Phase Measuring Profilometry (PMP) is the most robust scanning technique for static 3D data acquisition. To make this technique robust to the target objects which are in motion during the scan interval a novel algorithm called ‘Pattern Interleaving’ is used to get a high density single scan image and making Phase Measuring Profilometry insensitive to ‘z’ motion and prevent motion banding which is predominant in 3D reconstruction when the object is in motion during the scan time

Techn. Universiẗat, Diss., 2004--Darmstadt.

Η παρούσα διπλωματική εργασία πραγματεύεται τη μελέτη μίας διάταξης ανεμογεννήτριας 1kW με σύγχρονη μηχανή μόνιμων μαγνητών και με ανορθωτική γέφυρα διόδων στην έξοδό της καθώς και τη διασύνδεση αυτής με το εναλλασσόμενο δίκτυο χαμηλής τάσης. Επιπρόσθετα πραγματεύεται την κατασκευή του ανυψωτή τάσης που ενσωματώνεται στην εν λόγω τοπολογία. Η εργασία αυτή εκπονήθηκε στο Εργαστήριο Ηλεκτρομηχανικής Μετατροπής Ενέργειας του Τμήματος Ηλεκτρολόγων Μηχανικών και Τεχνολογίας Υπολογιστών της Πολυτεχνικής Σχολής του Πανεπιστημίου Πατρών. Απώτερος σκοπός της εργασίας είναι η συνολική κατασκευή μίας διάταξης δύο βαθμίδων για τη διασύνδεση της ανεμογεννήτριας με το δίκτυο χαμηλής τάσης. Οι διατάξεις αυτές περιλαμβάνουν μια πρώτη βαθμίδα ανύψωσης της τάσης της ανεμογεννήτριας μέσω της οποίας εκτελείται ένας αλγόριθμος εύρεσης του σημείου μέγιστης ισχύος της ανεμογεννήτριας (MPPT) και μια δεύτερη βαθμίδα που μετατρέπει τη συνεχή τάση σε εναλλασσόμενη (αντιστροφέας) και διατηρεί σταθερή την τάση στον πυκνωτή διασύνδεσης που παρεμβάλλεται μεταξύ των δύο βαθμίδων με έλεγχο της ενεργού ισχύος που εγχέει στο δίκτυο, ενώ παράλληλα παράγει ρεύμα συμφασικό με την τάση του δικτύου (μοναδιαίος συντελεστής ισχύος). Η πρώτη βαθμίδα αποτελεί αντικείμενο της παρούσας διπλωματικής εργασίας, ενώ η δεύτερη υλοποιήθηκε στα πλαίσια της διπλωματικής εργασίας του συναδέλφου Γ. Πυρρή. Αρχικά παρουσιάζονται τα πλεονεκτήματα και οι δυσκολίες στην εκμετάλλευση ανανεώσιμων πηγών ενέργειας και ιδιαίτερα της αιολικής, ενώ παρατίθενται και συγκρίνονται οι τεχνολογίες διασύνδεσης ανεμογεννητριών στο δίκτυο χαμηλής, μέσης και υψηλής τάσης στοχεύοντας στο να δοθεί στον αναγνώστη μια σφαιρική άποψη του υπό μελέτη θέματος. Στη συνέχεια παραθέτουμε μια θεωρητική ανάλυση όλων των εμπλεκομένων μονάδων της τοπολογίας. Ιδιαίτερη βαρύτητα δίνεται στην ανάλυση της λειτουργίας του ανυψωτή τάσης. Επόμενο βήμα αποτέλεσε η διαστασιολόγηση ολόκληρου του υπό μελέτη συστήματος, η μελέτη μεθόδων ελέγχου μέγιστης απομάστευσης ισχύος και η προσομοίωση του συστήματος. Τέλος αναλύουμε τη διαδικασία υλοποίησης του ανυψωτή τάσης και παραθέτουμε παλμογραφήματα και μετρήσεις που προέκυψαν από τα πειράματα που διενεργήσαμε μετά την ολοκλήρωση της κατασκευής σε εργαστηριακό περιβάλλον. / The current thesis deals with the study of a module of a wind generator 1kW with a synchronous permanent magnet machine and a diode rectifier in its output and its interconnection to the low voltage AC grid. Furthermore the thesis deals with the construction of the boost converter that is connected to this topology. This thesis was conducted in the Laboratory of Electromechanical Energy Conversion, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering School of Engineering, University of Patras. The outer purpose of this study is the construction of a two-stage topology for the interconnection of the wind genereator to the low voltage grid. The topology consist of a first stage that boosts the voltage of the wind generator while a maximum power point tracking algorithm (MPPT) is executed and of a second stage that converts the direct voltage to alternative (inverter) and maintains the voltage of the link capacitor that is between the two stages with control of the active power that is injected to the grid, while producing current that has the same phase as the voltage grid (unitary power coefficient). The first stage is object of the current thesis, while the second was constructed in the thesis of workmate G.Pyrris. Initially, are represented the advandages and disadvantages of the utilization of the renewable energy sources and especially the wind energy, while different technologies for interpolation of wind generators to the low, medium and high voltage grid are represented and compared in order to give to the reader a global idea of the subject. Consequently a theoretical analysis of all the related modules is cited. Special reference was given to the analysis of the boost converter. Next step was the dimensioning of the whole system, the study of maximum power point tracking methods and the simulation of the system. Finally, the procedure of the boost converter’s construction is elaborated and pulse waves and measurements that were extracted during the experiments that were conducted in laboratory environment are represented .

