COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering: Volume 28 Issue 6

Real‐time collision detection and response techniques for deformable objects based on hybrid bounding volume hierarchy

The purpose of this paper is to propose a physically plausible solution based on hybrid bounding volume (BV) hierarchy for real‐time collision detection (CD) and response between…

Simulation study on a novel high‐dynamic GPS software receiver

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel scheme of high‐dynamic global positioning system (GPS) software receiver in order to improve the capturing speed and trading…

Study of the deception effect of radar equipped with decoys

The purpose of this paper is to provide a solution to investigate the deception effects of the radar equipped with decoys.

New family of eighth‐order methods for nonlinear equation

The purpose of this paper is to present a new family of iterative methods with eighth‐order convergence for solving the nonlinear equation.

Parity information placement in the disk array model

The primary purpose of this paper is to explore possible locations for parity cache within disk array model and describe the disk array model development process.

An investigation into yard allocation for outbound containers

The purpose of this paper is to propose a yard allocation model via objective programming. This is initially postulated based on a rolling‐horizon strategy, which aims at…

Petri net‐based modeling and performance analysis of transaction scheduling in grid database

The purpose of this paper is to present a scheduling model, scheduling algorithms, and formal model and analysis techniques for concurrency transaction in grid database…

Modeling and simulation of aircraft anti‐skid braking and steering using co‐simulation method

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a co‐simulation method to study the ground maneuvers of aircraft anti‐skid braking and steering.

Robust balancing of mixed model assembly line

The purpose of this paper is to introduce robust optimization approaches to balance mixed model assembly lines with uncertain task times and daily model mix changes.

A new inverse controller for servo‐system based on neural network model reference adaptive control

The purpose of this paper is to develop a new inverse controller for servo‐system position tracking control based on neural network (NN) and model reference adaptive control…

Simulation on vehicle routing problems in logistics distribution

The purpose of this paper is to formulate and simulate the model for vehicle routing problem (VRP) on a practical application in logistics distribution.

Novel type of PXI bus‐based airborne data transfer equipment test system

The purpose of this paper is to design and implement a novel type of PCI eXtension for Instruments (PXI) bus‐based airborne data transfer equipment (DTE) test system.

SimFaster: a modeling and simulation platform with multiple views for complex system

Complex system modeling requires not only understanding of modeling framework but also domain knowledge of the system. The purpose of this paper is to present an approach which…

Digital product data exchange in semantic service‐oriented architecture

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a new method of ontology‐based digital product data exchange. The digital product data are enriched with virtual prototype (VP) model…

Improvement to the second‐order rational functions approximation for hysteresis cycles of magnetic materials

The purpose of this paper is to introduce a simplified method, based on an improvement to the actual second‐order approximation to magnetic hysteresis curves, to calculate an…

Winding inductances of fractional slot surface‐mounted permanent magnet brushless machines

Permanent magnet (PM) brushless machines equipped with fractional‐slot concentrated‐windings (FSCW) have been receiving considerable attention over the past few years, due to the…

On numerical methods for highly oscillatory problems in circuit simulation

The purpose of this paper is to analyse a novel technique for an efficient numerical approximation of systems of highly oscillatory ordinary differential equations (ODEs) that…

Identification of demagnetization faults in a permanent magnet synchronous machine by permeance network

The purpose of this paper is to present a novel method to identify demagnetization faults in the magnet of a permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) using some externally…

A computation method for scenario studies in WDM network planning

The purpose of this paper is to present the benefits of using the Lagrangian relaxation (LR) and subgradient methods in scenario studies for wavelength division multiplexing (WDM…

Application of evolutionary algorithms with adaptive mutation to the identification of induction motor parameters at standstill

The purpose of this paper is to obtain a preliminary off‐line identification of induction motor (IM) parameters at standstill in a reasonable calculation time, which will be…

Numerical field calculation of stator winding faults in synchronous machines

The purpose of this paper is to describe a systematic investigation of the currents, torques and other electromagnetic quantities in a machine after different short circuits by…

Prediction of iron loss in magnetic laminations under PWM voltage supply

The purpose of this paper is to discuss a new method of iron loss estimation under pulse width modulation (PWM) converter supply. The proposed method concerns the longitudinal…

Magnetic flux density and vector potential of linear polyhedral sources

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate analytically the magnetic flux density and the magnetic vector potential produced by a linear current density or a linear magnetization…

A genetic algorithm‐based improved charge simulation method and its application

The purpose of this paper is to propose an improved charge simulation method (CSM) based on the real‐coded genetic algorithm (GA), in which the tedious testing and adjusting work…

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