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A Thematic And Reference Analysis Of Touchless Technologies, Eric R. Curia Mar 2022

A Thematic And Reference Analysis Of Touchless Technologies, Eric R. Curia

Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this research is to explore the utility and current state of touchless technologies. Five categories of technologies are identified as a result of collecting and reviewing literature: facial/biometric recognition, gesture recognition, touchless sensing, personal devices, and voice recognition. A thematic analysis was conducted to evaluate the advantages and disadvantages of the five categories. A reference analysis was also conducted to determine the similarities between articles in each category. Touchless sensing showed to have the most advantages and least similar references. Gesture recognition was the opposite. Comparing analyses shows more reliable technology types are more beneficial and diverse.


Application Of Machine Learning Models With Numerical Simulations Of An Experimental Microwave Induced Plasma Gasification Reactor, Owen D. Sedej Mar 2022

Application Of Machine Learning Models With Numerical Simulations Of An Experimental Microwave Induced Plasma Gasification Reactor, Owen D. Sedej

Theses and Dissertations

This thesis aims to contribute to the future development of this technology by providing an in-depth literature review of how this technology physically operates and can be numerically modeled. Additionally, this thesis reviews literature of machine learning models that have been applied to gasification to make accurate predictions regarding the system. Finally, this thesis provides a framework of how to numerically model an experimental plasma gasification reactor in order to inform a variety of machine learning models.


Securing Infiniband Networks With End-Point Encryption, Noah B. Diamond Mar 2022

Securing Infiniband Networks With End-Point Encryption, Noah B. Diamond

Theses and Dissertations

The NVIDIA-Mellanox Bluefield-2 is a 100 Gbps high-performance network interface which offers hardware offload and acceleration features that can operate directly on network traffic without routine involvement from the ARM CPU. This allows the ARM multi-core CPU to orchestrate the hardware to perform operations on both Ethernet and RDMA traffic at high rates rather than processing all the traffic directly. A testbed called TNAP was created for performance testing and a MiTM verification process called MiTMVMP is used to ensure proper network configuration. The hardware accelerators of the Bluefield-2 support a throughput of nearly 86 Gbps when using IPsec to …


Real Time Evaluation Of Boom And Drogue Occlusion With Aar, Xiaoyang Wu Mar 2022

Real Time Evaluation Of Boom And Drogue Occlusion With Aar, Xiaoyang Wu

Theses and Dissertations

In recent years, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have seen a rise in popularity. Various navigational algorithms have been developed as a solution to estimate a UAV’s pose relative to the refueler aircraft. The result can be used to safely automate aerial refueling (AAR) to improve UAVs’ time-on-station and ensure the success of military operations. This research aims to reach real-time performance using a GPU accelerated approach. It also conducts various experiments to quantify the effects of refueling boom/drogue occlusion and image exposure on the pose estimation pipeline in a lab setting.


Analysis Of Generalized Artificial Intelligence Potential Through Reinforcement And Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches, Jonathan Turner Mar 2022

Analysis Of Generalized Artificial Intelligence Potential Through Reinforcement And Deep Reinforcement Learning Approaches, Jonathan Turner

Theses and Dissertations

Artificial Intelligence is the next competitive domain; the first nation to develop human level artificial intelligence will have an impact similar to the development of the atomic bomb. To maintain the security of the United States and her people, the Department of Defense has funded research into the development of artificial intelligence and its applications. This research uses reinforcement learning and deep reinforcement learning methods as proxies for current and future artificial intelligence agents and to assess potential issues in development. Agent performance were compared across two games and one excursion: Cargo Loading, Tower of Hanoi, and Knapsack Problem, respectively. …


Applying Models Of Circadian Stimulus To Explore Ideal Lighting Configurations, Alexander J. Price Mar 2022

Applying Models Of Circadian Stimulus To Explore Ideal Lighting Configurations, Alexander J. Price

