Controller

La RAFI SRL è orgogliosa di presentare la nuova partnership con DeLUMO. DeLUMO, situata a Mosca, realizza interruttori e controller per illuminazione a led e per l'automazione domotica, efficienti e accattivanti nelle forme.

OMRON ha annunciato la disponibilità di nuovi modelli EtherCAT nella serie di robot i4L SCARA. I robot i4L offrono ora prestazioni ancora più elevate con il più basso costo totale di gestione. Il Robotic Controller Integrato consente applicazioni multirobot sincronizzate con i modelli EtherCAT.

Gefran presenta i controllori di potenza GRM-H con diagnostica integrata, basati sulla piattaforma scalabile GRx, dedicati al controllo dei carichi resistivi nel riscaldamento industriale. Connotano la soluzione, un design ultracompatto e l'interfaccia IO-Link, che garantisce funzionalità avanzate in ottica Industry 4.0.

Programmable Logic Controller

Per rispondere alle esigenze di velocità, funzionalità, isolamento e prestazioni nell'automazione industriale, domotica, sistemi energetici e reti in campo militare/aerospaziale, Analog Devices, Inc. annuncia l'ampliamento della propria gamma di transceiver per controller area network con data-rate flessibile (CAN FD). Gli IC della serie ADM3055E, isolata galvanicamente con “iCoupler® digital isolation”, �, non solo rispettano, ma superano ampiamente lo standard industriale di 5 Mbps, offrendo prestazioni da 12 Mbps per supportare le esigenze future, pur rimanendo completamente compatibili con i progetti esistenti basati su CAN e CAN FD.

I data-byte (small data) riguardanti informazioni di performance vengono raccolti dalle stazioni di test delle linee di produzione Intel • Il processo di acquisizione e time stamping viene eseguito dal software CIMSNIPER eseguito su C Language Controller con funzione di concentratore di dati e gateway IoT – Gli “small data” sono acquisiti in modo diretto e indiretto tramite rete CC-Link IE a 1G bit/s • I dati raccolti vengono passati via interfaccia SECS al centro elaborazione dati dove vengono analizzati con software Revolution R e salvati sul cloud locale tramite MES

(in lingua inglese) The use of a robotics simulator for development of a robotics control program is highly recommended regardless of whether an actual robot is available or not. Because of this, a kinematic and dynamic model of a redundant robot with five degrees of freedom using the methods of Denavit–Hartenberg and Lagrange–Euler, respectively, was developed. Six controllers were made hyperbolic sine–cosine; computed torque; sliding hyperbolic mode; control with learning; and adaptive. A simulator was made using the MatLab/Simulink software. The tests of the manipulator model were presented, including the dynamics of the actuators and together with each controller, by following a test trajectory composed of a spiral in the Cartesian space.

(in lingua inglese) An AFTC strategy based on model following technique has been proposed in this study for civil aircraft longitudinal control after some elevators fail. By introducing the performance improvement coefficient, AFTC can provide the appropriate controller under elevator faults to achieve the good performance. Implementing the control strategy on B747, the control law is able to track step command preciously without the steady-error. When less two elevators fail, there is no obvious difference whether to utilize the THS in FTCS or not with the increment of amplitude of step command.

(in lingua inglese) This study presents the design and performance evaluation of Differential Evolution (DE) optimized Proportional-Integral (PI) controller for Automatic Generation Control (AGC) of an interconnected power system. For the optimization of controller parameters using modern heuristic optimizations techniques, selection of suitable objective function is very important. In view of the above, different objective functions using Time multiply Absolute Error (ITAE), damping ratio of dominant eigenvalues and settling time with appropriate weight coefficients are employed to increase the performance of the controller.

(in lingua inglese) This paper proposed a new solution for the problem of trajectory control of robotic manipulators when applied for robotic physiotherapy application. A new neuro-fuzzy inverse dynamics network was developed using input/output data sampled from the robot during free motion under conventional controller. This neuro-fuzzy network forms the feed-forward controller for the proposed control system.

(in lingua inglese) In this study, the DPFC as new FACTS device that to can regulate line active and reactive power flow of the transmission line and provide enough damping to system oscillation modes. The initiatives of the presented work are given as follows: the mathematical analysis and current injection modeling of a new FACTS device based on distributed power flow controller are presented. A novel current injection model of the DPFC for studying on the low frequency oscillations is proposed for the first time.

