Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Title
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Adaptive and Interconnected Suspension Systems for Improving Truck Stability and Ride Quality
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-08)Truck drivers are constantly exposed to undesirable vibrations caused by uneven road surfaces, especially in long-distance transportation. In addition to being at risk of repetitive motion injuries, drivers also suffer ... -
Adaptive and Optimal Motion Control of Multi-UAV Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-21)This thesis studies trajectory tracking and coordination control problems for single and multi unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) systems. These control problems are addressed for both quadrotor and fixed-wing UAV cases. Despite ... -
Adaptive Balconies: An Open Design System for Housing Tower Renewal at 545-565 Sherbourne Street, Toronto
(University of Waterloo, 2015-01-22)This investigation is based on the renovation and reconsideration of residential tower neighbourhoods, and speculates an open design system as an alterna- tive to current practices prevalent across the city of Toronto. The ... -
Adaptive Compensation of Nonlinear Impairments in Fiber-Optic Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)Optical communication systems are vital for high rate telecommunication. Fiber-optic communication system is an excellent choice due to its low loss, high bandwidth, and robustness to electromagnetic interference. However, ... -
Adaptive Control of a First-Order System Providing Linear-Like Behaviour and Asymptotic Tracking
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-19)Adaptive control is an approach used to deal with systems having uncertain and/or time-varying parameters. In this thesis, we consider the problem of designing an adaptive controller for a discrete-time first-order plant. ... -
Adaptive Cooperative Highway Platooning and Merging
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-19)As low-cost reliable sensors are introduced to market, research efforts in autonomous driving are increasing. Traffic congestion is a major problem for nearly all metropolis'. Assistive driving technologies like cruise ... -
An Adaptive Digital Dynamic Range Controller
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)High fidelity digital audio sources are capable of reproducing a much wider dynamic range than most conventional consumer media (e.g. AM/FM radio and audio cassettes). The research presented here addresses the problem ... -
Adaptive Dual-Mode Arbitration for High-Performance Real-Time Embedded Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2022-01-25)Multi-core platforms can deliver substantial computational power together with minimum costs, compact size, weight, and power usage. However, multi-core architectures are shaking the very foundation of modern real-time ... -
Adaptive Formation Control of Cooperative Multi-Vehicle Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2015-12-22)The literature comprises many approaches and results for the formation control of multi-vehicle systems; however, the results established for the cases where the vehicles contain parametric uncertainties are limited. ... -
Adaptive Fractal and Wavelet Image Denoising
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The need for image enhancement and restoration is encountered in many practical applications. For instance, distortion due to additive white Gaussian noise (AWGN) can be caused by poor quality image acquisition, images ... -
Adaptive Fringe Pattern Projection Techniques for Imgae Saturation Avoidance in 3D Surface Measurement
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-29)Fringe-pattern projection (FPP) techniques are commonly used for surface-shape measurement in a wide range of applications including object and scene modeling, part inspection, and reverse engineering. Periodic intensity ... -
Adaptive Fringe Projection and Error-Compensated Calibration for Compact 3D Shape-Measurement Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-25)Measurement of the three-dimensional (3-D) shape of an object is needed for both industrial and consumer applications. In industrial applications, compact measurement systems are needed to accomplish certain tasks such as ... -
Adaptive Lattice Reduction in MIMO Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-22)In multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems, the use of lattice reduction methods such as the one proposed by Lenstra-Lenstra-Lovasz (LLL) significantly improves the performance of the suboptimal solutions like ... -
Adaptive Learning Algorithms for Non-stationary Data
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-22)With the wide availability of large amounts of data and acute need for extracting useful information from such data, intelligent data analysis has attracted great attention and contributed to solving many practical tasks, ... -
Adaptive Medium Access Control for Internet-of-Things Enabled Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)An Internet-of-Things (IoT) enabled mobile ad hoc network (MANET) is a self organized distributed wireless network, in which nodes can randomly move making the network traffic load vary with time. A medium access control ... -
Adaptive Monitoring of Complex Software Systems using Management Metrics
(University of Waterloo, 2009-10-02)Software systems supporting networked, transaction-oriented services are large and complex; they comprise a multitude of inter-dependent layers and components, and they implement many dynamic optimization mechanisms. ... -
Adaptive Motion Estimation and Control of Intelligent Walkers
(University of Waterloo, 2015-07-10)One of the most critical factors in the quality of elderly lives is their ability to move. As the size of the ageing society grows, more elderly people suffer from walking impairments. Most of them prefer to stay at home ... -
Adaptive OFDM Cooperative Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2010-12-08)Cooperative communication is a promising technique for wireless communication systems where wireless nodes cooperate together in transmitting their information. Such communication transmission technique, which realizes the ... -
Adaptive Path Following for an Underactuated Nonholonomic Mobile Manipulator
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-17)We investigate an adaptive path following problem for an underactuated nonholonomic mobile manipulator system and closed planar curves. As opposed to adapting to uncertain or unknown dynamics in the plant, we apply an ... -
Adaptive Power Amplifiers for Modern Communication Systems with Diverse Operating Conditions
(University of Waterloo, 2013-11-26)In this thesis, novel designs for adaptive power amplifiers, capable of maintaining excellent performance at dissimilar signal parameters, are presented. These designs result in electronically reconfigurable, single-ended ...