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Title: 'Practice' for Enhancing the Performance of a Deep Reinforcement Learning Agent
Author: Kancharla, Venkata Sai Santosh Ravi Teja
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: Deep reinforcement learning has demonstrated its capability to solve a diverse array of challenging problems, which were not able to solve previously. It has been able to achieve human-level performance in Atari 2600 games and it has shown great p...

Title: A COMBINED FINITE ELEMENT AND MACHINE LEARNING APPROACH FOR PREDICTING SPECIFIC CUTTING FORCES AND MAXIMUM TOOL TEMPERATURES DURING ORTHOGONAL MACHINING
Author: Mekarthy, Sai Manish Reddy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Engineering, Computer science
Description: In machining, specific cutting forces and temperature fields in the shear zones are of primary interest. These quantities depend on many machining parameters, such as the cutting speed, rake angle, tool-tip radius, uncut chip thickness, etc. The f...

Title: A HIGH-RESOLUTION MICROPALEONTOLOGICAL AND SEDIMENTOLOGICAL ANALYSIS OF BURIED WASHOVER DEPOSITS FROM FOLLY ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA: IMPLICATIONS FOR PALEOTEMPESTOLOGY
Author: Zurawski, Lance
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Geology, Paleontology, Sedimentology
Description: A 40-meter transect consisting of eight equally spaced 2.44-m vibracores was taken across a marginal-marine salt marsh behind North Folly Island, a barrier island located in Charleston County, South Carolina. Analysis of storm signatures from this...

Title: A MODIFIED SELF-INTERFERENCE BASED INCOHERENT DIGITAL HOLOGRAPHIC RECORDING SYSTEM
Author: Mishra, Abhinav
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Optics
Description: A Fresnel-type self-interference based incoherent digital holographic system that can measure the intensity and direction of incoming light field is proposed. This system is composed primarily of a convex lens as an objective, a linear polarizer, ...

Title: A NOVEL WEIGHTED AVERAGE CURRENT CONTROL METHOD WITH EMBEDDED ACTIVE DAMPING FOR GRID TIED INVERTERS WITH LCL FILTER
Author: Chanda, Arunodai
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Various kind of filters have been used to interconnect PWM inverters to the utility grid. Among those filters, LCL filter is widely used for many applications because it can reduce more harmonics of an injected grid current, as compared to other f...

Title: A Recurrent Neural Network Based Patch Recommender for Linux Kernel Bugs
Author: Bableshwar, Anusha
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: Software bugs result in a variety of issues including system crashes, loss of system performance, incorrect output and security vulnerabilities. In this thesis, we explore the design of a patch recommender system for the Linux kernel. Software too...

Title: A SCALABLE LSTM BASED APPROACH FOR MULTI-PEDESTRIAN TRACKING IN SURVEILLANCE CAMERAS
Author: Kulkarni, Pratik
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering
Description: There has been an ever growing interest in leveraging state of the art deep learning techniques for tracking objects in video frames. Such works primarily focus on using appearance based models which prove not to be effective in modelling the beha...

Title: A Scalable deep learning framework for autonomous road asset classification
Author: Nouri Gooshki, Sadegh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence
Description: The focus of this thesis is on automation in road asset inspection using deep neural networks. Even though some progress has been made in automation of data collection and condition assessment, the amount of manual operation and the cost of road i...

Title: A WATER-SOLUBLE COBALT SULFIDE SUPERATOM FOR FLOW BATTERY APPLICATIONS AND CRYSTALLINE FRAMEWORK SYNTHESIS
Author: Freeman, Matthew
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Chemistry
Description: Metal sulfide clusters are attractive components for flow batteries owing to the abundance of their constituent atoms and their tunable size, solubility, and redox properties. We prepared an atomically precise cobalt sulfide cluster, Co6S8(PTA)6•4...

Title: A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK BREADCRUMB TRAIL FOR AN AUTONOMOUS VEHICLE
Author: Chaudhary, Manu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Research in the area of wireless sensor networks has seen unprecedented growth inthe last decade. Human deployable ad-hoc networks are being used to communicateessential information in places where there is no network or the network is destroyeddu...

Title: A navigation system for low-cost autonomous all-terrain-vehicles
Author: Mhapankar, Shantanu
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Automobiles--Design and construction, Computer engineering
Description: In the last decade, there has been significant research work in the field of autonomous on-road vehicle, but, research in automating off-road vehicles has been largely untouched. The main aim of this thesis was to propose a robust framework for an...

Title: ASSESSING PASSENGER CAR/VEHICLE EQUIVALENT TRAVEL TIME OF A TRUCK
Author: Jain, Ravina
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Transportation
Description: Freight transportation is an indicator of the regional economy. In the United States, transportation by trucks accounted for 63.8% of total freight during the year 2015. The demand for freight transportation is increasing from time to time. It is ...

Title: ASSESSING THE IMPACT OF SCHOOL BUS TRAFFIC USING MODELING SOFTWARE AND AUTOMATED TRAFFIC SIGNAL PERFORMANCE MEASURES
Author: Dumitru, Andrei
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Transportation, Computer engineering
Description: Some of the least studied vehicle types in the urban and suburban traffic environment are school buses. Their dynamic deficiencies, as well as the two additional rules that govern their functionality versus other vehicles (no right-turn-on-red and...

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: An Approach Towards an Autonomic Computing Prototype Reference Architecture
Author: Williams, Trevon
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology, System theory
Description: Autonomic Computing is a grand challenge that strives to create self-regulating environments. The end goal, is to create an environment that can self-optimize, self-protect, self-heal and self-configure based on built-in, formulated, and generated...

Title: Analyzing the Potential of Demand Response in Residential Buildings
Author: Halbe, Sumedh
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Due to increasing penetration in renewables in the grid, it has become increasingly necessary to provide a balance between supply and demand. Demand side management, especially in residential buildings, could play a vital role in providing this ba...

Title: BLOCKCHAIN BASED DISTRIBUTED KEY PROVISIONING SYSTEM
Author: Etikala, Spandana
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: In recent days, smart electronics have evolved into ubiquitous computing with connected interfaces such as self-driving automobiles with evolution in sensor network technology and artiﬁcial intelligence. Due to these advancements, new features are...

Title: BUILDING MULTIPLE COORDINATED SPACES FOR EFFECTIVEIMMERSIVE ANALYTICS THROUGH DISTRIBUTED COGNITION
Author: Mahmood, Tahir
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Multiple Coordinated Views (MCV) has been widely used in visualization. Thiswork explores Multiple Coordinated Spaces (MCS), a 3D version of MCV, in orderto integrate various 2D displays in a large physical environment as a unified analy-sis works...

Title: CFD BASED ANALYSES OF THE EFFECTS OF 2017 NASCAR XFINITY RACING SERIES AERODYNAMIC RULE CHANGES
Author: Olkhovskyi, Nazarii
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Engineering
Description: Xfinity racing series is an American stock car racing series organized by NASCAR. Forthe 2017 racing season, NASCAR introduced new regulations for this series in order todecrease aerodynamic influence on vehicle performance. Using only open-source...

Title: COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF GLAZING ALTERNATIVES – A CASE STUDY OF TEMPERATURE DIFFERENTIALS
Author: Adara, Mojisola
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Power resources
Description: ABSTRACTThe demand on energy consumption is ever increasing, making it necessary to develop appropriate materials that can help maintain consumption levels. Windows in a building are very susceptible to heat loss and heat gain, which cause fluctua...