Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Title
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Direct current electrical characterization of ds-DNA in nanogap junctions
(Copyright American Institute of Physics;Department of Electrical Engineering, 2005-04-05)Measurements of DNA conductivity, hybridization, and melting using electronic means can have wide applications in molecular electronics and biological sensors. We have fabricated nanogap break-junctions by electromigration ... -
Discrete Event Controller: Application Using Dynamic Resource Allocation
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)This work consists of developing a Discrete Event Controller with Dynamic Resource Allocation, simulating it and than applying it on a test-bed using robots and static sensor nodes. These are the contributions ... -
Discrete-time Control Algorithms And Adaptive Intelligent Systems Designs
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-10-08)In this work, approximate dynamic programming (ADP) designs based on adaptive critic structures are developed to solve the discrete-time optimal control problems in which the state and action spaces are continuous. This ... -
Discriminant Processing In Multi-class Pattern Recognition Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)Multi-Layer Perceptron neural network classifiers face problems when applications have numerous output classes. A major problem is the fact that the MLP discriminant values given by the MLP differ considerably from the ... -
Dispersion Engineering With Leaky-mode Resonance Structures
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-07-19)In the thesis, a numerical method for the analysis of optical pulses propagation through leaky-mode/guided-mode resonance (GMR) structures is implemented by integrating a Fourier decomposition technique and the rigorous ... -
DISTRIBUTED ALGORITHMS FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE CHARGING
(2015-12-08)Coordinated charging of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) can effectively mitigate the negative effects imposed on the power distribution grid by uncoordinated charging. Simultaneously, coordinated charging algorithms can ... -
Distributed Cooperative Control Of Ac Microgrids
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-09-17)In this dissertation, the comprehensive secondary control of electric power microgrids is of concern. Microgrid technical challenges are mainly realized through the hierarchical control structure, including primary, ... -
Distributed Data Dimensionality Reduction And Denoising
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-03-12)With the recent upsurge in the amount of data transmission and use, giving rise to the era of big data, research has put a lot of emphasis on designing efficient methods to extract useful information by reducing the size ... -
DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION AND INVERSE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
(2021-12-16)Consensus-based distributed Kalman filters for estimation with multiple targets have attracted considerable attention. Most of the existing Kalman filters use the average consensus approach, which tends to have a low ... -
Distributed Model For Thermal Characterization Of Oxide Isolated Silicon Germanium Heterojunction Bipolar Transistors
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)Demand for high-speed and cost-effective devices has resulted in the development of smaller, high frequency devices. Since semiconductor devices are getting smaller, self-heating effects have become more important. This ... -
Distributed Optimal Policies for Multi-Agent Systems under Uncertainties
(2020-05-14)Multi-agent systems (MAS) have attracted increasing attention in the past years due to their wide applications in mobile robots, sensor networks, autonomous driving systems, etc. Along with this trend, developing ... -
Distributed Resilient Control of Multi-agent Systems with Applications to Microgrids
(2020-08-03)Distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems (MAS) has been an active research area over the last few decades. Distributed cooperative controller is locally designed using the neighborhood relative information. ... -
Distribution Network Contingency Analysis And Contingency Detection With The Consideration Of Load Models
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)The electric utility market environment has changed quite radically during recent years due to the process of deregulation. This has changed the asset management towards a capital controlled business where owners are ... -
DYNAMIC EQUIVALENT WIND FARM MODELS FOR PLANNING, OPERATION, AND POST-FAULT ANALYSES
(2021-03-15)With high penetration level of the wind power energy in the power grid, it is necessary to develop robust dynamic wind farm models for stability analysis under different scenarios. However, one single wind generator (WG) ... -
Dynamic Modeling, Control And Optimization Of PEM Fuel Cell System For Automotive And Power System Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-08-08)This dissertation is focusing on fuel cell dynamic modeling and control, the optimization design of fuel cell systems, power electronics interface designs, and control for the fuel cell based hybrid system. First, a dynamic ... -
Dynamic Scene Interpretation And Understanding From Two Views
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)Interpretation of a static or dynamic scene starts by segmenting the scene followed by recognition. Our work concentrates on the general problem of segmenting and recognizing animate and inanimate objects in a scene captured ... -
Dynamic Stability Analysis Of Large-scale Power Systems Using A Fast Investigation Method
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Following power market deregulation and the proposed standard market design, the activities of cross boundary power transactions are increased significantly. Traditional company based stability analysis can not satisfy ... -
Dynamic System Reduction And Fault Location Identification Using Synchrophasors
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)The advent of the synchronized phasor measurement units' technology allow for new applications to the power systems and improvement of existing applications. This dissertation presents a new method for synchrophasor-assisted ... -
Dynamic Voltage Restorer For Sensitive Equipment
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Voltage sags are considered to be the most frequent type of disturbances in the field based on recent power disturbances studies. Their impact on sensitive loads is severe. The impact ranges from load disruptions to ... -
DYNAMIC WIRELESS INTERROGATION OF ANTENNA‐SENSOR IN HARSH ENVIRONMENT
(2016-12-08)Microstrip antenna-sensor has received considerable interests in recent years due to its simple configuration, compact size, and multi-modality sensitivity. Due to its simple and conformal planar configuration, antenna-sensor ...