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Energy Storage And Management For A Small Series Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Liqin Ni
Energy Storage And Management For A Small Series Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle, Liqin Ni
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) are gaining increasing interest for both residential and commercial transportation applications. In PHEV design, energy storage system (EES) is a critical component which will impact the overall design efficiency, performance, cost and etc. This dissertation aims to design an advanced energy storage system for a small plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, whose performance will approach very closely to the optimal possible, in terms of energy efficiency and acceleration, for passenger road vehicles application. Moreover, practical automotive requirements are considered during ESS design, such as cost, life time, safety and volume.
This dissertation utilizes ultracapacitors in conjunction …
A Single-Chip Ultra-Wideband Based Wireless Sensor Network Node, Nathan R. Schemm
A Single-Chip Ultra-Wideband Based Wireless Sensor Network Node, Nathan R. Schemm
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
This dissertation presents the design of a next-generation wireless sensor network node. The node incorporates many new and innovative technologies such as an ultra-wideband radio which allows very low-energy communication, a low-power radiation detection front end, and an efficient implementation of dynamic voltage scaling which improves the energy efficiency of the integrated processor. The complete design is integrated on a single chip for maximum power savings and minimal size.
The ultra-wideband transceiver includes many novel techniques to produce a receiver with low power consumption and fast and accurate packet acquisition and reception. These include the use of a standard symmetric …