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Title: Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
Author: Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: This thesis proposes "1D Convolution replacement layer ", a novel optimization for first convolution layer in CNN. This optimization enables edge friendly streaming accelerator design with a minimum drop in accuracy. This optimization reduces the ...

Title: Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
Author: Pottathuparambil, Robin
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Scientific computing or Computational science, is a field of study where engineers and scientists use computer simulations to solve equations that model the physical world. In some cases, these equations come from the first principles of physics. ...

Title: Bridging the gap between heterogeneous computing and next generation memory architecture using high level synthesis
Author: Rajagopala, Abhilash
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The impact of transistor scaling on FPGAs is changing the role of FPGA from accelerators to a major role as processors. With this rapid development and the ability to implement complex systems on FPGAs, the conventional hardware language design fl...

Title: CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
Author: Li, Jinglin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Unlike conventional robotic manipulators, continuum manipulators are inspired by invertebrate structures found in nature, such as octopus arms and elephant trunks. The shape of a continuum manipulator can continuously deform via changing the contr...

Title: DEVELOPMENT AND EVALUATION OF RSSI-BASED LOCALIZATION SCHEMES FOR WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS TO MITIGATE SHADOWING EFFECTS
Author: CHUKU, NDUBUEZE
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Received radio frequency (RF) signal strength provides a cost-effective mechanism for distance estimation that is popularly used for range-based localization in wireless sensor networks (WSN). The typical method of determining sensor location usin...

Title: Design and validation of a scalable digital wireless channel emulator using an FPGA computing cluster
Author: Buscemi, Anthony
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: A Digital Wireless Channel Emulator (DWCE) is a system that is capable of emulating the RF environment for a group of wireless devices. The use of digital wireless channel emulators with networking radios is hampered by the inability to efficientl...

Title: Design of Fault Tolerant Systems
Author: Walker, Benjamin
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: This research designs a Fault Tolerant Control (FTC) approach that compensates for both actuator and sensor faults by using multiple observers. This method is shown to work for both linear time-variant and linear time-invariant systems. This work ...

Title: Enabling Architecture Research on GPU Simulator for Deep Learning Applications
Author: Nikam, Abhishek
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Deep learning uses stacks of multiple processing layers to learn representations of data with different levels of abstraction. It enables machines to have the understanding of outer environment just like the human body, opening a path for diverse ...

Title: FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Author: Abrajan Guerrero, Rodrigo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Robotics
Description: In this dissertation we study the interactions between free bodies and unsteady viscous flows, with particular interest in locomotion and in particle transport in streaming flows.For self-propelling bodies, we present systems with two different me...

Title: Game Theoretic Approaches for Channel Selection, Power Control and Routing in Wireless Sensor Networks
Author: Darak, Natwar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering
Description: This work proposes a game theoretic framework for managing the radio resources of wireless sensor nodes in Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). We consider data collecting sensor networks that are typical of environmental monitoring applications, whic...

Title: HARDWARE DESIGN OF MESSAGE PASSING ARCHITECTURE ON HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM
Author: Gao, Shanyuan
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Heterogeneous multi/many-core chips are commonly used in today's top tier supercomputers. Similar heterogeneous processing elements --- or, computation accelerators --- are commonly found in FPGA systems. Within both multi/many-core chips and FPGA...

Title: IMPROVING FAIRNESS AND THROUGHPUT OF A CMP PROCESSOR BY OPTIMIZING THE UTILIZATION OF THE LAST LEVEL SHARED CACHE IN REAL-TIME USING A CONSTRAINED-EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Author: Panday, Ashish
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Cache Partitioning is a technique which maps the data pertaining to each core to acorresponding partition in the cache memory exclusively. Cache partitioning has beenshown to improve performance metrics like fairness and throughput in most cases b...

Title: Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
Author: Papadakis, John-Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: This thesis explores the extension of a state of the art dense RGBD SLAM system to include detected geometries as elements in the estimated global map. The existing approach leverages an algorithm for dense visual odometry, which is analyzed in de...

Title: Instrumentation, techniques, and evaluation of ePTV for particle manipulation studies using micro-scale oscillators
Author: Kafashi, Sajad
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Physics
Description: A need for dynamic micro-particle manipulation is the ability to position fragile particles without damaging them, for instance biological particles like blood cells, stem cells, neurons, pancreatic β cells, DNA, chromosomes, for repeated measurem...

Title: Memory Efficiency Implications on Sparse Matrix Operations
Author: Jain, Shweta
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Sparse Matrices are very large matrices with very few nonzero elements and operations on sparse matrices are central to many numerical and graph algorithms. The fundamental bottleneck in these operations is the usage of specialized storage formats...

Title: PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS AND CONTROL OF LATENCY UNDER MEMORY PRESSURE IN THE LINUX KERNEL FOR EDGE COMPUTING
Author: Koralahalli Channabasappa, Smita
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: The Edge computing paradigm seeks to bring Cloud-like compute capabilities close to the Edge of the network, next to where the data is generated, so as to minimize the data communication latency. Edge applications such as autonomous driving, surve...

Title: Productively scaling hardware designs over increasing resources using a systematic design analysis approach
Author: Schmidt, Andrew
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: As processor development shifts from strict single core frequency scaling to het- erogeneous resource scaling two important considerations require evaluation. First, how to design systems with an increasing amount of heterogeneous resources, and s...

Title: Revisiting the Memory Hierarchy in the Many-Core Era: Computation is Cheap, Bandwidth is Everything
Author: Rajasekhar, Yamuna
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Integrated Circuits (ICs) for logic (computation) have dramatically increased in both capacity and speed since their introduction in 1958. However, memory technology has had only modest improvements in speed. Moreover, to increase...

Title: Robust and Reliable Real-time Adaptive Motion Planning
Author: Mcleod, Sterling
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: A key goal in robotics is to enable autonomous motion for mobile robots in a real world dynamic environment with unknown obstacles. This problem requires bringing together state-of-the-art algorithms in path planning, robot control, and perception...

Title: Software memory controller design: Issues and Challenges
Author: Gaur, Aditi
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: As the memory wall becomes an obstacle in the multi-core architecture, many hardware solutions have been proposed to utilize the available memory bandwidth more efficiently. One such implementation uses a B-tree based controller implemented in har...