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The demand for high-voltage and high-power power electronics devices, especially for the next generation electrical ship system, has increased rapidly these years. The three-phase three-level neutral point clamped (NPC) rectifier...
Recent increased popularity in plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) has been influenced by their ability to relieve the economic dependence on oil, meanwhile reducing the carbon footprint through the decreased level of harmful...
In this research, two important concepts concerning parallel robots are investigated: compliance and fault tolerance. First, we address the issue of synthesizing a suitable compliance. This is an important problem since a well-designed...
Large-scale storage arrays are always in high demand by universities, government agencies, web search engines, and research laboratories. This unvarying need for more data storage has begun to push storage array magnitudes into an...
Grid codes impose immunity requirements to the generation systems that are connected to the transmission lines. Immunity refers to the generator’s capability to overcome grid abnormal conditions. One of the requirements is to remain...
In this work, Side-Channel Attacks (SCAs) are considered as a security metric for the implementation of hybrid cryptosystems utilizing the neural network-based Tree Parity Re-keying Machines (TPM). A virtual study is presented within the...
Power Electronic-based Distribution Systems (PEDS) can provide excellent features such as load regulation, high power factor, and transient performance; especially in the large scale grids which are highly penetrated with the renewable...
It has been clear in the recent decades that there is an urgent need to progress towards renewable energy. There are few established technologies that provide a suitable economic option. These include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, ...
The consumption of electricity is seen by society as a certainty and not an uncertainty; however, there are several uncertainties about how the topology of the electrical grid will look in the future. For instance, it is expected that...
Understanding of the transport phenomena in Li-air batteries is crucial for improving the performance and design of Li-air batteries. In this dissertation, the basic transport equations that govern the operation of Li-air batteries are...
The current trend for naval destroyer-class ships is the move toward DC distribution systems as the next generation of ships is developed. The main motivation for using DC is to increase the power density of the ships to accommodate...
Shapes of boundaries can play an important role in characterizing objects in images. Shape analysis involves choosing mathematical representations of shapes, deriving tools for quantifying shape differences, and characterizing imaged...
A robust and computationally efficient technique is developed for the design of fluctuation resistant structures (fault-tolerant) semiconductor devices. This technique can be applied to the computation of the doping profiles that...
After Felix Bloch’s observation in 1946 that nuclei inside an atom behave like a magnet, there were many people who got interested in this theory, which ultimately led to the discovery of Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) technique....
Recently there have been increasing interests in developing the renewable energy resources for the future energy need. Solar energy generation has shown its great potential to serve as a clean distributed energy source. While one...
Advanced vehicle technology including hybrid electric vehicles, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, and fuel cell hybrid electric vehicles are attracting attention recently, as climate change and energy shortage become a more and more...
The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is a potential candidate for power conversion in a Medium Voltage DC System (MVDC) based electric ship. One of the major advantages of utilizing MMC in an MVDC environment is the capability of...
Robot manipulators can be used to navigate and perform tasks in unstructured and hazardous environments where human safety is a primary concern. For example, they are used for nuclear waste disposal, space exploration, nuclear power...
This paper demonstrates a throughout study of Florida State University main campus distribution system, particularly for Stadium power distribution system. With the advanced power system analysis software, a refined distribution...
The newly discovered bulk Ca2 RuO4 is an antiferromagnetic Mott insulator with the metal-insulator transition above room temperature and Neel temperature at 113 K. There is a strong coupling between crystal structures and electronic...
Monitoring the fetal ECG (FECG) gives us important information about the fetal wellbeing. FECG is a complex waveform where each of the P through T complexes provides wealth of information. The objective of this project is to develop the...
Vehicular communication network consists of different wireless communication technologies working in conjunction with each other. These different wireless communication technologies have different technical parameters. Wireless...
A method inhibiting surface roughening of silicon and gallium arsenide wafers during the thermal desorption of their native oxide layers is proposed and tested experimentally, with silicon results indicating a 75% reduction in surface...
This thesis presents a study of modeling of metal semiconductor field effect transistors (MESFETs) characteristics using artificial neural networks. A radial basis function artificial neural network (RBF-ANN) model is developed for...
High Temperature Superconductors (HTS) have the advantage of carrying direct current at zero resistance when operated below their critical temperature. At lower temperatures, these superconductors have the capability of carrying higher...
This dissertation uses the theory of stochastic arithmetic as a solution for the FPGA implementation of complex control algorithms for power electronics applications. Compared with the traditional digital implementation, the stochastic...
