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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:

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:

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:

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:

Download soumik_thesis.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
Jainendra Jain, Committee Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, 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:

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:

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:

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