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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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Items in this Collection
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Distributed Event Triggered Control, Estimation, and Optimization for Cyber-Physical Systems
DownloadFall 2014
A cyber-physical system (CPS) is a system in which computational systems interact with physical processes. Control systems in a CPS application often include algorithms that react to sensor data by issuing control signals via actuators to the physical components of the CPS. Communication over...
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Fall 2014
Large-scale complex chemical processes increasingly appear in the modern process industry due to their economic efficiency. Such a large-scale complex chemical process usually consists of several unit operations (subsystems), which are connected together through material and energy flows. Because...
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Fall 2015
The main goal of this thesis is to develop an opportunistic scheduling strategy in distributed networks with decode-and-forward (DF) relays without direct link. Two cases are considered: 1) the winner source has full CSI (CSI of source-relay link and relay-destination link), 2) the winner source...
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Distributed Parameter Control of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) for Diesel-Powered Vehicles
DownloadFall 2013
The main scope of this work is to design a distributed parameter control for SCR, which is modelled by using coupled hyperbolic and parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs). This is a boundary control problem where the control objectives are to reduce the amount of NOx emissions and...
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Spring 2014
A wireless sensor network (WSN) consists of spatially distributed sensor nodes which are deployed to monitor some process of interest. Although WSNs are very promising, the distributed nature, attributes of wireless networks, and availability of limited resources in WSNs introduce significant...