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Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor REAL-TIME GRID RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT California ISO Real Laboratory Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions APPENDIXC October 2008 CEC-500 (VSA) prototype to monitor system voltage conditions and provide real time dispatchers with reliability
Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor REAL-TIME GRID RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT Prototype Phasor-Based Real Reliability Technology Solutions APPENDIXE October 2008 CEC-500-2008-049-APE #12;#12;Prepared By: Lawrence in this report. #12;Slide 0 Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions Real-Time Dynamics
Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor REAL-TIME GRID RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT Scoping Study Report Reliability Technology Solutions APPENDIXG October 2008 CEC-500-2008-049-APG #12;#12;Prepared By: Lawrence for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions and was funded by the California Energy Commission's Public
Arnold Schwarzenegger Governor REAL-TIME GRID RELIABILITY MANAGEMENT Prototype Phasor-Based Real Research Program Prepared By: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Consortium for Electric Reliability in this report. #12;#12;USER GUIDE Version 3 August 2005 Prepared by: for Consortium for Electric Reliability
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The increased need to manage California?s electricity grid in real time is a result of the ongoing transition from a system operated by vertically-integrated utilities serving native loads to one operated by an independent system operator supporting competitive energy markets. During this transition period, the traditional approach to reliability management -- construction of new transmission lines -- has not been pursued due to unresolved issues related to the financing and recovery of transmission project costs. In the absence of investments in new transmission infrastructure, the best strategy for managing reliability is to equip system operators with better real-time information about actual operating margins so that they can better understand and manage the risk of operating closer to the edge. A companion strategy is to address known deficiencies in offline modeling tools that are needed to ground the use of improved real-time tools. This project: (1) developed and conducted first-ever demonstrations of two prototype real-time software tools for voltage security assessment and phasor monitoring; and (2) prepared a scoping study on improving load and generator response models. Additional funding through two separate subsequent work authorizations has already been provided to build upon the work initiated in this project.
Eto, Joe; Eto, Joe; Lesieutre, Bernard; Lewis, Nancy Jo; Parashar, Manu
SCE, W APA, PG&E Data � PDC � PI Interface frequency dataIntegration of CA ISO PDC with Arbiters California Real-TimePhasor Data Concentrator (PDC) receives data from PMUs in
Eto, Joe
Perspectives on Real-Time Grid Operating Technologies to Manage Reliability in the Western Interconnection
Real-Time Grid Operating Technologies to Manage ReliabilityEto Environmental Energy Technologies Division October 2013Real-Time Grid Operating Technologies to Manage Reliability
Whitley, Eric
Real Time Simulation of Power Grid Disruptions
DOE-OE and DOE-SC workshops (Reference 1-3) identified the key power grid problem that requires insight addressable by the next generation of exascale computing is coupling of real-time data streams (1-2 TB per hour) as the streams are ingested to dynamic models. These models would then identify predicted disruptions in time (2-4 seconds) to trigger the smart grid s self healing functions. This project attempted to establish the feasibility of this approach and defined the scientific issues, and demonstrated example solutions to important smart grid simulation problems. These objectives were accomplished by 1) using the existing frequency recorders on the national grid to establish a representative and scalable real-time data stream; 2) invoking ORNL signature identification algorithms; 3) modeling dynamically a representative region of the Eastern interconnect using an institutional cluster, measuring the scalability and computational benchmarks for a national capability; and 4) constructing a prototype simulation for the system s concept of smart grid deployment. The delivered ORNL enduring capability included: 1) data processing and simulation metrics to design a national capability justifying exascale applications; 2) Software and intellectual property built around the example solutions; 3) demonstrated dynamic models to design few second self-healing.
Chinthavali, Supriya [ORNL; Dimitrovski, Aleksandar D [ORNL; Fernandez, Steven J [ORNL; Groer, Christopher S [ORNL; Nutaro, James J [ORNL; Olama, Mohammed M [ORNL; Omitaomu, Olufemi A [ORNL; Shankar, Mallikarjun [ORNL; Spafford, Kyle L [ORNL; Vacaliuc, Bogdan [ORNL
Toward Real Time Data Analysis for Smart Grids
This paper describes the architecture and design of a novel system for supporting large-scale real-time data analysis for future power grid systems. The widespread deployment of renewable generation, smart grid controls, energy storage, plug-in hybrids, and new conducting materials will require fundamental changes in the operational concepts and principal components of the grid. As a result, the whole system becomes highly dynamic and requires constant adjusting based on real time data. Even though millions of sensors such as phase measurement units (PMU) and smart meters are being widely deployed, a data layer that can analyze this amount of data in real time is needed. Unlike the data fabric in other cloud services, the data layer for smart grids has some unique design requirements. First, this layer must provide real time guarantees. Second, this layer must be scalable to allow a large number of applications to access the data from millions of sensors in real time. Third, reliability is critical and this layer must be able to continue to provide service in face of failures. Fourth, this layer must be secure. We address these challenges though a scalable system architecture that integrates the I/O and data processing capability in a devise set of devices. Data process operations can be placed anywhere from sensors, data storage devices, to control centers. We further employ compression to improve performance. We design a lightweight compression customized for power grid data. Our system can reduce end-to-end response time by reduce I/O overhead through compression and overlap compression operations with I/O. The initial prototype of our system was demonstrated with several use cases from PNNL�s FPGI and show that our system can provide real time guarantees to a diverse set of applications.
Yin, Jian; Gorton, Ian; Sharma, Poorva
Scalable Real Time Data Management for Smart Grid
This paper presents GridMW, a scalable and reliable data middleware for smart grids. Smart grids promise to improve the efficiency of power grid systems and reduce green house emissions through incorporating power generation from renewable sources and shaping demand to match the supply. As a result, power grid systems will become much more dynamic and require constant adjustments, which requires analysis and decision making applications to improve the efficiency and reliability of smart grid systems.
Yin, Jian; Kulkarni, Anand V.; Purohit, Sumit; Gorton, Ian; Akyol, Bora A.
Towards a Scalable and Reliable Real Time In-Network Data Analysis Infrastructure
The smart grid applications requires real time analysis, response within the order of milliseconds and high-reliability because of the mission critical structure of the power grid system. The only way to satisfy these requirements is in network data analysis and build-in redundancy routing for failures. To achieve this, we propose a data dissemination system that builds routes using network flow algorithms, have in network processing of the data and utilize data encoding to cope with high latencies.
Ciraci, Selim; Yin, Jian
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High-Performance Computing for Real-Time Grid Analysis and Operation
Power grids worldwide are undergoing an unprecedented transition as a result of grid evolution meeting information revolution. The grid evolution is largely driven by the desire for green energy. Emerging grid technologies such as renewable generation, smart loads, plug-in hybrid vehicles, and distributed generation provide opportunities to generate energy from green sources and to manage energy use for better system efficiency. With utility companies actively deploying these technologies, a high level of penetration of these new technologies is expected in the next 5-10 years, bringing in a level of intermittency, uncertainties, and complexity that the grid did not see nor design for. On the other hand, the information infrastructure in the power grid is being revolutionized with large-scale deployment of sensors and meters in both the transmission and distribution networks. The future grid will have two-way flows of both electrons and information. The challenge is how to take advantage of the information revolution: pull the large amount of data in, process it in real time, and put information out to manage grid evolution. Without addressing this challenge, the opportunities in grid evolution will remain unfulfilled. This transition poses grand challenges in grid modeling, simulation, and information presentation. The computational complexity of underlying power grid modeling and simulation will significantly increase in the next decade due to an increased model size and a decreased time window allowed to compute model solutions. High-performance computing is essential to enable this transition. The essential technical barrier is to vastly increase the computational speed so operation response time can be reduced from minutes to seconds and sub-seconds. The speed at which key functions such as state estimation and contingency analysis are conducted (typically every 3-5 minutes) needs to be dramatically increased so that the analysis of contingencies is both comprehensive and real time. An even bigger challenge is how to incorporate dynamic information into real-time grid operation. Today�s online grid operation is based on a static grid model and can only provide a static snapshot of current system operation status, while dynamic analysis is conducted offline because of low computational efficiency. The offline analysis uses a worst-case scenario to determine transmission limits, resulting in under-utilization of grid assets. This conservative approach does not necessarily lead to reliability. Many times, actual power grid scenarios are not studied, and they will push the grid over the edge and resulting in outages and blackouts. This chapter addresses the HPC needs in power grid analysis and operations. Example applications such as state estimation and contingency analysis are given to demonstrate the value of HPC in power grid applications. Future research directions are suggested for high performance computing applications in power grids to improve the transparency, efficiency, and reliability of power grids.
Huang, Zhenyu; Chen, Yousu; Chavarr�a-Miranda, Daniel
Volatility of Power Grids Under Real-Time Pricing
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Real-time State Estimation on Micro-grids Ying Hu, Anthony Kuh, Aleksandar Kavcic
on the factor graph utilizing real-time measurements from the smart metering devices. The result are experiencing a transformation of the power grid. The future smart grid [4] will bring advanced metering-time measurements. As more smart metering devices are being deployed on the grid, power system analysis is p
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Real-Time Demand Response with Uncertain Renewable Energy in Smart Grid
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Development of Real-time Closed-loop Control Algorithms for Grid-scale Battery
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Real time grid congestion management in presence of high penetration of wind energy
Real time grid congestion management in presence of high penetration of wind energy A. Vergnol1 , J », « Wind energy », « Variable speed drive » Abstract With the increased use of wind energy the power
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FUTURE POWER GRID INITIATIVE Real-time High-Performance
constraints » Application to power grid - To analyze large amounts of streaming sensor data (e.g., PMUs, smart meters) - O(TB/day) every 30ms - Application example: Estimation of Electromechanical Dynamic States (Lee
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Complete Automation of Future Grid for Optimal Real-Time Distribution of Renewables
Complete Automation of Future Grid for Optimal Real-Time Distribution of Renewables Kiyoshi integrates tie-set graph theory with an intelligent agent system, is presented to distribute renewable energy and renewable generation is highly variable and unpredictable. Simulation results on a one hundred-node network
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Design and Implementation of Real-Time Off-Grid Detection Tool Based on FNET/GridEye
Real-time situational awareness tools are of critical importance to power system operators, especially during emergencies. The availability of electric power has become a linchpin of most post disaster response efforts as it is the primary dependency for public and private sector services, as well as individuals. Knowledge of the scope and extent of facilities impacted, as well as the duration of their dependence on backup power, enables emergency response officials to plan for contingencies and provide better overall response. Based on real-time data acquired by Frequency Disturbance Recorders (FDRs) deployed in the North American power grid, a real-time detection method is proposed. This method monitors critical electrical loads and detects the transition of these loads from an on-grid state, where the loads are fed by the power grid to an off-grid state, where the loads are fed by an Uninterrupted Power Supply (UPS) or a backup generation system. The details of the proposed detection algorithm are presented, and some case studies and off-grid detection scenarios are also provided to verify the effectiveness and robustness. Meanwhile, the algorithm has already been implemented based on the Grid Solutions Framework (GSF) and has effectively detected several off-grid situations.
Guo, Jiahui [University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK); Zhang, Ye [University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK); Liu, Yilu [University of Tennessee (UTK) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL); Young II, Marcus Aaron [ORNL; Irminger, Philip [ORNL; Dimitrovski, Aleksandar D [ORNL; Willging, Patrick [U.S. Department of Energy
Towards Real-Time High Performance Computing For Power Grid Analysis
Real-time computing has traditionally been considered largely in the context of single-processor and embedded systems, and indeed, the terms real-time computing, embedded systems, and control systems are often mentioned in closely related contexts. However, real-time computing in the context of multinode systems, specifically high-performance, cluster-computing systems, remains relatively unexplored. Imposing real-time constraints on a parallel (cluster) computing environment introduces a variety of challenges with respect to the formal verification of the system's timing properties. In this paper, we give a motivating example to demonstrate the need for such a system--- an application to estimate the electromechanical states of the power grid--- and we introduce a formal method for performing verification of certain temporal properties within a system of parallel processes. We describe our work towards a full real-time implementation of the target application--- namely, our progress towards extracting a key mathematical kernel from the application, the formal process by which we analyze the intricate timing behavior of the processes on the cluster, as well as timing measurements taken on our test cluster to demonstrate use of these concepts.
Hui, Peter SY; Lee, Barry; Chikkagoudar, Satish
This project has led to the development of a real-time simulation platform for electric power grids called Grid Simulator or GridSim for simulating the dynamic and information network interactions of large- scale power systems. The platform consists of physical models of power system components including synchronous generators, loads and control, which are simulated using a modified commercial power simulator namely Transient Stability Analysis Tool (TSAT) [1] together with data cleanup components, as well as an emulated substation level and wide-area power analysis components. The platform also includes realistic representations of communication network middleware that can emulate the real-time information flow back and forth between substations and control centers in wide-area power systems. The platform has been validated on a realistic 6000-bus model of the western American power system. The simulator GridSim developed in this project is the first of its kind in its ability to simulate real-time response of large-scale power grids, and serves as a cost effective real-time stability and control simulation platform for power industry.
Bose, Anjan; Venkatasubramanian, Vaithianathan; Hauser, Carl; Bakken, David; Anderson, David; Zhao, Chuanlin; Liu, Dong; Yang, Tao; Meng, Ming; Zhang, Lin; Ning, Jiawei; Tashman, Zaid
Integrating Redundancy Management and Real-time Services for Ultra Reliable Control Systems
that their functional semantic is coupled with temporal correctness. Not only the embedded computer needs to perform with that algorithm. Some of the real-time applications are also safety-critical and require high level of reliability and fault-tolerance to ensure uninterrupted service that might risk the safety of the system. Avionics
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1822 IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, VOL. 3, NO. 4, DECEMBER 2012 Real-Time Price-Based Demand Response
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AEP Ohio gridSMART Demonstration Project Real-Time Pricing Demonstration Analysis
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Widergren, Steven E.; Subbarao, Krishnappa; Fuller, Jason C.; Chassin, David P.; Somani, Abhishek; Marinovici, Maria C.; Hammerstrom, Janelle L.
A BiCriteria Scheduling Heuristics for Distributed Embedded Systems under Reliability and RealTime Constraints
A Bi�Criteria Scheduling Heuristics for Distributed Embedded Systems under Reliability and Real are met. Keywords: Distributed real�time systems, safety�critical systems, reliability, multi�time distributed systems in the literature do not attempt to introduce reliability; rather, they concentrate
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A Bi-Criteria Scheduling Heuristics for Distributed Embedded Systems under Reliability and Real-Time Constraints
A Bi-Criteria Scheduling Heuristics for Distributed Embedded Systems under Reliability and Real are met. Keywords: Distributed real-time systems, safety-critical systems, reliability, multi-time distributed systems in the literature do not attempt to introduce reliability; rather, they concentrate
Toward resilient high performance applications through real time reliability metric generaion and autonomous failure correction
One predominant barrier encountered in furthering research and development efforts aimed at facilitating resilient HPC applications is a substantial lack of existing reliability and performance data originating from extreme-scale computing distributions. In order to develop an understanding of how and why highly scaled HPC applications are encountering increasingly frequent performance interruptions, one must conduct extensive trending and analysis on contemporary machines and their associated programs. However, existing HPC application log files are labyrinthine documents that, even with the assistance of intelligent data mining algorithms, translate poorly to human discern. In addition, conventional log filtering, processes are limited to execution within a post-mortem, reactive time period, as the enormous size of these documents prevents efficient real time interaction. Thus, there exists a strong need within the HPC field for the provision of accurate-yet-concise real time application information. Moreover, the means of reporting this data must be sufficiently lightweight and non-intrusive, as to successfully-yet-discretely attach itself to the multiple processes running on multiple cores within tens (or in some cases, hundreds) of thousands of compute nodes. Furthermore, this information should in turn be used to facilitate the autonomous correction of application-threatening faults, suspensions, and interruptions. This paper describes a dynamic application instrumentation module (utilizing a combination of Open/SpeedShop software and custom scripting) aimed at successfully achieving these goals.
Debardeleben, Nathan [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Chandler, Clayton [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Leangsuksun, Chokchai [LOUISIANA TECH UNIV
Contingency Visualization for Real-Time Decision Support in Grid Operation
Contingency analysis is a key function in control centers to assess the impact of various combinations of power system component failures based on state estimates. Today's practice analyzes only a limited set of contingency cases and lacks of capabilities in presenting the results in a way that is easy to be understood by grid operators in a short time frame of seconds to minutes. This limits the ability to operate the power grid for better reliability and efficiency. Faster analysis of more cases is required to safely and reliably operate today's power grids which have a less margin and more intermittent renewable energy sources. This paper explores the advancements in high performance computing and visual analytics for improving the computational speed and the information representation in contingency analysis. A framework of advanced contingency analysis is proposed. Case studies using the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC) system are presented to demonstrate the feasibility of the proposed framework. Comparative assessment by real power grid operators has been performed as part of a WECC operator training class. The assessment results demonstrate the validity of the proposed contingency analysis and visualization approach.
Huang, Zhenyu; Chen, Yousu; Greitzer, Frank L.; Eubank, Robert
PhotoVoltaic distributed generation for Lanai power grid real-time simulation and control integration scenario.
This paper discusses the modeling, analysis, and testing in a real-time simulation environment of the Lanai power grid system for the integration and control of PhotoVoltaic (PV) distributed generation. The Lanai Island in Hawaii is part of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative (HCEI) to transition to 30% renewable green energy penetration by 2030. In Lanai the primary loads come from two Castle and Cook Resorts, in addition to residential needs. The total peak load profile is 12470 V, 5.5 MW. Currently there are several diesel generators that meet these loading requirements. As part of the HCEI, Lanai has initially installed 1.2 MW of PV generation. The goal of this study has been to evaluate the impact of the PV with respect to the conventional carbon-based diesel generation in real time simulation. For intermittent PV distributed generation, the overall stability and transient responses are investigated. A simple Lanai 'like' model has been developed in the Matlab/Simulink environment (see Fig. 1) and to accommodate real-time simulation of the hybrid power grid system the Opal-RT Technologies RT-Lab environment is used. The diesel generators have been modelled using the SimPowerSystems toolbox swing equations and a custom Simulink module has been developed for the High level PV generation. All of the loads have been characterized primarily as distribution lines with series resistive load banks with one VAR load bank. Three-phase faults are implemented for each bus. Both conventional and advanced control architectures will be used to evaluate the integration of the PV onto the current power grid system. The baseline numerical results include the stable performance of the power grid during varying cloud cover (PV generation ramping up/down) scenarios. The importance of assessing the real-time scenario is included.
Robinett, Rush D., III; Kukolich, Keith (Opal RT Technologies, Montreal, Quebec, Canada); Wilson, David Gerald; Schenkman, Benjamin L.
Optimal Real-time Pricing Algorithm Based on Utility Maximization for Smart Grid
tool to develop efficient demand side management strategies, we propose a novel real-time pricing the need to develop new methods for demand side management (DSM). There is a wide range of DSM techniques consumption occurs in buildings [2]. In addition, the arising of new types of demand such as plug-in hybrid
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ModelCentric Smart Grid Workshop: From Hard Dollar Justification to RealTime Control and the Analytics That Make It Possible
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Real-Time Power Balancing in Electric Grids with Distributed Storage
that the algorithm converges quickly and provides asymptotically optimal performance as the capacity of DS units and solar, are expected to be integrated into the future power grid. For example, the European Commission aims to include 20% renewable energy in the EU energy profile by 2020 [3], and California plans
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A Resilient Real-Time Agent-Based System for a Reconfigurable Power Grid
outages and other power quality and reliability events to be 1% of GDP, or $100 billion per year [4 infrastructure that includes renewable or sustainable energy sources [1][2]. The existing energy management
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A Reliable Fault-Tolerant Scheduling Algorithm for Real Time Embedded Systems
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The Real Time System Operations (RTSO) 2006-2007 project focused on two parallel technical tasks: (1) Real-Time Applications of Phasors for Monitoring, Alarming and Control; and (2) Real-Time Voltage Security Assessment (RTVSA) Prototype Tool. The overall goal of the phasor applications project was to accelerate adoption and foster greater use of new, more accurate, time-synchronized phasor measurements by conducting research and prototyping applications on California ISO's phasor platform - Real-Time Dynamics Monitoring System (RTDMS) -- that provide previously unavailable information on the dynamic stability of the grid. Feasibility assessment studies were conducted on potential application of this technology for small-signal stability monitoring, validating/improving existing stability nomograms, conducting frequency response analysis, and obtaining real-time sensitivity information on key metrics to assess grid stress. Based on study findings, prototype applications for real-time visualization and alarming, small-signal stability monitoring, measurement based sensitivity analysis and frequency response assessment were developed, factory- and field-tested at the California ISO and at BPA. The goal of the RTVSA project was to provide California ISO with a prototype voltage security assessment tool that runs in real time within California ISO?s new reliability and congestion management system. CERTS conducted a technical assessment of appropriate algorithms, developed a prototype incorporating state-of-art algorithms (such as the continuation power flow, direct method, boundary orbiting method, and hyperplanes) into a framework most suitable for an operations environment. Based on study findings, a functional specification was prepared, which the California ISO has since used to procure a production-quality tool that is now a part of a suite of advanced computational tools that is used by California ISO for reliability and congestion management.
Eto, Joseph H.; Parashar, Manu; Lewis, Nancy Jo
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A real-time performance monitoring system for monitoring an electric power grid. The electric power grid has a plurality of grid portions, each grid portion corresponding to one of a plurality of control areas. The real-time performance monitoring system includes a monitor computer for monitoring at least one of reliability metrics, generation metrics, transmission metrics, suppliers metrics, grid infrastructure security metrics, and markets metrics for the electric power grid. The data for metrics being monitored by the monitor computer are stored in a data base, and a visualization of the metrics is displayed on at least one display computer having a monitor. The at least one display computer in one said control area enables an operator to monitor the grid portion corresponding to a different said control area.