(in lingua inglese) he wear of the disc/pads has a high degree of nonlinearity that makes any system unable to control without directly addressing it. In addition, successive braking yields to increase the temperature and consequently the brake fading will increase the stopping distance and wear of the brake pads and disc. Thus, a wear model is built to provide on-line information about the wear and its variation with system parameters. Then, it was challenging for a traditional controller to reduce the wear and achieve the main goal of the ABS system concerning the safety represented by the stopping distance in addition to accepted loss-level of performance.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, an FOPID controller was proposed for LFC in a three-area power system. The parameters of controllers were tuned using ICA. Simulation of comparative cases confirmed that the proposed controller had better performance in LFC of the interconnected power system. Responses of the power system to disturbances were much smoother and less oscillatory using the proposed controllers. In most cases, the settling time and maximum deviation of power system responses diminished when FOPID controllers were implemented.

(in lingua inglese) The main contribution of this work is to present an approach of real time fuzzy logic controller for DC motor using VHDL description and FPGA technology. FLC based on FPGA has some advantages such as flexible design (the membership functions and rule base can be easily changed), feature accuracy, high reliability, cost improvement, and high speed. The performance of the FLC is compared with the PI controller for reference speed and load changes.

(in lingua inglese) In this work, a comparison study of using PSO and BFO methods for the tuning of PID controller for speed control of a BLDC motor. Obtained through simulation of BLDC motor, the simulation results show that the proposed controller can perform an efficient search for the optimal gains of PID controller. By comparing between PSO method and BF technique, it shows that PSO method can improve the dynamic performance of the system in a better way.

(in lingua inglese) An attempt has been made for the first time to apply a powerful computational intelligence technique like GSA to optimize PI and PIDF controller parameters for AGC of a multiarea interconnected power system. Firstly, the system without any physical constraint is optimized using conventional objective functions. It is observed the performance of the power system is better in terms of minimum damping ratio, settling times and peak overshoots in frequency and tie-line power deviations when ITAE objective function is used compared to IAE, ISTE and ISE objective functions.

(in lingua inglese) This paper presented the speed control for DC motor drive based on the FPGA technology. The speed control based on an FPGA and the two embedded controllers are implemented by using VHDL code software and Spartan-3E FPGA starter kit Board hardware. It is designed to realize the aforementioned control algorithms for ensuring high performance. Therefore, all functionalities, which are based on software/ hardware co-design, required to build a fully digital speed control for DC motor drive, have been integrated in one FPGA chip.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper Genetic Algorithm (GA) and Differential Evolution (DE) approach are used for the optimal allocation and setting of FACTS devices along with reactive generation of generators and transformer tap positions. Two cases are considered for the optimal location and types of FACTS devices. In the first case, TCSC as a series controller and SVC as a shunt FACTS controller is used along with the existing power system variables for obtaining economic operation of the power system.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, a Differential Evolution (DE) algorithm optimized fuzzy PID controller has been proposed for Automatic Generation Control (AGC) of multi-area multi-units power systems. Initially a multi-area multi-units power system with the considerations of physical constraints such as GRC and time delays is considered and the superiority of DE over GA is demonstrated. A linear incremental model for a TCSC has also been developed which is suitable for AGC applications.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, the dynamic model of UPFC, which consist of two shunt converters and a series capacitor, has been obtained. Simulation results operated by MATLAB/SIMULINK show that response of system without using the controller is unstable. For dynamic stability improvement, lead-lag controller has been used. SVD has been employed to evaluate the EM mode controllability to PSS and the four UPFC control signals. It has been shown that the EM mode is most strongly controlled via dB for a wide range of loading conditions. Classical and intelligent techniques have been used to enhance the dynamic stability.

(in lingua inglese) An attempt has been made for the first time to apply a hybrid Firefly Algorithm (FA) and Pattern Search (PS) technique to design a SSSC based power oscillation damping controller. The input signal to the SSSC-based controller is derived from the locally measurable line active power. The design problem is formulated as an optimization problem and h-FAPS technique is employed to optimize the controller parameters. The effectiveness of the proposed SSSC controller in improving the power system stability is demonstrated for both single machine infinite bus and two-area four-machine power systems under various severe disturbances.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, an investigation is done for the load-tracking performance of an autonomous power system model. The proposed autonomous power system model exhibits an excellent dynamic performance with truly optimized different controller gains. It is also presented that the DEG plays a significant role in maintaining the terminal voltage variations along with the optimized controller gains of the studied power system model. The main tunable parameters of the investigated model are optimized by a novel OGSA. The potential benefits yielded by the proposed algorithm are compared to other state-ofthe-art algorithms surfaced in the recent literature. A timedomain simulation of the studied autonomous model is carried out under different kinds of input perturbations.

