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Design And Optimization Of An Ionizing-Radiation-Free Dental Imaging Scheme By Near Infrared Fluorescence, Thomas Hartzler

LSU Master's Theses

There is a global need for access to oral health care. Proper oral health care is necessary for physiological and psychological health, as well as social and economic issues. Major oral diseases that must be screened include caries, cracked teeth, and impacted molars. These diseases are screened and diagnosed using a variety of medical imaging methods, computed tomography (CT) X-ray being the most popular and efficient method. The challenges in screening with X-ray technology include financial and time cost as well as health risk, including radiation exposure induced cancer (REIC). This thesis summarizes research to explore the possibility of overcoming …

Control Strategy For A Small-Scale Microgrid Based On Battery Energy Storage System-Virtual Synchronous Generator (Bess-Vsg), Wei Gao

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

As one of widely deployed renewable energy resources, PV power is playing a very important role in microgrids today. It has advantages such as making the best of natural solar energy and being friendly to our environment. In this thesis, solar PV based microgrid is studied using modeling and simulation. Microgrid can run in either grid-connected-mode or islanded-mode. However, there are also some disadvantages for solar power. For solar panel, its output is influenced by weather conditions such as illumination intensity and temperature. In addition, during the control process of grid-connected mode, it is hard to guarantee its output power …

A Study On Distributed Generation With A Focus On Solar Power, Shravan Kumar Tomar

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Centralized generation is when electric power is produced in a large scale of tens of MWs and is located away from the end user. This kind of production is connected to a series of high-voltage transmission lines. Electricity is then delivered to the end user through a network of distribution grids. Centralized generation tend to have multiple end user with multiple user profiles.

Distributed Generation is when is produced in a small scale and is located at the site of or very close to the end user. There are many ways distributed generation can be achieved, Solar power being the …

Sensing Of Multiple Parameters With Whispering Gallery Mode Optical Fiber Micro-Resonators, Arun Kumar Mallik Dr, Vishnan Kavungal, Gerald Farrell, Yuliya Semenova

Conference Papers

Monitoring of multiple physical parameters, such as humidity, temperature, strain, concentrations of certain chemicals or gases in various environments is of great importance in many industrial applications both for minimizing adverse effects on human health as well as for maintaining production levels and quality of products. In this paper we demonstrate two different approaches to the design of multi-parametric sensors using coupled whispering gallery mode (WGM) optical fiber micro-resonators. In the first approach, a small array of micro-resonators is coupled to a single fiber taper, while in the second approach each of the micro-resonators within an array is coupled to …

Fall Detection Using Channel State Information From Wifi Devices, D.M Sameera Palipana

PhDs

Falls among the independently living elderly population are a major public health worry, leading to injuries, loss of confidence to live independently and even to death. Each year, one in three people aged 65 and older falls and one in five of them suffers fatal or non fatal injuries. Therefore, detecting a fall early and alerting caregivers can potentially save lives and increase the standard of living. Existing solutions, e.g. push-button, wearables, cameras, radar, pressure and vibration sensors, have limited public adoption either due to the requirement for wearing the device at all times or installing specialized and expensive infrastructure. …

Bluetooth Tracking Approach For User Assistance Based In Sequential Patterns Analysis., Aitor Arribas Velasco, John Mcgrory, Damon Berry

Conference Papers

As a civilization, we are drowning in a raging torrent of data, of our own making, that is being harvested by our collective technologies and systems (e.g. Fitbit, phones). However, data itself is of no utility unless it is converted into beneficial knowledge. Design patterns have been shown to be a pragmatic solution to control and manage information flows and provide order and mean-ing to data within a given context. Assisting users within their daily activities has become a key aspect for modern Artificial Intelligence Systems. Neverthe-less, although the GPS technologies work well for outside location, indoor posi-tioning is still …

Semiconductor Device Modeling, Simulation, And Failure Prediction For Electrostatic Discharge Conditions, Hang Li