Budhraja, Vikram S. (Los Angeles, CA); Dyer, James D. (La Mirada, CA); Martinez Morales, Carlos A. (Upland, CA)
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Multiple Timescale Dispatch and Scheduling for Stochastic Reliability in Smart Grids with Wind Generation Integration
Integrating volatile renewable energy resources into the bulk power grid is challenging, due to the reliability requirement that at each instant the load and generation in the system remain balanced. In this study, we tackle this challenge for smart grid with integrated wind generation, by leveraging multi-timescale dispatch and scheduling. Specifically, we consider smart grids with two classes of energy users - traditional energy users and opportunistic energy users (e.g., smart meters or smart appliances), and investigate pricing and dispatch at two timescales, via day-ahead scheduling and realtime scheduling. In day-ahead scheduling, with the statistical information on wind generation and energy demands, we characterize the optimal procurement of the energy supply and the day-ahead retail price for the traditional energy users; in realtime scheduling, with the realization of wind generation and the load of traditional energy users, we optimize real-time prices to manage the opportunistic energy users so as...
He, Miao; Zhang, Junshan
Playas Grid Reliability and Distributed Energy Research
The future looks bright for solar and renewable energies in the United States. Recent studies claim that by 2050, solar power could supply a third of all electricity demand in the country�s western states. Technology advances, soft policy changes, and increased energy consciousness will all have to happen to achieve this goal. But the larger question is, what would it take to do more throughout the United States? The studies tie future solar and renewable growth in the United States to programs that aim to lower the soft costs of solar adoption, streamline utility interconnections, and increase technology advances through research and development. At the state and local levels, the most important steps are: � Net metering: Net metering policies lets customers offset their electric bills with onsite solar and receive reliable and fair compensation for the excess electricity they provide to the grid. Not surprisingly, what utilities consider fair is not necessarily a rate that�s favorable to solar customers. � Renewable portfolio standards (RPS): RPS policies require utilities to provide a certain amount of their power from renewable sources; some set specific targets for solar and other renewables. California�s aggressive RPS1 of 33% renewable energy by 2020 is not bankrupting the state, or its residents. � Strong statewide interconnection policies: Solar projects can experience significant delays and hassles just to get connected to the grid. Streamlined feasibility and impact analysis are needed. Good interconnection policies are crucial to the success of solar or renewable energy development. � Financing options: Financing is often the biggest obstacle to solar adoption. Those obstacles can be surmounted with policies that support creative financing options like third-party ownership (TPO) and property assessed clean energy (PACE). Attesting to the significance of TPO is the fact that in Arizona, it accounted for 86% of all residential photovoltaic (PV) installations in Q1 20132. Policies beyond those at the state level are also important for solar. The federal government must play a role including continuation of the federal Investment tax credit,3 responsible development of solar resources on public lands, and support for research and development (R&D) to reduce the cost of solar and help incorporate large amounts of solar into the grid. The local level can�t be ignored. Local governments should support: solar rights laws, feed-in tariffs (FITs), and solar-friendly zoning rules. A great example of how effective local policies can be is a city like Gainesville, Florida4, whose FIT policy has put it on the map as a solar leader. This is particularly noteworthy because the Sunshine State does not appear anywhere on the list of top solar states, despite its abundant solar resource. Lancaster, California5, began by streamlining the solar permitting process and now requires solar on every new home. Cities like these point to the power of local policies, and the ability of local governments to get things done. A conspicuously absent policy is Community Choice energy6, also called community choice aggregation (CCA). This model allows local governments to pool residential, business, and municipal electricity loads and to purchase or generate on their behalf. It provides rate stability and savings and allows more consumer choice and local control. The model need not be focused on clean energy, but it has been in California, where Marin Clean Energy7, the first CCA in California, was enabled by a state law -- highlighting the interplay of state and local action. Basic net metering8 has been getting a lot of attention. Utilities are attacking it9 in a number of states, claiming it�s unfair to ratepayers who don�t go solar. On the other hand, proponents of net metering say utilities� fighting stance is driven by worries about their bottom line, not concern for their customers. Studies in California10, Vermont11, New York12, and Texas13 have found that the benefits of net metering (like savings on investments
Romero, Van; Weinkauf, Don; Khan, Mushtaq; Helgeson, Wes; Weedeward, Kevin; LeClerc, Corey; Fuierer, Paul
Grid Reliability- An Electric Utility Company's Perspective
Broader source: Energy.gov [DOE]
Presentation�given at the Federal Utility Partnership Working Group (FUPWG) Fall 2008 meeting�covers Southern Company's business continuity, North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) cybersecurity, and homeland security as well as physical recovery after a major outage, and five questions to ask your local utility.
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, VOL. X, NO. Y, MONTH 2012 1 Volatility of Power Grids under Real-Time Pricing
-shifting and storage, as well as uncertainty in consumer behavior, preferences, time-varying and private valuation THE increasing demand for energy along with growing environmental concerns have led to a national agenda for engineering modern power grids with the capacity to integrate renewable energy resources at large scale
Bhatia, Sangeeta
New York Completes Smart Grid Project to Build a More Reliable...
grid and control center project in Rensselaer, New York. Today, Assistant Secretary for Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Patricia Hoffman joined with public and...
Communication Capacity Requirement for Reliable and Secure State Estimation in Smart Grid
1 Communication Capacity Requirement for Reliable and Secure State Estimation in Smart Grid Husheng, Cookeville, TN Abstract-- Secure system state estimation is an important issue in smart grid to assure the information the- oretic perspective. The smart grid is modeled as a linear dynamic system. Then, the channel
Qiu, Robert Caiming
Real time automated inspection
A method and apparatus are described relating to the real time automatic detection and classification of characteristic type surface imperfections occurring on the surfaces of material of interest such as moving hot metal slabs produced by a continuous steel caster. A data camera transversely scans continuous lines of such a surface to sense light intensities of scanned pixels and generates corresponding voltage values. The voltage values are converted to corresponding digital values to form a digital image of the surface which is subsequently processed to form an edge-enhanced image having scan lines characterized by intervals corresponding to the edges of the image. The edge-enhanced image is thresholded to segment out the edges and objects formed by the edges by interval matching and bin tracking. Features of the objects are derived and such features are utilized to classify the objects into characteristic type surface imperfections. 43 figs.
Fant, K.M.; Fundakowski, R.A.; Levitt, T.S.; Overland, J.E.; Suresh, B.R.; Ulrich, F.W.
Towards a Real-Time Cluster Computing Infrastructure
Real-time computing has traditionally been considered largely in the context of single-processor and embedded systems, and indeed, the terms real-time computing, embedded systems, and control systems are often mentioned in closely related contexts. However, real-time computing in the context of multinode systems, specifically high-performance, cluster-computing systems, remains relatively unexplored, largely due to the fact that until now, there has not been a need for such an environment. In this paper, we motivate the need for a cluster computing infrastructure capable of supporting computation over large datasets in real-time. Our motivating example is an analytical framework to support the next generation North American power grid, which is growing both in size and complexity. With streaming sensor data in the future power grid potentially reaching rates on the order of terabytes per day, the task of analyzing this data subject to real-time guarantees becomes a daunting task which will require the power of high-performance cluster computing capable of functioning under real-time constraints. One specific challenge that such an environment presents is the need for real-time networked communication between cluster nodes. In this paper, we discuss the need for real-time high-performance cluster computation, along with our work-in-progress towards an infrastructure which will ultimately enable such an environment.
Hui, Peter SY; Chikkagoudar, Satish; Chavarr�a-Miranda, Daniel; Johnston, Mark R.
Utility-scale grid-tied PV inverter reliability workshop summary report.
A key to the long-term success of the photovoltaic (PV) industry is confidence in the reliability of PV systems. Inverters are the most commonly noted cause of PV system incidents triggered in the field. While not all of these incidents are reliability-related or even necessarily failures, they still result in a loss of generated power. With support from the U.S. Department of Energy's Solar Energy Technologies Program, Sandia National Laboratories organized a Utility-Scale Grid-Tied Inverter Reliability Workshop in Albuquerque, New Mexico, January 27-28, 2011. The workshop addressed the reliability of large (100-kilowatt+) grid-tied inverters and the implications when such inverters fail, evaluated inverter codes and standards, and provided discussion about opportunities to enhance inverter reliability. This report summarizes discussions and presentations from the workshop and identifies opportunities for future efforts.
Granata, Jennifer E.; Quintana, Michael A.; Tasca, Coryne Adelle (SRA International, Inc., Fairfax, VA); Atcitty, Stanley
Vehicle to MicroGrid: Leveraging Existing Assets for Reliable Energy Management Mike Simpson, Tony Markel, and Michael O'Keefe
Vehicle to MicroGrid: Leveraging Existing Assets for Reliable Energy Management Mike Simpson, Tony Electricity GCV MicroGrid The Smith Electric Newton allelectric truckFort Carson Photovoltaic Installation ENERGY MANAGEMENT BUILDING ENERGY MANAGEMENT GRID OPERATION & RELIABILITY GRID OPERATION & RELIABILITY
Real-Time PCR Dean Fraga,1
, Wooster, Ohio 2 Ohio Agricultural Research and Development Center, Wooster, Ohio 3 Ashland University, Ashland, Ohio OVERVIEW AND PRINCIPLES The real-time polymerase chain reaction (real-time PCR) is a recent
Jones, Michelle
Convex Optimization: from Real-Time Embedded
Convex Optimization: from Real-Time Embedded to Large-Scale Distributed Stephen Boyd Neal Parikh of Edinburgh, June 25 2014 1 #12;Outline Convex Optimization Real-Time Embedded Optimization Large-Scale Distributed Optimization Summary 2 #12;Outline Convex Optimization Real-Time Embedded Optimization Large
Hall, Julian
Modeling and rendering heterogeneous fog in real-time using B-Spline wavelets
Modeling and rendering heterogeneous fog in real-time using B-Spline wavelets Anthony Giroud method to render heterogeneous fog in real-time. The extinction function of our fog, related to its to obtain a decomposition in both space and frequency domains. A grid traversal is used to render the fog
Paris-Sud XI, Universit� de
Real-Time Deferrable Load Control: Handling the Uncertainties of Renewable Generation
@caltech.edu Steven H. Low California Inst. of Tech. firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT Real-time demand response is potential loads, including electric vehicles and smart appliances, will participate in demand response smart grid, deferrable load control, demand response 1. INTRODUCTION Real-time demand response seeks
Integration of Real-Time Data Into Building Automation Systems
The project goal was to investigate the possibility of using predictive real-time information from the Internet as an input to building management system algorithms. The objectives were to identify the types of information most valuable to commercial and residential building owners, managers, and system designers. To comprehensively investigate and document currently available electronic real-time information suitable for use in building management systems. Verify the reliability of the information and recommend accreditation methods for data and providers. Assess methodologies to automatically retrieve and utilize the information. Characterize equipment required to implement automated integration. Demonstrate the feasibility and benefits of using the information in building management systems. Identify evolutionary control strategies.
Mark J. Stunder; Perry Sebastian; Brenda A. Chube; Michael D. Koontz
Grid Reliability////////////////////////// Grid Dependability
, confidentiality, etc. Collectively referred as "-ilities" of a system MTBF, MTTF, MTTR, RBD, FTA, FMEA, FMECA
Evaluating Machine Learning for Improving Power Grid Reliability Leon Wu email@example.com
as the electrical grid morphs into the "smart grid" will require innovations in how we assess the state of the grid and intelligent electricity distribution and trans- mission system, i.e., power grid. The smart grid has been (Force, 2010). Without the smart grid, many emerging clean energy technologies such as electric ve
Rudin, Cynthia
Designing Distributed, Real-Time Systems
- - Designing Distributed, Real-Time Systems Kevin L. Mills INFT 796 SUMMER 1993 DIRECTED READINGS IN SOFTWARE ENGINEERING WITH DR. H. GOMAA GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY #12;Designing Distributed, Real-Time Systems problem faced by designers of software systems, and particularly by designers of distributed, real
Mills, Kevin
A REAL-TIME AUTONOMOUS NAVIGATION ARCHITECTURE Gang Chen, Thierry Fraichard and Luis Martinez for autonomous navigation: perception, localisation, mapping, real-time motion planning and motion tracking. INTRODUCTION Autonomous navigation requires to solve a num- ber of challenging problems in domains as dif
Formal Methods for the Specification and Design of RealTime Safety Critical
Formal Methods for the Specification and Design of Real�Time Safety Critical Systems \\Lambda Jonathan S. Ostroff April, 1992 Abstract Safety critical computers increasingly affect nearly every aspect, designing and verifying real�time sys� tems, so as to improve their safety and reliability. \\Lambda
Ostroff, Jonathan S.
Solar Real-Time Pricing: Is Real-Time Electricity Pricing Beneficial...
to Solar PV in New York City? Solar Real-Time Pricing: Is Real-Time Electricity Pricing Beneficial to Solar PV in New York City? The goal of this study is to evaluate the...
Coordinated Home Energy Management for Real-Time Power Balancing
This paper proposes a coordinated home energy management system (HEMS) architecture where the distributed residential units cooperate with each other to achieve real-time power balancing. The economic benefits for the retailer and incentives for the customers to participate in the proposed coordinated HEMS program are given. We formulate the coordinated HEMS design problem as a dynamic programming (DP) and use approximate DP approaches to efficiently handle the design problem. A distributed implementation algorithm based on the convex optimization based dual decomposition technique is also presented. Our focus in the current paper is on the deferrable appliances, such as Plug-in (Hybrid) Electric Vehicles (PHEV), in view of their higher impact on the grid stability. Simulation results shows that the proposed coordinated HEMS architecture can efficiently improve the real-time power balancing.
Chang, Tsung-Hui; Scaglione, Anna
Real Time Search User Behavior Real time search is an increasingly important area of
. The most frequently used terms accounted for only 0.03% of the total terms. Concerning search topics Web search. Searchers of real time content often repeat queries overtime, perhaps indicating long term content increasingly enters the main stream. Keywords Real time search, real time content, Collecta
Jansen, James
Real-time control over networks
researchers to develop NCSs to implement distributed control schemes. This dissertation presents a framework for the modeling, design, stability analysis, control, and bandwidth allocation of real-time control over networks. This framework covers key research...
Ji, Kun
based�on�real?time�PMU�data� by�observing�the�differences�as� analysis�of�WECC�PMU�data. �The�recommended�analysis�approach. � V (pu) P-V curve PMU data P (pu) P-V curve PMU
Eto, Joseph H.
EV-Smart Grid Research & Interoperability Activities
isolation chamber w wireless charging test fixture Integrated grid simulation, real-time grid data, and configurable branch circuit for smart charging and energy management...
Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuations
There are many instances in which it is possible to plan ahead for an emergency evacuation (e.g., a chemical processing facility explosion). For those cases, if an accident were to happen, then the best evacuation plan for the prevailing network and weather conditions would be deployed. In other cases (e.g., the derailment of a train transporting hazardous materials), there may not be any previously developed plan to be implemented, and decisions must be made ad-hoc on how to proceed with an emergency evacuation. In both situations, the availability of real-time traffic information plays a critical role in the management of the evacuation operations. Due to cost constraints, only large urban areas have traffic sensor deployments that permit access to some sort of real-time traffic information; an evacuation taking place in other areas of the country would have to proceed without real-time traffic information. In order to improve operations during a vehicular emergency evacuation anywhere, a system of sensors that uses newly developed real-time traffic-information-gathering technologies to assess traffic conditions and to detect incidents on the main evacuation routes is presented in this paper. A series of tests, both in a controlled environment and in the field, were conducted to study the feasibility of such a system of traffic sensors and to assess its ability to provide real-time traffic information during an emergency evacuation. The results of these tests indicated that the prototype sensors are reliable and accurate for the type of application that is the focus of this paper.
Franzese, Oscar [ORNL] [ORNL; Zhang, Li [Mississippi State University (MSU)] [Mississippi State University (MSU); Mahmoud, Anas M. [Mississippi State University (MSU)] [Mississippi State University (MSU)
Continuous, real time microwave plasma element sensor
Microwave-induced plasma is described for continuous, real time trace element monitoring under harsh and variable conditions. The sensor includes a source of high power microwave energy and a shorted waveguide made of a microwave conductive, refractory material communicating with the source of the microwave energy to generate a plasma. The high power waveguide is constructed to be robust in a hot, hostile environment. It includes an aperture for the passage of gases to be analyzed and a spectrometer is connected to receive light from the plasma. Provision is made for real time in situ calibration. The spectrometer disperses the light, which is then analyzed by a computer. The sensor is capable of making continuous, real time quantitative measurements of desired elements, such as the heavy metals lead and mercury. 3 figs.
Woskov, P.P.; Smatlak, D.L.; Cohn, D.R.; Wittle, J.K.; Titus, C.H.; Surma, J.E.
Towards Soft Real-Time Applications on Enterprise Desktop Grids
, such as SETI@home [1], FOLDING@home [2], and EIN- STEIN@home [3], use TeraFlops of computing power of hundreds
Real-time Collaborative Environments and the Grid
Perkins,C.S. Gharai,L. Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments (WACE'04), Nice, France, September 2004.
Perkins, C.S.; Gharai, L.; Proceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Collaborative Environments (WACE'04), Nice, France, September 2004.; [More Details
Real-time Pricing Demand Response in Operations
Abstract�Dynamic pricing schemes have been implemented in commercial and industrial application settings, and recently they are getting attention for application to residential customers. Time-of-use and critical-peak-pricing rates are in place in various regions and are being piloted in many more. These programs are proving themselves useful for balancing energy during peak periods; however, real-time (5 minute) pricing signals combined with automation in end-use systems have the potential to deliver even more benefits to operators and consumers. Besides system peak shaving, a real-time pricing system can contribute demand response based on the locational marginal price of electricity, reduce load in response to a generator outage, and respond to local distribution system capacity limiting situations. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is teaming with a mid-west electricity service provider to run a distribution feeder-based retail electricity market that negotiates with residential automation equipment and clears every 5 minutes, thus providing a signal for lowering or raising electric consumption based on operational objectives of economic efficiency and reliability. This paper outlines the capability of the real-time pricing system and the operational scenarios being tested as the system is rolled-out starting in the first half of 2012.
Widergren, Steven E.; Marinovici, Maria C.; Berliner, Teri; Graves, Alan
Managing high-bandwidth real-time data storage
There exist certain systems which generate real-time data at high bandwidth, but do not necessarily require the long-term retention of that data in normal conditions. In some cases, the data may not actually be useful, and in others, there may be too much data to permanently retain in long-term storage whether it is useful or not. However, certain portions of the data may be identified as being vitally important from time to time, and must therefore be retained for further analysis or permanent storage without interrupting the ongoing collection of new data. We have developed a system, Mahanaxar, intended to address this problem. It provides quality of service guarantees for incoming real-time data streams and simultaneous access to already-recorded data on a best-effort basis utilizing any spare bandwidth. It has built in mechanisms for reliability and indexing, can scale upwards to meet increasing bandwidth requirements, and handles both small and large data elements equally well. We will show that a prototype version of this system provides better performance than a flat file (traditional filesystem) based version, particularly with regard to quality of service guarantees and hard real-time requirements.
Bigelow, David D. [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Brandt, Scott A [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Bent, John M [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Chen, Hsing-Bung [Los Alamos National Laboratory
Reliability Models for Hard Real-Time Systems
Perkins,C.S. Tyrrell,A. Proceedings of the 2nd IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Dependable Systems, York, UK
Perkins, C.S.; Tyrrell, A.; Proceedings of the 2nd IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Dependable Systems, York, UK [More Details
Approaching Real-time Network Traffic Classification
and studies. It serves as the input for Intrusion Detection Systems, provides Class-of-Service (CoS) mapping22 Approaching Real-time Network Traffic Classification ISSN 1470-5559 RR-06-12 October 2006-time Network Traffic Classification Wei Li, Kaysar Abdin, Robert Dann and Andrew Moore Department of Computer
Haddadi, Hamed
Real-Time Optimization Strategies for Building Systems
Jul 2, 2011 ... Abstract: We propose real-time optimization strategies for energy ... proactive, optimization, real-time, electricity markets, energy management.
Victor Zavala
Getting Useful Real-Time Feedback About Your Program | Department...
Getting Useful Real-Time Feedback About Your Program Getting Useful Real-Time Feedback About Your Program Better Buildings Webinar - May 25, 2011 20110525realtimefeedback.pdf...
Wireless technology collects real-time information from oil and...
Wireless technology collects real-time information from oil and gas wells Wireless technology collects real-time information from oil and gas wells The patented system delivers...
Autonomous, Decentralized Grid Architecture: Prosumer-Based Distributed Autonomous Cyber-Physical Architecture for Ultra-Reliable Green Electricity Networks
GENI Project: Georgia Tech is developing a decentralized, autonomous, internet-like control architecture and control software system for the electric power grid. Georgia Tech�s new architecture is based on the emerging concept of electricity prosumers�economically motivated actors that can produce, consume, or store electricity. Under Georgia Tech�s architecture, all of the actors in an energy system are empowered to offer associated energy services based on their capabilities. The actors achieve their sustainability, efficiency, reliability, and economic objectives, while contributing to system-wide reliability and efficiency goals. This is in marked contrast to the current one-way, centralized control paradigm.
Smart Grid | Department of Energy
Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability Smart Grid Smart Grid Overview Smart Grid refers to electrical grids that automatically gather and communicate information on usage,...
