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    • Analysis and Investigation of the Inverter for Energy Transfer from Small Wind Power Plant to Common Grid 

      Luczkowski, Romuald; Muszynski, Roman (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The specific proportion of the parameters in the system: Small power source - Inverter with hysteresis controller - Grid causes unprofitable phenomena and difficulties with choice of the filter parameters, hysteresis band ...

    • Doubly-fed Induction Generator Drives for Wind Power Plants 

      Rabelo, Balduino; Hofmann, Wilfried (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The basics of electrical drives in rotating dq-coordinate system was introduced as well as the classical definition of active and reactive powers leading to the complex power. Electrical power generation, specifically the ...

    • Non-rigid Stereo-motion 

      Del Bue, Alessio; Agapito, Lourdes (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      The authors would like to thank the Royal Society European Science Exchange Programme, EPSRC Grant GR/S61539/01 and the Spanish Ministry of Science project TIC2002-00591 for financial support. Enrique Mu?oz, Jose Miguel ...

    • Continuous Machine Learning in Computer Vision - Tracking with Adaptive Class Models 

      Stolkin, Rustam (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      This chapter has explored a number of techniques in vision based tracking, with the common theme of continuous relearning of models of the background and the tracked

    • Small Wind Turbine Power Controllers 

      Gitano-Briggs, Horizon (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      Almost all wind energy systems require a controller to prevent damage to the turbine and the load. With advances in power electronics and microcontrollers, inexpensive yet sophisticated power controllers can be produced ...

    • A Sensors System for Indoor Localisation of a Moving Target Based on Infrared Pattern Recognition 

      Petrellis, Nikos; Konofaos, Nikos; Alexiou, George (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      A novel method for the indoor localisation of a target was presented in this chapter. This method is based on measuring the number of the digital infrared patterns received by the target in a specific time interval (success ...

    • Projective Rectification with Minimal Geometric Distortion 

      Wu, Hsien-Huang P.; Chen, Chih-Cheng (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      This chapter presented a new way of parameterizing the homography, which leads to a new approach of projective rectification for stereo images. Compared with the previous works, the novelty of this new algorithm is that ...

    • Wind Power at Sea as Observed from Space 

      Liu, W. Timothy; Tang, Wenqing; Xie, Xiaosu (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      This study was performed at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology under contract with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). It was jointly supported by the Ocean Vector Winds ...

    • Speed Sensorless Vector Control of Permanent Magnet Wind Power Generator – The Redundant Drive Concept 

      Halkosaari, Tero (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The reliability of high power drives can be increased using a generator/motor structure comprising multiple independent stator modules or segments each having an own drive inverter. In case that one of the inverters fails, ...

    • Wind Power Impact on Power System Dynamic Performance 

      S. Karapidakis, Emmanuel (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      In this chapter the dynamic behavior of a power system with high percentage of wind power penetration (up to 40%) was studied with emphasis given to the modeling of the system, in order to examine the probable impacts. ...

    • Open Educational Resources: Policy, Costs and Transformation 

      Miao, Fengchun; Mishra, Sanjaya; McGreal, Rory (UNESCO, 2016)
      This book examines specific OER implementations through different lenses. The various chapters illuminate OER not from a theoretical perspective, but from rich case studies of OER as they are unfolding in different regions. ...

    • Image Processing Techniques for Unsupervised Pattern Classification 

      Botte-Lecocq, C.; Hammouche, K.; Moussa, A. (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      All the clustering methods presented in this chapter tend to generalize bi-dimensional procedures initially developed for image processing purpose. Among them, thresholding, edge detection, probabilistic relaxation, ...

    • Wind Power: Integrating Wind Turbine Generators (WTG’s) with Energy Storage 

      Linden, Septimus van der (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The current storage concepts are ready for deployment. Storage needs to be implemented in particular for Wind Energy, not just here in the US but in all developing countries. The biggest impact is probably the flexibility ...

    • Large Scale Integration of Wind Power in Thermal Power Systems 

      Goransson, Lisa; Johnsson, Filip (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The work presented in this chapter was financed by the AGS project Pathways to Sustainable European Energy Systems.

    • Pseudo Stereovision System (PSVS): A Monocular Mirror-based Stereovision System 

      Pachidis, Theodore P. (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      A system for stereovision based on mirrors and a beam-splitter, was presented. PSVS, as it is called, is a low cost system with well-located features (accuracy, stability, compact construction). Equations and relations, ...

    • A Novel Omnidirectional Stereo Vision System with a Single Camera 

      Yi, Sooyeong; Ahuja, Narendra (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      Wide field of view is the most attractive feature of the omnidirectional vision. There exist two approaches to omnidirectional stereo imaging with a single camera. They use: (1) a double lobed mirror (Fiala & Basu, ...

    • Variability of Wind and Wind Power 

      Mur-Amada, Joaquin; Bayod-Rujula, Angel (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2010)
      The installed capacity for wind power is increasing substantially in response to the worldwide interest in low-emissions power sources and a desire to decrease the dependence on petroleum. The European Union directive ...

    • Articulated Hand Tracking by ICA-based Hand Model and Multiple Cameras 

      Gang Xu, Makoto Kato; Chen, Yen-Wei (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      In this chapter, we proposed three new approaches, the ICA-based hand model, articulated hand motion tracking by multiple cameras, and Particle filtering with prediction. The ICA-based hand model is the ICA-based representation ...

    • A Learning Approach for Adaptive Image Segmentation 

      Martin, Vincent; Thonnat, Monique (INTECH Open Access Publisher, 2007)
      In this chapter, we have proposed a learning approach for three major issues of image segmentation: context adaptation, algorithm selection and parameter tuning according to the image content and the application need. This ...

    • Engineering: An Introduction for High School 

      Baker, Dale; White-Taylor, Janel; Ganesh, Tirupalavanam G. (CK-12 Foundation, 2014)
      Much of our modern society depends on engineered artifacts to function, but many members of modern society are not aware of the engineering techniques and practices that have developed the technology and infrastructure on ...