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We propose an output power control of a variable-speed switched reluctance generator (SRG) by implementing an artificial neural network (ANN) in the control loop. In the high-speed operation with single pulse mode, the phase current waveform, and subsequently, the output power, depend on the conduction angles. The conduction angles, i.e., the turn-on and turn-off angles, can be determined by the proposed method using an ANN. A dynamic model of an SRG with eight stator poles and six rotor poles is used for simulation to obtain the output power profiles, which subsequently become the ANN training data. The inputs of the ANN are the reference value of the output power and the rotor speeds, while the outputs of the ANN are the turn-off and turn-on angles. The control algorithm is implemented by integrating the trained data into the dynamic model using MATLAB. The experimental setup of the SRG is implemented using a digital signal processor (DSP) to control the two-switches-per-phase drive system, which includes highly accurate phase current and dc-link voltage sensor circuits. The trained biases and weights of the ANN are also coded in the DSP. To validate the proposed method, comparisons are made between simulation and experimental results.

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This research proposes a roof-mounted auxiliary power supply (APS) system for 600 VDC low-floor light rail vehicles (LRVs). The proposed APS system consists of five parallel-connected dc–ac inverter modules (modules 1–5). Inverter modules 1 and 2 are three-phase dc–ac inverters for the compressor motors of the air conditioning system, and inverter modules 3 and 4 are three-phase dc–ac inverters for the air pump motors of the air supply system. Inverter module 5 is a single-phase dc–ac inverter for the 220 VAC power supply of onboard electric loads. Simulations and experiments were carried out under variable load torques and output frequencies for modules 1–4 and under full and no resistive loads for module 5. The measured total input current and total input power of the proposed APS system under the full-load condition are 114.36 A and 68.84 kW. The total efficiency of the proposed APS system (modules 1–5) is 97.05%. The proposed APS system is suitable for 600 VDC low-floor LRVs. The novelty of this research lies in the use of five parallel-connected inverter modules, as opposed to the three-phase output transformer or isolated dc–dc converter in the early and conventional APS systems. Specifically, the proposed APS system requires neither a three-phase output transformer nor an isolated dc–dc converter.