Vehicle to Micro-Grid: Leveraging Existing Assets for Reliable Energy Management (Poster)
Fort Carson, a United States Army installation located south of Colorado Springs, Colorado, is seeking to be a net-zero energy facility. As part of this initiative, the base will be constructing a micro-grid that ties to various forms of renewable energy. To reduce petroleum consumption, Fort Carson is considering grid-connected vehicles (GCVs) such as pure electric trucks to replace some of its on-base truck fleet. As the availability and affordability of distributed renewable energy generation options increase, so will the GCV options (currently, three all-electric trucks are available on the GSA schedule). The presence of GCVs on-base opens up the possibility to utilize these vehicles to provide stability to the base micro-grid. This poster summarizes work to estimate the potential impacts of three electric vehicle grid interactions between the electric truck fleet and the Fort Carson micro-grid: 1) full-power charging without management, 2) full-power charging capability controlled by the local grid authority, and 3) full-power charge and discharge capability controlled by the local grid authority. We found that even at relatively small adoption rates, the control of electric vehicle charging at Fort Carson will aid in regulation of variable renewable generation loads and help stabilize the micro-grid.
Simpson, M.; Markel, T.; O'Keefe, M.
Real time gamma-ray signature identifier
A real time gamma-ray signature/source identification method and system using principal components analysis (PCA) for transforming and substantially reducing one or more comprehensive spectral libraries of nuclear materials types and configurations into a corresponding concise representation/signature(s) representing and indexing each individual predetermined spectrum in principal component (PC) space, wherein an unknown gamma-ray signature may be compared against the representative signature to find a match or at least characterize the unknown signature from among all the entries in the library with a single regression or simple projection into the PC space, so as to substantially reduce processing time and computing resources and enable real-time characterization and/or identification.
Rowland, Mark (Alamo, CA); Gosnell, Tom B. (Moraga, CA); Ham, Cheryl (Livermore, CA); Perkins, Dwight (Livermore, CA); Wong, James (Dublin, CA)
Visualizations for Real-time Pricing Demonstration
In this paper, the visualization tools created for monitoring the operations of a real-time pricing demonstration system that runs at a distribution feeder level are presented. The information these tools provide gives insights into demand behavior from automated price responsive devices, distribution feeder characteristics, impact of weather on system�s development, and other significant dynamics. Given the large number of devices that bid into a feeder-level real-time electricity market, new techniques are explored to summarize the present state of the system and contrast that with previous trends as well as future projections. To better understand the system behavior and correctly inform decision-making procedures, effective visualization of the data is imperative.
Marinovici, Maria C.; Hammerstrom, Janelle L.; Widergren, Steven E.; Dayley, Greg K.
Real-Time Demand Side Energy Management
Real-Time Demand Side Energy Management Annelize Victor Michael Brodkorb Sr. Business Consultant Business Development Manager Aspen Technology, Inc. Aspen Technology Espa�a, S.A. Houston, TX Barcelona, Spain ABSTRACT To remain... competitive, manufacturers must capture opportunities to increase bottom-line profitability. The goal of this paper is to present a new methodology for reducing energy costs � �Demand-Side Energy Management.� Learn how process manufacturers assess energy...
Victor, A.; Brodkorb, M.
Real Time Monitoring: Achieving Energy Efficiency
ABSTRACT: IECBO?s International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations November 17-18, 2009 Austin, Texas. Energy @ Work www.Energy-Efficiency.com File: Rouse_ Abstract Contact: scott.rouse@energy-efficiency....com, (416) 402-0525 Proposal Type: o Electronic proposal for presentation Title of Paper: o Real Time Monitoring: Achieving Energy Efficiency! Conference: o ICEBO?s International Conference for Enhanced Building Operations Submitted by: o...
Rouse, S.
DEZENT: A Safety-Critical Real-Time Approach Decentralized Electric Power Management
for establishing technologies based on solar or wind power, or on renewable energy sources, is an adequate project we started from a power grid structure as to be frequently found e.g. in cen- tral Europe (see figDEZENT: A Safety-Critical Real-Time Approach for Decentralized Electric Power Management H. F
Wedde, Horst F.
Real Time Biomedical Data Streaming Platform (RIMES): a data-intensive virtual environment
Real Time Biomedical Data Streaming Platform (RIMES): a data-intensive virtual environment firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract - In this paper we present Real tIme bioMEdical data Streaming platform (RIMES), a data of California, San Diego. RIMES extends scientists' desktops to biomedical grid computation resources and mass
Schulze, Jürgen P.
Imaging gene expression in real-time using aptamers
Signal transduction pathways are usually activated by external stimuli and are transient. The downstream changes such as transcription of the activated genes are also transient. Real-time detection of promoter activity is useful for understanding changes in gene expression, especially during cell differentiation and in development. A simple and reliable method for viewing gene expression in real time is not yet available. Reporter proteins such as fluorescent proteins and luciferase allow for non-invasive detection of the products of gene expression in living cells. However, current reporter systems do not provide for real-time imaging of promoter activity in living cells. This is because of the long time period after transcription required for fluorescent protein synthesis and maturation. We have developed an RNA reporter system for imaging in real-time to detect changes in promoter activity as they occur. The RNA reporter uses strings of RNA aptamers that constitute IMAGEtags (Intracellular MultiAptamer GEnetic tags), which can be expressed from a promoter of choice. The tobramycin, neomycin and PDC RNA aptamers have been utilized for this system and expressed in yeast from the GAL1 promoter. The IMAGEtag RNA kinetics were quantified by RT-qPCR. In yeast precultured in raffinose containing media the GAL1 promoter responded faster than in yeast precultured in glucose containing media. IMAGEtag RNA has relatively short half-life (5.5 min) in yeast. For imaging, the yeast cells are incubated with their ligands that are labeled with fluorescent dyes. To increase signal to noise, ligands have been separately conjugated with the FRET (F�rster resonance energy transfer) pairs, Cy3 and Cy5. With these constructs, the transcribed aptamers can be imaged after activation of the promoter by galactose. FRET was confirmed with three different approaches, which were sensitized emission, acceptor photobleaching and donor lifetime by FLIM (fluorescence lifetime imaging microscopy). Real-time transcription was measured by FLIM-FRET, which was detected by the decrease in donor lifetime resulting from ligand binding to IMAGEtags that were newly synthesized from the activated GAL1 promoter. The FRET signal was specific for transcribed IMAGEtags.
Shin, Il Chung
Energy-Efficient Duplex and TMR Real-Time Systems Appeared in the IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium, Dec 2002
for autonomous critical missions need such degrees of re- liability, but energy consumption becomes a dominant the energy used by reliable computers onboard autonomous vehicles. The conservation allows these systems of electrical power for operation and cooling. Examples where energy consumption and real time are of paramount
Melhem, Rami
Baton Rouge Complex Steam Real Time Optimization
Baton Rouge Complex Steam Real Time Optimization IETC 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana Tope Iyun ExxonMobil Chemical Company May 22, 2014 ESL-IE-14-05-32 Proceedings of the Thrity-Sixth Industrial Energy Technology Conference New Orleans, LA. May 20... were generated by or on behalf of ExxonMobil Chemical Company. Legal Disclosures �2014 ExxonMobil. To the extent the user is entitled to disclose and distribute this document, the user may forward, distribute, and/or photocopy this copyrighted...
Iyun, T.
CERTS: Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions - Research Highlights
Historically, the U.S. electric power industry was vertically integrated, and utilities were responsible for system planning, operations, and reliability management. As the nation moves to a competitive market structure, these functions have been disaggregated, and no single entity is responsible for reliability management. As a result, new tools, technologies, systems, and management processes are needed to manage the reliability of the electricity grid. However, a number of simultaneous trends prevent electricity market participants from pursuing development of these reliability tools: utilities are preoccupied with restructuring their businesses, research funding has declined, and the formation of Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional Transmission Organizations (RTOs) to operate the grid means that control of transmission assets is separate from ownership of these assets; at the same time, business uncertainty, and changing regulatory policies have created a climate in which needed investment for transmission infrastructure and tools for reliability management has dried up. To address the resulting emerging gaps in reliability R&D, CERTS has undertaken much-needed public interest research on reliability technologies for the electricity grid. CERTS' vision is to: (1) Transform the electricity grid into an intelligent network that can sense and respond automatically to changing flows of power and emerging problems; (2) Enhance reliability management through market mechanisms, including transparency of real-time information on the status of the grid; (3) Empower customers to manage their energy use and reliability needs in response to real-time market price signals; and (4) Seamlessly integrate distributed technologies--including those for generation, storage, controls, and communications--to support the reliability needs of both the grid and individual customers.
Eto, Joseph
Profiling Real-Time Electricity Consumption Data for Process Monitoring and Control
Today, smart meters serve as key assets to utilities and their customers because they are capable of recording and communicating real-time energy usage data; thus, enabling better understanding of energy usage patterns. Other potential benefits of smart meters data include the ability to improve customer experience, grid reliability, outage management, and operational efficiency. Despite these tangible benefits, many utilities are inundated by data and remain uncertain about how to extract additional value from these deployed assets outside of billing operations. One way to overcome this challenge is the development of new metrics for classifying utility customers. Traditionally, utilities classified their customers based on their business nature (residential, commercial, and industrial) and/or their total annual consumption. While this classification is useful for some operational functions, it is too limited for designing effective monitoring and control strategies. In this paper, a data mining methodology is proposed for clustering and profiling smart meters data in order to form unique classes of customers exhibiting similar usage patterns. The developed clusters could help utilities in identifying opportunities for achieving some of the benefits of smart meters data.
Omitaomu, Olufemi A [ORNL
Residential Real-time Price Response Simulation
The electric industry is gaining experience with innovative price responsive demand pilots and limited roll-outs to customers. One of these pilots is investigating real-time pricing signals to engage end-use systems and local distributed generation and storage in a distributed optimization process. Attractive aspects about the approach include strong scalability characteristics, simplified interfaces between automation devices, and the adaptability to integrate a wide variety of devices and systems. Experience in this nascent field is revealing a rich array of for engineering decisions and the application of complexity theory. To test the decisions, computer simulations are used to reveal insights about design, demand elasticity, and the limits of response (including consumer fatigue). Agent-based approaches lend themselves well in the simulation to modeling the participation and interaction of each piece of equipment on a distribution feeder. This paper discusses rate design and simulation experiences at the distribution feeder level where consumers and their HVAC systems and water heaters on a feeder receive real-time pricing signals.
Widergren, Steven E.; Subbarao, Krishnappa; Chassin, David P.; Fuller, Jason C.; Pratt, Robert G.
In-line real time air monitor
An in-line gas monitor capable of accurate gas composition analysis in a continuous real time manner even under strong applied vacuum conditions operates by mixing an air sample with helium forming a sample gas in two complementary sample loops embedded in a manifold which includes two pairs of 3-way solenoid valves. The sample gas is then analyzed in an ion trap mass spectrometer on a continuous basis. Two valve drivers actuate the two pairs of 3-way valves in a reciprocating fashion, so that there is always flow through the in-line gas monitor via one or the other of the sample loops. The duty cycle for the two pairs of 3-way valves is varied by tuning the two valve drivers to a duty cycle typically between 0.2 to 0.7 seconds.
Wise, Marcus B. (Kingston, TN); Thompson, Cyril V. (Knoxville, TN)
An in-line gas monitor capable of accurate gas composition analysis in a continuous real time manner even under strong applied vacuum conditions operates by mixing an air sample with helium forming a sample gas in two complementary sample loops embedded in a manifold which includes two pairs of 3-way solenoid valves. The sample gas is then analyzed in an ion trap mass spectrometer on a continuous basis. Two valve drivers actuate the two pairs of 3-way valves in a reciprocating fashion, so that there is always flow through the in-line gas monitor via one or the other of the sample loops. The duty cycle for the two pairs of 3-way valves is varied by tuning the two valve drivers to a duty cycle typically between 0.2 to 0.7 seconds. 3 figs.
Wise, M.B.; Thompson, C.V.
Health physicists from the CH2M HILL Plateau Remediation Company collaborated with Berkeley Nucleonics Corporation to modify the SAM 940 isotope identifier instrument to be used for nuclear waste remediation. These modifications coupled with existing capabilities of the SAM 940 have proven to be invaluable during remediation activities, reducing disposal costs by allowing swift remediation of targeted areas that have been identified as having isotopes of concern (IOC), and eliminating multiple visits to sites by declaring an excavation site clear of IOCs before demobilizing from the site. These advantages are enabled by accumulating spectral data for specific isotopes that is nearly 100 percent free of false positives, which are filtered out in 'real time.'
Real time speech formant analyzer and display
A speech analyzer for interpretation of sound includes a sound input which converts the sound into a signal representing the sound. The signal is passed through a plurality of frequency pass filters to derive a plurality of frequency formants. These formants are converted to voltage signals by frequency-to-voltage converters and then are prepared for visual display in continuous real time. Parameters from the inputted sound are also derived and displayed. The display may then be interpreted by the user. The preferred embodiment includes a microprocessor which is interfaced with a television set for displaying of the sound formants. The microprocessor software enables the sound analyzer to present a variety of display modes for interpretive and therapeutic used by the user. 19 figs.
Holland, G.E.; Struve, W.S.; Homer, J.F.
Looking at Transistor Gate Oxide Formation in Real Time
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Ames Lab 101: Real-Time 3D Imaging
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Zhang, Song
Fast-paced, real-time multifaceted action Complex battlefield
for the design of intelligent agents for real-time strategy games Next steps Raphael Fonteneau is a postdoctoral
Ernst, Damien
REAL-TIME NON-PHOTOREALISTIC RENDERING TECHNIQUES FOR ILLUSTRATING 3D SCENES AND THEIR DYNAMICS This thesis addresses real-time non-photorealistic rendering techniques and their applications in interactive visualization. Real-time rendering has emerged as an important discipline within computer graphics developing
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be used to protect communications of an IEC61850-90-5-compliant substation automation system in an electricity grid. Also, it discusses the impact of run-time attacks on TC-compliant critical infrastructure The Stuxnet worm has demonstrated the effectiveness of cyber attacks on industrial facilities. The potentially
Burmester, Mike
An off-line multiprocessor real-time scheduling algorithm to reduce static energy consumption
An off-line multiprocessor real-time scheduling algorithm to reduce static energy consumption, France firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract--Energy consumption of highly reliable real dynamic energy consumption. This paper aims to propose a new off-line schedul- ing algorithm to put
Real-Time Systems, 24, 153169, 2003 # 2003 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands.
, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Abstract. Many real-time systems, such as manufacturing plants, have long life cycles. To enable the realization of technological innovations and to mitigate the risk and cost of bringing new control technologies into functioning systems, ¯exible and reliable real
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Short communication Real-time estimation of lead-acid battery parameters: A dynamic
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Monash University AUSTRALIA 1A Real Time DSP Sonar Echo Processor -IROS'2000 A Real Time DSP Sonar Echo
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2012 Smart Grid Peer Review Presentations - Day 2 Smart Grid...
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A Data Driven Framework for Real Time Power System Event Detection and Visualization
Increased adoption and deployment of phasor measurement units (PMU) has provided valuable fine-grained data over the grid. Analysis over these data can provide real-time insight into the health of the grid, thereby improving control over operations. Realizing this data-driven control, however, requires validating, processing and storing massive amounts of PMU data. This paper describes a PMU data management system that supports input from multiple PMU data streams, features an event-detection algorithm, and provides an efficient method for retrieving archival data. The event-detection algorithm rapidly correlates multiple PMU data streams, providing details on events occurring within the power system in real-time. The event-detection algorithm feeds into a visualization component, allowing operators to recognize events as they occur. The indexing and data retrieval mechanism facilitates fast access to archived PMU data. Using this method, we achieved over 30x speedup for queries with high selectivity. With th...
McCamish, Ben; Landford, Jordan; Bass, Robert; Cotilla-Sanchez, Eduardo; Chiu, David
Large-Scale Data Challenges in Future Power Grids
This paper describes technical challenges in supporting large-scale real-time data analysis for future power grid systems and discusses various design options to address these challenges. Even though the existing U.S. power grid has served the nation remarkably well over the last 120 years, big changes are in the horizon. The widespread deployment of renewable generation, smart grid controls, energy storage, plug-in hybrids, and new conducting materials will require fundamental changes in the operational concepts and principal components. The whole system becomes highly dynamic and needs constant adjustments based on real time data. Even though millions of sensors such as phase measurement units (PMUs) and smart meters are being widely deployed, a data layer that can support this amount of data in real time is needed. Unlike the data fabric in cloud services, the data layer for smart grids must address some unique challenges. This layer must be scalable to support millions of sensors and a large number of diverse applications and still provide real time guarantees. Moreover, the system needs to be highly reliable and highly secure because the power grid is a critical piece of infrastructure. No existing systems can satisfy all the requirements at the same time. We examine various design options. In particular, we explore the special characteristics of power grid data to meet both scalability and quality of service requirements. Our initial prototype can improve performance by orders of magnitude over existing general-purpose systems. The prototype was demonstrated with several use cases from PNNL�s FPGI and was shown to be able to integrate huge amount of data from a large number of sensors and a diverse set of applications.
Yin, Jian; Sharma, Poorva; Gorton, Ian; Akyol, Bora A.
A Comparison of Real-Time Thermal Rating Systems in the U.S. and the U.K.
Real-time thermal rating is a smart-grid technology that allows the rating of electrical conductors to be increased based on local weather conditions. Overhead lines are conventionally given a conservative, constant seasonal rating based on seasonal and regional worst case scenarios rather than actual, say, local hourly weather predictions. This paper provides a report of two pioneering schemes-one in the U.S. and one in the U.K.-where real-time thermal ratings have been applied. Thereby, we demonstrate that observing the local weather conditions in real time leads to additional capacity and safer operation. Second, we critically compare both approaches and discuss their limitations. In doing so, we arrive at novel insights which will inform and improve future real-time thermal rating projects.
Jake P. Gentle; Kurt S. Myers; Jason W. Bush; Isaac J. West; David M. Greenwood; Grant L. Ingram; Peter J. Davison; Matthias C.M. Troffaes
Real-Time Pricing of Electricity: An Assessment
. This paper reviews one of these new rate design proposals, "spot market" or "real-time" pricing, and discusses some recent implementations in Texas....
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USB Interfacing and Real Time Data Plotting with MATLAB
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A Framework for Real-Time Service-Oriented Architecture
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Optimization Online - Stochastic Real-Time Scheduling of Wind ...
Jan 3, 2015 ... Stochastic Real-Time Scheduling of Wind-thermal Generation Units in an Electric Utility. Alireza Soroudi (alireza.soroudi ***at*** ucd.ie)
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Our analysis indicates that it is possible to obtain energy savings of more ... building-wide, proactive, optimization, real-time, electricity markets, energy man-.
DOE Announces Webinars on Real Time Energy Management, Solar...
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Mar 16, 2015 ... Real-Time Dispatchability of Bulk Power Systems with Volatile Renewable Generations. Wei Wei (wei-wei04 ***at*** mails.tsinghua.edu.cn)
Wei Wei
Real-time Vehicle Reidentification System for Freeway Performance Measurements
Tok, A. (2005). �Anonymous Vehicle Tracking for Real-timeField Investigation of Advanced Vehicle Reidentificationvariance, land changing, and vehicle heterogeneity. In:
Jeng, Shin-Ting
A Survey of Utility Experience with Real Time Pricing
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Barbose, Galen; Goldman, Charles; Neenan, Bernie
Reliability Testing Beyond Qualification as a Key Component in Photovoltaic's Progress Toward Grid Parity: Preprint
This paper discusses why it is necessary for new lower cost PV modules to be tested using a reliability test sequence that goes beyond the Qualification test sequence now utilized for modules. Today most PV modules are warranted for 25 years, but the Qualification Test Sequence does not test for 25-year life. There is no accepted test protocol to validate a 25-year lifetime. This paper recommends the use of long term accelerated testing to compare now designs directly with older designs that have achieved long lifetimes in outdoor exposure. If the new designs do as well or better than the older ones, then it is likely that they will survive an equivalent length of time in the field.
Wohlgemuth, J. H.; Kurtz, S.
Real Time Flux Control in PM Motors
Significant research at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) Power Electronics and Electric Machinery Research Center (PEEMRC) is being conducted to develop ways to increase (1) torque, (2) speed range, and (3) efficiency of traction electric motors for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) within existing current and voltage bounds. Current is limited by the inverter semiconductor devices' capability and voltage is limited by the stator wire insulation's ability to withstand the maximum back-electromotive force (emf), which occurs at the upper end of the speed range. One research track has been to explore ways to control the path and magnitude of magnetic flux while the motor is operating. The phrase, real time flux control (RTFC), refers to this mode of operation in which system parameters are changed while the motor is operating to improve its performance and speed range. RTFC has potential to meet an increased torque demand by introducing additional flux through the main air gap from an external source. It can augment the speed range by diverting flux away from the main air gap to reduce back-emf at high speeds. Conventional RTFC technology is known as vector control [1]. Vector control decomposes the stator current into two components; one that produces torque and a second that opposes (weakens) the magnetic field generated by the rotor, thereby requiring more overall stator current and reducing the efficiency. Efficiency can be improved by selecting a RTFC method that reduces the back-emf without increasing the average current. This favors methods that use pulse currents or very low currents to achieve field weakening. Foremost in ORNL's effort to develop flux control is the work of J. S. Hsu. Early research [2,3] introduced direct control of air-gap flux in permanent magnet (PM) machines and demonstrated it with a flux-controlled generator. The configuration eliminates the problem of demagnetization because it diverts all the flux from the magnets instead of trying to oppose it. It is robust and could be particularly useful for PM generators and electric vehicle drives. Recent efforts have introduced a brushless machine that transfers a magneto-motive force (MMF) generated by a stationary excitation coil to the rotor [4]. Although a conventional PM machine may be field weakened using vector control, the air-gap flux density cannot be effectively enhanced. In Hsu's new machine, the magnetic field generated by the rotor's PM may be augmented by the field from the stationery excitation coil and channeled with flux guides to its desired destination to enhance the air-gap flux that produces torque. The magnetic field can also be weakened by reversing the current in the stationary excitation winding. A patent for advanced technology in this area is pending. Several additional RTFC methods have been discussed in open literature. These include methods of changing the number of poles by magnetizing and demagnetizing the magnets poles with pulses of current corresponding to direct-axis (d-axis) current of vector control [5,6], changing the number of stator coils [7], and controlling the air gap [8]. Test experience has shown that the magnet strengths may vary and weaken naturally as rotor temperature increases suggesting that careful control of the rotor temperature, which is no easy task, could yield another method of RTFC. The purpose of this report is to (1) examine the interaction of rotor and stator flux with regard to RTFC, (2) review and summarize the status of RTFC technology, and (3) compare and evaluate methods for RTFC with respect to maturity, advantages and limitations, deployment difficulty and relative complexity.
