It is very important for consumers to have the operating voltages within the specified limit. Sometimes, this is not possible to provide by the grid operators although grid operators invest heavily in voltage regulating devices. With the integration of variable renewable energy systems in the grid, it has become more challenging for the grid companies to regulate them to provide stable voltages and ...

The present paper holds a twofold perspective on a new teaching format in a linear algebra course given to engineering students. The design resembles the flipped classroom, but with various adjustments. The first part highlights the basis on which the design was built, both research results and practical issues, but also the implementation of the teaching. It did not proceed quite as expected. The ...

Space debris has become an important topic, and several national and international space agencies are currently studying space debris detection and removal to increase the safety of space missions. UiT the Arctic University of Norway in Narvik is aiming to develop a 2U CubeSat that can perform in-situ detection of debris with the projects UNICube and QBDebris. The mission target is to detect mm-sized ...

This thesis presents the development and validation of a robust Visual-Inertial Odometry (VIO) system tailored for agile unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) operating in GPS-denied environments. These environments often challenge traditional navigation systems due to their inherent limitations in urban canyons, indoors, or densely forested areas. The study introduces a novel visual odometry (VO) algorithm ...

To move the global energy away from fossil fuels towards renewable energy leads toward a more complex grid, after experiencing a reduction of inertia when integrating large renewable energy sources (RES). With an increased pace of RES penetration into the grid and along a growing demand of electrical power, the challenge to maintain the system frequency as close as possible to the nominal range ...

The main purpose of the project is to convert the snowmobile to electric and make it operational, which rule out focus on factors as ex. driving range, user interface for performance adjustment, heating for comfort, etc. For mounting the electric motor a suitable and feasible location and motor bracket to easy access the existing gearbox axel, and also in position to a cooling airflow through the ...

Some approaches to achieving full observability and controllability in power systems are explored in this thesis. The core structure of this work consists of observability and controllability, focusing on two key phases of optimization and control. In the first phase, system observability is addressed through optimal placement of Phasor Measurement Units (PMUs). The Connectivity Matrix Algorithm ...

This thesis investigates one of the most favorable converters for integrating fuel cells into a DC microgrid. A current-fed full-bridge isolated DC-DC converter has advantages such as high voltage conversion ratio, low switches’ losses, and low input current ripple which make it one of the best choices for Fuel cells (FC). This converter transfer power to the load through the leakage inductance which ...

This article addresses some challenging perspectives related to offering take-home exams in mathematics at university level. The challenges arose during work on a previous article where four perspectives originating from Bjerrum Nielsen’s framework (2003) were used to analyze universities’ assessment methods during the Covid lockdown in our country. The perspectives had some ethical considerations ...

Underwater capacitive power transfer (CPT) can provide an inexpensive and light electric charging solution with good misalignment tolerance for unmanned maritime vehicles. This paper investigates the effect of the changing of the frequency and the distance on the power transfer and overall efficiency of the underwater CPT system, considering the dielectric losses of the medium. It also proposes and ...