This letter presents a selective frequency-reconfigurable antenna, suitable for cognitive radio applications. The proposed antenna is capable of switching between a wide operating band of 2.63-3.7 GHz and four different subbands, which allows using it for sensing the entire band and then adjusting its bandwidth to select the suitable sub-band and prefilter out the other ones. The antenna is composed of a radiating element in the form of an inverted U fed by a microstrip line on its upper side. In order to achieve a selective frequency reconfiguration, four horizontal slots with integrated p-i-n diode switches are incorporated in the ground plane to act as reconfigurable filter. Some of the switches are used to alter the antenna bandwidth, while the others are employed to shift the operating band by varying the electrical length of the middle slots. To present the work, both simulated and measured results are presented, and a good agreement is achieved.

A novel centroid-based diagnostic method of the power switches in five-leg voltage source inverter is proposed in this paper. Using a vectorial multimachine description, a five-phase drive presenting an opened switch or an opened phase faults has typical operating characteristics in comparison to classical three-phase drives. Based on such characteristics, this paper aims to provide a simple and robust diagnostic process for switches fault regardless of the shape of the back electromotive forces (harmonic components) and the transient states due to the load variation. Original theoretical developments are presented. Experimental results are shown to validate the proposed strategy.

This paper deals with multiple insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBTs) open circuit faults detection and localization in a pulse width modulation (PWM) voltage source inverter (VSI) fed induction motor based on a modified slope method. Firstly, a detection algorithm was used to calculate the slope of the current-vector trajectory in complex plan αβ. This algorithm detects the faulty bridge. Second, the Schmitt-trigger is used for the phase's currents monitoring. This circuit determines the phase's currents polarity and detect whether the current in the faulty arm is positive or negative. The analysis of two combined information makes it possible to diagnose the two simultaneous IGBTs open circuit fault within inverter. The proposed technique is developed and implemented to vector control induction motor drives. An experimental setup in the laboratory is used to compare the simulation results and the experimental results and to evaluate the performances of the proposed method.

In this letter, a new design method of ultra wideband bandpass filter (UWB BPF) is proposed. Based on a symmetrical structure of a simple uniform line loaded by a stepped-impedance open stub (SIS) connected at its center, the proposed design method employs simultaneously the optimization of a defined objective function in the range of frequency 3.1-10.6 GHz and the transmission zeros at cut-off frequencies for a rapid convergence. Obtaining different filter sizes with good performance, the compact UWB BPF is simulated, fabricated, and measured. A good agreement between simulation and measurement is obtained while achieving good performances such as a return loss better than 10 dB, an upper stopband attenuation higher than 20 dB up to 17.6 GHz, and a sharp selectivity.