Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Department "Electrical Engineering"
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(2017-11-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringThree commercially available GaN-based HEMT RF power devices were irradiated with 1.8 MeV protons in three operational modes. The operational modes were semi-on, fully-on and RF-on. The former two modes were low and ...
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(2011-10-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe 1/f noise magnitude of n-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field effect transistors is found to decrease by up a factor of ~3 after 18 years of room-temperature aging. This decrease is largest in devices with ...
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3D Supervised Learning for CT Hematoma Segmentation via Transfer Learning from a 2D Trained Network (2020-05-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringSupervised learning approaches are the most widely used models in medical image processing and tend to offer the highest level of accuracy when paired data and labels are available. However, manual labeling process is ...
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(2008-08-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringWith shrinking device feature sizes, integrated circuits are becoming more vulnerable to Single-Event Transients (SETs). Characterizing error rates due to SETs is essential for choosing appropriate hardening techniques ...
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(2011-04-14)Department: Electrical EngineeringPower is a critical issue in digital system design, especially with the emphasis on the portability of electronic devices. However, decreasing power does not necessarily lead to energy efficiency; designers need to consider ...
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(2018-04-04)Department: Electrical EngineeringfMRI nowadays is a very popular and crucial tool for medical purposes, which is always involved with engineering methods for properly processing the fMRI images. However, not too much effort has been invested in studying ...
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(2007-08-01)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn robotics, one important objective is the ability to teach the robot new skills and have it reason about the current tasks at hand without explicit programming. Indeed, this idea is central to open-ended development, ...
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(2018-01-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe growing advances in information technologies have led to a new generation of systems known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS are multi-discipline engineering systems, which integrate computational and physical ...
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(2020-05-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringLung cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in the world today, and it is the leading cause of cancer death, accounting for 1 in 4 cancer deaths (Gatsonis et al.,2011). Various automatic lung cancer detection ...
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(2012-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringCognitive robotics is one of the branches of robotics that is concerned with the design and implementation of robots that will accomplish cognitive tasks such as perceiving the dynamic world around them and making acceptable ...
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(2005-04-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringEngineering design is a process of tradeoff analysis. Design decisions are evaluated, often involving quantitative comparisons between relevant metrics of goodness. Design space exploration formalizes the process of ...
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(2013-07-31)Department: Electrical EngineeringTotal ionizing dose (TID) effect is a kind of radiation effects. It’s related with the charge build up in the insulator caused by the radiation. This radiation induced charge build up will pose reliability issue and is a ...
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(2009-08-27)Department: Electrical EngineeringA reliability concern of growing interest in the microelectronics community is the deleterious effect of ionizing radiation. The so-called "single events" – single particles which can penetrate semiconductor material ...
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A Method for Automated Performance Evaluation and Tuning of Neural Oscillation Detection Algorithms (2021-11-16)Department: Electrical EngineeringThere are numerous methods to detect and characterize transient oscillatory events found in electrical signals from the brain representing local activity. These events can be used to time electrical stimulation to modulate ...
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(2010-12-06)Department: Electrical EngineeringEffective communication and user input are crucial to mobile human-robot interaction tasks, especially in cases where robots are deployed to assist with disaster relief, emergency response, or military applications. This ...
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(2008-07-26)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis thesis addresses the problem of managing computing systems using an integration of model-based control techniques and efficient AI search strategies. The proposed control approach uses the system model to forecast ...
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A Modular Point-of-Care Platform for Real-Time Monitoring and Transmission of Physiological Signals (2015-07-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringPresent trends of increasing health care costs, demand novel methods and tools for a transformation from a reactive and hospital-driven to a proactive, patient-centered and enabling healthcare. This work presents a modular ...
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(2019-09-25)Department: Electrical EngineeringCyber-Physical Systems (CPS) such as autonomous vehicles are becoming widely utilized throughout society. CPS are unique with respect to the tightly coupled nature between the cyber software and physical dynamics of a ...
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(2010-04-05)Department: Electrical EngineeringModeling physical systems is necessary to understand how they work and how the compositions of physical components (i.e., complex physical systems) behave. Graphical modeling languages are often used in engineering design. ...
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(2013-01-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringAvionics systems play a critical role in many aspects of aircraft flight control. As the complexity of these systems increase, the chances of in-flight malfunctions are also likely to increase. This drives the need for ...