Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Graduate Theses
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Dielectric Resonator Antenna on Printed Circuit Board
With the increased demand for high efficiency wireless communication systems, there is a requirement to develop the antenna systems that are effective and dependable. Instead of a traditional metallic antenna, a dielectric ... -
Microwave Overlay Capacitor Fabrication on Printed Circuit Boards
A technique for making varactors in the form of parallel plate overlay capacitors, using barium strontium titanate (BST): a ferroelectric, polymer composite thick film, has been developed in this work. BST was selected due ... -
Implications of Fiber Nonlinearities on Coherent Optical Fiber Communications
A primary objective of optical system design is to satisfy the ever-increasing capacity demand for communication services. Fulfilling this target by increasing the cardinality of modulation formats is at the expense of a ... -
Integration of GNSS Precise Point Positioning and Inertial Technologies for Land Vehicle Navigation
The last decade has witnessed a growing demand for precise positioning in many applications such as autonomous car navigation and precision agriculture. Precise positioning can be obtained from the global navigation satellite ... -
Advanced digital modulation formats for optical coherent transmission systems
Field modulation with coherent detection leverages the use of optical channel bandwidth and allows mitigating transmission impairments by exploiting the two quadrature components of the optical carrier and providing a ... -
Imperceptible Pattern Embedding: Structured Light Steganography For Augmented Reality Applications
In this work, we describe a novel PROCAM sensor which uses steganographic techniques to embed imperceptible patterns in structured light, allowing a projector to function both as a versatile display device and a sensor for ... -
Bi-Directional AC-DC Converters for Electric Vehicles
Transportation industry typically rely on conventional fossil energy resources such as petroleum. This source of energy, however, is neither renewable nor emission-free. Nowadays transportation sectors are replacing their ... -
Multi-Sensor 3D Model Reconstruction in Unknown Environments
Safe exploration and remote visualization for dangerous and unknown environments have been of a growing demand for several applications. Exploration of dangerous environments can be life threating if it directly involves ... -
Very High Efficiency Bridgeless Boost Totem-Pole PFC using Gallium Nitride HEMTs
Data centers have become the backbone of the global economy. The electricity demand for data centers grew tremendously over the last ten years. U.S. data centers consumed 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity in 2013 ... -
Ultra-tight GPS/INS Integrated System for Land Vehicle Navigation in Challenging Environments
The Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) have been commonly used for land vehicle positioning and navigation applications. A typical example of GNSS is the Global Positioning System (GPS). The GPS provides accurate ... -
Real-Time Realization of Lidar – Based Digital Surface Models for Airborne Safe Landing Zone Identification in Challenging Environments
There is a growing demand over the last two decades for generating digital surface models (DSMs) in real-time. One of the important applications for real-time DSMs is aircraft landing, especially in a degraded visual ... -
High-performance Communication in MPI through Message Matching and Neighborhood Collective Design
Message Passing Interface (MPI) is the de facto standard for communication in High Performance Computing (HPC). MPI Processes compute on their local data while extensively communicating with each other. Communication is ... -
A Secure Keyless Entry System Based on Contextual Information
Proximity identification has been widely used in access control systems. These systems, in particular Passive Keyless Entry and Start systems (PKES) for high-end automobiles, allow drivers to unlock their vehicles by ... -
A Comprehensive Multi-Level Control System for Micro-Grids Operating in Islanded Mode
This thesis presents a new control architecture tailored for single-phase Microgrids (MGs) operating in the islanded mode. The main feature of the proposed control architecture is its capability to improve the transient ... -
Nonlinear Adaptive Droop Control Method for the Battery Storage Systems Operating in DC Microgrids
Conventional sources of energy like coal, gas, and oil are being depleted and renewable sources of energy are needed to meet ever-increasing energy demands. Renewable Energy Sources (RESs) like solar and wind can be ... -
Efficient Switched-Capacitor Converters
Switched-capacitor (SC) power converters are a class of converters comprised entirely of capacitors and switches. These converters contain no bulky magnetic components and are well suited for miniaturization and silicon ... -
Succeeding in Mobile Application Markets (From Development Point of View)
Mobile application (app) markets, such as Google Play Store, are immensely competitive for app developers. Receiving high star-ratings and achieving higher ranks are two important elements of success in the market. Therefore, ... -
Sensorless Digital Control for Solar DC Optimizers Used in DC Microgrids
This thesis presents novel control techniques to improve the performance of DC optimizers for harvesting solar energy in DC microgrids. The focus of this thesis is to implement a reliable and efficient structure to harvest ... -
Integrating ACC-FMCW Radar for Multi-sensor Navigation in Challenging GNSS Environments
Autonomous vehicles’ positioning and navigation (POS/NAV) systems provide drivers with route guidance information relying mostly on the Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS). The GNSS–based POS/NAV systems suffer from ...
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