Browsing Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering by Issue Date
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Data compression application to the MIL-STD 1553 avionics data bus.
(2006-05-11)With the current state of legacy military avionic systems reaching its ceiling in memory space, processing power, and data-bus through-put (bandwidth), a need has arisen to maximize its limited resources to avoid extensive ... -
Development and implementation of real-time distributed network with the CAN protocol.
(2006-05-27)One of the most interesting applications of a new field of mathematics called dynamic equations on time scales is the modeling, analysis and design of distributed control networks. This thesis documents the development ... -
Design of a microwave sensor for non-invasive determination of blood-glucose concentration.
(2006-05-27)Diabetes is a disease that afflicts millions worldwide. To control the effects of this disease, diabetics must check their blood glucose levels on a regular basis. Currently, all daily glucose monitoring techniques are ... -
A new modality for microwave tomographic maging: transit time tomography.
(2006-07-22)A new method for tomographic imaging using time delay of microwaves as they pass through objects of varying dielectric is presented. To obtain this delay measurement, recording of transmitted waveforms is performed when ... -
A comparison of field programmable gate arrays and digital signal processors in acoustic array processing.
(2006-07-29)The Field Programmable Gate Array's (FPGA) constant growth in computing power has given embedded system developers a choice to replace their current processors with a FPGA. However, most systems continue to use the original ... -
Determining the complex permittivity of materials with the Waveguide-Cutoff method.
(2006-07-31)A new method for the determination of complex permittivity values is explained. The Waveguide-Cutoff method consists of a rectangular chamber with loop antennas for excitation from a Vector Network Analyzer. It then ... -
Principal component and neural network calibration of a microwave frequency composition measurement sensor.
(2008-03-03)Microwave sensors are becoming more prevalent throughout a variety of industries. While providing an effective form of measurement, microwave sensors are difficult to calibrate and provide results which can be difficult ... -
Experimental investigation of a time scales linear feedback control theorem.
(2008-03-03)Dynamic equations on time scales comprise an exciting new area of research in mathematics which promises applications in many areas, particularly control theory. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a ... -
Calibration methodology for a microwave non-invasive glucose sensor.
(2008-06-09)Non-invasive measuring techniques for determining biological parameters are more heavily researched with the growth of the biomedical industry. One of the top areas in non-invasive research deals with diabetes. This ... -
An evaluation of CoWare Inc.'s Processor Designer tool suite for the design of embedded processors.
(2008-12-01)The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the Processor Designer family of tools from CoWare, Inc. Processor Designer uses the L.I.S.A. 2.0 (Language for Instruction Set Architecture) language. The evaluation is being ... -
Evaluating Impulse C and multiple parallelism partitions for a low-cost reconfigurable computing system.
(2009-04-01)Impulse C is a C-to-HDL compiler from Impulse Accelerated Technology that facilitates the introduction of software programmers, mathematicians, and scientists, into the realm of FPGA-based algorithm development for high-speed ... -
Implementation of lossless compression algorithms for the MIL-STD-1553.
(2009-04-01)This thesis focuses on the bandwidth limitations faced by the legacy MIL-STD-1553 data bus. In order to improve bandwidth performance, lossless implementations of data compression routines have been proposed. Using data ... -
Remotely sensed hyperspectral image unmixing.
(2010-10-08)Estimating abundance fractions of materials in hyperspectral images is an important area of study in the field of remote sensing. The need for liner unmixing in remotely sensed imagery arises from the fact that the sampling ... -
Increased computation using parallel FPGA architectures.
(2011-01-05)Two ways to improve algorithm performance in hardware are increasing the speed of each operation, or performing multiple operations simultaneously. However, the percent speed-up for the latter depends upon not only system ... -
Non-deterministic modeling of the bulk thermal and electrical conductivity for dense thin film carbon nanotube networks.
(2011-05-12)Thin films composed of single-walled carbon nanotubes, enjoy very high thermal and electrical conductivities, well beyond that of polymer matrix composites, and are very light in weight. Before these materials can experience ... -
Robust geolocation techniques for multiple receiver systems.
(2011-05-12)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate signal processing algorithms that allow multiple moving receivers to locate a stationary emitter. This problem has received considerable attention over the past 50 years, yet ... -
An evaluation of error masking techniques for digital wireless audio systems.
(2011-05-12)This thesis investigates the tradeoffs associated with typical communication system designs for packetized wireless transmission systems. Communication system design requires judicious selection of source data rate, data ... -
Optimizing multi-agent dynamics for underwater tactical applications.
(2011-05-12)Large groups of autonomous agents, or swarms, can exhibit complex emergent behaviors that are difficult to predict and characterize from their low-level interactions. These emergent behaviors can have hidden implications ... -
Wind-turbine generator for load-following and its applications to primary frequency support and small-signal stability improvement.
(, 2011-09-14)In today’s power grid, the penetration of wind energy has been increasing. Meanwhile, many relevant issues have been explored. Among them, a novel active power control strategy named load-following has been given attention ... -
A low-cost pulsed Fourier transform network analyzer.
(, 2011-09-14)Characterizing the frequency response of a material or device over microwave frequencies is a common practice for an RF engineer. New industrial and consumer applications are being developed based on the measurement of the ...