Progressive sulphation of the negative electrode in a lead-acid battery under high-rate operation remains a serious problem. This study investigates how healthier end-of-discharge conditions, in a valve-regulated lead-acid ...

A method of identifying runout of an active magnetic bearing at standstill and low speed is presented. The on-line current bias injection method found in literature is improved, but is still found to converge too slowly ...

The need for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) is becoming increasingly important for industrial processes as the complexity of processes increases. A state space model of a counter-flow heat exchanger is used study to ...

A Proton Exchange Membrane (PEM) electrolyser is characterised and modelled to identify important electrochemical effects. These electrochemical effects include the ohmic, activation, and concentration losses within the ...

The thermal behaviour of permanent magnet synchronous machines (PMSMs) is important since overheating of the permanent magnets can lead to demagnetization. This article gives an overview of a hybrid thermal model for a ...

Despite the numerous advantages reconfigurable computing adds to a system, it is only advantageous if the execution time exceeds the configuration time. As a result of the long configuration time, reconfiguration is only ...

A fair amount of research has been done on the modeling of the oculomotor system. Models of the oculomotor neural circuitry that include the effect of alcohol are less plentiful in literature. We investigated the ...

A discontinuity seems to exist in present aided inertial navigation systems – the operational availability of high cost inertial navigation currently depends on the availability of a valid GPS lock. In general GPS ...