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Title: UNDERSTANDING AND DEVELOPING FIRE-THROUGH DIELECTRIC CONTACTS ON HIGHLY EFFICIENT SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Unsur, Veysel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a quick and efficient way of responding to the scarcity of fossil fuels and increasing environmental pollution. For the last two decades, photovoltaic technology has been the fastest growing industry among the renewable energy sour...

Title: Powerline Communications Through Series Connected Switched Mode Power Converters to Be Used in Solar Microinverters
Author: Evans, Daniel
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...

Title: PARTICLE FILTER APPROACH TO OVERCOME MULTIPATH PROPAGATION ERROR IN SLAM INDOOR APPLICATIONS.
Author: Shetty, Nelyadi
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Robot localization faces the classic chicken or egg problem where it has to either know the location of the robot or the map to localize itself. In most applications this can be using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping(SLAM) through measurement...

Title: Optimal Sizing and Operation of Energy Storage Systems to Mitigate Intermittency of Renewable Energy Resources
Author: Naziri Moghaddam, Iman
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Increased share of Renewable Energy Sources (RES) in the generation mix requires higher flexibility in power system resources. The intermittent nature of the RES calls for higher reserves in power systems to smooth out the unpredictable power fluc...

Title: NOVEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PLANAR ANTENNAS WITH GOVERNABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION
Author: Thakar, Dip
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Communication
Description: This document is an explicit and an exclusive account on two antennas. This literatureis an attempt to solve some of the challenges for planar antennas in the frequencyindependent class and exploit the radiative nature of narrow band patch antenna...

Title: Modeling and Optimization of Demand-Side and Supply-Side Energy Management in Electricity Markets
Author: Vatani, Behdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources, Operations research
Description: An energy management system (EMS) is a system designed for owners of generation companies (GenCos), operators of electricity markets and electric utility grids, as well as consumers and aggregators to monitor, control, and optimize the performance...

Title: METHODOLOGY AND VISUALIZATION TOOLS FOR MANAGING ENERGY GOALS IN COMMERCIAL OFFICE DESIGNS
Author: Lawless, William
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTWILLIAM NATHANIEL LAWLESS. Methodology and Visualization Tools for Managing Energy Goals in Commercial Office Designs. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT COX)Managing buildings energy usage is crucial for reducing emissions worldwide along...

Title: Low Power RFID System Design and Implementation
Author: Bowen, Jacob
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A successful design and implementation of an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)tag and reader.The RFID reader was implemented using a USRP board and GNU radio. TheRFID system designed here is considered a UHF(ultra high frequency) RFID. Thereade...

Title: Integrated Active and Reactive Power Management of Power Distribution System Considering Distributed Energy Storage and PV Farms
Author: Ahmed, Muhammad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Modern electric distribution system with distributed Photo-Voltaic (PV) farms and energy storage units have been facing technical challenges due to the difficulty in managing them collectively. This dissertation presents new solutions for energy m...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF DISTRIBUTED CONTROLS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN CASCADED MULTI-LEVEL INVERTER
Author: Mishra, Nisha
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis investigates a cascaded H-bridge multi-level inverter topology (CHB-MLI). It utilizes a unique methodology that converts the conventional DC voltage output of a solar photo-voltaic (PV) panel to generate switched quasi-square wave AC v...

Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF PATH PLANNING ALGORITHMS ON A MOBILE ROBOT IN DYNAMIC INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Panchpor, Aishwarya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: The objective of this thesis was to review and analyze existing algorithms for robot localization and mapping in dynamic indoor environments. Some of the existing algorithms include occupancy grid approach, artificial intelligence approach, dense ...

Title: High Frequency GaN Power Converters Digital Twin
Author: Biglarbegian, Mehrdad
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: There is a need for a foundation of a research study aimed at investigations on near real-time reliability awareness of Gallium Nitride devices in high-frequency power converters for which we need advanced hardware and algorithms. This dissertatio...

Title: Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
Author: Bafandeh, Alireza
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...

Title: Grid-friendly Services of Smart Inverter and Battery Energy Storage System for Solar PV Integration in Advanced Distribution Networks
Author: Shuvra, Mahfuz Ali
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Solar Photovoltaic (PV) power plants are changing the landscape of the electric power industry. The smart inverter is well-known for its versatility to integrate PV resources into the utility in a ‘grid-friendly’ manner. BESS deployment on the pow...

Title: Framework for Scenario Generation and Reduction in Photovoltaic-Integrated Generation Commitment
Author: Luis, Lee
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Photo-voltaic (PV) power generation is promising from an environmental and economic standpoint. However, increased penetration of PV power into the electric grid can present significant challenges to decision-making in energy markets. To maintain ...

Title: Empowering FPGAs For Massively Parallel Applications
Author: SHIDDIBHAVI, SUHAS ASHOK
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL High-Level Synthesis (OpenCL-HLS) has made FPGAs an attractive platform for power-efficient high-performance execution of massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilitie...

Title: Design of a Closed Loop Wireless Power Transfer System for an Electrocorticography Device to be Implanted in the Brain of a Rat Over an Extended Period
Author: Stuemke, Jeremiah
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: A biomedical power and communications system is currently under development for the purpose of continuously monitoring neural activity in ratswith epilepsy over a period of nine months. A closed loop system is employed that dynamically adjusts for...

Title: Design of Single Phase Inverter and Active and Reactive Power Control of Unbalanced Power Distribution Grid
Author: Subramaniam, Shashank
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This thesis presents a new d-q based control of single phase grid connected inverters. The inverters are capable of delivering active and reactive power based on the reference set points and/or demand from the load. Also, an on-grid and off-grid c...

Title: Design Considerations for Intermittently Connected Energy Harvesting Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Rajib, Md Majharul Islam
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Wireless sensor networks can potentially achieve perpetual maintenance-free operation by harnessing ambient energy from the environment. However, most environmental energy sources, such as vibrations, heat, radio frequency (RF) are usually inadequ...

Title: DEFECTED SIGNAL LINE STRUCTURES FOR SINGLE-BAND AND MULTI-BAND BANDSTOP FILTERING IN PLANAR MICROWAVE DEVICES
Author: Yadav, Navneet Kumar
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: As the development of wireless communication increases, the current transceiver architecturesalso needs to be evolving along with it. This results in specifications likehigh linearity, low noise figure, and rejection of spurious signals. As device...