Electrical & Computer Engineering: Recent submissions
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A Corrective Strategy for Voltage Regulation in Distribution Grids with Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(North Dakota State University, 2013)The increasing integration of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (PHEV) poses unique challenges for voltage and frequency regulation in electric distribution grids. The mobility and variability due to PHEV loads exacerbates ... -
Hybrid Renewable Energy System Using Doubly-Fed Induction Generator and Multilevel Inverter
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The proposed hybrid system generates AC power by combining solar and wind energy converted by a doubly-fed induction generator (DFIG). The DFIG, driven by a wind turbine, needs rotor excitation so the stator can supply a ... -
High-Power-Density Converter for Renewable Energy Application
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Due to the energy crisis and environmental pollution, renewable sources are more and more important. Power electronics technology is widely applied in these emerging applications and its function is to make the power ... -
High-Power, High-Efficiency, Multi-Functional CMOS Radio Frequency Integrated Circuit for Wireless Communication of Unmanned Aircraft System
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Recently the Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) has become very popular due to its current and projected opportunities in diversified applications from surveillance to security to militry. The Federal Aviation Administration ... -
Conformal Antennas and Arrays with Layers Consisting of Copper and Graphene-based Conductors for Redundancy Properties
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Graphene is a new promising material with unique electrical, mechanical, optical and thermal characteristics. The use of graphene in the design of an antenna and other electromagnetic passive devices would be beneficial ... -
Dynamic State Estimation Assisted Power System Monitoring and Protection
(North Dakota State University, 2016)The advent of phasor measurement units (PMUs) has unlocked several novel methods to monitor, control, and protect bulk electric power systems. This thesis introduces the concept of “Dynamic State Estimation” (DSE), aided ... -
Formal Verification Techniques for Safety Critical Medical Device Software Control
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Safety-critical medical devices play an important role in improving patients health and lifestyle. Faulty behaviors of such devices can cause harm or even death. Often these faulty behaviors are caused due to bugs in ... -
Enhanced Augmented Reality Framework for Sports Entertainment Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Augmented Reality (AR) superimposes virtual information on real-world data, such as displaying useful information on videos/images of a scene. This dissertation presents an Enhanced AR (EAR) framework for displaying useful ... -
Carbon Microfiber Material for Electromagnetic (Shielding) Applications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Electromagnetic shielding is becoming more and more important with the abundance of wireless devices. Therefore a need has arisen for more versatile, flexible and low-cost solutions for shielding. For these requirements, ... -
On Measuring the Robustness of Cloud Computing Systems
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The diverse computing services offered by the cloud computing paradigm have escalated the interest in cloud deployment to a great extent. Cloud systems need to be resilient to uncertainties and perturbations. However, the ... -
Energy Efficient Data Centers for On-Demand Cloud Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)The primary objective of the Data Centers (DCs) is to provide in-time services to the cloud customers. For in-time services, DCs required an uninterruptable power supply at low cost. The DCs’ power supply is directly linked ... -
Utilizing Recommender Systems as an Analysis Tool for Measuring Network Dynamics
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Recommender systems apply numerous knowledge discovery techniques to suggest the preferred products, information, or service on contextual data. In our study, we utilize the recommender system for analyzing and measuring ... -
Perceptual Video Quality Model and its Application in Wireless Multimedia Communications
(North Dakota State University, 2015)With the exponential growth of video traffic over wireless networked and embedded devices such as mobile phones and sensors, mechanisms are needed to predict the perceptual quality of video in real time and with low ... -
Towards Secure Cloud Storage Services
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Cloud computing is anticipated to revolutionize the Information and Communication Technology sector and has been a mainstream of research over the last decade. The cloud computing, upsurges the capabilities of the hardware ... -
Analysis of Power Line Communication Channel Model using Communication Techniques
(North Dakota State University, 2013)With the advent of technology, human dependency on power (electricity) and communication has grown beyond leaps and bounds. Many efforts have been made to continuously improve and increase the efficiency in both areas. ... -
Computer-Aided Microwave Design System (CAMDS): Improvement, Verification, and Device Fabrication
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This paper presents a review of the Computer-Aided Microwave Design System (CAMDS) as originally developed by Divya Bais. Its goal was to deal with microwave design and analysis problems presented in standard textbooks ... -
Design of an Audio-Visual Display for Cross-Modal Experimentation
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The present paper shows the characteristics of a hardware/software display capable of presenting, at different spatial locations, multiple audio-visual stimuli in real-time. The system has been developed to provide a tool ... -
Estimating Tau (τ) from Left Ventricular Pressure Waveforms During Vena Caval Occlusions
(North Dakota State University, 2011)Many people are dependent on artificial pacemakers to have a normal cardiac function. Due to this it is important to study the effects of pacing on cardiac function, as well as, to determine the best site to pace with an ...