In the last few decades, the world of electric machine design, specifically induction machine design, has been reinvigorated by the introduction of power electronics. Where designers were once limited to a single alternating current waveform with constant voltage and frequency,…

Distributed estimation in a wireless sensor network has many advantages. It eliminates the need of the centralized knowledge of the measurement model parameters and does not have a single point of failure. Also, any sensor node can be queried to…

During a forensic interview, high-stakes deception is very prevalent notwithstanding the heavy consequences that may result. Studies have shown that most untrained people cannot perform well in discerning liars and truth-tellers. Thus it has become common to adopt various technical…

Ultra Wideband (UWB) Impulse Radio (IR) technology has attracted considerable attention in the past few years due to its many desirable properties, such as the ability to penetrate through walls and ground, low power spectral density level, immunity to multipath…

In wireless communications, the broadcast nature can be explored to efficiently support multicast services while the difference in channel gains among the wireless links of users promotes multiuser diversity which can be used to improve multicast performance. This thesis proposes…

This thesis proposes a knowledge based expert system tool that can be used as an on- line controller for the charging/discharging of an energy storage system in a wind-diesel microgrid. The wind-diesel microgrid is modelled, and a typical energy storage…

This thesis presents two methods to damp electromechanical oscillations in large power systems such as Trans-Canadian grid. A control method, used in conjunction with Wide Area Measurement System (WAMS), is proposed to damp very low frequency inter-area modes of very…