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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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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...

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...

Title: Thulium Fiber Laser Lithotripsy
Author: Blackmon, Richard
Date Created: 2013
Subjects--Topical: Optics, Biomedical engineering
Description: The Thulium Fiber Laser (TFL) has been studied as a potential alternative to the conventional Holmium:YAG laser (Ho:YAG) for the treatment of kidney stones. The TFL is more ideally suited for laser lithotripsy because of the higher absorption coef...

Title: Using Virtual Fracture Reduction Software To Explore Features For Fracture Severity Prediction.
Author: Tikekar, Rewa
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Diagnostic imaging
Description: Current medical treatment for comminuted bone fractures, i.e., traumatic bone fractures that result in many bone fragments, is based upon fracture severity classifications that physicians determine subjectively. Due to the subjectivity in the inte...

Title: Using formal methods towards improving cloud IaaS environments
Author: Al-Haj, Saeed
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Cloud computing has become a prominent technology with the potential for tremendously positive effects on the future of computer networks and services. However, as the resources are shared in cloud environments, cloud security is a major concern. ...

Title: Vortices in coherent and partially coherent optical beams
Author: Stahl, Charlotte
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Optics
Description: Vortices in optical beams have been the subject of extensive study since their status as a generic feature of light was established. They have found extensive use in optical trapping systems, astronomy, microscopy and are being investigated for fr...