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…

This thesis studies the dynamics of decision-making in a repeated auction game used as a basis for designing distributed resource management and task assignment mechanisms. We study the problem of coordinating a group of independent agents in a dynamic environment…

This thesis studies and develops quality-of-service (QoS)-aware power allocation and frequency provisioning schemes for multicarrier wireless systems in a frequency-selective fading environment. We first develop an optimal subcarrier power allocation algorithm to maximize the energy efficiency (EE) of a single-user…

Having a complete knowledge about average traffic rates on different links in a network is highly desirable for network operators, particularly when performing tasks such as capacity planning and traffic engineering, or when making decisions on network redesigning.In this thesis,…

Specularity is a very common phenomenon in the real world and confounds many computer vision tasks such as stereo. The first purpose of this thesis is to design a real-time algorithm of specularity detection. After that, with the knowledge of…

This thesis focuses on Mean Field Game (MFG) theory with applications to consensus, flocking, leader-follower and major-minor agent systems. The MFG methodology addresses a class of dynamic games with a large number of minor agents in which each agent interacts…