Otaduy, P.J.
T-ABAC: An Attribute-Based Access Control Model for Real-Time Availability in Highly Dynamic Systems
of network technologies and standard communication pro- tocols. For example in cyber-physical systems (CPS) such as smart grids [1] and power plants [2] a bridge between the physical and cyber world is established making etc). In particular CPS deal with real-time events, either system-based or Nature-based, which cannot
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON POWER SYSTEMS, VOL. 29, NO. 2, MARCH 2014 627 Impact of Data Quality on Real-Time
-Time Locational Marginal Price Liyan Jia, Jinsub Kim, Robert J. Thomas, Life Fellow, IEEE, and Lang Tong, Fellow--Bad data detection, cyber security of smart grid, locational marginal price (LMP), power system state, IEEE Abstract--The problem of characterizing impacts of data quality on real-time locational marginal
Tong, Lang
Advanced Kalman Filter for Real-Time Responsiveness in Complex Systems
Complex engineering systems pose fundamental challenges in real-time operations and control because they are highly dynamic systems consisting of a large number of elements with severe nonlinearities and discontinuities. Today�s tools for real-time complex system operations are mostly based on steady state models, unable to capture the dynamic nature and too slow to prevent system failures. We developed advanced Kalman filtering techniques and the formulation of dynamic state estimation using Kalman filtering techniques to capture complex system dynamics in aiding real-time operations and control. In this work, we looked at complex system issues including severe nonlinearity of system equations, discontinuities caused by system controls and network switches, sparse measurements in space and time, and real-time requirements of power grid operations. We sought to bridge the disciplinary boundaries between Computer Science and Power Systems Engineering, by introducing methods that leverage both existing and new techniques. While our methods were developed in the context of electrical power systems, they should generalize to other large-scale scientific and engineering applications.
Welch, Gregory Francis [UNC-Chapel Hill/University of Central Florida] [UNC-Chapel Hill/University of Central Florida; Zhang, Jinghe [UNC-Chapel Hill/Virginia Tech] [UNC-Chapel Hill/Virginia Tech
Real-time Remote Sensing of Snowmobiles Emissions at
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Denver, University of
to the forecast information since satellite data on a close to real-time basis provide detailed information to an extreme weather area. The satellite data indicated some severe weather conditions while the forecast did the assimilation in real-time in contrast to methods where data are assembled in batches and are as- similated
Malmberg, Anders
NSTX Real-Time Control GUI User's Guide
the use of the Power Supply Real-Time Control (PSRTC) Graphical User Interface (GUI), shown below. AsideNSTX Real-Time Control GUI User's Guide March 28, 2008 #12;This document is meant to describe from the PCS, the NSTX control system is made up of several executables/applications that each function
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Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling for Multiprocessor Embedded Systems
Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling for Multiprocessor Embedded Systems Hyeonjoong Cho a Binoy We present the first Utility Accrual (or UA) real-time scheduling algorithm for mul- tiprocessors, called global Multiprocessor Utility Accrual scheduling algorithm (or gMUA). The algorithm considers
Ravindran, Binoy
Realistic Rendering of an Organ Surface in Real-Time
Realistic Rendering of an Organ Surface in Real-Time for Laparoscopic Surgery Simulation Rapha�l : 10.1007/s003710100118 #12;Abstract This paper deals with the rendering issues of the problem. To meet the real-time constraint we use advanced graphics features such as multi- pass rendering, Open
Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms*
1 Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms* Chenyang Lu John email@example.com Abstract This paper presents a feedback control real-time scheduling (FCS) framework for adaptive real. In particular, we establish a dynamic model and performance analysis of several feedback control scheduling
Son, Sang H.
Demonstration of Real-time Spectrum Sensing for Cognitive Radio
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Groupware for Real-Time Drawing: A Designer's Guide
Groupware for Real-Time Drawing: A Designer's Guide Saul Greenberg Stephen Hayne Roy Rada Cite as: Greenberg, S., Hayne, S., and Rada, R., eds (1995). Groupware for Real-Time Drawing: A Designer's Guide. 248 (Wolf, Rhyne, Briggs) 6. Integration of interpersonal space and shared workspace: ClearBoard design
Greenberg, Saul
Scalable Distributed Automation System: Scalable Real-time Decentralized Volt/VAR Control
GENI Project: Caltech is developing a distributed automation system that allows distributed generators�solar panels, wind farms, thermal co-generation systems�to effectively manage their own power. To date, the main stumbling block for distributed automation systems has been the inability to develop software that can handle more than 100,000 distributed generators and be implemented in real time. Caltech�s software could allow millions of generators to self-manage through local sensing, computation, and communication. Taken together, localized algorithms can support certain global objectives, such as maintaining the balance of energy supply and demand, regulating voltage and frequency, and minimizing cost. An automated, grid-wide power control system would ease the integration of renewable energy sources like solar power into the grid by quickly transmitting power when it is created, eliminating the energy loss associated with the lack of renewable energy storage capacity of the grid.
Test Cases for Wind Power Plant Dynamic Models on Real-Time Digital Simulator: Preprint
The objective of this paper is to present test cases for wind turbine generator and wind power plant models commonly used during commissioning of wind power plants to ensure grid integration compatibility. In this paper, different types of wind power plant models based on the Western Electricity Coordinating Council Wind Generator Modeling Group's standardization efforts are implemented on a real-time digital simulator, and different test cases are used to gauge their grid integration capability. The low-voltage ride through and reactive power support capability and limitations of wind turbine generators under different grid conditions are explored. Several types of transient events (e.g., symmetrical and unsymmetrical faults, frequency dips) are included in the test cases. The differences in responses from different types of wind turbine are discussed in detail.
Singh, M.; Muljadi, E.; Gevorgian, V.
Verifying Distributed Real-time Properties of Embedded Systems via Graph Transformations and Model Checking
S properties, such as low latency, low energy consumption, bounded jitter, high reliability, high throughput and data acquisition (SCADA) systems that manage regional power grids. Key un- resolved challenges include
Abdelwahed, Sherif
Real-Time Push Middleware and Mobile Application for Electric Vehicle Smart Charging and Aggregation, Accepted for publication June 15, 2011, Special Issue on: Context-
and Aggregation Siddhartha Mal and Rajit Gadh Smart Grid Energy Research Center, Mechanical Engineering Department-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract: This paper presents a real-time push middleware and mobile application for data Gadh is Professor of Engineering, Director of UCLA-WINMEC and Director of UCLA Smart Grid Energy
California at Los Angeles, University of
Deployment of High Resolution Real-Time Distribution Level Metering on Maui: Preprint
In order to support the ongoing Maui Smart Grid demonstration project advanced metering has been deployed at the distribution transformer level in Maui Electric Company's Kihei Circuit on the Island of Maui. This equipment has been custom designed to provide accurately time-stamped Phasor and Power Quality data in real time. Additionally, irradiance sensors have been deployed at a few selected locations in proximity to photovoltaic (PV) installations. The received data is being used for validation of existing system models and for impact studies of future system hardware. Descriptions of the hardware and its installation, and some preliminary metering results are presented. Real-time circuit visualization applications for the data are also under development.
Bank, J.
Real time density functional simulations of quantum scale conductance
We study electronic conductance through single molecules by subjecting a molecular junction to a time dependent potential and propagating the electronic state in real time using time-dependent density functional theory ...
Evans, Jeremy Scott
Looking at Transistor Gate Oxide Formation in Real Time Print The oxide gate layer is critical to every transistor, and present-day layer thicknesses are in the 10-20 range (1-2...
ccsd00001825, Development of Real Time Diagnostics and
developed to allow a more robust control of several plasma parameters. Both diagnostics and algorithms were on plasma diagnostics. ccsd00001825, version 2 19 Oct 2004 Development of Real Time Diagnostics and Feedback Algorithms
Real time observations of the nucleation and growth of nanowires...
Real time observations of the nucleation and growth of nanowires and nanotubes December 1, 2011 at 3pm36-428 Eric Stach Center for Functional Nanomaterials, Brookhaven National...
New Real-Time Quantum Efficiency Measurement System: Preprint
This paper describes a newly developed technique for measuring the quantum eficiiency in solar cells in real-time using a unique, electronically controlled, full-spectrum light source.
Young, D. L.; Egaas, B.; Pinegar, S.; Stradins, P.
GPU programming for real-time watercolor simulation
simulated watercolors in real time. The GPU, or Graphics Processing Unit, is an effcient and highly parallel processor located on the graphics card of a computer; GPU programming is touted as a way to improve performance in graphics and non...
Scott, Jessica Stacy
Artificial Intelligence Design for Real-time Strategy Games
of the paper. 1 Introduction The real-time strategy (RTS) video game genre began to appear roughly two decades , one of the best-selling video games and now an acknowledged reference, cemented RTS in the industry
Real-time state estimation of laboratory flows
In this project, we use a real time computer model to simulate a differentially heated laboratory annulus. The laboratory annulus allows us to study chaotic flows typical of the atmosphere. Our objective is to bring the ...
Stransky, Scott (Scott M.)
Energy Efficient Scheduling for Real-Time Systems
, temperature awareness of a real-time system can be improved while considering variation of task execution times to reduce energy consumption. This thesis is established through research in a number of directions. First, we explore the applicability of Dynamic...
Gupta, Nikhil
Scheduling of real-time communication network for parallel processing
very attractive for the next generation real-time systems. How to support realtime communication on the massively parallel computers becomes an important issue. This project focuses on wormhole networks of Paragon, and study different transmission...
Li, Hung
IT Licentiate theses Practical Verification of Real-Time Systems
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David, Alexandre
IT Licentiate theses Practical Verification of RealTime Systems
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A practical acceleration algorithm for real-time imaging
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Sumbul, Uygar
Real-time Water Waves with Wave Particles
This dissertation describes the wave particles technique for simulating water surface waves and two way fluid-object interactions for real-time applications, such as video games. Water exists in various different forms in our environment...
Yuksel, Cem
Repsol Cartagena Utilities Real Time Optimization -- A Success Story
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Real-time continuous gesture recognition for natural multimodal interaction
I have developed a real-time continuous gesture recognition system capable of dealing with two important problems that have previously been neglected: (a) smoothly handling two different kinds of gestures: those characterized ...
Yin, Ying, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Real-Time SCADA Cyber Protection Using Compression Techniques
The Department of Energy�s Office of Electricity Delivery and Energy Reliability (DOE-OE) has a critical mission to secure the energy infrastructure from cyber attack. Through DOE-OE�s Cybersecurity for Energy Delivery Systems (CEDS) program, the Idaho National Laboratory (INL) has developed a method to detect malicious traffic on Supervisory, Control, and Data Acquisition (SCADA) network using a data compression technique. SCADA network traffic is often repetitive with only minor differences between packets. Research performed at the INL showed that SCADA network traffic has traits desirable for using compression analysis to identify abnormal network traffic. An open source implementation of a Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) lossless data compression algorithm was used to compress and analyze surrogate SCADA traffic. Infected SCADA traffic was found to have statistically significant differences in compression when compared against normal SCADA traffic at the packet level. The initial analyses and results are clearly able to identify malicious network traffic from normal traffic at the packet level with a very high confidence level across multiple ports and traffic streams. Statistical differentiation between infected and normal traffic level was possible using a modified data compression technique at the 99% probability level for all data analyzed. However, the conditions tested were rather limited in scope and need to be expanded into more realistic simulations of hacking events using techniques and approaches that are better representative of a real-world attack on a SCADA system. Nonetheless, the use of compression techniques to identify malicious traffic on SCADA networks in real time appears to have significant merit for infrastructure protection.
Lyle G. Roybal; Gordon H Rueff
Real Time Pricing and the Real Live Firm
Energy economists have long argued the benefits of real time pricing (RTP) of electricity. Their basis for modeling customers response to short-term fluctuations in electricity prices are based on theories of rational firm behavior, where management strives to minimize operating costs and optimize profit, and labor, capital and energy are potential substitutes in the firm's production function. How well do private firms and public sector institutions operating conditions, knowledge structures, decision-making practices, and external relationships comport with these assumptions and how might this impact price response? We discuss these issues on the basis of interviews with 29 large (over 2 MW) industrial, commercial, and institutional customers in the Niagara Mohawk Power Corporation service territory that have faced day-ahead electricity market prices since 1998. We look at stories interviewees told about why and how they respond to RTP, why some customers report that they can't, and why even if they can, they don't. Some firms respond as theorized, and we describe their load curtailment strategies. About half of our interviewees reported that they were unable to either shift or forego electricity consumption even when prices are high ($0.50/kWh). Reasons customers gave for why they weren't price-responsive include implicit value placed on reliability, pricing structures, lack of flexibility in adjusting production inputs, just-in-time practices, perceived barriers to onsite generation, and insufficient time. We draw these observations into a framework that could help refine economic theory of dynamic pricing by providing real-world descriptions of how firms behave and why.
Moezzi, Mithra; Goldman, Charles; Sezgen, Osman; Bharvirkar, Ranjit; Hopper, Nicole
High speed, real-time, camera bandwidth converter
Image data from a CMOS sensor with 10 bit resolution is reformatted in real time to allow the data to stream through communications equipment that is designed to transport data with 8 bit resolution. The incoming image data has 10 bit resolution. The communication equipment can transport image data with 8 bit resolution. Image data with 10 bit resolution is transmitted in real-time, without a frame delay, through the communication equipment by reformatting the image data.
Bower, Dan E; Bloom, David A; Curry, James R
Los Alamos real-time and digital radiography plans
Real-time radiography is the conversion of the radiographic image into a video image for display on a TV monitor. Once the image is in video format it is easy to digitize it using one of several digitizing systems. When the image has been digitized, digital signal processing may be performed on the image to enhance it or to assist the radiographer in interpreting. Digital processing may be performed in near real-time of off-line.
Strong, R.D.
Real-time electron density measurements from Cotton-Mouton effect in JET machine
Real-time density profile measurements are essential for advanced fusion tokamak operation and interferometry is a proven method for this task. Nevertheless, as a consequence of edge localized modes, pellet injections, fast density increases, or disruptions, the interferometer is subject to fringe jumps, which produce loss of the signal preventing reliable use of the measured density in a real-time feedback controller. An alternative method to measure the density is polarimetry based on the Cotton-Mouton effect, which is proportional to the line-integrated electron density. A new analysis approach has been implemented and tested to verify the reliability of the Cotton-Mouton measurements for a wide range of plasma parameters and to compare the density evaluated from polarimetry with that from interferometry. The density measurements based on polarimetry are going to be integrated in the real-time control system of JET since the difference with the interferometry is within one fringe for more than 90% of the cases.
Brombin, M. [Consorzio RFX, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova (Italy); Electrical Engineering Department, Padova University, via Gradenigo 6-A, 35131 Padova (Italy); Boboc, A.; Zabeo, L. [EURATOM/UKAEA Fusion Association, Culham Science Centre, OX14 3DB Abingdon (United Kingdom); Murari, A. [Consorzio RFX, Associazione EURATOM-ENEA, Corso Stati Uniti 4, 35127 Padova (Italy)
Supervisory Feed-Forward Control for Real-Time Topping Cycle CHP Operation
This paper presents an energy dispatch algorithm for real-time topping cycle Cooling, Heating, and Power (CHP) operation for buildings with the objective of minimizing the operational cost, primary energy consumption (PEC), or carbon dioxide emission (CDE). The algorithm features a supervisory feed-forward control for real-time CHP operation using short-term weather forecasting. The advantages of the proposed control scheme for CHP operation are (a) relatively simple and efficient implementation allowing realistic real-time operation , (b) optimized CHP operation with respect to operational cost, PEC, or CDE, and (c) increased site-energy consumption (SEC) resulting in less dependence on the electric grid. In the feed-forward portion of the control scheme, short-term electric, cooling, and heating loads are predicted using the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) benchmark small office building model. The results are encouraging regarding the potential saving of operational cost, PEC, and CDE from using the control system for a CHP system with electric and thermal energy storages.
Cho, Heejin; Luck, Rogelio; Chamra, Louay M.
Mahanaxar: quality of service guarantees in high-bandwidth, real-time streaming data storage
Large radio telescopes, cyber-security systems monitoring real-time network traffic, and others have specialized data storage needs: guaranteed capture of an ultra-high-bandwidth data stream, retention of the data long enough to determine what is 'interesting,' retention of interesting data indefinitely, and concurrent read/write access to determine what data is interesting, without interrupting the ongoing capture of incoming data. Mahanaxar addresses this problem. Mahanaxar guarantees streaming real-time data capture at (nearly) the full rate of the raw device, allows concurrent read and write access to the device on a best-effort basis without interrupting the data capture, and retains data as long as possible given the available storage. It has built in mechanisms for reliability and indexing, can scale to meet arbitrary bandwidth requirements, and handles both small and large data elements equally well. Results from our prototype implementation shows that Mahanaxar provides both better guarantees and better performance than traditional file systems.
Bigelow, David [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Bent, John [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Chen, Hsing - Bung [Los Alamos National Laboratory; Brandt, Scott [UCSC
The objective of the CGM was to develop high-priority grid modernization technologies in advanced sensors, communications, controls and smart systems to enable use of real-time or near real-time information for monitoring, analyzing and managing distribution and transmission grid conditions. The key strategic approach to carry out individual CGM research and development (R&D) projects was through partnerships, primarily with the GridApp� Consortium utility members.
Markiewicz, Daniel R
Real-time operating systems at higher control
Although virtually all development of real-time operating systems focuses on the lowest of the three traditional control levels, sheet economics demands higher level real-time OSs. Meeting this demand requires a major change in the mindset of the people who have been focusing on the lowest level of control. {open_quotes}These people are trying to deal with an elephant`s tail, but they don`t realize that there is an elephant attached to it.{close_quotes} For more than three decades, the historical real-time mindset, concepts and techniques have been driven by a particular pair of contexts. First is the application context, which can be characterized as {open_quotes}small, simple, centralized, static subsystems for low-level, sampled data, monitoring and first-order control.{close_quotes} Second is the hardware context, characterized by a scarcity of hardware resources due to size, weight, power and cost considerations. Both of these contexts are changing dramatically in ways that {open_quotes}have a significant impact on the concepts and techniques of real-time computing.{close_quotes} Hardware now offers much higher performance and the real-time domain is expanding upward in the application control hierarchy.
Jensen, E.D.
Parallel architecture for real-time simulation. Master's thesis
This thesis is concerned with the development of a very fast and highly efficient parallel computer architecture for real-time simulation of continuous systems. Currently, several parallel processing systems exist that may be capable of executing a complex simulation in real-time. These systems are examined and the pros and cons of each system discussed. The thesis then introduced a custom-designed parallel architecture based upon The University of Alabama's OPERA architecture. Each component of this system is discussed and rationale presented for its selection. The problem selected, real-time simulation of the Space Shuttle Main Engine for the test and evaluation of the proposed architecture, is explored, identifying the areas where parallelism can be exploited and parallel processing applied. Results from the test and evaluation phase are presented and compared with the results of the same problem that has been processed on a uniprocessor system.
Cockrell, C.D.
Test applications for heterogeneous real-time network testbed
This paper investigates several applications for a heterogeneous real-time network testbed. The network is heterogeneous in terms of network devices, technologies, protocols, and algorithms. The network is real-time in that its services can provide per-connection end-to-end performance guarantees. Although different parts of the network use different algorithms, all components have the necessary mechanisms to provide performance guarantees: admission control and priority scheduling. Three applications for this network are described in this paper: a video conferencing tool, a tool for combustion modeling using distributed computing, and an MPEG video archival system. Each has minimum performance requirements that must be provided by the network. By analyzing these applications, we provide insights to the traffic characteristics and performance requirements of practical real-time loads.
Mines, R.F.; Knightly, E.W.
Towards Real Time Diagnostics of Hybrid Welding Laser/GMAW
Methods are currently being developed towards a more robust system real time feedback in the high throughput process combining laser welding with gas metal arc welding. A combination of ultrasonic, eddy current, electronic monitoring, and visual techniques are being applied to the welding process. Initial simulation and bench top evaluation of proposed real time techniques on weld samples are presented along with the concepts to apply the techniques concurrently to the weld process. Consideration for the eventual code acceptance of the methods and system are also being researched as a component of this project. The goal is to detect defects or precursors to defects and correct when possible during the weld process.
Timothy Mcjunkin; Dennis C. Kunerth; Corrie Nichol; Evgueni Todorov; Steve Levesque; Feng Yu; Robert Danna Couch
Towards real time diagnostics of Hybrid Welding Laser/GMAW
McJunkin, T. R.; Kunerth, D. C.; Nichol, C. I. [Idaho National Laboratory, Idaho Falls, ID 83415-3570 (United States); Todorov, E.; Levesque, S. [Edison Welding Institute, Columbus, OH (United States)
Handheld portable real-time tracking and communications device
Portable handheld real-time tracking and communications devices include; a controller module, communications module including global positioning and mesh network radio module, data transfer and storage module, and a user interface module enclosed in a water-resistant enclosure. Real-time tracking and communications devices can be used by protective force, security and first responder personnel to provide situational awareness allowing for enhance coordination and effectiveness in rapid response situations. Such devices communicate to other authorized devices via mobile ad-hoc wireless networks, and do not require fixed infrastructure for their operation.
