Browsing Electrical & Computer Engineering Theses and Dissertations by Title
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3D Fast Geometric Collision Avoidance Algorithm (FGA) and Decision-Making Approach based on the Balance of Safety and Cost for UAS
(2021)Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) is a fast-growing industry with extensive economic implications and would be integrated into the national airspace system (NAS), which requires UAS to have the efficient sense and avoidance ... -
3D Integration, Temperature Effects, and Modeling
(2005-05-02)Practical limits to device scaling are threatening the growth of integrated circuit (IC) technology. A breakthrough architecture is needed in order to realize the increased device density and circuit functionality that ... -
3D Multimodal Image Registration: Application to equine PET and CT images
(2017)Positron Emission Tomography (PET) is being widely used in veterinary medicine in recent years. Although it was limited to small animals because of its classical design and the large amount of radionuclide doses required, ... -
Accelerated Imaging Using Partial Fourier Compressed Sensing Reconstruction
(2016)Accelerated imaging is an active research area in medical imaging. The most intuitive way of image acceleration is to reconstruct images from only a subset of the whole raw data space, so that the acquisition time can be ... -
Achievable Rates, Optimal Signalling Schemes and Resource Allocation for Fading Wireless Channels
(2005-08-04)The proliferation of services involving the transmission of high rate data traffic over wireless channels makes it essential to overcome the detrimental effects of the wireless medium, such as fading and multiuser interference. ... -
Active Attention for Target Detection and Recognition in Robot Vision
(2017)In this thesis, we address problems in building an efficient and reliable target detection and recognition system for robot applications, where the vision module is only one component of the overall system executing the ... -
Active Instrument Cables with Buffer Amplification
(2011)ABSTRACT Title of Thesis: ACTIVE INSTRUMENT CABLES WITH BUFFER AMPLIFICATION Timothy A. Babich, Master of Science, 2011 Thesis Directed by: Professor Patrick O'Shea Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering "When ... -
Active microring and microdisk optical resonators on indium phosphide
(2006-04-27)Photonic or optical logic holds the promise of ultra-fast logic circuits with capability for speeds beyond what is possible using conventional silicon electronics. However, the jump from theory to practice has a high barrier ... -
Activity Representation from Video Using Statistical Models on Shape Manifolds
(2010)Activity recognition from video data is a key computer vision problem with applications in surveillance, elderly care, etc. This problem is associated with modeling a representative shape which contains significant information ... -
Adaptation in Standard CMOS Processes with Floating Gate Structures and Techniques
(2007-04-25)We apply adaptation into ordinary circuits and systems to achieve high performance, high quality results. Mismatch in manufactured VLSI devices has been the main limiting factor in quality for many analog and mixed-signal ... -
Adaptive Analysis and Processing of Structured Multilingual Documents
(2006-01-19)Digital document processing is becoming popular for application to office and library automation, bank and postal services, publishing houses and communication management. In recent years, the demand for tools capable of ... -
Adaptive Log Domain Filters Using Floating Gate Transistors
(2004-12-06)In this thesis, an adaptive first order lowpass log domain filter and an adaptive second order log domain filter are presented with integrated learning rules for model reference estimation. Both systems are implemented ... -
An Adaptive Mac Protocol for Wireless Multi-Hop Networks with Multiple Antennas
(2005-08-10)Radio links that use multiple antennas at both transmitter and receiver sides are referred to as Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) links. MIMO links are known to provide multiplicative increase in capacity and spectral ... -
Adaptive Sensing and Processing for Some Computer Vision Problems
(2014)This dissertation is concerned with adaptive sensing and processing in computer vision, specifically through the application of computer vision techniques to non-standard sensors. In the first part, we adapt techniques ... -
AN ADAPTIVELY SAMPLED PATH PLANNER USING WAYPOINTS: AN ANY-ANGLE VARIANT
(2014)This thesis develops a low-cost grid-based path planner that intrinsically supports smooth, curved vehicle dynamics. There are many advantages to grid-based planners, including working natively in the digital space of most ... -
The ADI-FDTD Method for High Accuracy Electrophysics Applications
(2006-11-24)The Finite-Difference Time-Domain (FDTD) is a dependable method to simulate a wide range of problems from acoustics, to electromagnetics, and to photonics, amongst others. The execution time of an FDTD simulation is inversely ... -
Advance Materials and Processes for Integrated Microcircuit Technology
(2008-04-25)Improvements in technology, as we get closer and closer to the limits of Moore's law, require the use of a holistic design approaches as a new paradigm in value creation for future technologies. In light of these limitations, ... -
Advanced Back-End Processing Techniques For Infrared Focal Plane Arrays
(2013)With the continued scaling of infrared focal plane array (FPA) pixel pitch down to the diffraction limit, current backend processing techniques are becoming less viable. For one class of detectors, FPAs are formed when ... -
ADVANCED ELECTROLYTES FOR LITHIUM BATTERIES WITH HIGH SAFETY AND PERFORMANCE
(2018)Current lithium-ion batteries face severe safety challenges including thermal-runaway, flaming, and explosion/leakage issues. Safer batteries could be developed by exchanging the highly-flammable liquid electrolytes to ... -
Advanced Overmoded Circuits for Gyro-Amplifiers
(2004-04-26)To solve the narrow-bandwidth problem associated with cavity-related gyro-amplifiers, a new interaction circuit, containing clustered cavities is considered. In particular, the use of a cluster of cavities in frequency ...