The conventional electrical system in place today sees our electrical devices powered by AC mains. But as renewable technologies become more prevalent, DC microgrids coul[...]

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Advanced power electronics are essential to the development of fully active electric power systems. There are, however, potential problems that can arise when high level[...]

Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the conventional chicken and egg problem where a robot has to map the environment as well as localize itself in the newly [...]

Buildings account for 40% of US energy usage. A building’s energy usage is largely determined by decisions made during its design. Such decisions relate to the form and o[...]

Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each m[...]

Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent o[...]

The increased use of renewables (solar, wind, etc.) as an alternative to the conventional generation using fossil fuels is the solution [1] to address the carbon emission[...]

With the evolution of gear design requirements for new applications, classical gear inspection based on a time-consuming line-oriented tactile measurement must be replace[...]

The United States trains have the highest energy demands in rail transport in the world. More than 90% of the trains are powered by diesel, which aggressively impacts cli[...]