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Optical Amplifiers For 10 Gb/s WDM Recirculating Loop Testbed
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)This Master's thesis deals with building experimental setup for characterization of novel nonlinear optical devices for fiber communication. The first part of the thesis deals with the description of the theoretical basis ... -
OPTIMAL ATTRIBUTE WEIGHTING IN A NEAREST NEIGHBOR CLASSIFIER
(2016-12-20)Nearest Neighbor algorithms are non-parametric algorithms that use distance measure techniques for classification and regressions. This thesis, first improves the traditional nearest neighbor classifier by optimizing its ... -
Optimal control strategies and reinforcement learning for dynamical multiagent systems in graphical games
(2019-07-02)As the number of autonomous agents increases in industrial and urban areas, the development of formal protocols to analyze their behavior as they interact with each other becomes of central interest in control systems ... -
Optimal Operation Of Microgrid Under A Stochastic Environment
With its technological and regulatory innovation of scale and structure, microgrids have been developed all over the world as a mean to address the high penetration level of renewable generation, reduce the greenhouse gas ... -
Optimal Output Gain Algorithm For Feed-forward Network Training
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)A batch training algorithm for feed-forward networks is proposed which uses Newton's method to estimate a vector of optimal scaling factors for output errors in the network. Using this vector, backpropagation is used to ... -
Optimal Path Planning, Implementation And Simulation For A Breast Biopsy System
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)Core needle biopsy is a non-invasive method of confirming the presence of cancer cells in the breast. Image guided breast biopsy is a procedure performed to extract suspicious tissue and test it under the microscope for ... -
Optimal Sizing and Safe Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in High Voltage Power Systems
(2023-08-23)Lithium-ion batteries have gained widespread use in various applications, but safety challenges persist due to errors in assembly and faulty electronics management. Ensuring safety and reliable operation in large batteries ... -
Optimal Tracking Control Of Uncertain Systems: On-policy And Off-policy Reinforcement Learning Approaches
Over the last few decades, strong connections between reinforcement learning (RL) and optimal control have prompted a major effort towards developing online and model-free RL algorithms to learn the solution to optimal ... -
Optimization And Reinforcement Learning Techniques In Multi-agent Graphical Games And Economic Dispatch
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)This work discusses optimization and reinforcement learning techniques in power system Economic Dispatch and Multi-Agent graphical games. Power System Economic Dispatch (ED) is one of the power system energy management ... -
Optimization Of Coupling From A Sub-wavelength Metal Nanoaperture To A Gaussian Mode
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)We model the surface resonance effects in a 1D-array of corrugations on a metal-dielectric film with a sub-wavelength nanoaperture, following the earlier work by Moreno et-al [Moreno:2003]. We are interested in computing ... -
Optimization Of H.264 Baseline Decoder On ARM9TDMI Processor
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)With the newly introduced features and advancements to the pre-existing features, the emerging H.264 video coding standard achieves significant improvements in coding performance over all existing standards, in a wide ... -
Optimization Of H.264 High Profile Decoder For Pentium 4 Processor
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)H.264 is an emerging video coding standard, which aims at compressing high-quality video content at low-bit rates. While the basic idea behind the encoding and decoding process still remains the same as in the previous ... -
Optimization of Heterogeneous Wireless Networks with Massive MIMO
(2016-05-13)In the next generation wireless communication system, multi-layers of Heterogeneous Networks (HetNets) are required to provide high efficiency bandwidth usage and high speed data throughput. Users’ distribution and their ... -
Optimization Of Hydrogen Filling Station
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)After experiencing the price hikes in the fuel and electricity, renewable energy is considered as one of the most attractive alternatives for future utility industry. Also, Hydrogen via renewable energy is of interest due ... -
Optimization Of Hydrogen Filling Station
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Due to the price hike of the fossil fuel and the concern of the global warming, the hydrogen economy can be envisioned to address those problems. After the Energy Bill was announced in 2005, a transition of national energy ... -
Optimization Of PHEV Charging Station
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Plug-in hybrid vehicles are the most feasible approach towards significantly lowering the consumption of oil and improve fuel economy with today's existing technology. In Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural ... -
Optimized Class-E RF Power Amplifier Design In Bulk CMOS
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)The telecommunication market calls for the integration of complicated wireless applications. To build RF power amplifiers in CMOS remains challenging due to the nonideal effects in CMOS. The aim of this thesis is to ... -
Optimizing A Neural Network Over Size And Iteration Number
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)A unique algorithm has been developed for training multilayer perceptron neural networks. First the training algorithm has been used with hidden weight optimization (HWO) and multiple optimal learning factors (MOLF) to get ... -
OPTOFLUIDIC DROPLET LASERS ENABLED BY FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER
(2022-08-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/15/2024** ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, optofluidic lasers have gained much popularity owing to their unique optical and mechanical properties. Optofluidic lasers are ... -
OPTOFLUIDIC PHOTONIC CRYSTAL PLATFORM FOR LABEL-FREE DETECTION AND GAS SENSING
(2016-05-10)Photonic crystals (PhCs) based label-free sensing technology has great potential as a highly sensitive, high-throughput, and compact that has vast applications in biomedical research, healthcare, pharmaceuticals, environmental ...