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A microgrid is a power grid consists of distributed power generation units and loads. Microgrid is also a system that can operate in grid-connected mode and islanding (autonomous) mode. The control of distributed power generation units in microgrids is necessa…

Neural Network has been used in a number of scientific fields including medical diagnosis. It is clear that classification is one of the main challenges in any medical diagnosis. However, the drawbacks of conventional neural network classifier are summarized a…

Ball and beam system is an experimental set for control system design that the position of the ball on a beam is changed with respect to the reference direction by changing the angle of the beam. The PID controller is applied to this problem. The performance o…

Flexible job shop scheduling problem (FJSSP) contains two sub-problems, that is, routing and scheduling. Each operation is assigned to a machine among a set of alternative machines in the routing sub-problem, whereas the assigned operations on all machines are…

A microgrid is a power grid consists of distributed power generation units and loads. Microgrid is also a system that can operate in grid-connected mode and islanding (autonomous) mode. The control of distributed power generation units in microgrids is necessa…

In this study, a PID controller with fractional order derivative filter (PIDFF) is designed for automatic voltage regulation (AVR) in power systems. In order to ensure maximum transient and steady state performance from the designed controller, the controller …

One of the most well-known and easy-to-design converter of DC-DC converters is DC-DC Boost converter. DC-DC boost converters are widely utilized in industrial applications. Therefore, output voltage regulation of the boost converter is a popular issue that res…

In this study, a single switch cascade DC/DC boost converter has been preferred instead of conventional cascade DC/DC boost converter to reduce cost and provide simple system control. High-performance controller design for DC/DC converters is the most importan…

The hub location problem deals with locating hub facilities and allocating non-hub nodes to hub. Hub location problem is classified as p-hub median problem, p-hub center problem, hub covering problem and hub location problem with fixed cost in the literature. …

In the phases of hydrological model calibration, the impact of control parameters of optimization algorithms on the related fitness (cost) function (reaching the global solution correctly and expeditiously) is rather essential. These control parameters’ dynami…

Günümüzde, birçok araştırmacı optimizasyon problemleri çözen algoritmaları geliştirme eğilimindedir. Gerçek dünya problemleri ise genelde birden çok amaca sahip oldukları için çok amaçlı optimizasyon problemleri üzerine geliştirilen algoritmalar trend olmuştur…

Fotovoltaik (FV) sistemler birkaç W’dan, MW’a kadar ölçeklendirilebilmesi gibi özelliklerinden dolayı en çok yaygınlaşan yenilenebilir enerji kaynağı türüdür. Bu enerji kaynağından en yüksek oranda yararlanılabilmesi maksimum güç noktasını izleyen (MPPT) dönüş…

Doğru akım motoru servo sistemlerde önemli bir tahrik unsurdur. Hız veya konum denetimi gerektiren sistemlerde kolay denetlenebildiği ve yüksek performans gösterdiği için sıkça kullanılmaktadırlar. Bu çalışmada, bir DC servo sistemin modellenmesi, durum değişk…

This study basically presents a review of robotic hands and its applications based on human hand motion. In the context of the review, different kinds of articles are analyzed. There are some hand motion-sensing methods, which are noncontact and direct contact…

We propose using support vector machines (SVMs) as a machine learning classifier in a grain-conditionmonitoring system. This system is used to proactively monitor the silobag-stored grain condition. The system consists of a wireless sensor network (WSN) and a …

The increasing world population has increased the demand for food. Many threats such as agricultural land use, environmental impacts, global warming and drought risks necessitate industrialization of agricultural production and optimum utilization of existing …

This study includes the design of quadratic cascade DC/DC boost converter with PI controller. Two or more cascade boost converters have been used to increase system efficiency. Advantages of the proposed converter compared to the conventional boost converter a…

Complex-valued artificial neural network (CVANN) has been developed to process data with complex numbers directly. In a CVANN the weights, threshold, inputs and outputs are all complex numbers. The convergence of the CVANN back propagation algorithm depending …

Differential evolution algorithm (DEA) is one featured kind of population based evolutionary algorithms. Although it is stated in previous studies that the algorithm is more sensitive to the crossover rate, it is tried out in this study whether DEA depends on …

Prediction in the medical field is a challenging problem and as a result many researchers have used different artificial intelligent methods including conventional Self Organizing Map (SOM) to achieve this task. SOM is a specialized clustering technique that h…