In this dissertation, we study the dynamic coverage problem for multi-agent systems, where the main objective of a group of mobile agents is to explore a given compact region. Qualitatively, the coverage goal can be described ...

This thesis focuses on the application and theoretical developments of model predictive control techniques for the distributed control and safe coordination of autonomous vehicles, specially those with nonholonomic dynamic ...

The III-V heterojunction-bipolar (HBT) has become the standard industry device in high-speed applications, due to its superior current gain and faster electron transit times. Many high-frequency applications also require ...

Many computing systems today are written in weakly typed languages such as C and C++. These languages are known to be ``unsafe'' as they do not prevent or detect common memory errors like array bounds violations, pointer ...

The main objective of this study is to determine the safety effectiveness of the adaptive signal control technology (ASCT) SynchroGreen using an observational before and after study applying the Empirical Bayes (EB) method. ...

The number of embedded controllers in charge of physical systems has rapidly increased over the past years. Embedded controllers are present in every aspect of our lives, from our homes to our vehicles and factories. The ...

In the spring of 2010, the Illinois Department of Transportation initiated an areawide implementation of the flashing yellow arrow (FYA) as the display for the left-turn permissive interval at more than 100 intersections ...

The single greatest category of highway vehicle crashes is run-off-the-road incidents. Significant material differences and elevation changes in shoulder edges pose a potential safety hazard when a vehicle leaves the travel ...

The research described in this dissertation supports the thesis that a language-oriented editor for full programming languages, and other languages specifiable with context-free LR(1) grammars, can be based upon an incremental ...

Computational modeling of visual attention has been a very active area over the past few decades. Numerous models and algorithms have been proposed to detect salient regions in images and videos. We present a unified view ...