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Title
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CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
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Author
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Li, Jinglin
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Title
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HARDWARE DESIGN OF MESSAGE PASSING ARCHITECTURE ON HETEROGENEOUS SYSTEM
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Author
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Gao, Shanyuan
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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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...
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Memory Efficiency Implications on Sparse Matrix Operations
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Author
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Jain, Shweta
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
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Author
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Papadakis, John-Richard
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Design of Fault Tolerant Systems
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Author
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Walker, Benjamin
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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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 ...
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Title
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Enabling Architecture Research on GPU Simulator for Deep Learning Applications
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Author
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Nikam, Abhishek
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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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 ...
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Title
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Best Practices for Building Hardware Designs for Living Computational Science Applications
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Author
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Pottathuparambil, Robin
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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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. ...
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Title
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Algorithmic Optimization of First Convolution Layer in CNNs for Hardware Accelerator Design
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Author
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Chamarthi, Ramachandra Vikas
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
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Description
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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 ...
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Title
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Software memory controller design: Issues and Challenges
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Author
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Gaur, Aditi
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer engineering
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Thulium Fiber Laser Lithotripsy
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Author
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Blackmon, Richard
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Optics, Biomedical engineering
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Description
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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...
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Title
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Robust and Reliable Real-time Adaptive Motion Planning
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Author
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Mcleod, Sterling
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Computer science, Robotics
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Description
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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...