Solid-state switch-mode rectification converters have reached a matured level for improving power quality in terms of power-factor correction (PFC), reduced total harmonic distortion at input AC mains and precisely regulated DC output in buck, boost, buck-boost and multilevel modes with unidirectional and bidirectional power flow. This paper deals with a comprehensive review of improved power quality converters (IPQCs) configurations, control approaches, design features, selection of components, other related considerations, and their suitability and selection for specific applications. It is targeted to provide a wide spectrum on the status of IPQC technology to researchers, designers and application engineers working on switched-mode AC-DC converters. A classified list of more than 450 research publications on the state of art of IPQC is also given for a quick reference.

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A review of single-phase improved power quality AC-DC converters

Kalman filters have received much attention with the increasing demands for robotic automation. This paper briefly surveys the recent developments for robot vision. Among many factors that affect the performance of a robotic system, Kalman filters have made great contributions to vision perception. Kalman filters solve uncertainties in robot localization, navigation, following, tracking, motion control, estimation and prediction, visual servoing and manipulation, and structure reconstruction from a sequence of images. In the 50th anniversary, we have noticed that more than 20 kinds of Kalman filters have been developed so far. These include extended Kalman filters and unscented Kalman filters. In the last 30 years, about 800 publications have reported the capability of these filters in solving robot vision problems. Such problems encompass a rather wide application area, such as object modeling, robot control, target tracking, surveillance, search, recognition, and assembly, as well as robotic manipulation, localization, mapping, navigation, and exploration. These reports are summarized in this review to enable easy referral to suitable methods for practical solutions. Representative contributions and future research trends are also addressed in an abstract level.

Kalman Filter for Robot Vision: A Survey

A light emitting diode (LED) lighting system includes a PFC and output voltage controller and a LED lighting power system. The controller advantageously operates from an auxiliary voltage less than a link voltage generated by the LED lighting power system. The common reference voltage allows all the components of lighting system to work together. A power factor correction switch and an LED drive current switch are coupled to the common reference node and have control node-to-common node, absolute voltage that allows the controller to control the conductivity of the switches. The LED lighting system can utilize feed forward control to concurrently modify power demand by the LED lighting power system and power demand of one or more LEDs. The LED lighting system can utilize a common current sense device to provide a common feedback signal to the controller representing current in at least two of the LEDs.

Power control system for current regulated light sources

This paper proposes an efficient implementation of the generalized labeled multi-Bernoulli (GLMB) filter by combining the prediction and update into a single step. In contrast to an earlier implementation that involves separate truncations in the prediction and update steps, the proposed implementation requires only one truncation procedure for each iteration. Furthermore, we propose an efficient algorithm for truncating the GLMB filtering density based on Gibbs sampling. The resulting implementation has a linear complexity in the number of measurements and quadratic in the number of hypothesized objects.

An Efficient Implementation of the Generalized Labeled Multi-Bernoulli Filter

A number of review or survey articles have previously appeared on human action recognition where either vision sensors or inertial sensors are used individually. Considering that each sensor modality has its own limitations, in a number of previously published papers, it has been shown that the fusion of vision and inertial sensor data improves the accuracy of recognition. This survey article provides an overview of the recent investigations where both vision and inertial sensors are used together and simultaneously to perform human action recognition more effectively. The thrust of this survey is on the utilization of depth cameras and inertial sensors as these two types of sensors are cost-effective, commercially available, and more significantly they both provide 3D human action data. An overview of the components necessary to achieve fusion of data from depth and inertial sensors is provided. In addition, a review of the publicly available datasets that include depth and inertial data which are simultaneously captured via depth and inertial sensors is presented.

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A survey of depth and inertial sensor fusion for human action recognition

This paper presents a driver for an HID lamp based on the application of a high frequency current square waveform through the lamp with the goal of avoiding acoustic resonances. The proposed ballast is fed from a 12 V DC input voltage and is intended to be used in systems supplied from nonconventional sources, such as back-up batteries, photovoltaic generators and automotive applications. In order to initiate the discharge in the lamp, a specially designed igniter supplied from the 12 V DC voltage is used to apply high voltage ignition peaks to the lamp. Experimental results obtained from a laboratory prototype for a 70 W metal halide lamp supplied at 30 kHz are also shown to evaluate the possibilities of the proposed topology.

Electronic ballast for HID lamps with high frequency square waveform to avoid acoustic resonances

In this paper, a single-stage high-power-factor high-efficiency electronic ballast for compact fluorescent lamps is presented. The proposed topology uses two voltage sources connected in series to feed the inverter ballasting the lamp, one of them consists in the rectified line voltage and the other in a dc-dc converter operating in discontinuous conduction mode. In this way, the converter processes a lower energy than the nominal power of the lamp. The proposed topology presents simplicity, high-power-factor, low current crest factor, and high efficiency.

High-efficient integrated electronic ballast for compact fluorescent lamps

This paper presents a driver for a HID lamp based on the application of a high frequency current square waveform through the lamp with the goal of avoiding acoustic resonances. The proposed ballast is fed from a 12-V dc input voltage and is intended to be used in systems supplied from nonconventional sources, such as back-up batteries, photovoltaic generators and automotive applications. In order to initiate the discharge in the lamp, a specially-designed igniter supplied from the 12-V dc voltage is used to apply high voltage ignition peaks to the lamp. Experimental results obtained from a laboratory prototype for a 70-W Metal Halide lamp supplied at 30 kHz are also shown to evaluate the possibilities of the proposed topology.

Electronic ballast for hid lamps with high frequency square waveform to avoid acoustic resonances

Aerobic degradation of 2,4,6-TCP content in ECF bleached effluent

A complete LC and LCC resonant tanks analysis for its application in the starting and stabilization of metal-halide lamps is presented in this paper. The operation with a single frequency for the starting and steady-state phases, the maximum gain voltage during prestarting phase, the possibility to achieve soft switching in the switches during the starting and steady-state lamp operation and the resonant tank design limitations for these conditions are considered in the analysis. Experimental prototypes were built to verify the analysis and the results are included.

J. Correa

Papers

Electronic ballast for HID lamps with high frequency square waveform to avoid acoustic resonances

High-efficient integrated electronic ballast for compact fluorescent lamps

Electronic ballast for hid lamps with high frequency square waveform to avoid acoustic resonances

Aerobic degradation of 2,4,6-TCP content in ECF bleached effluent

A comparison of LCC and LC filters for its application in electronic ballast for metal-halide lamps