Integrating systems are commonly found in power and paper mills, aerospace control systems, storage tanks, distillation columns, chemical reactors, and petroleum industries. Due to their open-loop instability resulting in an unconstrained output for a constrained input, efficient control of integrating processes is challenging. Control of integrating processes has attracted the …
Robots that are supposed to perform human-like tasks must possess appropriate skills to carry them out. In unstructured environments and for complex tasks, these skills are difficult to pre-program due to the complexity of the real world. It is therefore advantageous if robots have the ability to acquire the necessary …
Dielectric materials, used to control and store charges and electric energy, play a key role in modern electronics and electric power systems. Dielectric spectroscopy is a versatile method, well-suited for detection, separation and characterization of various contributions to dielectric response of advanced ceramic and polymeric materials, as it enables understanding …
In this thesis we demonstrate a new, simple, and ecient method for the solid-state synthesis of oxides with a complex chemical composition. We modify the traditional solidstate synthesis method, which is used in the majority of ceramics laboratories around the world, in order to prepare multi-metallic oxide powders from classic …
Measurement of ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) and extremely high vacuum (XHV) is important in many advanced research and technology fields such as: equipment for surface analysis, particle accelerators, simulation of interstellar space, processing of advanced semiconductors, electron tubes, FE displays, etc. For traceable calibrations of UHV and XHV gauges we need …
Organotin compounds (OTCs) are the organometallic compounds with the most numerous applications. Today, it is more than 50 years of their intensive development and use. While they are highly useful chemicals they are also extremely toxic to a wide array of aquatic and terrestrial living organisms at very low concentrations. …
In this thesis, we address the task of learning models for predicting structured outputs, which take as input a tuple of attribute values and produce as output a structured object. In contrast to classification and regression, where the output is a single scalar value, in our case the output is …
With the advent of System-on-Chip (SoC), intense research efforts are being carried out in order to find efficient practical solutions for testing deeply embedded, mixed-signal cores. Due to restricted access, a built-in self-test (BIST) of mixed-signal cores is in many cases a preferred alternative to a conventional test using external …
The presence of pharmaceutical residues in surface waters is an emerging environmental issue that provides a new challenge to treatment systems for potable water, wastewater and water reuse. Their principle pathways into the sewerage system are twofold: first, after being administered to patients they are normally excreted as various metabolites …
The study presents the influence of increasing the amount of β-spodumene (LiAlSi2O6) as Li2O-content flux on phase composition, microstructural evolution and physical properties of high alumina porcelain material containing ~61% of Al2O3. New porcelain compositions based on clays and high amount of calcined alumina were developed with the introduction of …