School of Electrical and Computer Engineering Theses and Dissertations
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Power management for Internet of battery-less things
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-04-03)The objective of the thesis is to develop a resource management framework for Internet of Battery-less Things (IoBT). With the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) and IoT-related services, how to power such a gigantic ... -
Ultra-compact concurrent multi-directional beamforming receiving network for high-efficiency wireless power transfer (WPT)
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-07)This thesis demonstrates an all-passive ultra-compact low-loss array-based beamforming rectenna array for high-efficiency wireless power transfer (WPT). The detailed circuit analysis and theoretical derivation are presented ... -
Advanced driver assistance systems techniques using a single camera and lidar
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-07)The purpose of this thesis is to introduce the development and evaluation of some Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) techniques using a single camera and LIDAR. This thesis describes the hardware architecture and ... -
Real time detection of traffic signs
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-07)The objective of this research project is to develop a high-performance real-time algorithm for traffic sign detection using a colorful image. The detection of traffic signs is achieved through two steps: the first step ... -
A near field, non-contact vibration detector using giant magnetoresistance sensors
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-07)Giant magnetoresistance (GMR) sensors are explored for their use in detecting vibrations. GMR sensors have been widely used in magnetoresistive random-access memory (MRAM), and they have the potential to be utilized in ... -
Infinite horizon nonlinear quadratic cost regulator
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-11)Infinite horizon optimal control has been a leading methodology for both linear and nonlinear systems. The Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman (HJB) approach is a very effective approach for infinite horizon optimal control which ... -
Probabilisitic bulk resource planning with variable non-dispatchable resource penetration
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-12-06)Transmission planning with respect to resource adequacy has largely been a deterministic process that fixes the hour of study to a predetermined point. With the rise of non-dispatchable generation, namely photovoltaic solar ... -
Automated benchmarking of surgical skills using machine learning
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Surgical trainees are required to acquire specific skills during the course of their residency before performing real surgeries. Surgical training involves constant practice of skills and seeking feedback from supervising ... -
Medical device security through hardware signatures
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Software and hardware attacks on embedded and medical devices can cause serious harm if not quickly detected. This dissertation presents techniques based on hardware signatures aiming to address the part of the attack ... -
Uncertainty management in prognosis of electric vehicle energy system
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-15)The body of work described here seeks to understand uncertainties that are inherent in the system prognosis procedure, to represent and propagate them, and to manage or shrink uncertainty distribution bounds under long-term ... -
3D and 2.5D microfabrication technologies for high-density electronic heterogeneous integration and biosensing applications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)The demand for continuous increase in computing performance has put an overburdening demand on I/O interface and novel heterogeneous integration to allow performance benefits at system level. The demand for high-density ... -
Development of a multimodal framework for cardiac computed tomography gating
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-08)Cardiovascular disease (CVD) is the leading cause of death globally. The gold standard for evaluating CVDs, catheter coronary angiography, is invasive and expensive. An alternative technique, computed tomography angiography ... -
Signal detection and synchronization for advanced multi-carrier systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) is widely adopted in not only wireless communication but also wired communication systems as multi-carrier modulation scheme. Although OFDM systems are more robust to ... -
Resource allocation for vehicular communications
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)This thesis aims to develop efficient and effective resource allocation schemes to meet the diverse quality-of-service requirements of vehicular communications while taking into account the strong dynamics in vehicular ... -
System configuration for proportional control of an assistive technology for patients with cervical spinal cord injuries
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)Prior Work in the GTBionics Lab at Georgia Tech has lead to the design of an assistive technology device for people with quadriplegia in the form of a wearable headset incorporating multiple magnetic sensors for measuring ... -
Learning to adapt under practical sensing constraints
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)The purpose of this work is to explore the capability of sensing systems to acquire information adaptively when they are subject to practical measurement constraints. By leveraging problem structure such as sparsity and ... -
Automated machine learning: A biologically inspired approach
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-08)Machine learning is a robust process by which a computer can discover characteristics of underlying data that enable it to create a model for making future predictions or classifications from new data. Designing machine ... -
An ionospheric remote sensing method using an array of narrowband VLF transmitters and receivers
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-31)Narrowband very low frequency (VLF) remote sensing has proven to be a useful tool for characterizing the ionosphere's D-region (60 to 90 km altitude) electron density profile. VLF remote sensing experiments typically use ... -
Variation-aware and process-sensitive reliability simulator and its application for analog and digital circuits
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-10-29)A reliability simulator for traditional gate oxide time dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) and the newly emerged middle-of-line (MOL) TDDB in both digital and analog circuits’ is built. A methodology and its corresponding ... -
Microfluidic cooling for densely integrated microelectronic systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2018-11-09)The challenge of dissipating heat is a major barrier to continuing improvement in integrated circuit performance. Additionally, the bottleneck for computational performance and energy has shifted from the switching of ...
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