(in lingua inglese) The proposed regression technique is used for tuning the fractional order time delay system with PID controller. In the regression technique, fractional order system output parameters were utilized to derive the time delay system response in the form of the regression function. Then, the best weights were selected by an iterative algorithm for fitting the best system response.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper HVDC is implemented in transmission line regards to oscillation damping beside other advantages of it. ICA approach is used to find optimum gains of designed controller. To validate the effectiveness of presented approach, dynamic response of rotor speed and rotor angle deviation considering several scenarios with different loading conditions and with different disturbances occurred in power system are studied. The obtained results are compared with CPSS and GA-based HVDC controller and the comparison validates that the presented method is more efficient in oscillation damping context.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, a novel fuzzy PID with derivative filter controller has been proposed for Load Frequency Control (LFC) of an interconnected power system with multi-source power generation in deregulated environment. The study has been conducted on a two area six unit power systems interconnected via parallel AC/DC transmission links. Physical constraints such as Time Delay (TD) and Generation Rate Constrain ) are considered in the system model in order to make the system more realistic and demonstrate the ability of the proposed approach to handle nonlinearity in the system model.

(in lingua inglese) In this paper, an attempt has been made for the first time to apply a hybrid Differential Evolution (DE) and Pattern Search (PS) optimized Modified Integral Derivative (MID) controller for load frequency control of multi-area multisource power system in deregulated environment. The Boiler dynamics, Generation Rate Constraint (GRC) and Governor Dead Band (GDB) have been considered to have a more realistic power system. The system has been investigated all possible of power transactions that take place under deregulated environment. The proposed hybrid technique takes advantage of global exploration capabilities of DE and local exploitation capability of PS.

(in lingua inglese) The work aims to optimize the controller gains of DFIG and AGC simultaneously in a coordinated manner. The fast response capability associated with electronically controlled PD control loop of DFIG based WECS is utilized to improve the transient performance of frequency regulation of power system. Integrated with thermal systems, a coordinated tuning of the PD controllers along with those of integral controllers of AGC in a two area is found to be beneficial. The tuning of controller parameters is carried out using a multi-objective optimization to find the set of controllers whose performance show non domination and improve many performance indices without deteriorating others.

(in lingua inglese) The practicability of connecting the backup energy system to the UPFC is considered for power system performance improvement. The battery/UC/SMES with control of UPFC DC link capacitor voltage involves alteration of the chopper controller parameters to control the DC link capacitor voltage expedition. The chopper control is referred to using the utmost exploitation of the source active power and then permits the backup electrical energy storage systems to bear the active power required by the load.

(in lingua inglese) This paper employed space vector control as control strategy of cascaded H-bridge multilevel Z-source inverter. Use of Zsource causes more reliability and bucking or boosting capacity of output voltage. In this case, two advanced algorithms proposed make it possible to achieve a wide range of output voltage with lowest THD. These algorithms produce a highquality voltage with an extremely low switching frequency which can be easily implemented in a standard DSP motor controller.

Dal controllo degli ambienti al monitoraggio dei consumi, dal trasferimento degli allarmi al tuo cellulare alla gestione degli scenari, l’intelligenza che dà valore all’ambiente. Un Controller Web Server è la chiave per avere sempre ed ovunque sotto controllo tutto il sistema “casa” tramite qualsiasi dispositivo dotato di web browser: Smartphone, Tablet, Console, Smart TV, PC ecc.

Questa tesi presenta la progettazione di un carica batterie ideato per operare con un ingresso universale. Il convertitore AC/DC è implementato usando una tipica struttura a due stadi Il controllo di questo dispositivo è implementato usando un controllore PID multi-loop per il raddrizzatore PFC, tramite il controllo average mode della corrente. Un semplice controllore PID è implementato nel convertitore DC/DC ed entrambi utilizzano uno switching PWM. Viene inoltre presentato un nuovo approccio digitale per eliminare il controllore feed-forward dallo schema convenzionale, che semplifica ulteriormente la strategia di controllo. Il controllore digitale del sistema di potenza usa una strategia di switching binaria per i transistor. Essi switchano in base al segno dell’errore, usato come segnale di controllo.

