Browsing Electrical and Computer Engineering by Title
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Non-Intrusive Program Tracing of Non-Preemptive Multitasking Systems Using Power Consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2017-12-19)System tracing, runtime monitoring, execution reconstruction are useful techniques for protecting the safety and integrity of systems. Furthermore, with time-aware or overhead-aware techniques being available, these ... -
Non-Intrusive system behavior tracing using power consumption
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-13)This thesis presents a novel non-intrusive method of creating a map of black-box systems’ behavior to commands by observing the power consumption of the system. We expand our method in the form of a flexible framework which ... -
Non-Invasive Blood Glucose Monitoring Using Electromagnetic Sensors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-05-16)Monitoring glycemia levels in people with diabetes has developed rapidly over the last decade. A broad range of easy-to-use systems of reliable accuracies are now deployed in the market following the introduction of the ... -
Non-invasive Glucose Monitoring using Microwave Sensor with Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2022-04-14)Diabetes is a chronic condition that occurs when the levels of glucose are high in the blood because the body cannot produce any or enough insulin or use insulin effectively. According to the International Diabetes Federation ... -
Noninvasive Glucose Detection Using Infrared Photoacoustic Spectroscopy and Machine Learning
(University of Waterloo, 2023-12-19)The ideal method to monitor diabetes is to obtain the glucose level with a fast, accurate, and pain-free measurement that does not require blood drawing or finger pricking. Although the development of noninvasive devices ... -
Nonlinear Periodic Adaptive Control for Linear Time-Varying Plants
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-30)In adaptive control the goal is to deal with systems that have unknown and/or time-varying parameters. Adaptive control techniques have been developed since 1950’s and most results were proven in the cases when the ... -
Nonlinearity and Gating in Superconducting Nanowire Single Photon Detectors
(University of Waterloo, 2011-12-21)The quantum properties of electromagnetic radiation at single photon level promise to offer what are classically inaccessible. Single photon sources and detectors are therefore on demand for exploiting these properties in ... -
A Novel Approach for Performance Assessment of Human-Robotic Interaction
(University of Waterloo, 2012-03-21)Robots have always been touted as powerful tools that could be used effectively in a number of applications ranging from automation to human-robot interaction. In order for such systems to operate adequately and safely in ... -
A novel approach to restoration of Poissonian images
(University of Waterloo, 2010-02-18)The problem of reconstruction of digital images from their degraded measurements is regarded as a problem of central importance in various fields of engineering and imaging sciences. In such cases, the degradation is ... -
Novel Approaches and Architecture for Survivable Optical Internet
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-22)Any unexpected disruption to WDM (Wavelength Division Multiplexing) based optical networks which carry data traffic at tera-bit per second may result in a huge loss to its end-users and the carrier itself. Thus survivability ... -
A Novel Buried-Emitter Photovoltaic Cell for High Efficiency Energy Conversion
(University of Waterloo, 2013-02-22)To address the commonly poor short wavelength response of the conventional solar cell structure which consists of a highly doped thin emitter layer on top of a thicker and less doped base, the novel concept of the ... -
A Novel Computational Framework for Negative Capacitance Devices: From Ferroelectric-based Capacitors to Negative Capacitance Field-Effect Transistors
(University of Waterloo, 2022-08-18)Negative capacitance (NC) devices generally manifest hysteresis originating from the ferroelectric materials (FE) with nonlinear hysteretic responses of spontaneous polarization (P) to the applied electric field, while ... -
Novel Convex Optimization Approaches for VLSI Floorplanning
(University of Waterloo, 2008-05-15)The floorplanning problem aims to arrange a set of rectangular modules on a rectangular chip area so as to optimize an appropriate measure of performance. This problem is known to be NP-hard, and is particularly challenging ... -
A Novel Data Dissemination Scheme in Vehicular Networks for Intelligent Transportation System Applications
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-13)Numerous local incidents occur on road networks daily many of which may lead to congestion and safety hazards. If vehicles can be provided with information about such incidents or traffic conditions in advance, the quality ... -
Novel Decentralized Operation Schemes for Smart Distribution Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2012-01-19)Recently, there have been many initiatives to incorporate advanced controls, two way communications, digital technologies and advanced power system components in the operation and control of power distribution systems. ... -
Novel Design Approach for High Performance Waveguide Filters
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-16)This thesis provides design approaches for waveguide filter with prescribed transmission zeros. The emphasis is on a new class of filter, developed in recent years by utilizing non-resonating nodes (NRNs). First, a novel ... -
Novel Designs for Photovoltaic Arrays to Reduce Partial Shading Losses and to Ease Series Arc Fault Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2012-10-01)A mismatch in a photovoltaic array implies differences in the I-V characteristics of the modules forming the array which can lead to significant energy losses known as mismatch losses. The sources of mismatch losses could ... -
Novel Finger-like Soft Pneumatic Actuators for Affective Movement
(University of Waterloo, 2015-05-19)The ability to communicate emotion through movement is an important element to enable engaging social human-robot interaction. It has been shown that humans are capable of conveying emotion through hand and arm movements ... -
A Novel Multi-band CO-OFDM based Long Reach Passive Optical Network Architecture
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-20)The thesis investigates a new long-reach passive optical networks (LRPON) architecture based on multi-band coherent optical orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (CO-OFDM). The proposed CO-OFDM based LRPON system is ... -
A Novel Multi-Layer Framework for Dynamic Operation of Prosumers in Peer-to-Peer (P2P) Energy Markets
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)Research in transactive energy systems, in recent years, has been primarily focused on the financial aspects of peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trade with little attention paid to the operational and practical aspects of how ...