Global Positioning Systems have allowed for precise timing of power system measurements over wide areas. This newly found capability has the potential to provide much greater insight into the operation of the power system and its response to contingencies, but few analytical techniques currently exist that provide enough robustness and...
Markov Decision Process (MDP) is a well-known framework for devising the optimal decision making strategies under uncertainty. Typically, the decision maker assumes a stationary environment which is characterized by a time-invariant transition probability matrix. However, in many real-world scenarios, this assumption is not justified, thus the optimal strategy might not...
In this thesis, A nonlinear methodology for the control of the highly
maneuverable, high performance aircraft HARV (F-18) is studied by using sliding-mode
control (SMC). This control law, which takes a continuous function when the
input constraints are not considered, satisfies the reachability condition by which
concerned states are driven...
A public key cryptosystem allows two or more parties to securely communicate
over an insecure channel without establishing a physically secure channel for key
exchange. The RSA cryptosystem is the most popular public key cryptosystem ever
invented. It is based on the difficulty of factoring large composite numbers. Once the...
We consider the problem of strategic adversarial planning in a Real-Time Strategy (RTS) game. Strategic adversarial planning is the generation of a network of high-level tasks to satisfy goals while anticipating an adversary's actions. In this thesis we describe an abstract state and action space used for planning in an...
Voltage converters or charge pumps find their use in many circuits. They are extensively used in hand held devices as cell phones, pagers, PDA's and laptops. Some of the important issues relating to design of voltage regulators for handheld devices are size, efficiency and noise. Another important factor to be...
With edge rates of high speed digital devices pushing into the sub-nano second
range, interconnections with the associated packages play a major role in determining
the speed, size and performance of digital circuits and systems. The purpose of this
study is to develop experimental techniques based on time domain peeling...
Automated recognition of object categories in images is a critical step for many real-world computer vision applications. Interest region detectors and region descriptors have been widely employed to tackle the variability of objects in pose, scale, lighting, texture, color, and so on. Different types of object recognition problems usually require...