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Accelerating path planning algorithms with high level synthesis tools and FPGAs.

Trower, John W. (, )

Accelerating path planning algorithms with field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) allows the designer to achieve significant performance increases over using a traditional central processing unit (CPU). Converting an ...
Adaptive load impedance optimization for power amplifiers in reconfigurable radar transmitters.

Martin, Joshua Lee. (, )

A fundamental tradeoff exists in radar transmitter design between linearity and efficiency due to the signal amplification. These transmitters are driven into saturation in order to increase efficiency, but may potentially ...
Calibration methodology for a microwave non-invasive glucose sensor.

McClung, Melanie J.

Non-invasive measuring techniques for determining biological parameters are more heavily researched with the growth of the biomedical industry. One of the top areas in non-invasive research deals with diabetes. This ...
A comparison of field programmable gate arrays and digital signal processors in acoustic array processing.

Stevenson, Jeremy C.

The Field Programmable Gate Array's (FPGA) constant growth in computing power has given embedded system developers a choice to replace their current processors with a FPGA. However, most systems continue to use the original ...
Data compression application to the MIL-STD 1553 avionics data bus.

Weston, Bron O.

With the current state of legacy military avionic systems reaching its ceiling in memory space, processing power, and data-bus through-put (bandwidth), a need has arisen to maximize its limited resources to avoid extensive ...
Design, analysis and simulation of a new current controller for wind power generation system using proportional plus resonance control.

Liu, Bochuan, 1986- (, )

This thesis presents design, analysis and simulation of a new current control scheme for wind power generation system (WPGS). Proportional plus resonance (PR) controller is proposed to improve the accuracy of the control ...
Design and implementation of a multi-agent optimized control system for a large-scale fossil-fuel electrical power unit.

Williams, Craig S. (Craig Stevens) (, )

The problem facing the United Sates electric power industry today can be attributed to society’s ever increasing demand for energy, environmental concerns with reliance on fossil fuels, and uncertainty about an aging ...
Design and modeling of a power conditioning system for the hybrid fuel-cell/turbine power plant.

Guo, Zhitong, 1987- (, )

This thesis presents the model of a power conditioning system (PCS) for the hybrid direct fuel-cell with turbine (DFC/T) power plant. It regulates voltage, current and power transmitted from the hybrid DFC/T power plant ...
Determining the complex permittivity of materials with the Waveguide-Cutoff method.

Anderson, Christopher.

A new method for the determination of complex permittivity values is explained. The Waveguide-Cutoff method consists of a rectangular chamber with loop antennas for excitation from a Vector Network Analyzer. It then ...
Development and implementation of a Multi-Agent Control System for the Rankine Cycler Laboratory Teaching System.

Gomes, Jason. (, )

One challenge faced by the engineering discipline in the near future is increased electric power demand coupled with greater efficiency requirements for power generation stations. Development of more robust control ...
Development and implementation of a multi-agent system for intelligent optimized power plant control.

Head, Jason D. (, )

As the demand for electric power grows and regulations on power plant operation become stricter, the size, and therefore complexity, of new power plant units is increasing while the intricacies of the multiple simultaneous ...
Development and implementation of real-time distributed network with the CAN protocol.

Ford, Walter Davis

One of the most interesting applications of a new field of mathematics called dynamic equations on time scales is the modeling, analysis and design of distributed control networks. This thesis documents the development ...
Evaluating Impulse C and multiple parallelism partitions for a low-cost reconfigurable computing system.

Li Shen, Carmen C.

Impulse C is a C-to-HDL compiler from Impulse Accelerated Technology that facilitates the introduction of software programmers, mathematicians, and scientists, into the realm of FPGA-based algorithm development for high-speed ...
An evaluation of CoWare Inc.'s Processor Designer tool suite for the design of embedded processors.

Franz, Jonathan D.

The goal of this thesis is to evaluate the Processor Designer family of tools from CoWare, Inc. Processor Designer uses the L.I.S.A. 2.0 (Language for Instruction Set Architecture) language. The evaluation is being ...
An evaluation of error masking techniques for digital wireless audio systems.

Michaud, Renée J.

This thesis investigates the tradeoffs associated with typical communication system designs for packetized wireless transmission systems. Communication system design requires judicious selection of source data rate, data ...
Experimental investigation of a time scales linear feedback control theorem.

Allen, Benjamin T.

Dynamic equations on time scales comprise an exciting new area of research in mathematics which promises applications in many areas, particularly control theory. This thesis describes the design and implementation of a ...
Implementation of lossless compression algorithms for the MIL-STD-1553.

Lam, Bernard O.

This thesis focuses on the bandwidth limitations faced by the legacy MIL-STD-1553 data bus. In order to improve bandwidth performance, lossless implementations of data compression routines have been proposed. Using data ...
Increased computation using parallel FPGA architectures.

Dark, Stephen L.

Two ways to improve algorithm performance in hardware are increasing the speed of each operation, or performing multiple operations simultaneously. However, the percent speed-up for the latter depends upon not only system ...
A low-cost pulsed Fourier transform network analyzer.

Herrera, Brandon J. (, )

Characterizing the frequency response of a material or device over microwave frequencies is a common practice for an RF engineer. New industrial and consumer applications are being developed based on the measurement of the ...
A new modality for microwave tomographic maging: transit time tomography.

Trumbo, Matthew Lee.

A new method for tomographic imaging using time delay of microwaves as they pass through objects of varying dielectric is presented. To obtain this delay measurement, recording of transmitted waveforms is performed when ...