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Scopus, Jan 30, 2020
This paper describes the design of wireless CAN protocol with the aim to replace existing wired C... more This paper describes the design of wireless CAN protocol with the aim to replace existing wired CAN protocol communication between the Smart NOx sensor on diesel engines and the Engine Control Unit (ECU). Wireless industrial automation becomes essential in modern industry with the emerge of 5G networks and the IoT. Besides the advantages of wireless nodes in automation systems, there are many real challenges. Several practical design challenges have been successfully addressed in this paper.©2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
arXiv (Cornell University), May 19, 2023
IntechOpen eBooks, Jul 13, 2022
IET Communications
This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless control area network (CAN bus) p... more This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless control area network (CAN bus) protocol for communication between the smart NOx (nitrogen oxide) sensor on diesel engines and the engine control unit (ECU). In this research, the approach taken is based on a case study of Wärtsilä's smart NOx sensor on a W4L20 diesel engine with the objective of replacing the wired CAN protocol with a wireless CAN communication node. In the current setup, the smart NOx sensor is connected to the engine control unit (ECU) with a wired CAN bus connection. The XBee module, which uses the ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) technology was used in the design and implementation of the wireless CAN prototype. With the emergence of 5G networks and the era of IoT, the topic of wireless industrial automation becomes essential in the modern industry. In addition to the great advantages and opportunities that the use of wireless nodes has in automation systems, there are many real challenges. The practical...
2023 International Conference on Future Energy Solutions (FES)
2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)
Linköping electronic conference proceedings, Mar 31, 2022
Linköping electronic conference proceedings, Mar 31, 2022
Cognitive Radios promise to be a major shift in wireless communications based on developing a nov... more Cognitive Radios promise to be a major shift in wireless communications based on developing a novel approach which attempt to reduce spectrum scarcity that growing up in the past and waited to increase in the future. Since formulating stages for increasing interest in wireless application proves to be extremely challenging, it is growing rapidly. Initially this growth leads to huge demand for the radio spectrum. The novelty of this approach needs to optimize the spectrum utilization and find the efficient way for sharing the radio frequencies through spectrum sensing process. Spectrum sensing is one of the most significant tasks that allow cognitive radio functionality to implement and one of the most challenging tasks. A main challenge in sensing process arises from the fact that, detecting signals with a very low SNR in back ground of noise or severely masked by interference in specific time based on high reliability. This thesis describes the fundamental cognitive radio system as...
2022 IEEE/IAS 58th Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS)
IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2019
Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the loca... more Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the local and system-wide technical ancillary services are needed. Reactive power control is one of such ancillary service provided by DERs. This paper aims to test the performance of a reactive power control scheme developed on a light-weight Intelligent Electronic Device (IED). The IEDs are implemented on a BeagleBoneBlack as well as on an FPGA. The test set-up is implemented by the Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. The simulation platform is OPAL-RT's eMEGASIM and ePHASORSIM. The results show the performance of the FPGA to be better than BeagleBoneBlack when comparing results of the Sofware-In-the-Loop simulations.
IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2019
Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the loca... more Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the local and system-wide technical ancillary services are needed. Reactive power control is one of such ancillary service provided by DERs. This paper aims to test the performance of a reactive power control scheme developed on a light-weight Intelligent Electronic Device (IED). The IEDs are implemented on a BeagleBoneBlack as well as on an FPGA. The test set-up is implemented by the Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. The simulation platform is OPAL-RT's eMEGASIM and ePHASORSIM. The results show the performance of the FPGA to be better than BeagleBoneBlack when comparing results of the Sofware-In-the-Loop simulations.
International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology, Oct 31, 2012
Abstract—Substation Automation System (SAS) performance has been gained great improvements by imp... more Abstract—Substation Automation System (SAS) performance has been gained great improvements by implementing the high data rate process bus based on IEC 61850-9-2LE. However, these improvements need to be fully assessed within different circumstances before the scheme can be implemented to real SAS. This paper illustrates a comparisons between the performance testing of a practical (using commercial physical devices) prototype process bus and the simulated model based on the sample value (SV) traffic stream latency using a novel estimation approach. The practical prototype process bus has been implemented based on the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus and the simulated model has been initiated within the OPNET simulation tool models complaint with the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus. By implementing the comparison two benefits have been achieved, from the practical experiments point view it proves the correctness of the design and the implementation of the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus and the no...
This paper presents a novel Loss of Mains (LoM) protection method based on IEC 61850 General Obje... more This paper presents a novel Loss of Mains (LoM) protection method based on IEC 61850 General Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) protocol. With the increased penetration of distributed generation (DG), the requirements for LoM or anti-islanding protection has become common in the electric utilities. The development of Smart Grids including extensive communication capabilities enables also communication based LoM approaches. Since IEC 61850 standard based systems are the mainstream in the substation communication, expanding this technology deeper in the distribution network provides interesting solution for communication based LoM protection. The standard IEC 61850-7-420 defines logical nodes (LNs) suitable for this purpose but there are not yet available devices applying this part of the standard. Therefore in this research, a light-weight 61850 GOOSE based LoM solution has been developed and demonstrated applying a microcontroller and available open source software. This paper...