Theses and Dissertations

Increased levels of time are spent indoors, decreasing human interaction with nature and degrading photoentrainment, the synchronization of circadian rhythms with daylight variation. Military imagery analysts, among other professionals, are required to work in low light level environments to limit power consumption or increase contrast on display screens to improve detail detection. Insufficient exposure to light in these environments results in inadequate photoentrainment which is associated with degraded alertness and negative health effects. Recent research has shown that both the illuminance (i.e., perceived intensity) and wavelength of light affect photoentrainment. Simultaneously, modern lighting technologies have improved our ability to construct …


Malware Detection Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis, Matthew A. Bergstedt Mar 2022

Malware Detection Using Electromagnetic Side-Channel Analysis, Matthew A. Bergstedt

Theses and Dissertations

Many physical systems control or monitor important applications without the capacity to monitor for malware using on-device resources. Thus, it becomes valuable to explore malware detection methods for these systems utilizing external or off-device resources. This research investigates the viability of employing EM SCA to determine whether a performed operation is normal or malicious. A Raspberry Pi 3 was set up as a simulated motor controller with code paths for a normal or malicious operation. While the normal path only calculated the motor speed before updating the motor, the malicious path added a line of code to modify the calculated …


Exploiting The Iot Through Network-Based Covert Channels, Kyle S. Harris Mar 2022

Exploiting The Iot Through Network-Based Covert Channels, Kyle S. Harris

Theses and Dissertations

Information leaks are a top concern to industry and government leaders. The IoT is a technology capable of sensing real-world events. A method for exfiltrating data from these devices is by covert channel. This research designs a novel IoT CTC without the need for inter-packet delays to encode data. Instead, it encodes data within preexisting network information, namely ports or addresses. Additionally, the CTC can be implemented in two different modes: Stealth and Bandwidth. Performance is measured using throughput and detectability. The Stealth methods mimic legitimate traffic captures while the Bandwidth methods forgo this approach for maximum throughput. Detection results …


Approximate Dynamic Programming For An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing Problem With Obstacles And Stochastic Target Arrivals, Kassie M. Gurnell Mar 2022

Approximate Dynamic Programming For An Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Routing Problem With Obstacles And Stochastic Target Arrivals, Kassie M. Gurnell

Theses and Dissertations

The United States Air Force is investing in artificial intelligence (AI) to speed analysis in efforts to modernize the use of autonomous unmanned combat aerial vehicles (AUCAVs) in strike coordination and reconnaissance (SCAR) missions. This research examines an AUCAVs ability to execute target strikes and provide reconnaissance in a SCAR mission. An orienteering problem is formulated as anMarkov decision process (MDP) model wherein a single AUCAV must optimize its target route to aid in eliminating time-sensitive targets and collect imagery of requested named areas of interest while evading surface-to-air missile (SAM) battery threats imposed as obstacles. The AUCAV adjusts its …


Coupled Orbit-Attitude Dynamics And Control Of A Cubesat Equipped With A Robotic Manipulator, Charles M. Carr Mar 2022

Coupled Orbit-Attitude Dynamics And Control Of A Cubesat Equipped With A Robotic Manipulator, Charles M. Carr

Theses and Dissertations

This research investigates the utility and expected performance of a robotic servicing CubeSat. The coupled orbit-attitude dynamics of a 6U CubeSat equipped with a four-link serial manipulator are derived. A proportional-integral-derivative controller is implemented to guide the robot through a series of orbital scenarios, including rendezvous and docking following ejection from a chief spacecraft, repositioning the end effector to a desired location, and tracing a desired path with the end effector. Various techniques involving path planning and inverse differential kinematics are leveraged. Simulation results are presented and performance metrics such as settling time, state errors, control use, and system robustness …


Double Cone Flow Field Reconstruction Between Mach 4 And 12 Using Machine Learning Techniques, Trevor A. Toros Mar 2022

Double Cone Flow Field Reconstruction Between Mach 4 And 12 Using Machine Learning Techniques, Trevor A. Toros

Theses and Dissertations

No abstract provided.


90snet:, Seth Richard Mar 2022

90snet:, Seth Richard

Honors Capstones

No abstract provided.


Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr Mar 2022

Investigations On Cogging Torque Mitigation Techniques Of Transverse Flux Motorfor Direct Drive Low-Speed Spacecraft Applications, Ravichandran Mh, Venkatakirthiga Murali, Haridas Tr

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The transverse flux motor (TFM) is an ideal choice for direct drive high torque applications owing to its proven higher torque density compared to the radial flux and axial flux motors. TFM motors have several merits to be used for spacecraft applications, considering the everlasting demand of the industry for reduction in power and mass. This paper investigates the various cogging torque mitigation techniques for transverse flux motor to be effectively used as the drive motor for precise position control spacecraft requirement. The paper discusses the basic design variables of surface mounted TFM (SM-TFM) that are to be considered for …


Cryptographically Strong Random Number Generation Using Integrated Cmosphotodiodes For Low-Cost Microcontroller Based Applications, Baykal Sarioğlu Mar 2022

Cryptographically Strong Random Number Generation Using Integrated Cmosphotodiodes For Low-Cost Microcontroller Based Applications, Baykal Sarioğlu

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

In this work, we propose a method to generate random numbers for low-cost, low-power, resource-limited low data-rate microcontrollers using integrated CMOS photodiodes. The proposed method utilizes an integrated CMOS photodiode in the photovoltaic mode as the entropy source. The method is based on serially capturing analog values derived from the integrated CMOS photodiode. The entropy of these values increased by a custom algorithm. The proposed random number generator is devised using an integrated CMOS photodiode manufactured in 180 nm standard CMOS technology. The wide applicably of the random number generator is demonstrated by realizing it on a lowcost Arduino UNO …


Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen Mar 2022

Long-Term Traffic Flow Estimation: A Hybrid Approach Using Location-Basedtraffic Characteristic, Tuğberk Ayar, Ferhat Atli̇nar, Mehmet Amaç Güvensan, Hafi̇za İrem Türkmen

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Traffic speed estimation plays a key role in various situations, ranging from individual's trip planning to urban traffic management. Despite many studies on short-term prediction, there is only a limited number of studies focusing on long-term prediction and only a couple of them does go beyond 24 h. On the contrary, this study presents a novel hybrid architecture using location-based traffic characteristic for traffic speed estimation up to 7 days. In this architecture, the introduced mean filtering estimation (MFE) model and long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network are jointly utilized for minimizing the error for traffic flow estimation. Both MFE …


Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi Mar 2022

Privacy Preserving Scheme For Document Similarity Detection, Ayad Abdulsada, Salah Al-Darraji, Dhafer Honi

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The problem of detecting similar documents plays an essential role for many real-world applications, such as copyright protection and plagiarism detection. To protect data privacy, the new version of such a problem becomes more challenging, where the matched documents are distributed among two or more parties and their privacy should be preserved. In this paper, we propose new privacy-preserving document similarity detection schemes by utilizing the locality-sensitive hashing technique, which can handle the misspelled mistakes. Furthermore, the keywords' occurrences of a given document are integrated into its underlying representation to support a better ranking for the returned results. We introduced …


On An Electrostatic Micropump With A Rigorous Mathematical Model, İbrahi̇m Efe, Fati̇h Di̇kmen, Yury Tuchkin Mar 2022

On An Electrostatic Micropump With A Rigorous Mathematical Model, İbrahi̇m Efe, Fati̇h Di̇kmen, Yury Tuchkin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

The novel electrostatic micropump model for applications such as in biomedical drug delivery is presented. The geometrical arrangement of the coupling rigid electrodes lets us exploit our mathematically rigorous boundary integral equation formulation and its solution. Thus, the charge densities involving the fringe effects on the plates are obtained by means of analytical regularization method (ARM) constructed for annular strips earlier. The efficiency of the constructed method is demonstrated with respect to the direct integral equation solvers implemented via the entire domain Galerkin method and point matching. The main physical characteristics of the suggested system and their deviation from that …


A New Classification Method Using Soft Decision-Making Based On An Aggregation Operator Of Fuzzy Parameterized Fuzzy Soft Matrices, Samet Memi̇ş, Serdar Engi̇noğlu, Uğur Erkan Mar 2022

