Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology
Mechatronics, Electrical Power, and Vehicular Technology (hence MEV) is a journal aims to be a leading peer-reviewed platform and an authoritative source of information. We publish original research papers, review articles and case studies focused on mechatronics, electrical power, and vehicular technology as well as related topics. All papers are peer-reviewed by at least two referees. MEV is published and imprinted by Research Center for Electrical Power and Mechatronics - Indonesian Institute of Sciences and managed to be issued twice in every volume. For every edition, the online edition is published earlier than the print edition.
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<![CDATA[Study of Biogas for Power Generation at Pesantren Saung Balong Al-Barokah, Majalengka, West Java ]]>
<![CDATA[Maulana Arifin]]>;
<![CDATA[Aep Saepudin]]>;
<![CDATA[Arifin Santoso]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 2, No 2 (2011) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2011.v2.73-78
<![CDATA[Utilization of biogas from cow manure as a fuel alternative for power plants is done through an anaerobic process. A pilot plant with biogas production of 7 m3/day has been installed at Pesantren Saung Balong. Biogas is used for everyday purposes such as cooking and lighting, and used as pure biogas with 2.500 Watt scale generator. Biogas produced with the rate of 0.080 m3/hr. Biogas produced during the measurement (450 minutes) is 0.604 m3. With these data it is predicted that within a day (24 hours) biogas which can be generated is equal to 1.92 m3. Meanwhile, consumption of biogas to the generator with 1.047 W load is 0.019 m3/minutes, the generator will operate for approximately 101.05 minutes or 1.68 hours. Thus electricity that can be saved is 1.759 kWh per day or 52.77 kWh per month and electricity cost that can be saved that is equal to Rp.40.896/month. ]]>
<![CDATA[Simple supercapacitor charging scheme of an electric vehicle on small-scale hardware simulator: a prototype development for education purpose ]]>
<![CDATA[Adnan Rafi Al Tahtawi]]>;
<![CDATA[Arief Syaichu Rohman]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 7, No 2 (2016) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2016.v7.77-86
<![CDATA[Supercapacitor is one of electrical energy sources that have faster charging-discharging times when compared to other power sources, such as battery and fuel cell. Therefore, it is often used as an additional power source in an electric vehicle. In this paper, a prototype of small-scale electric vehicle simulator (EVS) is built and a simple charging scheme of supercapacitor is used for education purpose. EVS is an electric vehicle prototype which can show the vehicle’s powertrain on small-scale configuration. Main components of this device are two direct current motors (DCMs) with a linked axis of rotation. Therefore one of them will be able to act as a generator. The supercapacitor charging scheme is employed by controlling the relays. The hardware experimental result shows that the averages of charging current are proportional to the maximum slope angle of the road profiles. This scheme is simple due to the EVS utility and it is useful for education purpose.]]>
<![CDATA[Design of a DC-AC Link Converter for 500W Residential Wind Generator ]]>
<![CDATA[Riza Muhida]]>;
<![CDATA[Ahmad Firdaus A. Zaidi]]>;
<![CDATA[Afzeri Tamsir]]>;
<![CDATA[Rudi Irawan]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 3, No 2 (2012) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2012.v3.95-102
<![CDATA[ As one of alternative sources of renewable energy, wind energy has an excellence prospect in Indonesia, particularly in coastal and hilly areas which have potential wind to generate electricity for residential uses. There is urgent need to locally develop low cost inverter of wind generator system for residential use. Recent developments in power electronic converters and embedded computing allow improvement of power electronic converter devices that enable integration of microcontrollers in its design. In this project, an inverter circuit with suitable control scheme design was developed. The circuit was to be used with a selected topology of Wind Energy Conversion System (WECS) to convert electricity generated by a 500W direct-drive permanent magnet type wind generator which is typical for residential use. From single phase AC output of the generator, a rectifier circuit is designed to convert AC to DC voltage. Then a DC-DC boost converter is used to step up the voltage to a nominal DC voltage suitable for domestic use. The proposed inverter then will convert the DC voltage to sinusoidal AC. The duty cycle of sinusoidal Pulse-Width Modulated (SPWM) signal controlling switches in the inverter was generated by a microcontroller. The lab-scale experimental rig involves simulation of wind generator by running a geared DC motor coupled with 500W wind generator where the prototype circuit was connected at the generator output. The experimental circuit produced single phase 240V sinusoidal AC voltage with frequency of 50Hz. Measured total harmonics distortion (THD) of the voltage across load was 4.0% which is within the limit of 5% as recommended by IEEE Standard 519-1992.]]>
<![CDATA[Back Cover MEV Vol 4 Iss 1 ]]>
<![CDATA[Aam Muharam]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 4, No 1 (2013) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2013.v4.%p
<![CDATA[Preface MEV Vol 10 Iss 1 ]]>
<![CDATA[Ghalya Pikra]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 10, No 1 (2019) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2019.v10.%p
<![CDATA[Comparison of Unmodulated Current Control Characteristics of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor ]]>
<![CDATA[Anwar Muqorobin]]>;
<![CDATA[Pudji Irasari]]>;
<![CDATA[Taufik Taufik]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 5, No 2 (2014) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2014.v5.115-122
