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Title: A SELECTIVE SENSOR FRAMEWORK USING SENSOR FUSION AND SENSOR MAPS TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE COVERAGE PLANNING OF A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: CHANDRASEKARAN, BALASUBRAMANIYAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous vehicles are increasingly used in many applications, such as elderly care, medical care, military, schools, and space exploration. In this research, we introduce the use of a framework for achieving the autonomy in a vehicle and describ...

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: AN EFFICIENT DESIGN SPACE EXPLORATION FRAMEWORK TO OPTIMIZE POWER-EFFICIENT HETEROGENEOUS MANY-CORE MULTI-THREADING EMBEDDED PROCESSOR ARCHITECTURES
Author: Datta, Kushal
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: By the middle of this decade, uniprocessor architecture performance had hit a roadblock due to a combination of factors, such as excessive power dissipation due to high operating frequencies, growing memory access latencies, diminishing returns on...

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: Analysis and Enhancement of Resource-hungry Applications
Author: HUANG, SIQI
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Computer engineering, Electrical engineering
Description: Resource-hungry applications play a very important role in people's daily lives, such as real-time video streaming applications and mobile augmented reality applications. However, there are several challenges to satisfy the user Quality-of-Experie...

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: COMPUTATIONAL INVERSE MECHANICS OF A HIGHLY COMMINUTED TIBIA FRACTURE
Author: Shadid, Waseem
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Biomedical engineering
Description: This dissertation presents a new computational system that seeks to estimate the inverse mechanics of a bone fracture from 3D CT images. One image provides a model of an unbroken bone and a second records a fractured example of the same bone after...

Title: Cache-Aware Implementation of Compressed Sensing Reconstruction using Walsh-Hadamard Transform on a Multicore Architecture
Author: Ramgopal, Aneesh
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The recent development of the compressed sensing (CS) theory has given rise to several algorithms being proposed for signal acquisition and reconstruction. Implementing these algorithms are computationally demanding and pose several challenges for...

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: Distributed Messaging System for the IoT Edge
Author: George, Anjus
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: Recent advances in Deep Learning have made possible distributed multi-camera IoT vision analytics targeted at a variety of surveillance applications involving automated real-time analysis of events from multiple video perspectives. However, the la...

Title: ENABLING ACCELERATOR-SOC CO-DESIGN USING RISC-V CHIPYARD
Author: Muchandi, Shruthi
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The rise in transistor cost in conjunction with the slowdown of Moore’s law has increased the demand for scalable SoC (System-on-Chip) based frameworks. The opportunity provided by reconfigurable and extensible full-system frameworks opens up a wi...

Title: Empowering FPGAs For Massively Parallel Applications
Author: SHIDDIBHAVI, SUHAS ASHOK
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Engineering, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL High-Level Synthesis (OpenCL-HLS) has made FPGAs an attractive platform for power-efficient high-performance execution of massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilitie...

Title: Empowering Reconfigurable Platforms for Massively Parallel Applications
Author: Purkayastha, Arnab A
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The availability of OpenCL for FPGAs along with High-Level Synthesis tools have made them an attractive platform for implementing compute-intensive massively parallel applications. FPGAs with their customizable data-path, deep pipelining abilities...

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: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...

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: Multi-destination rendezvous in cognitive radio networks
Author: Samak, Tamer
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
Description: The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource and the increase of wireless devices operating in the unlicensed bands of the spectrum has led to its overcrowding resulting in poor performance of those radio devices. Moreover, the static spectrum...