• High Level Synthesis Based E-Nose System for Gas Applications 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Hassan, Muhammad; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      This paper proposes a hardware/software co-design approach using the Zynq platform for the implementation of an electronic nose (EN) system based on principal component analysis (PCA) as a dimensionality reduction technique ...
    • A high precision resolver-to-DC converter 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Alhamadi, Mohd A. ( IEEE , 2005 , Article)
      A newly developed resolver converter, providing a pseudolinear voltage proportional to the shaft angle, is presented. This converter is based on a new concept involving the absolute values of the demodulated sine and cosine ...
    • HW/SW co-design based implementation of Gas discrimination 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine; Bermak, Amine ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      A gas discrimination system is mainly made of two parts, the sensing part and the processing part. As an alternative solution to pure software or hardware implementation of the processing part of a gas identification system, ...
    • A new angle determination method for resolvers 

      Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Benammar, Mohieddine; Alhamadi, Mohd; Al-Emadi, Nasser; Al-Hitmi, Mohammed ( IEEE , 2008 , Conference Paper)
      A new low cost method for converting the amplitudes of the sine/cosine signals generated by the resolver into a measure of the angle of its shaft. The new method operates without lookup tables (LUT), and takes advantage ...
    • A new iterative learning control method for PWM inverter current regulation 

      Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Benammar, Mohieddine; Alhamadi, Mohd A. ( IEEE , 2003 , Conference Paper)
      AC servomotor speed or current controller based on PI control and/or optimal control, can not eliminate the cyclical fluctuations of speed or current when subject to periodic disturbances. PWM inverters output waveforms ...
    • A new PLL method for resolvers 

      Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Benammar, Mohieddine ( IEEE , 2010 , Conference Paper)
      This paper describes a novel implementation of the classical PLL closed loop method without using VCO, DAC, counter and look-up tables. The proposed method makes use of the excitation signal of the resolver to estimate the ...
    • A novel converter for sinusoidal encoders 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Ben-brahim, Lazhar; Alhamadi, Mohd A.; El-Naimi, Mohamed ( IEEE , 2006 , Conference Paper)
      The paper presents a novel and low cost method for determining the angle from sine and cosine signals generated by angular position sensors such as resolvers and sinusoidal encoders. The proposed scheme is based upon the ...
    • Novel linearizer for tangent/cotangent converter 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Bagher, Mohamed; Al Kaisi, Mohammed ( IEEE , 2009 , Conference Paper)
      Resolvers and other types of sinusoidal encoders provide electrical signals whose amplitudes are related to the sine and cosine of the mechanical shaft angle ¿ over the full 360° range. The tangent/cotangent converter, ...
    • A novel method for estimating the angle from analog co-sinusoidal quadrature signals 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Ben-brahim, Lazhar; Alhamadi, Mohd A.; Al-Naemi, Mohamed ( Elsevier , 2008 , Article)
      The paper presents a new low cost and accurate method for determining the angle from sine and cosine signals produced by resolvers and sinusoidal encoders. In the proposed scheme, multiple phase-shifted sinusoids (PSS) are ...
    • A Novel Resolver-to-360° Linearized Converter 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Alhamadi, Mohd A. ( IEEE , 2004 , Article)
      A novel and simple resolver-to-dc converter is presented. It is shown that by appropriate processing of the sine and cosine resolver signals, the proposed converter may produce an output voltage proportional to the shaft ...
    • PCA IP-core for gas applications on the heterogenous zynq platform 

      Ali, Amine Ait Si; Amira, Abbes; Bensaali, Faycal; Benammar, Mohieddine (2013 , Conference Paper)
      Principal component analysis (PCA) is a commonly used technique for data reduction in general as well as for dimensionality reduction in gas identification systems when a sensor array is being used. This paper presents the ...
    • Position Measurement Using Sinusoidal Encoders and All-Analog PLL Converter with Improved Dynamic Performance 

      Benammar, Mohieddine; Gonzales, Antonio S.P. ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2016 , Article)
      This paper describes a phase-locked loop (PLL) converter with improved dynamic response for the determination of mechanical angle from sinusoidal encoders and resolvers. PLL converters are tracking-type converters that use ...
    • Quartz crystal microbalance electronic interfacing systems: A review 

      Alassi, Abdulrahman; Benammar, Mohieddine; Brett, Dan ( MDPI AG , 2017 , Article Review)
      Quartz Crystal Microbalance (QCM) sensors are actively being implemented in various fields due to their compatibility with different operating conditions in gaseous/liquid mediums for a wide range of measurements. This ...
    • Review and simulation of leakage current in transformerless microinverters for PV applications 

      Khan, Ahmad; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Benammar, Mohieddine ( Elsevier Ltd , 2017 , Article Review)
      Designing microinverters without transformers enhances system efficiency and power density and reduces cost. However, the transformer removal results in loss of galvanic isolation that leads to leakage current circulation. ...
    • Review and simulation of leakage current in transformerless microinverters for PV applications 

      Khan, Ahmad; Ben-Brahim, Lazhar; Gastli, Adel; Benammar, Mohieddine ( Elsevier , 2017 , Article Review)
      Designing microinverters without transformers enhances system efficiency and power density and reduces cost. However, the transformer removal results in loss of galvanic isolation that leads to leakage current circulation. ...