Browsing Theses--Electrical Engineering by Title
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Microgrid Energy Management System
(2015-12-18)The concept of microgrid is emerging to be a viable approach to integrate various types of electricity sources and storage devices within or close to load locations. While the fundamental technical features of microgrids ... -
Microwave beamforming for non-invasive patient-specific hyperthermia treatment of pediatric brain cancer
(2011-05-15)We present a numerical study of an array-based microwave beamforming approach for non-invasive hyperthermia treatment of pediatric brain tumors. The transmit beamformer is designed to achieve localized heating?that is,to ... -
Model of Two-Phase Motor and Compressor for FIDVR Analysis
(2017-05-10)The main focus of this research is dynamic load modeling for Fault Induced Delayed Voltage Recovery (FIDVR). FIDVR is the phenomenon whereby the system voltage remains at uncontrolled reduced levels for several seconds ... -
Modeling and Simulation of Air Conditioner Motors and Investigation of Cascaded Stalling
(2009-12-15)Air conditioner (A/C) motor stalling is considered as one of the main reasons for the occurrence of delayed voltage recovery events leading to voltage collapse. In recent years, the phenomenon of Fault-Induced Delayed ... -
Modeling Consumer Adoption of Alternative-Fuel Vehicles In Dane County, Wisconsin
(2011-05-15)With the rapid development of technology and increase in human activities, the existing resources have been consumed at unprecedented speed, which also gives rise to the growing environmental concerns. For instance, there ... -
MODULAR DESIGN OF HIGH-THROUGHPUT, LOW-LATENCY SORTING UNITS
(2012-05-20)High-throughput and low-latency sorting is a key requirement in many applications that deal with large amounts of data. Searching and highenergy physics systems require a considerable number of sorting units. The particle ... -
Movement Compensation in Magnetoencephalography Analysis
(2011-05-15)EVOKED response data in magneto-encephalography (MEG) typically has a very low signal-to-noise ratio(SNR). To address this problem, in the course of an experiment stimuli are periodically applied to a subject dozens of ... -
Multiple View Image Denoising
(2009-12-15)A pinhole camera (large depth of field) image capture is essential in many computer vision applications such as Simultaneous Localization and Mapping, 3D reconstruction, video surveillance. For these applications obtaining ... -
Natural Character Recognition Using Image Processing Techniques
(2013-05-19)If we examine our environment we will recognize symbols that we commonly use in both language and numerical systems. Based on this simple observation it has been claimed that there exists a relationship between how often ... -
Near Terahertz Silicon Conductivity Measurements via High-Q Resonant Cavity
(2010-09-01)The electrical properties of many materials are not well characterized at frequencies in the near Terahertz regime. As the applications of Terahertz radiation are multiplying, the lack of a good model for the behavior ... -
New Frontiers for Blackout Prevention: A Study of the Vulnerability Frontier and its Use for Contingency Analysis and Reliability Assessment
(2019)From infrastructure to healthcare to national security, global dependence on bulk power systems has never been more critical-placing reliability at a premium. Disruptions to power are consequential, and data on the frequency ... -
OBSERVER BASED ACTIVE DAMPING OF LCL RESONANCE IN GRID CONNECTED VOLTAGE SOURCE CONVERTERS
(2013-05-19)Voltage source converters (VSC) with LCL filters are attractive in grid connected power electronics because they greatly reduce pollution of the utility voltage due to switching harmonics. However, the presence of the LCL ... -
One-shot Unsupervised Learning for Improved Human-Robot Collaboration
(2017-05-16)As robots become commonplace in human environments such as households and manufacturing facilities, they require new control methods for e↵ectively collaborating with their human partners in common pick-and-place tasks, ... -
Optical emission study of ion composition in an inductively coupled oxygen plasma
(2015-08-21)The success of ion implantation to precisely modify substrate properties is dependent on controlling the incident ion energies to achieve the desired depth of the implanted ions. Oxygen plasmas generally contain both O+ ... -
Optimal Proxy-Limited Lines for Representing Voltage Constraints in a DC Optimal Powerflow
(2009-12-15)With the recent restructuring of the electric industry away from the vertically integrated monopolies, electricity markets have emerged in various parts of the country. Independent System Operators (ISOs) and Regional ... -
Optimizing Hierarchical Algorithms for GPGPUs
(2010-05-15)The performance potential of future architectures, thanks to Moores Law, grows linearly with the number of available devices per integrated circuit. Whether these future devices are ultra-small CMOS transistors, nano-tubes, ... -
A Parallel Algorithm for Multi-view Image Denoising
(2014-05-18)In this paper, we propose to improve the denoising performance by exploiting the redundancy provided by the multiple views. Here, we review the rich literature on image denoising methods. Zhang et. al. in [1] conjecture ... -
PARTICLE FILTERING METHOD FOR OBJECT TRACKING AND SENSOR
(2012-05-20)Generally, there is no analytic solution to object tracking problems in non-linear non-Gaussian scenarios, which is a common type of problem nowadays. A particle filter is a numerical method that can be applied to any ... -
pd-gem5: Simulation Infrastructure for Parallel/Distributed Computer Systems for Network-Driven Optimization
(2015-08-21)In developing and optimizing a parallel/distributed computer system, it is critical to study the impact of the com-plex interplay amongst processor, node, and network architectures on performance and power efficiency in ... -
Performance Evaluation of a DySER FPGA Prototype
(2014-08-25)Specialization and accelerators are being proposed as an effective way to address the slowdown of Dennard scaling. DySER is one such accelerator, which dynamically synthesizes large compound functional units to match program ...