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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: 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: Correlation Based Electromagnetic Analysis Attack and Countermeasure
Author: Tamore, Suyash Mohan
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Side channel analysis is a non-invasive cryptanalysis attack categorized as an implementation attack. Electronic device leak information during the data processing via covert side channels. Power consumption, electromagnetic (EM) radiations, and p...

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: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE TORQUE CAPABILITIES OF HIGH GEAR RATIO MAGNETIC GEARBOXES
Author: Li, Kang
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Early childhood education, Electromagnetism
Description: Mechanical gears can be as small as those in traditional mechanical watches or as large as those in mechanical marine turbines. They can be seen in almost all transportation tools, for example, bicycles, cars, trains and airplanes. Though they hav...

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: A HYBRID SWITCH BASED ARCLESS VOLTAGE REGULATOR
Author: Xu, Xiwen
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The voltage regulator is a mechanism that permits the change in turns ratio or output voltage of a distribution transformer for providing a constant magnitude voltage to the load. The arc occurs under oil in each tap changing operation because one...

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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...

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: 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: A Novel Framework for Integrating Legacy Vehicles into an Intelligent Transportation System
Author: Rhoades, Benjamin
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The last few years have seen rapid advancements in deploying semi and fully-autonomous vehicles into the mass market. Several car manufactures and technology companies have spent years developing these vehicles with aspirations to mass produce the...

Title: A Non-Invasive Wideband Isolated Current Sensor for High Frequency Power Electronics Applications
Author: Nibir, Shahriar Jalal
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With the introduction of new generation of wide-bandgap (WBG) power devices, the size and volume of the modern power electronic converters are getting significantly miniaturized. For effective control of power converters maintaining high efficienc...