Browsing by Department "Electrical & Computer Engineering"
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(2018-04-23)Hydrocephalus occurs when excessive quantities of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) accumulate in the ventricles. Current treatment of the condition involves implanting a ventricular shunt, composed of an inflow catheter originating ...
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(2016-08-30)Standard encryption protocols do not allow for native searching or modification of data, without decryption. In this scenario, whoever is performing the operations on this file must also have the encryption key. Homomorphic ...
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Counting the number of objects from images has become an increasingly important topic in different applications, such as crowd counting, cell microscopy image analyses in biomedical imaging, and horticulture monitoring and ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)As Very Large Scale Integration (VLSI) technology moves to the nanoscale regime, design and manufacturing closure becomes very difficult to achieve due to increasing chip and power density. Imperfections due to process, ...
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Emerging wearable and environmental sensor technologies provide health professionals with unprecedented capacity to continuously collect human behavior data for health monitoring and management. This enables new solutions ...
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Infrastructure degradation is becoming a wide-reaching problem in the United States, and there is a need to determine ways to intelligently distribute taxpayer money when addressing the issues. This paper investigates the ...
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The purpose of this research is to design a multi-purpose electronic lock for bicycles and motor scooters. This engineering project will develop a battery-powered device that can function both as a touchless electronic ...
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Elastography is an ultrasonic imaging modality, which is useful in gaining new information about tissues and diagnosing diseases. Increasing the quality of an image allows for more accurate information to be gained from ...
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Printed Circuit Boards are used to electrically connect components that are soldered onto the board in order to perform a function or task. They are manufactured by etching out copper traces from the copper layer that is ...
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Characterizing the performance of an antenna or radio involves collecting a large amount of data through tedious processes. In order to combat this tedium, and to improve the data collected, this work explored the use of ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)Iterative decoding and codes on graphs were first devised by Gallager in 1960, and then rediscovered by Berrou, Glavieux and Thitimajshima in 1993. This technique plays an important role in modern communications, especially ...
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As machine learning is applied to ever more ambitious tasks, higher performance is required to be able to train and evaluate neural nets in reasonable amounts of time. To this end, many hardware accelerators for machine ...
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(2017-05-10)Motion planning is the problem of finding a valid path for a moveable object from a start to a goal state. Current state-of-the-art sampling based planners are able to solve a variety of problems. Sometimes, it is difficult ...
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Literature Review The structural health monitoring device proposed by Jason Lee Wardlaw in [1] has been shown to have individual circuit blocks that operate at the technology used, which is an ON Semiconductor 0.5µm ...
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Cars, particularly manually-driven cars, are one of the most commonly used modes of transportation today. However, millions of people are either killed or left with disabilities annually due to road traffic accidents caused ...
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(2017-04-25)This research project aims to develop and improve auxiliary tools which aid in ongoing research on beamforming with random antenna arrays. One of the challenges of conducting research on random arrays is the tedious nature ...
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This work proves a concept for a wireless access point that uses image identification and tracking algorithms to automate the electronic control of a phased antenna array. Phased arrays change the direction of their radiation ...
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With the advent of mobile computing devices such as smartphones, modern mobile processors are designed by compromising two opposite characteristics. In one hand, performance needs to be maximized in order to hold up with ...
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The Bosch process is a type of deep reactive-ion etching (DRIE) of silicon. It is a type of plasma etching, or dry etching, that uses physical and chemical processes to etch the surface of a silicon sample. Due to its ...
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(Texas A&M University, 2008-10-10)With the relentless shrinking of the minimum feature size of VLSI Integrated Circuits (ICs), reduction in operating voltages and increase in operating frequencies, VLSI circuits are becoming more vulnerable to radiation ...