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(1999)Ecological Interface Design (EID) is a recent philosophy for designing visual displays for human-machine interfaces that advocates displaying the higher-order relations and properties of a work domain so that adaptive ...
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(2013-08-22)This thesis presents some results relating to an implementation of a safe and reliable coverage control algorithm. The application was focused on implementation on differential drive robots developed at the University of ...
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(2012-06-27)Global warming, greenhouse gas emissions, and product waste have serious impact on the balance of land, ocean, and air temperature. Environmentally conscious consumers and environmental protection legislation have been ...
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(2011-01-14)The research presented in this work entails the incorporation of connectivity and security as criteria to select the platform for a family of products (components to share) while optimizing the component arrangement of the ...
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(2012-05-22)Throughout a product's lifecycle, multiple stakeholders interact with each other to generate large amounts of disparate information about it. All of modern product development, particularly, in Original Equipment Manufacturers ...
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(2013-03-10)Information relaxation and duality in Markov decision processes have been studied recently by several researchers with the goal to derive dual bounds on the value function. In this paper we extend this dual formulation to ...
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(2011-01-14)The design and analysis of buildings require a high level of collaboration and coordination among the disciplines of architecture, engineering, and construction. Efficiencies can be gained through the sharing of data ...
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(2015-04-28)In the North America railroad network, thousands of locomotives are running everyday and they are in need of receiving various types of mechanical work that can be random, periodic, or on-demand. Each type of work can be ...
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(2008)We focus on three main frameworks: (1) we investigate configuration control and coordinated tracking for nonholonomic and Lagrangian multi-agent systems; (2) we introduce systems with switching equilibria, develop control ...
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(1995)The problem of job scheduling on Partitionable Massively Parallel Processor (PMPP) Systems is studied in this dissertation. The objective of the scheduling problem is to minimize the makespan or the total completion time. ...
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(2011-01-14)In this paper, we discuss the first application of recently developed L1-adaptive control methods for the closed-loop control of anesthesia delivery during surgery. Our initial objective, described herein, is to design ...
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(2014-05-30)This thesis explores novel parameterization concepts for large scale topology optimization that enables the use of evolutionary algorithms in large-scale structural design. Specifically, two novel parameterization concepts ...
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(2015-07-24)The vehicle routing problem with shipment pick-up and delivery with time windows (VRPPDTW) is one of the core problems that is addressed by a package delivery company in its operations. Most often, this problem has been ...
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(2013-08-22)Semidefinite relaxation (SDR) is a powerful tool to estimate bounds and obtain approximate solutions for NP-hard problems. This thesis introduces and studies several novel linear and nonlinear semidefinite relaxation models ...
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Load volume considerations in the collision free route planning of material handling devices in FMS (1992)Material handling is an important component of Flexible Manufacturing Systems (FMSs). Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) are commonly employed for this function. Efficient use of AGV systems requires proper routing and ...
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(2002)The properties of polynomially computable neighborhood functions are also examined. The global verification of several problems is proven to be NP-complete. These results are extended to show that polynomially computable ...
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(2006)The algorithms reported here have led to a software toolkit that simulates both applications. The results of this dissertation are not only of practical value for the nano-CEMMS, but also of theoretical interest to the ...
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(2016-10-26)Although GPS-based travel data has been studied by many mainly for automated travel mode detection, the area of activity mode detection during harvest still remains an open technical challenge. This thesis proposes and ...
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(1997)An activity-interest model was developed and implemented in a program called CITY INFO-PLUS, which represents information via boundary objects in a dynamic contextual manner. This application demonstrates a way for ...
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(2000)The design of membrane filtration systems is also influenced by the rate of contaminant build-up in the MWF. Microbiological population growth can grow to potentially hazardous levels in extremely short time-scales. Membrane ...
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