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Design Of A Fully Autonomous Mobile Pipeline Exploration Robot (Famper), Jong-Hoon Kim
Design Of A Fully Autonomous Mobile Pipeline Exploration Robot (Famper), Jong-Hoon Kim
LSU Master's Theses
Pipelines have been an integral part of our constructions for many centuries. However, need to be maintained, and the cost of maintenance continues to increase. Robots have been considered as an attractive alternative, and many different types of pipeline robots have been proposed in the past. Unfortunately many of them work under only very restricted environments such as customized pipelines, often have no vertical mobility, or can traverse through only a simple pipeline structure due to wired control. This thesis presents the design and implementation of a robot based on novel idea we call “caterpillar navigational mechanism”. A Fully Autonomous …
Data Exploration By Using The Monotonicity Property, Hongyi Chen
Data Exploration By Using The Monotonicity Property, Hongyi Chen
LSU Master's Theses
Dealing with different misclassification costs has been a big problem for classification. Some algorithms can predict quite accurately when assuming the misclassification costs for each class are the same, like most rule induction methods. However, when the misclassification costs change, which is a common phenomenon in reality, these algorithms are not capable of adjusting their results. Some other algorithms, like the Bayesian methods, have the ability to yield probabilities of a certain unclassified example belonging to given classes, which is helpful to make modification on the results according to different misclassification costs. The shortcoming of such algorithms is, when the …
Modeling And Design Of Low Cost Customizable Household Robot, Bharat Narahari
Modeling And Design Of Low Cost Customizable Household Robot, Bharat Narahari
LSU Master's Theses
Just as the growth of Personal computer, Mobile phones and Automobiles took place in last 3 decades, the personal robotics industry still in its nascent stage, is heading in the same direction. This thesis explores the concept of customizable household robots (CHR) in the robotics community. An attempt has been made to design a customizable robot by extending the 2 wheel differential drive kinematic model to 4 wheel independent differential drive kinematic model. A framework for CHR is developed which will be able to do various household repetitive tasks. Just as we can assemble a PC by buying its individual …
Space-Time Multiresolution Approach To Atomistic Visualization, Dipesh Bhattarai
Space-Time Multiresolution Approach To Atomistic Visualization, Dipesh Bhattarai
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Time-varying three-dimensional positional atomistic data are rich in spatial and temporal information. The problem is to understand them. This work offers multiple approaches that enable such understanding. An interactive atomistic visualization system is developed integrating complex analyses with visualization to present the data on space-time multiresolution basis facilitating the information extraction and generate understanding. This work also shows the usefulness of such an integrated approach. The information obtained from the analyses represents the system at multiple length and time scales. Radial distribution function (RDF) provides a complete average spatial map of the distribution of the atoms in the system which …
Model-Driven Search-Based Loop Fusion Optimization For Handwritten Code, Pamela Bhattacharya
Model-Driven Search-Based Loop Fusion Optimization For Handwritten Code, Pamela Bhattacharya
LSU Master's Theses
The Tensor Contraction Engine (TCE) is a compiler that translates high-level, mathematical tensor contraction expressions into efficient, parallel Fortran code. A pair of optimizations in the TCE, the fusion and tiling optimizations, have proven successful for minimizing disk-to-memory traffic for dense tensor computations. While other optimizations are specific to tensor contraction expressions, these two model-driven search-based optimization algorithms could also be useful for optimizing handwritten dense array computations to minimize disk to memory traffic. In this thesis, we show how to apply the loop fusion algorithm to handwritten code in a procedural language. While in the TCE the loop fusion …
Failure-Awareness And Dynamic Adaptation In Data Scheduling, Mehmet Balman
Failure-Awareness And Dynamic Adaptation In Data Scheduling, Mehmet Balman
LSU Master's Theses
Over the years, scientific applications have become more complex and more data intensive. Especially large scale simulations and scientific experiments in areas such as physics, biology, astronomy and earth sciences demand highly distributed resources to satisfy excessive computational requirements. Increasing data requirements and the distributed nature of the resources made I/O the major bottleneck for end-to-end application performance. Existing systems fail to address issues such as reliability, scalability, and efficiency in dealing with wide area data access, retrieval and processing. In this study, we explore data-intensive distributed computing and study challenges in data placement in distributed environments. After analyzing different …
Visual Language Representation For Use Case Evolution And Traceability, Coretta Willis Douglas
Visual Language Representation For Use Case Evolution And Traceability, Coretta Willis Douglas
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
The primary goal of this research is to assist non-technical stakeholders involved in requirements engineering with a comprehensible method for managing changing requirements within a specific domain. An important part of managing evolving requirements over time is to maintain a temporal ordering of the changes and to support traceability of the modifications. This research defines a semi-formal syntactical and semantic definition of such a method using a visual language, RE/TRAC (Requirements Evolution with Traceability), and a supporting formal semantic notation RE/TRAC-SEM. RE/TRAC-SEM is an ontological specification employing a combination of models, including verbal definitions, set theory and a string language …
Dynamic Workflow Management For Large Scale Scientific Applications, Emir Mahmut Bahsi
Dynamic Workflow Management For Large Scale Scientific Applications, Emir Mahmut Bahsi
LSU Master's Theses
The increasing computational and data requirements of scientific applications have made the usage of large clustered systems as well as distributed resources inevitable. Although executing large applications in these environments brings increased performance, the automation of the process becomes more and more challenging. The use of complex workflow management systems has been a viable solution for this automation process. In this thesis, we study a broad range of workflow management tools and compare their capabilities especially in terms of dynamic and conditional structures they support, which are crucial for the automation of complex applications. We then apply some of these …
A Novel Automated Approach Of Multi-Modality Retinal Image Registration And Fusion, Hua Cao
A Novel Automated Approach Of Multi-Modality Retinal Image Registration And Fusion, Hua Cao
LSU Doctoral Dissertations
Biomedical image registration and fusion are usually scene dependent, and require intensive computational effort. A novel automated approach of feature-based control point detection and area-based registration and fusion of retinal images has been successfully designed and developed. The new algorithm, which is reliable and time-efficient, has an automatic adaptation from frame to frame with few tunable threshold parameters. The reference and the to-be-registered images are from two different modalities, i.e. angiogram grayscale images and fundus color images. The relative study of retinal images enhances the information on the fundus image by superimposing information contained in the angiogram image. Through the …