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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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:

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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

Author:

Sarkar, Soumik

Title:

AUTONOMOUS PERCEPTION AND DECISION MAKING IN CYBER-PHYSICAL SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Machine learning
Fault diagnosis
Gas turbine engine
Network science

File:

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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
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Gupta, Vishisht Vijay

Title:

Vehicle Localization Using Low-Accuracy GPS, IMU and Map-Aided Vision

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

GPS
Kalman Filter
IMU
Vehicle Localization
Terrain-Aided Vision
Map-Aided Vision

File:

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Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Streeter, Willie

Title:

NONLINEAR VIBRATION OF DEOXYRIBONUCLEIC ACID (DNA)

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

eigenvectors
nonlinear normal modes
eigenvalues
localizations

File:

Download DNAfinal.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Ding, Xibei

Title:

Modern Control System Design for Hydro-power Plant

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robust control
sliding mode
hydropower

File:

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Committee Members:

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

Author:

Mao, Xiaofeng

Title:

Nonlinear Robust Control Design for a High-speed Supercavitating Vehicle

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear system
robust control
supercavitating vehicle
LPV

File:

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Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

Author:

Wang, Xi

Title:

Quantitative Measure of Regular Languages for Supervisory Control of Engineering Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

coordinated robotics
behavior-based robotics
quantitative measure
regular language
discrete-event system
supervisory control

File:

Download XiWang-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Prof Mark Carpino, Committee Member
John Metzner, Committee Member

Author:

Bhartiya, Yasharth

Title:

SINGLE AND MULTI-STAGE BLADED ROTORS WITH GEOMETRIC MISTUNING: REDUCED ORDER MODELING AND MISTUNING IDENTIFICATION

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Mistuning Identification
Mistuning
Reduced Order Modelling

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Suzanne Michelle Shontz, Committee Member

Author:

Wen, Yicheng

Title:

Heterogeneous Sensor Fusion in Sensor Networks: A Language-theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

wireless sensor network
pattern recognition
Information fusion

File:

Download thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qiang Du, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Ishanu Chattopadhyay, Committee Member

Author:

Ataei-esfahani, Armin

Title:

Algorithms for Sum-of-Squares-Based Stability Analysis and Control Design of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nonlinear systems
randomized algorithms
robust control
uncertain systems
sum of squares method
ellipsoid method

File:

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Committee Members:

Dr Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member

Author:

Jin, Xin

Title:

Situation Awareness and Adaptive Decision-Making in Autonomous Systems via Symbolic Learning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

situation awareness
decision making
autonomous system
machine learning
autonomous navigation
sensor fusion

File:

Download Dissertation_XinJin_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

Rittenhouse, Benjamin David

Title:

Optimal Sliding Mode Gaussian Control of Hydro Power Plants

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hydro
hydropower
control
OSG
sliding mode control
LQG
Optimal Sliding Mode Gaussian

File:

Download Rittenhouse_Benjamin_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Prasad, Githin K

Title:

Control Oriented Modeling and State of Health Estimation for Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion batteries
modeling
state of health
estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_GithinPrasad.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Vishwakarma, Vinod

Title:

Reduced order modeling, statistical analysis and system identification for a bladed rotor with geometric mistuning

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

turbine
mistuning
system identification
reduced order modeling
force response
random permutation
monte carlo

File:

Download thesis_vinod.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Zhu, Bin

Title:

Modeling, Design, and Experimental Testing of Integrated Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite Structures

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Vibration Control
Fluidic Flexible Matrix Composite
Passive Vibration Suppression
Harmonic Resonance
Damping Treatment

File:

Download Bin_Zhu_PhD_Thesis__June_1_2014_.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Charles E Bakis, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Martin Wesley Trethewey, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
George A Lesieutre, Special Member

Author:

Reigh, Kyle Michael

Title:

Towards Closed-loop Optogenetic Control of Parkinson's Disease

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

optogenetics
parkinson's

File:

Download Reigh_MastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Chen, Xiao

Title:

using occupant feedback in model predictive control for indoor thermal comfort and energy optimization