Wiseman, James M. (Albuquerque, NM); Riblett, Jr., Loren E. (Edgewood, NM); Green, Karl L. (Albuquerque, NM); Hunter, John A. (Albuquerque, NM); Cook, III, Robert N. (Rio Rancho, NM); Stevens, James R. (Arlington, VA)
A heterogeneous hierarchical architecture for real-time computing
The need for high-speed data acquisition and control algorithms has prompted continued research in the area of multiprocessor systems and related programming techniques. The result presented here is a unique hardware and software architecture for high-speed real-time computer systems. The implementation of a prototype of this architecture has required the integration of architecture, operating systems and programming languages into a cohesive unit. This report describes a Heterogeneous Hierarchial Architecture for Real-Time (H{sup 2} ART) and system software for program loading and interprocessor communication.
Skroch, D.A.; Fornaro, R.J.
Real-Time Chemical Imaging of Bacterial Biofilm Development
AFDC Printable Version Share this resource Send a link to EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page to someone by E-mail Share EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page on Facebook Tweet about EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page on Twitter Bookmark EERE:1 First Use of Energy for All Purposes (Fuel and Nonfuel),Feet) Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May JunDatastreamsmmcrcalgovInstrumentsrucLas ConchasPassive Solar HomePromising Science for1PrincipalRare | NationalReal-TimeReal-Time
Flash Memory Garbage Collection in Hard Real-Time Systems
collection and compare it to that of more proactive schemes. I develop formulas to assess the schedulability of hard real- time periodic task sets under simpli ed memory consumption models. Results show that I prove the proactive schemes achieve the larger... work in the area of ash memory management. Moreover, we review the previous research about garbage collection in real-time system. In Chapter III we will describe a simpli ed ash memory model that will be used throughout the rest of the thesis...
Lai, Chien-An
A real-time airborne scatterometer data processor
Subject: Electrical Fngineering A REAL-TIME AIRBORNE SCATTEROMETER DATA PROCESSOR A Thesis by Gary James Reisor Approved as to style and content by: arrman o Committee Hea o Depa tment em er Mem er August 1976 ABSTRACT A Real-time Airborne...b. Read-Only Memory Uni. 't. III-10a, RAM Unit Block Diagram III-10b. ROM Unit Block Diagram IV-1. Asynch I/O Unit Block Diagram 48 50 50 55 IV-2. Asynchronous Data Requires Start and Stop Bits. 56 IV-3. Format and Status Port Bit...
Reisor, Gary James
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High-Performance Computing for Advanced Smart Grid Applications
The power grid is becoming far more complex as a result of the grid evolution meeting an information revolution. Due to the penetration of smart grid technologies, the grid is evolving as an unprecedented speed and the information infrastructure is fundamentally improved with a large number of smart meters and sensors that produce several orders of magnitude larger amounts of data. How to pull data in, perform analysis, and put information out in a real-time manner is a fundamental challenge in smart grid operation and planning. The future power grid requires high performance computing to be one of the foundational technologies in developing the algorithms and tools for the significantly increased complexity. New techniques and computational capabilities are required to meet the demands for higher reliability and better asset utilization, including advanced algorithms and computing hardware for large-scale modeling, simulation, and analysis. This chapter summarizes the computational challenges in smart grid and the need for high performance computing, and present examples of how high performance computing might be used for future smart grid operation and planning.
Huang, Zhenyu; Chen, Yousu
Wide-area situation awareness in electric power grid
Two primary elements of the US energy policy are demand management and efficiency and renewable sources. Major objectives are clean energy transmission and integration, reliable energy transmission, and grid cyber security. Development of the Smart Grid seeks to achieve these goals by lowering energy costs for consumers, achieving energy independence and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The Smart Grid is expected to enable real time wide-area situation awareness (SA) for operators. Requirements for wide-area SA have been identified among interoperability standards proposed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the National Institute of Standards and Technology to ensure smart-grid functionality. Wide-area SA and enhanced decision support and visualization tools are key elements in the transformation to the Smart Grid. This paper discusses human factors research to promote SA in the electric power grid and the Smart Grid. Topics that will be discussed include the role of human factors in meeting US energy policy goals, the impact and challenges for Smart Grid development, and cyber security challenges.
Greitzer, Frank L.
Dynamic pricing and stabilization of supply and demand in modern electric power grids
The paper proposes a mechanism for real-time pricing of electricity in smart power grids, with price stability as the primary concern. In previous publications the authors argued that relaying the real-time wholesale market ...
of searching for multiple solutions concurrently in a single run. Transforming this multiobjective optimizationGENETIC ALGORITHMS APPLIED TO REAL TIME MULTIOBJECTIVE OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS Z. BINGUL, A. firstname.lastname@example.com ABSTRACT Genetic algorithms are often well suited for multiobjective optimization problems. In this work
Coello, Carlos A. Coello
Note: A real-time beam current density meter
We have developed a real-time beam current density meter for charged particle beams. It measures the mean current density by collimating a uniform and large diameter primary beam. The suppression of the secondary electrons and the deflection of the beam were simulated, and it was tested with a 105 keV Ar{sup 7+} ion beam.
Liu Junliang; Yu Deyang; Ruan Fangfang; Xue Yingli; Wang Wei [Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Lanzhou 730000 (China)
TOWARDS REAL-TIME GENERATION SCHEDULING IN MICROGRIDS WITH PERFORMANCE GUARANTEE LIAN LU, JINLONG TU, CHI-KIN CHAU, MINGHUA CHEN, ZHAO XU AND XIAOJUN LIN INTRODUCTION Microgrid is an emerging- generation improves generation efficiency by 2-3x. A key problem in microgrid operations is how to schedule
Zhang, Junshan
Timeliness via Speculation for Real-Time Databases Azer Bestavros
extremes. PCC locking protocols detect con icts as soon as they occur and resolve them using blocking. OCC protocols detect con icts at transac- tion committime and resolve them using rollbacks (restarts). For real-time databases, blockages and rollbacks are hazards that increase the likelihood of transactions missing
Real time sensors in geothermal fluids: their costs and benefits
A summary of the PNL effort, a background discussion on geothermal power plants, and a discussion of several cases where problems were identified and in some cases prevented are included. Cost factors, savings, and benefits-costs to the sponsor are summarized and brief conclusions concerning the benefits of having real time instrumentation installed in the power plant are characterized.
Jensen, G.A.; Shannon, D.W.; Hazelton, R.F.
Accuracy of near real time updates in wind power forecasting
· advantage: no NWP data necessary very actual shortest term forecasts possible · wind power inputAccuracy of near real time updates in wind power forecasting with regard to different weather October 2007 #12;EMS/ECAM 2007 Nadja Saleck Outline · Study site · Wind power forecasting - method
Heinemann, Detlev
ENERGY MANAGEMENT IN REAL-TIME MULTI-TIER INTERNET SERVICES A Dissertation Presented to the faculty This dissertation has been read and approved by the examining Committee: Kevin Skadron (Advisor) Sudhanva Gurumurthi and Applied Science: James H. Aylor (Dean) May 2008 #12;Abstract Energy management only recently emerged
Skadron, Kevin
Compilation and Synthesis for Real-Time Embedded Controllers
Compilation and Synthesis for Real-Time Embedded Controllers Martin Fr¨anzle1 and Markus M¨email@example.com 2 University of Dortmund, Department of Computer Science, FB 4, LS 5, 44221 Dortmund, Germany Markus.Mueller-Olm
Müller-Olm, Markus
Integrating Security and Real-Time Requirements Using Covert
ÐConcurrency control, covert channel analysis, database systems, locking protocols, multilevel security, real secure database systems use an access control mechanism based on the Bell- LaPadula model [3]. This model. Multilevel security requirements introduce a new dimension to transaction processing in real-time database
Real Time Dynamic Fracture with Volumetric Approximate Convex Decompositions
¨uller Nuttapong Chentanez Tae-Yong Kim NVIDIA Figure 1: Destruction of a Roman arena with 1m vertices and 500k and complex objects in real time. The common method for fracture simulation in computer games is to pre-fracture models and replace objects by their pre-computed parts at run-time. This popular method
Müller-Fischer, Matthias
Real Time Emulations: Foundation and Applications Azalia Mirhoseini
developed and used emulations to overcome and complement the shortcomings of simulations for logic verifi Measurement, Performance Keywords Real-time emultion, Thermal modeling 1. INTRODUCTION AND MOTIVATION At large vineyards, there are often several rose bushes planted throughout. The reason is not the romantic nature
Real-Time Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensors
autonomous sensors to scavenge the energy in the environment. Environmental applications include forest fireReal-Time Scheduling for Energy Harvesting Sensors Maryline Chetto IRCCyN Lab University of Nantes Institut Universitaire de Technologie - Saida E-mail: email@example.com Abstract-- Energy
Real-time MISO UWB Radio Testbed and Waveform Design
Real-time MISO UWB Radio Testbed and Waveform Design Yu Song, Zhen Hu, Nan Guo, and Robert C. Qiu-input single-output (MISO) ultra-wideband (UWB) radio testbed, which involves Xinlix Virtex-5 Field in indoor environment. The transmitted MISO signals are optimized in the passband with a bandwidth up to 500
Closed-loop real-time control on distributed networks
in presence of network delays and packet losses. A single actuator magnetic ball levitation system was used as a test bed to validate the proposed algorithm. A brief study of real-time requirements of the networked control system is presented and a client-server...
Ambike, Ajit Dilip
Real-Time Networked Control with Multiple Clients
in this research due to its better real-time performance instead of transmission control protocol (TCP). Although UDP has no guarantee for transferring data, it has smaller overheads and less time delay than TCP. Since the robotic wheelchair and the server are run...
Lee, Minhyung
Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuation Operations
Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuation Operations Research Brief Oak Ridge National Environment Safety Security Vehicle Technologies T here are many instances in which it is possible to plan. The system of sensors will transmit through satellite links, or other robust communication means, real
Constraint Orientated Specification with CSP and Real Time Temporal Logic
Constraint Orientated Specification with CSP and Real Time Temporal Logic Justin Pearson Department Processes (CSP) [Hoa85] and a version of Propositional Temporal Logic (PTL), derived from [Eme90]. CSP. The behaviour of a CSP process is dependent on its environment; it is therefore difficult to assert global
Kent, University of
Concurrent and Real Time Systems: the CSP approach Steve Schneider
Concurrent and Real Time Systems: the CSP approach by Steve Schneider First published 1999 Systems the CSP approach Steve Schneider A Wiley-Interscience Publication JOHN WILEY & SONS, INC. New York Whitehead This book provides an introduction to Communicating Sequential Processes (CSP) and its use
Doran, Simon J.
: A Testbed for Empirically Comparing Real-Time Multiprocessor Schedulers
on M processors any pe- riodic task system with total utilization at most M [2], and the global-deadline-first (EDF) scheduling, pre- emptive and nonpreemptive global EDF scheduling, and two variants of the global-real-time constraints. To our knowledge, this paper is the first attempt by anyone to compare partitioned and global
Anderson, James
Real Time PMU-Based Stability Monitoring Final Project Report
Real Time PMU-Based Stability Monitoring Final Project Report Power Systems Engineering email@example.com Phone: 509-335-1150 Power Systems Engineering Research Center The Power Systems Engineering Research Center (PSERC) is a multi-university Center conducting research on challenges facing the electric power
Functional Speci cation of Real-Time and Hybrid Systems ?
of embedded real-time systems in a physical environment. Recently, a number of description and spec- i cationSys" and by BMW (Bay- erische Motoren Werke AG). #12;slight modi cations must be carried through, so, or sent to, the environment. Therefore, every channel re ects an input or output communication history
Real-Time Redox Measurements during Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Reveal
Real-Time Redox Measurements during Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress Reveal Interlinked Protein Folding.10.011 SUMMARY Disruption of protein folding in the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) causes unfolded proteins to accumu is active. Because ER redox po- tential is optimized for oxidative protein folding, we reasoned
Mullins, Dyche
Ongoing Phase 2 work comprises the development and field-testing of a real-time reservoir stimulation diagnostic system. Phase 3 work commenced in June 2001, and involved conducting research, development and field-testing of real-time enhanced dual-fluid stimulation processes. Experimental field-testing to date includes three well tests. Application of these real-time stimulation processes and diagnostic technologies has been technically successful with commercial production from the ''marginal'' reservoirs in the first two well tests. The third well test proved downhole-mixing is an efficient process for acid stimulation of a carbonate reservoir that produced oil and gas with 2200 psi bottomhole reservoir pressure, however, subsequent shut-in pressure testing indicated the reservoir was characterized by low-permeability. Realtimezone continues to seek patent protection in foreign markets to the benefit of both RTZ and NETL. Realtimezone and the NETL have licensed the United States patented to Halliburton Energy Services (HES). Ongoing Phase 2 and Phase 3 field-testing continues to confirm applications of both real-time technologies, from well testing conducted over the last 12-month work period and including well test scheduled for year-end of 2002. Technical data transfer to industry is ongoing via Internet tech-transfer, public presentations and industry publications. Final Phase 3 test work will be focused on further field-testing the innovational process of blending stimulation fluids downhole. This system provides a number of advantages in comparison to older industry fracturing techniques and allows the operator to control reservoir fracture propagation and concentrations of proppant placed in the reservoir, in real-time. Another observed advantage is that lower friction pressures result, which results in lower pump treating pressures and safer reservoir hydraulic fracturing jobs.
George Scott III
E-Print Network 3.0 - abbott real-time ct Sample Search Results
The main challenge involved in scheduling transactions in a Real-Time Data... scheduling and concurrency control techniques. Current real-time concurrency control...
Improving Building Performance at Urban Scale with a Framework for Real-time Data Sharing
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Pang, Xiufeng
Real-Time Systems, Special Issue on Control-theoretical Approaches to Real-Time Computing, 23(1/2): 85-126, 2002 Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms*
(1/2): 85-126, 2002 Feedback Control Real-Time Scheduling: Framework, Modeling, and Algorithms* Chenyang email@example.com firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract This paper presents a Feedback Control real-time Scheduling (FCS. These admission-control-based algorithms represent the third major paradigm for real-time scheduling. However
Lu, Chenyang
Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions Grid of the Future White Paper on Review of Recent Reliability Issues and Systems Events
This report is one of six reports developed under the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) program in Power System Integration and Reliability (PSIR). The objective of this report is to review, analyze, and evaluate critical reliability issues demonstrated by recent disturbance events in the North America power system. Eleven major disturbances are examined, most occurring in this decade. The strategic challenge is that the pattern of technical need has persisted for a long period of time. For more than a decade, anticipation of market deregulation has been a major disincentive to new investments in system capacity. It has also inspired reduced maintenance of existing assets. A massive infusion of better technology is emerging as the final option to continue reliable electrical services. If an investment in better technology will not be made in a timely manner, then North America should plan its adjustments to a very different level of electrical service. It is apparent that technical operations staff among the utilities can be very effective at marshaling their forces in the immediate aftermath of a system emergency, and that serious disturbances often lead to improved mechanisms for coordinated operation. It is not at all apparent that such efforts can be sustained through voluntary reliability organizations in which utility personnel external to those organizations do most of the technical work. The eastern interconnection shows several situations in which much of the technical support has migrated from the utilities to the Independent System Operator (ISO), and the ISO staffs or shares staff with the regional reliability council. This process may be a natural and very positive consequence of utility restructuring. If so, the process should be expedited in regions where it is less advanced.
Hauer, John F.; Dagle, Jeffery E.
Value of Faster Computation for Power Grid Operation
As a result of the grid evolution meeting the information revolution, the power grid is becoming far more complex than it used to be. How to feed data in, perform analysis, and extract information in a real-time manner is a fundamental challenge in today�s power grid operation, not to mention the significantly increased complexity in the smart grid environment. Therefore, high performance computing (HPC) becomes one of the advanced technologies used to meet the requirement of real-time operation. This paper presents benefit case studies to show the value of fast computation for operation. Two fundamental operation functions, state estimation (SE) and contingency analysis (CA), are used as examples. In contrast with today�s tools, fast SE can estimate system status in a few seconds�comparable to measurement cycles. Fast CA can solve more contingencies in a shorter period, reducing the possibility of missing critical contingencies. The benefit case study results clearly show the value of faster computation for increasing the reliability and efficiency of power system operation.
Chen, Yousu; Huang, Zhenyu; Elizondo, Marcelo A.
FUTURE POWER GRID INITIATIVE Scalable Sensor Data
of sensors and a large number of applications in future smart grids � Provide a uniformed API to allow applications to access real time power grid data � Facilitate the integration of a large number of diverse management systems � Allow easy integration of a large number of diverse power grid applications
SMART WATER GRID PLAN B TECHNICAL REPORT FALL 2014 PREPARED BY: OLGA MARTYUSHEVA IN PARTIAL demand linked to the global population increase. A Smart Water Grid (SWG) is a two-way real time network, and others. A review of the benefits of Smart Water Grids is presented in the context of water conservation
Julien, Pierre Y.
Real-Time Traffic Information for Emergency Evacuation Operations: Phase A Final Report
There are many instances in which it is possible to plan ahead for an emergency evacuation (e.g., an explosion at a chemical processing facility). For those cases, if an accident (or an attack) were to happen, then the best evacuation plan for the prevailing network and weather conditions would be deployed. In other cases (e.g., the derailment of a train transporting hazardous materials), there may not be any previously developed plan to be implemented and decisions must be made ad-hoc on how to proceed with an emergency evacuation. In both situations, the availability of real-time traffic information plays a critical role in the management of the evacuation operations. To improve public safety during a vehicular emergency evacuation it is necessary to detect losses of road capacity (due to incidents, for example) as early as possible. Once these bottlenecks are identified, re-routing strategies must be determined in real-time and deployed in the field to help dissipate the congestion and increase the efficiency of the evacuation. Due to cost constraints, only large urban areas have traffic sensor deployments that permit access to some sort of real-time traffic information; any evacuation taking place in any other areas of the country would have to proceed without real-time traffic information. The latter was the focus of this SERRI/DHS (Southeast Region Research Initiative/Department of Homeland Security) sponsored project. That is, the main objective on the project was to improve the operations during a vehicular emergency evacuation anywhere by using newly developed real-time traffic-information-gathering technologies to assess traffic conditions and therefore to potentially detect incidents on the main evacuation routes. Phase A of the project consisted in the development and testing of a prototype system composed of sensors that are engineered in such a way that they can be rapidly deployed in the field where and when they are needed. Each one of these sensors is also equipped with their own power supply and a GPS (Global Positioning System) device to auto-determine its spatial location on the transportation network under surveillance. The system is capable of assessing traffic parameters by identifying and re-identifying vehicles in the traffic stream as those vehicles pass over the sensors. The system of sensors transmits, through wireless communication, real-time traffic information (travel time and other parameters) to a command and control center via an NTCIP (National Transportation Communication for ITS Protocol) -compatible interface. As an alternative, an existing NTCIP-compatible system accepts the real-time traffic information mentioned and broadcasts the traffic information to emergency managers, the media and the public via the existing channels. A series of tests, both in a controlled environment and on the field, were conducted to study the feasibility of rapidly deploying the system of traffic sensors and to assess its ability to provide real-time traffic information during an emergency evacuation. The results of these tests indicated that the prototype sensors are reliable and accurate for the type of application that is the focus of this project.
Franzese, Oscar [ORNL; Zhang, Li [Mississippi State University (MSU); Mahmoud, Anas M. [Mississippi State University (MSU); Lascurain, Mary Beth [ORNL; Wen, Yi [Mississippi State University (MSU)
Subsystem real-time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory
We present the extension of Frozen Density Embedding (FDE) theory to real-time Time Dependent Density Functional Theory (rt-TDDFT). FDE a is DFT-in-DFT embedding method that allows to partition a larger Kohn-Sham system into a set of smaller, coupled Kohn-Sham systems. Additional to the computational advantage, FDE provides physical insight into the properties of embedded systems and the coupling interactions between them. The extension to rt-TDDFT is done straightforwardly by evolving the Kohn-Sham subsystems in time simultaneously, while updating the embedding potential between the systems at every time step. Two main applications are presented: the explicit excitation energy transfer in real time between subsystems is demonstrated for the case of the Na$_4$ cluster and the effect of the embedding on optical spectra of coupled chromophores. In particular, the importance of including the full dynamic response in the embedding potential is demonstrated.
Krishtal, Alisa; Pavanello, Michele
Real time markerless motion tracking using linked kinematic chains
A markerless method is described for tracking the motion of subjects in a three dimensional environment using a model based on linked kinematic chains. The invention is suitable for tracking robotic, animal or human subjects in real-time using a single computer with inexpensive video equipment, and does not require the use of markers or specialized clothing. A simple model of rigid linked segments is constructed of the subject and tracked using three dimensional volumetric data collected by a multiple camera video imaging system. A physics based method is then used to compute forces to align the model with subsequent volumetric data sets in real-time. The method is able to handle occlusion of segments and accommodates joint limits, velocity constraints, and collision constraints and provides for error recovery. The method further provides for elimination of singularities in Jacobian based calculations, which has been problematic in alternative methods.