Scopus, Jan 30, 2020
This paper describes the design of wireless CAN protocol with the aim to replace existing wired C... more This paper describes the design of wireless CAN protocol with the aim to replace existing wired CAN protocol communication between the Smart NOx sensor on diesel engines and the Engine Control Unit (ECU). Wireless industrial automation becomes essential in modern industry with the emerge of 5G networks and the IoT. Besides the advantages of wireless nodes in automation systems, there are many real challenges. Several practical design challenges have been successfully addressed in this paper.©2019 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works.fi=vertaisarvioitu|en=peerReviewed
arXiv (Cornell University), May 19, 2023
IntechOpen eBooks, Jul 13, 2022
IET Communications
This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless control area network (CAN bus) p... more This paper describes the design and implementation of a wireless control area network (CAN bus) protocol for communication between the smart NOx (nitrogen oxide) sensor on diesel engines and the engine control unit (ECU). In this research, the approach taken is based on a case study of Wärtsilä's smart NOx sensor on a W4L20 diesel engine with the objective of replacing the wired CAN protocol with a wireless CAN communication node. In the current setup, the smart NOx sensor is connected to the engine control unit (ECU) with a wired CAN bus connection. The XBee module, which uses the ZigBee (IEEE 802.15.4) technology was used in the design and implementation of the wireless CAN prototype. With the emergence of 5G networks and the era of IoT, the topic of wireless industrial automation becomes essential in the modern industry. In addition to the great advantages and opportunities that the use of wireless nodes has in automation systems, there are many real challenges. The practical...
2023 International Conference on Future Energy Solutions (FES)
2022 IEEE PES Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference Europe (ISGT-Europe)
Linköping electronic conference proceedings, Mar 31, 2022
Linköping electronic conference proceedings, Mar 31, 2022
Cognitive Radios promise to be a major shift in wireless communications based on developing a nov... more Cognitive Radios promise to be a major shift in wireless communications based on developing a novel approach which attempt to reduce spectrum scarcity that growing up in the past and waited to increase in the future. Since formulating stages for increasing interest in wireless application proves to be extremely challenging, it is growing rapidly. Initially this growth leads to huge demand for the radio spectrum. The novelty of this approach needs to optimize the spectrum utilization and find the efficient way for sharing the radio frequencies through spectrum sensing process. Spectrum sensing is one of the most significant tasks that allow cognitive radio functionality to implement and one of the most challenging tasks. A main challenge in sensing process arises from the fact that, detecting signals with a very low SNR in back ground of noise or severely masked by interference in specific time based on high reliability. This thesis describes the fundamental cognitive radio system as...
2022 IEEE/IAS 58th Industrial and Commercial Power Systems Technical Conference (I&CPS)
IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2019
Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the loca... more Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the local and system-wide technical ancillary services are needed. Reactive power control is one of such ancillary service provided by DERs. This paper aims to test the performance of a reactive power control scheme developed on a light-weight Intelligent Electronic Device (IED). The IEDs are implemented on a BeagleBoneBlack as well as on an FPGA. The test set-up is implemented by the Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. The simulation platform is OPAL-RT's eMEGASIM and ePHASORSIM. The results show the performance of the FPGA to be better than BeagleBoneBlack when comparing results of the Sofware-In-the-Loop simulations.
IECON 2019 - 45th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society, 2019
Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the loca... more Due to the large-scale integration of distributed energy resources (DER) new options for the local and system-wide technical ancillary services are needed. Reactive power control is one of such ancillary service provided by DERs. This paper aims to test the performance of a reactive power control scheme developed on a light-weight Intelligent Electronic Device (IED). The IEDs are implemented on a BeagleBoneBlack as well as on an FPGA. The test set-up is implemented by the Controller-Hardware-In-the-Loop platform. The simulation platform is OPAL-RT's eMEGASIM and ePHASORSIM. The results show the performance of the FPGA to be better than BeagleBoneBlack when comparing results of the Sofware-In-the-Loop simulations.
International Journal of Engineering Sciences & Research Technology, Oct 31, 2012
Abstract—Substation Automation System (SAS) performance has been gained great improvements by imp... more Abstract—Substation Automation System (SAS) performance has been gained great improvements by implementing the high data rate process bus based on IEC 61850-9-2LE. However, these improvements need to be fully assessed within different circumstances before the scheme can be implemented to real SAS. This paper illustrates a comparisons between the performance testing of a practical (using commercial physical devices) prototype process bus and the simulated model based on the sample value (SV) traffic stream latency using a novel estimation approach. The practical prototype process bus has been implemented based on the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus and the simulated model has been initiated within the OPNET simulation tool models complaint with the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus. By implementing the comparison two benefits have been achieved, from the practical experiments point view it proves the correctness of the design and the implementation of the IEC 61850-9-2LE process bus and the no...
This paper presents a novel Loss of Mains (LoM) protection method based on IEC 61850 General Obje... more This paper presents a novel Loss of Mains (LoM) protection method based on IEC 61850 General Object Oriented Substation Event (GOOSE) protocol. With the increased penetration of distributed generation (DG), the requirements for LoM or anti-islanding protection has become common in the electric utilities. The development of Smart Grids including extensive communication capabilities enables also communication based LoM approaches. Since IEC 61850 standard based systems are the mainstream in the substation communication, expanding this technology deeper in the distribution network provides interesting solution for communication based LoM protection. The standard IEC 61850-7-420 defines logical nodes (LNs) suitable for this purpose but there are not yet available devices applying this part of the standard. Therefore in this research, a light-weight 61850 GOOSE based LoM solution has been developed and demonstrated applying a microcontroller and available open source software. This paper...