Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Title
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A CMOS SWITCHED CAPACITOR FILTER BASED POTENTIOMETRIC READOUT CIRCUIT FOR CHEMFET SENSOR
(2018-12-06)There are wide ranges of potentiometric sensors available for chemical sensing. The latest implementation of these sensors is CHEM resistors. In real time environment for an in-vivo application area, noise and power are ... -
A High Frequency Memristor Emulator Circuit
(2015-12-01)In this thesis, a low power, high frequency memristor emulator has been designed. The purpose of emulator circuit is to mimic the behavior of a memristor. The circuit consists of a summing amplifier, an integrator and a ... -
A STUDY OF CONSENSUS AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN A PLATOON OF VEHICLES USING ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL
(2017-05-09)Vehicle platooning has been the subject of much research. Transfer function analysis of intervehicle distance errors is traditionally utilized to analyze the string stability of platoons. Consensus theory has been the ... -
A supervised approach for training Gaussian Mixture Model classifiers
(2017-08-22)A new method for training Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) classifiers is presented. First, an objective function is defined in terms of the number of clusters, K, per class, the mean vectors, the inverse covariance matrices ... -
A SWITCHED CAPACITOR BASED TRANSIMPEDANCE AMPLIFIER FOR DETECTION OF HAB THROUGH OPTICAL SENSING
(2016-05-10)In the recent years, there has been a substantial increase in the manifestation of harmful algal blooms. A certain species called cyanobacteria that is commonly present in freshwater bodies are found to release a class of ... -
AC ARC FLASH LIGHT INTENSITY ESTIMATOR AND MHD BASED DC ARC MODEL
(2016-08-10)Since the light emitted by arc flash is significantly brighter than the normal lighting background, the light sensors have been applied to the arc flash detection. Currently, the optically based arc flash relaying has been ... -
ACCELERATED AGING OF A SWITCHING POWER SUPPLY PROTOTYPE
(2018-12-13)The LVPS (Low Voltage Power Supply) is a switching power supply custom designed for the ATLAS Tile Calorimeter at the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva Switzerland. Over one thousand of these LVPS, also called ’bricks’, will ... -
Accelerated Simulation Of Supercapacitors Using Order Reduction Techniques And Waveform Relaxation Methods
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)Supercapacitors are promising energy storage devices due to their capability to deliver high peak current and to capture a huge amount of energy in a short time with very low internal power loss. They are candidate component ... -
ACTIVE FLYBACK BASED BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM WITH PROPORTIONAL BALANCING FOR USE IN AN ELECTRIC RACE CAR
(2016-08-08)Battery management systems are responsible for many tasks, most important of which is maintaining balance amongst the cells in a series string to prevent excess aging and unsafe operating conditions \cite{WhyBMS1}\cite{WhyBMS2}. ... -
Active Nanophotonics For Quantum- And Classical-optics Applications
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)This thesis presents theoretical and experimental development of the interaction enhancement between the photon and matter. We propose one single photon emitter by integrating a single CdSe /ZnS quantum dot into a ... -
ADAPTIVE ACTIVATIONS AND SHIFT INVARIANCE IN SHALLOW CONVOLUTIONAL NEURAL NETWORKS
(2021-08-13)Deep learning training training algorithms are a huge success in recent years in many fields including speech, text,image video etc. Deeper and deeper layers are proposed with huge success with resnet structures having ... -
Adaptive Methods For Realistic And Intuitive Human-robot Interaction
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Due to the advancement in robotics and computer technology, having access to sophisticated robot hardware is becoming common. An increase in the number of robots allows one to achieve different kind of tasks by exploiting ... -
Adaptive Multiple Optimal Learning Factors For Neural Network Training
There is always an ambiguity in deciding the number of learning factors that is really required for training a Multi-Layer Perceptron. This thesis solves this problem by introducing a new method of adaptively changing the ... -
ADAPTIVE OPTIMAL TRACKING OF UNCERTAIN DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS
(2017-08-01)Optimal feedback control design has been responsible for much of the successful performance of engineered systems in aerospace, manufacturing, industrial processes, vehicles, ships, robotics, and elsewhere. Although most ... -
Adaptive Sampling With Mobile WSN
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)The spatiotemporally varying network topology of mobile sensor networks makes it very suitable for applications such as reconstruction of environmental fields through sampling at locations that maximally reduce the largest ... -
Adaptive Torque Control of a Robotic Manipulator
(2016-09-02)In this thesis, I present the theory and application of enabling intuitive control and physical interaction between a human operator and a mobile manipulator. To do so, the model of the manipulator was estimated for its ... -
AFFINE INVARIANCE IN MULTILAYER PERCEPTRON TRAINING
(2019-08-06)Training methods for both shallow and deep neural nets are dominated by first order algorithms related to back propagation and conjugate gradient. However, these methods lack affine invariance so performance is damaged by ... -
Alternative Matching Schemes For Automatic Fingerprint Identification Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)Biometrics is a recognition technology that uses the unique behavioral and physiological traits of the human body as identifiers. The fingerprint is one of the oldest and most widely used forms of biometric identifiers. ... -
Analysis And Characterization Of Thermal Effects In Analog Circuits
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Dielectrically Isolated Bipolar Junction Transistors (DIBJTs) are used in industry for high speed and high power applications. These devices suffer from thermal heating and are subjected to change in their characteristics. ... -
Analysis And Improvement Of Multiple Optimal Learning Factors For Feed-forward Networks
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-03-03)The effects of transforming the net function vector in the Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) are analyzed. The use of optimal diagonal transformation matrices on the net function vector is proved to be equivalent to training the ...