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Design and Implementation of a Controller for an Electrostatic MEMS Actuator and Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)An analog controller has been analyzed and built for an electrostatic micro-cantilever beam. The closed loop MEMS device can be used as both actuator and sensor. As an actuator it will have the advantage of large stable ... -
Design and Implementation of a Framework for the Interconnection of Cellular Automata in Software and Hardware
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-26)There has been a move recently in academia, industry, and the consumer space towards the use of unsupervised parallel computation and distributed networks (i.e., networks of computing elements working together to achieve ... -
Design and Implementation of a High Resolution CMOS X-Ray Imager with Amorphous Selenium Sensor
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)This thesis presents a novel system for high resolution X-ray imaging in medical and industrial applications. Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology is a standard technology used in most state of the ... -
Design and Implementation of a High Speed Cable-Based Planar Parallel Manipulator
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Robotic automation has been the major driving force in modern industrial developments. High speed pick-and-place operations find their place in many manufacturing applications. The goal of this project is to develop ... -
Design and Implementation of a Modular Test Bed Platform for Hardware-In-the-Loop Simulation of Electric Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2019-06-20)Over the course of the last decade, electric vehicles have seen explosive growth and interest with public adoption and shifting research and development priorities by original equipment manufacturers towards these new ... -
Design and Implementation of a Multi-Channel Field-Programmable Analog Front-End For a Neural Recording System
(University of Waterloo, 2014-03-17)Neural recording systems have attracted an increasing amount of attention in recent years, and researchers have put major efforts into designing and developing devices that can record and monitor neural activity. Understanding ... -
Design and Implementation of a Service Discovery and Recommendation Architecture for SaaS Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-09-28)Increasing number of software vendors are offering or planning to offer their applications as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) to leverage the benefits of cloud computing and Internet-based delivery. Therefore, potential ... -
Design and Implementation of an Entanglement Harvesting Experiment With Superconducting Flux Qubits
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Recent studies in relativistic quantum information have predicted that it is possible to entangle two qubits tunably coupled to the same quantum field in its vacuum state, by allowing the qubits to couple to the field ... -
Design and Implementation of an OFDM WLAN Synchronizer
(University of Waterloo, 2007-09-27)With the advent of OFDM for WLAN communications, as exemplified by IEEE 802.11a, it has become imperative to have efficient and reliable synchronization algorithms for OFDM WLAN receivers. The main challenges with ... -
Design and Implementation of Calculated Readout by Spectral Parallelism (CRISP) in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-20)CRISP is a data acquisition and image reconstruction technique that offers theoretical increases in signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and dynamic range over traditional methods in magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). The incoming ... -
Design and Implementation of Family Polymorphism for Interactive Theorem Proving
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-13)With the growing practice of mechanizing language metatheories, it has become ever more pressing that interactive theorem provers make it easy to write reusable, extensible code and proofs. This thesis presents a novel ... -
Design and Implementation of Google Cloud Framework for Monitoring Water Distribution Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-12-06)With urbanization and growing human population, water demand is constantly on the rise. Due to limited water resources, providing access to fresh potable water to the rising needs is challenging. Water distribution systems ... -
Design and Implementation of IGBT Based Power Supply for Food Treatment
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-29)Pulsed electric field (PEF) processing has been demonstrated to be an effective non-thermal pasteurization method for food-treatment applications. With this method, high voltage, short-duration pulses are applied to a ... -
Design and Implementation of Magnetic Levitation Based Modular Omnidirectional Conveyor System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-21)Smart manufacturing is now required to be more intelligent and flexible to support mass customization. Magnetic levitation or maglev technology can increase the flexibility of modern manufacturing with its advantages of ... -
Design and Implementation of the Real-Time Control System for an Open Trapped Ion Quantum Computing Platform
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-08)Trapped atomic ions are a promising platform for the implementation of quantum bits and quantum information processors due to advantageous inherent physical properties as well as exquisite experimental control. Trapped ion ... -
Design and Management of Collaborative Intrusion Detection Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-30)In recent years network intrusions have become a severe threat to the privacy and safety of computer users. Recent cyber attacks compromise a large number of hosts to form botnets. Hackers not only aim at harvesting private ... -
Design and Membrane Selection for Gas to Gas Humidifiers for Fuel Cell Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2007-05-18)In its present form, polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) technology requires some method of humidification to ensure that high performance and long life of the fuel cell membrane is maintained. External ... -
Design and Metrology of a Precision XY Planar Stage
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-19)In recent years, the manufacturing industry has seen an increase in demand for micro-components in biomedical, opto-mechatronics, and automotive applications. Traditional machine tools are no longer a viable solution to ... -
Design and Modeling of a Soil-Based Energy Harvester for Underground Wireless Sensor Nodes
(University of Waterloo, 2020-04-28)Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) have emerged as a reliable and viable solution for monitoring complex large-scale strategic assets that are placed in harsh and hostile environments. Some of the major application areas include ... -
Design and Optimization Methodology of Sub-dermal Electroencephalography Dry Spike-Array Electrode
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Monitoring bio-electric events is a common procedure, which provides medical data required in clinical and research applications. Electrophysiological measurements are applied in diagnosis as well as evaluation of the ...