<![CDATA[This paper discusses comparison of unmodulated current controls in PMSM, more specifically, on-off, sliding mode, predictive and hybrid controls. The purpose of this study is to select the most appropriate control technique to be adopted. The comparison method is preceded by modeling the motor and entering the values of the motor parameters. PI control is used for speed control and zero d-axis current is employed. Furthermore, performing simulation for each type ofthe selected current controls and analyzing their responses in terms of dq and abc currents, q-axis current response with step reference, as well as THD. Simulation results show that the on-off control gives the best overall performance based on its abc-axis current ripple and THD at large load torque. The hybrid control shows the best response occurring only at the fastest transient time of q-axis current but its response exhibits bad qualities compared with other controls. The predictive control yields the best responses offering the smallest d-axis ripple current and THD at small load torque condition. The sliding mode control, however, does not exhibit any prominent performance compared to the others. Results presented in this paper further indicate that for the PMSM used in the simulation the most appropriate control is the predictive control.]]>
<![CDATA[Rancang Bangun Kendali Sekuen untuk Sambungan Jala-Jala Listrik Menggunakan Cycloconverter ]]>
<![CDATA[Yuliardi Erdani]]>;
<![CDATA[Aris Eko Setiawan]]>;
<![CDATA[Maulana Aria Pratama]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 1, No 2 (2010) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2010.v1.69-74
<![CDATA[This developed cycloconverter circuit simulates grid connector circuit using two function generators, which substitute AC power. The first function generator was used to represent input wave from PLN with 50 Hz frequency. The other function generator was used to represent input wave from new generator with 10-90 Hz frequency. Such initial condition enabled us to control the frequency increase from 10Hz – 40Hz to 50Hz and decrease from 60Hz – 90Hz to 50Hz. This cycloconverter used trigger circuit to activate its electrical components. The trigger circuit contains trigger parts such as thyristor and MOSFET. All hardware components in this circuit were controlled by microcontroller ATMega 8535. This controller manages all trigger circuits that were needed by cycloconverter. The experiment result shows that the cycloconverter wasable to modify frequency and phase angle, so that it enabled the connection to the electrical grid.]]>
<![CDATA[Application of empirical mode decomposition method for characterization of random vibration signals ]]>
<![CDATA[Setyamartana Parman]]>;
<![CDATA[Edwar Yazid]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 7, No 1 (2016) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2016.v7.21-26
<![CDATA[Characterization of finite measured signals is a great of importance in dynamical modeling and system identification. This paper addresses an approach for characterization of measured random vibration signals where the approach rests on a method called empirical mode decomposition (EMD). The applicability of proposed approach is tested in one numerical and experimental data from a structural system, namely spar platform. The results are three main signal components, comprising: noise embedded in the measured signal as the first component, first intrinsic mode function (IMF) called as the wave frequency response (WFR) as the second component and second IMF called as the low frequency response (LFR) as the third component while the residue is the trend. Band-pass filter (BPF) method is taken as benchmark for the results obtained from EMD method.]]>
<![CDATA[Analysis of Inverse Angle Method for Controlling Two Degree of Freedom Manipulator ]]>
<![CDATA[Hendri Maja Saputra]]>;
<![CDATA[Zainal Abidin]]>;
<![CDATA[Estiko Rijanto]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 3, No 1 (2012) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2012.v3.9-16
<![CDATA[Driver mechanism with two degree of freedom (MP 2-DK) is a robotic device that can be used for various applications such as turret drive system, gutling gun, launcher, radar antennas, and communications satellite antennas. The precision and the speed of a MP 2-DK are determined by its control system. The calculation inverse angle due to interference in six degree of freedom is necessary to control a MP 2 DK. This paper analyses three calculation methods of inverse angle which are iteration method using Jacobian matrix, reduction of matrix equations using positioning geometry, and an analytical derivation using a rotation matrix. The simulation results of the three methods showed that the first and the third methods could visually demonstrate three rotational disturbances, whereas the second method could only demonstrate the pitch and yaw (PY) disturbances. The third method required less processing time than the first and the second methods. The best method based on this research was the method of rotation matrix.]]>
<![CDATA[The performance of surface barrier discharge in magnetic field driven by half bridge series resonance converter ]]>
<![CDATA[Fri Murdiya]]>;
<![CDATA[Febrizal Febrizal]]>;
<![CDATA[Amun Amri]]>
<![CDATA[ Journal of Mechatronics, Electrical Power and Vehicular Technology Vol 8, No 2 (2017) ]]>
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DOI: 10.14203/j.mev.2017.v8.95-102
<![CDATA[This paper reports an application of a series resonance converter as a high voltage generator to drive a surface barrier discharge with a magnetic field. The high voltage was about 5 kV with the frequency of 25 kHz. It was connected to circular aluminum plates as the anode electrode and a rectangular aluminum plate as the cathode electrode. These electrodes were separated by a glass dielectric as the barrier. The experiment result indicated that the discharge current with magnetic field was lower than without magnetic field. The plasma on the surface barrier with magnetic field was more luminous than without magnetic field. It also indicated that the area of Lissajous diagram for the surface barrier discharge with magnetic field was slightly decreased than without magnetic field. It could be concluded that the magnetic field affects the plasma progress on the surface barrier. Molecular dynamic (MD) could be used in understanding the ionization process of air molecules. The ionization energies for CO2, N2, and O2 were 0.0502 kcal/mol, 0.0526 kcal/mol and 0.430 kcal/mol, respectively in 1,000 seconds. The highest ionization energy was O2.]]>
