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- 2Gaudet, Vincent (Electrical and Computer Engineering)
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Fall 2011
Real-time digital simulation of electrical machines and drives is an efficient approach to evaluate the true behavior of newly designed machines and controllers before applying them in a real system. State-of-the-art real-time digital simulators aim to offer a precise replica for different parts...
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Harmonic impact of modern residential loads on distribution power system and mitigation solutions
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The mass penetration of both energy-efficient and consumer electronics into residential houses is introducing a totally new harmonic situation in today’s distribution systems and complicating the mitigation solutions. In order to study the collective effect of today’s distributed harmonic...
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Fall 2009
Power system harmonics and interharmonics are power quality concerns that have received a great deal of attention in recent years. These phenomena can have several adverse effects on power system operation. The main harmonic and interharmonic sources are devices based on power electronics. An...
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Spring 2010
Complex fuzzy logic is a new type of multi-valued logic, in which truth values are drawn from the unit disc of the complex plane; it is thus a generalization of the familiar infinite-valued fuzzy logic. At the present time, all published research on complex fuzzy logic is theoretical in nature,...
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Spring 2010
A fault in the system operation is deemed to occur when the system practically experiences an abnormal condition, such as a malfunction in the actuators/sensors. Hence, detection and isolation of the faulty components is crucial in control applications. Effective control and monitoring of a...
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Fall 2009
In the refining industry, the cost of a power system interruption is dominated by an associated loss of production. Power distribution within a refinery includes a set of production units within a highly inter-dependent process, where the outage of a single unit affects the production of...
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Fall 2009
Regarding the problems of resource allocation in OFDMA-based wireless communication systems, much of the research effort mainly focuses on finding efficient power control and subcarrier assignment policies. With systems employing multicast transmission, the available schemes in literature are not...
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Fall 2011
The Applied Miniaturisation Laboratory (AML) has recently built a laser-induced fluorescent capillary electrophoresis (LIF-CE) genetic analysis instrument, called the Tricorder Tool Kit (TTK). By using a photodiode instead of photomultiplier tubes in the optical detection, the AML has lowered the...
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Simulation of quantization noise effects on the performance of a wireless preamble detector and demonstration of a functional FPGA prototype
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This thesis describes the implementation of the physical layer for an experimental low-power wireless communication device. The system utilizes differential coherent correlation and threshold-based detection to produce a robust random-access packet-based communications protocol. Prior to...
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Fall 2009
Resonant microcantilevers are promising transducers for bacteria detection because of their high sensitivities. Surface stress and mass from adsorbates affect the resonant frequency. We developed a novel method for decoupling the frequency contributions of a change in mass and surface stress on a...