International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE, ISSN: 2088-8708, a SCOPUS indexed Journal, SNIP: 1.001; SJR: 0.296; CiteScore: 0.99; SJR & CiteScore Q2 on both of the Electrical & Electronics Engineering, and Computer Science) is the official publication of the Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science (IAES). The journal is open to submission from scholars and experts in the wide areas of electrical, electronics, instrumentation, control, telecommunication and computer engineering from the global world.
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Optimal Sizing and Economical Analysis of PV-Wind Hybrid Power System for Water Irrigation using Genetic Algorithm
Ninet Mohamed Ahmed;
Hanaa Mohamed Farghally;
Faten Hosney Fahmy
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
Publisher : Institute of Advanced Engineering and Science
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1797-1814
In the present study three renewable power systems are proposed to select the most optimum one for powering an irrigation pumping system and a farmer’s house in two different locations in Sinai, Egypt. Abu-Rudies in south Sinai and El-Arish in north Sinai are the two selected locations. The three suggested power systems are; standalone photovoltaic (PV) system, standalone wind system and standalone PV-wind hybrid system. HOGA (Hybrid Optimization by Genetic Algorithms) simulation software tool based on genetic algorithm (GA) is used for sizing, optimization and economical evaluation of three suggested renewable power systems. Optimization of the powersystem is based on the components sizing and the operational strategy. The calculated maximum amount of water required for irrigating ten acres of olive per day is 170 m3. In terms of cost effectiveness, the optimal configurations are the hybrid PV-wind system and the standalone PV system for Abu-Rudies and El-Arish locations respectively. These systems are the most suitable than the others for the selected sites metrological data and the suggested electrical load
A 300 GHz CMOS Transmitter Front-End for Ultrahigh-Speed Wireless Communications
Tuan Anh Vu;
Minoru Fujishima
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2278-2286
This paper presents a 300 GHz transmitter front-end suitable for ultrahigh-speed wireless communications. The transmitter front-end realized in TSMC 40 nm CMOS consists of a common-source (CS) based doubler driven by a two-way D-band power amplifier (PA). Simulation results show that the two-way D-band PA obtains a peak gain of 21.6 dB over a -3 dB bandwidth from 132 GHz to 159 GHz. It exhibits a saturated power of 7.2 dBm and a power added efficiency (PAE) of 2.3%, all at 150 GHz. The CS based doubler results in an output power of 0.5 mW at 300 GHz. The transmitter front-end consumes a DC power of 205.8 mW from a 0.9 V supply voltage while it occupies an area of 2.1 mm2.
High Resolution Method using Patch Circular Array
Mohammed Amine Ihedrane;
Seddik Bri;
El Fadl Adiba
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2116-2124
Smart antennas have recently received increasing for improving the performance of wireless radio systems. In this research article, we have used a patch antenna using uniform circular arrays (UCA) with central element for direction of arrival (DOA). A central element was added to arrays in order to increase steering capability of the proposed array. This geometry is used to determine the elevation and azimuth based on two famous algorithms of high resolution method: Matrix Pencil method (MP) and MUltiple Signal Classification (MUSIC).The comparison results demonstrate clearly that the matrix pencil is more accurate and stable to estimation of direction of arrival compared to the MUSIC algorithm.
Performance Evaluation of Automatic Number Plate Recognition on Android Smartphone Platform
Teddy Surya Gunawan;
Abdul Mutholib;
Mira Kartiwi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1973-1982
Automatic Number Plate Recognition (ANPR) is an intelligent system which has the capability to recognize the character on vehicle number plate. Previous researches implemented ANPR system on personal computer (PC) with high resolution camera and high computational capability. On the other hand, not many researches have been conducted on the design and implementation of ANPR in smartphone platforms which has limited camera resolution and processing speed. In this paper, various steps to optimize ANPR, including pre-processing, segmentation, and optical character recognition (OCR) using artificial neural network (ANN) and template matching, were described. The proposed ANPR algorithm was based on Tesseract and Leptonica libraries. For comparison purpose, the template matching based OCR will be compared to ANN based OCR. Performance of the proposed algorithm was evaluated on the developed Malaysian number plates’ image database captured by smartphone’s camera. Results showed that the accuracy and processing time of the proposed algorithm using template matching was 97.5% and 1.13 seconds, respectively. On the other hand, the traditional algorithm using template matching only obtained 83.7% recognition rate with 0.98 second processing time. It shows that our proposed ANPR algorithm improved the recognition rate with negligible additional processing time.
A New Design of a Wideband Miniature Antenna Array
Oulhaj Otman;
Naima A. Touhami;
Mohamed Aghoutane;
Abdelmounaim Belbachir Kchairi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1850-1857
In this work, we present a new configuration of a new miniature microstrip antenna array having a wide frequency band and with a circular polarization. The bandwidth is about 2GHz for a reflection coefficient under -10dB and centered on the ISM ‘Industrial Scientific Medical’ band at 5.8 GHz. To design such array, we have started the design by validating one antenna element at 10 GHz and after that by using the technique of defected ground, we have validated the antenna array in the frequency band [4 GHz -6 GHz] which will permit to miniature the dimensions. The final fabricated antenna array is mounted on an FR4 substrate, the whole area is 102.48 X 31.39 mm2 with a gain of 5dBi at 4GHz.
