Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Title
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Design and Characterization of a Novel Filling Yarn Insertion System for Weaving Machines
(2012-04-11)
Weaving is a textile manufacturing process in which weft yarns are inserted by machines through a gap in the warp yarns called a shed to form a woven fabric through interlacing. The filling insertion systems that are ...
Design and Characterization of Cold Recycled Foamed Asphalt Mixtures with High RAP Contents
(2018-04-24)
Cold recycling with foamed asphalt has been considered as a sustainable pavement rehabilitation technology. Although different mix design methods have been proposed, there is no widely accepted standard. The effects of ...
Design and Characterization of Nonwoven Fabrics for Gas Diffusion Layer in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell
(2007-05-15)
The aim of this research is to develop and evaluate materials for polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells. Gas diffusion layer (GDL) is a part of membrane electrode assembly (MEA) that is the locomotive of polymer electrolyte ...
Design and Construction of a Mach 2 Wind Tunnel For Cavity Acoustics Research
(2013-04-17)
Cavity flow is encountered in many practical applications of ground and air vehicles operating at high speed. Examples include airflow past open windows, sunroofs, and wheel-wells of automobiles as well as landing gear and ...
Design and Construction of a Rainfall Simulator for Large-Scale Testing of Erosion Control Practices and Products
(2017-04-14)
Soil erosion and the resulting sediment deposition constitutes one of the greatest pollutants in our nation’s waterways. Construction projects often generate large areas of exposed soil that remain disturbed throughout the ...
Design and Construction of Carbon NanoTubes (CNTs) Triggered Pseudospark Switch
(2012-05-07)
Pseudospark switches have been used as fast closing switches in pulsed power systems. Advantages include high hold off voltage of 10s kV, high conduction current of ~104 A, fast current rise time of 1011 A/s, low delay and ...
The Design and Development of a Framework to support Ergonomics Professionals and General Users
(2018-05-01)
Poor ergonomics in many industries expose workers to risk. Improving the productivity of an organization is as important as the welfare of the employees that work hard to achieve the results. We are in a digital world where ...
Design and Development of a GPS Intermediate Frequency and IMU Data Acquisition System for Advanced Integrated Architectures
(2006-12-15)
Advanced levels of GPS and INS integration, including Deeply Integrated and Ultra-
Tightly Coupled, have been reported to provide significant gains in anti-jamming capa-
bility and reduced susceptibility to loss of GPS ...
Design and Development of a Targeting System Using Matlab
(2008-08-15)
Advances in security equipment and technology have always been essential to prevent malefactors from performing criminal acts. Therefore, it is essential to develop new ways to deter wrongdoers. It is the intent of this ...
Design and Development of an Occupational Ergonomic Application to support Low Back Pain Risk Assessment
(2017-11-20)
A better designed work place can prevent up to one-third of the back injuries by enhancing occupational safety. Backster™, a biomechanics-training aide, allowed for experiential ergonomics training in a more engaging way. ...
Design and Evaluation of a 3D Road Geometry Based Heavy Truck Fuel Optimization System
(2010-07-28)
This dissertation develops a 3D road geometry based optimal powertrain control system in reducing the fuel consumption of heavy trucks. The real-time optimal control (OC) system, solving a constrained nonlinear programming ...
Design and evaluation of an accessible website developed using SharePoint 2010
(2012-01-06)
The internet and web applications are growing rapidly. People are, more than ever before, dependent on the web applications and this dependency will continue to increase. A large number of web users have various accessibility ...
Design and Evaluation of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control System for Heavy Freight Vehicles
(2019-12-12)
This thesis describes the design, implementation, and evaluation of a Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) system for heavy freight trucks that seeks to provide a platform for future cooperative control and estimation ...
Design and Experimental Validation of Longitudinal Controller of Connected Vehicles using Model Predictive Control
(2015-12-14)
In this thesis, a vehicle longitudinal control algorithm based on model predictive control (MPC) is applied to compute the desired relative acceleration of the following vehicle in leader-follower systems. Kinematic equations ...
The Design and Fabrication of a Microfluidic Landscaper
(2010-07-15)
Catalysis is identified as a feature of enzymes function, and kinetic analysis of the conversion generated by the reaction between proteins and enzymes is essential to understand and control them for biological applications. ...
Design and Implementation of a Dual Excited Planar Circular Array Antenna for Base Stations
(2009-11-13)
Smart antennas present a promising solution to the present day capacity and coverage shortage in mobile wireless communications. These intelligent antennas when used at the base station can avoid a lot of interference by ...
Design and Implementation of a SoC-Based Real-Time Vector Tracking GPS Receiver
(2015-05-06)
This thesis provides the design and implementation of a GPS receiver which utilizes advanced tracking algorithms on a small, low cost platform. The tracking algorithms used are of a class of algorithms known as vector ...
Design and Implementation of a Software Defined Radio Receiver for AM Band
(2007-08-15)
Since the mid-1990s, the radio industry has actively focused on implementing more and more radio functions in the digital domain. This has been furthered by availability of high speed, high performance data converters and ...
Design and Implementation of Digital Controllers for Buck and Boost Converters Using Linear and Nonlinear Control Methods
(2006-08-15)
Issues in the design and implementation of digital controllers for a buck converter and a boost converter using linear and nonlinear control methods were investigated in this dissertation. The small signal models of the ...
Design and Implementation of Digital Current Mode Control
(2015-05-11)
Presented in this dissertation are three digital control methods of current mode control for switch-mode power supplies. Both the current and voltage loop are implemented on the digital processor. Digital versions of peak ...