Program for 2020 IEEE Conference on Technologies for Sustainability (SusTech)
Los Angeles time | Friday, April 24 | Saturday, April 25 |
8:00 ‑ 8:40 am | K1: Welcome & Opening Keynote | K3: Keynote |
8:40 ‑ 9:00 am | S7: Sustainable Electronics II | |
9:00 ‑ 10:00 am | S1: Intelligent Transportation Systems & eWaste | |
10:00 ‑ 10:20 am | B24-1: Break 1 | |
10:20 ‑ 10:30 am | B25-1: Break 1 | |
10:30 ‑ 11:50 am | S2: Sustainable Electronics I | S8: Energy Efficiency II |
11:50 am ‑ 12:20 pm | L24: Lunch | L25: Lunch |
12:20 ‑ 1:00 pm | K2: Keynote | K4: Keynote |
1:00 ‑ 2:00 pm | S3: Smart Grid I | S9: Smart Grid II |
2:00 ‑ 2:30 pm | B24-2: Break 2 | B25-2: Break |
2:30 ‑ 3:50 pm | S4: Energy Efficiency I | S10: Internet of Things II & Societal Implications / Quality of Life I |
3:50 ‑ 4:00 pm | B24-3: Break 3 | B25-3: Break |
4:00 ‑ 5:20 pm | S5: Internet of Things I | S11: Societal Implications / Quality of Life II |
5:20 ‑ 5:30 pm | B24-4: Break 4 | B25-4: Break |
5:30 ‑ 6:50 pm | S6: Water Resources Management | S12: Sustainable Electronics III & Renewable/Alternative Energy |
K1: Welcome & Opening Keynote
"Power Electronics, Smart Grid and Grid Modernization"
As we move forward to transform the current grid from electrical and electromechanical to electronic, electrical, and electromechanical, power electronics will bring a vast reservoir of knowledge in electronic and active control to bear in integrating renewable energy into utility grid. Specific areas where power electronics will make a difference will be discussed in detail. The role of structured microgrids will also be presented as the fundamental building blocks for future grids. Batteries are the last missing piece in grid modernization. Together with solar and wind, it is quickly becoming the preferred peaking reserves for many operators with huge technical and economic benefits for both the utility industry and system operators. Substation modernization will transform the way we deliver electricity in rural and remote areas.
S1: Intelligent Transportation Systems & eWaste
B24-1: Break 1
S2: Sustainable Electronics I
- Extracting Clean Energy Through the Design of a Mesoscopic Low-Power Hydrokinetic Turbine
- Power System Protection in RTDS
- A LoRa-based Dual-CPU Core Salton Sea Environmental Monitoring Wireless Sensor System
- Power Quality Evaluation of Six-Step Commutation Brushless DC Motor Implemented on 32-Bit ARM Cortex Microcontroller
L24: Lunch
K2: Keynote
Active fault mapping in the Ridgecrest/China Lake area (Roquemore and Zellmer, 1986), was conducted with 1:12,000 scale low sun angle aerial photography and field mapping. Obvious traces of the Little Lake (LLF) and Airport Lake faults (ALF) were plotted on 1:24,000 scale maps and were later (1989) incorporated into the California Alquist-Priolo earthquake fault zone maps, typically used for construction planning. The LLF and ALF faults experienced earthquakes (E. Hauksson, L. Jones, J. Mori, S. Hough, G. Roquemore, 1995), accompanied by surface rupture, in 1982 (M4.9), and in 1995 (M5.4 and M5.8). Earthquake hazards planning in Indian Wells Valley (IWV) has been centered on the LLF and ALF.
On July 4th, a foreshock magnitude 6.4 occurred at the south end of IWV along a short EW trending left-slip fault. On July 5th, a mainshock occurred within IWV with a magnitude of 7.1. The M7.1 event was along a previously unrecognized fault to the east of the LLF and ALF. Unlike the segmented traces of the LLF and ALF, this new rupture was linear and fairly continuous. The 2019 M7.1 Ridgecrest Earthquake was California's largest in more than 20 years and caused $1 Billion in damage. Faults with the most obvious surface traces may not be the ones that produce the next damaging earthquake.