abstract: High speed current-steering DACs with high linearity are needed in today's applications such as wired and wireless communications, instrumentation, radar, and other direct digital synthesis (DDS) applications. However, a trade-off exists between the speed and resolution of Nyquist rate current-steering DACs. As the resolution increases, more transistor area is required to meet matching requirements for optimal linearity and thus, the overall speed of the DAC is limited. In this thesis work, a 12-bit current-steering DAC was designed with current sources scaled below the required matching size to decrease the area and increase the overall speed of the DAC. By scaling the current sources, however, errors due to random mismatch between current sources will arise and additional calibration hardware is necessary to ensure 12-bit linearity. This work presents how to implement a self-calibration DAC that works to fix amplitude errors while maintaining a lower overall area. Additionally, the DAC designed in this thesis investigates the implementation feasibility of a data-interleaved architecture. Data interleaving can increase the total bandwidth of the DACs by 2 with an increase in SQNR by an additional 3 dB. The final results show that the calibration method can effectively improve the linearity of the DAC. The DAC is able to run up to 400 MSPS frequencies with a 75 dB SFDR performance and above 87 dB SFDR performance at update rates of 200 MSPS. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2014

Interleaved effects are widely documented. Research demonstrates that interleaved presentation orders, as opposed to blocked orders typically benefit inductive category learning. What drives interleaved effects is less straightforward. Interleaved presentations provide both the opportunity to compare and contrast between different types of category exemplars, which are temporally juxtaposed, and the opportunity to space study of the same type of category exemplars, which are temporally separated within the presentation span. Accordingly, interleaved effects might be driven by enhanced discrimination, enhanced memory retention, or both in some measure. Though recent studies have largely endorsed enhanced discrimination as the critical mechanism driving interleaved effects, there is no strong evidence to controvert the contribution of enhanced memory retention for interleaved effects. I further examined the role of memory retention by manipulating both presentation order and category structure. Across two experiments I found that memory retention may drive interleaved effects in categorization tasks.