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Electrostatic Discharge (ESD) caused failures are major reliability issues in IC industry. Device modeling for ESD conditions is necessary to evaluate ESD robustness in simulation. Although SPICE model is accurate and efficient for circuit simulations in most cases, devices under ESD conditions operate in abnormal status. SPICE model cannot cover the device operating region beyond normal operation. Thermal failure is one of the main reasons to cause device failure under ESD conditions. A compact model is developed to predict thermal failure with circuit simulators. Instead of considering the detailed failure mechanisms, a failure temperature is introduced to indicate device failure. …

Analysis, Design And Efficiency Optimization Of Power Converters For Renewable Energy Applications, Xi Chen

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

DC-DC power converters are widely used in renewable energy-based power generation systems due to the constant demand of high-power density and high-power conversion efficiency. DC-DC converters can be classified into non-isolated and isolated topologies. For non-isolated topologies, they are typically derived from buck, boost, buck-boost or forth order (such as Cuk, Sepic and Zeta) converters and they usually have relatively higher conversion efficiency than isolated topologies. However, with the applications where the isolation is required, either these topologies should be modified, or alternative topologies are needed. Among various isolated DC-DC converters, the LLC resonant converter is an attractive selection due …

Programmable Low Loss Orthogonal Frequency Coded Surface Acoustic Wave Correlator Filters, Marshall Smith

Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Simultaneous Transmit and Receive (STAR) communication is being developed as a means of improving spectral efficiency in wireless communication systems. If the obstacle of self-interference can be sufficiently overcome, it is possible to double the spectral efficiency of an equivalent time or frequency division duplexed system. Spread spectrum techniques can reduce self-interference by using orthogonal or pseudo-orthogonal codes to encode the transmit signal and decode the receive signal. Hardware correlator filters are developed for use with STAR radio systems using orthogonal frequency coded (OFC) surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices. OFC is a type of spread spectrum communication that can be …

Fabrication And Characterization Of Planar-Structure Perovskite Solar Cells, Guoduan Liu

Theses and Dissertations--Electrical and Computer Engineering

Currently organic-inorganic hybrid perovskite solar cells (PSCs) is one kind of promising photovoltaic technology due to low production cost, easy fabrication method and high power conversion efficiency.

Charge transport layers are found to be critical for device performance and stability. A traditional electron transport layer (ETL), such as TiO₂ (Titanium dioxide), is not very efficient for charge extraction at the interface. Compared with TiO₂, SnO₂ (Tin (IV) Oxide) possesses several advantages such as higher mobility and better energy level alignment. In addition, PSCs with planar structure can be processed at lower temperature compared to PSCs with …

Performance Of Rf Underwater Communications Operating At 433 Mhz And 2.4 Ghz, Mohammad Abdellatif, Salma M. Maher, Ziad Ali, Haitham H. Mahmoud, Sameh O. Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

The development of Underwater communications networks has become a hot topic in the research over the past few years. Many technologies are promising, however, they suffer from considerable latency, and larger attenuation with distance which degrades the overall network performance. This paper implements a low cost underwater communication network (UWCN) in order to investigate the effect of the operating frequency on the network performance during data transmission. The transmission of data is studied in three scenarios; Air-to-Air, Air-to-Water, and Water-to- Water scenarios. Furthermore, the performance of the network with two operating frequencies is examined in terms of the end-toend delay, …

Submerged Solar Energy Harvesters Performance For Underwater Applications, Mohammad Abdellatif, Salsabeel Kamal, Ghazal M. Al-Sayyad, Rana Abdelmoteleb, Sameh O. Abdellatif

Electrical Engineering

underwater communications is the transmission of data in an unguided water medium through wireless carriers such as; optical waves, radio-frequency waves and acoustic waves. Such type of communication system is utilized to enable the realization of the ocean exploration system and other marine monitoring/exploration systems. Seeking for a sustainable setup, the enrolment of energy harvesting sources in these wireless nodes have been presented as a replacement of the short-life-time battery sources. In this paper, there are experimental measurements as well as theoretical studies for two different light harvesters have been conducted underwater with considering the air measurements as a reference. …

