Dysarthria is a motor speech disorder that affects different aspects of speech functions, like respiration, phonation, articulation, prosody, and resonance. It progressively compromises the intelligibility and naturalness ...

Extracting speaker-specific information from speech is of great interest to both researchers and developers alike, since speaker recognition technology finds application in a wide range of areas, primary among them being ...

Vacuum is an excellent insulator, albeit has a poorly defined intrinsic electric breakdown strength. Because of this, the ordinary vacuum gap with only two electrodes is unsuitable for switching applications. The electric ...

Large capacity high voltage power transformers are one of the most expensive items of equipment in an electrical power network. Power utilities can ill-afford breakdown of transformers, especially, in a deregulated scenario. ...

The use of the mutual nearest neighbourhood concept for solving certain classes of problems in pattern recognition methodology is the main topic of study in this thesis. The concept of mutual nearest neighbourhood, ...

Power and Generator Transformers are important and expensive elements of a power system. Inadvertent failure of Power Transformers would cause long interruption in power supply with consequent loss of reliability and revenue ...

Frequency response analysis (FRA) of transformers is universally accepted as a highly sensitive tool to detect deformations in its windings. This is evident from the fact that customized commercial equipment (popularly ...

This thesis proposes control schemes and converter configurations for high power wound field synchronous motor (WFSM) drives. The model for a salient pole WFSM in any general rotating reference frame is developed which can ...

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 ...