Short, medium and long term load forecasting model and virtual load forecaster based on radial basis neural networks

Artificial neural networks (ANNs) can be easily applied to short-term load forecasting (STLF) models for electric power distribution applications. However, they are not typically used in medium and long term load forecasting (MLTLF) electric power models because of the difficulties associated with collecting and processing the necessary data. Virtual instrument (VI) techniques can be applied to electric power load forecasting but this is rarely reported in the literature. In this paper, we investigate the modelling and design of a VI for short, medium and long term load forecasting using ANNs. Three ANN models were built for STLF of electric power. These networks were trained using historical load data and also considering weather data which is known to have a significant affect of the use of electric power (such as wind speed, precipitation, atmospheric pressure, temperature and humidity). In order to do this a V-shape temperature processing model is proposed. With regards MLTLF, a model was developed using radial basis function neural networks (RBFNN). Results indicate that the forecasting model based on the RBFNN has a high accuracy and stability. Finally, a virtual load forecaster which integrates the VI and the RBFNN is presented.

Virtual instrumentation applied to the implementation of IEEE STD 1459-2000 power definitions

This paper discusses the utilization of Virtual Instrumentation to the implementation and evaluation of different power definitions, so that classical formulations and new definitions can be compared without the necessity of acquiring different power meters or analyzers. Accordingly, the definitions of IEEE Standard 1459-2000 for the measurement of power quantities under distorted and unbalanced situations, have been digitally implemented. Thus, several power and power factor components related to the decomposition of the measured voltage and current signals have been obtained. The proposed PC-based Virtual Instrument uses a high performance acquisition board and isolated sensors and transducers. All digital algorithms and routines have been implemented by means of a graphical development system. Regarding to the implementation of STD 1459, this paper also proposes several different algorithms to the required decompositions of voltage, current and power components. © 2005 IEEE.

Desenvolvimento e aplicação da instrumentação virtual na unidade móvel de ensaios na barra de tração - UMEB

Pós-graduação em Agronomia (Energia na Agricultura) - FCA

Virtual Instruments in Dimensional Metrology

During the last five years, in order to improve understanding of content related to "Coordinate Metrology", the Laboratorio de Metrología y Metrotecnia (LMM) from the Polytechnic University of Madrid offers its PhD students, as a course work, the construction of a virtual instrument. This virtual instrument simulates the imaging of a part to be measured by optical dimensional metrology instruments (microscopes, profile projectors, vision machines). The LMM provides students with images similar to those they would obtain with real instrumentation for the instrument adjustment and calibration process. Working with these images, students should determine the adjustment parameters of the virtual instrument. Once these parameters are set, the student can perform the proper calibration of the virtual instrument. Beyond this process, the instrument is already able to perform traceable measurement. In order to do that, LMM offers students some images of parts. Students should perform some measurements using those images and estimate the corresponding uncertainties.

Virtual Instruments – Functional Model, Organization and Programming Architecture

∗ Thematic Harmonisation in Electrical and Information EngineeRing in Europe,Project Nr. 10063-CP-1-2000-1-PT-ERASMUS-ETNE.

El discurso en cuestión: la afirmación de la ideología señorial en el discurso jurídico castellano bajomedieval (el caso del manuscrito 431 de la BNM)

Integran este número de la revista ponencias presentadas en Studia Hispanica Medievalia VIII: Actas de las IX Jornadas Internacionales de Literatura Española Medieval, 2008, y de Homenaje al Quinto Centenario de Amadis de Gaula.