Introduzione al software FLANGEPRO per la gestione delle integrità (Integrity Flange Management) che può essere facilmente implementato su più progetti e attività. Il nuovo software FlangePro è molto flessibile ed è ampiamente personalizzabile per rispecchiare i processi e le procedure organizzative. FlangePro è la naturale evoluzione del software Controller, conosciuto ed utilizzato a livello internazionale, ma che adesso può essere utilizzato in tutta la pipeline, ovvero condotte, flange, valvole, ed altre attrezzature specialistiche. Flange Integrity Management System Joint and bolt stress calculations Safety training on Hydraulic Equipments Bolting and Tensioning Training

Telematics applications are diverse ma all’interno condividono le stesse componenti di base: microcontroller (MCU), modem per la comunicazione Cellulare, ricevitore GNSS per determinare la posizione, MCU (più CAN controller per applicazioni veicolari), modem Cellulare e ricevitore GNSS. In lingua inglese

Presentazione dei nuovi software per l’industria petrolifera e petrolchimica. Software per la gestione delle integrità (Integrity Flange Management) che può essere implementato su più progetti e attività. Il nuovo software è molto flessibile e può essere ampiamente personalizzato per rispecchiare i processi e le procedure organizzative. FlangePro è la naturale evoluzione del software Controller che adesso può essere utilizzato in tutta la pipeline, ovvero condotte, flange, valvole, ed altre attrezzature specialistiche. • Gestione flange, pipeline • Gestione attrezzature e magazzino • Gestione del personale • Manutenzione, verifiche e controllo del processo • Project Management delle fermate impianto • Gestione attività pre-commissioning • Pianificazione dei controlli di tenuta • Leak Test Planning

(Intervento in lingua inglese) - Introduzione a MilkyWay - Drivers - MilkyWay light and electrical load control - MilkyWay Clime Control: CLIMEbuddy solution - MilkyWay Energy Control: eNRGmate solution! - MSC Multi Source Controller

Questo appuntamento si inserisce nella rassegna di eventi “Realizza un impianto domotico con GEWISS” previsti in Fiera a Verona nelle giornate del 29 e 30 Ottobre 2013 in occasione di SAVE e HOME & BUILDING. • Le regole da seguire per scegliere il dispositivo giusto in un impianto KNX di GEWISS • Programmazione funzioni base di home automation con software GEWISS Easy Controller • Approfondimento su funzioni di building automation programmabili con software ETS4

Sviluppo di un controllore al fine di incrementare il livello di automazione dei sistemi manifatturieri, attraverso il paradigma della produzione intelligente. Il processo di riferimento è la fresatura delle leghe di alluminio mediante macchine utensili a controllo numerico. Il sistema sviluppato è chiamato Evaluation and Perception Controller, ed è costituito da tre livelli: sensori, percezione e cognitivo. La validazione delle prestazioni del sistema qui sviluppato è svolta confrontando gli osservabili di processo con quelli ottenuti in un caso nominale, nel quale i parametri sono scelti secondo indicazioni fornite dal produttore degli utensili da taglio.

La tesi tratta la sviluppo software/hardware di un modem acustico subacqueo a spettro espanso. I principali elementi utilizzati sono stati: Labview, un ambiente di sviluppo utilizzato per la simulazione del sistema di comunicazione formato da trasmettitore, canale e ricevitore; il Sistema PXI, che ricopre la parte hardware formata da uno chassis all'interno del quale sono alloggiati un controller e una scheda di acquisizione/generazione dati. Infine l' analizzatore di spettro, utilizzato per verificare che il segnale effettivamente inviato è quello di nostro interesse. Tramite questi elementi è stato possibile determinare le prestazioni del modem in termini di bit-error-rate ed effettuare una trasmissione reale del segnale generato dal modem.

La tesi si propone di progettare, sviluppare e testare un load balancer su uno switch Openflow così che questo riceva pacchetti reali e li smisti equamente su più porte di uscita. Per realizzare questo obbiettivo c'è la necessità di avere a disposizione alcuni strumenti: un apparato che svolga la funzione di switch Openflow, un dispositivo che funzioni da controller e degli apparecchi che svolgano la funzione di host.

Machine Automation Controller Un unico dispositivo che incorpora le funzionalità di un PLC e di un Motion Controller. Filosofia del prodotto: –  Elevata integrazione tra PLC Engine e Motion Control Engine tramite un unico sistema operativo –  Blocchi funzione Motion e Safety basati sullo standard PLC open –  Programmazione conforme alle Norme IEC 61131-3 –  Bus di comunicazione standard Dal PLC … al Machine Automation Controller; Vantaggi del Machine Automation Controller; Communication Networks; EtherNet/IP; Conclusioni.