S3: Smart Grid I
- Optimal PID Parameters Tunning for a DC-DC Boost Converter: A Performance Comparative Using Grey Wolf Optimizer, Particle Swarm Optimization and Genetic Algorithms
- Comparison of Short-Term Load Forecasting Techniques
- Implementation of Critical Care Customer Within a Small-Scale Model of a Smart Grid
B24-2: Break 2
S4: Energy Efficiency I
B24-3: Break 3
S5: Internet of Things I
- Implementing an IoT Energy Monitoring System Using the Challenge-based Learning Model
- Hybrid Environment IOT-Mapping of Over-Tourism and Air Pollution in the Azores Archipelago
- The Potential of New Data Sources in a Data-Driven Transportation, Operation, Management and Assessment System (TOMAS)
- A Modular, Scalable Automation System for a Distribution Substation
B24-4: Break 4
S6: Water Resources Management
- Toward Sustainable Water System: Modeling Pipe Failure in Water Distribution Networks
- Assessment of the Existing Drainage System in Infanta, Quezon Province for Flood Hazard Management Using Analytical Hierarchy Process
- Application of Artificial Neuro-Fuzzy Interference System in Rainfall-Runoff Modelling at Imus River, Cavite
- Smart Watershed Monitoring for near Real-time Hydrologic Modeling in a Tropical Environment: The Case of Magat River Basin in Luzon, Philippines
K3: Keynote
"Challenges of the Connected Vehicle Revolution"
There is currently much on-going activity in the research and design of systems to enhance the safety of vehicular traffic on roads and highways. These include vehicle-to-vehicle based and vehicle-to-infrastructure based electronics systems with extension to personal devices. These systems need to work collaboratively with acceptable latencies in an intelligent and reconfigurable network environment. This is characterized by multiple localized and dynamically changing motion control loops which include each individual vehicle driver (and pedestrian). Systems will comprise a mix of existing and new technologies such as laser, imaging, computer vision, radar, cellular, WiFi, GPS, millimetric Waves, and others. A range of products and systems will compete for market entry from diverse developers and nations and the need for standardization is paramount. The behavior of an autonomously driven vehicle and how it could indeed improve accident rates compared to an intuitive human under diverse conditions is a contentious issue. The cost of failure is high as human life is in the loop. Replacing the intuition-driven human with multiple pre-programmed computing engines and sensor and actuator platforms will present a significant system and software engineering challenge. Not least because the transition from human to computer will not occur overnight.
A significant challenge exists in validating real time software-driven prototypes, final systems, and maintaining performance while in operation. The major players in this traffic evolution will be the government (legislative entity), the insurance companies (risk managing entities) and vehicle manufacturers and their technology partners (product developers). This will create new watersheds in the industry. The customers are vehicle drivers of all kinds: automobiles, trucks, tractors, vehicles with trailers, two-wheeled motorized vehicles, bicycles, and pedestrians. This presentation overviews some of the challenges and offers some directions for this burgeoning industry. A spotlight will be shone on lessons learnt from the aviation industry.
S7: Sustainable Electronics II
- Auto-Configurable Feature in Universal Remote Terminal Unit (uRTU)
- Sustainability Driven Performance Evaluation of Underground Smart Grid Conversion
- A Solar-Based Stand-Alone Family House for Energy Independence and Efficiency
- Effect of Printing Technology to Electricity and Environment
- Event Flow Measurements in Remote Tropical Watersheds in the Philippines: The Need for Automated Weather-proof Devices
B25-1: Break 1
S8: Energy Efficiency II
- UAV Power Management, Generation, and Storage System Principles and Design
- How the Fluorescent and LED Lamps Affect the DC Home Nanogrids
- Non-Linear Control Strategy for a Two-Body Point Absorber Wave Energy Converter Using Q Actor-Critic Learning
- A Better Policy for Electric and Low-Emission Cars Using Systems Thinking
L25: Lunch
K4: Keynote
Studies of space solar power (SSP) for the commercial grid have usually considered transmitting power from geostationary orbit (GEO), via microwaves at frequencies below 10 GHz, where the atmosphere is relatively transparent. Due to beam divergence from that distance at such frequencies, system sizes must be large, leading to power levels of 1000 MW or more. However, the scale of the systems, and the need to develop low-cost routine access to space, make competing with traditional energy sources challenging in the near-term. More recently, studies by the US Naval Research Laboratory have considered SSP for nearer-term niche uses in remote locations. At such locations, providing power by conventional means can be challenging. Many remote locations are typically powered by generators, which depend on fuel delivered at great cost, often through hazardous environments. Power requirements for such users range from a few hundred kilowatts to several megawatts. Furthermore, some remote facilities are at high latitudes, which are inaccessible from geostationary orbit. This presentation will consider alternative orbits. Examples of such orbits are highly inclined orbits, which may be sun-synchronous, or have a repeating ground track, or both. In addition, elliptical orbits may be considered which have relatively long dwell times over ground sites that are beneath their apogee. Since non-GEO orbits do not remain over their intended ground sites, systems or constellations, of satellites must be designed, in which beam handoffs can provide a given ground site with power much of the time, while making maximum use of the satellites as multiple satellites serve multiple ground sites.
S9: Smart Grid II
B25-2: Break
S10: Internet of Things II & Societal Implications / Quality of Life I
- Mitigation of Grid Susceptibility Caused by Behind-the-Meter Solar Generation
- Electric Utilities' Role in Promoting and Advancing Smart City Solutions
- Toward Smart and Sustainable Infrastructure Solution: Assessment and Modelling of Qualitative Factors Affecting Productivity in Microtunneling Projects
- MiSA - A System for a Microlending Service to Assist Edge Communities
B25-3: Break
S11: Societal Implications / Quality of Life II
B25-4: Break
S12: Sustainable Electronics III & Renewable/Alternative Energy
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