Luck, Jason P. (Arvada, CO); Small, Daniel E. (Albuquerque, NM)
A versatile real-time spectral analysis system
. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS REFERENCES APPENDIX A. MINDOWING APPENDIX B. CCD TRANSVERSAL FILTERS VITA Page 65 71 73 81 92 93 105 105 106 106 108 112 114 134 170 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Filterbank Technique for Spectral Analysis 2... 1. Filter Bank Technique 2. Sliding Filter Technique 3. Dispersive Filter Technique 4. Discrete Fourier Transform Techniques B. Applications Requiring Spectral Analysis . . 1. Real-Time Radar Scatterometer Data Processing 2. Chirp FN Radar Data...
Hancock, Mark Steven
Embedded Real-Time Systems Electrical Model Quad Rotor UAV
Sys (2013-2014) #12;10 System SW view joystick QR PC link PC lift roll pitch yaw sensorsES joystickIn4073 Embedded Real-Time Systems Electrical Model Quad Rotor UAV #12;2 TE0300 FPGA System HW view), pitch rate (M), and yaw rate (N) (see qrsim for example!) x z y engine 4 engine 3 engine 2 engine 1 In
Langendoen, Koen
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 31, NO. 7, JULY 2013 1 Demand Response Management via Real-time
IEEE JOURNAL ON SELECTED AREAS IN COMMUNICATIONS, VOL. 31, NO. 7, JULY 2013 1 Demand Response through demand response management in smart grid systems. The proposed scheme solves a two. Index Terms--Real-time pricing, Demand response manage- ment, Payoff maximization, Profit maximization
Huang, Jianwei
Real time 3D and heterogeneous data fusion
This project visualizes characterization data in a 3D setting, in real time. Real time in this sense means collecting the data and presenting it before it delays the user, and processing faster than the acquisition systems so no bottlenecks occur. The goals have been to build a volumetric viewer to display 3D data, demonstrate projecting other data, such as images, onto the 3D data, and display both the 3D and projected images as fast as the data became available. The authors have examined several ways to display 3D surface data. The most effective was generating polygonal surface meshes. They have created surface maps form a continuous stream of 3D range data, fused image data onto the geometry, and displayed the data with a standard 3D rendering package. In parallel with this, they have developed a method to project real-time images onto the surface created. A key component is mapping the data on the correct surfaces, which requires a-priori positional information along with accurate calibration of the camera and lens system.
Little, C.Q.; Small, D.E.
Smart Grid Research At TTU Robert C. Qiu and David Gao
Smart Grid Research At TTU Robert C. Qiu and David Gao Department of Electrical and Computer and definitions for use in Smart Grid #12;Wind Energy Solar Energy (Donated by TVA) A Real-Time Smart Grid Testbed Grid #12;Smart Grid Research at TTU Renewable and clean energy integration into smart grid Wind Power
One-handed interface for multitouch-enabled real-time strategy games
.edu ABSTRACT Historically, real-time strategy video games, such as Star- craft (Blizzard Entertainment, 1999
California at Santa Cruz, University of
Feedback Control of the Sawtooth Period through Real Time Control of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency
Feedback Control of the Sawtooth Period through Real Time Control of the Ion Cyclotron Resonance Frequency
Decision-Support Software for Grid Operators: Transmission Topology Control for Infrastructure Resilience to the Integration of Renewable Generation
GENI Project: The CRA team is developing control technology to help grid operators more actively manage power flows and integrate renewables by optimally turning on and off entire power lines in coordination with traditional control of generation and load resources. The control technology being developed would provide grid operators with tools to help manage transmission congestion by identifying the facilities whose on/off status must change to lower generation costs, increase utilization of renewable resources and improve system reliability. The technology is based on fast optimization algorithms for the near to real-time change in the on/off status of transmission facilities and their software implementation.
Microgrids and Heterogeneous Power Quality and Reliability
high security, quality, reliability, and availability�, IEEELave, and Marija Ilic: �Creating Reliability Choice: HowBuilding Less Reliability into Electric Power Grids Could
Marnay, Chris
IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON SMART GRID, VOL. 4, NO. 1, MARCH 2013 133 Reliable Wireless Communication Networks for
Networks for Demand Response Control Lei Zheng, Student Member, IEEE, Ning Lu, Senior Member, IEEE, and Lin performance of wireless communication networks to sup- port demand response (DR) control. First, the impact requirements of DR programs. Index Terms--Communications reliability, demand response, network topology, outage
Cai, Lin
Near real time vapor detection and enhancement using aerosol adsorption
A vapor sample detection method where the vapor sample contains vapor and ambient air and surrounding natural background particles. The vapor sample detection method includes the steps of generating a supply of aerosol that have a particular effective median particle size, mixing the aerosol with the vapor sample forming aerosol and adsorbed vapor suspended in an air stream, impacting the suspended aerosol and adsorbed vapor upon a reflecting element, alternatively directing infrared light to the impacted aerosol and adsorbed vapor, detecting and analyzing the alternatively directed infrared light in essentially real time using a spectrometer and a microcomputer and identifying the vapor sample.
Novick, Vincent J.; Johnson, Stanley A.
LHCb's Real-Time Alignment in Run2
Stable, precise spatial alignment and PID calibration are necessary to achieve optimal detector performances. During Run2, LHCb will have a new real-time detector alignment and calibration to reach equivalent performances in the online and offline reconstruction. This offers the opportunity to optimise the event selection by applying stronger constraints as well as hadronic particle identification at the trigger level. The required computing time constraints are met thanks to a new dedicated framework using the multi-core farm infrastructure for the trigger.
Batozskaya, Varvara
Real-time human collaboration monitoring and intervention
A method of and apparatus for monitoring and intervening in, in real time, a collaboration between a plurality of subjects comprising measuring indicia of physiological and cognitive states of each of the plurality of subjects, communicating the indicia to a monitoring computer system, with the monitoring computer system, comparing the indicia with one or more models of previous collaborative performance of one or more of the plurality of subjects, and with the monitoring computer system, employing the results of the comparison to communicate commands or suggestions to one or more of the plurality of subjects.
Merkle, Peter B. (Sandia Park, NM); Johnson, Curtis M. (Sandia Park, NM); Jones, Wendell B. (Albuquerque, NM); Yonas, Gerold (Albuquerque, NM); Doser, Adele B. (Albuquerque, NM); Warner, David J. (Rancho Santa Fe, CA)
A vapor sample detection method is described where the vapor sample contains vapor and ambient air and surrounding natural background particles. The vapor sample detection method includes the steps of generating a supply of aerosol that have a particular effective median particle size, mixing the aerosol with the vapor sample forming aerosol and adsorbed vapor suspended in an air stream, impacting the suspended aerosol and adsorbed vapor upon a reflecting element, alternatively directing infrared light to the impacted aerosol and adsorbed vapor, detecting and analyzing the alternatively directed infrared light in essentially real time using a spectrometer and a microcomputer and identifying the vapor sample. 13 figs.
Novick, V.J.; Johnson, S.A.
Novick, Vincent J. (Downers Grove, IL); Johnson, Stanley A. (Countryside, IL)
AFDC Printable Version Share this resource Send a link to EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page to someone by E-mail Share EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page on Facebook Tweet about EERE: Alternative Fuels Data Center Home Page on Twitter Bookmark EERE:1 First Use of Energy for All Purposes (Fuel and Nonfuel),Feet) Year Jan Feb Mar Apr May JunDatastreamsmmcrcalgovInstrumentsrucLas ConchasPassive Solar HomePromising Science for1PrincipalRare | NationalReal-Time Chemical
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Real Time Diagnostics for Algae-final-sm
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Real-Time Airborne Particle Analyzer - Energy Innovation Portal
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Aluminum alloys pose several properties that make them one of the most popular engineering materials: they have excellent corrosion resistance, and high weight-to-strength ratio. Resistance spot welding of aluminum alloys is widely used today but oxide film and aluminum thermal and electrical properties make spot welding a difficult task. Electrode degradation due to pitting, alloying and mushrooming decreases the weld quality and adjustment of parameters like current and force is required. To realize these adjustments and ensure weld quality, a tool to measure weld quality in real time is required. In this paper, a real time ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation system for aluminum spot welds is presented. The system is able to monitor nugget growth while the spot weld is being made. This is achieved by interpreting the echoes of an ultrasound transducer located in one of the welding electrodes. The transducer receives and transmits an ultrasound signal at different times during the welding cycle. Valuable information of the weld quality is embedded in this signal. The system is able to determine the weld nugget diameter by measuring the delays of the ultrasound signals received during the complete welding cycle. The article presents the system performance on aluminum alloy AA6022.
Regalado, W. Perez; Chertov, A. M.; Maev, R. Gr. [Institute for Diagnostic Imaging Research, Physics Department, University of Windsor, 292 Essex Hall, 401 Sunset Ave. N9B 3P4 Windsor, Ontario (Canada)
Real-time individualized training vectors for experiential learning.
Military training utilizing serious games or virtual worlds potentially generate data that can be mined to better understand how trainees learn in experiential exercises. Few data mining approaches for deployed military training games exist. Opportunities exist to collect and analyze these data, as well as to construct a full-history learner model. Outcomes discussed in the present document include results from a quasi-experimental research study on military game-based experiential learning, the deployment of an online game for training evidence collection, and results from a proof-of-concept pilot study on the development of individualized training vectors. This Lab Directed Research & Development (LDRD) project leveraged products within projects, such as Titan (Network Grand Challenge), Real-Time Feedback and Evaluation System, (America's Army Adaptive Thinking and Leadership, DARWARS Ambush! NK), and Dynamic Bayesian Networks to investigate whether machine learning capabilities could perform real-time, in-game similarity vectors of learner performance, toward adaptation of content delivery, and quantitative measurement of experiential learning.
Willis, Matt; Tucker, Eilish Marie; Raybourn, Elaine Marie; Glickman, Matthew R.; Fabian, Nathan
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Real-time neural network earthquake profile predictor
A neural network has been developed that uses first-arrival energy to predict the characteristics of impending earthquake seismograph signals. The propagation of ground motion energy through the earth is a highly nonlinear function. This is due to different forms of ground motion as well as to changes in the elastic properties of the media throughout the propagation path. The neural network is trained using seismogram data from earthquakes. Presented with a previously unseen earthquake, the neural network produces a profile of the complete earthquake signal using data from the first seconds of the signal. This offers a significant advance in the real-time monitoring, warning, and subsequent hazard minimization of catastrophic ground motion.
Leach, Richard R. (Castro Valley, CA); Dowla, Farid U. (Castro Valley, CA)
A neural network has been developed that uses first-arrival energy to predict the characteristics of impending earthquake seismograph signals. The propagation of ground motion energy through the earth is a highly nonlinear function. This is due to different forms of ground motion as well as to changes in the elastic properties of the media throughout the propagation path. The neural network is trained using seismogram data from earthquakes. Presented with a previously unseen earthquake, the neural network produces a profile of the complete earthquake signal using data from the first seconds of the signal. This offers a significant advance in the real-time monitoring, warning, and subsequent hazard minimization of catastrophic ground motion. 17 figs.
Leach, R.R.; Dowla, F.U.
Method and apparatus for real time weld monitoring
An improved method and apparatus are provided for real time weld monitoring. An infrared signature emitted by a hot weld surface during welding is detected and this signature is compared with an infrared signature emitted by the weld surface during steady state conditions. The result is correlated with weld penetration. The signal processing is simpler than for either UV or acoustic techniques. Changes in the weld process, such as changes in the transmitted laser beam power, quality or positioning of the laser beam, change the resulting weld surface features and temperature of the weld surface, thereby resulting in a change in the direction and amount of infrared emissions. This change in emissions is monitored by an IR sensitive detecting apparatus that is sensitive to the appropriate wavelength region for the hot weld surface.
Leong, Keng H. (Lemont, IL); Hunter, Boyd V. (Bolingbrook, IL)
ASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT OF REAL-TIME TRAVEL TIME ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN PRACTICE Final Report AND REFINEMENT OF REAL-TIME TRAVEL TIME ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN PRACTICE 5. Report Date June 2007 Final Report 6
Bertini, Robert L.
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and Information Sciences 69 An Open Environment for RealTime Applications Z. Deng Jane W.S. Liu L. Zhang S. Mouna A. Frei Summary: , and real-time application programming...
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there a source of help for setting up real time wind turbine data reporting ? Home I'd like our students to be able to see historical data as well as real time power generation at...
On the stability of wholesale electricity markets under real-time pricing
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Real-time monitoring of the TVA power system
This article describes how the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is experimenting with one of the many concepts for the uses of phasor measurements, that of utilizing phasor measurement units (PMUs) as a state estimation system. However, the term state estimation no longer applies; what is being performed is a state determination in near real-time. The PMU is a transducer that can measure voltage and current with very high accuracy. It has the ability to calculate watts, vars, frequency, and phase angle twelve times per power line cycle. The PMU can be placed in the power system so as to provide time-stamped voltage and current phasors that can be used as state variables. Input from other PMUs throughout the power system can be synchronized to within 1 microsecond via the Global Positioning System (GPS). These real-time state variables provided by the PMUs allow state estimation to be replaced by state determination. The PMUs monitoring the power system can also provide the necessary data to accurately depict events and disturbances. The PMU can be set to be triggered by an event or disturbance. A user-defined table of data, including pretrigger data, which is the sampled data for a specified interval, is stored in the PMU. The data from a single PMU can be retrieved and analyzed by popular data analysis packages to show the performance of control and protection equipment. The tables retrieved from a network of PMUs can be used to determine the system response to these events and disturbances.
Cease, T.W.; Feldhaus, B. (Univ. of Tennessee, Chattanooga, TN (United States))
Distributed Energy Consumption Control via Real-Time�Pricing Feedback in Smart Grid
on game- theoretic energy consumption scheduling for theK }). We denote the energy consumption of consumers as l kwhere l i k is the energy consumption of consumer i (i ? N )
Ma, Kai; Hu, Guoqiang; Spanos, Costas J
Real-time physics data-visualization system using Performer Chris Mitchella
techniques used both in the video-game industry and military flight simulators to achieve real-time frame
California at Los Angles, University of
Real-Time Building Energy Simulation Using EnergyPlus and the Building Controls Test Bed
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Real-Time Systems, 27, 97113, 2004 # 2004 Kluwer Academic Publishers. Manufactured in The Netherlands.
in The Netherlands. Diagnostics and Surveillance Methods in Nuclear Systems for Real-Time Applications I. PA�? ZSIT
Pázsit, Imre
Real-time POD-CFD Wind-Load Calculator for PV Systems
The primary objective of this project is to create an accurate web-based real-time wind-load calculator. This is of paramount importance for (1) the rapid and accurate assessments of the uplift and downforce loads on a PV mounting system, (2) identifying viable solutions from available mounting systems, and therefore helping reduce the cost of mounting hardware and installation. Wind loading calculations for structures are currently performed according to the American Society of Civil Engineers/ Structural Engineering Institute Standard ASCE/SEI 7; the values in this standard were calculated from simplified models that do not necessarily take into account relevant characteristics such as those from full 3D effects, end effects, turbulence generation and dissipation, as well as minor effects derived from shear forces on installation brackets and other accessories. This standard does not include provisions that address the special requirements of rooftop PV systems, and attempts to apply this standard may lead to significant design errors as wind loads are incorrectly estimated. Therefore, an accurate calculator would be of paramount importance for the preliminary assessments of the uplift and downforce loads on a PV mounting system, identifying viable solutions from available mounting systems, and therefore helping reduce the cost of the mounting system and installation. The challenge is that although a full-fledged three-dimensional computational fluid dynamics (CFD) analysis would properly and accurately capture the complete physical effects of air flow over PV systems, it would be impractical for this tool, which is intended to be a real-time web-based calculator. CFD routinely requires enormous computation times to arrive at solutions that can be deemed accurate and grid-independent even in powerful and massively parallel computer platforms. This work is expected not only to accelerate solar deployment nationwide, but also help reach the SunShot Initiative goals of reducing the total installed cost of solar energy systems by 75%. The largest percentage of the total installed cost of solar energy system is associated with balance of system cost, with up to 40% going to �soft� costs; which include customer acquisition, financing, contracting, permitting, interconnection, inspection, installation, performance, operations, and maintenance. The calculator that is being developed will provide wind loads in real-time for any solar system designs and suggest the proper installation configuration and hardware; and therefore, it is anticipated to reduce system design, installation and permitting costs.
Huayamave, Victor [Centecorp; Divo, Eduardo [Centecorp; Ceballos, Andres [Centecorp; Barriento, Carolina [Centecorp; Stephen, Barkaszi [FSEC; Hubert, Seigneur [FSEC
SIG Technology Review Summer 1994 57 Real-Time Navigation Using the Global Positioning System
SIG Technology Review · Summer 1994 57 Real-Time Navigation Using the Global Positioning System Real-Time Navigation Using the Global Positioning System Dan Simon and Hossny El-Sherief, TRW Ballistic Technology Review · Summer 1994 Real-Time Navigation Using the Global Positioning System introduces errors
Simon, Dan
Cost Optimal Operation of Thermal Energy Storage System with Real-Time Prices
Cost Optimal Operation of Thermal Energy Storage System with Real-Time Prices Toru Kashima, Member of the result [4]. The same can be said for time varying real-time prices. Real-time energy pricing is not yet such as chillers. Energy resources such as electricity or natural gas are bought from suppliers at certain prices
Real-time Lighting System for Large Group Interaction Joshua Randall
Real-time Lighting System for Large Group Interaction Joshua Randall Massachusetts Institute of Technology May 2002 Abstract Lighting systems have historically been controlled by an individual or small group of human operators working together in real-time. Applications for real-time lighting control
ASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT OF REAL- TIME TRAVEL TIME ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN PRACTICE (OTREC PHASE I) Final Report #12;#12;ASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT OF REAL-TIME TRAVEL TIME ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN PRACTICE ASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT OF REAL-TIME TRAVEL TIME ALGORITHMS FOR USE IN PRACTICE (OTREC PHASE 1) 5. Report
CARSystem: a distributed algorithm for efficient real-time vehicular traffic control
transfer between individual traffic control processes. Real-time information -obtained by tracking the density profiles that constitute demand at each intersection in real-time-is used by an on-line optimization algorithm to provide real-time adaptive...
Koothrappally, Joseph
On Utility Accrual Processor Scheduling with Wait-Free Synchronization for Embedded Real-Time Software
On Utility Accrual Processor Scheduling with Wait-Free Synchronization for Embedded Real-Time Software ABSTRACT We present the first wait-free utility accrual (UA) real-time scheduling algorithms for embedded real-time systems. UA scheduling algorithms allow application activities to be sub- ject to time/utility
1 ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF A REAL-TIME SIMULATOR ENGINE FOR A HYDRAULIC FORESTRY MACHINE firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract This work focuses on the development of a real-time training simulator engine for a forestry simulator, hydraulic dynamics, numerical stiffness, real-time, control system 1 Introduction Forestry
Papadopoulos, Evangelos
A (Smart) Real-time PMU-assisted Power Transfer Limitation Monitoring
A (Smart) Real-time PMU-assisted Power Transfer Limitation Monitoring and Enhancement System and Opportunities ATC Monitoring and Enhancement SystemsData issues · Real-time network model of 13,000-bus, 18168 braches · Real-time data · Verification of model and data #12;Model Validation & Correction Disturbance
Predicting Time-Delays under Real-Time Scheduling for Linear Model Predictive Control
Predicting Time-Delays under Real-Time Scheduling for Linear Model Predictive Control Zhenwu Shi prediction of time-delays caused by real-time scheduling. Then, a model predictive controller is designed, the interaction between real-time scheduling and control design has received interest in the literature
Zhang, Fumin
Control and Optimization Meet the Smart Power Grid - Scheduling of Power Demands for Optimal Energy Management
The smart power grid aims at harnessing information and communication technologies to enhance reliability and enforce sensible use of energy. Its realization is geared by the fundamental goal of effective management of demand load. In this work, we envision a scenario with real-time communication between the operator and consumers. The grid operator controller receives requests for power demands from consumers, with different power requirement, duration, and a deadline by which it is to be completed. The objective is to devise a power demand task scheduling policy that minimizes the grid operational cost over a time horizon. The operational cost is a convex function of instantaneous power consumption and reflects the fact that each additional unit of power needed to serve demands is more expensive as demand load increases.First, we study the off-line demand scheduling problem, where parameters are fixed and known. Next, we devise a stochastic model for the case when demands are generated continually and sched...
Koutsopoulos, Iordanis
Scheduling of Real-Time Embedded Systems under Reliability and Power Constraints
Alain Girault Hamoudi Kalla RTSE team, ENSEM POPART team, INRIA REDS team University Hassan II is defined as the probability that none of the system components will fail while processing. We present, produces a static multiprocessor schedule that optimizes three criteria: its length (crucial for real
lower WSR-88D maintenance costs, lower archive costs, increased reliability of data receipt at NCDC REAL TIME Tim Crum * NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Norman, Oklahoma Captain Dustin Evancho (USAF) and Christina Horvat NOAA/NEXRAD Radar Operations Center, Engineering Branch. Norman, Oklahoma Michael Istok
Droegemeier, Kelvin K.
A restructuring agenda for developing competitive retail electric markets that is based on a low-cost, real-time, smart-kilowatt-hour meter adapter
This paper proposes six agenda items that should expedite a politically smooth transition into a most efficient economically viable market-driven public power system. The agenda would introduce: the virtual marketplace for retail electric power, smart meters, smart meter readers, near-real-time load balancing and load apportionment, advanced supply and demand or commodity-style pricing, and reliability metering.
Chasek, N.E.
Forming rotated SAR images by real-time motion compensation.
Proper waveform parameter selection allows collecting Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) phase history data on a rotated grid in the Fourier Space of the scene being imaged. Subsequent image formation preserves the rotated geometry to allow SAR images to be formed at arbitrary rotation angles without the use of computationally expensive interpolation or resampling operations. This should be useful where control of image orientation is desired such as generating squinted stripmaps and VideoSAR applications, among others.
