Estimation of Characteristics Change on Transverse Mode PZT Vibrator Under Space Environment

MEMS power generator with transverse mode thin film PZT

A thin film lead zirconate titanate, Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT), MEMS power generating device is developed. It is designed to resonate at specific frequencies from an external vibrational energy source, thereby creating electrical energy via the piezoelectric effect. Our cantilever device i t 2 f 1 d r ©

Change - Point Estimation Under Asymmetric

In the asymptotic setting of the change-point estimation problem the limiting behavior of Bayes procedures for a general loss function is studied. It is demonstrated that the distribution of the diierence between the Bayes estimator and the parameter converges to the distribution of a (nondegenerate) random variable. The sequence of minimum Bayes risks is shown to converge to its supremum, and ...

Mode Estimation Using Pessimistic Scale Space Tracking

Estimation of the mode of a distribution over n from discrete samples is introduced and three methods for its solution are developed and evaluated. The first solution is based on Fréchet’s definition of central tendencies. We show that algorithms based on this approach have only limited success due to the non-differentiability of the Fréchet measures. The second solution is based on tracking ma...

On Transverse Mode Coupling Instability in VLHC

Topics On Change–Point Estimation Under Adaptive Sampling Procedures

To my parents ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS My foremost thanks go to my advisors Dr. George Michailidis and Dr. Moulinath Banerjee. I thank them for their advice, patience, support, encouragement, insights and suggestions that helped shape my research skills. This thesis would not be possible without them. I am grateful to my two other committee members, Dr. for reviewing my work and providing me with va...