This paper presents efficient low-power compact hardware designs for common image processing functions including the median filter, smoothing filter, motion blurring, emboss filter, sharpening, Sobel, Roberts, and Canny edge detection. The designs were described in Verilog HDL. Xilinx ISE design suite was used for code simulation, synthesis, implementation, and chip programming. The designs were all evaluated in terms of speed, area (number of LUTs and registers), and power consumption. Post placement and routing (Post-PAR) results show that they need very small area and consume very little power while achieving good frame per second rate even for HDTV high resolution frames. This makes them suitable for real-time applications with stringent area and power budgets.
In the modern power grid, with the growing penetration of renewable and distributed energy systems, the use of parallel inverters has significantly increased. It is essential to achieve stable parallel operation and reasonable power sharing between these parallel inverters. Droop controllers are commonly used to control the power sharing between parallel inverters in an inverter-based microgrid. In this paper, a small signal model of droop controllers with secondary loop control and an internal model-based voltage and current controller is proposed to improve the stability, resiliency, and power sharing of inverter-based distributed generation systems. The distributed generation system’s nonlinear dynamic equations are derived by incorporating the appropriate and accurate models of the network, load, phase locked loop and filters. The obtained model is then trimmed and linearized around its operating point to find the distributed generation system’s state space representation. Moreover, we optimize the critical control parameters of the model, which are found using eigenvalue analysis, and Grey Wolf optimization technique. Through time-domain simulations, we show that the proposed method improves the system’s resiliency, stability, and power sharing characteristics.
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