This thesis investigates the problem of regulating the temperature of a conditioned space using a Solar Assisted Air Conditioning Systems (SAACS) prototype located at Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico. The SAACS Prototype consists of a 66 flat plate solar collector array with 115.4 m 2 of selective surface area, a 35 kW single-effect lithium-bromide absorption chiller, a 84 kW cooling tower, a 50 kW auxil...

This paper provides experimental and simulation tools to characterize a Photo-Voltaic (PV) panel. To achieve this objective, we start from a PV electrical model and we propose a circuit using Diode-based-equivalent PV (DBEPV) panel. This circuit is presented as a prototype of an equivalent PV panel. It is designed to emulate a real PV module in different climatic conditions (irradiance and temp...

Supervised and unsupervised prototype based vector quantization frequently are proceeded in the Euclidean space. In the last years, also non-standard metrics became popular. For classification by support vector machines, Hilbert or Banach space representations are very successful based on so-called kernel metrics. In this paper we give the mathematical justification that gradient based learning...

Introduction Previously we proposed construction of a miniaturized metabolic monitor that could be taken aboard the space station to monitor the physiological response of the body in a microgravity environment. The prototype consisted of an on airway non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) CO2 sensor and a luminescencequenching O2 sensor to measure gas concentrations, and differential pressure ports to ...

The paper summarizes the FMT modulation prototype filter design and its efficient implementation on DSP. The optimum design of algorithms for digital signal processors with VLIW architecture is described. Using this new approach it was, for example, possible to optimize compilation from the C language into the assembler of TMS320C6414 digital signal processor for implementation of FMT modulatio...

This Science Fiction Prototype re-imagines the technologies of augmentation which seek to create a space “overlaid” onto our own with a ‘mixed’ reality. It is proposed that this can be seen as an attempt to build an unseen zone that is reminiscent of the aether worlds of the 19th and early 20th Century. Taking an aesthetic developed by the decadent author JK Huysmans to create a neodecadent pro...

Prototype based clustering and classification algorithms constitute very intuitive and powerful machine learning tools for a variety of application areas. They combine simple training algorithms and easy interpretability by means of prototype inspection. However, the classical methods are restricted to data embedded in a real vector space and thus, have only limited applicability to complex dat...

Learning Institutions although often advanced in the development of curriculum, have remained static in the use of technology in teaching and learning. In a world where information communications technologies are much more accessible, we examine how educators can employ these technologies to present subject material in more interesting