Browsing by Department "Electrical and Computer Engineering"
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(2020-04-16)This thesis presents a generalized multilevel power factor correction approach that utilizes low voltage GaN semiconductors, reduces inductor voltage, increases inductor current ripple frequency, and reduces capacitor ...
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(2023-05-03)This thesis presents a methodology for creating and solving of a synthetic combined electric and natural gas transmission network, along with representative benchmark results. The systems do not contain actual, confidential ...
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(2023-03-15)The rapid changes in the electric power grid highlight the need for newly addressing them when planning and designing the power system for more accurate and reliable system operation and management. Improvement of power ...
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(2023-06-29)In the thesis, a new methodology is presented to investigate the impact of electric vehicles on the power system. The goal is to assess the benefits of using electric vehicles as a power source to enhance the grid’s ...
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(2022-12-12)The popularity of portable devices, such as smart phones, smart watches, laptops, tablets, and internet of things (IoT) devices has continually increased in recent years. These devices often need dedicated, rechargeable ...
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(2019-11-26)In recent years, the emerging of new machine learning algorithms and the fast development of available hardware allow people to perform complex recognition and generation tasks of images, natural languages and speaking ...
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(2021-12-01)This thesis analyzes the connection between the Proportional Integral Derivative (PID) controller and the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) Algorithm and proposes two novel methods, PBSv2 and PAA, to enhance the performance ...
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(2021-12-07)Action detection has been an essential topic in computer vision tasks for the last decade. There is lots of research done to get high accuracy in action detection based on image features. However, image features consume ...
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(2022-08-12)The noninvasive measurement of vital signs, particularly for cardiovascular and respiratory disease, is of great importance, since it can be used for monitoring the progress of a patient’s condition. In fact, monitoring ...
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(2022-11-09)The emergence of distributed energy resources has led to new challenges in the operation and planning of power networks. Of particular significance is the introduction of a new layer of complexity that manifests in the ...
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(2022-09-12)This dissertation presents a holistic resilience-oriented approach to design and operate power systems with higher tolerance of disturbances. Inspired from naturally resilient ecosystems, this approach is able to boost ...
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(2021-11-17)Water distribution systems (WDS) are critical infrastructures that transfer drinking water to consumers. In the U.S., around 42 billion gallons of water are being delivered per day via one million miles of pipes to be used ...
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(2018-08-16)The power amplifier in a transmitter, especially high-power transmitters, generally uses more power than any other component in the signal chain. As a result, large power savings can be achieved if the efficiency of the ...
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(2019-06-13)In this work, a single-stage three-phase rectifier topology with high-frequency isolation for EV (Electric Vehicle) fast-charging stations is proposed. By using a multipulse approach, low-order harmonics in the input current ...
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(2020-04-09)Network-on-Chip (NoC) communication architectures are widely used as on-chip interconnect in multi-core systems. These systems are increasingly used in safety-critical applications, so it is essential to quickly detect ...
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(2022-04-21)The power transmission grid plays a pervasive role in modern society and its failure has a significant impact. In the past, the grid has been subjected to malicious attacks. With the increasing ...
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(2020-03-26)Simulation-based verification is a very essential technique in ensuring the correct functionality of any digital integrated circuit design before it goes on silicon. One of the major challenges of running simulation-based ...
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(2021-12-06)We introduce a new theoretical framework for optimizing second-order behaviors of wireless networks as a core result of the dissertation. Unlike existing techniques for network utility maximization, which only considers ...
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(2019-04-05)Functional verification is used to confirm that the logic of a design meets its specification. The most commonly used method for verifying complex designs is simulation-based verification. The quality of simulation-based ...
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(2021-07-14)With the continuous data explosion in the big data era, traditional software and hardware stack are facing unprecedented challenges on how to operate on such data scale. Thus, designing new architectures and efficient ...