Browsing by Author "D. Mitchell Wilkes"
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Abdelaziz, Hamzah Ahmed (2018-01-17)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe growing advances in information technologies have led to a new generation of systems known as cyber-physical systems (CPS). CPS are multi-discipline engineering systems, which integrate computational and physical ...
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Chhokra, Kumar Gaurav (2004-07-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringThis thesis develops techniques for accurately estimating the time-of-arrival (TOA) on resource constrained sensor units of a distributed radio geolocation system. Firstly, a multi-resolution approach for discriminating ...
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Yingthawornsuk, Thaweesak (2007-08-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe human voice is a source of important information regarding the physical, psychological, and mental health conditions of a speaker. Acoustic properties of speech have previously been reported as possible cues to risk ...
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Heard, Jamison (2019-08-19)Department: Electrical EngineeringChanging the ways that robots interact with humans in uncertain, dynamic, and high-intensity environments (e.g., a NASA control room) is needed in order to realize effective human-robot teams. Dynamic domains require ...
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Analysis of power spectrum density of male speech as indicators for high risk and depressed decision Nik Hashim, Nik Nur Wahidah (2017-01-09)Department: Electrical EngineeringAssessment of a patients risk of committing suicide is important in order for them to be able to receive early hospitalization. The two critical mental states that may arouse much confusion to the clinicians are the high ...
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Halpenny, Robert Morgan (2008-12-30)Department: Computer ScienceCOMPUTER SCIENCE CAR DETECTION BY CLASSIFICATION OF IMAGE SEGMENTS Robert Morgan Halpenny Thesis under the direction of Professor Xenofon D. Koutsoukos Object detection is one of the most important unsolved problems ...
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Zhang, Lian (2018-05-21)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a common neuro-developmental disorder with core deficits in social communication. Cost and resource limitations often impede access to interventions. Since many children with ASD show ...
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Tao, Tao (2006-07-24)Department: Electrical EngineeringIn this dissertation, distributed control with sensor networks is used to suppress beam vibrations. The distributed active vibration control strategy has the advantages of being scalable and fault-tolerant for use in ...
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Sidek, Shahrul Naim (2008-11-12)Department: Electrical EngineeringDYNAMIC MODELING AND CONTROL OF NONHOLONOMIC WHEELED MOBILE ROBOT SUBJECTED TO WHEEL SLIP<P> SHAHRUL NAIM SIDEK<P> Improving navigation performance of autonomous wheeled mobile robot (WMR) in a dynamic unstructured ...
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Shi, Zhaoyue (2017-11-28)Department: Biomedical EngineeringThe identification of patterns of highly correlated low frequency Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) signals in resting states provides a powerful approach to assess brain functional organization. However, functional MRI ...
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Begley, Sean Michael (2008-04-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringAs robots become more complex it becomes necessary to create more effective methods of imparting them with knowledge. One area where complexities are apparent is in learning to manipulate. Vanderbilt University’s Intelligent ...
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Freedman, Sanford Tory (2010-12-21)Department: Computer Science--PLEASE NOTE THAT THE ATTACHED .7z FILE CONTAINING VIDEOS WILL NEED TO BE EXTRACTED AND BURNED TO A DVD IN ORDER TO BE VIEWED.-- Perfect memory and recall provides a mixed blessing. While flawless recollection of episodic ...
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Bell, Charreau Sieanna (2014-12-03)Department: Mechanical EngineeringColorectal cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related mortality worldwide, although it is almost always preventable by compliance with recommended early screening guidelines. Teleoperated flexible endoscopes ...
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Teng, Zhongwei (2017-12-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringAs a growing industry, mHealth has been adopted in many fields of healthcare, such as diabetes, hypertension, asthma, eating disorders and data collection. To improve practicality of mHealth applications, authentication ...
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Hasan, Saqib (2019-02-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringResilience in cyber-physical systems such as electrical power systems is of paramount importance for the socio-economic welfare of the society. Based on North American Electric Reliability Council (NERC), power systems are ...
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Zheng, Zhi (2016-09-15)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neuro-developmental disorder with a high prevalence rate of 1 in 68 children in the U.S. Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) is being continuously explored as a potential efficacious ...
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Hambuchen, Kimberly Ann (2004-04-08)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe sensory abilities of humanoid robots are progressing every year with the development of advanced and complex sensors. At the same time, humanoid robots are learning to coordinate sensory events in their environments ...
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Hunter, Jonathan Edward (2005-04-13)Department: Electrical EngineeringObject recognition and learning algorithms are huge areas of robotics research with many different methods in use by various researchers. A common result of using complex recognition methods is the loss of meaning (for ...
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Bian, Dayi (2019-08-30)Department: Electrical EngineeringAutism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is characterized by social interaction deficits, verbal and non-verbal communication skill deficits, repetitive behaviors, and fixed interests. Given the limited availability of professionals ...
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Shang, Qingyang (2010-04-07)Department: Electrical EngineeringAccurate analysis of the hepatic vasculature is of great importance for many medical applications, such as liver surgical planning and diagnosis of tumors and/or vascular diseases. Vessel segmentation is a pivotal step for ...