University of Tabriz

About: University of Tabriz is a education organization based out in Tabriz, Iran. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Nanocomposite. The organization has 12141 authors who have published 20976 publications receiving 313982 citations.

New Extendable Single-Stage Multi-input DC–DC/AC Boost Converter

Abstract: This paper presents a new extendable single-stage multi-input dc-dc/ac boost converter. The proposed structure comprises of two bidirectional ports in the converter's central part to interface output load and battery storage, and several unidirectional input ports to get powers from different input dc sources. In fact, the proposed topology consists of two sets of parallel dc-dc boost converters, which are actively controlled to produce two independent output voltage components. Choosing two pure dc or two dc-biased sinusoidal values as the converter reference voltages, situations of the converter operating in two dc-dc and dc-ac modes are provided, respectively. The proposed converter utilizes minimum number of power switches and is able to step up the low-level input dc voltages into a high-level output dc or ac voltage without needing any output filter. The converter control system includes several current regulator loops for input dc sources and two voltage regulator loops for generating the desired output voltage components, resulting in autonomously charging/discharging the battery to balance the power flow. Due to the converter inherent multi-input multioutput control system, the small signal model of the converter is extracted and then the pole-placement control strategy via integral state feedback is applied for achieving the converter control laws. The validity and effectiveness of the proposed converter and its control performance are verified by simulation and experimental results.

Mitigation of Voltage Disturbances Using Dynamic Voltage Restorer Based on Direct Converters

Abstract: In this paper, two new topologies are proposed for three-phase dynamic voltage restorers (DVRs). These topologies are based on direct converters. The proposed topologies do not require dc-link energy storage elements. As a result, they have less volume, weight, and cost. They can also compensate long-time voltage sags and swells. The proposed DVRs can compensate several types of disturbances, such as voltage sags, swells, unbalances, harmonics, and flickers. Moreover, due to the fact that the compensation voltage for each phase is taken from all three phases, the proposed topologies can compensate one-phase outages. In the proposed topologies, three independent three-phase to single-phase direct converters are used. Each converter operates independently and, as a result, the proposed DVRs properly compensate unbalanced voltage sags and swells. The used converters can be constructed by four or six power switches. Depending on the structure of the used converters, the compensation ranges will be different. A new control method is also proposed for using direct ac/ac converters. The experimental and simulation results verify the capabilities of the proposed topologies in compensation of voltage distortions.

Fast-FMI: Non-reference image fusion metric

Abstract: In this paper, we present a non-reference image fusion metric based on the mutual information of image features. Whereas a recent metric proposed by the author called FMI achieves such a goal, the algorithm is complex and has high memory requirements for its calculations. This paper shows how to modify the model of FMI, and proposes a faster algorithm to achieve similar results. The new algorithm achieves a significant complexity reduction in comparison to the previous model. Various experiments prove the efficiency of the algorithm in consistency with the subjective criteria. Matlab source code for this metric is provided at http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/fileexchange/45926.