The Ability For Investigators To Visible Identify And Interpret Damage To Electrical Conductors, Jacob Alan Graham Critchley

Online Theses and Dissertations

The intent of a fire investigations is to correctly interpret the damage in order to identify the cause responsible for the fire and potentially help prevent similar incidents in the future. According to current guidelines of fire scene processing, fire investigators can implement the procedure of arc mapping as a tool to assist in the determination of the fire’s progression and origin at a fire scene. To do this effectively requires the investigator to identify and correctly interpret the damage to electrical conductors as thermal melting (i.e, fire damage) or electrical activity. This study examined the ability of fire investigators …

Active Recall Networks For Multiperspectivity Learning Through Shared Latent Space Optimization, Theus Aspiras, Ruixu Liu, Vijayan K. Asari

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

Given that there are numerous amounts of unlabeled data available for usage in training neural networks, it is desirable to implement a neural network architecture and training paradigm to maximize the ability of the latent space representation. Through multiple perspectives of the latent space using adversarial learning and autoencoding, data requirements can be reduced, which improves learning ability across domains. The entire goal of the proposed work is not to train exhaustively, but to train with multiperspectivity. We propose a new neural network architecture called Active Recall Network (ARN) for learning with less labels by optimizing the latent space. This …

ฟลักซ์เทียมและตัวสังเกตที่มีเสถียรภาพในวงกว้างสำหรับการควบคุมแบบไร้เซนเซอร์วัดตำแหน่งของมอเตอร์ซิงโครนัสรีลักแตนซ์, ธันวา ภิญโญภาวศุทธิ

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การประมาณตำแหน่งโรเตอร์ของมอเตอร์ซิงโครนัสรีลักแตนซ์โดยอาศัยแบบจำลองของมอเตอร์มีข้อดีคือไม่รบกวนการทำงานของมอเตอร์ และมีย่านการใช้งานที่ค่อนข้างกว้าง แม้ว่าในอดีตจะมีงานวิจัยหลายฉบับที่ได้นำเสนอตัวสังเกตฟลักซ์เพื่อการประมาณตำแหน่งโรเตอร์ไว้ แต่ในปัจจุบันก็ยังไม่มีงานวิจัยใดสามารถรับประกันเสถียรภาพของตัวสังเกตที่นำเสนอได้ ดังนั้นงานวิทยานพินธ์นี้จึงมีจุดมุ่งหมายหลักเพื่อนำเสนอตัวสังเกตฟลักซ์ซึ่งสามารถพิสูจน์เสถียรภาพในวงกว้างได้ โดยอาศัยแบบจำลองทางพลวัตใหม่ของมอเตอร์ซิงโครนัสรีลักแตนซ์บนฐานฟลักซ์เทียม ฟลักซ์เทียมสำหรับมอเตอร์ซิงโครนัสรีลักแตนซ์ที่นำเสนอมีข้อดีคล้ายกับแม่เหล็กถาวรของมอเตอร์ซิงโครนัสคือ มีขนาดที่รู้หรือคำนวณได้จากข้อมูลของกระแสสเตเตอร์ และมีมุมเฟสที่ให้ข้อมูลของตำแหน่งโรเตอร์ที่ต้องการรวมอยู่ด้วย ตำแหน่งและความเร็วของโรเตอร์สามารถหาได้จากฟลักซ์เทียมที่ประมาณได้โดยใช้เทคนิคเฟสล็อกลูปเชิงเวกเตอร์ แนวคิดและทฤษฎีทั้งหมดที่นำเสนอถูกทดสอบในเบื้องต้นโดยการจำลองด้วยโปรแกรม Matlab/Simulink และนำไปใช้กับระบบจริงเพื่อประมาณตำแหน่งและความเร็วโรเตอร์ในระบบควบคุมแบบไร้ตัวตรวจจับตำแหน่ง ผลการจำลองและผลการทดลองกับระบบจริงยืนยันความถูกต้องของแนวคิดและทฤษฎีที่ได้นำเสนอในงานวิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้