Solar photovoltaic (PV) energy integration in distribution networks is one of the fastest growing sectors of distributed energy integration. The growth in solar PV integration is incentivized by various clean power policies, global...
Medium Voltage DC (MVDC) system is becoming a captivating alternative for designing All Electric Ship (AES) for the US Navy. Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is considered as an essential component of MVDC systems for its scalability...
Demand for electrical power is increasing around the globe to keep up with the ever-increasing annual load growth, which in turn requires new power sources to be installed. As a society, there is a greater emphasis for power sources to...
The emerging emphasis of power hardware in the loop (PHIL) as a cost effective de-risking and analysis tool has received focused attention and research from the power system/power electronic fields on this topic. Advantages of PHIL...
In this thesis, a mixture of acetonitrile (AN) and γ-butyrolactone (γBL) are used as the solvent in combination with LiClO4 or LiBF4 as the salt of the electrolyte studied for Li-ion capacitors. The electrolyte with various ratios of AN...
In numerous applications involving high dimensional data, certain subspace techniques such as principal components analysis (PCA) may be utilized in feature extraction. Often, PCA can reduce the dimensionality while retaining most of the...
The energy density of conventional electric double-layer capacitors is about 6-7 Wh/kg and due to the limited specific capacitance and cell voltage, and a large amount of electrolyte which is required to build a layer of charge of the...
The power management strategy in a MVDC based power system of an all electric ship (AES) with Hybrid Energy Storage System (HESS) can greatly affect the energy efficiency of the system. In order to maintain the bus voltage of a medium...
In large-scale power systems, the integration of intelligent monitoring system increases the system resiliency and the control robustness. For example, sensor monitoring allows to automatically supervise the health of sensors and detect...
In undersea remote sensing change detection is the process of detecting changes from pairs of multi-temporal sonar images of the seafloor that are surveyed approximately from the same location. The problem of change detection, subsequent...
A grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) system with the functionality of harmonic compensation is introduced in this thesis. Based on this, a test bed is built up to validate the practicability of the proposed scheme. Increasing interest and...
Lithium-ion Capacitor’s (LICs) performance is greatly influenced by the operating temperature. Many cell design factors such as electrolyte formulation and electrode material composition can determine such performance. The standards for...
The increase of electric power demand for advanced weapons and combat systems in all-electric ships (AES) including electrical propulsions, electromagnetic rail-guns, lasers, radars, and sensors relies on future advanced integrated power...
Due to their exhibition of nonlinearities, electrical power systems, such as shipboard power systems, provide an interesting research environment. Nonlinear systems are characterized by properties such as highly interdependent components...
The market for solar energy has been expanding rapidly worldwide. However, due to the weather conditions, photovoltaic (PV) systems generally have considerable power variations, which include voltage fluctuations and frequency variations...
The future grid will combine both smart distribution network and distributed energy resources (DER) ensures it is reliable to do operations and increase the power quality. In the recent years, along with the traditional voltage...
Currently over 50% of the world's population check their e-mails everyday. Collecting information from the Internet is a routine. In the early 21st century, wireless communication has become a hot topic in IT (Information Technology) and...
In this manuscript, a computer simulation model for the study of the large-scale effects on narrowband transmission systems is proposed to validate the existing semi-empirical models. The development of the computer simulation path-loss...
Ultra-capacitors are increasingly becoming important in onboard energy storage applications in electric ship, and electric and hybrid electric vehicles where they provide peak power demands during acceleration and also absorb...
Weather and Air quality monitoring are very important aspects of smart city management. As population increase in the cities, the emission of pollutants includes Carbone Monoxide, Nitrogen Dioxide, Ozone and the Particulate matter will...
A 4x2 microstrip square patch antenna array, designed to operate in the 5.3 GHz range, was characterized and simulated using finite-element method (FEM) based models in COMSOL Multiphysics as a reconfigurable aperture (RECAP) antenna by...
Internet of Things (IOT) systems are becoming a popular concept of every smart system. Many people intend to develop various IOT systems which could be smart socket can be controlled remotely and tracking the electricity consumption to...
The following work establishes a process for model validation and its application to the study of grounding in DC shipboard power systems. The aim of the thesis is to create a general procedure detailing how to appropriately select...
High Temperature Superconducting (HTS) technology is a potential option for applications that require high power densities for lightweight and compact solutions for transportation systems such as electric aircrafts and all-electric Navy...
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