多路谱仪放大器输出信号的读出与数据采集

A read-out and data acquisition system for the outputs of multi-channel spectroscopy amplifiers is introduced briefly in this paper.The 16-channel gating integrator/multiplexer developed by us and PXI-DAQ card are used to construct this system.A virtual instrument system for displaying,indicating,measuring and recording of output waveform is accomplished by integrating the PC,hardware,software together flexibly based on the Lab Windows/CVI platform in our read-out and data acquisition system.In this system,...中文文摘：简要介绍一个针对多路谱仪放大器的读出与数据采集方法与系统。该系统基于16通道门积分/选通输出电路和通用PXI-DAQ卡构建。利用Lab Windows/CVI平台构建虚拟仪器,灵活地将计算机、硬件、软件结合起来,设计了一个读出与数据采集系统。在该系统中,一个ADC通道可以面对16个谱仪放大器的输出,有效地提高了系统的集成度,降低了数据采集系统的成本。该设计为利用通用型谱仪放大器构建数百参数的信号读出与数据采集系统提供了一种新的方法。通过实验验证,证明该系统具有智能化、可靠性高、实时性强、成本低等优点。

基于网络化虚拟仪器的机器人传感器实验平台

设计了基于网络化虚拟仪器的多节点机器人传感器实验平台系统,利用COM、软件插件等技术开发了虚拟控件和信号处理软件模块,用户可通过PPL创建自定义的信号处理模块,为进行面向智能机器人控制的传感器测试、标定、组网等奠定了基础。

基于labview的变速箱振动测试分析系统

文章介绍了一个基于虚拟仪器技术开发的变速箱振动测试与分析系统。该系统实现了汽车变速箱振动信号的检测、分析、处理和显示存储,满足对测试过程高精度、自动化、智能化等各项测试要求。

面向汽车变速器状态监测的虚拟仪器系统研究

摘要 变速器是汽车主要部件之一，其质量直接影响整车的性能和质量。对装配后的变速器进行下线检测是生产过程必需的步骤。目前我国汽车变速器的下线检测多数在变速器试验台上进行，由工人耳听变速器的振动噪声判断其是否合格。人工判断的方法存在精度低、随机性高和受工人经验、情绪影响大等缺点。因此，实现变速器状态监测的自动化，研究一种适用于汽车变速器下线检测的状态监测系统具有很大的现实意义。 虚拟仪器技术构建方式快速灵活、人机界面友好、具有强大的信号处理能力，而且可以充分利用变速器试验台已有的工控机平台。本论文研究开发了一套面向汽车变速器状态监测的虚拟仪器系统。 第一章介绍了课题来源和研究目的；综述了虚拟仪器的发展和变速器状态监测与故障诊断的研究现状。 第二章分析了面向振动信号的常用信号处理方法及其不足、介绍了时域同步平均和基于重采样的阶次分析方法，典型齿轮故障的时频域特征。 第三章根据变速器状态监测的要求设计并实现了状态监测的硬件系统，主要包括传感器、数据采集卡。 第四章开发了基于虚拟仪器的软件系统，完成了参数设置模块、数据采集模块、信号预处理模块、时域分析模块、频域分析模块、时域同步平均模块、阶次分析模块、文件管理模块和网络通信模块的具体设计，并将这些模块在主程序的程序框图中按照一定的逻辑关系组合起来，形成一个完整的变速器状态监测系统。 第五章对本文工作做了总结并对以后工作进行了展望

Student performance analysis under different moodle course designs

This work extends a recent comparative study covering four different courses lectured at the Polytechnic of Porto - School of Engineering, in respect to the usage of a particular Learning Management System, i.e. Moodle, and its impact on students' results. A fifth course, which includes a number of resources especially supporting laboratory classes, is now added to the analysis. This particular course includes a number of remote experiments, made available through VISIR (Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality) and directly accessible through links included in the Moodle course page. We have analyzed the students' behavior in following these links and in effectively running experiments in VISIR (and also using other lab related resources, in Moodle). This data have been correlated with students' classifications in the lab component and in the exam, each one weighting 50% of their final marks. We aimed to compare students' performance in a richly Moodle-supported environment (with lab component) and in a poorly Moodle-supported environment (with only theoretical component). This question followed from conclusions drawn in the above referred comparative study, where it was shown that even though a positive correlation factor existed between the number of Moodle accesses and the final exam grade obtained by each student, its explanation behind was not straightforward, as the quality of the resources was preponderant over its quantity.

