ABSTRACTPAUL RICHARD VALENTINE O'CONNOR. Accelerated aging and health monitoring of IGBT(s) in Motor Drives. (Under the direction of DR. ROBERT W. COX) There has been a [...]

ABSTRACTSAYALI SHRIRANG NIMKAR. Adaptive duty cycling for rechargeable wireless sensor networks. (Under the direction of DR. ASIS NASIPURI) The proposed research address[...]

The reliability of AlGaN/GaN high electron mobility transistors (HEMTs) is traditionally determined via thermal lifetime acceleration stress tests. More recently it has [...]

Energy managers responsible for large real-estate portfolios typically review Energy Star scores and Energy Use Intensity (EUI) to determine which facilities to target fo[...]

This dissertation presents measurement-based system identification methods that help to improve the reliability and operational stability of modern power systems. One of [...]

In the power system design process, engineers account for three topics outside of the technical feasibility. Those principles are economic feasibility, environmental impa[...]

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 distinguis[...]

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- ev[...]

The prevalence of electrical fires due to arc faults in both AC and DC systems has necessitated advancements in detection technologies. This dissertation introduces innov[...]

The task of visually tracking multiple objects remains an active field of algorithm development even after several decades of research in the computer vision community. O[...]