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Author:

Lotfi Gaskarimahalle, Amir

Title:

VIBRATION CONTROL OF DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER SYSTEMS AND FLUIDIC FLEXIBLE MATRIX COMPOSITES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Semi-active Control
Tuned Vibration Absorbers
Variable Stiffness Systems
Input Shaping
Vibration Control

File:

Download AmirLotfi-Dissertation_7.29.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member

Author:

Srivastav, Abhishek

Title:

Collaboration and Pattern Recognition in Distributed Sensor Networks: A statistical mechanics based approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic dynamics
Statistical mechanics
Information gain
Markov random fields
Sensor networks
Anomaly detection
Probabilisitc finite state automata

File:

Download AbhishekSrivastav_PhDDissertation_11222009.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Mark Levi, Committee Member

Author:

Tolani, Devendra Kumar

Title:

INTEGRATED HEALTH MANAGEMENT AND CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Anomaly detection
health management
prognosis
discrete event system
probabilistic robust control
damage mitigating control
life extending control

File:

Download Devendra_Tolani_thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Singh, Dheeraj Sharan

Title:

DETECTION, ESTIMATION, AND CHARACTERIZATION OF FATIGUE DAMAGE IN POLYCRYSTALLINE-ALLOY STRUCTURES

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Surface Deformation
Ultrasonic NonDestructive Evaluation
Structural Health Monitoring
Condition Monitoring
Remaining Life Estimation
Pattern Recognition
Fatigue Damage Diagnosis

File:

Download DheerajSharanSingh-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Matthew M Mench, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Shalabh Gupta, Committee Member

Author:

Mallapragada, Goutham

Title:

A language theoretic framework for decision and control of autonomous systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
Language Measure
Discrete-Event Systems
Path Planning
Navigation
Symbolic Dynamics
Pattern Recognition

File:

Download Goutham-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Committee Member

Author:

Chattopadhyay, Ishanu

Title:

Quantitative Control of Probabilistic Discrete Event Systems: A Measure-theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Discrete Event Systems
Regular Languages
Language Measure
Optimal Control
Partial Observation

File:

Download armageddon.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Eric Keller, Committee Member

Author:

Bares, Jonathan

Title:

COMPUTATION OF NATURAL FREQUENCIES AND MODE SHAPES OF A PERIODIC STRUCTURE VIA PERTURBATION ANALYSIS AND POLYNOMIAL CHAOS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

COMPUTATION NATURAL FREQUENCIES MODE SHAPES

File:

Download Master_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mukherjee, Kushal

Title:

SUPERVISORY DECISION AND CONTROL OF LARGE-SCALE MULTI-AGENT SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

multi-agent systems
sensor networks
pattern classification
symbolic dynamics
sonar image
statistical mechanics
task allocation
optimization

File:

Download Mukherjee_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Thomas A Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Yasar, Murat

Title:

HYBRID SUPERVISORY CONTROL OF COMPLEX DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

supervisory control
discrete event systems
aircraft propulsion
c4isr

File:

Download MuratYasar_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member

Author:

Manoharan, Mohan Prasad

Title:

Influence of Strain on the Physical Properties of Materials at the Nanoscale

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Nanoscale
multi domain coupling
size effect
thermal conductivity
electrical conductivity
bandgap
crystallization

File:

Download Manoharan_999805608.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Aman Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Jun Huang, Committee Member