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Title: A Novel Principal and Independent Component Analysis Preprocessing Technique for Neural Network Classification of Electroencephalography Signals for Brain Computer Interface Development
Author: Major, Tyler
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The field of brain computer interfaces (BCI) is growing rapidly. Innovations that help benefit disabled persons is the overall goal of the research, currently. Every brain computer interface consists of three basic parts: a sensing device, signal ...

Title: A Semi-Quantitative Schlieren High-Speed Flow Diagnostic: Analysis of High-Pressure-Ratio, Overexpanded Planar Flow in Rocket Nozzles
Author: Thorsett-Hill, Karen
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: This work introduces a semi-quantitative schlieren (SQS) method which is used to qualitatively and quantitatively analyze complex, unsteady, compressible flows in a small, planar convergent-divergent nozzle. A basic schlieren system is used to ima...

Title: ADAPTIVE CONTROL OF RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES FOR IMPROVING THE DISPATCHABILITY AND OPERATIONAL STABILITY OF RENEWABLE ENERGY INTEGRATED POWER SYSTEM
Author: Bhattarai, Rojan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: This dissertation presents a measurement based adaptive control framework for renewableenergy resources (RER) in order to improve the dispatch-ability and operationalstability of renewable energy integrated bulk power grid. The proposed techniquei...

Title: Advanced Control Approaches For Renewable Energy Integration To Improve Overall Stability And Reliability Of Power Grid
Author: Nair, Anuprabha Ravindran
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Renewable energy-based electric power generation is receiving more attention due to the increasing power demand and environmental concerns. The interconnection of these distributed resources to the grid is based on the grid code standards to ensur...

Title: An Exploration of the Diffusion Dynamics of Open Source Software (OSS): An Agent-Based Computational Economics (ACE) Approach
Author: Zaffar, Muhammad
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Business, Information science
Description: Despite the rising popularity of Open Source Software (OSS), there is limited understanding of the factors that affect the diffusion of OSS at the organizational level. Review of the literature suggests that previous empirical and analytical studi...

Title: Approaches for Oscillation Monitoring and Damping of Wind Integrated Power Grid
Author: Gurung, Niroj
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy has emerged as one of the major choice of sustainable energy especially due to lower generation cost and push for alternative sources of clean energy. How- ever, the technological difference in wind generation is certain to create chan...

Title: Approaches for Real-Time Frequency Dependent Reduced Order Modeling and Wide-Area Control of Modern Power Grid
Author: Thakallapelli, Abilash
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: In this dissertation, approaches for measurement based real-time wide-area damping controllers (WADC), are studied for renewable energy integrated power grid. For this, first, a model-free algorithm for multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) transfer fun...

Title: Aspects of Turbulence and Stochastic Processes in Fluid Mechanics
Author: Dahlberg, Jerry
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Fluid mechanics
Description: Three experimental studies are executed to examine aspects of turbulence and stochastic processes in fluid mechanics. Each experimental study is conducted in a different medium; water, wind and vibrated grain piles. Each study requires upgrades to...

Title: Behavioral Modeling of Zinc-Oxide, Thin-Film, Field-Effect Transistors and the Design of Pixel Driver, Analog Amplifier, and Low-Noise RF Amplifier Circuits
Author: Calder, Leroy
Date Created: 2010
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Zinc-oxide (ZnO) is of great interest due to transparent properties, high breakdown voltages, and low cost. Behavioral modeling is presented in this dissertation to model ZnO thin-film field-effect transistor (FET) drain current versus gate-source...

Title: Broadband and Reconfigurable Filtering Antennas for Next Generation Mobile Wireless Communications Systems
Author: Shehan, Joshua
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Mobile wireless communications systems, particularly at the base station level, are ever evolving to provide more data with better coverage resulting in continuously evolving antenna technology. From first generation (1G) mobile networks deployed ...

Title: COMPARISON OF TAYLOR’S THEORY OF SPHERICAL BLAST TO A KNOWN NUMERICAL SOLUTION
Author: ROYADHIKARI, SANDIPKUMAR
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Taylor’s blast wave theory was the first of its kind and focused on the dynamics and thermodynamics of spherical blast waves. Taylor’s model was stated as a similarity solution and determined the time-dependent blast radius, as well as the radiall...

Title: Control of wind integrated power grid using voltage controllability and vulnerability detection
Author: Maharjan, Rabindra
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Renewable energy sources
Description: Modern power grids are the largest and most complex engineered systems. Integration of distributed resources like wind farms and economic constraints push power grids to operate close to their limits. Due to this, power system is subject to variou...

Title: DATA-DRIVEN DIAGNOSTICS OF ISSUES RELATED TO POWER SYSTEM DYNAMICS USING PMU MEASUREMENT
Author: Arefi, Mahmoodreza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work investigates the use of data driven techniques to diagnose issues related to power system dynamics. The source behind the data are simulated Phasor Measurement Unit (PMU) measurements. First, this study examines the application of Weight...

Title: DEVELOPING A BRAIN COMPUTER INTERFACE CONTROL SYSTEM FOR ROBOTIC MOVEMENT IN TWO DIMENSIONS
Author: Major, Tyler
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This paper concerns the theory behind developing a brain computer interface (BCI) and the applications of such a system. Signal acquisition methods such as Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI), Near-Infrared Spectroscopy (NIRS), Magnetoenc...

Title: Design of Fault Tolerant Systems
Author: Walker, Benjamin
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This research designs a Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) approach that compensates for both actuator and sensor faults by using multiple observers. This method is shown to work for both linear time-variant and linear time-invariant systems. This work ...

Title: Dynamic suspension modeling of an eddy-current device: an application to Maglev
Author: Paudel, Nirmal
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Electromagnetism
Description: When a magnetic source is simultaneously oscillated and translationally moved above a linear conductive passive guideway such as aluminum, eddy-currents are induced that give rise to a time-varying opposing field in the air-gap. This time-varying ...

Title: ENHANCING DISTRIBUTION PLANNING METHODS USING STATE OF THE ART MODELING TECHNIQUES TO FACILITATE HIGH GROWTH DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES
Author: Davis, Wesley
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Climate change is one of the most pivotal issues for the world in which we live today. The power grid transformation to become, smarter sustainable and carbon-free, has been a primary emphasis in recent times. This includes the integration of Dist...

Title: Experimentally Infused Active System Optimization - Theoretical Framework and Airborne Wind Energy Case Study
Author: Deodhar, Nihar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering
Description: This research pioneers formal combined plant and controller optimization (termed ``co-design") schemes for complex systems where accurate but expensive experiments are fused with cheap but less accurate numerical simulations. This fusion of experi...

Title: FAULT-TOLERANT DESIGN FOR CONTINUOUS REAL-TIME MONITORING AND MODULATION OF THE HUMAN BRAIN
Author: Acharya, Ipsita
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: An era of brain implantable devices has been ushered in recent years. These devices are currently being used to treat neurological disorders such as Parkinson's depression and epilepsy and are increasingly being proposed for a wide range of neurol...

Title: FRACTAL-INSPIRED SUBWAVELENGTH GEOMETRIC INCLUSIONS FOR IMPROVEMENT OF HIGH-FREQUENCY ELECTROMAGNETIC DEVICES
Author: Smith, Kathryn
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electromagnetism
Description: This dissertation presents research results demonstrating the efficacy of fractal-inspired subwavelength geometric inclusions for improvement of high-frequency electromagnetic devices. It begins with a review of the open literature in the area of ...