The current practice for designing a small unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) flight control system is to use a traditional centralized processing architecture. Because of its characteristic lack of modularity, this type of architecture does not satisfy the need for frequent upgrades, replacements, and redesigns of vehicles and their subsystems in the most time-and-cost-effective manner. This thesis...

The power electronic subsystems within electric vehicle (EV) powertrains are required to manage both the energy flows within the vehicle and the delivery of torque by the electrical machine. Such systems are known to generate undesired electrical noise on the high voltage bus. High frequency current oscillations, or ripple, if unhindered will enter the vehicle’s battery system. Real-world measu...

Using discrete time process algebra with relative timing, a model for the I 2 C-bus is designed. The model of the I 2 C-bus is divided in three parts: a model for the bus lines, a model for the master interfaces and a model for the slave interfaces. The model of the bus lines is based on a model for a wired-AND. For the models of the interfaces, the approach is to start from a high level bus pr...

BACKGROUND During high sodium intake, the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system is downregulated and nitric oxide signaling is upregulated in order to remain in sodium balance. Recently, we showed that collecting duct nitric oxide synthase 1β is critical for fluid-electrolyte balance and subsequently blood pressure regulation during high sodium feeding. The current study tested the hypothesis th...

High impedance fault (HIF) is difficult to detect by conventional overcurrent protection relays due the lower current values, which are normally than normal current. A fast and reliable algorithm required this type of fault. This paper proposes a novel method for detecting location HIF zone in distribution system using graph theory-based detection technique along with Random Search Multilevel S...

BACKGROUND Back injuries are common in transit drivers, and can result in substantial direct and indirect cost to the employer and employee. Whole-body vibration (WBV) is one risk factor for drivers. Standards have been adopted (ISO 2631-1) to guide researchers in measuring and analysing WBV levels. Lately, a new standard has been added (ISO 2631-5) that takes impulsive exposures into account. ...

Optical interconnections offer a potential for gigahertz transfer rates in an environment free from capacitive bus loading, crosstalk, and electromagnetic interference. Device technology in electrooptics has matured to a point where small, low power, and low cost devices exist which are suitable for use in bus level implementations. Therefore, the realization of physically distributed, bus-inte...

The original design for the PCI bus was to move high bandwidth peripherals closer to the CPU for performance gains. Graphics-oriented operating systems (OS) and other high bandwidth functions such as Ultra2 SCSI, Fibre Channel, Fast Ethernet, and 3D graphics are consuming more PCI bus bandwidth. This need for more bandwidth has compelled system vendors to find ways of increasing the throughput ...