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- Title
- Autonomous Sensing of a Gaussian Spatial Process with Multiple Heterogeneous Agents
- Author
- Brancato, Michael
- Date Created
- 2022
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- The performance of a mobile sensor network is measured by its ability to survey regions of interest efficiently and accurately with limited resources. Approaches for sampling trajectory optimization allow for adaptive algorithms that offer signifi...
- Title
- Design and System Identification of a Miniature Underwater Vehicle for Controls Research
- Author
- Herbert, Jacob
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- This thesis describes the development of an indoor water tank facility for controlsresearch and the design, testing, and system identification of a miniature underwater vehicle capable of three-dimensional motion. A visual tracking system was deve...
- Title
- Designing Hierarchical Infrastructure-based Traffic Control Frameworks for Large-Scale Heterogeneous Traffic Networks
- Author
- Karimi Shahri, Pouria
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- This research aims to develop, enhance, and validate infrastructure-based hierarchical control framework designs for improving the mobility of large-scale heterogeneous traffic networks. This research defines heterogeneity as a multi-vehicle traff...
- Title
- Dynamic suspension modeling of an eddy-current device: an application to Maglev
- Author
- Paudel, Nirmal
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Electrical engineering, Power resources, Electromagnetism
- Description
- When a magnetic source is simultaneously oscillated and translationally moved above a linear conductive passive guideway such as aluminum, eddy-currents are induced that give rise to a time-varying opposing field in the air-gap. This time-varying ...
- Title
- EXPERIMENTAL INVESTIGATION OF TURBULENT WAKE STRUCTURES AND DYNAMIC COUPLING OF TANDEM LIFTING BODIES IN A HYDRODYNAMIC CHANNEL
- Author
- Hellman, Samuel
- Date Created
- 2012
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Two experimental studies are carried out on interacting tandem bodies in incompressible, turbulent flow and the design of a hydrodynamic water channel in which the studies are conducted is discussed. The water channel has a 1 m^2 test section, and...
- Title
- Experimentally Infused Active System Optimization - Theoretical Framework and Airborne Wind Energy Case Study
- Author
- Deodhar, Nihar
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Engineering
- Description
- This research pioneers formal combined plant and controller optimization (termed ``co-design") schemes for complex systems where accurate but expensive experiments are fused with cheap but less accurate numerical simulations. This fusion of experi...
- Title
- Hierarchical Control Strategies for Spatiotemporally Varying Systems with Application to Airborne Wind Energy
- Author
- Bafandeh, Alireza
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering
- Description
- Wind energy represents a leading renewable resource for the production of clean and sustainable electricity for on- and off-grid networks. Nevertheless, tower and foundation costs, which typically represent about 30 percent of the total installati...
- Title
- INTELLIGENT DEMAND SIDE MANAGEMENT OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDING ENERGY SYSTEMS
- Author
- Sinha, Maruti
- Date Created
- 2013
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Power resources
- Description
- Advent of modern sensing technologies, data processing capabilities and rising cost of energy are driving the implementation of intelligent systems in buildings and houses which constitute 41% of total energy consumption. The primary motivation ha...
- Title
- Imeplementation of Consensus Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers in a Model Predictive Control Problem with Applications in Traffic Networks
- Author
- Tolone, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2023
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- In this work, consensus Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (ADMM) was implemented with the intention of improving the performance of Model Predictive Control (MPC) on an automobile traffic network. Automobile traffic networks must be engi...
- 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
- NESTED OPTIMIZATION FRAMEWORK FOR FUSING ITERATIVE PLANT OPTIMIZATION WITH CONTINUOUS CONTROLLER OPTIMIZATION
- Author
- Deese, Joseph
- Date Created
- 2020
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization process by adjusting controller parameters during an experiment while plant parame...
- Title
- Real-Time Control and Optimal Plant Design for Renewable Energy Systems Using Bayesian Optimization
- Author
- Baheri, Ali
- Date Created
- 2018
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering, Computer science
- Description
- The overarching objective of this research is to use machine learning tools to address the design and real-time control of active systems, focusing specifically by tethered airborne wind energy and ocean current energy systems. In both application...
- Title
- Time Domain Approach to Stability in Machining Operations
- Author
- Berglind, Luke
- Date Created
- 2015
- Subjects--Topical
- Mechanical engineering
- Description
- Machine tool chatter is a common occurrence in machining environments which can lead to undesirable part outcomes and can even cause damage to the machine. Chatter is a result of regenerative dynamic forces inherent in the machining process which ...