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Title: A Breadcrumb Network for Assisting with Autonomous Robot Localization
Author: Grabowsky, David
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...

Title: A Comparative Study Between Axial and Radial Flux-Focusing Magnetic Gear Topologies and Mechanical Gearboxes
Author: Calvin, Matthew
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: A variety of magnetic gear topologies have been investigated in recent years as alternatives to traditional mechanical gearboxes. In general these magnetic gears offer advantages in the non-contact transmission of torque including inherent overloa...

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: A LOAD-BASED TEMPERATURE PREDICTION MODEL FOR ANOMALY DETECTION
Author: Sobhani, Masoud
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Electric load forecasting, as a basic requirement for the decision-making in power utilities, has been improved in various aspects in the past decades. Many factors may affect the accuracy of the load forecasts, such as data quality, goodness of t...

Title: A NOVEL WEIGHTED AVERAGE CURRENT CONTROL METHOD WITH EMBEDDED ACTIVE DAMPING FOR GRID TIED INVERTERS WITH LCL FILTER
Author: Chanda, Arunodai
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Various kind of filters have been used to interconnect PWM inverters to the utility grid. Among those filters, LCL filter is widely used for many applications because it can reduce more harmonics of an injected grid current, as compared to other f...

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...

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 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 Post-Processing Approach for Solar Power Combined Forecasts of Ramp Events
Author: Abuella, Mohamed
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The growing integration level of wind and solar energy resources introduces new regulating and operating challenges in the electric grid. Ramp-rate limits of conventional power plants in the generation mix impose an operating constraint on renewab...

Title: A SELECTIVE SENSOR FRAMEWORK USING SENSOR FUSION AND SENSOR MAPS TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE COVERAGE PLANNING OF A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: CHANDRASEKARAN, BALASUBRAMANIYAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous vehicles are increasingly used in many applications, such as elderly care, medical care, military, schools, and space exploration. In this research, we introduce the use of a framework for achieving the autonomy in a vehicle and describ...

Title: A SYSTEM FOR COMPUTATIONAL ANALYSIS AND RECONSTRUCTION OF 3D COMMINUTED BONE FRACTURES
Author: Liu, Pengcheng
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: High energy impacts at joint locations often generate highly fragmented, or comminuted bone fractures. A leading current approach for treatment requires physicians qualitatively to classify the fracture to one of four possible fracture severity ca...

Title: A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BREADCRUMB TRAIL FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Author: Chaudhary, Manu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Research in the area of wireless sensor networks has seen unprecedented growth inthe last decade. Human deployable ad-hoc networks are being used to communicateessential information in places where there is no network or the network is destroyeddu...

Title: A navigation system for low-cost autonomous all-terrain-vehicles
Author: Mhapankar, Shantanu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
Description: In the last decade, there has been significant research work in the field of autonomous on-road vehicle, but, research in automating off-road vehicles has been largely untouched. The main aim of this thesis was to propose a robust framework for an...

Title: ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROPAGATION CHARACTERIZATION OF CONDUIT NETWORKS
Author: Khan, Muhammad Safeer
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: Analysis of acoustic signal propagation in conduit networks has been an important area of research in acoustics. One major aspect of analyzing conduit networks as acoustic channels is that a propagating signal suffers frequency dependent attenuati...

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: ADAPTIVE DUTY CYCLING FOR RECHARGEABLE WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS
Author: Nimkar, Sayali
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTSAYALI SHRIRANG NIMKAR. Adaptive duty cycling for rechargeable wireless sensor networks. (Under the direction of DR. ASIS NASIPURI) The proposed research addresses development of an adaptive duty cycling scheme to extend the lifetime of wi...

Title: AN APPROACH TO CONDITION MONITORING AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS OF INDUCTION MACHINES USING KEY PERFORMANCE INDICATORS
Author: Suter, Forrest
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: One of the great difficulties associated with monitoring the condition of an electric motor is that the user must typically possess some degree of expertise to distinguish between a normal operating condition and a potential failure. The typical a...

Title: AN EFFICIENT DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE POWER-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE MULTI-THREADING EMBEDDED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Author: Datta, Kushal
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: By the middle of this decade, uniprocessor architecture performance had hit a roadblock due to a combination of factors, such as excessive power dissipation due to high operating frequencies, growing memory access latencies, diminishing returns on...

Title: AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE PERFORMANCE OF A FLUX CONCENTRATION MAGNETIC GEARBOX AND MAGNETICALLY GEARED MOTORS
Author: Som, Debarupa
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: In today’s world, renewable energy sources like wind and ocean energy have come more into prominence as a source of sustainable energy. The energy conversion devices used in these cases, utilize mechanical gearboxes to match the speed of the input...

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...