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Battery-free Connected Cameras
Wireless cameras have traditionally been considered extremely power-hungry devices. The battery life of wearable camera systems (such as Google Glass, or Snap Spectacles) is under an hour when capturing video. Similarly, ... -
Behavior Changing Gestural Interface Design via Machine and Human Mutual Adaptation
For centuries, the search for operating methods that are easy, intuitive and efficient has never stopped, and will most definitely go on. The current technologies allow us to interact with computers without mouse and ... -
Biochemical Controller Made From DNA
The potential of robots operating at a molecular or cellular scale is only limited by the imagination — for instance, nanorobots could navigate the bloodstream, identify a tumor and eliminate it cell by cell resulting in ... -
Biosensors Embedded in Contact Lenses for Human Health Monitoring
(2013-07-25)This dissertation covers my graduate research about the development of micro biosensors which are embedded in soft contact lenses for human health monitoring in University of Washington. The work mainly focuses on two ... -
BRIDGING THE GAPS FOR VALUING DISTRIBUTED ENERGY RESOURCES
Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) comprise of distributed generation (DG), energy storage (ES) and demand response (DR). DERs are different from other participants because of their distinctive characteristics: they are ... -
Broadband Green's Function and Applications to Fast Electromagnetic Analysis of High-Speed Interconnects
This dissertation is focused on research and development of an innovative Broadband Green’s Function method and the applications to fast electromagnetic modeling and simulations of high-speed interconnects. Innovative ... -
Capability of DFIGs to Provide Reactive Power Support and Low Voltage Ride Through in Hybrid Wind Farms with FSIGs
(2013-04-17)This thesis examines the low voltage event performance of hybrid wind farms containing both economical Fixed Speed Induction Generators (FSIGs) and the increasingly popular but more costly Doubly-Fed Induction Generators ... -
Capacity Fade Modeling for Convex Optimization of Battery Charge/Discharge Schedules
The use of electrochemical batteries to provide multiple system services can greatly increase the profit they are able to generate, which can help to offset their initial investment cost. By using battery scheduling ... -
Characterization of Circadian Modulation of Neuromotor Control in Mice
Decoding electrocorticographic (ECoG) signals coming from the primary motor cortex (PMC) associated with complex motor programs may represent a fundamental tool for the development of minimally invasive neural prosthetic ... -
Circuit Techniques for Optimized Recording of Neural Signals
Bidirectional Brain Computer Interfaces (BBCIs) are an emerging technology that will provide increased quality of life for patients with various neurological disorders, and will likely someday enhance the human-computer ... -
Circuits and Systems for Low-Power Miniaturized Wireless Sensors
The field of electronic sensors has witnessed a tremendous growth over the last decade particularly with the proliferation of mobile devices. New applications in Internet of Things (IoT), wearable technology, are further ... -
Closed-Loop Deep Brain Stimulation: Bidirectional Neuroprosthetics for Tremor and BCI
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) has become a widely adopted method for treating a variety of neurological and movement disorders. However, current clinically deployed systems are open-loop and do not take into account the ... -
Coherent Demodulation of Nonstationary Random Processes
(2012-09-13)Nonstationary processes have local properties which change over time. An example is speech, which can be represented as pitch harmonics multiplied by slower-varying syllabic modulations. Commonly-used power spectral analysis ... -
Complexity reduction in fuzzy inference systems
(2004)Despite ever-growing processor speed, application of fuzzy technology is still hindered by rule explosion, the phenomenon in which an increase in the number of antecedents results in the exponential growth of the number ... -
Compressive Detection and Estimation with Applications to Cognitive Radio and Radar
(2013-07-25)According to Nyquist Sampling theorem, a band-limited signal can be reconstructed accurately if the sampling rate exceeds twice the maximum frequency of the signal. In many scenarios, this Nyquist sampling rate cannot be ... -
Computational Imaging for Dynamic Metasurface based Synthetic Aperture Radars
In this thesis, computational imaging is used to improve millimeter-wave dynamic metasurface based synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imaging. SAR image reconstruction is a computationally complex inverse problem, which can ... -
Computer-Aided Pre-operative Planning System for Skull Base Surgery
Despite major technology advancements in image analysis, simulation and endoscopic pro- cedures, surgeons do not have access to simple, yet practical and efficient planning tools for complex operations in skull base surgery. ... -
The concept and feasibility of automated electrical plat design via an intelligent decision support system approach
(1990)The design of underground electrical supply for residential development is presently carried out manually, resulting often in an overdesigned, costly, and nonstandardized solution. Up to now no comprehensive computerized ... -
Constrained Robust Submodular Sensor Selection with Application to Multistatic Sonar Arrays
We develop a framework to select a subset of sensors from a field in which the sensors have an ingrained independence structure. Given an arbitrary independence pattern, we construct a graph that denotes pairwise independence ... -
Constructing High-Quality 3D Object Models Using RGB-D Cameras
With the introduction of economical depth cameras, computer vision research has made a huge leap forward in 3D reconstruction and understanding. However, the quality of the depth images are limited: 1) depth images contain ...