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Membrane Transfer Of Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Silicon has been dominating the solar industry for many years and has been touted as the gold standard of the photovoltaic world. The factors for its dominance: government subsidies and ease of processing. Silicon holds ... -
MEMS Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor On Flexible Substrates Using Nichrome And CNT/polyimide Nanocomposites Piezoresistors
(Electrical Engineering, 2010-11-01)Micro pressure sensors using nichrome as piezoresistor were fabricated on silicon and flexible substrates. The pressure sensors on flexible substrate can be used for prosthetic skin applications. The devices were successfully ... -
Microarray Image Denoising Using Complex Gaussian Scale Mixtures Of Complex Wavelets
(Electrical Engineering, 2011-07-14)The scientific world has witnessed an explosion in the development of comprehensive and high-throughput methods for molecular biology experimentation. High density DNA microarray technology, allows researchers to monitor ... -
Micromachined Nanoporous Membranes For Blood Oxygenation Systems
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)An oxygenator is a medical device that aids in the exchange of oxygen and carbon dioxide in the human blood during procedures and illnesses that may cause the interruption or cessation of blood flow in the body. Porous ... -
Mitigation Of Window Effects In Inverse Synthetic Aperture Radar (ISAR) Imagery Using Multi-resolution Technique
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)A method using Multi-Resolution technique for window effect mitigation in ISAR imagery, which occurs due to finite extent data, is presented in this work. Proposed method is supported with quantitative measure using both ... -
Model-based Design And Analysis Of Automotive Systems Using Time-triggered Controller Area Networks
As the numbers of electrical and electronics (E/E) components vastly increases in modern motor vehicles, vehicle safety risks and recalls due to E/E problems have become issues for both auto manufactures and customers. ... -
Modeling An Instrumented (Tractor-semitrailer Combination) Vehicle: Using System Identification Methods
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)In this thesis, properties of the input-output relationships of a tractor-semitrailer combination vehicle were analyzed. Predictive models of the system were identified using only input-output data collected separately ... -
Modeling And Characterization Of A Fabry Perot Pressure Sensor
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)Fabry-Perot interferometers (FPIs) have been used as sensing elements for pressure transducers in many applications. Most of the current FPI pressure sensors measure amplitude changes of the reflected signals from a ... -
Modeling And Characterization Of RF MEMS Resonators
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)Over the past decade, a multitude of micro-electro-mechanical (MEMS) devices have been developed and commercialized due to their low power consumption, reduced cost and compact size. In recent years, significant advancements ... -
Modeling And Characterization Of The Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor In The Near-threshold Region
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-07-22)The Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistor (IGBT) is a power semiconductor device widely used in high-speed switching applications. Due to aging and internal heating, the device is prone to a failure mechanism known as latch-up ... -
Modeling And Identification Of Thermally Actuated Micro-robots
(Electrical Engineering, 2013-03-20)This thesis explains the system identification of thermally actuated micro-robots and actuators developed at UTA-NGS (Next Generation Systems) and ARRI (Automation Robotics Research Institute). The energy used to power ... -
Modeling And Performance Evaluation Of A Power Electronic-based Controlled Fuel Cell System
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)In fuel cell applications, design of an appropriate controller and selection of an Ultra-Capacitor require a suitable model of fuel-cell-systems that can adequately represent the significant characteristics of the system. ... -
Modeling Isotropic Organs Using Beam Models For The Haptic Simulation Of Blunt Dissections Of Bile Duct
(Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)Haptic modeling of organs using existing approaches is still not realistic and/or real time. We propose and develop the mathematical foundation of a new approach to modeling organs using beams. Beams are well known entities ... -
Modeling The Capillary Discharge Of An Electrothermal (ET) Launcher
(Electrical Engineering, 2014-07-14)Over the past few decades, different branches of the US Department of Defense (DoD) have invested at improving the field ability of electromagnetic launchers. One such focus has been on achieving hypervelocity launch ... -
Motion Learning And Control For Social Robots In Human-robot Interaction
In the domain of social robotics, robots have recently been used in conversational interaction with humans. In this thesis, research was conducted to help create a system for imitation learning. In this system, a trainer ... -
MULTI-PLAYER H1 DIFFERENTIAL GAME USING ON-POLICY AND OFF-POLICY REINFORCEMENT LEARNING
(2021-08-03)This work studies a multi-player H-infinity differential game for systems of general linear dynamics. In this game, multiple players design their control inputs to minimize their cost functions in the presence of worst-case ... -
Multi-source UAV-based object classification using CNN’s and Data acquisition system for Robotic Skin
(2017-08-16)Autonomous robots are intelligent systems capable of performing tasks in the world by themselves, without explicit human control. Examples range from autonomous helicopters to Roomba, the robot vacuum cleaner to robotic ... -
MULTI-STAGE ENHANCEMENT SCHEME FOR LOW QUALITY FINGERPRINT IMAGES
(2016-05-11)Security and authentication go hand in hand in today’s internet age. The population growth and increase in web-based services have posed a substantial risk of identity theft and fraud. The need for reliable authentication ... -
MULTI-STAGE PREDICTION SCHEME FOR SCREEN CONTENT BASED ON HEVC
(2015-11-30)Screen content is a computer generated content which contains text, graphics and animations and the coding of such content is different from coding a photographic content. This thesis emphasizes on coding the screen content ... -
Multi-variable Model Of A Neural Network Based Weather Forecaster Using 2-stage Feature Selection
(Electrical Engineering, 2012-07-25)This thesis proposes a novel approach for designing a neural network based forecaster that predicts more than one variable at a time. A second order two stage neural network training algorithm is used that employs orthogonal ...