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Ido Amiel1, Zekharya Danin1, Moshe Sitbon1

  • 1Department of Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Ariel University, Ariel 40700, Israel.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|September 23, 2022
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Keywords:
AC voltage estimationRMS valuecorrecting coefficientsharmonic representation

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