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Author:

Ferone, Christopher Anthony

Title:

Nondestructive Forensic Pathology Of Lead-acid Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

VLRA
Sulphation
Water loss
BMS

File:

Download ChrisFeroneMastersThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, 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:

Shi, Ying

Title:

modeling, real-time degradation identification, and remediation of lead-acid battries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

modeling
battery system management
degradation diagnosis
desulfation

File:

Download YingShi_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, 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:

Tanim, Tanvir Reza

Title:

Lithium Ion Battery Modeling, Estimation, and Aging for Hybrid Electric Vehicle Applications

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium Battery Modeling
Battery Management System
Battery State Estimation
Hybrid Electric Vehicles

File:

Download Tanim_Tanvir_PhD_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Chao Yang Wang, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Srinivas A Tadigadapa, Committee Member

Author:

Rothenberger, Michael J

Title:

Optimal Input Shaping for Fisher Identifiability of Control-Oriented Lithium-Ion Battery Models

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Fisher identifiability optimization
battery parameter estimation
lithium-ion battery
optimal input shaping

File:

Download Rothenberger_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Member
Joel Robert Anstrom, Special Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

Author:

Wilson, Andrew J

Title:

Energy Management and Battery Testing for the Analysis of a Diesel-electric Hybrid Locomotive Powertrain

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

hybrid
locomotive
powertrain
optimal control
energy management
battery
HIL
SIL
hardware-in-the-loop

File:

Download Wilson_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Mary I Frecker, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Li, Yue

Title:

ADAPTIVE INFORMATION EXTRACTION FROM COMPLEX SYSTEMS VIA SYMBOLIC TIME SERIES ANALYSIS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Symbolic time series analysis
Hidden Markov modeling
Pattern recognition
Finite-state Automaton
Information Fusion
Sensor Networks
Battery SOC estimation
Battery SOH estimation
Recursive Bayes Filter
Image processing

File:

Download YueLi-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Shashi Phoha, Outside Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Thomas Wettergren, Committee Member

Author:

Docimo, Donald John

Title:

Insights into the Behavior of Heterogeneous Thermostatically Controlled Loads and Battery Packs

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Heterogeneity
Battery Packs
Thermostatically Controlled Loads (TCLs)
Controls
Model Reduction
Demand Response
Energy Systems
Model Predictive Control (MPC)
Lithium-Ion Batteries
Battery balancing

File:

Download DissertationFinalv2.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Antonios Armaou, Outside Member

Author:

Ghanaatpishe, Mohammad

Title:

DEVELOPMENT OF ALGORITHMS FOR ROBUST ONLINE OPTIMAL PERIODIC CONTROL IN THE PRESENCE OF PLANT PARAMETER UNCERTAINTY

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Adaptive Control
Drug Delivery
Insect Flight
Optimal Periodic Control
Optimization
Estimation
Tracking

File:

Download MohammadGhanaatpishe-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

Mishra, Partha Pratim

Title:

ON THE DEVELOPMENT OF SELF-BALANCING PHOTOVOLTAIC ENERGY STORAGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Self-Balancing Systems
Maximum Power Point Tracking
Extremum-Seeking
Lyapunov Methods
Controls
Model-based Estimation
Renewable Energy Systems
Lithium-ion Batteries
State Estimation
Input Estimation
Model Reduction
Stability
Hardware-in-the-loop Simulation

File:

Download Partha_Mishra_Dissertation_2018.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephanie Stockar, Committee Member
Nilanjan Ray Chaudhuri, Outside Member

Author:

Denlinger, Michelle

Title:

Extremum Seeking Algorithms for Optimal Periodic Control with Application to Buoyant Air Turbines

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Extremum seeking
Optimal Periodic Control
Wind Energy
Buoyant Air Turbines
Optimal Control
Periodic Control
Airborne Wind Energy

File:

Download MDenlinger_Dissertation_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Bo Cheng, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Outside Member
Chris Vermillion, Special Member