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To elucidate chloroplast genome evolution within neotropical-paleotropical bamboos, we fully characterized the chloroplast genome of the woody bamboo Guadua angustifolia. This genome is 135,331 bp long and comprises of an 82,839-bp large single-copy (LSC) region, a 12,898-bp small single-copy (SSC) region, and a pair of 19,797-bp inverted repeats (IRs). Comparative analyses revealed marked conservation of gene content and sequence evolutionary rates between neotropical and paleotropical woody bamboos. The neotropical herbaceous bamboo Cryptochloa strictiflora differs from woody bamboos in IR/SSC boundaries in that it exhibits slightly contracted IRs and a faster substitution rate. The G. angustifolia chloroplast genome is similar in size to that of neotropical herbaceous bamboos but is ~3 kb smaller than that of paleotropical woody bamboos. Dissimilarities in genome size are correlated with differences in the lengths of intergenic spacers, which are caused by large-fragment insertion and deletion. Phylogenomic analyses of 62 taxa yielded a tree topology identical to that found in preceding studies. Divergence time estimation suggested that most bamboo genera diverged after the Miocene and that speciation events of extant species occurred during or after the Pliocene.

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This paper proposes an optimized and coordinated model predictive control (MPC) scheme for doublyfed induction generators (DFIGs) with DC-based converter system to improve the efficiency and dynamic performance in DC grids. In this configuration, the stator and rotor of the DFIG are connected to the DC bus via voltage source converters, namely, a rotor side converter (RSC) and a stator side converter (SSC). Optimized trajectories for rotor flux and stator current are proposed to minimize Joule losses of the DFIG, which is particularly advantageous at low and moderate torque. The coordinated MPC scheme is applied to overcome the weaknesses of the field-oriented control technique in the rotor flux-oriented frame, which makes the rotor flux stable and the stator current track its reference closely and quickly. Lastly, simulations and experiments are carried out to validate the feasibility of the control scheme and to analyze the steady-state and dynamic performance of the DFIG.

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Timely and accurate detection of the rotor winding inter‐turn short‐circuit fault of a synchronous generator can reduce the more serious damages caused by fault deterioration and economic losses, so developing online detection methods with high sensitivity is necessary. On the basis of the structural characteristics of the synchronous generator, this study proposes a sensorless online detection method for rotor winding inter‐turn short‐circuit faults, respectively, taking a 300 MW turbo generator and a 550 MW hydro‐generator as the objects of finite‐element simulation. The results show that the new fault diagnosis method of the rotor winding inter‐turn short circuit for the sensorless synchronous generator has high sensitivity and can realise real‐time monitoring of the faults.

The yaw system is one of the important parts of the horizontal axis wind turbines. In this paper, a novel maglev yaw system (MYS) is introduced, a novel robust controller based on nonlinear disturbance observer (NDOB) is proposed to improve the dynamic suspension stability of the MYS in its levitating and landing process. First, the dynamic model of the MYS is built and analyzed as well as the model of the force caused by crosswind exerting on the MYS, and then the mathematical model of the MYS is derived from its dynamic model. Second, since the uncertain internal disturbance originated from the MYS itself exists, in order to realize the finite time convergence and improve the robustness of the MYS, a NDOB-based robust controller is designed via like nonsingular terminal sliding mode (LNTSM) method with the aid of backstepping design idea (BDI) to guarantee that the system output asymptotically tracks the reference trajectory, and the levitating and landing velocities of the MYS converge to their expectations globally and asymptotically in finite time. Finally, compared the conventional backstepping control (BC), the extensive simulation results show that the proposed robust controller has a better robustness and the MYS can realize smooth and reliable operations in its levitating and landing process in finite time, therefore the novel robust controller is substantiated to be effective and feasible.Key Words: Maglev yaw system (MYS), finite time, robust control, nonlinear disturbance observer based (NDOB), like nonsingular terminal sliding mode (LNTSM), backstepping design idea (BDI), backstepping control (BC).