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Author:

Khatkhate, Amol Madhav

Title:

Anomaly Detection in Electromechanical Systems using Symbolic Dynamics

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

structural health monitoring
symbolic dynamics
diagnostics
prognostics
electromechanical systems
pattern identification

File:

Download AMK-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Jeffrey Louis Schiano, Committee Member
Dr Qian Wang, Committee Member
Eric Keller, 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:

Keller, Eric Evans

Title:

REAL-TIME SENSING OF FATIGUE CRACK DAMAGE FOR INFORMATION-BASED DECISION AND CONTROL

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

damage
ultrasonic
fatigue crack

File:

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Committee Members:

Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Eric Russell Marsh, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Committee Member
Marc Carpino, 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:

Zhou, Jing

Title:

Stochastic Semistability with Application to Stochastic Consensus

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

nontangency
stochastic semistability
consensus algorithm
stochastic system
almost sure Lyapunov stability
random networks
almost sure convergence
stochastic Lyapunov function
Monte Carlo simulation

File:

Download JingZhou-PhD-Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Qian Wang, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack Langelaan, 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:

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:

Chakraborty, Subhadeep

Title:

Symbolic Identification of Dynamical Systems: Theory and Experimental Validation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fault Detection and Isolation
Symbolic Dynamics
System Identification
Time Series Data Analysis
PMSM
C-MAPSS
Refractory Failure in Slagging Gasifiers

File:

Download Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

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

Author:

GUPTA, SHALABH

Title:

Behavioral Pattern Identification for Structural Health Monitoring in Complex Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Life Extending Control
Flexible Mechanical Couplings
Pulse Combustors
Stochastic Behavior
Life Estimation
Thermodynamic Formalism
Complex Systems
Symbolic Dynamics
Signal Processing
Pattern Identification
Structural Health Monitoring
Fatigue Damage
Anomaly Detection
Fault Diagnosis and Prognosis

File:

Download ShalabhGuptaThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Anil Kamalakant Kulkarni, Committee Member
Donald Albert Koss, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Eric Keller, 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:

Qin, Wubi

Title:

Feedback Performance Control for Self-Managing Computer Systems: an LPV Control Theoretic Approach

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

linear parameter varying systems (lpv)
internet services
feedback control
performance management
quality of service (qos)
request level scheduling
web server

File:

Download WubiQin-Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Dr Qian Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Dr Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Anand Sivasubramaniam, 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:

Download Yasharth_Bhartiya_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

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:

Kumar, Sandeep

Title:

Fracture mechanics of nanoscale thin films

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Thin films
TEM
Fracture
mechanics
nanoscale

File:

Download Thesis_sandeep.pdf

Committee Members:

Md Amanul Haque, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Md Amanul Haque, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Eric M Mockensturm, Committee Member
Sulin Zhang, Committee Member
Douglas Edward Wolfe, Committee Member

Author:

Vemulapalli, Pramod Krishna

Title:

Extrema Features for Global-localization and Pattern Matching of Time-series Data

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

extrema features
subsequence matching
time series features

File:

Download PramodPhDThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Dr Robert T Collins, 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