Optimal Planning Of Wind-Based Distributed Generation And Reactive Power Management In A Distribution System, Ovi Eka Putri

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

In recent years, the incremental load demand leads to the higher presence of distributed generation (DG) in distribution system. Renewable energy-based DG has been much appreciated due to the techno-eco-environmental benefit. Wind-based DG is one of most promising renewable energy based-DG. However, in the technical aspect, distribution system planning with wind-based DG alone is not fruitful enough due to limited reactive power support. Capacitor bank is one of available devices for reactive power management in distribution system. So, installing wind-based DG and capacitor bank in distribution system is one of alternative solutions to improve electrical power system performance in term …

Deep Temporal Convolutional Networks For Short-Term Traffic Flow Forecasting, Wentian Zhao, Yanyun Gao, Tingxiang Ji, Xili Wan, Feng Ye, Guangwei Bai

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications

To reduce the increasingly congestion in cities, it is essential for intelligent transportation system (ITS) to accurately forecast the short-term traffic flow to identify the potential congestion sites. In recent years, the emerging deep learning method has been introduced to design traffic flow predictors, such as recurrent neural network (RNN) and long short-term memory (LSTM), which has demonstrated its promising results. In this paper, different from existing work, we study the temporal convolutional network (TCN) and propose a deep learning framework based on TCN model for short-term city-wide traffic forecast to accurately capture the temporal and spatial evolution of traffic …

Series Compensation To Increase Power Flow: A Case Study On The Irish Transmission System, Aidan Heffernan, Jane Courtney

Conference papers

Ireland presents an interesting case study for transmission network strengthening. The majority of load in the country is located at the nation's capital, Dublin, in the East, while most of the new conventional generation and renewable generation are found in the South-West. Power is transferred between the two via a 400 kV network. This leads to large cross- country power flows. This power distribution disparity is due to increase. A large thermal generating station which is connected to the 400 kV system in the West, will close by 2025. This generation will be replaced partially with wind generation in the …

Three-Phase Motor Drive Using Hall Sensors And Field Oriented Control, Michael Mayberry

Research Opportunities for Engineering Undergraduates (ROEU) Program 2018-19

Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSM) are a promising candidate for the push to electrify transportation. They have many benefits over DC motors, however they require advanced control techniques that use accurate rotor position, to achieve optimal operation. Using Field Oriented Control (FOC) and hall sensors allows for a low-cost, reliable solution for PMSM drives.

The current study uses FOCs and hall sensors to achieve a motor drive with high power density, accurate speed control, and a small footprint.

Three-Phase Two-Leg T-Type Converter Based Active Power Filter, Samet Biricik, Hasan Komurcugil, Mohamed Trabelsi

Conference papers

In this work, a three-phase two-leg T-type active power filter topology is investigated when a three-level hysteresis band current modulation technique is applied. The three-phase two-leg T-type configuration which utilizes eight switching devices together split DC link capacitor banks is able to improve the reliability of the system as well as effectively reduces the power losses. The compensation of the current harmonics at each phase are achieved successfully with the control of phase-a and phase-b. Using this technique, the phase-c is directly connected to the midpoint of the split capacitors, which eliminates the necessity of additional control on the phase-c. …

Development And Demonstration Of A Processing And Assembly Pathway For A 3d-Synchronous Field Programmable Gate Array, Robert Carroll

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) are integrated circuits which can implement virtually any digital function and can be configured by a designer after manufacturing. This is beneficial when dedicated application specific runs are not time or cost effective; however, this flexibility comes at the cost of a substantially higher interconnect overhead. Three-dimensional (3D) integration can offer significant improvements in the FPGA architecture by stacking multiple device layers and interconnecting them in the third or vertical dimension, through the substrate, where path lengths are greatly reduced. This will allow for a higher density of devices and improvements in power consumption, signal …