A New Classification Method Using Soft Decision-Making Based On An Aggregation Operator Of Fuzzy Parameterized Fuzzy Soft Matrices, Samet Memi̇ş, Serdar Engi̇noğlu, Uğur Erkan

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Recently, a precise and stable machine learning algorithm, i.e. eigenvalue classification method (EigenClass), has been developed by using the concept of generalised eigenvalues in contrast to common approaches, such as k-nearest neighbours, support vector machines, and decision trees. In this paper, we offer a new classification algorithm called fuzzy parameterized fuzzy soft aggregation classifier (FPFS-AC) to combine the modelling ability of soft decision-making (SDM) and classification success of generalised eigenvalues. FPFS-AC constructs a decision matrix by employing the similarity measures of fuzzy parameterized fuzzy soft matrices fpfs -matrices) and a generalised eigenvalue-based similarity measure. Then, it applies an SDM method …


Defect Classification Of Railway Fasteners Using Image Preprocessing And Alightweight Convolutional Neural Network, İlhan Aydin, Mehmet Sevi̇, Mehmet Umut Salur, Erhan Akin Mar 2022

Defect Classification Of Railway Fasteners Using Image Preprocessing And Alightweight Convolutional Neural Network, İlhan Aydin, Mehmet Sevi̇, Mehmet Umut Salur, Erhan Akin

Turkish Journal of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences

Railway fasteners are used to securely fix rails to sleeper blocks. Partial wear or complete loss of these components can lead to serious accidents and cause train derailments. To ensure the safety of railway transportation, computer vision and pattern recognition-based methods are increasingly used to inspect railway infrastructure. In particular, it has become an important task to detect defects in railway tracks. This is challenging since rail track images are acquired using a measuring train in varying environmental conditions, at different times of day and in poor lighting conditions, and the resulting images often have low contrast. In this study, …


The Impact Of Ride-Hail Surge Factors On Taxi Bookings, Sumit Agarwal, Ben Charoenwong, Shih-Fen Cheng, Jussi Keppo Mar 2022

The Impact Of Ride-Hail Surge Factors On Taxi Bookings, Sumit Agarwal, Ben Charoenwong, Shih-Fen Cheng, Jussi Keppo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

We study the role of ride-hailing surge factors on the allocative efficiency of taxis by combining a reduced-form estimation with structural analyses using machine-learning-based demand predictions. Where other research study the effect of entry on incumbent taxis, we use higher frequency granular data to study how location-time-specific surge factors affect taxi bookings to bound the effect of customer decisions while accounting for various confounding variables. We find that even in a unique market like Singapore, where incumbent taxi companies have app-based booking systems similar to those from ride-hailing companies like Uber, the estimated upper bound on the cross-platform substitution between …


Coordinated Delivery To Shopping Malls With Limited Docking Capacity, Ruidian Song, Hoong Chuin Lau, Xue Luo, Lei Zhao Mar 2022

Coordinated Delivery To Shopping Malls With Limited Docking Capacity, Ruidian Song, Hoong Chuin Lau, Xue Luo, Lei Zhao

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Shopping malls are densely located in major cities such as Singapore and Hong Kong. Tenants in these shopping malls generate a large number of freight orders to their contracted logistics service providers, who independently plan their own delivery schedules. These uncoordinated deliveries and limited docking capacity jointly cause congestion at the shopping malls. A delivery coordination platform centrally plans the vehicle routes for the logistics service providers and simultaneously schedules the dock time slots at the shopping malls for the delivery orders. Vehicle routing and dock scheduling decisions need to be made jointly against the backdrop of travel time and …


Analyzing Offline Social Engagements: An Empirical Study Of Meetup Events Related To Software Development, Abhishek Sharma, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Anamika Sawhney, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo Mar 2022

Analyzing Offline Social Engagements: An Empirical Study Of Meetup Events Related To Software Development, Abhishek Sharma, Gede Artha Azriadi Prana, Anamika Sawhney, Nachiappan Nagappan, David Lo

