program can be written directly in VHDL. Frame times of less than 0.5 μS
have been achieved for the above benchmark using a single FPGA. Another challenge is to
integrate power system and communication system simulations to address
regional control processes, which are required to improve stability,
reliability and security of electrical utility systems. Utility-based
electrical power systems are controlled from regional or national control
centres. At intervals of a few minutes, high-speed computers at these centres
simulate and calculate the dynamic state of the system, identify threatening
fault conditions and, if necessary, prepare to make corrective actions in the
event of any of a large number of developing scenarios. With the rapid
changes that are possible in electric power systems and the vast amounts of
data collected from geographically widespread power-system locations, there
is a constant challenge to improve the processing of raw data and its
communication to control centres.�
While a great deal of improvement has been achieved in the acquisition
and communication of data, much more progress is needed to compute and
analyze power system security for real time actions. Delays in transmission
pose significant problems to maintaining stable operation of the grid. The
challenges are to increase the amount of intelligent control at the remote
sites themselves, to compress the large amounts of raw data that are
generated, and to reduce communication delays between the remote sites and
the control centers. More detailed simulations that combine the distributed
power system with the communication network are being developed to assist in
meeting the challenge. Real-time simulations will
be important for continuously implementing strategies to prevent cascading of
major outages and for optimum system islanding (ie identification and
isolation of the affected parts of the system) in the event of a major
disaster, thereby preventing widespread blackouts as well as continuously
developing recovery and restoration strategies. The paper will present an
overview of these problems and details of some of the developments that
address them. Author�s Biography
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Keynote
Speaker-2
Detecting Behavioral
Patterns from Personalized Ambient Monitoring of Psychiatric Patients Christopher J. James Institute of Digital
Healthcare, WMG, University of Warwick, United Kingdom Bipolar disorder (BD) is a
mental disorder, characterized by recurring episodes of mania and depression.
It is estimated that it effects between 0.4�1.6% of the population. Treatment
for BD varies, from pharmacological to therapeutic. Lithium is the first
choice given a pharmacological treatment, this acts as a mood stabilizer and
reduces the severity of the affective episodes. However, lithium is not
effective in around 20�40% of patients, and those who do respond to lithium
often report unpleasant side-effects. Other medications, such as
anti-psychotics and anti-depressants are a common alternative to lithium. There are also a number of
therapeutic approaches to BD, including social rhythm therapy, cognitive
therapy and family therapy. One of the common threads throughout these
treatment regimes is the identification and management of early warning
signs, so that the patient can identify and deal with the earliest symptoms
of an episode. It has been shown that doing this lessens the effect of the
episode. Patients who are able to identify and act upon these early warning
signs are better able to manage their mood and maintain a more stable health
condition. In fact, it is due to this that a large number of people with BD
self-monitor their condition, without following any particular therapeutic
treatment. The Personalized Ambient
Monitoring (PAM) project has been developed to provide a self-monitoring tool
for people with BD that will monitor their behavior patterns and provide
alerts when these move outside of the normal patterns of behavior for that
person. Such changes would provide a useful tool which could indicate the
early symptoms of an affective episode. The PAM system uses a number of
discreet sensors, both in the home and in a wearable device, which gather
data on the patient�s behavior. This data is then analyzed to derive a normal
activity signature for that
patient. By comparing new incoming data to the normal activity signature,
changes in the patient�s behavior can be identified, and used to issue
warnings to the patient. The PAM project set out to
ask two questions regarding the use of Ambient Monitoring with psychiatric
patients: 1) Is it possible to obtain, in an automatic, ambient and
unobtrusive manner, activity signatures from the mentally ill (BD) that
provide information about the trajectory of their health status? And 2) If
this is possible; can this information be used to assist in their healthcare? The types of data being
captured includes: location and activity (e.g. via GPS and accelerometers);
and environment (e.g. temperature and light levels). Other types of sensor
include passive IR sensors (within the home); and sound processing to log the
audio �environment�. The use of such monitoring is agreed between the patient
and their healthcare team and it is anticipated that different patients will
be comfortable with different sensor packages, thus personalizing the
monitoring. This talk will review the
progress on the PAM project thus far, giving an overview of the sensing
infrastructure used and data processing algorithms developed to extract and
assess behavioral patterns in everyday life, in humans. Author�s Biography Christopher James was born in Malta, received
the B.Elec.Eng. (Hons) degree in from the University of Malta (1992) and a
Ph.D from the Professor James is a
biomedical engineer and his research activity centers on the development of
biomedical signal and pattern processing techniques, as well as the use of
technological innovations, for use in advancing healthcare and promoting
well-being. Neural Engineering forms a large part of his work, as to date his
work has concentrated on the development of advanced processing techniques
applied to the analysis of the electromagnetic activity of the human brain,
primarily in Brain-Computer Interfacing. Prof James has published over 150
papers in neural engineering in varied biomedical engineering journals and
refereed conferences. He is currently Chair of
the IEEE UK & Republic of Ireland (UKRI) Section, Chair of the IEEE UKRI
EMBS Chapter; a member of IEEE the EMBS Administrative Committee (ADCOM) as
Europe Representative, and past Chair of the Executive Committee of the IET
Healthcare Technology Network.�
Professor James is Series Editor for the Biomedical Signals and
Systems book series of Artech House Publishers; Editor in Chief of the Open
Medical Informatics Journal, Associate Editor� for IEEE TBME and sits on the editorial advisory board of the
IEEE Spectrum Magazine. He is Associate Editor of the IEEE EMBS Conference
Editorial Board (Neural Engineering Theme) and he has been actively involved
in many EMBS committees � mainly on student activities. He has instigated and
organises the PGBIOMED series of biomedical engineering student conferences
which have taken place from 2003 to date. Professor James is a
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Tutorial
Networked Control Systems with Delay Vasilis Tsoulkas General Secretariat for Research and Technology, Athens, GR and Kapodistrian
University of Athens, GR National Delegate to ESA The issue of time-delay is of primary importance
in different areas of modern control systems and instrumentation such as
power systems, industrial process control including the steel and oil industry,
machining and metallurgical processes, remotely operated robots
and control over computer networks (or as it is also known Networked
Control Systems) to name a few. A Networked Control System (NCS) is a
feedback control system where the feedback loops are closed by means of an
electronic network. It is well known that Networked (Control) Systems are not
subject to the same design assumptions as non-networked systems, a fact that
is mainly due to the inevitable presence of network delays and packet drops.
