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Increasing demand for high-speed and high-resolution ADCs as much as low-power ones and on the other hand, the obstacles in the way of reaching them make calibration and compensation methods more significant for obtaining ADCs with the better specs. Among the cases which need modification, the modification of C-2C-based SAR ADCs, which can decrease the power significantly, and the modification of time-skew error of time-interleaved ADCs, which is the main and the most challenging error in this type of ADCs, could be the two of the effective ways to making the State-of-the-Art ADCs. In this project for the first time, a novel compensation method for C-2C parasitic charges is proposed which... 

In this research a novel method is proposed which uses the concept of image registration to forecast frames as a new frame up conversion method. This frame rate up conversion method is specially designed for medical videos because of the medical structure of the none rigid image registration used as a field to forecast new frames which causes better results for these kinds of videos. In this method we interpolate new frames in the field of none rigid transformation grid in order to improve video parameters such as blocking, blurriness, etc. which can help doctors to detect abnormalities in such videos much preciously. By analyzing existing methods, we can find that this field is bereft of a... 

In this thesis, we model and analyze coherent optical OFDM systems which are highly concerned as future fiber optic communication. To this end, we first introduce various applications of that in optical communication systems and investigate its probes and cones. In the rest of the thesis, we characterize the mathematical structure of the nonlinear phase noise and discuss the previous methods of compensation of that and propose some new ways of nonlinear phase noise compensation and equalization. And as we discuss each method we also investigate its computational complexity and BER performance. We propose three new phase noise compensation method, considering optical phase conjugation, we... 

Current transformers (CTs) are the most common current sensors in power system and use with measuring instruments and protective relays. Saturation of the protective CT threatens the proper operation of relays, while, the ratio error in a measuring CT directly reduces the accuracy of power system state estimation. In this dissertation, firstly, a test device has been introduced to identify the parameters of CT low-frequency model. Afterward, a digital compensator has been proposed to suppress the adverse effect of CT saturation. This compensator is capable to reproduce both the saturated inrush current and fault current that distinguishes it from other proposed methods. In addition, this... 

This project aims to study a situation in which several projects must be selected. The decision makers should select a subset of these projects taking into account the limitation of resources and scheduling. Project selection models generally do not consider schedule of project activities as part of selection process. On the other hand, except the cases where only one project is under process in each period, prioritizing the selected projects is not optimal not considering their scheduling. Projects scheduling in project activities level may increase the complexity of decision making for portfolio selection and expand the area of search for selection of projects portfolio. Therefore, all the... 

The wide-area damping controller (WADC) has been proposed to enhance the damping of inter-area oscillations. The most challenging deficiencies to make this controller practical are the power system operating condition changes and the inherent time delay of remote signals. They can deteriorate the controller performance and the whole system stability if not properly accounted for in the design procedure. This thesis presents an adaptive delay compensator (ADC) on the basis of the latest development in the wide-area measurement system (WAMS) to cater to varying latencies. The proposed compensator can effectively reciprocate the phase deviation resulting from varying delays to improve the... 

The purpose of carrying out this Master thesis is to detect occurrence of CT saturation which leads to consecutive failures in operation of protective current transformers, as a major component in protection of power systems. The protective relay installed in the secondary side of the protective CT fails to act properly under occurrence of this phenomenon, and it doesn’t reflect proportionally the high value of fault currents passing through CT’s primary winding. As a consequence, faults become undetectable. Meanwhile, the proposed methods for detection of CT saturation must be reliable under a noisy condition, realizing that power systems have some inherent noises always available in the... 

One of the problems in vessels is the marine oscillations that occur due to the collision of sea waves with the vessel. These oscillations in small yachts can cause passengers to seasick upside down and overturn objects in the boat, or in industrial ships can cause problems in the operation of cranes on vessel, and in military vessels can cause errors in targeting weapons and radar systems. The purpose of this research is to design and simulate a robotic compensating table that can actively compensate the vessel fluctuations by using control algorithms in three directions of Roll, Pitch and Heave and create a level that can be used in Medium-sized boats were used to eliminate harmful... 

One of the subsets of the radar systems is recognition of targets. Radar Target Recognition (RTR) is a process in which a target is distinguished from a set of targets. To recognize radar targets, we need to extract useful information from the returned signal from them. The most important issues in recognizing radar targets are the selection of information that reduces the amount of information needed for the identification process, the ease of extracting information from the moving target, and the ease of decision making to determine the identity of the target. One method is to produce a high resolution range profile, which is the one-dimensional image of the target in the direction of... 

In this research, oscillation in control loop caused by control valve stiction, external harmonic disturbance, poor controller tuning or their combination, is recognized and compensated. In control valve stiction based study, flaws in one of the important modeling methods are described and some modifications are proposed. For diagnosis of oscillation source, signal is decomposed to its fundamental modes and oscillation in each mode is investigated. Then, from the existence of harmonics in decomposed modes, stiction is diagnosed. Also, relation between peak differences in autocorrelation functions of other modes, results to external harmonic disturbance or poor controller tuning as... 

In this research a novel intelligent back-stepping control method is developed. This method is robust to sensor noise and external disturbances. In addition, the controller is robust under model uncertainty. This controller does not need precise knowledge of system parameters. This method is based on three methods of: back-stepping control, least squares estimation and a fuzzy compensator. This controller is used to control quadrotor stand witch is like an inverse pendulum. In quadrotor stand modeling, the inverse pendulum effect is considered too, witch is one of the innovations of the research. By doing various simulations, the validity of controller is tested. Also the performance of the...