Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Fall 2023
Grasslands cover 30% of the planet’s terrestrial surface and provide habitat and forage for livestock and wildlife. In addition, grasslands have the potential to mitigate climate change by sequestering substantial amounts of carbon (C) in the soil. However, the ability of grassland soils to...
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Spring 2023
We introduce "optimization through protocol selection" (OPS) as a technique to improve bulk-data transfer on shared wide-area networks (WANs). Instead of tuning the parameters of a network protocol, our empirical results show that the selection of the protocol itself can result in up to four...
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Adaptive Nonlinear Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Visual Servoing and Aerial Manipulation
DownloadSpring 2022
With the improvements in the autonomy and capability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), there is an increased interest in their applications in infrastructure inspection and maintenance. The focus of this thesis is to study new methods for improved UAV autonomy. In this regard, the motion...
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Adaptive phase synchronization techniques for unbalanced and distorted three-phase voltage system
DownloadFall 2010
Interfacing and operating AC power electronic systems requires rapid and accurate estimation of the phase angle of the power source, and specifically of the positive sequence of the three-phase utility grid voltage. This is needed to ensure reliable operation of the power control devices and of...
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Spring 2015
Much of the focus on finding good representations in reinforcement learning has been on learning complex non-linear predictors of value. Methods like policy gradient, that do not learn a value function and instead directly represent policy, often need fewer parameters to learn good policies....