in this paper a new method is introduced and investigated for removing the destabilizing effects of time-delay parameter in control loops. the concept of the method is taken from the knowledge concerning the dynamic behaviour of irrational transfer functions (ir-tf), which is discussed and investigated elswhere in frequency response domain and is explained briefly here. ir-tfs, which are well c...

in many signal processing applications, an appropriate measure to comparetwo signals plays a fundamental role in both implementing the algorithm andevaluating its performance. several techniques have been introduced in literature assimilarity measures. however, the existing measures are often either impractical forsome applications or they have unsatisfactory results in some other applications....

in this paper, a high speed delay-locked loop (dll) architecture ispresented which can be employed in high frequency applications. in order to design the new architecture, a new mixed structure is presented for phase detector (pd) and charge pump (cp) which canbe triggered by double edges of the input signals. in addition, the blind zone is removed due to the elimination of reset signal. theref...

iv Dit proefschrift is goedgekeurd door de promotoren: Photonic integrated true-time-delay beamformers in InP technology /

We study local deformations of time-frequency and timescale representations, in the framework of the so-called reassignment methods, which aim at deblurringg time-frequency representations. We focus on deformations generated by appropriate vector elds deened on time-frequency or time scale plane, and constructed on the basis of geometric and group-theoretical arguments. Such vector elds may be ...

The estimation of glottal flow with inverse filtering requires typically subjective evaluation of the obtained flow waveforms by the experimenter. In this paper, we propose a straightforward method that yields an objective analysis tool to be used in the assessment of the quality of inverse filtered glottal flow estimates. The method computes the negative derivative of the phase response, the g...

Imaging systems based on terahertz time-domain spectroscopy offer a range of unique modalities due to the broad bandwidth, sub-picosecond duration, and phasesensitive detection of the THz pulses. Furthermore, an exciting possibility exists to combine spectroscopic characterization and/or identification with imaging because the radiation is broadband in nature. In order to achieve this, novel me...