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Control Mechanisms in Queueing Systems with Nonlinear Waiting Costs
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-14)In many queueing systems, customers have been observed to exhibit strategic behavior. Each customer gains a value when receiving a product or getting served and suffers when incurring a delay. We consider a nonlinear ... -
Control Methods for Improving Tracking Accuracy and Disturbance Rejection in Ball Screw Feed Drives
(University of Waterloo, 2014-01-23)This thesis studies in detail the dynamics of ball screw feed drives and expands understanding of the factors that impose limitations on their performance. This knowledge is then used for developing control strategies that ... -
Control of Dynamic Stability during Gait Termination on a Slippery Surface
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-17)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the reaction to a purely unexpected slip during gait termination and subsequent experiences stopping on the slippery surface in participants who are young and healthy, older and ... -
The Control of Fe and pH on the Photodegradation and Characterization of Dissolved Organic Matter in Small, Oligotrophic Canadian Shield Freshwaters
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)Carbon is an essential building block for life and is involved in many biotic and abiotic processes. Thus it is imperative to have a comprehensive understanding of carbon cycling. Recent research has established that inland ... -
Control of Fluid Flow and Species Transport within Microchannels of Microfluidic Chips
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-26)Microfluidic chips have drawn great attention and interest due to their broad applications in chemical, biological and biomedical fields. These kinds of miniaturized devices offer many advantages over the traditional ... -
Control of Hysteresis in the Landau-Lifshitz Equation
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-15)There are two main tools for determining the stability of nonlinear partial differential equations (PDEs): Lyapunov Theory and linearization. The former has the advantage of providing stability results for nonlinear ... -
Control of hysteretic systems with Preisach representations
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Control of Light-Matter Interactions in Classical and Quantum Optics
(University of Waterloo, 2018-01-12)In this thesis, we examined a series of techniques for controlling the interaction of light with matter that could be employed to optimize or to control physical phenomena in various potential applications. Some of these ... -
Control of mercury and methylmercury in contaminated sediments using biochars: A long-term microcosm study
(Elsevier, 2018-05-01)The effectiveness of activated carbon and four types of biochar, switchgrass (300 °C and 600 °C), poultry manure (600 °C), and oak (∼700 °C) with respect to mercury (Hg) and methylmercury (MeHg) control was assessed in ... -
Control of Microstructure in Laser Additive Manufacturing
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-22)Since its arrival in the late 1980’s, Laser Additive Manufacturing (LAM) has come a long way to establish itself as one of the most advanced versatile manufacturing technologies in the 21st century. LAM implies a novel ... -
Control of Non-deterministic Transition Systems for Linear Temporal Logic Specifications
(University of Waterloo, 2021-02-01)Consider the formal synthesis problem in the continuous dynamical systems. A systematic approach is the abstraction-based method: constructing an abstraction of the original continuous system in the discrete space, and ... -
Control of solution MMA polymerization in a CSTR
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Control of the Landau–Lifshitz equation
(Elsevier, 2016-05)The Landau–Lifshitz equation describes the dynamics of magnetization inside a ferromagnet. This equation is nonlinear and has an infinite number of stable equilibria. It is desirable to control the system from one equilibrium ... -
Control of Voltage Source Converter Based Multi Terminal DC and Hybrid AC/DC Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-11-20)The journey of power systems started with the development of the dc technology pioneered by Thomas Edison in the late 19th century. Meanwhile, Nicola Tesla led the investigation of ac technology, which soon surmounted the ... -
Control Oriented System Modelling and Instrumentation of Intelligent Walker-Human Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-22)Active intelligent walkers (i-walkers) are promising to provide stable and efficient motion to people with walking disabilities. There are three focuses in this thesis: system modelling, controller design, and instrumentation ... -
Control System and Graphical User Interface Design of an Upper-Extremity Rehabilitation Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)Stroke is one of the leading causes of death, physical disability, and loss of brain functionality each year, especially amongst older adults. The ability to access good quality post-stroke rehabilitation exercises is ... -
Control techniques in spin based quantum computation
(University of Waterloo, 2019-07-11)Working on quantum systems entail different interests, for example, working on fundamental understanding of quantum systems also lay foundation for better quantum computation techniques. A test for whether a system is ... -
Control-based Finite-element Model Updating of Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-05)Finite-element model updating is the process of using measured data from a structure to update a numerical model representation of the structure. The measured data can represent either the static or dynamic properties of ... -
A Controlled Experiment Investigating the Effects of Explanatory Manual on Adherence to Operating Procedures
(MDPI, 2019-04-14)Operators’ adherence to operating procedures is a crucial factor for process safety in the process industry. Instruction manuals that document Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) are commonly used both as training ... -
Controlled Generation of Stylized Text Using Semantic and Phonetic Representations
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-21)Neural networks are a popular choice of models for the purpose of text generation. Variational autoencoders have been shown to be good at reconstructing text and generating novel text. However, controlling certain aspects ...