Doerry, Armin Walter
Real-time multi-mode neutron multiplicity counter
Embodiments are directed to a digital data acquisition method that collects data regarding nuclear fission at high rates and performs real-time preprocessing of large volumes of data into directly useable forms for use in a system that performs non-destructive assaying of nuclear material and assemblies for mass and multiplication of special nuclear material (SNM). Pulses from a multi-detector array are fed in parallel to individual inputs that are tied to individual bits in a digital word. Data is collected by loading a word at the individual bit level in parallel, to reduce the latency associated with current shift-register systems. The word is read at regular intervals, all bits simultaneously, with no manipulation. The word is passed to a number of storage locations for subsequent processing, thereby removing the front-end problem of pulse pileup. The word is used simultaneously in several internal processing schemes that assemble the data in a number of more directly useable forms. The detector includes a multi-mode counter that executes a number of different count algorithms in parallel to determine different attributes of the count data.
Rowland, Mark S; Alvarez, Raymond A
Real-time algorithm for robust coincidence search
In in-beam {gamma}-ray spectroscopy experiments, we often look for coincident detection events. Among every N events detected, coincidence search is naively of principal complexity O(N{sup 2}). When we limit the approximate width of the coincidence search window, the complexity can be reduced to O(N), permitting the implementation of the algorithm into real-time measurements, carried out indefinitely. We have built an algorithm to find simultaneous events between two detection channels. The algorithm was tested in an experiment where coincidences between X and {gamma} rays detected in two HPGe detectors were observed in the decay of {sup 61}Cu. Functioning of the algorithm was validated by comparing calculated experimental branching ratio for EC decay and theoretical calculation for 3 selected {gamma}-ray energies for {sup 61}Cu decay. Our research opened a question on the validity of the adopted value of total angular momentum of the 656 keV state (J{sup {pi}} = 1/2{sup -}) in {sup 61}Ni.
Petrovic, T.; Vencelj, M.; Lipoglavsek, M.; Gajevic, J.; Pelicon, P. [Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana, Slovenia and Cosylab d.d., Control System Laboratory, Teslova ulica 30, Ljubljana (Slovenia); Jozef Stefan Institute, Jamova cesta 39, Ljubljana (Slovenia)
Real-time Information, Uncertainty and Quantum Feedback Control
Feedback is the core concept in cybernetics and its effective use has made great success in but not limited to the fields of engineering, biology, and computer science. When feedback is used to quantum systems, two major types of feedback control protocols including coherent feedback control (CFC) and measurement-based feedback control (MFC) have been developed. In this paper, we compare the two types of quantum feedback control protocols by focusing on the real-time information used in the feedback loop and the capability in dealing with parameter uncertainty. An equivalent relationship is established between quantum CFC and non-selective quantum MFC in the form of operator-sum representation. Using several examples of quantum feedback control, we show that quantum MFC can theoretically achieve better performance than quantum CFC in stabilizing a quantum state and dealing with Hamiltonian parameter uncertainty. The results enrich understanding of the relative advantages between quantum MFC and quantum CFC, and can provide useful information in choosing suitable feedback protocols for quantum systems.
Bo Qi; Daoyi Dong; Chunlin Chen; Lijun Liu; Zairong Xi
Real-time optimization boosts capacity of Korean olefins plant
Real-time optimization (RTO) of Hyundai Petrochemical Co. Ltd.`s olefins complex at Daesan, South Korea, increased ethylene capacity 4% and revenues 12%, and decreased feedstock and energy usage 2.5%, with no changes in operating conditions. The project comprised RTO and advanced process control (APC) systems for the 350,000 metric ton/year (mty) ethylene plant. A similar system was implemented in the hydrotreating and benzene recovery sections of the plant`s pyrolysis-gasoline treating unit. Hyundai Petrochemical started up its olefins complex on Korea`s western seaboard in late 1991. The Daesan complex comprises 10 plants, including naphtha cracking, monomer, and polymer units. Additional support facilities include: industrial water treatment plants; electric generators; automatic storage systems; a jetty with capacity to berth 100,000 dwt and 10,000 dwt ships simultaneously; a research and development center. The plant`s capacity is 350,000 mty ethylene and 175,000 mty propylene, based on 7,200 operating hr/year. Since start-up, naphtha has been the primary feed, but the plant was designed with flexibility to process C{sub 3}/C{sub 4} (LPG) and gas oil feeds. This paper reviews the project management and decision making process along with the computerized control system design.
Yoon, S. [Hyundai Petrochemical Co. Ltd., Daesan (Korea, Republic of); Dasgupta, S.; Mijares, G. [M.W. Kellogg Co., Houston, TX (United States)
Suppressing qubit dephasing using real-time Hamiltonian estimation
Unwanted interaction between a quantum system and its fluctuating environment leads to decoherence and is the primary obstacle to establishing a scalable quantum information processing architecture. Strategies such as environmental and materials engineering, quantum error correction and dynamical decoupling can mitigate decoherence, but generally increase experimental complexity. Here we improve coherence in a qubit using real-time Hamiltonian parameter estimation. Using a rapidly converging Bayesian approach, we precisely measure the splitting in a singlet-triplet spin qubit faster than the surrounding nuclear bath fluctuates. We continuously adjust qubit control parameters based on this information, thereby improving the inhomogenously broadened coherence time ($T_{2}^{*}$) from tens of nanoseconds to above 2 $\\mu$s and demonstrating the effectiveness of Hamiltonian estimation in reducing the effects of correlated noise in quantum systems. Because the technique demonstrated here is compatible with arbitrary qubit operations, it is a natural complement to quantum error correction and can be used to improve the performance of a wide variety of qubits in both metrological and quantum-information-processing applications.
Michael D. Shulman; Shannon P. Harvey; John M. Nichol; Stephen D. Bartlett; Andrew C. Doherty; Vladimir Umansky; Amir Yacoby
Integration of Smart Home Data with Simulated Smart Grid
Integration of Smart Home Data with Simulated Smart Grid Introduction Data was generated using was simulated in the smart grid in RTDS. Objective Objective was to monitors or get real-time data about after getting the data. Objective is to model a dynamic load within simulated smart grid with live data
Collins, Gary S.
PNNL Data-Intensive Computing for a Smarter Energy Grid
The Middleware for Data-Intensive Computing (MeDICi) Integration Framework, an integrated platform to solve data analysis and processing needs, supports PNNL research on the U.S. electric power grid. MeDICi is enabling development of visualizations of grid operations and vulnerabilities, with goal of near real-time analysis to aid operators in preventing and mitigating grid failures.
Carol Imhoff; Zhenyu (Henry) Huang; Daniel Chavarria
Concept Paper for Real-Time Temperature and Water Quality Management for San Joaquin River Riparian Habitat Restoration
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Quinn, Nigel W.T.
Quasi real time in vivo dosimetry for VMAT
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Fidanzio, A.; Azario, L. [Istituto di Fisica, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy) [Istituto di Fisica, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome 00146 (Italy); Porcelli, A. [U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy)] [U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Greco, F. [U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy) [U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome 00146 (Italy); Cilla, S. [U.O di Fisica Sanitaria, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura Giovanni Paolo II, Campobasso 86100, Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome 00146 (Italy)] [U.O di Fisica Sanitaria, Fondazione di Ricerca e Cura Giovanni Paolo II, Campobasso 86100, Italy and Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome 00146 (Italy); Grusio, M. [Istituto di Fisica, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy)] [Istituto di Fisica, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Balducci, M.; Valentini, V. [U.O.C di Radioterapia, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy)] [U.O.C di Radioterapia, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Piermattei, A., E-mail: email@example.com [Istituto di Fisica, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); U.O.C di Fisica Sanitaria, Universit� Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Rome 00168 (Italy); Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (INFN), Sezione di Roma Tre, Rome 00168 (Italy)
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Mani, Seethambal S.; van Bloemen Waanders, Bart Gustaaf; Cooper, Scott Patrick; Jakaboski, Blake Elaine; Normann, Randy Allen; Jennings, Jim (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Gilbert, Bob (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Lake, Larry W. (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Weiss, Chester Joseph; Lorenz, John Clay; Elbring, Gregory Jay; Wheeler, Mary Fanett (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Thomas, Sunil G. (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Rightley, Michael J.; Rodriguez, Adolfo (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Klie, Hector (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Banchs, Rafael (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Nunez, Emilio J. (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX); Jablonowski, Chris (University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX)
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In Proceedings of RTSS'94: The 14th IEEE Real-Time System Symposium, San Juan, Puerto Rico, Dec 1994. Timeliness via Speculation for Real-Time Databases
. Pessimistic (PCC) protocols detect con icts as soon as they occur and resolve them using blocking. Optimistic (OCC) protocols detect con icts at transac- tion commit time and resolve them using rollbacks. For real-time databases, blockages and rollbacks are hazards that increase the likelihood of transactions missing
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Successful Real Time Pricing (RTP) Tieline Control Must Do More Than Save Money
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Revise CS 552: Distributed Systems to CS552: Distributed Real-Time Systems
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Closed-loop Real-time Control of a Novel Linear Magnetostrictive Actuator
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Energy Saving Measures of Heating Network - Computerized Real-time Control System
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A realistic method for real-time obstacle avoidance without the Calculation of Cspace
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Getting a Better Performing Building: Commissioning and Real Time Data Analysis
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Real-Time Distribution Feeder Performance Monitoring, Advisory Control, and Health Management System
New data collection system equipment was installed in Xcel Energy substations and data was collected from 6 substations and 20 feeders. During Phase I, ABB collected and analyzed 793 real-time events to date from 6 Xcel Energy substations and continues today. The development and integration of several applications was completed during the course of this project, including a model-based faulted segment identification algorithm, with very positive results validated with field-gathered data discussed and included in this report. For mostly underground feeders, the success rate is 90% and the overreach rate is 90%. For mostly overhead feeders, the success rate is 74% and the overreach rate is 50%. The developed method is producing very accurate results for mostly underground feeders. For mostly overhead feeders, due to the bad OMS data quality and varying fault resistance when arcing, the developed method is producing good results but with much room for improvement. One area where the algorithm can be improved is the accuracy for sub-cycle fault events. In these cases, the accuracy of the conventional signal processing methods suffers due to most of these methods being based on a one-cycle processing window. By improving the signal processing accuracy, the accuracy of the faulted segment identification algorithm will also improve significantly. ABB intends to devote research in this area in the near future to help solve this problem. Other new applications developed during the course of the project include volt/VAR monitoring, unbalanced capacitor switching detection, unbalanced feeder loading detection, and feeder overloading detection. An important aspect of the demonstration phase of the project is to show the ability to provide adequate �heads-up� time ahead of customer calls or AMI reports so that the operators are provided with the much needed time to collect information needed to address an outage. The advance notification feature of the demonstration system provides this time and helps accelerate service restoration ultimately. To demonstrate the effectiveness of this feature, a demo system using substation data alone was set up to compare the minutes saved over a period of 22 months for two feeders where the real-time notification system has been deployed. The metric used for performance assessment is the time difference between the actual outage time from the OMS versus the time the notification email was received on the operators desk. Over the period of 22 months, we have accumulated over 7600 minutes (32 hours) ahead of actual outage time compared to the OMS timestamps. The significance of this analysis is that it shows the potential to reduce the SAIDI minutes and directly impact utility performance in terms of outage duration. If deployed at scale, it would have a significant impact on system reliability. To put this number in perspective, it would be helpful to assign a dollar figure to the potential savings that could be realized. According to the host utility, the average cost for each customer-minute-out (CMO) is approximately $0.30 across the operating company. This includes both direct and indirect costs such as bad press. The outage data over the previous 4 years show that the average customer count on primary/tap level outages is about 56. Accordingly, the total minutes saved amounts to 425,600 CMOs on the average. This would in turn result in a potential cost savings figure of $127,680 for two feeders alone over the period of performance. This empirical evidence validates the strong value proposition of the project that was contemplated at the onset and its potential impact to reduce outage duration in support of DOE�s goal of 20%
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Real-time capable first principle based modelling of tokamak turbulent transport
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Real-time MSE measurements for current profile control on KSTAR
To step up from current day fusion experiments to power producing fusion reactors, it is necessary to control long pulse, burning plasmas. Stability and confinement properties of tokamak fusion reactors are determined by the current or q profile. In order to control the q profile, it is necessary to measure it in real-time. A real-time motional Stark effect diagnostic is being developed at Korean Superconducting Tokamak for Advanced Research for this purpose. This paper focuses on 3 topics important for real-time measurements: minimize the use of ad hoc parameters, minimize external influences and a robust and fast analysis algorithm. Specifically, we have looked into extracting the retardance of the photo-elastic modulators from the signal itself, minimizing the influence of overlapping beam spectra by optimizing the optical filter design and a multi-channel, multiharmonic phase locking algorithm.
De Bock, M. F. M.; Aussems, D.; Huijgen, R.; Scheffer, M. [Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven (Netherlands); Chung, J. [National Fusion Research Institute, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of)
Improved process control through real-time measurement of mineral content
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Turler, Daniel; Karaca, Murat; Davis, William B.; Giauque, Robert D.; Hopkins, Deborah
ARPA-E: Advancing the Electric Grid
The electric grid was designed with the assumption that all energy generation sources would be relatively controllable, and grid operators would always be able to predict when and where those sources would be located. With the addition of renewable energy sources like wind and solar, which can be installed faster than traditional generation technologies, this is no longer the case. Furthermore, the fact that renewable energy sources are imperfectly predictable means that the grid has to adapt in real-time to changing patterns of power flow. We need a dynamic grid that is far more flexible. This video highlights three ARPA-E-funded approaches to improving the grid's flexibility: topology control software from Boston University that optimizes power flow, gas tube switches from General Electric that provide efficient power conversion, and flow batteries from Harvard University that offer grid-scale energy storage.
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Real-time, single-step bioassay using nanoplasmonic resonator with ultra-high sensitivity
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A TMS320C30 based real time data acquisition system
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Divan, Deepak; Brumsickle, William; Eto, Joseph
On the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks Communications
On the Reliability of Wireless Sensor Networks Communications Alexandre Mouradian and Isabelle Aug applications, which must meet time and reliability requirements. Works on the real-time ca- pability of WSNs have been proposed [1]. In this paper we propose to study the achievable reliability of WSNs, tacking
Real Time Pricing as a Default or Optional Service for C&I Customers: A Comparative Analysis of Eight Case Studies
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IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON KNOWLEDGE AND DATA ENGINEERING 1 Estimating and Enhancing Real-Time Data
in a timely manner using fresh data reflecting the current market status or target positions [2]. In e--It is essential to process real-time data service requests such as stock quotes and trade transactions in a timely manner using fresh data, which represent the current real world phenomena such as the stock market status
Kang, Kyoung-Don
Nonlinear control for systems with bounded inputs: Real-time embedded control applied to UAVs
Nonlinear control for systems with bounded inputs: Real-time embedded control applied to UAVs Farid) UAVs including conventional helicopters, four- rotors aircraft (Draganflyer) and several designs for small aerial vehicles, some restrictions and conditions specific to small UAVs have to be considered
Sontag, Eduardo
Flight Testing a Real Time Implementation of a UAV Path Planner Using Direct Collocation
Flight Testing a Real Time Implementation of a UAV Path Planner Using Direct Collocation Brian R by tracking a second UAV flying a predefined pattern. Finally, a method of commanding the observation vector ^s UAV sensor line of sight unit vector p Attraction point u UAV Control vector xt Target state
Validation of the new real-time equilibrium code EQUINOX on JET and Tore Supra
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Faugeras, Blaise
A real-time hydrological model for flood prediction using GIS and the WWW
water distribution. The development of such a system would be particularly important outside of urban and spatial real-time, emergency decision support. Rather than discuss develop- ments in the modelling Computers, Environment and Urban Systems 27 (2003) 932 www.elsevier.com/locate/compenvurbsys 0198
Blackburn, Alan
Author's personal copy Applications and usage of the real-time Neutron Monitor Database q
in Astrophysics from Space (E), High-Energy Solar Particle Events Past, Present, Future/Joint Scientific Event UOULU, PL 3000, FIN-90014, Finland i Yerevan Physics Institute after A.I. Alikhanyan-ARAGATS, Alikhanyan in real-time mode. An important one will be the establishment of an Alert signal when dangerous solar
Usoskin, Ilya G.
The Potential of Energy Management and Control Systems for Real-Time Electricity Pricing Programs
provides an opportunity for the utility to implement this network by linking directly with equipment already in place: customer-owned energy management and control systems (EMCS). This paper assesses the potential use of EMCSs in utility real-time pricing...
Akbari, H.; Heinemeier, K. E.
Accurate Modeling and Prediction of Energy Availability in Energy Harvesting Real-Time Embedded Systems
Binghamton University, State University of New York Binghamton, New York, USA {jlu5, sliu5, qwu, qqiuAccurate Modeling and Prediction of Energy Availability in Energy Harvesting Real-Time firstname.lastname@example.com Abstract -- Energy availability is the primary subject that drives the research innovations in energy
Qiu, Qinru
Real-time processing of a long perimeter fiber optic intrusion system
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Snider, William Timothy
Energy Aware Non-preemptive Scheduling for Hard Real-Time Ravindra Jejurikar Rajesh K. Gupta
. . . . . . 11 4 Energy comparison of the static slowdown algorithms as a function of the task gain factor GfEnergy Aware Non-preemptive Scheduling for Hard Real-Time Systems Ravindra Jejurikar Rajesh K the ability to perform an energy-delay tradeoff in the computation and communications subsystems. Slowdown
Gupta, Rajesh
Effect of real-time electricity pricing on renewable generators and system emissions
Real-time retail pricing (RTP) of electricity, in which the retail price is allowed to vary with very little time delay in response to changes in the marginal cost of generation, offers expected short-run and long-run ...
Connolly, Jeremiah P. (Jeremiah Peter)
Real-time fracture monitoring in Engineered Geothermal Systems with seismic waves
As proposed, the main effort in this project is the development of software capable of performing real-time monitoring of micro-seismic activity recorded by an array of sensors deployed around an EGS. The main milestones are defined by the development of software to perform the following tasks: � Real-time micro-earthquake detection and location � Real-time detection of shear-wave splitting � Delayed-time inversion of shear-wave splitting These algorithms, which are discussed in detail in this report, make possible the automatic and real-time monitoring of subsurface fracture systems in geothermal fields from data collected by an array of seismic sensors. Shear wave splitting (SWS) is parameterized in terms of the polarization of the fast shear wave and the time delay between the fast and slow shear waves, which are automatically measured and stored. The measured parameters are then combined with previously measured SWS parameters at the same station and used to invert for the orientation (strike and dip) and intensity of cracks under that station. In addition, this grant allowed the collection of seismic data from several geothermal regions in the US (Coso) and Iceland (Hengill) to use in the development and testing of the software.
Jose A. Rial; Jonathan Lees
MSIP: A protocol for efficient handoffs of real-time multimedia sessions in mobile wireless scenarios
infrastructure is to efficiently manage user mobility. Mobility is handled by Mobile IP (at the network layer in this paper, MSIP, is a combination of network and application layer mobility management models reducesMSIP: A protocol for efficient handoffs of real-time multimedia sessions in mobile wireless
Iyer, Sridhar
A Library of SIMULINK Blocks for Real-Time Control of HEV Traction John Chiasson1
algorithms for the various types of motor drives considered for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs algorithms for the various types of motor drives considered for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs02FCC-30 A Library of SIMULINK Blocks for Real-Time Control of HEV Traction Drives John Chiasson1
Minimal Activity Mixed-Signal VLSI Architecture for Real-Time Linear Transforms in Video
-signal processor performs digital vector- matrix multiplication using internally analog fine-grain parallel multiplication, and zero- latency analog accumulation. Matrix coefficients are stored in a bit-parallel form. INTRODUCTION Real-time computing of linear transforms on a battery- powered mobile platform imposes great
Genov, Roman
A Simulation Tool for Real-time Systems using Environmental Energy Harvesting Maryline CHETTO
, the system operates in a so-called energy neutral mode by consuming only as much energy as harvested. The simulator enables to construct an optimal schedule for any task set, battery capacity and energy sourceA Simulation Tool for Real-time Systems using Environmental Energy Harvesting Maryline CHETTO
On the feasibility and utility of exploiting real time database search to improve adaptive peak selection
On the feasibility and utility of exploiting real time database search to improve adaptive peak and utility of incorporating analysis of previous fragmentation scans into the peak selection protocol. We, the most common peak selection strategy is based upon the notion of an exclusion list, which
Noble, William Stafford
U-Boot Standalone Application (Exports) API 18349 Embedded Real-Time Systems
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d Technical Note RING ARRAY TRANSDUCERS FOR REAL-TIME 3-D IMAGING OF AN ATRIAL
with a matching layer. Real-time 3-D rendered images of an en face view of a Gore Helex septal occluder in a water-Yakub and Oralkan 2011). Atrial septal defects (ASD) comprise up to 7% of total congenital heart lesions and as much as 25% of congenital heart disease in adults (Kaplan 1993). ASDs may go undetected for decades
Smith, Stephen
Real-Time Dynamic Brake Assessment Conduct a proof-of-concept
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ccsd-00001825,version2-19Oct2004 Development of Real Time Diagnostics and
of several plasma parameters. Both diagnostics and algorithms were successfully used in several experiments of Tokamak plasmas, the responsibility of the identification falls mainly on plasma diagnostics. In the ccsd-00001825,version2-19Oct2004 Development of Real Time Diagnostics and Feedback Algorithms
Field Test to Demonstrate Real-Time In-Situ Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds
1 Field Test to Demonstrate Real-Time In-Situ Detection of Volatile Organic Compounds Hazmat Spill Center, Nevada Test Site September 19-25, 2001 Clifford K. Ho Sandia National Laboratories Albuquerque-filled 55- gallon drum at the Hazmat Spill Center at the Nevada Test Site. Background and Objectives Tens
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REAL-TIME DISPATCHING OF GUIDED AND UNGUIDED AUTOMOBILE SERVICE UNITS WITH SOFT TIME WINDOWS SVEN O that are no worse than 1% from optimum on state-of-the-art personal computers. 1. INTRODUCTION The German Automobile Association ADAC (Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil- Club), the second largest automobile club worldwide
Krumke, Sven O.