VISIR deployment in undergraduate engineering practices

Practical sessions are the backbone of qualification in engineering education. It leads to a better understanding and allows mastering scientific concepts and theories. The lack of the availability of practical sessions at many universities and institutions owing to the cost and the unavailability of instructors the most of the time caused a significant decline in experimentation in engineering education over the last decades. Recently, with the progress of computer-based learning, remote laboratories have been proven to be the best alternative to the traditional ones, regarding to its low cost and ubiquity. Some universities have already started to deploy remote labs in their practical sessions. This contribution compiles diverse experiences based on the deployment of the remote laboratory, Virtual Instrument Systems in Reality (VISIR), on the practices of undergraduate engineering grades at various universities within the VISIR community. It aims to show the impact of its usage on engineering education concerning the assessments of students and teachers as well.

Design of a labVIEW system applied to predictive maintenance

The implementation of vibration analysis techniques based on virtual instrumentation has spread increasingly in the academic and industrial branch, since the use of any software for this type of analysis brings good results at low cost. Among the existing software for programming and creation of virtual instruments, the LabVIEW was chosen for this project. This software has good interface with the method of graphical programming. In this project, it was developed a system of rotating machine condition monitoring. This monitoring system is applied in a test stand, simulating large scale applications, such as in hydroelectric, nuclear and oil exploration companies. It was initially used a test stand, where an instrumentation for data acquisition was inserted, composed of accelerometers and inductive proximity sensors. The data collection system was structured on the basis of an NI 6008 A/D converter of National Instruments. An electronic circuit command was developed through the A/D converter for a remote firing of the test stand. The equipment monitoring is performed through the data collected from the sensors. The vibration signals collected by accelerometers are processed in the time domain and frequency. Also, proximity probes were used for the axis orbit evaluation and an inductive sensor for the rotation and trigger measurement. © (2013) Trans Tech Publications, Switzerland.

Desenvolvimento de dispositivos computacionais para registro de dados pluviométricos e análise operacional de pluviômetros basculantes

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior (CAPES)

Computer-assisted, fluoroscopy-based ventral spondylodesis of thoracolumbar fractures

OBJECTIVE: To design and evaluate a novel computer-assisted, fluoroscopy-based planning and navigation system for minimally invasive ventral spondylodesis of thoracolumbar fractures. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Instruments and an image intensifier are tracked with the SurgiGATE navigation system (Praxim-Medivision). Two fluoroscopic images, one acquired from anterior-posterior (AP) direction and the other from lateral-medial (LM) direction, are used for the complete procedure of planning and navigation. Both of them are calibrated with a custom-made software to recover their projection geometry and to co-register them to a common patient reference coordinate system, which is established by attaching an opto-electronically trackable dynamic reference base (DRB) on the operated vertebra. A bi-planar landmark reconstruction method is used to acquire deep-seated anatomical landmarks such that an intraoperative planning of graft bed can be interactively done. Finally, surgical actions such as the placement of the stabilization devices and the formation of the graft bed using a custom-made chisel are visualized to the surgeon by superimposing virtual instrument representations onto the acquired images. The distance between the instrument tip and each wall of the planned graft bed are calculated on the fly and presented to the surgeon so that the surgeon could formalize the graft bed exactly according to his/her plan. RESULTS: Laboratory studies on phantom and on 27 plastic vertebras demonstrate the high precision of the proposed navigation system. Compared with CT-based measurement, a mean error of 1.0 mm with a standard deviation of 0.1 mm was found. CONCLUSIONS: The proposed computer assisted, fluoroscopy-based planning and navigation system promises to increase the accuracy and reliability of minimally invasive ventral spondylodesis of thoracolumbar fractures.