Cvd Molybdenum Disulfide : Material And Device Engineering, Eui Sang Song

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is a semiconducting 2D layered material that has attracted a lot of attention due to its material properties for electronics and optoelectronics device applications. These include a layer-dependent band gap, an indirect to direct energy transition at monolayer state, and strong light-matter interaction. A large majority of 2D materials and devices have been studied through micromechanical exfoliation for extraction and electron beam lithography for device fabrication. These methodologies while able to generate high quality materials and precisely fabricated devices, are not suitable for large scale production. Efforts have been made to make MoS2 and other 2D materials …

Design And Simulation Of A Voltage Controlled Current Source For Electrical Impedance Tomography Applications, Farial Nur Maysha

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is a simple, non-invasive and ionizing radiation-free imaging technology with potential application to medical diagnostics such as lung function, cardiac output, breast cancer, and cysts. Of the above imaging techniques, lung imaging has developed into the prime application for EIT. Because it presents an ill-posed inverse problem, EIT requires high-precision instrumentation and this thesis studies a new method for obtaining a high-precision current source and voltmeter for EIT. This thesis describes various simulation studies performed on the voltage-controlled current source (VCCS). The output impedance (Zo) of various types of Howland current source (HCS) including the basic …

Autonomous Spectrum Enforcement : A Blockchain Approach, Maqsood Ahamed Abdul Careem

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

A core limitation in existing wireless technologies is the scarcity of spectrum, to support the exponential increase in Internet-connected and multimedia-capable mobile devices and the increasing demand for bandwidth-intensive services. As a solution, Dynamic Spectrum Access policies are being ratified to promote spectrum sharing for various spectrum bands and to improve the spectrum utilization. This poses an equally challenging problem of enforcing these spectrum policies. The distributed and dynamic nature of policy violations necessitates the use of autonomous agents to implement efficient and agile enforcement systems. The design of such a fully autonomous enforcement system is complicated due to the …

Communications Using Deep Learning Techniques, Priti Gopal Pachpande

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

Deep learning (DL) techniques have the potential of making communication systems

Exploring Gated Nanoelectronic Devices Fabricated From 1d And 2d Materials, Prathamesh A. Dhakras

Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)

One and two dimensional materials are being extensively researched toward potential application as ultra-thin body channel materials. The difficulty of implementing physical doping methods in these materials has necessitated various alternative doping schemes, the most promising of which is the electrostatic gating technique due to its reconfigurability. This dissertation explores the different fundamental devices that can be fabricated and characterized by taking advantage of the electrostatic gating of individual single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWNTs), dense SWNT networks and exfoliated 2D tungsten diselenide (WSe2) flakes.

การพัฒนาระบบวัดช่วงเวลาเดินทางผ่านของชีพจรสำหรับการประมาณค่าความดันโลหิตแบบไร้ปลอกแขน, ทิพย์นิรินทร์ วัจนะรัตน์

Chulalongkorn University Theses and Dissertations (Chula ETD)

