ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents the design, implementation and verification of an autopilot system with strong disturbance rejection characteristics, capable of landing a fixed-wing unmanned aircraft accurately under ...

A great demand exits for higher data rates and increased reliability of future consumer based mobile communication systems while being more bandwidth and power efficient. Orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The arc, generated between the cathode and slag in a dc electric arc furnace (EAF), constitutes the principal source of thermal energy in the furnace. Steady state melting conditions rely on efficient ...

A switching state substitution must be developed that will make use of both single-phase redundancies and three-phase redundancies in the flying-capacitor topology. Losses should be taken into consideration and the ...

An efficient radiating strucllire was needed for borehole pulsed radar applications in the 10-100 MHz frequency band. Both resistively loaded and insulated wire antennas were investigated and an active antenna is proposed ...

A low earth orbit satellite is to provide the telecommunications link to facilitate email services to rural areas, where the infrastructure necessary for e-mail is lacking (e.g. no telephone lines). Communication time ...

Productivity improvement within any organisation can lead to increased turnover. This study focuses on developing a maintenance productivity improvement model that is based upon an established financial investment portfolio ...

Linear predictive coding (LPC), and transformations of it, is currently the most popular way of analysing speech signals. Major limitations of using a frame-based technique are that each frame is analysed in isolation of ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Linear predictive coding(LPC), and transformations of it, is currently the most popular way of analysing speech signals. Major limitations of using a frame-based technique are that each frame is analysed ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In an arena of electronic warfare measures, to inhibit enemy operations as well as provide safety for allied forces from radio triggered explosive devices, interference and noise coupling degrade allied ...

The informal public transport sector in Sub-Saharan Africa is responsible for transporting the overwhelming majority of the workforce. Often, passengers have to wait for hours for taxis to coincidentally pass by to pick ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The energy flow simulator (EFS) is a strategic decision support tool that was developed for the South African national electricity utility Eskom. The advanced set of algorithms incorporated into the EFS ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Bacterial colonisation and biofilm formation onto total hip replacement femoral stems remain a serious complication detrimental to the success of total hip arthroplasty. Current treatment procedures are ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: In order to exploit lower grade and complex platinum group metal resources, cheaper and more efficient alternatives to the conventional mill-float-smelt-refine route are being sought. Leaching of platinum ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Adsorption tests were conducted with four different ion-exchange resins to determine the equilibrium adsorption of a range of precious and base metals. The adsorption characteristics were determined ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This study describes the design, construction, complete industrialisation and operation of a dual bed vacuum swing adsorption (VSA) demonstration plant, which operates at atmospheric and sub-atmospheric ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This work focussed on a local multiple chamber falling film evaporator (FFE). The FFE is currently under operator control and experiencing large amounts of lost production time due to excessive fouling. ...

Over the last decade, as the mining industry of South Africa is moving to ever deeper mines, the borehole radar is becoming an increasingly important field of research. In December 2000, Burger completed his thesis on ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: This thesis presents the development and implementation of a position based kinematic guidance system, the derivation and testing of a Dynamic Pursuit Navigation algorithm and a thorough analysis of an ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Industrial application of non-destructive analytical techniques still faces a challenge of lack of general and specialty models for quality evaluation. Current developments strive to alleviate this problem ...