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Author:

Austin, Peter Miller

Title:

Developing a Stability Assessment Method for Power Electronics-based Microgrids

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

microgrids
power electronics stability
negative incremental impedance

File:

Download Austin_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Thomas George Hughes, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Susan W Stewart, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Thomas George Hughes, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Horacio Perez Blanco, Committee Member
James A Turso, Special Member
Susan W Stewart, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Denlinger, Michelle

Title:

Optimal Periodic Control with Applications to Drug Delivery and High Altitude Wind Energy Generators

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

optimal periodic control
optimal control
extremum seeking
drug delivery
wind energy
airborne wind energy

File:

Download Kehs_MS_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Rothenberger, Michael J

Title:

Optimal Input Shaping for Fisher Identifiability of Control-Oriented Lithium-Ion Battery Models

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fisher identifiability optimization
battery parameter estimation
lithium-ion battery
optimal input shaping

File:

Download Rothenberger_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Member
Joel Robert Anstrom, Special Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Andrew J

Title:

Energy Management and Battery Testing for the Analysis of a Diesel-electric Hybrid Locomotive Powertrain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hybrid
locomotive
powertrain
optimal control
energy management
battery
HIL
SIL
hardware-in-the-loop

File:

Download Wilson_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Jung, Yun-sik

Title:

Parameter Identification on Reduced-order Models of Li-ion Batteries with Experimental Validation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

li-ion battery
equivalent circuit model (ECM)
single particle model (SPM)
battery management system (BMS)

File:

Download Yunsik_Jung.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Yue

Title:

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIA SYMBOLIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic time series analysis
Hidden Markov modeling
Pattern recognition
Finite-state Automaton
Information Fusion
Sensor Networks
Battery SOC estimation
Battery SOH estimation
Recursive Bayes Filter
Image processing

File:

Download YueLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Islam, Md Mahbubul

Title:

Reactive Molecular Dynamics Simulations of Lithium Secondary Batteries - Interfaces and Electrodes

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

eReaxFF
ReaxFF
Reactive molecular dynamics
Solid eletrolyte interphase
Lithium-sulfur battery
Lithium-ion battery

File:

Download dissertation_Mahbub.pdf

Committee Members:

Adrianus C Van Duin, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Donghai Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Lasse Jensen, Outside Member

Author:

Docimo, Donald John

Title:

Insights into the Behavior of Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads and Battery Packs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneity
Battery Packs
Thermostatically Controlled Loads (TCLs)
Controls
Model Reduction
Demand Response
Energy Systems
Model Predictive Control (MPC)
Lithium-Ion Batteries
Battery balancing

File:

Download DissertationFinalv2.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member

Author:

Mousharraf, Adnan

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE ANODE AND CATHODE MATERIALS FOR LITHIUM AND SODIUM ION BATTERIES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium-ion battery
sodium-ion battery
graphite-silicon composite anode
silicon monoxide based composite anode
layered oxide cathode

File:

Download PhD_dissertation_of_Adnan_Mousharraf_.pdf

Committee Members:

Donghai Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Donghai Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Aman Haque, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Siyang Zheng, Outside Member

Author:

Ghanaatpishe, Mohammad

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR ROBUST ONLINE OPTIMAL PERIODIC CONTROL IN THE PRESENCE OF PLANT PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Adaptive Control
Drug Delivery
Insect Flight
Optimal Periodic Control
Optimization
Estimation
Tracking

File:

Download MohammadGhanaatpishe-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member