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Novel Approaches to Creating Robust Globally Convergent Algorithms for Numerical Optimization
(2009-11-13)
Two optimization algorithms are presented, each of which seeks to effectively combine the desirable characteristics of gradient descent and evolutionary computation into a single robust algorithm. The first method, termed ...
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 ...
Data Extraction from Servers by the Internet Robot
(2009-07-15)
Data extraction from internet is a way to download and extract the required data automatically from web servers. In this thesis, we present a method called the Internet Robot to extract the data directly from a web server ...
Diamond Chemical Vapor Deposition and Practical Applications
(2009-07-09)
Diamond chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique has been studied intensively and has overcome some of the constraints of traditional high-pressure high-temperature (HPHT) diamond synthesis methods in the last decades. ...
Modeling and Performance Analysis of GPS Vector Tracking Algorithms
(2009-12-17)
This dissertation provides a detailed analysis of GPS vector tracking algorithms and the
advantages they have over traditional receiver architectures. Standard GPS receivers use a
decentralized architecture that separates ...
Resource Sharing in a WiFi-WiMAX Integrated Network
(2009-12-15)
Resource allocation is a challenging issue in integrated wireless environments due to
factors like difference in participating network protocols, design of hierarchical network
architecture, user mobility and multiple ...
Spectral Methods for Testing of Digital Circuits
(2009-06-23)
Due to increasing design complexities of digital circuits in recent years, a growing problem in Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) digital circuit testing is the exponential rise in the test generation complexity and an ...
Internet Data Acquisition, Search and Processing
(2009-12-11)
Internet data acquisition from the Web is the process of extracting essential data from any web server. Semi-structured data present in the form of HTML web pages need to be extracted, converted into structured data before ...
Hardware Testbed for Collaborative Robotics using Wireless Communication
(2009-08-14)
Collaborating mobile robots equipped with WiFi transceivers are configured as a mobile ad-hoc network. Search and rescue algorithms are developed to take advantage of the distributed processing capability inherent to ...
Pine Seedling Detection and Registration
(2009-11-20)
Pine seedling nurseries across the United States depend on antiquated techniques and equipment to manage the country’s supply of pine seedling stock. This research is directed towards the development of a method to ...