This paper proposes a low voltage (400 Vdc) distributed renewable energy fed DC microgrid structure for a residential system, which uses DC voltage for the electronic appliances. The distributed energy sources—solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind energy are considered as input sources. The output power from these sources is stochastic in nature. An efficient energy management and switching circuit is designed to control the power flow from the sources with a high gain DC‐DC converter as the main component. The output power regulation is achieved by means of controlling duty ratios of the switches in the proposed high gain converter through PI controller. The control algorithm effectively converts the unregulated DC power from the solar PV and wind into regulated DC for driving a DC load connected in DC‐microgrid. The energy management and switching circuits account for seamless operation of the DC microgrid under various modes when one or all the sources and loads are connected directly at the DC grid link. The designed energy management and switching circuit also ensures the power balancing in the proposed system. The proposed DC microgrid structure is simulated using MATLAB Simulink. The performance of the proposed high gain converter for the DC grid link voltage regulation is analyzed under source power variation and dynamic changes in load for various operating conditions. The proposed DC microgrid structure is validated using simulation results.
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In DC microgrids, power converters are essential for interconnecting and controlling power flow from the renewable sources such as solar PV, wind, fuel cell, and so on with the DC grid link. A lot of DC‐DC power converters available in the literatures are used to boost the low voltage from the renewable sources to the high voltage and also to track the maximum power from these sources. To boost the output voltage, high gain converters are required. To increase the static gain of the converters, many techniques such as using voltage lift, switched capacitor, coupled inductor, and so on are used. This paper presents a novel high gain DC‐DC converter that does not use the above techniques for voltage boosting. An inductive reactive element is added in series with a switch to boost the voltage gain. This inductor is connected in parallel with the source voltage when the switches are in ON position and in series with the source when the switches are in OFF position. The proposed converter is designed to produce the output voltage of 380 V for the input of 48 V. The converter is designed to handle the power of 1 kW. With the use of the voltage boosting element, a maximum voltage gain of 28 is achieved and the efficiency of converter is about 91.9%. The performance of the proposed converter is simulated and analyzed for various conditions such as variation in input voltage, reference voltage, and load power and also for motor loads. The experimental prototype model is also built and the hardware results are shown in this paper to validate the simulation results.
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This paper proposes a modification in the interleaved negative output elementary Luo converter to act as front‐end power factor correction converter for on‐board electric vehicle (EV) charger. The proposed converter is simple in design and offers non‐inverted DC link output voltage. The proposed converter has the advantages—high efficiency, near unity power factor, low AC source current distortion resulting in power quality enhancement, better DC load voltage regulation, and reduced component count. Due to interleaved configuration, rating of circuit components gets greatly reduced. Also, minimum numbers of circuit components pave the way for simple system design of on‐board EV charger. The steady‐state performance of the designed 100‐W, 48‐V converter with closed‐loop controller is analyzed under universal input voltage variation and wide range of load power variation. The converter is designed to provide stable operation when subjected to sudden disturbance in load power/supply voltage. The simulation analysis is done using MATLAB/Simulink platform. A prototype of 48‐V, 100‐W converter is built and tested. Results obtained reveal the superior performance of proposed converter under steady‐state and transient conditions.
This paper describes design, modeling, simulation, control, and implementation of teleoperated agricultural vehicle using intelligent technique. This vehicle can be used for ploughing, sowing, and soil moisture sensing. Online computer controlled steering system for a vehicle utilizing two independent drive wheels can be used to avoid obstacles and to improve the ability to resist external side forces. To control the steer angles of the nondriven wheels, the mathematical relationships between the drive wheel speeds and the steer angles of the nondriven wheels are used. A fuzzy logic controller is designed to change the drive wheel speeds and to achieve the desired steer angles. Online control of the agricultural vehicle is achieved from a remote place by means of Web Publishing Tool in LabVIEW. IR sensors in the vehicle are used to detect and to avoid the obstacles around. The developed steering angle control algorithm and fuzzy logic controller have been implemented in an agricultural vehicle which depicts that the vehicle performs its operation efficiently and reduces the manpower and becomes advantageous.
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