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- Title
- Advancing Highway Safety: Embedded-Edge AI for Real-Time Applications
- Author
- Katariya, Vinit Amrutlal
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Transportation
- Description
- This dissertation presents the systematic design and development of datasets, algorithms, and an AI pipeline specifically curated for real-time trajectory prediction and anomaly detection in highway environments. These innovations are meticulously...
- 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
- 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 capacity and low...
- 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...
- Title
- Software-defined networking based testbed for evaluating cyber-attacks and defense strategies using FPGA
- Author
- KUMAR, ARJUN
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Computer engineering
- Description
- Networks inherently facilitate interconnections of resources and people, even if they are remotely located. While this easily facilitates the communication between physically separated devices, it poses a huge vulnerability. Any remotely connected...