• A dynamic prognosis scheme for flexible operation of gas turbines 

      Tsoutsanis, Elias; Meskin, Nader; Benammar, Mohieddine; Khorasani, Khashayar ( Elsevier Ltd , 2016 , Article)
      The increase in energy demand has led to expansion of renewable energy sources and their integration into a more diverse energy mix. Consequently the operation of thermal power plants, which are spearheaded by the gas ...
    • A low power oscillator based temperature sensor for RFID applications 

      Mohamad, Saqib; Tang, Fang; Amira, Abbes; Bermak, Amine; Benammar, Mohieddine ( IEEE Computer Society , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper we present a temperature sensor based on a ring oscillator. The ring oscillator uses the CMOS thyristor delay element and has an extremely low power consumption of about 47nW at room temperature with a supply ...
    • A Low Power Reconfigurable Multi-sensing Platform For Gas Application 

      Ali Akbar, Muhammad; Ait Si Ali, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine; Benssali, Faycal; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Presence of toxic gases and accidental explosions in gas industries have turned the researcher to innovate an electronic nose system which can indicate the nature and the parameters of the gas passing through different ...
    • A low power temperature sensor based on a voltage to time converter cell 

      Mohamad, Saqib; Fang Tang; Bermak, Amine; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      In this paper we propose a temperature sensor, based on a voltage to time converter cell (VTC). A VTC is frequently employed in time to digital converters for generating a delay that is proportional to the input voltage. ...
    • A multi-sensing reconfigurable platform for gas applications 

      Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Ali, Amin Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Benammar, Mohieddine; Bensaali, Faycal; ... more authors ( IEEE , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      The production of hazardous gases due to different physicochemical reactions in gas industries have raised the need of autonomous sensor tag. However the adaptation of remotely controlled sensor tag is still suffering with ...
    • A new closed-loop converter for sinusoidal encoders - Preliminary results 

      Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Benammar, Mohieddine; Mahran, Ahmed; Alhomsi, Ahmed ( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)
      Sinusoidal position transducers provide accurate and reliable representation of the mechanical position of their shafts. The sine/cosine transducers signals may be used in open loop or closed loop arrangements for the ...
    • A new fast tracking resolver for mechanical angle measurement 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Gonzales, Antonio S. P. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      The resolver is a mechanical angle and rotational speed transducer that operates as rotary transformer; its two stator windings are excited with sine and cosine AC signals and its rotor winding produces a sinusoidal signal ...
    • A new tracking technique for mechanical angle measurement 

      Al-Emadi, Nasser; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Benammar, Mohieddine ( Elsevier , 2014 , Article)
      Resolvers and other types of sine/cosine encoders are used for measurement of mechanical angles. These devices produce quadrature signals in the form of sine and cosine of the unknown angle, and require converters to extract ...
    • A novel PLL resolver angle position indicator 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Gonzales, Antonio S.P. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      This paper describes a novel and high-performance phase-locked loop (PLL) resolver converter for the measurement of mechanical angles. The proposed method does not require the use of demodulators, voltage-controlled ...
    • A novel resolver converter based on a modified tracking method 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Gonzales, Antonio S.P. ( IEEE , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      Resolvers are robust and reliable transducers, working as rotary transformers, and are used for mechanical angle measurement. In the present work, the two stator windings of the resolver are excited with sine and cosine ...
    • A Sinusoidal Encoder-to-Digital Converter Based on an Improved Tangent Method 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Khattab, Asem; Saleh, Sharief; Bensaali, Faycal; Touati, Farid ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      Sinusoidal encoders are used for the measurement of angular position and linear displacement. These provide electrical signals dependent on the sine and cosine of the position θ of their moving part relative to the stationary ...
    • An efficient component map generation method for prediction of gas turbine performance 

      Tsoutsanis, Elias; Meskin, Nader; Benammar, Mohieddine; Khorasani, Khashayar ( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Improving efficiency, reliability and availability of gas turbines have become more than ever one of the main areas of interest in gas turbine research. This is mainly due to the stringent environmental regulations that ...
    • Angular position measurement using resolvers together with a robust linearization technique 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Gonzales, Antonio S. P. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2015 , Conference Paper)
      Resolvers are used for both absolute angular and linear position sensing. A robust amplitude to phase converter is described for the determination of position from the sine and cosine output signals of the resolver. The ...
    • Cunws/rgo Based Transparent Conducting Electrodes As A Replacement Of Ito In Opto-electric Devices 

      Sehpar Shikoh, Ali; Zhu, Zhaozhao; Mankowski, Trent; Touati, Farid; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2014 , Conference Paper)
      Transparent electrodes that conduct electrical current and allow light to pass through are widely used as the essential component in various opto-electric devices such as light emitting diodes, solar cells, photodectectors ...
    • Design and implementation of a gas identification system on Zynq SoC platform 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; ... more authors ( Asian Research Publishing Network , 2015 , Article)
      The Zynq-7000 based platforms are increasingly being used in different applications including image and signal processing. The Zynq system on chip (SoC) architecture combines a processing system based on a dual core ARM ...
    • Design and realization of an open-source and modular smart meter 

      Sayed, Sawsan; Hussain, Tasnim; Gastli, Adel; Benammar, Mohieddine ( John Wiley and Sons Ltd , 2019 , Article)
      This paper presents the design of a modular and open-source smart meter for educational and research purposes. The smart meter monitors the energy consumption, uploads the data to a cloud server, and can be used to control ...
    • DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL INSTRUMENTATION INCORPRATING MAGNETORESISTIVE ENCODERS FOR THE MEASUREMENT OF ANGULAR 

      SALEH, SHARIEF (2018 , Master Thesis)
      As rotation dependent technologies emerge, the need of having a feedback about their rotational behavior became a necessity in order to control them. Many types of sensors, based on various operation principles are available ...
    • Electronic nose system on the Zynq SoC platform 

      Ait Si Ali, Amine; Djelouat, Hamza; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Elsevier B.V. , 2017 , Article)
      Electronic nose or machine olfaction are systems used for detection and identification of odorous com- pounds and gas mixtures. An electronic nose system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part which takes the form ...
    • Fast Prototyping of KNN Based Gas Discrimination System on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Akbar, Muhammad Ali; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; ... more authors ( Hamad bin Khalifa University Press (HBKU Press) , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Electronic noses (EN) or machine olfaction are systems used for the detection and identification of odorous compounds and gas mixtures. The accuracy of such systems is as important as the processing time. Therefore, the ...
    • Hardware PCA for gas identification systems using high level synthesis on the Zynq SoC 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2013 , Conference Paper)
      One of the significant stages in a gas identification system is dimensionality reduction to speed up the processing part. This is even more important when the system is implemented on a hardware platform where the resources ...