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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 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: 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: ANALYSIS, DESIGN AND EXPERIMENTAL VERIFICATION OF A NOVEL AC-AC BUCK BOOST BASED DYNAMIC VOLTAGE REGULATOR
Author: Shah, Nakul
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: NAKUL SHAH. Analysis, design and experimental verification of a novel ac-ac buckboost based dynamic voltage regulator. (Under the direction of DR. MADHAVMANJREKAR)This thesis investigates a unique direct ac-ac converter based topology that can beu...

Title: CONTROL AND METHODS FOR PV INVERTER MINIATURIZATION
Author: Jafarian, Hamidreza
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Power resources
Description: Analyzing the price of PV generation systems in different market sectors shows that the portion of inverter cost and Balance of System (BoS) are increased due to advent of new PV module technologies and dramatic cost reduction in PV module product...

Title: DC MICROGRID WITH CONTROLLABLE LOADS
Author: Mazhari, Iman
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The conventional electrical system in place today sees our electrical devices powered by AC mains. But as renewable technologies become more prevalent, DC microgrids could be a cheaper and more efficient alternative. To avoid any possible technica...

Title: DESIGN, MODELING, FABRICATION & CHARACTERIZATION OF INDUSTRIAL Si SOLAR CELLS
Author: Chowdhury, Ahrar Ahmed
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Photovoltaic is a viable solution towards meeting the energy demand in an ecofriendly environment. To ensure the mass access in photovoltaic electricity, cost effective approach needs to be adapted. This thesis aims towards substrate independent f...

Title: Dynamic Response of a Separately Excited DC Motor using Parameter Identification
Author: Narasimhan, Swarna
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: DC machines are prone to oscillations or swings in angular speed and armaturecurrent due to dynamic changes in the operating conditions, such as excitation andmechanical transients from load or speed variations. In this thesis, a sensitivityanalys...

Title: EFFICIENT DISTRIBUTED RENDEZVOUS SCHEMES AND SPECTRUM MANAGEMENT FOR COGNITIVE RADIO NETWORKS
Author: Li, Ji
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science
Description: Cognitive radio emerges as a technology to realize the dynamic spectrum access bydynamically configuring its transmission parameters. In a cognitive radio network(CRN), there are two types of users: primary users (PUs) and secondary users (SUs).PU...

Title: IMPROVING FAIRNESS AND THROUGHPUT OF A CMP PROCESSOR BY OPTIMIZING THE UTILIZATION OF THE LAST LEVEL SHARED CACHE IN REAL-TIME USING A CONSTRAINED-EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Author: Panday, Ashish
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Cache Partitioning is a technique which maps the data pertaining to each core to acorresponding partition in the cache memory exclusively. Cache partitioning has beenshown to improve performance metrics like fairness and throughput in most cases b...

Title: INVESTIGATION OF ABNORMAL BEHAVIOR OF LIGHT INDUCED DEGRADATION (LID) IN COST-EFFECTIVE INDUSTRIAL ALUMINUM BACK SURFACE FIELD (Al-BSF) SILICON SOLAR CELLS
Author: Hsu, Yu-Chen
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: ABSTRACTYU-CHEN HSU. Investigation of abnormal behavior of light induced degradation (LID) in cost-effective industrial aluminum back surface field (Al-BSF) silicon solar cells. (Under the direction of DR. ABASIFREKE EBONG)In this research, the p-...

Title: INVESTIGATION ON MAGNETORESISTORS AS CONTACTLESS CURRENT SENSORS FOR HIGH FREQUENCY POWER ELECTRONIC CONVERTERS
Author: Nibir, Shahriar Jalal
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With the introduction of high frequency semiconductor devices and converters, wideband, lossless and accurate current measurement is the key to achieve highly efficient power conversion. Isolated wideband current measurement is required in many po...

Title: Implementation of a cost effective non-destructive testing laboratory experiment
Author: Nye, Cameron
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: A great amount of research is being performed in the field of Non-Destructive Testing (NDT). In addition, research is being performed in optimizing the distance learning experience, allowing students to gain equal involvement compared to students ...

Title: Increasing hosting capacity of distribution systems for renewable distributed generation by means of network reconfiguration
Author: Ghiafeh Davoudi, Masoud
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: 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 ...

Title: Instrumentation, techniques, and evaluation of ePTV for particle manipulation studies using micro-scale oscillators
Author: Kafashi, Sajad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics
Description: A need for dynamic micro-particle manipulation is the ability to position fragile particles without damaging them, for instance biological particles like blood cells, stem cells, neurons, pancreatic β cells, DNA, chromosomes, for repeated measurem...

Title: Multi-destination rendezvous in cognitive radio networks
Author: Samak, Tamer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource and the increase of wireless devices operating in the unlicensed bands of the spectrum has led to its overcrowding resulting in poor performance of those radio devices. Moreover, the static spectrum...

Title: SENSOR FUSION FRAMEWORK AND SIMULATION ON A TURTLEBOT ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: Gangadhar, Shruti
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous robots are being designed and used in a wide variety of environments and unforeseen ways. Intelligent interpretation of sensor data is the key factor in a robot’s decision making ability while operating in such environments. Current day...

Title: Synchrophasor based out-of-step protection in modern power grid
Author: SHAIK, MAHABOOB SUBHAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Power systems are continually subjected to wide range of disturbances and they must adjust to these changes and continue to operate satisfactorily. Small disturbance instability and transient instability are major threats to power system security ...

Title: TECHNIQUES FOR USING AGGREGATE CURRENT MEASUREMENTS TO DETECT FAULTS IN MULTIPLE INDUCTION MACHINES
Author: Chakrabarty, Poripsa
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Due to induction motor's properties of resilience, durability and cost eectivenessthey are the most widely used electrical transducers across all industries. Naturally,because of these properties of ruggedness they are often selected for use in ha...

Title: TEMPERATURE MODELING AND CONTROL ALGORITHM FOR HIGH VOLTAGE UNDERGROUND CABLES
Author: Akumawah Nche, Ansovinus
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The use of underground cables in transmission and distribution of electric energy is growing. The most commonly installed is the cross-linked polyethylene known as XLPE as an insulator. The XLPE insulation has excellent dielectric properties. Howe...