In the wireless sensor network, the WLAN interference, multi-path fading andattenuation are the main reason for packets’ corruption. Forward errorcorrection is one of the methods for error mitigation. Many coding methods aredesigned to improve the reliability of wireless channel. However, none of thesecoding methods could handle the burst errors that widely exist in wirelesschannel and are mainly responsible for packet corruption. Interleaving isintroduced to robust these coding methods and make those corrupted packetsavailable to be corrected by spreading the burst errors. The Reed-Solomon(15,7) block code is used as the forwarding error correction in theseexperiments. In this paper, seven different symbol interleaving will be firstlysimulated in the Matlab platform under four different channels to evaluate theirpacket error rate performances. Then, two of the seven interleaving with betterperformance and the simplest interleaving algorithm, general block interleavingwill be implemented in the TinyOS platform, and they will be compared witheach other from packet error rate, interleaving time and memory consumptionaspects. Experiments show that, for theoretical channel, interleaving plays animportant role to enhance the capability to correct the corrupted packets exceptfor Rayleigh channel, in which the impact of interleaving is generally slight.Meanwhile for the channel under IEEE 802.11b/g interference, interleavingenhance more than 10% PER in the receiver. However for MFA channel, theenhancement is slight, only 1.85%. Convolutional interleaving has the best PERperformance in AWGN channel and the channel with deterministic SER, whilematrix interleaving has the lowest PER in WLAN affected channel. In thelatency and memory consumption aspect, For the same packet length, generalblock interleaving has the shortest interleaving time while matrix interleavinghas the longest. In the same interleaving algorithm, the execution time becomeslonger with growth of packet size. Within the same interleaving method, thelonger the packet size is, the more memory that would be consumed. Under thesame interleaving length, general block interleaving consumes least memoryand convolutional interleaving has the largest memory consumption.

The linear feedback shift-register is a widely used tool for generating cryptographic sequences. The properties of the Galois model discussed here offer many opportunities to improve the implementations that already exist. We explore the overall properties of the phases of the Galois model and conjecture a relation with modular Golomb rulers. This conjecture points to an efficient method for constructing non-linear filtering generators which fulfil Golic s design criteria in order to maximise protection against his inversion attack. We also produce a number of methods which can improve the rate of output of sequences by combining particular distinct phases of smaller elementary sequences.

El uso combinado de diversidad en el dominio temporal, frecuencial y espacial constituye una valiosa herramienta para mejorar la recepción de servicios de difusión móviles. Gracias a la mejora conseguida por las técnicas de diversidad es posible extender la cobertura de los servicios móviles además de reducir la infraestructura de red. La presente tesis investiga el uso de técnicas de diversidad para la provisión de servicios móviles en la familia europea de sistemas de difusión terrestres estandarizada por el prpoyecto DVB (Digital Video Broadcasting). Esto incluye la primera y segunda generación de sistemas DVB-T (Terrestrial), DVB-NGH (Handheld), y DVB-T2 (Terrestrial 2nd generation), así como el sistema de siguiente generación DVB-NGH. No obstante, el estudio llevado a cabo en la tesis es genérico y puede aplicarse a futuras evoluciones de estándares como el japonés ISDB-T o el americano ATSC. Las investigaciones realizadas dentro del contexto de DVB-T, DVB-H y DVBT2 tienen como objetivo la transmisión simultánea de servicios fijos y móviles en redes terrestres. Esta Convergencia puede facilitar la introducción de servicios móviles de TB debido a la reutilización de espectro, contenido e infraestructura. De acuerdo a los resultados, la incorporación de entrelazado temporal en la capa física para diversidad temporal, y de single-input multiple-output (SIMO) para diversidad espacial, son esenciales para el rendimiento de sistemas móviles de difusión. A pesar de que las técnicas upper later FEC (UL-FEC) pueden propocionar diversidad temporal en sistemas de primera generación como DVB-T y DVB-H, requieren la transmisión de paridad adicional y no son útiles para la recepción estática. El análisis en t�ñerminos de link budjget revela que las técnicas de diversidad noson suficientes para facilitar la provision de servicios móviles en redes DVB-T y DVB-T2 planificadas para recepción fija. Sin embargo, el uso de diversidad en redes planificadas para recepción portable / Gozálvez Serrano, D. (2012). Combined Time, Frecuency and Space Diversity in Multimedia Mobile Broadcasting Systems [Tesis doctoral no publicada]. Universitat Politècnica de València. https://doi.org/10.4995/Thesis/10251/16273 / Palancia

