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Lattice Engineering with Surface Acoustic Waves
(University of Waterloo, 2018-09-05)Quantum simulators are special purpose quantum computers designed to examine problems that are impossible to test with classical computers. They can be used to simulate problems in atomic physics, condensed matter physics, ... -
Lattice-Based Motion Planning with Optimal Motion Primitives
(University of Waterloo, 2021-12-23)In the field of navigation for autonomous vehicles, it is the responsibility of a local planner to compute reference trajectories that are then be followed by a tracking controller. These trajectories should be safe, ... -
Lattice-Based Precoding And Decoding in MIMO Fading Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2008-04-30)In this thesis, different aspects of lattice-based precoding and decoding for the transmission of digital and analog data over MIMO fading channels are investigated: 1) Lattice-based precoding in MIMO broadcast systems: A ... -
Layered Adaptive Modulation and Coding For 4G Wireless Networks
(University of Waterloo, 2011-01-21)Emerging 4G standards, such as WiMAX and LTE have adopted the proven technique of Adaptive Modulation and Coding (AMC) to dynamically react to channel fluctuations while maintaining bit-error rate targets of the transmission. ... -
Leakage Power Modeling and Reduction Techniques for Field Programmable Gate Arrays
(University of Waterloo, 2006)FPGAs have become quite popular for implementing digital circuits and systems because of reduced costs and fast design cycles. This has led to increased complexity of FPGAs, and with technology scaling, many new ... -
Learning a Motion Policy to Navigate Environments with Structured Uncertainty
(University of Waterloo, 2020-01-24)Navigating in uncertain environments is a fundamental ability that robots must have in many applications such as moving goods in a warehouse or transporting materials in a hospital. While much work has been done on navigation ... -
Learning Inverse Dynamics for Robot Manipulator Control
(University of Waterloo, 2011-09-30)Model-based control strategies for robot manipulators can present numerous performance advantages when an accurate model of the system dynamics is available. In practice, obtaining such a model is a challenging task which ... -
A Learning Social Referencing Disambiguation Framework for Domestic Service Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)The successful integration of domestic service robots into home environments can bring significant services and convenience to the general population and possibly mitigate important societal issues, such as care provision ... -
Learning to Engage: An Application of Deep Reinforcement Learning in Living Architecture Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)Physical agents that can autonomously generate engaging, life-like behavior will lead to more responsive and interesting robots and other autonomous systems. Although many advances have been made for one-to-one interactions ... -
Least-Privilege Identity-Based Policies for Lambda Functions in Amazon Web Services (AWS)
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-21)We address least-privilege in a particular context of public cloud computing: identity-based policies for callback functions, called Lambda functions, in serverless applications of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud ... -
Leveraging Cognitive Radio Networks Using Heterogeneous Wireless Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2013-08-28)The popularity of ubiquitous Internet services has spurred the fast growth of wireless communications by launching data hungry multimedia applications to mobile devices. Powered by spectrum agile cognitive radios, the newly ... -
Leveraging Machine Learning to Improve Software Reliability
(University of Waterloo, 2019-01-09)Finding software faults is a critical task during the lifecycle of a software system. While traditional software quality control practices such as statistical defect prediction, static bug detection, regression test, and ... -
Leveraging RRAM to Design Efficient Digital Circuits and Systems for Beyond Von Neumann in-Memory Computing
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-22)Due to the physical separation of their processing elements and storage units, contemporary digital computers are confronted with the thorny memory-wall problem. The strategy of in-memory computing has been considered as ... -
LiDAR-MIMO: Efficient Uncertainty Estimation for LiDAR-based 3D Object Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2022-02-09)The estimation of uncertainty in robotic vision, such as 3D object detection, is an essential component in developing safe autonomous systems aware of their own performance. However, the deployment of current uncertainty ... -
Light-weight verification of cryptographic API usage
(University of Waterloo, 2020-12-15)A pluggable type system is a light-weight approach for compile-time program verification, which provides more powerful types to both developers and compilers. Developers use pluggable types to boost program understanding, ... -
A Lightweight Processor Core for Application Specific Acceleration
(University of Waterloo, 2004)Advances in configurable logic technology have permitted the development of low-cost, high-speed configurable devices, allowing one or more soft processor cores to be introduced into a configurable computing system. ... -
A Lightweight Type System with Uniqueness and Typestates for the Java Cryptography API
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-17)Java cryptographic APIs facilitate building secure applications, but not all developers have strong cryptographic knowledge to use these APIs correctly. Several studies have shown that misuses of those cryptographic APIs ... -
Linear Interactive Encoding and Decoding Schemes for Lossless Source Coding with Decoder Only Side Information
(University of Waterloo, 2008-08-29)Near lossless source coding with side information only at the decoder, was first considered by Slepian and Wolf in 1970s, and rediscovered recently due to applications such as sensor network and distributed video coding. ... -
Linear Macro-Micro Positioning System Using a Shape Memory Alloy Actuator
(University of Waterloo, 2004)The use of high-precision automated equipment is steadily increasing due in part to the progressively smaller sizes of electronic circuits. Currently, piezoelectric transducers (piezos) dominate as the actuation device ... -
Linear MMSE Receivers for Interference Suppression & Multipath Diversity Combining in Long-Code DS-CDMA Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2003)This thesis studies the design and implementation of a linear minimum mean-square error (LMMSE) receiver in asynchronous bandlimited direct-sequence code-division multiple-access (DS-CDMA) systems that employ long-code ...