In a typical closed-loop NCS, the state is sampled periodically, transmitted
through the network, becomes available to the controller, which after
computing the control action, transmits the sampled signal to the
event-driven actuator after an uncertain or constant but unknown delay. The
plant receives this command via a Zero Order Hold device (ZOH) after a
delay The tutorial will present some technical results and
research issues related to Networked Control Systems (NCS�s) suffering
networked induced delays. I.
Introduction
and Motivation: Firstly a modelling approach with NCS with delay is introduced and a connection
with the theory of time delay systems will be established. Secondly, results concerning stability analysis and
stabilization of NCS�s will be presented. The efficiency of the proposed
methods� will be confirmed via a
numerical and realistic example involving a networked DC motor. II.
Connections between Time Delayed and Networked Control systems: Although various
system-theoretic methods have been used for the modelling of NCS�s with
delays, the most successful ones are sophisticated adaptations of analogous
results from the mature area of Time Delayed Systems (TDS). Typical case is
the design of a robust state feedback control law which takes into account
uncertain induced delays and data packet drops. Related issues from the
literature will be discussed. III.
Motivating example of simplified NCS with delay: We will introduce a
specific and realistic example involving a networked DC motor which is
controlled via a PI controller. The open�loop stable DC motor dynamics with
armature voltage as input and angular speed as output are described by a
particular transfer function. The associated state space description will be
given and sampling issues will be introduced. IV.
�Simulation Results and Discussion: We will
provide some analytical simulations concerning the above NCS� and we will comment on the delay free case
and the effects on the performance of the controller when delay is
introduced.. Additionally in the provided simulations, we will examine
the effect of constant delay V.
Robust Stability
Criteria and Stabilization: Issues related to the robust stability conditions
for Networked Controlled� Systems
(NCS) with uncertain, varying, bounded transmission� delays and discrete-time static control laws will be
presented.� Links between the robust
stability analysis and� a linear
matrix inequality (LMI) approach will also be introduced. Further a
synthesis procedure for a static control law which not only robustly
stabilizes the system against all admissible time�varying network�induced
delays but also addresses performance issues expressed via a quadratic cost
function will discussed. VI.
Research issues
and future developments: This
tutorial will conclude with some ongoing research issues and future developments
in the field of Networked Control Systems. More specifically we will discuss
possible directions from problems arising in the modelling of uncertain NCS�s
with random networked - induced delays using Markov models. Also if time
permits the usage of the Lyapunov � Krasovskii functional for asymptotic
stability of systems with interval time - varying delay will be mentioned. Author�s Biography Dr Vasilis Tsoulkas received his B.Sc. and M.Sc.
degrees (with excellence) in Electrical Engineering from the University of
Colorado, Denver, Since 1996 he has been employed by the General
Secretariat for Research and Technology located in Athens, Greece. From 2004
to 2007 he has served as a substitute national delegate to the board of Human
Space Flight and Micro-Gravity of ESA. Since July of 2008 he is� the national delegate to the Joint
Communications Board of ESA (JCB/ESA) focusing on activities concerning
advanced research strategies and policy making in satellite communications.
His duties include the evaluation and approval of R&D academic and
industry driven projects related to space and satellite communications as
well as the promotion of high added value applications exploiting existing
space communications and Earth�
Observation infrastructures in the wider region of Greece.� Application areas include: Telemedicine
and Patient centered systems integration and services, distant learning and
education, advanced sensor networks and surveillance systems for immediate
crisis management, border security using satellite imagery, UAV�s. He has also
served as an ad-hoc delegate to ESA�s Industrial Policy Committee (IPC) and
the� Navigation Program Board for� Galileo, EGNOS and GNSS (Global Navigation
Satellite System). He has published in peer reviewed scientific
journals and conferences in the fields of systems integration, identification
and control. He has also served as a reviewer for a number of international
journals and conferences (IEEE Transaction on Signal Processing, ICASP,
e.t.c.). His scientific interests
include singular systems and robust control, time delay systems and stability
theory as well as signal processing including filtering, estimation and
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, which models the sum total of the involved transmission
delays. These network-induced delays appear in the information flow between
the sensor and the controller (delay 
), as well as between the controller and the actuator
(delay 
), where k denotes the dependence on the kth
sampling period
