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Collision Detection And Penetration Depth Calculation In Virtual Surgical Simulation
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Virtual Reality (VR) based surgical simulators create a simulated, realistic three dimensional surgical environments using advanced graphic and haptic rendering techniques. Virtual objects, which are geometric surface ...
A Frequency Domain Approach For Time-reversal Of Microwave Impulses
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
In this thesis, a compact and low-cost electronic circuit system is designed for time-reversal of microwave impulses with nanosecond and sub-nanosecond temporal durations. A frequency domain approach is adopted in order ...
Fano Resonance Filters On Patterned Silicon Photonic Crystal Nanomembranes
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Recently broadband reflectors and guided-resonance narrowband filters have been proposed to be the major components in communication and optical interconnect systems. Most work reported so far are based on free-standing ...
Development Of A New Procedure For Assessing Power System Reliability In Preparation For NERC's Standards Compliance
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
In response to historical reliability issues of the past and following the evolution of newly developing power system markets, NERC has created new standards for maintaining and enforcing power system reliability. Entities ...
Performance Analysis And Comparison Of Dirac Video Codec With H.264 / Mpeg-4 Part 10 Avc
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Dirac is a hybrid motion-compensated state-of-the-art video codec that uses modern techniques such as wavelet transforms and arithmetic coding. It is an open technology, designed to avoid patent infringement and can be ...
Independent Source Extraction Applied To Radar Imaging
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
Multiple scattering and random interactions among scattering elements and between the scatterers and the background adversely affect the radar image quality and target detection capability. In radar images formed using ...
The Design Of A Precision Current Miror Using A High-gain Current Amplifier
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
An improved high gain, precision, low sensitivity current mirror is designed around a feedback circuit. This mirror utilizes a buffered Widlar current mirror to drive the constant input reference current, two beta helpers ...
Combining The Wind Power Generation System With Energy Storage Equipments
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
With the advance in wind turbine technologies, the cost of wind energy becomes competitive with other fuel-based generation resources. Due to the price hike of the fossil fuel and the concern of the global warming, the ...
Evaluation Of ISO 18000-6 Type C Class 1 Generation 2 RFID Protocol Artifacts
(Electrical Engineering, 2009-09-16)
In this thesis, we have identified the effect on the performance of the RFID system when ISO 18000-6 Class 1 Gen 2 RFID protocol's parameters are changed. The protocol parameters we considered changing for the conformance ...
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 ...