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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:

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:

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:

Download PhD_Dissertation_Xiaofeng_Mao_after_defense.pdf

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:

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:

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