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  • Paths to Innovation: How Businesses Achieve Competitive Advantage

    Creator:
    Oster, Dylan
    Abstract:
    To detail common paths followed by companies to produce innovative products, I reviewed existing literature and conducted several semi-structured interviews with a variety of people from different companies and fields. Based on this research, I found that most (but not all) innovative products follow a few general paths. These paths...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    _____________________________________________________________________ Larry Martin, Committee Member, representing Entrepreneurship & Strategy

  • Information theoretic approach to quantization and classification for signal processing, communications, and machine learning applications

    Creator:
    Thuan Nguyen D.
    Abstract:
    There are five main contributions of this dissertation. The first contribution is new closed-form expressions for channel capacity of a new class of channel matrices. The second contribution is the discovery of the structure for optimal binary quantizer and the associated methods for finding an optimal quantizer that maximizes mutual...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    , COMMUNICATIONS, AND MACHINE LEARNING APPLICATIONS Abstract approved: Thinh P. Nguyen There are five main

  • Learning algorithms for adapting the compliance of robotic limbs

    Creator:
    Aboufazeli, Mahtab
    Abstract:
    Motivation: Many robots such as legged robots and prosthetic hands/arms are designed to interact with uncertain and time-varying environments to accomplish their tasks. Observations on humans and animals during their daily tasks suggest that they adapt their leg compliance while traversing with different velocities on different grounds and adjust their...
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    Dissertation
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    , etc.) tracking. The main objective of this Dissertation is divided into three parts: (1) Adaptively

  • On the domain generalizability of RF fingerprints through multifractal dimension representation

    Creator:
    Johnson, Benjamin
    Abstract:
    RF data-driven device fingerprinting through the use of deep learning has recently surfaced as a possible method for secure device identification and authentication. Traditional approaches are commonly susceptible to the domain adaptation problem where a model trained on data from one domain performs badly when tested on data from a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    signal. For the RF signals analyzed in this paper, the main factors that resulted in needing to vary

  • Low-Power 12-bit Quasi-Passive Segmented DAC Implemented in 130nm CMOS Technology

    Creator:
    Pierce, Alexander G.
    Abstract:
    This thesis work proposes a low-power 12-bit digital-to-analog converter (DAC) designed in a 130nm process. The DAC to be presented is of a segmented design where the architecture is split into pipelined and thermometer coded segments. This allows for high linearity and low distortion while maintaining high speed and low...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    will be divided into six main sections. Chapter 1 will discuss the motivation and specifications of

  • Design and Modeling Techniques for Impedance Based Flow Cytometry

    Creator:
    Dawes, Jacob
    Abstract:
    Microfluidic devices have enabled lab-on-a-chip (LOC) systems that allow for complex sample analysis and preparation in a compact form factor. One technology that may benefit from a microfluidic approach and further miniaturization is flow cytometry. Flow cytometry is an analysis technique for enumerating and characterizing populations of cells; this is...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    Considering the system-level design of an impedance flow cytometer, there are three main blocks: the flow

  • Autonomous Sensor Systems For Wind Turbine Blade Collision Detection

    Creator:
    Clocker, Kyle
    Abstract:
    Wind turbines serve an increasing proportion of total energy generation, with expanded onshore and offshore installations proceeding worldwide. Continued construction, expansion, and operation of wind energy installations must be managed in conjunction with effects on local and migratory wildlife, specifically bird and bat species that may be affected by wind...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation

  • 5th-Order Elliptic LPF Using Passive Charge Compensation Technique (PCC) Design

    Creator:
    Tsai, Cheng H.
    Abstract:
    The passive charge compensation (PCC) technique was introduced for switched capacitor (SC) circuit to increase the slew rate and enhance the linearity performance, as PCC techniques are used on the Delta-Sigma modulator (DSM) in ADC circuitry. The PCC technique of the project was applied to the design of a SC...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    main reasons. First, chip area is minimized by replacing the resistors with capacitors. Another

  • The Partitioning Technique of Power System to Improve the Observability of Sub-System for Multi-area State Estimation

    Creator:
    Lyu, Tao
    Abstract:
    An accurate state estimation plays an essential role in power system operation and planning in energy management systems. However, existing multi-area state estimation researches have not focused on the importance of system clustering. The clustering mechanism divides or partitions a system according to user-defined criteria. Few published research works have...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    and the way they are distributed. Four main types of algorithms are used for observability analysis

  • Non-enzymatic electrochemical sensors based on functionalized nanomaterials

    Creator:
    Wu, Bo
    Abstract:
    Unlike other biosensing, electrochemical biosensor has the advantages of robustness, easy miniaturization, excellent detection limits, and capability in handling small analyte volumes. The detection selectivity of the electrochemical biosensors is mainly supported by bioreceptors. However, these receptors always suffer from the performance variation caused by the environment and the thermal-...
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    . Electrochemical signal transduction. There are four main types of electrochemical analysis methods: voltammetry