Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Type "Master Thesis"
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Adaptive Power Control for Energy Harvesting Communication Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-06)Sustaining energy requirement for wireless devices is the main barrier in building autonomous communication systems and service-free networks. Specifically, in large-scale networks where normally wired energy infrastructures ... -
An Adaptive Teachable Robot For Encouraging Teamwork
(University of Waterloo, 2021-01-26)Social robots used in education can take different roles, including tutor robots and peer robots. Peer robots (also called teachable robots) take the role of a novice in a teaching interaction while the students take the ... -
Adaptive Vertical Handoff for Integrated UMTS and WLAN Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2007-10-26)Next-generation wireless networks have been envisioned to be an integration of heterogeneous wireless access networks such as UMTS (Universal Mobile Telecommunication Networks) and the IEEE 802.11 based WLAN (Wireless ... -
Adaptive Weighted Scheduling in Cognitive Radio Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-22)A problem in modern wireless communications is the scarcity of electromagnetic radio spectrum. The traditional fixed spectrum assignment strategy results in spectrum crowding on most frequency bands. Due to limited ... -
Advanced Interior Point Formulation for the Global Routing Problem
(University of Waterloo, 2009-05-08)As the circuit size increases in modern electronics, the design process becomes more complicated. Even though the hardware design process is divided into multiple phases, many of the divided problems are still extremely ... -
Advanced Nanoelectromechanical Systems for Next Generation Energy Harvesting
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-15)The ever-increasing desire to produce portable, mobile and self-powered wireless micro-/nano systems (MNSs) with extended lifetimes has lead to the significant advancement in the area of mechanical energy harvesting over ... -
Advancements in Current-Sourced Inverter Methodologies for use in Small-Scale Power Generation
(University of Waterloo, 2007-06-25)As the costs of large-scale power generation and transmission rise, distributed generation is becoming a prevalent alternative used by a growing number of both residences and businesses. Distributed generation systems ... -
Aggressiveness-regulated Multi-agent Stress Testing of Autonomous Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-20)The emerging era of autonomous vehicles (AVs) presents unprecedented potential for transforming global transportation. As these vehicles begin to permeate our streets, the challenge of ensuring their safety, especially in ... -
AI Aided Tools for Fresh Produce Yield and Price Forecasting: Deep Learning Approaches
(University of Waterloo, 2021-07-22)It is important to have an accurate estimate of the yields and prices of fresh produce (FP) for maintaining an effective Fresh Produce Supply Chain Management (FSCM). Since, the FP comprises of the perishable goods, it is ... -
Allocating Power Quality Monitors in Electrical Distribution Systems to Measure and Detect Harmonics Pollution
(University of Waterloo, 2010-05-25)The growth of non-linear devices has increased the harmonics pollution in distribution systems. Under industrial competition, the concern over power quality, especially harmonic distortion, has increased due to the new ... -
AlphaSMT: A Reinforcement Learning Guided SMT Solver
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-19)Satisfiability Modulo Theories (SMT) solvers are programs that decide whether a first-order logic formula is satisfiable. Over the last two decades, these solvers have become central to many methods and tools in fields as ... -
Aluminum Nitride SAW Resonators
(University of Waterloo, 2017-05-17)Numerous devices need filters for capturing signals and then conditioning them in communications and wireless systems. For several decades, microwave filters have been the center of attention for this type of signal ... -
Amorphous Silicon Dual Gate Thin Film Transistor & Phase Response Touch Screen Readout Scheme for Handheld Electronics Interactive AMOLED Displays
(University of Waterloo, 2011-04-20)Interactive handheld electronic displays use hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) thin film transistor (TFT) as a backplane and a Touch Screen Panel (TSP) on top as an input device. The low mobility and instability ... -
AMShare: Distributed Frequency Synchronization of Small Cell Base Transceiver Stations Utilizing Commercial AM Wireless Signals
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-31)Exponential growth of connected users in recent years and the increasing demands for ubiquitous coverage of wireless services has pushed the mobile operators to invest in innovative technologies that can support more ... -
Analog Signal Processor for Adaptive Antenna Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2008-01-04)An analog circuit for beamforming in a mobile Ku band satellite TV antenna array has been implemented. The circuit performs continuous-time gradient descent using simultaneous perturbation gradient estimation. Simulations ... -
An Analysis and Benchmarking in Autoware.AI and OpenPCDet LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection Models
(University of Waterloo, 2023-01-11)Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) sensors are widely used in applications related to autonomous driving. The ability to scan and visualize the 3D surroundings of the vehicle as a point cloud is a particular strength of ... -
Analysis and Design of Clock-glitch Fault Injection within an FPGA
(University of Waterloo, 2013-09-27)In modern cryptanalysis, an active attacker may induce errors during the computation of a cryptographic algorithm and exploit the faulty results to extract information about the secret key in embedded systems. This kind ... -
Analysis and Design of Lossless Bi-level Image Coding Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2000)Lossless image coding deals with the problem of representing an image with a minimum number of binary bits from which the original image can be fully recovered without any loss of information. Most lossless image coding ... -
An Analysis and Reasoning Framework for Project Data Software Repositories
(University of Waterloo, 2012-04-27)As the requirements for software systems increase, their size, complexity and functionality consequently increases as well. This has a direct impact on the complexity of numerous artifacts related to the system such as ... -
Analysis of Microcontroller Embedded SRAMs for Applications in Physical Unclonable Functions
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-30)The growth of the Internet of Things (IoT) market has motivated widespread proliferation of microcontroller- (MCU) based embedded systems. Suitable due to their abundance, low cost, low power consumption and small ...