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Fuzzy adaptive control of a two-wheeled inverted pendulum
(2018)Recently, the two-wheeled inverted pendulum has drawn the attention of robotic community in view of a plethora of applications, such as transport vehicles: Segway, teleconferencing robots, and electronic network-vehicle. ... -
Fuzzy logic based efficiency optimization of IPM synchronous motor drive
(2012-11-10)Interior permanent magnet synchronous motor (IPMSM) is highly appreciated by researchers in variable speed drive applications due to some of its advantageous features such as small size, high power density, simple ... -
Gallium nitride on low temperature cofired ceramic templates for Schottky junctions
(2021)In this work aluminum, silicon and zinc oxide were used as intermediate layers for thin film growth on cofired glass ceramic substrates. The motivation behind this work is a direct deposition of nitride thin films on the ... -
Heuristic approaches for energy-efficient shared restoration in WDM networks
(2014-01-22)In recent years, there has been ongoing research on the design of energy-efficient Wavelength Division Multiplexing (WDM) networks. The explosive growth of Internet traffic has led to increased power consumption of network ... -
High-power medium-voltage motor drive: converter topology, modulation, and control
(2021)The output power quality, device voltage sharing, power converter flying capacitor voltage ripple and motor torque ripple at low-frequency/ speed operation are the major issues in high-power medium-voltage (MV) motor ... -
Holistic resource management in UAV-assisted wireless networks
(2022)Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are considered as a promising solution to assist terrestrial networks in future wireless networks (i.e., beyond fifth-generation (B5G) and sixth-generation (6G)). The convergence of various ... -
A hybrid prognostic approach for battery health monitoring and remaining-useful-life prediction
(2021)Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries are commonly used in various industrial and domestic applications, such as portable communication devices, medical equipment, and electric vehicles. However, the Li-ion battery performance ... -
Improved Sentiment Classification by Multi-model Fusion
(2016)Sentiment Analysis (SA), also Opinion Mining, is a sub-field of Data Mining. It aims at studying and analyzing human’s sentiments, opinions, emotions or attitudes through their written text. Since all sentiment information ... -
Improving Performance of Transactional Applications through Adaptive Transactional Memory
(2015)With the rise of chip multiprocessors (CMPs), it is necessary to use parallel programming to exploit computational power of CMPs. Traditionally, lock-based mechanisms have been used to synchronize shared variables in ... -
Improving power of L1 data cache and register file utilizing critical path instructions
(2014)As transistor’s feature size shrinks, power becomes one of the limiting factors in design of modern processors. Cache and register file are the two power hungry components in processors, consuming more than one third of ... -
An Integrated Full-bridge Class-DE Ultrasound Transducer Driver for HIFU Applications
(2016)This thesis present a CMOS integrated transducer driver for high intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) applications. Because this driver will be used in a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) environment, no magnetic components ... -
An integrated ultrasound transducer driver for HIFU applications
(2014-01-22)This thesis proposes an MRI-compatible integrated CMOS ampli er that is capable of di- rectly driving an ultrasound transducer for HIFU applications. The output stage of the integrated amplifier operates in class DE mode ... -
Intelligent and cost-effective protection schemes for improved reliability of large-scale wind farms
(2021)Recently, wind power has become a reliable and cost-effective renewable energy source of electricity due to the foreseeable exhaustion of fossil fuel-based power generations and its growing adverse effects on the environment ... -
An intelligent monitoring system for online induction motor fault diagnostics
(2019)For more than a century, the induction motor (IM) has been the powerhouse industrial applications such as machine tools, manufacturing facilities, pumping stations, and more recently, in electric vehicles. In addition, ... -
Investigation and optimization of group III-N semiconductor thin-film growths using DC nitrogen plasma
(2019)The Lakehead University remote plasma-enhanced metalorganic chemical vapour deposition (RPE-MOCVD) reactor utilizes nitrogen plasma to provide the required nitrogen species in group III-N semiconductor material growth. ... -
Investigation of capacitor voltage balancing issues in a five-level inverter with multicarrier modulation schemes
(2023)Five-level inverters are widely used in medium-voltage (MV) wind energy and electric drive systems. However, the use of a large number of components (including passive and active components) and complex control methods ... -
Key duplicating software using digital image processing
(2011)In order to cut a key duplicate, it is necessary to measure the original key very precisely. There is a great variety in the key measuring devices currently in use; however, they follow the common basic principle of using ... -
A knowledge-based approach for semantic similarity, relatedness, and word sense disambiguation using WordNet
(2020)Various applications in computational linguistics and artificial intelligence rely on high-performing semantic similarity and word sense disambiguation techniques to solve challenging tasks such as information retrieval, ... -
Ku band rotary traveling-wave voltage controlled oscillator
(2021)Voltage-controlled oscillator (VCO) plays a key role in determination of the link budget of wireless communication, and consequently the performance of the transceiver. Lowering the noise contribution from the VCO to the ... -
Local and Global Influence on Twitter
(2016)The analysis of influence in social network is drawing more and more attention. It can be applied in different areas such as political campaigns and marketing. In this work, the analysis of influence in Twitter, based on ...