การวัดความดันโลหิตด้วยเครื่องวัดความดันแบบออสซิลโลเมตริกเป็นวิธีที่ถูกใช้งานในทางการแพทย์อย่างแพร่หลาย แต่ด้วยข้อจำกัดของการมีปลอกแขนทำให้ไม่สามารถใช้วัดความดันโลหิตในผู้ป่วยบางกลุ่มได้ งานวิทยานิพนธ์ฉบับนี้จึงมีจุดมุ่งหมายพัฒนาอุปกรณ์ต้นแบบในการบันทึกสัญญาณโฟโตเพลตทีสโมแกรม (PPG) 2 ช่องพร้อมกับสัญญาณคลื่นไฟฟ้าหัวใจ (ECG) เพื่อนำไปประมาณค่าความดันโลหิตแบบไร้ปลอกแขนด้วยเทคนิคการวัด pulse arrival time (PAT) เปรียบเทียบกับ pulse transit time (PTT) โดย PAT เป็นช่วงเวลาระหว่าง R-wave ของ ECG กับจุดยอดของ PPG ที่ปลายนิ้ว และ PTT เป็นช่วงเวลาระหว่างจุดยอดของ PPG ที่ข้อพับบริเวณข้อศอก กับ PPG ที่ปลายนิ้ว โดยให้อาสาสมัครจำนวน 5 คนออกกำลังกายเพื่อเพิ่มความดันโลหิตและวัดสัญญาณ ทั้งนี้ได้ออกแบบการทดลองและประเมินความแม่นยำภายใต้แนวทางของมาตรฐาน IEEE Std 1708™-2014 ผลการทดลองการประมาณค่าความดันโลหิตขณะหัวใจบีบตัว (SBP) พบว่า PAT มีแนวโน้มผกผันกับ SBP เป็นไปตามทฤษฎี ในขณะที่ PTT ไม่แสดงถึงความสัมพันธ์กับ SBP ที่ชัดเจน การประมาณค่าความดันโลหิตขณะหัวใจคลายตัว (DBP) ไม่แสดงถึงแนวโน้มความสัมพันธ์กับทั้ง PAT และ PTT ส่วนผลการทดลองประมาณค่า SBP ซ้ำภายใน 90 วันพบว่าเฉพาะ PAT มีความสามารถในการวัดซ้ำได้ดี โดยสรุปแล้ว PAT มีความสามารถในการประมาณค่าความดันโลหิต SBP แสดงให้เห็นถึงศักยภาพในการพัฒนาระบบการวัดความดันโลหิตแบบไร้ปลอกแขนให้แม่นยำมากขึ้นเพื่อประยุกต์ใช้ในทางการแพทย์ในอนาคต

The Concept Of Substrate Integrated Circularly Polarized Horn Antennas, Venkata Naga Kalyan Ram Akunuru

All Graduate Theses, Dissertations, and Other Capstone Projects

In this thesis, a new type of Substrate Integrated Waveguide for Horn Antennas is proposed for implementing circularly polarization on printed circuit boards. E-plane type of circuits cannot be realized by the conventional substrate integrated waveguide. Substrate integrated E-plane waveguide consists of two circuit boards attached to each other by the two copper strips which are inserted in between two circuit boards, where plated through holes are penetrated through them along the transmission direction. The plated through holes and copper strips altogether played as side walls of a conventional waveguide to support longitudinal and vertical currents. Circular Polarization has its …

Impact Of Combined Heat And Power Generation On An Industrial Site Distribution Network, Thomas Neally

Masters

Presence of Distributed Generation (DG) in Industrial Site Distribution Network (ISDN) can represent a significant impact on the operational characteristics of the network. Present planning and operation criteria use for ISDN are in general not suitable to cope with the presence of a significant DG capacity. The presence of DG provides considerable benefits from both engineering and economic viewpoints. However, it changes radial configurations of the distribution feeders. Consequently it may cause coordination failure to existing protection system which is originally set based on radial configuration. In addition, high penetration of DG into ISDN may increase feeder loss, and cause …

Microstructure Evolution Of Chalcogenide Materials Via Molecular Dynamics, Sharmin Abdullah

Open Access Theses & Dissertations

The properties of a material are defined by its granular microstructure which is determined by its grain evolution and the types of grain boundaries present in the structure. For example, the performance of Cadmium Sulfide/Cadmium Telluride (CdS/CdTe) solar cells can be affected by the presence of grain boundaries which makes the study of grain structure evolution a very important part of solar cell performance optimization. Grain boundary mobilities are important properties in material science and engineering as they determine grain structures under given processing and operating conditions.

In this thesis, several computational tools were used to analyze the formation and …