The battery enclosures of current electric vehicles are made of metallic alloys, specifically aluminum or steel. Replacing these metallic alloys with a lightweight materi[...]

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 samp[...]

The goal of this dissertation is to develop some classical limit theorems for the additive functionals of the homogeneous Markov chains in the special class of the so-cal[...]

The explosively increasing digital photo urges for an efficient image retrieval system so that digital images can be organized, shared, and reused. Current content based [...]

This research establishes a novel combined plant and controller optimization (termed co-design) framework, aimed at complex systems, that speeds up the optimization proce[...]