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Verifying Molecular Dynamics Using Dielectric Spectroscopy, Joshua Dee Smith
Verifying Molecular Dynamics Using Dielectric Spectroscopy, Joshua Dee Smith
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The electrical properties of proteins in solution are important for their structure and function. Computational biophysics studies of proteins need accurate parameters to ensure that numerical simulations match physical reality. Past work in this eld has compared the electrical properties of proteins obtained from dielectric spectroscopy to numerical simulations of proteins in water with adjustment of pKa values to try to capture the inevitable changes in electrical conformation that will occur in a complex structure such as a folded protein. However, fundamental veri cation of the charge parameters of the amino acid building blocks in common molecular dynamics software packages …
A Flexible Infrastructure For Multi-Agent Systems, Gerrit Addison N Sorensen
A Flexible Infrastructure For Multi-Agent Systems, Gerrit Addison N Sorensen
Theses and Dissertations
Multi-Agent coordination and control has been studied for a long time, but has recently gained more interest because of technology improvements allowing smaller, more versatile robots and other types of agents. To facilitate multi-agent experiments between heterogeneous agents, including robots and UAVs, we have created a test-bed with both simulation and hardware capabilities. This thesis discusses the creation of this unique, versatile test-bed for multi-agent experiments, also a unique graph creation algorithm, and some experimental results obtained using the test-bed.