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Design and Evaluation of Temporal Summarization Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-06-06)Temporal Summarization (TS) is a new track introduced as part of the Text REtrieval Conference (TREC) in 2013. This track aims to develop systems which can return important updates related to an event over time. In TREC ... -
Design and Evaluation of Virtual Reality Exergames for People Living with Dementia
(University of Waterloo, 2018-08-31)Dementias such as Alzheimer’s disease are a progressive neurodegenerative disorder with consequences such as cognitive impairment and memory problems. While exercise is important to improve physical health and quality ... -
Design and Experimental Study of a Sabatier Reactor for Conversion of CO2 and Biogas into Renewable Natural Gas
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-04)Biogas is a product of anaerobic fermentation which is rich in CO2. Upgrade of biogas is commercially achieved by separating CO2 and impurities to improve its quality. As an alternative, the CO2 contained in biogas can be ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Magnetic Manipulator with Five Degrees of Freedom
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Magnetic manipulation has the potential to recast the medical field both from an operational and drug delivery point of view as it can provide wireless controlled navigation over surgical devices and drug containers inside ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Nanofluidic Cell System for High-Resolution Electron Microscopy of in-Liquid Samples.
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)The transmission electron microscope (TEM) has been an important characterization tool since its invention in 1932.[1] The ability to achieve atomic resolution imaging and collect real-time movies, combined with the ... -
Design and Fabrication of a Novel Corner Wheel Module for Urban Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)This thesis proposes a new design of corner wheel modules for narrow vehicles. Independent corner wheel modules with integrated powertrain, suspension, steering, and camber mechanisms combined with x-by-wire technology can ... -
Design and Fabrication of Carbon Nanotube Array based Field Emission Cathode for X-ray Tube
(University of Waterloo, 2013-07-25)Field emission cathodes have proven themselves to be excellent candidates for some special medical X-ray applications. Spindt cathode and CNT (carbon nanotube) based field emission cathode have been widely studied for many ... -
Design and Fabrication of Centre Frequency and Bandwidth Tunable Cavity Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2014-12-18)To facilitate efficient utilization of limited and expensive frequency spectrum in communication system, fully tunable filters are highly demanded. Realizing an absolute constant bandwidth, a reasonable return loss, and a ... -
Design and Fabrication of MIM Diodes with Single and Multi-Insulator Layers
(University of Waterloo, 2013-10-18)A Metal-Insulator-Metal (MIM) diode is a device that can achieve rectification at high frequencies. The main objective of this research work is designing, fabricating, and characterizing thin film MIM diodes with single ... -
Design and Gait Synthesis for a 3D Lower Body Humanoid
(University of Waterloo, 2013-01-02)Bipedal locomotion is a challenging control engineering problem due to the non-linear dynamics and postural instability of the bipedal form. In addition to these challenges, some dynamical effects such as the ground reaction ... -
Design and Hardware-in-the-Loop Testing of Optimal Controllers for Hybrid Electric Powertrains
(University of Waterloo, 2012-09-06)The main objective of this research is the development of a flexible test-bench for evaluation of hybrid electric powertrain controllers. As a case study, a real-time near-optimal powertrain controller for a series hybrid ... -
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 ...