Detection of flicker caused by interharmonics

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 152-160

  Kim, Taekhyum ^a   Powers, Edward J ^a   Grady, Mack W ^a   Arapostathis, Ari ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Austin   (United States)

Author keywords

Down up sampling; Flicker; Flickermeter; Harmonics; Interharmonics; Peak detection

Indexed keywords

BANDPASS FILTERS; FLICKERING; STANDARDS;

DOWN-UP SAMPLING; FLICKERMETER; HARMONICS; INTERHARMONICS; PEAK DETECTION;

CUTOFF FREQUENCY;

EID: 57949098372     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2008.928413     Document Type: Conference Paper

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