Browsing Division of Electrical, Electronics, and Computer Science (EECS) by thesis submitted date"2017"
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0.5V Subthreshold Region Operated Ultra Low Power Passive Sigma Delta ADC in 180 NM CMOS Technology
With increasing demand of IoT devices, medical devices, remote sensors; the design of low power analog interface is becoming focus. Generally, for low frequency applications the Sigma Delta ADCs are used due to their very ... -
Active Power Flow Tracing for Preventive Control in Deregulated Power Systems
(2018-05-29)Modern day power systems present an open access environment, inspiring participation from small scale and large power suppliers. With multiple players in the system driven by the market, proper monitoring and control of ... -
Analysis, Control and Applications of Active Phase Converters for Single-Phase Power Grids
Single-phase distribution is a preferred approach for setting up microgrids or supplying power to rural and remote locations due to its lower infrastructure costs when compared to a three-phase grid. On the other hand, ... -
Analysis, Diagnosis and Design for System-level Signal and Power Integrity in Chip-package-systems
(2018-05-25)The Internet of Things (IoT) has ushered in an age where low-power sensors generate data which are communicated to a back-end cloud for massive data computation tasks. From the hardware perspective this implies co-existence ... -
Approximation Algorithms for Geometric Packing and Covering Problems
We study a host of geometric optimization problems that are NP-hard and design polynomial time approximation algorithms for them. More precisely, we are given a family of geometric objects and a point set, mostly in the ... -
Atomistic Study of Carrier Transmission in Hetero-phase MoS2 Structures
(2018-05-25)In recent years, the use of first-principles based atomistic modeling technique has become extremely popular to gain better insights on the various locally modulated electronic properties of nano materials and structures. ... -
Automatic Optimization of Geometric Multigrid Methods using a DSL Approach
(2018-06-14)Geometric Multigrid (GMG) methods are widely used in numerical analysis to accelerate the convergence of partial differential equations solvers using a hierarchy of grid discretizations. These solvers find plenty of ... -
Compilation of Graph Algorithms for Hybrid, Cross-Platform and Distributed Architectures
(2018-07-09)1. Main Contributions made by the supplicant: This thesis proposes an Open Computing Language (OpenCL) framework to address the challenges of implementation of graph algorithms on parallel architectures and large scale ... -
Concurrency Analysis and Mining Techniques for APIs
(2018-06-13)Software components expose Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) as a means to access their functionality, and facilitate reuse. Developers use APIs supplied by programming languages to access the core data structures ... -
Control Strategies for Seamless Transition between Grid Connected and Islanded Modes in Microgrids
(2018-06-14)The popularity of distributed generating (DG) sources have been increasing over the past few years. With the increasing penetration of these DGs, the concept of micro grid is becoming popular. A micro grid is a small power ... -
Deep Learning with Minimal Supervision
Abstract In recent years, deep neural networks have achieved extraordinary performance on supervised learning tasks. Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have vastly improved the state of the art for most computer vision ... -
Design and Analysis of Real-time Message Scheduling under FlexRay Protocol
(2018-05-29)A typical automobile system consists of many Electronic Control Units (ECUs) for the purposes of safety, comfort, and entertainment applications. FlexRay is a high bandwidth protocol for such automotive requirements, which ... -
Design and Development of a Passive Infra-Red-Based Sensor Platform for Outdoor Deployment
(2018-04-23)This thesis presents the development of a Sensor Tower Platform (STP) comprised of an array of Passive Infra-Red (PIR) sensors along with a classification algorithm that enables the STP to distinguish between human intrusion, ... -
Design of Quality Assuring Mechanisms with Learning for Strategic Crowds
(2018-05-23)In this thesis, we address several generic problems concerned with procurement of tasks from a crowd that consists of strategic workers with uncertainty in their qualities. These problems assume importance as the quality ... -
Design, Development and Characterization of Variable Reluctance Ferrofluid Pump
(2017-11-24)Ferrofluids are stable colloidal homogeneous mixtures of nano-size single-domain ferromag¬netic particles covered by surfactant layer, and suspended in a carrier fluid compatible with the surfactant. Physical properties of ... -
Developmental Studies on Ultra Wide Band Type High Power Electromagnetic Radiating System for Use as an Intentional Electromagnetic Interference Source
(2018-06-13)The electronic control, instrumentation and communication hardware is becoming more and more compact and faster in operation due to the increased use of large scale integration of semiconductor devices operating at higher ... -
Discriminative Descriptors for Unconstrained Face and Object Recognition
Face and object recognition is a challenging problem in the field of computer vision. It deals with identifying faces or objects form an image or video. Due to its numerous applications in biometrics, security, multimedia ... -
Dual Comparison One Cycle Control for Grid Connected Converters
Grid connected converters are widely used as front end rectifiers, interface between renewable energy and grid, and power quality applications. Popular control techniques to generate gating signals for active devices, ... -
An Efficient Network Management System using Agents for MANETs
(2018-06-11)Network management plays a vital role to keep a network and its application work e ciently. The network management in MANETs is a crucial and the challenging task, as these networks are characterized by dynamic environment ... -
Efficient Static Analyses for Concurrent Programs
(2018-06-29)Concurrent programs are pervasive owing to the increasing adoption of multi-core systems across the entire computing spectrum. However, the large set of possible program behaviors make it difficult to write correct and ...