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Hardware in the Loop Test Stand for Battery Management System Validation in Shipboard Controls
(2023-08-24)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2024** ABSTRACT: Traditionally, large-scale power systems have relied on power generation always exceeding the total load demand. Though this is most often the case, ... -
MODEL OPTIMIZATION AND APPLICATIONS IN DEEP LEARNING
(2023-08-14)Machine learning refers to a machine or an algorithm that draws experience from data. A certain pattern is found to build a model, which is used to solve real problems. Deep learning, an important branch and extension ... -
Environment, communication and decision for multiagent systems
(2023-07-13)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/1/2025** ABSTRACT: Multiagent systems (MAS) are ubiquitous in modern systems and have found broad applications, such as in intelligent transportation systems (ITS). ... -
Optimal Sizing and Safe Management of Lithium-Ion Batteries in High Voltage Power Systems
(2023-08-23)Lithium-ion batteries have gained widespread use in various applications, but safety challenges persist due to errors in assembly and faulty electronics management. Ensuring safety and reliable operation in large batteries ... -
Neuroadaptive Human-Machine Interfaces for Collaborative Robots
With an increasing number of collaborative robots or “co-robots” entering human environments, there is a growing need for safe, intuitive, and efficient (physical) Human-Machine Interfaces. Unlike industrial robots, co-robots ... -
WIRELESS POWERED FLEXIBLE GASTROSTIMULATOR
Gastric electrical stimulation (GES) is an effective alternative to long-term dietary and medicinal treatment for gastroparesis. This work presents the design and development of two miniature implantable battery-less ... -
Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality Applications
Virtual Reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) are the emerging fields of research. VR enables the immersive, being-there feelings of the viewers in a recorded or virtual environment, while AR enhances the real-world ... -
Reconfigurable All-Optical De-multiplexing via Spatial-Selective Frequency-Up-Conversion in Kai(2) Multimode Waveguide
We investigate spatial-mode-selective frequency up-converters in (2) multimode waveguides for classical and quantum communication. For the classical application, our method works as spatial-mode de-multiplexer for ... -
LARGE DIMENSIONAL ANALYSIS AND OPTIMIZATION FOR MASSIVE MIMO WIRELESS NETWORKS
The Last decade has seen a massive growth of wireless devices. Demands for high capacity and massive connectivity always increases. To meet the these requirements, massive multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) technology ... -
LiFePO4 BATTERIES: IMPACT OF HIGHLY PARALLEL PACKS ON LOAD DISTRIBUTION AND CYCLE LIFE
(2018-08-01)The United States Navy is considering Li-ion batteries for use as a primary power source for future naval shipboard pulsed-power applications. To supply sufficient power to a load, electrochemical cells are connected in ... -
OPTOFLUIDIC DROPLET LASERS ENABLED BY FLUORESCENCE RESONANCE ENERGY TRANSFER
(2022-08-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 8/15/2024** ABSTRACT: Over the past decade, optofluidic lasers have gained much popularity owing to their unique optical and mechanical properties. Optofluidic lasers are ... -
Microfluidic flow focusing platforms for optofluidic droplet laser development
(2022-05-18)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/17/2024** ABSTRACT: Optofluidic droplet lasers have been developed for different applications in biomedical sciences, such as biosensing, cell tracking, tissue imaging, ... -
Photonic Crystal Surface Emitting Lasers
(2022-05-16)**Please note that the full text is embargoed until 5/13/2024** ABSTRACT: Since the initial proposal in 1999 by Noda et al., photonic crystal surface emitting lasers (PCSELs) have proven to achieve large area, coherent ... -
VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION OF POWER CONVERTERS FOR USE IN FUTURE POWER SYSTEM ARCHITECTURES
(2022-05-23)Electronics are more widely penetrating almost every area of society and as they do, the demand to supply them with regulated power increases considerably. The scale of the electronic power distribution systems needed ... -
THE DEVELOPMENT OF MICRO-GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY SYSTEM WITH INTEGRATED PHOTONIC CRYSTAL SENSORS
(2021-08-10)Miniaturization of gas chromatography (GC) systems have made it possible to utilize the analytical technique in on-site applications without having to compromise data reliability offered by the conventional benchtop GC. ... -
DISTRIBUTED ESTIMATION AND INVERSE REINFORCEMENT LEARNING FOR MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS
(2021-12-16)Consensus-based distributed Kalman filters for estimation with multiple targets have attracted considerable attention. Most of the existing Kalman filters use the average consensus approach, which tends to have a low ... -
Autonomous Teaming of Multileader System - Robust Cluster Formation Approach
(2022-12-20)The cluster consensus problem of Multileader MAS Is considered and the clustering problem of interconnected multileader systems is formulated as a disturbance attenuation problem. For the first time, it's proved that the ... -
MACHINE LEARNING FOR TARGET DETECTION USING UWB RADAR SENSOR NETWORKS
(2022-12-05)Machine learning (ML) has recently been used to solve critical problems. This dissertation focuses on developing systems using Ultra-Wideband (UWB) wireless sensor networks and machine learning to solve critical tasks such ... -
System Identification of Linear and Non-Linear Dynamical Systems using Semi-definite Programming via Penalized Parabolic Relaxation Method
(2022-08-08)This document is prepared to highlight the difference between two very important fields in the realm of Convex Optimization, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence and many such sprouting advance fields currently impacting ... -
TOWARDS ON-CHIP INTEGRATED SENSORS: PHOTONIC CRYSTAL OPTICAL SENSORS AND LASERS
(2022-08-11)Supervising Professor: Weidong Zhou The field of compact integrated optical platform has developed into a new era in the past two decades. On one hand, the semiconductor optoelectronic devices are becoming smaller and ...