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The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier...
Recent increased popularity in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has been influenced by their ability to relieve the economic dependence on oil, meanwhile reducing the carbon footprint through the decreased level of harmful...
In this research, two important concepts concerning parallel robots are investigated: compliance and fault tolerance. First, we address the issue of synthesizing a suitable compliance. This is an important problem since a well-designed...
Modern power distribution grid has become very complex, especially with the integration of distributed renewable resources and many electronic power devices. Maintaining power quality is becoming incrementally challenging due to the...
With today's trend toward ever growing amounts of data, deep learning approaches are increasingly deployed with impressive success, notably in image recognition and time series classification applications. State of the art performance of...
The emerging emphasis and benefits of distributed generation on smaller scale networks has prompted much attention and focus to research in this field. Much of the research that has grown in distributed generation has also stimulated the...
A robust and computationally efficient Monte-Carlo based technique is developed to analyze the magnetic aftereffect and noise passage phenomena in magnetic hysteretic systems by using phenomenological models of hysteresis. The technique...
Nowadays, relatively small-scale distributed generation (DG) technologies are developing rapidly in an effort to both protect the environment and to address the bottleneck of centralized power systems. DG tends to utilize diverse...
Image segmentation is one of the most important categories of image processing. The purpose of image segmentation is to divide an original image into homogeneous regions. It can be applied as a pre-processing stage for other image...
The increasing consumer demand and government incentives are driving the rapid growth of renewable energy generation. In particularly, the number of distributed photovoltaic (PV) system installations is increasing quickly. However, the...
Recent years, since a large amount of electrical energy for the industrialization based on the high technology is required, many countries make preparations for replacing the non-renewable energy. Especially, a much considering the...
The rise in energy demand calls for rapid advancements in technology in terms of renewable energy. In doing so, to reduce the carbon emissions in the atmosphere and give the planet a fighting chance to battle global temperature rise....
Large-scale storage arrays are always in high demand by universities, government agencies, web search engines, and research laboratories. This unvarying need for more data storage has begun to push storage array magnitudes into an...
Grid codes impose immunity requirements to the generation systems that are connected to the transmission lines. Immunity refers to the generator’s capability to overcome grid abnormal conditions. One of the requirements is to remain...
In this dissertation, we investigate the possibility to use scanning microscopy such as scanning capacitance microscopy (SCM) and scanning spreading resistance microscopy (SSRM) for the "atomistic" dopant profiling of semiconductor...
In this work, Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) are considered as a security metric for the implementation of hybrid cryptosystems utilizing the neural network-based Tree Parity Re-keying Machines (TPM). A virtual study is presented within the...
Power Electronic-based Distribution Systems (PEDS) can provide excellent features such as load regulation, high power factor, and transient performance; especially in the large scale grids which are highly penetrated with the renewable...
Shapes of boundaries can play an important role in characterizing objects in images. Shape analysis involves choosing mathematical representations of shapes, deriving tools for quantifying shape differences, and characterizing imaged...
Shipboard power systems (SPS) are increasing their reliance on communication systems. Communication enables system-level controls to coordinate the usage of the SPS and provide significant improvements (e.g., size, weight, cost)....
A robust and computationally efficient technique is developed for the design of fluctuation resistant structures (fault-tolerant) semiconductor devices. This technique can be applied to the computation of the doping profiles that...
After Felix Bloch’s observation in 1946 that nuclei inside an atom behave like a magnet, there were many people who got interested in this theory, which ultimately led to the discovery of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technique....
It has been clear in the recent decades that there is an urgent need to progress towards renewable energy. There are few established technologies that provide a suitable economic option. These include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, ...
The consumption of electricity is seen by society as a certainty and not an uncertainty; however, there are several uncertainties about how the topology of the electrical grid will look in the future. For instance, it is expected that...
This research investigates the combination of lidar and passive polarimetric infrared imaging for object detection and classification. Lidar imaging can characterize reflective properties of a scene and provide high resolution three...
The current trend for naval destroyer-class ships is the move toward DC distribution systems as the next generation of ships is developed. The main motivation for using DC is to increase the power density of the ships to accommodate...
