In this thesis we studied large-vocabulary continuous speech recognition. We considered the components necessary to realise a large-vocabulary speech recogniser and how systems such as Sphinx and HTK solved the ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Low earth orbit (LEO) satellite communication presents a unique environment which inherently di ers from most other communication channels. Due to the varying orbital patterns of LEO satellites the link ...

The nanosatellite is build-up of subsystems and payloads (defined as satellite nodes) connected together into the OBC using CAN bus as the main communication protocol. The flight software application is required to run ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Phoneme recognition systems typically suffer from low classification accuracy. Recognition for South African English is especially difficult, due to the variety of vastly different accent groups. This ...

The aim of this study is to analyse the operation of a wind-electric pumping system (WEPS) as an alternative to conventional mechanical wind pumps for application in stand-alone water-pumping schemes. The steady-state as ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Aerostats and Stratolites could play a major role in expanding current satellite and other technologies in the near future. A study was made on the development of aerostat platforms and the current state ...

Nanoelectromechanical systems (NEMS) are the integration of nanotechnology and microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). The idea of this thesis is to give a basic preparation to approach NEMS, a subcategory of nanotechnology. ...

This thesis investigates aggressive all-attitude flight control systems. These are flight controllers capable of controlling an aircraft at any attitude and will enable the autonomous execution of manoeuvres such as high ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The purpose of a solid state transformer (SST) is to use power electronic converters to mimic the operation of the conventional distribution transformer. These power electronic converters are proposed ...

ENGLISH ABSTRACT: Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) monitors brain activity by using signals such as EEG, EcOG, and MEG, and attempts to bridge the gap between thoughts and actions by providing control to physical devices ...