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Real-time Optimal Battery Thermal Management System Controller for Electric and Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-24)The objective of this thesis is to propose a real-time model predictive control (MPC) scheme for the battery thermal management system (BTMS) of given plug-in hybrid electric and electric vehicles (PHEV/EVs). Although ... -
Real-Time Optimal Control of a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle Using Trip Information
(University of Waterloo, 2016-02-04)The plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV) is a promising option for future sustainable transportation. It offers better fuel economy and lower emissions than conventional vehicles. This thesis has developed a novel ... -
Real-time Optimal Energy Management System for Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-24)Air pollution and rising fuel costs are becoming increasingly important concerns for the transportation industry. Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) are seen as a solution to these problems as they off er lower emissions and ... -
Real-time predictive control strategy for a plug-in hybrid electric powertrain
(Elsevier, 2015-08-01)Model predictive control is a promising approach to exploit the potentials of modern concepts and to fulfill the automotive requirements. Since, it is able to handle constrained multi-input multi-output optimal control ... -
Real-Time Traffic Performance Measurement of Signalized Intersections Using Connected Vehicle Data: A Simulation-Based Study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-05)Traffic congestion has long become a major concern in many cities in Canada and around the world. It has been estimated that the annual total economic loss due to traffic congestion in major Canadian urban centers has ... -
Real-Time Vehicle Emission Estimation Using Traffic Data
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)The current state of climate change should be addressed by all sectors that contribute to it. One of the major contributors is the transportation sector, which generates a quarter of greenhouse gas emissions in North ... -
Realisation of Quantum Operations using Linear Optics
(University of Waterloo, 2011-10-04)The main topic of this thesis is linear optics and the implementation of quantum operations (measurements, quantum channels, and unitary rotations) on optical systems. In the opening chapter the basic notions needed to ... -
Realism in Contemporary Fine Art
(University of Waterloo, 2010)Usually I start out with a technical concept. I try to get as detailed as possible in regards to the logistics of how I'll carry out the work. The ideas themselves are quite intricate and so an intuitive approach to process ... -
A Realist Critique of Structural Empiricism
(University of Waterloo, 2009-11-04)In his latest work, Scientific Representation: Paradoxes of Perspective, Bas van Fraassen has argued for a position he describes as empiricist structuralism. This position embraces a structuralist view of science which ... -
A realistic account of evidence-informed tobacco control practice in Ontario public health agencies
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-06)Policy-makers, research funders, and practitioners acknowledge the need for theories about the uptake of scientific evidence into policy and programs to reduce population-wide risk factors for the major avoidable chronic ... -
Realistic expectations for the treatment of FMGP residuals by chemical oxidants
(Elsevier, 2018-12-01)Methods to remediate soil and groundwater contamination at former manufactured gas plant (FMGP) sites are scarce. The objective of this study was to investigate the ability of two chemical oxidants (persulfate and permanganate) ... -
Realitätsverlust und Medienkonstitution: Thomas Glavinics Die Arbeit der Nacht (2006) als radikale Literarisierung Baudrillardscher Konzepte?
(University of Waterloo, 2009-08-26)In this thesis I argue that Thomas Glavinic’s novel Die Arbeit der Nacht (Night Work) investigates existential themes of the human condition in a post-modern world. My analysis demonstrates that the novel can be understood ... -
Realization of atomically smooth defect free InGaAs/InAlAs superlattice on InP(111) substrate by molecular beam epitaxy
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-15)InGaAs and InAlAs epilayers and superlattices were grown on rounded edge InP(111)A and InP(111)B substrates as well as on 0.45°, 1° and 2° misoriented InP(111)B substrates by Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE). Rounded edge ... -
Realization of Non-Volatile Memory in Amorphous Silicon Thin-Film Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)The integration of memory circuits in thin-film transistors (TFTs) is essential to extend the functionalities of large-area applications such as flat-panel displays, imagers etc. Intensive research is being conducted with ... -
Realization of novel entangled photon sources using periodically poled materials
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-01)This thesis deals with the production of entangled photons using spontaneous parametric down-conversion (SPDC). We start with a short overview of some important theoretical concepts. First we provide a brief reminder of ... -
Realizing Surface Driven Flows in the Primitive Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)The surface quasi-geostrophic (SQG) model describes the evolution of buoyancy at vertical boundaries in the limit of infinitesimal Rossby number. In this regime, the quasi-geostrophic approximations are expected to hold. ... -
Realizing surface driven flows in the primitive equations
(American Meteorological Society, 2015-05)The surface quasigeostrophic (SQG) model describes flows with surface buoyancy perturbations with no interior quasigeostrophic potential vorticity at small Rossby number Ro and O(1) Burger number, where quasigeostrophic ... -
Realtime Motion Planning for Manipulator Robots under Dynamic Environments: An Optimal Control Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-19)This report presents optimal control methods integrated with hierarchical control framework to realize real-time collision-free optimal trajectories for motion control in kinematic chain manipulator (KCM) robot systems ... -
Reanimation: Redefining the Urban Network in St James Town, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-22)Urban intensification in the city of Toronto during the 1960s draws from the essential idea – “Tower in the Park”, a concept that we now recognize as pervasively problematic. These neighbourhoods are flooded with criticism ... -
Reasonable Assertions: On Norms of Assertion and Why You Don't Need to Know What You're Talking About
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-17)There’s a widespread conviction in the norms of assertion literature that an agent’s asserting something false merits criticism. As Williamson puts it, asserting something false is likened to cheating at the game of ...