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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: Access Control Design and Implementation for Direct Memory Access Attack
Author: Hughes, Marcus
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: With technology advancements and becoming prevalent in everyday lives, the need for robust and comprehensive security measures is growing. To defend against brute force type of attacks, encryption algorithms have been used to keep user information...

Title: Advanced Control Approaches For Renewable Energy Integration To Improve Overall Stability And Reliability Of Power Grid
Author: Nair, Anuprabha Ravindran
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Renewable energy-based electric power generation is receiving more attention due to the increasing power demand and environmental concerns. The interconnection of these distributed resources to the grid is based on the grid code standards to ensur...

Title: Application of Local Transmission Line Modelled Metasurfaces and Comparison to Huygens-Fresnel Principle Modelled Metasurfaces
Author: Trusnovic, Matthew
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Electromagnetism
Description: Metasurfaces have many applications, from beam steering effects to polarization control. There are two main theories that are used in the creation of modern metasurfaces, one based on the Huygens-Fresnel Principle and one based on Local Transmissi...

Title: Approaches for Power Grid Management and Ancillary Services with DC-AC Micro-grids Comprising of PV Farm and Hybrid Energy Storage System
Author: Joshi, Aniket
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The emergence of the concept of DC grids comes from the fact that there is an increasing number of power grid components that naturally operate with DC power. The combined trend of DC sources and loads in power grids is an important player in the ...

Title: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Along a Predetermined Vector
Author: Pfeifer, Elijah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations rely on civilian volunteers to provide mandatory manpower when covering large areas of land. These SaR operations are typically conducted in remote environments where conditions can be hazardous and GPS signal in...

Title: Decentralized Agent-Based Control of Distributed Energy Resources for Providing Multiple Services in Active Distribution Networks
Author: Karandeh, Roozbeh
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: In recent decades, due to the carbon-free energy policies of power utilities, small and medium-scale renewable energy sources (RES), such as roof-top solar photovoltaic panels (PV), have been widely deployed across the distribution systems.However...

Title: EKF Accelerometer Wheel Based Odometry
Author: Morgan, Jacob
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Robotics
Description: Gathering information on robot motion is critical in determining how a mobile robothas interacted in its environment. The information about a robot’s motion, called odometry is generally collected by tracking wheel behavior for ground based robots...

Title: Empowering Reconfigurable Platforms for Massively Parallel Applications
Author: Purkayastha, Arnab A
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL for FPGAs along with High-Level Synthesis tools have made them an attractive platform for implementing compute-intensive massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilities...

Title: Fan Noise Attenuation with an Acoustic Metamaterial
Author: Hill, Ryan
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Sound
Description: In a world continuously increasing in the number of electronic devices, the need for cooling fans increases and so does its contribution to noise pollution. This project explores a solution to this problem by designing an acoustic metamaterial tha...

Title: Fundamentals of Solar Cells and Advancements in Copper Contacts
Author: Grempels, Sarah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Almost all energy on Earth comes from the sun. Plants use it for photosynthesis, producing nourishment for animals and essentially humans, who not only need the sun for food but also warmth. The sun is sustainable and inexhaustible, making it a re...

Title: Model Predictive Control on Thermal Stress Reduction for Grid-Connected Inverters Reliability Enhancement
Author: Wang, Luocheng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Power resources
Description: Thermal stress has been identified as one of the major failure causes in the power module. It is generated from the mechanical strain by severely varying temperatures at different loci in the power module and the different coefficients of the ther...

Title: Novel Approaches in Modeling Integrated Power Transmission and Distribution System with Distributed Energy Resources and Controls
Author: Suresh, Arun
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: In recent years the grid modernization and rapid growth in distributed energy resourcesdue to environmental consciousness have resulted in distribution grids becoming more active which has led to significant interaction between transmission and di...

Title: Novel Control Strategies for Single-Phase Inverter Based Microgrids Considering Grid Integrated and Islanded Conditions
Author: Bisht, Robin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This dissertation focuses on designing and developing single-phase inverter (SPIs)control typologies for different microgrid (MG) frameworks. SPIs are considered a major part of the distributed energy resources (DERs), especially at the power dist...

Title: Power Electronics Assisted Voltage Regulators for Modern Distribution Systems
Author: Wang, Yafeng
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Step voltage regulator (SVR) has been utilized in power distribution systems for decades. The induced arc from the conventional SVR tap change and the voltage instability from the renewable energy penetration impose constraints on the conventional...

Title: Secure Cryptographic Designs Resilient to Side-Channel Attacks
Author: Gui, Yutian
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: The rapid development of IoT devices and distributed computing brings convenience and high efficiency to modern society. To enhance the security of hardware devices, quite a few cryptographic algorithms were proposed and applied. These encryption ...

Title: Secure RISCV Design for Side-Channel Evaluation Platform
Author: Thakar, Bhavin
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: In the era of smart technology, IoT technology has been an integral part of the system. IoT systems are susceptible to many type of attacks such as buffer overflow attack and execution flow attacks. Information flow tracking is a technique to moni...

Title: Timely updating with intermittent energy and data for multiple sources over erasure channels
Author: Daniel, Christopher
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: A status updating system is considered in which multiple data sources generate packets to be delivered to a destination through a shared energy harvesting sensor. Only one source’s data, when available, can be transmitted by the sensor at a time, ...