Search Constraints

Start Over
Filtering by: Academic Affiliation Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Remove constraint Academic Affiliation: Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Date 2009 Remove constraint Date: 2009

Search Results

  • A novel method for zinc oxide nanowire sensor fabrication

    Creator:
    Pelatt, Brian D.
    Abstract:
    Interest in nanomaterials is motivated partly by their potential for sensor arrays to detect different gases. Nanowires in particular are of interest because their high surface-to-volume ratio promises the possibility of high sensitivity. However, because of their discrete quasi-one-dimensional geometry, electrical integration of nanowires into photolithographically defined devices and circuits...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Efficient RF energy scavenging and ultra-low power management for powering wireless sensor nodes

    Creator:
    Arumugam, Vikrant P.
    Abstract:
    As the demand for real-time information in engineering and health care systems keeps increasing, the need for wireless sensor nodes is also continuously increasing. As a result, the cost and effort involved in installing and maintaining batteries to power the numerous sensor nodes is growing exponentially. Providing a cost effective...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Interactive Methods for Authoring Behaviors of Multiple Agents

    Creator:
    Iyer, Vikram
    Abstract:
    Virtual environments and simulations are being used increasingly to both visualize and understand data as well as to create scenarios for training and analysis purposes. In this paper, we are interested in the use of simulation and visualization of interactive virtual agents to create realistic motions for training scenarios. We...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project

  • On error bounds for linear feature extraction

    Creator:
    Thangavelu, Madan Kumar
    Abstract:
    Linear transformation for dimension reduction is a well established problem in the field of machine learning. Due to the numerous observability of parameters and data, processing of the data in its raw form is computationally complex and difficult to visualize. Dimension reduction by means of feature extraction offers a strong...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Understanding and supporting end-user debugging strategies

    Creator:
    Grigoreanu, Valentina I.
    Abstract:
    End users' programs are fraught with errors, costing companies millions of dollars. One reason may be that researchers and tool designers have not yet focused on end-user debugging strategies. To investigate this possibility, this dissertation presents eight empirical studies and a new strategy-based end-user debugging tool for Excel, called StratCel....
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Duty-cycle controlled switched resistor techniques for continuously tunable, low-voltage circuits

    Creator:
    Kurahashi, Peter
    Abstract:
    A duty-cycle controlled switched resistor is a tunable resistive element that uses pulse width modulation as the method of tuning. This thesis will describe the operation of switched resistors and propose several circuit architectures that are well suited to the use of switched resistors. These architectures include filters, mixers, and...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Toward end-user debugging of machine-learned programs

    Creator:
    Kulesza, Todd
    Abstract:
    The results of a machine learning from user behavior can be thought of as a program, and like all programs, it may need to be debugged. Providing ways for the user to debug it matters because without the ability to fix errors, users may find that the learned program’s errors...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis

  • Design techniques for wideband low-power Delta-Sigma analog-to-digital converters

    Creator:
    Wang, Yan
    Abstract:
    Delta-Sigma (ΔΣ) analog-to-digital converters (ADCs) are traditionally used in high quality audio systems, instrumentation and measurement (I&M) and biomedical devices. With the continued downscaling of CMOS technology, they are becoming popular in wideband applications such as wireless and wired communication systems,high-definition television and radar systems. There are two general realizations...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • Scaling multiagent reinforcement learning

    Creator:
    Proper, Scott
    Abstract:
    Reinforcement learning in real-world domains suffers from three curses of dimensionality: explosions in state and action spaces, and high stochasticity or "outcome space" explosion. Multiagent domains are particularly susceptible to these problems. This thesis describes ways to mitigate these curses in several different multiagent domains, including real-time delivery of products...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • A self-calibrated, reconfigurable RF LNA

    Creator:
    Jayaraman, Karthik
    Abstract:
    Modern wireless System-on-Chips (SoCs), such as mobile handsets, sensor networks, and mm-wave systems, integrate an entire RF system on a single CMOS chip. Such highly complex systems require significant on-chip digital signal processing to help improve the performance of highly sensitive analog/RF components. The IC market being competitive, the ability...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis