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Towards Feedback Controlled Droplet Microfluidic Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-21)Microfluidics, the manipulation of nanoliter to microliter volumes of fluids, can give important new capabilities to researchers in biology, chemistry, material science, and medicine. Broadly, current methods can be ... -
Towards geriatric use of exoskeletons: Improving human-device interaction with a tutorial and optimal control
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-05)With the global geriatric population expected to reach 1.5 billion by 2050, there has been growing interest to tackle age-associated movement impairments by developing assistive technologies. Rehabilitative lower-limb ... -
Towards Global Reinforcement Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-14)Sequential decision making under uncertainty is a ubiquitous problem. In everyday situations we are faced with a series of decisions that aim to maximize the probability of achieving some goal. However, decision outcomes ... -
Towards High Performance Lithium-ion Batteries using Crumpled Graphene-Protected Silicon Anodes
(University of Waterloo, 2021-05-28)Despite silicon being a promising candidate for next-generation lithium-ion battery anodes due to its high theoretical capacity of 3590 mAh/g (Li15Si4, at room temperature), self-pulverization and the formation of an ... -
Towards High Speed Aerial Tracking of Agile Targets
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-17)In order to provide a novel perspective for videography of high speed sporting events, a highly capable trajectory tracking control methodology is developed for a custom designed Kadet Senior Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV). ... -
Towards Human-Centered AI-Powered Assistants for the Visually Impaired
(University of Waterloo, 2020-09-02)Artificial intelligence has become ubiquitous in today's society, aiding us in many everyday tasks. Given particular prowess of today's AI technologies in visual perception and speech recognition, an area where AI can have ... -
Towards Implementation of Quantum Algorithms Using Electron and Nuclear Spins in Single Crystals
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-21)Quantum computing set a goal to harness the quantum laws of physics and create computers more powerful than ever imagined. Different technologies can be chosen to implement quantum bits (qubits), each with their advantages ... -
Towards Improved Understanding and Modelling of Compact Heat Exchangers
(University of Waterloo, 2021-06-02)The present work pursues the ability to increase the fundamental understanding of and to improve numerical modelling capabilities for Compact Heat Exchangers (CHE). This goal is achieved by numerically and experimentally ... -
Towards InAs nanowire double quantum dots for quantum information processing
(University of Waterloo, 2010-11-03)Currently, a major challenge for solid-state spin qubit systems is achieving one-qubit operations on a timescale shorter than the spin coherence time, T2*, a goal currently two orders of magnitude away. By taking advantage ... -
Towards Increased Understanding of Innovation Intermediaries
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-27)Canada spends almost 2% of its GDP on publicly funded research (OECD, 2009). However, a high percentage of research results is never put to work for the benefit of society. Of the subset of research that becomes protected ... -
Towards Intelligent Tire and Self-Powered Sensing Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)Tires are the interface between a vehicle and the ground providing forces and isolation to the vehicle. For vehicle safety, stability, maintenance, and performance, it is vital to estimate or measure tire forces, inflation ... -
Towards Large Eddy Simulation of Boundary Layer Flows at High Reynolds Number: Statistical Modeling of the Inner Layer
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Most fluid flows of practical interest involve and are affected by turbulence. One of the most promising computational methods for the prediction of turbulent flows is the so-called large eddy simulation (LES) methodology. ... -
Towards Learning Feasible Hierarchical Decision-Making Policies in Urban Autonomous Driving
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)Modern learning-based algorithms, powered by advanced deep structured neural nets, have multifacetedly facilitated automated driving platforms, spanning from scene characterization and perception to low-level control and ... -
Towards magnetic force sensing of single molecules using suspended carbon nanotubes
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-19)Measuring the magnetic moment of a single spin remains an experimental challenge. Measuring such a moment at timescales relevant to relaxation in many small spin systems, even more so. However, such a measurement would ... -
Towards many-body physics with Rydberg-dressed cavity polaritons
(University of Waterloo, 2018-05-23)An exciting frontier in quantum information science is the creation and manipulation of bottom-up quantum systems that are built and controlled one by one. For the past 30 years, we have witnessed signi cant progresses ... -
Towards Measuring Coherence in Poem Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)Large language models (LLM) based on transformer architecture and trained on massive corpora have gained prominence as text-generative models in the past few years. Even though large language models are very adept at ... -
Towards Microfluidic Design Automation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-01-25)Microfluidic chips, lab-on-a-chip devices that have channels transporting liquids instead of wires carrying electrons, have attracted considerable attention recently from the bio-medical industry because of their application ... -
Towards more Effective Censorship Resistance Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-09-29)Internet censorship resistance systems (CRSs) have so far been designed in an ad-hoc manner. The fundamentals are unclear and the foundations are shaky. Censors are, more and more, able to take advantage of this situation. ... -
Towards New Perspectives in Integrated Coastal Management: Prospects for Responding to Changes Affecting Coastal Area Tourism Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-26)During the last three decades, coastal management scholarship and practice have been shaped by both social and ecological drivers of change that have served to define different epochs during which the coast has been ... -
Towards Next Generation Bug Tracking Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-06-19)Although bug tracking systems are fundamental to support virtually any software development process, they are currently suboptimal to support the needs and complexities of large communities. This dissertation first presents ...