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A Victims Detection Approach for Burning Building Sites Using Convolutional Neural Networks
(2019-12)In this work, an approach is proposed to detect people and pets trapped in burning sites. This will be done in a manner that will ensure the safety of firefighters and accelerate the rescue process of victims. The proposed ... -
Application of Cooperative Game Theory in Smart Grids
(2019-12)Nowadays, as the conventional grid cannot handle the technology, the smart grid is introduced to provide two-way communication between utility and customers to meet the energy requirements. In general, prosumers trade ... -
Research of Water Detection in Autonomous Vehicles
(2019-12)An autonomous car is a ground vehicle that navigates without human input. These vehicles are expected to reach $60 billion in sales by 2025. But these autonomous vehicles have many drawbacks: one among them is lack of ... -
Reducing TCP Retransmissions By Using Machine Learning For More Accurate RTT Estimation
(2019-12)When computers communicate via connection-oriented protocols like TCP, upon receipt of a segment of information, the recipient sends an acknowledgment back to the sender. This facilitates two important traits of ... -
Pre-Positioning Relief Supplies and Supplier Selection Strategy in Disaster Relief
(2019-12)Natural disasters have a life changing impact on individuals, the effect can be felt at various levels and can even affect an entire country. In the United States, major disasters have seriously affected the country’s ...
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Analysis of Repetitive Motion in Manual Material Handling Systems Using a Digital Twin Framework
(2019-12)Manual material handling accounts for more than 122,000 workplace injuries at U.S. One of the major reasons for injuries in the workplace is due to accidents caused by improper execution of the material handling fundamental ... -
Using CDMA/AIC to Increase Energy Efficiency and Reduce Multipath Effects in Passive RFID Tag Systems
(2019-12)The Radio Frequency Identification [RFID] technology is a novel solution used in supply chain management. A large warehouse consisting of hundreds of objects must be handled effectively and automatically. RFID technology ...
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Modeling Power Grid Recovery and Resilience Post Extreme Weather Events
(2019-12)The traditional N-1 power grid system is inadequate as it cannot withstand extreme weather events like hurricane, flooding, earthquake etc. Extreme event analysis reports by NERC, BPU, and ERCOT state that failure of ... -
Fatigue Performance of Glass/Epoxy Nanocomposites for Wind Turbine Blades
(2010-05)Wind power is capable of becoming a major contributor to America’s electricity supply over the next three decades (Composite world, 2008). This desire is borne to create a sustainable energy that will be cheap and easily ...
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Design and Fabrication of Electrostatically Actuated and Inkjet Printed Micro-Electro-Mechanical-System (MEMS) Switch
(2017-08)This thesis report presents the design and fabrication process of electrostatically actuated and inkjet printed MEMS switch. It introduces a novel design and fabrication process where it combines two different technologies ... -
Low Curing Temperature Ferromagnetic Ink Development and Application in 3D Printed RF Antenna Design and Miniaturization
(2017-08)In recent times, there has been an increasing demand for smaller size electronic and mobile devices because of advances in engineering and nanotechnology. This has pushed further the need for small size RF antenna with ...
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Hardware Accelerator for Elias Gamma Code
(2017-06)Elias Gamma code, developed by Peter Elias, is a universal lossless compression method applied to unbounded positive integers. Extensive research on this coding technique has led to the development of many derivatives. ... -
A Facial Expression Recognition Application Development Using Deep Convolutional Neural Network For Children With Autism Spectrum Disorder To Help Identify Human Emotions
(2019-08)In this thesis, a novel idea is presented, which is to teach young children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) to recognize human facial expressions through the help of computer vision and image processing. Universally, ... -
Growth and Characterization of (InxGa1-x)2O3 Thin Films Grown by Pulsed Laser Deposition
(2019-08)Silicon has been an important material in the integrated circuit (IC) technology and is a commonly used elemental semiconductor. However, silicon has limitations in its operating voltage, temperature and switching frequency. ... -
A Comprehensive Solar Powered Remote Monitoring and Identification of Houston Toad Call Automatic Recognizing Device System Design
(2019-07-16)The Houston Toad is an endangered amphibian living in the edge of extinction. To save from annihilation, localization of their mating calls needs to be determined in order to protect the eggs from being hunted by predators. ... -
Fatigue Characterization of Glass Fiber Reinforced Vinyl Ester and Polyester Composites Containing Core Shell Rubber Particles
(2019-07-12)Glass fiber reinforced polymer matrix composites have experienced tremendous growth in wind energy, construction, marine and automotive industries. This is because of the superior mechanical strength, chemical and ... -
Design of Four Element Patch Array Antenna for IEEE 802.11 at 2.4 GHz
(2019-04-26)This is a very exciting time to investigate microstrip (aka. patch or printed) antennas because the world of technology is ready to take a big step towards the Internet of Things (IOT). With IOT almost every device we ...
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Improving Access to Medical Care for Patients in Need of Augmentative and Alternative Communication Using Systems Engineering and Optimization Models
(2018-11-27)Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) is a set of tools and strategies used to support or replace speech or writing for individuals with communication impairments. Several barriers currently exist preventing the ... -
Automated Tool Path Planning for Industrial Robot in Material Handling in Warehouse Automation
(2018-11-26)The warehouses today continue to rely on human workers because of the failure to implement the autonomous order picking system to meet the demands in terms of speed, safety and accuracy. In this research study, we aim to ... -
Capacity model with sustainability scope to predict the semiconductor manufacturing's energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions
(2018-11-21)Semiconductor industries are not only technology-intensive, but also highly energy-intensive. A wafer fab consumes about 300-400 kWh/day. To supply this amount of electricity, the amount of carbon dioxide released is ...
