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Algorithms for Optimal Energy Management in the Smart Grid 

Wang, Yu (2015-07-02)
Smart grid (SG) is regarded as the next generation power grid, which implements an innovative idea for a highly automated and integrated power system. The two-way energy and information flows in the SG, together with the ...

Analysis of Record and Playback Errors of GPS Signals Caused by the USRP 

Hennigar, Andrew (2014-12-10)
In this thesis, the errors created by the USRP (Universal Software Receiver Platform) during record and playback are analyzed. The USRP is used for jamming, spoo fing, and GPS processing, and has recently become widely ...

Application of Mobility Models to Collaborative Search and Rescue Robotics 

Bano, Nida (2011-05-26)
This thesis addresses the challenges of using small, low-cost robotic nodes with limited processing capabilities in collaborative search and rescue. Mobility models tailored specifically to the mobility patterns of such ...

Channel Estimation and Equalization for Doubly-Selective Channels Using Basis Expansion Models 

Song, Liying (2008-05-15)
The nature of the wireless channels places fundamental limitations on the performance of wireless communication systems. In addition to the frequency-selectivity characteristics caused by multipath propagation, the high-rate ...

Channel State Information Fingerprinting Based Indoor Localization: a Deep Learning Approach 

Gao, Lingjun (2015-07-28)
With the fast growing demand of location-based services in indoor environments, indoor positioning based on fingerprinting has attracted a lot of interest due to its high accuracy. In this thesis, we present a novel deep ...

Communication model and Optical Flow to Aid Collaborative Robotics Search Strategy 

Dumpala Basaveswara, Swathi (2013-07-10)
This thesis provides an analysis of how communication among robots improves search performance in a multi-robot search and rescue scenario. Mobility models have been used to represent the movement patterns in vehicular and ...

Congestion control, Video streaming, Wireless networks, Deep reinforcement learning 

Xiao, Kefan (2019-01-03)
With the fast growth of wireless technologies, such as 4G-LTE, cognitive radio networks, and 5G and beyond, data transportation in the wireless environment is dramatically increasing and has taken the dominant role over ...

Contact-free Breathing Rate Monitoring with Smartphones: A Sonar Phase Approach 

Huang, Runze (2018-07-30)
Vital sign (e.g., respiration rate) monitoring has become increasingly more important because it offers useful clues of medical conditions such as sleep disorders. There is a compelling need for technologies that enable ...

Contact-free Vital Sign Monitoring Using Phase Difference of Channel State Information 

Yang, Chao (2017-11-27)
Vital signs, such as breathing and heartbeat, are useful to health monitoring since such signals provide important clues of medical conditions. Effective solutions are needed to provide contact-free, easy deployment, ...

Cooperative Map-Building for Autonomous Mobile Robots 

Wagh, Rajish (2017-04-20)
A novel algorithm for multi-robot simultaneous localization and mapping is investigated through simulation. Although cooperative-SLAM has been studied by other researchers, the algorithm presented here offers a simpler, ...

Deep Learning-based Load Forecasting and Monitoring in the Smart Grid 

Wang, Lingxiao (2021-12-05)
With the rapid advances in sensing and acquisition, transmission, storage, computing, and analytics, the era of big data has come. Many advanced data analytic techniques, especially machine learning and deep learning ...

Deep Learning-based Load Forecasting and Monitoring in the Smart Grid 

Wang, Lingxiao (2021-12-01)
With the rapid advances in sensing and acquisition, transmission, storage, computing, and analytics, the era of big data has come. Many advanced data analytic techniques, especially machine learning and deep learning ...

Design and Optimization of Free Space Optical Networks 

Son, In Keun (2010-11-12)
Recent advances in wireless communication technologies and the explosive growth of the number and variety of mobile devices and multimedia applications motivate the development of next generation wireless networks, i.e., ...

Detecting stalled or slow-moving vehicles at night by Optical Sensing - a feasibility study 

Okelana, Olufeni (2014-12-04)
In developing countries and areas without adequate infrastructure, a system that can work towards automobile accident reduction without heavy infrastructural dependence or in-vehicle installation will have a shorter ...

A Dual-Band Metamaterial Antenna 

Ashtari, Reza (2014-05-02)
Metamaterials have a wide variety of potential applications in areas such as optics, acoustics and RF design. Split-Ring Resonators (SRR) are fundamental sub-wavelength structures found in metamaterial design. An adaptation ...

Efficacy of Price Interventions for Mitigating Childhood Obesity by Promoting Healthy Food Choices: An fMRI Study in Parents with Low Socioeconomic Status 

Zou, Hao (2016-12-07)
Childhood obesity has been a rising problem among rural and low income populations. Childhood obesity increases the risk of various diseases later in life. Government has tried several price interventions such as lowering ...

Energy-Efficient Designs in Cyber-Physical Systems with a Control and Optimization Approach 

Huang, Yingsong (2013-03-06)
In modern cyber-physical systems (CPS), new dimensions of freedom are enabled to energy efficient solutions. We first focus on the energy delivery side within the smart grid paradigm for smart, efficient and reliable energy ...

An Energy-Efficient Transmission Power Control Protocol for Cooperative Robotics 

Kothandaraman, Arthi (2008-12-15)
Severe energy constraints inherent in multi-robot networks dictate that communication be performed as efficiently as possible to enable longer network lifetime and successful task execution. Therefore, energy-aware ...

Fingerprinting-based Indoor Localization with Deep Neural Networks 

Wang, Xiangyu (2022-11-18)
In recent years, more capabilities and applications have been added to existing wireless communication systems due to the rapid development of the Internet of Things(IoT). WiFi and RFID exhibits tremendous potential in ...

High Performance Rate Adaptation on IEEE 802.11 Networks 

Wu, Shaoen (2008-08-15)
IEEE 802.11 standard has evolved from the basic transmission rates in early days to multiple rates today with advanced encoding and antenna techniques. The performance of IEEE 802.11 wireless networks is supposed to ...