A robust position control for induction machines

ICEM 2010

Estudio de viabilidad de la central hidroeléctrica de Ubao –Toquillo.

[ES]El objetivo del presente proyecto de viabilidad es estudiar la eficiencia y productividad de la central hidroeléctrica de Ubao – Toquillo, situada en Oñati, Gipuzkoa (España), ofreciendo a su vez una serie de alternativas económica y técnicamente viables. Para ello, se analizarán los elementos de la central; aunque la turbina hidráulica sea el elemento fundamental de la central, se tendrán en cuenta otros elementos como, por ejemplo, estructuras mecánicas o máquinas eléctricas. Para cada una de las alternativas, se calculará la producción de energía y la inversión necesaria, y se compararán unas con otras. Finalmente, se seleccionará la óptima que pasará a desarrollarse en el anteproyecto.

A complex systems modelling approach for decentralized simulation of electrical microgrids

ICECCS 2010

A Reliable Method for Rhythm Analysis during Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation

nterruptions in cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) compromise defibrillation success. However, CPR must be interrupted to analyze the rhythm because although current methods for rhythm analysis during CPR have high sensitivity for shockable rhythms, the specificity for nonshockable rhythms is still too low. This paper introduces a new approach to rhythm analysis during CPR that combines two strategies: a state-of-the-art CPR artifact suppression filter and a shock advice algorithm (SAA) designed to optimally classify the filtered signal. Emphasis is on designing an algorithm with high specificity. The SAA includes a detector for low electrical activity rhythms to increase the specificity, and a shock/no-shock decision algorithm based on a support vector machine classifier using slope and frequency features. For this study, 1185 shockable and 6482 nonshockable 9-s segments corrupted by CPR artifacts were obtained from 247 patients suffering out-of-hospital cardiac arrest. The segments were split into a training and a test set. For the test set, the sensitivity and specificity for rhythm analysis during CPR were 91.0% and 96.6%, respectively. This new approach shows an important increase in specificity without compromising the sensitivity when compared to previous studies.