It is commonly known that when using electronic equipment, both personnel and equipment need to be protected from high power transients. In order to ensure safety and prevent equipment damage, a grounding system must be used to provide a low resis...
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 ...
This work aims at allowing for increased penetration of renewable distributed generation (DG) in the power distribution system (DS). The means to achieve this goal is changing the DS topological structure, i.e. by network reconfiguration (NR). In ...
Electrical distribution systems have been traditionally planned and operated in a radial manner, allowing uni-directional flow of power from substation to customers. In recent years, environmental and societal concerns have prompted an increased u...
In this thesis work, it is intended to investigate not only the Extended Kalman Filter (EKF) but to further study the more recent nonlinear Kalman Filters for their application to the nonlinear problem of a continuous stirred tank reactor. The var...
Implementations of two methods for broadening the performance bandwidth of resonant electromagnetic structures are presented. The first method is the use of non-Foster loading elements, and the second method is the use of fractal geometries. Non-F...