A practical post-processing technique for real-time block-based coding system
1 A practical post-processing technique for real-time block-based coding system Yuk-Hee Chan, Sung to restore the images encoded with block-based compression standards such as JPEG. This method classi es with the reported post-processing methods. Keywords| I. Introduction THE Joint Photographic Experts Group JPEG im
Chan, Chris Y. H.
A Real-Time Decision Support System for High Cost Oil-Well Drilling Operations
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Aamodt, Agnar
Figure 1: ATA 42 antenna array at Hat Creek ********ADAPTIVE REAL TIME IMAGING FOR RADIO ASTRONOMY*******
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Militzer, Burkhard
Security-Aware Resource Allocation for Real-Time Parallel Jobs on Homogeneous
processing systems [2], med- ical electronics [9], aircraft control [1], and scientific parallel computing [6 a system framework, security overhead, and parallel applications with deadline and security constraintsSecurity-Aware Resource Allocation for Real-Time Parallel Jobs on Homogeneous and Heterogeneous
Qin, Xiao
Local Flaps: A Real-Time Finite Element Based Solution to the Plastic Surgery
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Liblit, Ben
The BEST Desktop Soft Real-Time Scheduler Scott A. Banachowski and Scott A. Brandt
The BEST Desktop Soft Real-Time Scheduler Scott A. Banachowski and Scott A. Brandt University of California, Santa Cruz E-mail: sbanacho,sbrandt¡ @cse.ucsc.edu Abstract Best-effort CPU scheduling- effort scheduler that handles CPU-intensive, I/O-intensive, and periodic SRT processes using a single
Miller, Ethan L.
results, i.e. priority boosts should be based on rate or deadline requirements. ¯ Increasing the loadThe BEST Desktop Soft Real-Time Scheduler Scott A. Banachowski and Scott A. Brandt University-effort scheduler that handles CPU-intensive, I/O-intensive, and periodic SRT processes using a single scheduling
Brandt, Scott A.
REAL-TIME DUAL-MICROPHONE SPEECH ENHANCEMENT USING FIELD PROGRAMMABLE GATE ARRAYS David Halupka@eecg}.toronto.edu ABSTRACT This paper discusses an implementation of a dual- microphone phase-based speech enhancement or irrelevant conversations, are present has fueled research interest in the areas of speech enhancement
Sheikholeslami, Ali
Multi-touchless: Real-Time Fingertip Detection and Tracking Using Geodesic Maxima
Multi-touchless: Real-Time Fingertip Detection and Tracking Using Geodesic Maxima Philip Krejov the geodesic maxima of the surface. Fingertips are then selected from these maxima using a simplified model that uses geodesic maxima instead of visual appearance which is both efficient to compute and robust to both
Bowden, Richard
REAL-TIME, WEB BASED ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A SOLAR ACADEMIC BUILDING John H. Scofield
Field Station incorporates passive solar cooling and active solar heating, maximizes ergonomicREAL-TIME, WEB BASED ENERGY MONITORING SYSTEM FOR A SOLAR ACADEMIC BUILDING John H. Scofield. The Leslie Shao-ming Sun Field Station is a 9,800 sf single- story building designed to help Jasper Ridge
Scofield, John H.
Compositionality in Real-Time Model Checking Jasper Berendsen and Frits Vaandrager
Compositionality in Real-Time Model Checking Jasper Berendsen and Frits Vaandrager Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen Laquso Lunch Colloquium, 8 november 2007 Jasper Berendsen and Vaandrager Compositionality Modules, etc, CCS, I/O automata, ACP, mCRL2, etc Lamport: "In reality there are only states" Jasper
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THE "AIR WORM": AN INTERFACE FOR REAL-TIME MANIPULATION OF EXPRESSIVE MUSIC PERFORMANCE Simon Dixon of Computational Perception Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria ABSTRACT Expressive performance file. Several modes of operation are possible: the "Air Worm" builds on previous work in performance vi
Widmer, Gerhard
RNA Degradation in Cell Extracts: Real-Time Monitoring by Fluorescence Resonance Energy Transfer (FRET)
S1 RNA Degradation in Cell Extracts: Real-Time Monitoring by Fluorescence Resonance Energy TransferM PMSF; we found the pH after dialysis to be 7.6. UV Melting Curves: 1 µM unlabeled or doubly fluorophore wavelength for a UV melting experiment, and the signal at 320 nm was subtracted as background. Temperatures
Walter, Nils G.
Real-time feedback-controlled robotic fish for behavioral experiments with fish schools
1 Real-time feedback-controlled robotic fish for behavioral experiments with fish schools Daniel T- gations of collective animal behavior. In the case of fish schooling, new insights into processes such as collective decision making and leadership have been made in recent experiments in which live fish were
Leonard, Naomi
A Real-Time Navigation Architecture for Automated Vehicles in Urban Environments
A Real-Time Navigation Architecture for Automated Vehicles in Urban Environments Gang Chen presents a novel navigation architec- ture for automated car-like vehicles in urban environments. Motion with fully automated driving capabilities. A fleet of such vehicles would form a managed transportation
Using Transient Electrical Measurements for Real-Time Monitoring of Battery State-of-Charge
system. I. INTRODUCTION Future energy-storage systems are likely to use lithium- ion batteries because regulate efficiency and power availability in battery-based systems, it is important to have a robust realUsing Transient Electrical Measurements for Real-Time Monitoring of Battery State
Nasipuri, Asis
Integrating Preemption Threshold Scheduling and Dynamic Voltage Scaling for Energy Efficient Real-Time
scheduling (PTS) enables designing scalable real-time systems. PTS not only decreases the run-time overhead by the Earliest Dead- line First (EDF) policy. We present an algorithm to compute threshold preemption levels- tion is an important aspect of embedded systems design. Generally speaking, the pro- cessor consumes
Utility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling with Probabilistically Assured Timeliness Performance
is a generalization of the classical dead- line constraint, specifies the utility of completing an ap- plicationUtility Accrual Real-Time Scheduling with Probabilistically Assured Timeliness Performance Peng Li Jensen The MITRE Corporation Bedford, MA 01730, USA email@example.com Abstract We present time/utility
A Database Architecture For Real-Time Motion Retrieval Charly Awad, Nicolas Courty and Sylvie Gibet
A Database Architecture For Real-Time Motion Retrieval Charly Awad, Nicolas Courty and Sylvie Gibet, leading to an ex- ponential growth of the size of motion databases. Conse- quently indexing, querying, and retrieving motion capture data have become important considerations in the usability of such databases. Our
Energy Aware Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Selection for Real-Time Systems with Energy Harvesting
Energy Aware Dynamic Voltage and Frequency Selection for Real-Time Systems with Energy email@example.com Abstract In this paper, an energy aware dynamic voltage and frequency selection (EA-DVFS) algorithm energy and the harvested energy in a future duration. Specifically, if the system has sufficient energy
Performance Evaluation of Real-Time Scheduling Heuristics for Energy Harvesting Systems
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Scheduling with Quality of Service requirements in Real-Time Energy Harvesting sensors
Scheduling with Quality of Service requirements in Real-Time Energy Harvesting sensors Maissa by energy harvesters. We address this issue by proposing two energy-aware scheduling algorithmsS) measured in terms of deadline success ratio. Index Terms--embedded systems; energy harvesting schedu- ling
Real-Time Character Animation for Computer Games Eike F Anderson
three-dimensional game characters which are real-time animated inside the virtual environment-time character animation. 2 RELATED WORK Both, memory and processing power, are expensive. More realism in games, by recursively traversing the hierarchic data structure starting from the root, passing down the transformation
Davies, Christopher
Development of an actuated traffic control process utilizing real-time estimated volume feedbback
state of the system in the same units. The goal of this research was to develop an actuated traffic control process that could use estimated volumes in order to optimally operate the traffic signal in real- time in response to actual traffic demands...
Pacelli, Michael Joseph
COMPUTER-VIDEO METHOD EVALUATES REAL MOTION DATA IN REAL TIME FOR STUDENTS Roman Dengler, Karl dimension. These devices, however, are·normally limited to one dimension. The video camera, on the other of information recorded by the video camera into useable, digital information. For this purpose, we devised
Zollman, Dean
Real-time MRI-Guided Needle Placement Robot with Integrated Fiber Optic Force Sensing
the robot mechanism, controller design, optical modeling and opto-mechanical design of the force sensor. MRI Control Box Needle Driver Module Cartesian Stage Module Piezoelectric Actuators Robot Fig. 1. (LeftReal-time MRI-Guided Needle Placement Robot with Integrated Fiber Optic Force Sensing Hao Su
Camesano, Terri
is closed around desired robot chassis position to generate cartesian feedback forces. A convex optimization primarily on the planning problem. This paper focuses on the design of a control system. The target robotCONTROL OF A CLIMBING ROBOT USING REAL-TIME CONVEX OPTIMIZATION Teresa G. Miller Timothy W. Bretl
Ma, Yi
Real-Time Load Elasticity Tracking and Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging
owners may also benefit from lower energy cost in the face of spiking gasoline prices. Although1 Real-Time Load Elasticity Tracking and Pricing for Electric Vehicle Charging Nasim Yahya Soltani price intelligently for individual customers to elicit desirable load curves. In this context
Giannakis, Georgios
Preliminary study of detecting neoplastic growths in vivo with real time calibrated
Preliminary study of detecting neoplastic growths in vivo with real time calibrated University of Science and Technology, Clear Water Bay, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China email@example.com Tak of Hong Kong, Prince of Wales Hospital, Shatin, N.T., Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China Abstract: The goal
Qu, Jianan
Flow visualization of molten alloys using real-time neutron radiography
The objective of this research is to visualize the flow of molten alloys using real-time neutron radiography. Initial experiments were performed using solder (50% tin, 50% lead), with nickel tracer particles, heated in a furnace to its liquid state...
Bennett, Tami Norene
EcoMobile: Energy-aware Real-time Framework for Multicore Mobile Systems1
EcoMobile: Energy-aware Real-time Framework for Multicore Mobile Systems1 B. Liu, Y. Wen, F. Liu, Y://www.cs.uh.edu Technical Report Number UH-CS-11-09 October 23, 2011 Keywords: mobile system, energy-aware, real plan to build an energy-aware framework for multicore mobile systems which extends Android with two
Cheng, Albert M. K.
Real-Time Scheduling of Energy Harvesting Embedded Systems with Timed Automata
, in addition to traditional embedded system components, by an energy collector unit (eg a solar panel implants which collect energy from the human body, mobile or fix devices with solar panel or windmill etc) and by an energy storage unit (a battery or a capacitor). One common hypothesis in real-time system theory
A Mixed Model for Real-Time, Interactive Simulation of a Cable Passing Through Several Pulleys
A model of a cable and pulleys is presented that can be used in Real Time Computer Graphics applications. The model is formulated by the coupling of a damped spring and a variable coefficient wave equation, and can be integrated in more complex mechanical models of lift systems, such as cranes, elevators, etc. with a high degree of interactivity.
Garcia-Fernandez, Ignacio; Pla-Castells, Marta; Martinez-Dura, Rafael J. [Instituto de Robotica. Universidad de Valencia (Spain)
Adaptive Connection Admission Control for Mission Critical Real-Time Communication Networks
admission control in real-time communication networks. Much of the existing work on connection admission in resource availability. We take an innovative approach: First, we allow an application to specify QoS over include supervisory command and control of defense systems, manufacturing plants, etc. The success
Bettati, Riccardo
in real-time communication networks. Much of the existing work on connection admission control (CAC availability. We take an innovative approach: First, we allow an application to specify QoS in a range, rather include supervisory command and control of defense systems, manufacturing plants, etc. The success
Sahoo, Anirudha
Analysis of Competitive Electricity Markets under a New Model of Real-Time Retail Pricing with
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A Brain-to-Brain Interface for Real-Time Sharing of Sensorimotor Information
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Indiana University
of unpredictable power need and supply situations. We model a representative scenario to explain variousDECENTRALIZED REAL-TIME MANAGEMENT OF LARGELY UNPREDICTABLE POWER NEEDS AND SUPPLY H. F. Wedde*, F technologies based on solar or wind power, or on renewable energy sources, is an adequate management
Framework of Real-Time Optical Nyquist-WDM Receiver using Matlab & Simulink
________________________________ Dr. Erik Perrins Date Defended: June 3, 2013 2 The Thesis Committee for Adam Crifasi certifies that this is the approved version of the following thesis: Framework of Real-Time Optical Nyquist-WDM Receiver using Matlab... & Simulink ________________________________ Chairperson Dr. Rongqing Hui Date approved: June 3, 2013 3 I investigate an optical Nyquist-WDM Bit Error Rate (BER) detection system. A transmitter...
Crifasi, Adam Vincenzo
Real-time Rendering of Complex Vector Data on 3d Terrain Models
Real-time Rendering of Complex Vector Data on 3d Terrain Models M. Schneider, M. Guthe, and R of buildings, streets and runway (from left to right). Abstract. In this paper we present a hybrid technique model. The first part of this hybrid technique is a texture-based approach that is especially suited
Behnke, Sven
Real-Time BRDF Editing in Complex Lighting Aner Ben-Artzi
geometry and lighting, and we render the BRDFs using their final placement within a scene using complexReal-Time BRDF Editing in Complex Lighting Aner Ben-Artzi Columbia University Ryan Overbeck, complex illumination. All-frequency effects (ranging from near-mirror reflections and hard shadows
Real-time Scheduling of periodic tasks in a monoprocessor system with rechargeable energy storage
Real-time Scheduling of periodic tasks in a monoprocessor system with rechargeable energy storage-time computing system that is powered through a renewable energy storage device. In this context, two constraints for the properties of the energy source, capacity of the energy storage as well as energy consumption of the tasks
Developing a Real-Time Identify-and-Locate System for the Blind
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Mauve: a Component-based Modeling Framework for Real-time Analysis of Robotic Applications
Mauve: a Component-based Modeling Framework for Real-time Analysis of Robotic Applications Charles paradigm for robotic software devel- opment [2], applied in many applications [3], [4], [5], [6]. Resulting validation of the robotic application, by directly analysing the architecture specification, and limiting
A Framework for Integrating real-time MRI with Robot Control: Application to Simulated
1 A Framework for Integrating real-time MRI with Robot Control: Application to Simulated applications in urology [2], cardiac ablation with fluoroscopy guided Sensei robotic catheter system (Hansen interventional paradigms including image-guided robot assistance. Most often the use of an intraoperative imaging
Azevedo, Ricardo
Compact real-time 2-D gradient-based analog VLSI motion sensor
the sensor might be favourably applied in industrial applications. Keywords: analog VLSI, motion sensor selectivity even for very low contrast input is demonstrated. As application it is shown how the pixel, smart vision sensor, parallel image processing, real-time computation, optical ow, machine vision, robot
Deutschmann, Rainer
Design of a Host Traffic Management system for Hard Real Time networks
A Hard Real Time (HRT) system is one whose correct functioning is based on the concepts of timely and correct delivery. By timely delivery, we imply that if a message is dispatched by a sender application it should be delivered at a receiver...
Krishna Moorthy, Jayasankar
This paper describes work in progress toward an urban-scale system aiming to reduce energy use in neighboring buildings by providing three components: a database for accessing past and present weather data from high quality weather stations; a network for communicating energy-saving strategies between building owners; and a set of modeling tools for real-time building energy simulation.
Pang, Xiufeng; Hong, Tianzhen; Piette, Mary Ann
Title of Thesis: HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS
: Paul Kohout Degree and year: Master of Science, 2002 Thesis directed by: Professor Bruce L. Jacob bottlenecks. #12;HARDWARE SUPPORT FOR REAL-TIME OPERATING SYSTEMS by Paul James Kohout Thesis submitted Professor Gang Qu Professor David B. Stewart #12;©Copyright by Paul James Kohout 2002 #12;ii
Jacob, Bruce
PulsewidthModulationBased on Real-TimeSolution of Algebraic Harmonic EliminationEquations
. Grotstollen Institute for Power Electronics and Electrical Drives,University of Paderbom, Warburger Str. 100 -Determinationof pulse patterns for the eliminationof some low-order harmonics of a PWM inverter necessitates-consumingwhen the equationsare to be solvedin real-time,even when a digitalsignal processor (DSP)is used [14]. A new systemof
Paderborn, Universität
Real-Time Wind Turbine Emulator Suitable for Power Quality and Dynamic Control Studies
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Lehn, Peter W.
Utility Driven Optimization of Real Time Data Broadcast Schedules Rinku Dewria,
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Ray, Indrakshi
EDF Option for Scheduling Real-Time Jobs in Energy Harvesting Systems
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Chen, Sheng-Wei
Generating audio-responsive video images in real-time for a live symphony performance
instruments to cutting-edge video image productions for musical groups of all sizes. Throughout this evolution, a common goal has been to create real-time, audio-responsive visuals that accentuate the sound and enhance the performance. This paper explains...
Beane, Allison Brooke
Real-Time Detection of Packet Drop Attacks on Synchrophasor Data
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Modeling FullEnvelope Aerodynamics of Small UAVs in RealTime Prof. Michael Selig
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/analyzed the incident reflected waves to identify and measure the total transit time of the sound wave (of known wave-speed1 FLUORESCENCE AND FIBER-OPTICS BASED REAL-TIME THICKNESS SENSOR FOR DYNAMIC LIQUID FILMS T. W. Ng/disadvantages of many known liquid film thickness sensing devices (viz. conductivity probes, reflectance based fiber
Narain, Amitabh
-critical systems (such as nuclear power plants, distributed cooperation of autonomous robots in Outer Space that are typi- cally unpredictable, a very high amount of adaptability of sys- tem functions is demanded. SafetyDISTRIBUTED REAL-TIME TASK MONITORING IN THE SAFETY-CRITICAL SYSTEM MELODY Horst F. Wedde, Jon A
On-chip real-time single-copy polymerase chain reaction in picoliter droplets
The first lab-on-chip system for picoliter droplet generation and PCR amplification with real-time fluorescence detection has performed PCR in isolated droplets at volumes 10{sup 6} smaller than commercial real-time PCR systems. The system utilized a shearing T-junction in a silicon device to generate a stream of monodisperse picoliter droplets that were isolated from the microfluidic channel walls and each other by the oil phase carrier. An off-chip valving system stopped the droplets on-chip, allowing them to be thermal cycled through the PCR protocol without droplet motion. With this system a 10-pL droplet, encapsulating less than one copy of viral genomic DNA through Poisson statistics, showed real-time PCR amplification curves with a cycle threshold of {approx}18, twenty cycles earlier than commercial instruments. This combination of the established real-time PCR assay with digital microfluidics is ideal for isolating single-copy nucleic acids in a complex environment.
Beer, N R; Hindson, B; Wheeler, E; Hall, S B; Rose, K A; Kennedy, I; Colston, B
Spectrum sensing improvement in cognitive radio networks for real-time patients monitoring
Spectrum sensing improvement in cognitive radio networks for real-time patients monitoring Dramane-bands to perform their transmission any- time and anywhere. Cognitive radio, although appropriate technology. Key words: Cognitive radio networks, e-health, patients monitoring, connectivity, Grey Model, Machine
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California at Berkeley. University of
Optimal Residential Load Control with Price Prediction in Real-Time
for both end users and utility companies. Keywords: Wholesale electricity market, real-time pricing, inclin and automatic residential energy con- sumption scheduling framework which attempts to achieve a desired trade to be used by the price predictor filter. Simulation results show that the combination of the proposed energy
Real time MHD mode control using ECCD in KSTAR: Plan and requirements
For a high-performance, advanced tokamak mode in KSTAR, we have been developing a real-time control system of MHD modes such as sawtooth and Neo-classical Tearing Mode (NTM) by ECH/ECCD. The active feedback control loop will be also added to the mirror position and the real-time detection of the mode position. In this year, for the stabilization of NTM that is crucial to plasma performance we have implemented open-loop ECH antenna control system in KSTAR Plasma Control System (PCS) for ECH mirror movement during a single plasma discharge. KSTAR 170 GHz ECH launcher which was designed and fabricated by collaboration with PPPL and POSTECH has a final mirror of a poloidally and toroidally steerable mirror. The poloidal steering motion is only controlled in the real-time NTM control system and its maximum steering speed is 10 degree/sec by DC motor. However, the latency of the mirror control system and the return period of ECH antenna mirror angle are not fast because the existing launcher mirror control system is based on PLC which is connected to the KSTAR machine network through serial to LAN converter. In this paper, we present the design of real time NTM control system, ECH requirements, and the upgrade plan.
Joung, M.; Woo, M. H.; Jeong, J. H.; Hahn, S. H.; Yun, S. W.; Lee, W. R.; Bae, Y. S.; Oh, Y. K.; Kwak, J. G.; Yang, H. L. [National Fusion Research Institute, 52 Eoeun-dong, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon (Korea, Republic of); Namkung, W.; Park, H.; Cho, M. H. [Department of Physics, POSTECH, Hyoja-dong, Nam-gu, Pohang, Gyeongangbuk-do (Korea, Republic of); Kim, M. H.; Kim, K. J.; Na, Y. S. [Department of Nuclear Engineering, Seoul National University, Daehak-dong, Gwanak-gu, Seoul (Korea, Republic of); Hosea, J.; Ellis, R. [Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory, Princeton (United States)
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