Capability, compatibility, and usability evaluation of hardware-in-the-loop platforms for DC-DC converter
- Authors: Maxwell, Shawn , Islam, Syed , Hossain, Kamal , Park, Sung-Yeul
- Date: 2016
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings , Conference paper
- Relation: 2016 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition, ECCE 2016; Milwaukee, United States; 18th-22nd September 2016 p. 1-6
- Full Text: false
- Reviewed:
- Description: This paper evaluates the capability, compatibility, and usability of Hardware-in-the-Loop platforms for DC-DC converter. This was accomplished by interfacing the platforms with a physical power stage as well as a controller. The employed platforms are Hi-Rel Power-pole board, Texas Instruments Digital Controller, RTDS, OPAL-RT, dSPACE, and Typhoon. Two sets of experimentation were performed: the power stage represented by the Power-pole board, RTDS, OPAL-RT, dSPACE, and Typhoon and the controller replaced by TI DSC, RTDS, OPAL-RT, dSPACE, and Typhoon. Three points of evaluation for a testing platform that are of interest to industrial researchers as well as academia are capability (speed or modeling capacity), compatibility (ease of porting models from other platforms), and usability (ease of use of software and hardware). This paper provides an introductory resource for research and education by providing results of a simple buck converter example.
Video games' educational evaluation model based on BP neural network
- Authors: Wang, Wei , Maruatona, Omaru , Qian, Huang
- Date: 2011
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Full Text: false
- Description: Evaluating the education value of video games is a complex task. Based on the educational evaluation system for video games, we establish a corresponding automated evaluation model using the Back-propagation (BP) neural network technology. After training with the expert knowledge, the model not only has the experience of experts, but also has the computational capacity to evaluate new cases. © 2011 IEEE.
Virtual teams : Worlds apart
- Authors: Knox, Ian , Wilmott, Deirdre
- Date: 2008
- Type: Text , Conference proceedings
- Full Text:
- Description: Virtual teams are a relatively new phenomenon. A number of studies have focused on the description of team development and the group process of virtual learning teams as they form. This paper is a study of how Australian and American undergraduates worked together in virtual teams to respond to ethical and business practice problems for a given scenario. The study specifically examined the communication methods, task completion methodology and cultural differences exhibited by two undergraduate classes from the University of Ballarat, Ballarat Australia and Jacksonville State University, Jacksonville, Alabama, United States. Both synchronous and asynchronous communications methods were used with differing levels of enthusiasm and acceptance. Although the study was based on a small sample, which limits its generalisability, there are implications to inform those who are considering similar methods in their teaching. © 2008 Ian Knox and Deirdre Wilmott.
- Description: 2003010647