Abstract-Better software and hardware for automatic classification of power quality (PQ) disturbances are desired for both utilities and commercial customers. Existing automatic recognition methods need improvement in terms of their capability, reliability, and accuracy. This paper presents the theoretical foundation of a new method for classifying voltage and current waveform events that are related to a variety of PQ problems. The method is composed of two sequential processes: feature extraction and classification. The proposed feature extraction tool, time-frequency ambiguity plane with kernel techniques, is new to the power engineering field. The essence of the feature exaction is to project a PQ signal onto a lowdimension time-frequency representation (TFR), which is deliberately designed for maximizing the separability between classes. The technique of designing an optimized TFR from timefrequency ambiguity plane is for the first time applied to the PQ classification problem. A distinct TFR is designed for each class. I. INTRODUCTIONHE proliferation of highly sensitive computerized equipment places increasingly more stringent demands on the quality of electric power supplied to the customer [2]. Today, power quality (PQ) has become a very interesting cross-disciplinary topic, coupling power engineering and power electronics with digital signal processing, software engineering, networking, and VLSI.Voltage disturbances are the most frequent cause of a broad This work is supported by the Advanced Power Technologies (APT) Center at the University of Washington. The APT Center is supported by ALSTOM ESCA, LG Industrial Systems, RTE France, and Mitsubishi Electric Corp. This work is also partially supported by the National Science Foundation Career Award Grant #0093716 and the American Public Power Association DEED program.Both authors are with the SEAL (Sensors, Energy, and Automation Laboratory), Department of Electrical Engineering, Box 352500, University of Washington, Seattle, WA98195. (E-mails: mwang@ee.washington.edu; mamishev@ee.washington.edu) range of disruption in industrial and commercial power supply systems. These disturbances, often referred to as power quality problems, significantly affect many industries. Major causes of PQ-related revenue losses are interrupted manufacturing processes and computer network downtime. The examples abound in semiconductor industry, chemical industry, automobile industry, paper manufacturing, and ecommerce. A report by CEIDS (Consortium for Electric Infrastructure to Support a Digital Society) shows that the U.S. economy is losing between $104 billion and $164 billion a year due to outages and another $15 billion to $24 billion due to PQ phenomena [3].The conventional methods currently used by utilities for power quality monitoring are primarily based on visual inspection of voltage and current waveforms. Highly automated monitoring software and hardware is needed in order to provide adequate coverage of the entire system, understand the causes of these disturba...
This paper presents a capacitive sensor that measures interfacial forces in prostheses and is promising for other biomedical applications. These sensors can be integrated into prosthetic devices to measure both normal and shear stress simultaneously, allowing for the study of prosthetic limb fit, and ultimately for the ability to better adapt prosthetics to individual users. A sensing cell with a 1.0 cm2 spatial resolution and a measurement range of 0–220 kPa of shear and 0–2 MPa of pressure was constructed. The cell was load tested and found to be capable of isolating the applied shear and pressure forces. This paper discusses the construction of the prototype, the mechanical and electrode design, fabrication and characterization. The work presented is aimed at creating a class of adaptive prosthetic interfaces using a capacitive sensor.
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