The initial part of my work is dedicated to overall introduction into the transmission systems and its categories. Further the work is focused on dividing of security codes which are used for transmission systems. In the next chapter is analyzed the problems of error origin, mathematical transcription of errors, categorizing of errors which can generate during transmission. The following chapter deals with description of convolutional codes describing security against errors, principle of serial consecution interpretation on parallastic consecution and visa versa. Here is outlined problems of convolutional codes input. In the next part are mentioned three convolution codes which are used for security against burst errors. In the next chapter is mentioned problems of message interleaving and description of used methods, how they originate and detailed description, how the errors are eliminated with the help of long segment interleaving. In the next chapter are described techniques which are used for clustered errors suppression. The last chapter is dedicated to the practical part of my thesis. There are detail descriptions and simulation techniques how the security of non-secure section is developed, transmission on line, burst errors induction on transmitted secure data and consecutive amendment or clustered errors division in transceiver. For the simulation there were utilized three convolutional codes for clustered errors amendment and two interleaving techniques.

Advances in transistor-integration technology and multi-core technology of the latest microprocessors have driven transient requirements to become more and more stringent. Rather than relying on the bulky output capacitors as energy-storage devices, increasing the control bandwidth (BW) of the multiphase voltage regulator (VR) is a more cost-effective and space-saving approach. However, it is found that the stability margin of current-mode control in high-BW design is very sensitive to operating conditions and component tolerance, depending on the performance of the current-sensing techniques, modulation schemes, and interleaving approaches. The primary objective of this dissertation is to investigate an advanced multiphase current-mode control, which provides accurate current sensing, enhances the stability margin in high-BW design, and adaptively compensates the parameter variations. Firstly, an equivalent circuit model for generic current-mode controls using DCR current sensing is developed to analyze the impact of component tolerance in high-BW design. Then, the existing state-of-the-art auto-tuning method used to improve current-sensing accuracy is reviewed, and the deficiency of using this method in a multiphase VR is identified. After that, enlightened by the proposed model, a novel auto-tuning method is proposed. This novel method features better tuning performance, noise-insensitivity, and simpler implementation than the state-of-the-art method. Secondly, the current state-of-the-art adaptive current-mode control based on constant-frequency PWM is reviewed, and its inability to maintain adequate stability margin in high-BW design is recognized. Therefore, a new external ramp compensation technique is proposed to keep the stability margin insensitive to the operating conditions and component tolerance, so the proposed high-BW constant-frequency control can meet the transient requirement without the presence of bulky output capacitors. The control scheme is generic and can be used in various kinds of constant-frequency controls, such as peak-current-mode, valley-current-mode, and average-current-mode configurations. Thirdly, an interleaving technique incorporating an adaptive PLL loop is presented, which enables the variable-frequency control to push the BW higher than proposed constant-frequency control, and avoids the beat-frequency input ripple. A generic small-signal model of the PLL loop is derived to investigate the stability issue caused by the parameter variations. Then, based on the proposed model, a simple adaptive control is developed to allow the BW of the PLL loop to be anchored at the highest phase margin. The adaptive PLL structure is applicable to different types of variable-frequency control, including constant on-time control and ramp pulse modulation. Fourthly, a hybrid interleaving structure is explored to simplify the implementation of the adaptive PLL structure in an application with more phases. It combines the adaptive PLL loop with a pulse-distribution technique to take the advantage of the high-BW design and fast transient response without adding a burden to the controller implementation. As a conclusion, based on the proposed analytical models, effective control concepts, systematic optimization strategies, viable implementations are fully investigated for high-BW current-mode control using different modulation techniques. Moreover, all the modeling results and the system performance are verified through simulation with a practical output filter model and an advanced mixed-signal experimental platform based on the latest MHz VR design on the laptop motherboard. In consequence, the multiphase VRs in future computation systems can be scalable easier with proposed multiphase configurations, increase the system reliability with proposed adaptive loop compensation, and minimize the total system footprint of the VR with the superior transient performance. / Ph. D.