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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

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Author:: Subbu, Aparna
Title:: Pattern Recognition using Symbolic Dynamic Filtering
Graduate Program:: Electrical Engineering
Keywords:: Symbolic dynamics
Analytic signal
Markov modeling
Pattern recognition
Image understanding
Anomaly Detection
File:: Download Aparna_Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Shashi Phoha, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Jeffrey Scott Mayer, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

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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

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Author:: Geiger, Brian Raymond
Title:: Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Trajectory Planning with Direct Methods
Graduate Program:: Aerospace Engineering
Keywords:: direct collocation
uav
path planning
trajectory optimization
neural network
flight test
File:: Download BrianGeiger-Dissertation.pdf
Committee Members:: Joseph Francis Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Lyle Norman Long, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Author:: Bares, Jonathan
Title:: COMPUTATION OF NATURAL FREQUENCIES AND MODE SHAPES OF A PERIODIC STRUCTURE VIA PERTURBATION ANALYSIS AND POLYNOMIAL CHAOS
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: COMPUTATION NATURAL FREQUENCIES MODE SHAPES
File:: Download Master_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Alok Sinha, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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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

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