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Predictive Motion Planning for Safe and Efficient Autonomous Driving
The advent of Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) has the potential to revolutionize transportation systems, promising significant improvements in safety, efficiency, and passenger comforts. Safety, the cornerstone of AVs, demands ... -
Architectures for linewidth reduction in cascaded Raman fiber lasers and applications
Fiber lasers have been increasingly used as a high-power source due to several advantages, such as superior beam quality, better thermal management, high efficiency, and compact and reliable design. In fiber lasers, ... -
Conceptualization and Validation of Interoperability in Blockchain Enabled Interconnected Smart Microgrids
Power systems are undergoing rapid transitions to incorporate renewable sources of generation and to combat climate change. It is expected that the next stage of transitions will lead to a shift from large-scale, centralized ... -
Multi-agent Collaborative Framework for Automated Agriculture
The agriculture sector faces numerous challenges in meeting the demands of a growing global population while managing resource constraints, labour shortages and environmental sustainability. This thesis presents a multi-agent ... -
An Investigation on Development of Novel Switched Capacitor Converter Topologies with Reduced Ratings for DC-AC & DC-DC Power Conversion
Switched Mode Power Converters (SMPCs), which utilize switches and passive components, are the standard for energy conversion in medium and high-power applications. These converters can be classified as isolated or ... -
Development of Microsystem Platforms Towards Cancer Diagnostics and Therapeutics
This thesis explores the development and application of microsystems to advance our understanding of disease biology. The overarching goal is to enhance diagnostic and therapeutic strategies through precise and physiologically ... -
Improving Efficiency of Perovskite and Silicon Solar Cells by Reducing Surface Recombination, Bulk Recombination, and Thermalization Losses
Solar photovoltaic (PV) technology stands at the forefront of renewable energy solutions, driven by the urgent need to mitigate climate change and secure sustainable energy sources. As the demand for cleaner energy ... -
Design and diagnostics of gas turbine combustors: from high shear injector to full-scale sector of annular combustor
The aviation industry, like many others, has to meet stringent pollution and emission norms due to climate change and global warming. Aircraft engines burning fossil fuels emit pollutants such as NOx, CO, and soot, impacting ... -
Lesion Synthesis using Physics-Based Noise Models for Low-Data Medical Imaging Regime applications
Lesion segmentation and their progression prediction in medical imaging relies critically on the availability of manually annotated, heterogeneous large pathological datasets. Acquiring such diverse large datasets is also ... -
Engineering Quality Factor in Micro/Nano Resonating Devices
Micro/Nano resonating devices offer enormous potential and have distinctive features for building sensors and actuators. One of the key parameters that control the response of these devices is Quality Factor (Q). Q is ... -
Learning from Limited and Imperfect Data
Deep Neural Networks have demonstrated orders of magnitude improvement in capabilities over the years after AlexNet won the ImageNet challenge in 2012. One of the major reasons for this success is the availability of ... -
The Determinants and Phases of Tech Startup Emergence: An Empirical Analysis of Hardware-Based Tech Startups in India
Given the distinctive features of hardware-based tech startups that produce physically embodied systems (including electronics, electrical, electromechanical, mechanical, molecules, formulation, Biotech/Meditech devices, ... -
Analysis, Modelling and Prediction of Protein-Protein Interfaces and Application to Biological Problems
Proteins play crucial roles in many biological processes like signalling, catalysis of metabolic processes, immune systems, and transporting molecules. To perform this wide range of functions, proteins interact with other ... -
Adaptive and Optimal Control based Artificial Pancreas for Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus Patients
This research focuses on the development of adaptive and optimal control algorithms and their implementation to develop Artificial Pancreas (AP) systems for glucose regulation in Type-1 Diabetes Mellitus (T1DM) patients. ... -
An Integrated Assessment of Carbon and Water Use Efficiencies over India using Remote Sensing
Carbon use efficiency (CUE) and water use efficiency (WUE) are essential characteristics of ecosystem functioning to understand the strength of carbon allocated by the vegetation as biomass from the sequestered atmospheric ... -
Development and Validation of Novel Methods for Measuring and Tracking Clean Energy Transitions: Case Studies from Rural India
Modern energy sources are crucial to gain all the benefits that modern living affords and is central to our idea of holistic human development. While they pose multitude benefits over their traditional counterparts, they ... -
Modelling stimulus dependencies and temporal characteristics of Gamma Rhythm in Macaque Primary Visual Cortex
Gamma rhythm refers to oscillatory neural activity between 30 and 80 Hz, which represents the interaction between different classes of neurons. Gamma in the primary visual cortex (V1) is generated intrinsically while ... -
Application Service Resilience In Cloud: An End-to-End Perspective
Embargo up to 10/1/2026 The idea of computing as a utility was realized with the emergence of the cloud computing paradigm. Cloud service providers offer a wide range of services that are delivered over the Internet to ... -
Design and Development of Biomimetic Sensor Technologies for the Identification of Emerging Contaminants
Sensors play a crucial role in addressing the need for the detection of antibiotics as emerging contaminants in water. The widespread use of pharmaceuticals/antibiotics in various sectors, including healthcare and ... -
Performance Measurement System for Researchers in Industrial R&D Organisations - A Study of Measurement Outcomes and Influence of Organisational Policies and Politics
Knowledge is power and it is this power that has transformed human race from a prey to a predator, from a cave dweller to a space traveller, from a meagre intelligent creature to an artificial intelligence propounder and ...