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

building climate control
model predictive control
thermal comfort
energy consumption
occupant feedback

File:

Download Xiao_Chen_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Stephen James Treado, Committee Member
Jelena Srebric, Special Member

Author:

Xie, Jinyu

Title:

INTELLIGENT ARTIFICIAL PANCREAS INCORPORATED WITH MEAL DETECTION SYSTEM AND RECOMMENDER SYSTEM FOR TYPE-1 DIABETES SELF-MANAGEMENT

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Diabetes
Type 1
Meal Detection
Estimation
Recommender System
Adaptive Control
System Identification
Insulin
Exercise
Kalman Filter

File:

Download PhD-Dissertation-Jinyu-Xie-03-09-2017.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Peter Molenaar, Outside Member

Author:

Pradeep Kumar, Arjun

Title:

EFFICIENT COMPUTATION OF FREQUENCY RESPONSE OF MULTI-DEGREE OF FREEDOM NON-LINEAR VIBRATIONAL SYSTEM

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

frequency sweep
interpolation
Padé’s interpolation technique
nonlinear systems
structural acoustics
structural dynamics
finite element method

File:

Download Thesis_ARJUN_PradeepKumar.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Garg, Mayank

Title:

SAFE TEMPERATURE CONTROL OF LITHIUM ION BATTERY SYSTEMS FOR HIGH PERFORMANCE AND LONG LIFE

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

​Lithium-ion battery
Battery management system Battery pack capacity Mismatch Hybrid electric vehicle
Battery aging model Battery pack current distribution
Lithium-ion battery
Battery management system
Battery pack capacity mismatch
Hybrid electric vehicle
Battery aging model
Battery pack current distribution

File:

Download Mayank_-_Dissertation_ME_PhD_updated.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher D. Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Hosam Fathy, Committee Member
Srinivas Tadigadapa, Outside Member

Author:

Ma, Xiaokun

Title:

Dynamics and Control of Energy Harvesting Devices

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Energy harvesting
Piezoelectric compliant mechanism
Quadratic mode shape
Uniform strain distribution
Shape memory alloy actuator

File:

Download Thesis_Xiaokun_Ma.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher D. Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher D. Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Francesco Costanzo, Outside Member

Author:

Whalen, Andrew John

Title:

From Observation to Control of Nonlinear Neuronal Networks in Brain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

spreading depression
suppression
confinement
electric field
modulation
spreading depolarization
network control
complex networks
nonlinear
symmetry
brain networks
network observation

File:

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Committee Members:

Steven Schiff, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reka Z Albert, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Tim Sauer, Outside Member

Author:

Hudson, Robert Benjamin

Title:

Vibration of Carbon Nanotubes with Defects and Their Composites: Reduced-Order Model and Damping

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

carbon nanotube
defect
vibration
phonon
composite
order reduction

File:

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Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Adrianus C Van Duin, Committee Member
Mauricio Terrones Maldonado, Outside Member

Author:

Ghalyan, Najah

Title:

Sequential Machine Learning for Decision-Making in Mechanical Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

symbolic dynamics
Hidden Markov Models
ergodicity
measure-preserving transformations
image classification
fatigue damage
thermoacoustic instabilities
probabilistic finite state automata
time series
bag-of-words
support vector machines
generating partition
quantization
lossy source coding
sliding block source coding
clustering
dynamic programming
Viterbi algorithm
anomaly detection
change point detection
transient change detection
quickest change detection
data-driven modeling

File:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Najah_Ghalyan.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
David Jonathan Miller, Outside Member
William Kenneth Jenkins, Outside Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Gauntt, Sean

Title:

Dynamic Analysis of Aerospace Gearboxes Featuring Hybrid Steel-Composite Gears

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Steel-Composite Gears
Hybrid Gears
Hybrid Gear Drivetrains
Drivetrain Models
Transmission Error
Optimization

File:

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Committee Members:

Robert Campbell, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Robert Campbell, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Reuben H Kraft, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Edward Smith, Outside Member
Sean Michael Mcintyre, Special Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair