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  • Hardware design and protection issues in an AC/AC converter

    Creator:
    Faveluke, Alex
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    An AC/AC converter has been designed and implemented for the purpose of providing a modular drive system with a Brushless Doubly-Fed Machine (BDFM.) This converter is to be used in laboratory testing and also as part of a demonstration system in the field. All hardware needed to start and run...
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    duplication of this converter by qualified technical personnel. While not tailored for mass production, this

  • Fuzzy logic control of an inverted pendulum with vision feedback

    Creator:
    Holzapfel, Frank G.
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    Recent technical progress has made new forms of controller implementations on computers possible. Especially the technique of Fuzzy Logic Control has found a growing number of applications. Also the development of fast A/D converters has made the acquisation of data with vision based systems possible. In this project we combine...
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    Vision Feedback Abstract approved: io E. Magaria Recent technical progress has made new forms of

  • Printed Nanocomposite Devices and Flexible Electronics for Humidity Sensing

    Creator:
    Ajithkumar, Amritha
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    The thesis focuses on the development of a novel printed resistive humidity sensor and integrated flexible electronics for an RFID-enabled humidity sensing platform. We explored a hybrid nanocomposite material for humidity sensing consisting of carbon nanomaterials, conductive polymer and cellulose polymer that undergoes resistance change in response to humidity change....
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    study form the technical foundation of the future wearable sensing technology

  • A comprehensive integration of first year engineering education

    Creator:
    Shuman, Matthew W.
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    Retention of engineering students is a problem for many universities, especially during the first year. The problem of introducing students to engineering while increasing retention rates has recently been addressed by many different universities. Implementing novel lab structures, adjusting the lecture to incorporate more effective teaching techniques, and using orientation...
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    technical experiences. Survey data collected throughout the program tracks changes in learning self

  • Radiation tolerance of magnetic tunnel junctions with MgO barriers

    Creator:
    Ren, Fanghui
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    In the next decade, technology trends--smaller dimension, lower voltage, higher operating frequency--introduce new technical considerations and challenges for radiation effects in integrated circuits. Semiconductor based circuits and traditional dynamic random-access memories will malfunction when exposed to extreme environments, such as space and nuclear reactor. The mechanisms for radiation effect are...
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    operating frequency—introduce new technical considerations and challenges for radiation effects in

  • An ultra low voltage micropower GPS receiver RF front-end for wildlife tracking

    Creator:
    Heiberg, Adam C.
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    A fully integrated CMOS GPS receiver RF front end optimized for low power operation is presented. The system operates with a supply voltage down to 250 mV. A prototype has been fabricated in a 0.13μm CMOS process and includes a low voltage LNA, quadrature oscillators, and quadrature mixers. It exhibits...
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    noise of -113.8 dBc/Hz at a 1 MHz offset while consuming a maximum of 580 µW of power and requiring no

  • Target-based coverage extension of 802.11 MANETs via constrained UAV mobility

    Creator:
    Johnson, Taylor N.
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    MANETs are known to be useful in situations where mobile nodes need to communicate and coordinate in dynamic environments with no access to fixed network infrastructure. However, connectivity problems can occur when sub-groups within a MANET move out of communication range from one another. The increasingly prolific use of UAVs...
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    coordinate in dynamic environments with no access to fixed network infrastruc- ture. However, connectivity

  • A programmable BiCMOS transconductance-capacitor filter for high frequencies

    Creator:
    Beck, Jeffery S.
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    With advancements in CMOS technology, high speed analog circuits that were traditionally implemented with discrete circuit components can now be made monolithically. Antialiasing filters for video signals as well as signal conditioning filters in high speed communication channels are examples of applications where high frequency integrated circuits are now feasible....
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    the filter. Since this transconductor has no internal nodes, it can achieve extremely high bandwidths

  • Comparison of DPCM and Subband Codec performance in the presence of burst errors

    Creator:
    Bhutani, Meeta
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    This thesis is a preliminary study of the relative performance of the major speech compression techniques, Differential Pulse Code Modulation (DPCM) and Subband Coding (SBC) in the presence of transmission distortion. The combined effect of the channel distortions and the channel codec including error correction is represented by bursts of...
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    bandwidth B to the subband bandwidth. Note that no compression is achieved by these decimation operations

  • Evaluation of a pole placement controller for a planar manipulator

    Creator:
    Doustmohammadi, Ali
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    The effectiveness of linear control of a planar manipulator is presented for robot operation markedly exceeding the limits of linearity assumed in the design of the linear controller. Wolovich's frequency domain pole placement algorithm is utilized to derive the linear controller. The control scheme must include state estimation since only...
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    significantly. Regardless of the change in behavior, for the cases considered, there was no instability