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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:

Feng, Chao

Title:

Polynomial Optimization Based Approaches to System Design, Analysis and Identification

Graduate Program:

Electrical Engineering

Keywords:

Robust Control
Probabilistic Control
Distributional Robustness
Switched System
Identification
Interpolation

File:

Download ChaoFeng_PhD_Dissertation_Summer2013.pdf

Committee Members:

Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
David Jonathan Miller, Committee Member
Ji Woong Lee, Committee Member
Qian Wang, 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:

Lee, Dooyong

Title:

Simulation and Control of a Helicopter Operating in a Ship Airwake

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

helicopter simulation
stochastic airwake
pilot model
validation
SAS optimization

File:

Download DooyongLee_thesis_etd.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Edward C Smith, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member

Author:

Zhao, Haiyu

Title:

Passive, Iterative, and Repetitive Control for Flexible Distributed Parameter Systems

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Feedforward control
flexible distributed parameter systems
vibration control
BIBO stability

File:

Download Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Kon Well Wang, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Farhan Gandhi, 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:

Zhang, Jianyong

Title:

SELF-TUNING STORAGE SYSTEMS FOR PERFORMANCE VIRTUALIZATION

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

storage systems
self-managing and self-tuning
I/O scheduling
quality of service
data migration
feedback control

File:

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Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mahmut Taylan Kandemir, Committee Member
Wang Chien Lee, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Hubertus Franke, Committee Member

Author:

Smith, Kandler A.

Title:

Electrochemical Modeling, Estimation and Control of Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

lithium ion
battery
hybrid electric vehicle
model order reduction
diffusion systems
state of charge estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_KandlerSmith2006.pdf

Committee Members:

Chao Yang Wang, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Joseph Paul Cusumano, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

Author:

Nath, Partho

Title:

Content Addressable Data Management

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

content addressable storage
content addressable parallel file system
internet suspend resume

File:

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Committee Members:

Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Member
Padma Raghavan, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member
Michael A Kozuch, Committee Member
Raj Acharya, Committee Member

Author:

Chaitanya, Shiva

Title:

ADDRESSING PERFORMANCE CHALLENGES IN SECURE STORAGE SYSTEMS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Storage Security
Performance

File:

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Committee Members:

Anand Subramaniam, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Anand Sivasubramaniam, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Patrick Drew Mcdaniel, Committee Member
Qian Wang, Committee Member