Understanding of the transport phenomena in Li-air batteries is crucial for improving the performance and design of Li-air batteries. In this dissertation, the basic transport equations that govern the operation of Li-air batteries are...
Distributed and renewable energy generation (DG) offers great potential in meeting future global energy requirements. Distributed generation consists of small to medium size generators cited close to the customer and spread across a...
In recent years there has been increasing research on incorporating intelligent driver assistance systems (IDAS) into vehicular platforms to help drivers make better driving decisions and to make the roadways safer. The percentage of...
The latter half of the 20th century saw tremendous growth in nearly every aspect of civilization. From the internet to transportation, the various infrastructures relied upon by society has become exponentially more complex. Energy...
Recently, along with the development of renewable energy technology and threat of energy shortage, hybrid electric vehicles (HEV) and DC microgrid system are increasingly attracting attentions in industry and academia. By combining...
The focus of this project is to provide a survey of antennas used in wireless communication systems. This survey includes background information on wireless communication systems, antenna fundamentals and matching techniques. The design...
Lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries with a theoretical specific energy density up to 2600 Wh/kg is regarded as one of the most promising energy chemical power systems. However, the development of Li-S batteries still faces numerous technical...
With the developments in semiconductor technology, power electronic devices have had a crucial role in power systems. They are employed in a different variety of applications, including but not limited to energy conversation and grid...
Over the last decade, the number of cyberattacks targeting power systems and causing physical and economic damages has increased rapidly. Among them, False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) is a class of cyberattacks against power grid...
A central problem in the power semiconductor industry is to design semiconductor devices with high breakdown voltage and low on-state resistance. This problem is usually addressed computationally by developing a physics-based model for...
ABSTRACT The aim of the thesis is to design efficient and accurate co-simulation interfaces between off-the-shelf heterogeneous real-time simulators. Co-simulation in this context refers to the distribution of subsystems of a complex...
Monitoring the fetal ECG (FECG) gives us important information about the fetal wellbeing. FECG is a complex waveform where each of the P through T complexes provides wealth of information. The objective of this project is to develop the...
This paper demonstrates a throughout study of Florida State University main campus distribution system, particularly for Stadium power distribution system. With the advanced power system analysis software, a refined distribution...
The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is a potential candidate for power conversion in a Medium Voltage DC System (MVDC) based electric ship. One of the major advantages of utilizing MMC in an MVDC environment is the capability of...
Advanced vehicle technology including hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles are attracting attention recently, as climate change and energy shortage become a more and more...
Robot manipulators can be used to navigate and perform tasks in unstructured and hazardous environments where human safety is a primary concern. For example, they are used for nuclear waste disposal, space exploration, nuclear power...
Recently there have been increasing interests in developing the renewable energy resources for the future energy need. Solar energy generation has shown its great potential to serve as a clean distributed energy source. While one...
A method inhibiting surface roughening of silicon and gallium arsenide wafers during the thermal desorption of their native oxide layers is proposed and tested experimentally, with silicon results indicating a 75% reduction in surface...
Vehicular communication network consists of different wireless communication technologies working in conjunction with each other. These different wireless communication technologies have different technical parameters. Wireless...
This thesis presents a study of modeling of metal semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs) characteristics using artificial neural networks. A radial basis function artificial neural network (RBF-ANN) model is developed for...
The newly discovered bulk Ca2 RuO4 is an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator with the metal-insulator transition above room temperature and Neel temperature at 113 K. There is a strong coupling between crystal structures and electronic...
This dissertation uses the theory of stochastic arithmetic as a solution for the FPGA implementation of complex control algorithms for power electronics applications. Compared with the traditional digital implementation, the stochastic...
The emerging emphasis of power hardware in the loop (PHIL) as a cost effective de-risking and analysis tool has received focused attention and research from the power system/power electronic fields on this topic. Advantages of PHIL...
As capacitors age, the likelihood of failure increases. Electrolytic capacitors typically fail when their electrolyte layers evaporate, resulting in an open-circuit fault which is minimally dangerous to other circuit components in the...
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have the advantage of carrying direct current at zero resistance when operated below their critical temperature. At lower temperatures, these superconductors have the capability of carrying higher...
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