... Direct torque control Vector selection table Experimental results Automotive industry Reliability management Induction motor drives are widely used in applications where an improved cost‐effectiveness is required, such as large‐scale production industries. An improved cost‐effectiveness could...

... 2007 Power transmission systems Reliability management Contingency planning In today's operating environment of electric power utilities, huge blocks of electric power are being continuously transmitted over very long high‐voltage lines and distributed through hundreds of thousands...

... to the interval type (Moore, 1966). G. Spagnuolo can be contacted at: spanish@ieee.org © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Programming and algorithm theory Systems theory Tolerances Reliability management The growing interest in systems design in the presence of tolerances...

... Limited 2004 Reliability management Human failure Uncertainty management In automation and control fields, continuous development of industrial and information technologies is actually the main key to design systems, in order to make them able to compete for economy and quality. System...

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