A Study of SVC’s Impact Simulation and Analysis for Distance Protection Relay on Transmission Lines
Ngo Minh Khoa;
Nguyen Huu Hieu;
Dinh Thanh Viet
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1686-1695
This paper focuses on analyzing and evaluating impact of a Static Var Compensator (SVC) on the measured impedance at distance protection relay location on power transmission lines. The measured impedance at the relay location when a fault occurs on the line is determined by using voltage and current signals from voltage and current transformers at the relay and the type of fault occurred on the line. The MHO characteristic is applied to analyze impact of SVC on the distance protection relay. Based on the theory, the authors in this paper develop a simulation program on Matlab/Simulink software to analyze impact of SVC on the distance protection relay. In the power system model, it is supposed that the SVC is located at mid-point of the transmission line to study impact of SVC on the distance relay. The simulation results show that SVC will impact on the measured impedance at the relay when the fault occurs after the location of the SVC on the power transmission line.
The Effect of Updating the Local Pheromone on ACS Performance using Fuzzy Logic
Abdellatif El Afia;
Safae Bouzbita;
Rdouan Faizi
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2161-2168
Fuzzy Logic Controller (FLC) has become one of the most frequently utilised algorithms to adapt the metaheuristics parameters as an artificial intelligence technique. In this paper, the ???? parameter of Ant Colony System (ACS) algorithm is adapted by the use of FLC, and its behaviour is studied during this adaptation. The proposed approach is compared with the standard ACS algorithm. Computational results are done based on a library of sample instances for the Traveling Salesman Problem (TSPLIB).
A New Planar Multiband Antenna for GPS, ISM and WiMAX Applications
I. Zahraoui;
A. Errkik;
M. C. Abounaima;
A. Tajmouati;
L. E. Abdellaoui;
M. Latrach
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2018-2026
In this paper a design of a new antenna with modified ground plane is validated for multiband applications. The proposed modified ground structure is incorporated with a patch antenna to boost the performance. The antenna’s entire area is 59.5x47mm2 and is printed on an FR-4 substrate and fed by a 50 Ohm microstrip line. This structure is validated in the GPS (1.56-1.58 GHz) band at 1.57 GHz, in the ISM (2.43-2.49 GHz) band at 2.45GHz and in the WiMAX (3.50-3.56 GHz) band at 3.53 GHz. These three frequency bands have good matching input impedance for, S11≤-10 dB. The antenna presents a good performance in terms of radiation pattern, and it is designed, optimized, and miniaturized by using CST-MW whose results are compared with other solvers HFSS and ADS. The results obtained by the use of the three EM solvers are in good agreement. After realization, we have tested and validated this antenna. The measurement results of the antenna present a good agreement with the numerical results.
Virtual Laboratory for Line Follower Robot Competition
Suwasono Suwasono;
Dwi Prihanto;
Irawan Dwi Wahyono;
Andrew Nafalski
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp2253-2260
Laboratory serves as an important facility for experiment and research activity. The limitation of time, equipment, and capacity in the experiment and research undertaking impede both students and college students in undertaking research for competition preparation, particularly dealing with line follower robot competition which requires a wide space of the room with various track types. Unsettled competition track influences PID control setting of line follower robot. This study aims at developing Virtual Laboratory (V-Lab) for students or college students who are preparing for line follower robot competition with unsettled and changeable tracks. This study concluded that the trial data score reached 98.5%, the material expert score obtained 89.7%, learning model expert score obtained 97.9%, and the average score of small group learning model and field of 82.4%, which the average score of the entire aspects obtained 90.8%.
Active Distribution Grid Power Flow Analysis using Asymmetrical Hybrid Technique
Paramet Wirasanti;
Egon Ortjohann
International Journal of Electrical and Computer Engineering (IJECE) Vol 7, No 4: August 2017
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DOI: 10.11591/ijece.v7i4.pp1738-1748
A conventional distribution power flow analysis has to be improved regards the changes in distribution network. One of the changes is a grid operation because a new grid concept, e.g. micro-grid and aggregation, is aimed to be operated based on area itself. Consequently, each area can be actively operated in either grid connected mode or islanding mode. Hence, this paper proposes an asymmetrical power flow analysis using hybrid technique to support this flexible mode change. The hybrid technique offers an opportunity to analyze power flow in a decoupling way. This means that the power flow analysis can be performed separately in each grid area. Regards the distributed generation, this paper also introduces a model based on inverter-based operation, i.e. grid forming, grid supporting and grid parallel. The proposed asymmetrical hybrid load flow method is examined in three case studies, i.e. a verification study with the DIgSILENT PowerFactory, a demonstration of decoupling analysis approach and a performance study with the Newton-Raphson method.