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Implementation of a Modular Magnetic Levitation Planar Motor
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)A large-scale magnetically-levitated planar motor has the potential to revolutionize conveying and flexible manufacturing applications. The contactless nature nearly eliminates friction to produce less noise, vibration, ... -
An Implementation of a Predictable Cache-coherent Multi-core System
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Multi-core platforms have entered the realm of the embedded systems to meet the ever growing performance requirements of the real-time embedded applications. Real-time applications leverage the hardware parallelism from ... -
Implementation of a Stair Walking Algorithm on the REEM-C Humanoid Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-20)The recent increased usage of robots in society brings about unique challenges, such as endowing these robots with the ability to operate in a manner similar to humans. These challenges are well structured for humanoid ... -
Implementation of a Universal Fine-Structure Splitting Eraser for Quantum Dots
(University of Waterloo, 2024-01-04)Entangled photons are an important resource for different applications in quantum computation, quantum information, and quantum communication. Sources based on semiconductor quantum dots have successfully obtained on-demand, ... -
Implementation of a Variable Duty Factor Controller on a Six-Legged Axi-Symmetric Walking Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Hexplorer is a six-legged walking robot developed at the University of Waterloo. The robot is controlled by a network of seven digital signal processors, six of which control three motors each, for a total of 18 motors. ... -
Implementation of an IEEE 802.15.4 Based MAC/PHY on a FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-30)The IEEE 802.15.4 standard defines the implementation of a Low-Rate Wireless Personal Area Network (WPAN). While the current version of the standard was ratified in 2006, there is still no readily available Medium Access ... -
Implementation of Antenna Switching Diversity and Its Improvements over Single-Input Single-Output System
(University of Waterloo, 2009-09-30)This dissertation study the effectiveness of antenna switching diversity for orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) systems such as in IEEE 802.11. One of the ways to exploit the multiple antenna configurations ... -
Implementation of Coupled Thermo-Mechanical Topology Optimization Methods for Effective Additive Manufacturing of a Gas Turbine Component
(University of Waterloo, 2020-02-18)Additive manufacturing (AM) is a relatively new technology that is making its way into different industries at a fast pace. In order to take full advantage of flexibility and freedom that this technology provides, a proper ... -
Implementation of Decentralized Formation Control on Multi-Quadrotor Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-04-23)We present real-time autonomous implementations of a practical distributed formation control scheme for a multi-quadrotor system for two different cases: parameters of linearized dynamics are exactly known, and uncertain ... -
Implementation of DNN-HMM Acoustic Models for Phoneme Recognition
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-14)Gaussian Mixture Model-Hidden Markov Models (GMM-HMMs) are the state-of-the-art for acoustic modeling in speech recognition. HMMs are used to model the sequential structure and the temporal variability in speech signals. ... -
Implementation of Energy Hub Management System for Residential Sector
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-21)This thesis is concerned with the implementation of a proposed Energy Hub Management System (EHMS) mathematical model for residential appliances under Time of Use (TOU) based electricity rate structure. The objective is ... -
Implementation of Kalman Filtering for Differential-Algebraic Equations
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-28)This thesis describes two Kalman filters which are usable on semi-explicit index-1 differential-algebraic equations, prior to which a discussion of linear and nonlinear Kalman filters is presented. Performance between ... -
Implementation of OFDM Encryption and a New Frequency Hopping System
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-19)As the rapid growth of wireless communication, physical layer security becomes important recently. Unlike wired transmissions, the nature of wireless transmissions makes the transmitted signals over the channel easily to ... -
Implementation of Ontario’s School Food and Beverage Policy (P/PM 150) in Peel Region: A Qualitative Evaluation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-18)INTRODUCTION: With obesity rates rising in Canada, schools have been identified as an ideal setting for health promotion interventions. Across the world, school nutrition policies have been implemented to try and improve ... -
Implementation of optical depth scanning and wide-field imaging in photoacoustic remote sensing (PARS) microscopy
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-15)Optical resolution photoacoustic microscopy (OR-PAM) is a hybrid biomedical imaging technique that utilizes acoustic detection and optical absorption contrast. It is based on the photoacoustic effect, where the excitation ... -
Implementation of Power-to-Gas to Reduce Carbon Intensity and Increase Renewable Content in Liquid Petroleum Fuels
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-28)Power-to-gas (PtG) is an emerging energy storage concept, which can transfer the surplus and intermittent renewable generated power into a marketable hydrogen, as well as providing other ancillary services for the electrical ... -
Implementation of Roller Blind, Pleated Drape and Insect Screen Models into the CFC Module of the ESP-r Building Energy Simulation Tool
(University of Waterloo, 2011-08-31)The concern of increasing energy consumption with depleting energy resources is ever growing. Though the solution to this problem lies in part in renewable energies, it is becoming increasingly clear that sustainable ... -
An Implementation of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method on Graphics Processing Units
(University of Waterloo, 2013-05-07)Computing highly-accurate approximate solutions to partial differential equations (PDEs) requires both a robust numerical method and a powerful machine. We present a parallel implementation of the discontinuous Galerkin ... -
Implementation of the Metal Privileged Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-31)The privileged architecture of modern computer architectures is expanded through new architectural features that are implemented in hardware or through instruction set extensions. These extensions are tied to particular ... -
Implementation of Time Memory Trade-off attack using MPI on GPC
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-14)Time memory trade-off (TMTO) is a computationally intensive cryptographic attack originally introduced by Hellman in 1980. Since then many different improvements and implementations were researched and developed. In this ...