Research Collection School Of Computing and Information Systems

Software developers use a variety of social mediachannels and tools in order to keep themselves up to date,collaborate with other developers, and find projects to contributeto. Meetup is one of such social media used by softwaredevelopers to organize community gatherings. We in this work,investigate the dynamics of Meetup groups and events relatedto software development. Our work is different from previouswork as we focus on the actual event and group data that wascollected using Meetup API.In this work, we performed an empirical study of eventsand groups present on Meetup which are related to softwaredevelopment. First, we identified 6,327 Meetup groups related …


Advancing Ubiquitous Collaboration For Telehealth - A Framework To Evaluate Technology-Mediated Collaborative Workflow For Telehealth, Hypertension Exam Workflow Study, Christopher Bondy Ph.D., Linlin Chen Ph.D, Pamela Grover Md, Pengcheng Shi Ph.D Feb 2022

Advancing Ubiquitous Collaboration For Telehealth - A Framework To Evaluate Technology-Mediated Collaborative Workflow For Telehealth, Hypertension Exam Workflow Study, Christopher Bondy Ph.D., Linlin Chen Ph.D, Pamela Grover Md, Pengcheng Shi Ph.D

Articles

Healthcare systems are under siege globally regarding technology adoption; the recent pandemic has only magnified the issues. Providers and patients alike look to new enabling technologies to establish real-time connectivity and capability for a growing range of remote telehealth solutions. The migration to new technology is not as seamless as clinicians and patients would like since the new workflows pose new responsibilities and barriers to adoption across the telehealth ecosystem. Technology-mediated workflows (integrated software and personal medical devices) are increasingly important in patient-centered healthcare; software-intense systems will become integral in prescribed treatment plans [1]. My research explored the path to …


Faster Multidimensional Data Queries On Infrastructure Monitoring Systems, Yinghua Qin, Gheorghi Guzun Feb 2022

Faster Multidimensional Data Queries On Infrastructure Monitoring Systems, Yinghua Qin, Gheorghi Guzun

Faculty Research, Scholarly, and Creative Activity

The analytics in online performance monitoring systems have often been limited due to the query performance of large scale multidimensional data. In this paper, we introduce a faster query approach using the bit-sliced index (BSI). Our study covers multidimensional grouping and preference top-k queries with the BSI, algorithms design, time complexity evaluation, and the query time comparison on a real-time production performance monitoring system. Our research work extended the BSI algorithms to cover attributes filtering and multidimensional grouping. We evaluated the query time with the single attribute, multiple attributes, feature filtering, and multidimensional grouping. To compare with the existing prior …


An Ensemble Approach For Patient Prognosis Of Head And Neck Tumor Using Multimodal Data, Numan Saeed, Roba Al Majzoub, Ikboljon Sobirov, Mohammad Yaqub Feb 2022

An Ensemble Approach For Patient Prognosis Of Head And Neck Tumor Using Multimodal Data, Numan Saeed, Roba Al Majzoub, Ikboljon Sobirov, Mohammad Yaqub

Computer Vision Faculty Publications

Accurate prognosis of a tumor can help doctors provide a proper course of treatment and, therefore, save the lives of many. Tradi-tional machine learning algorithms have been eminently useful in crafting prognostic models in the last few decades. Recently, deep learning algorithms have shown significant improvement when developing diag-nosis and prognosis solutions to different healthcare problems. However, most of these solutions rely solely on either imaging or clinical data. Utilizing patient tabular data such as demographics and patient med-ical history alongside imaging data in a multimodal approach to solve a prognosis task has started to gain more interest recently and …


Designing Respectful Tech: What Is Your Relationship With Technology?, Noreen Y. Whysel Feb 2022

Designing Respectful Tech: What Is Your Relationship With Technology?, Noreen Y. Whysel

Publications and Research

According to research at the Me2B Alliance, people feel they have a relationship with technology. It’s emotional. It’s embodied. And it’s very personal. We are studying digital relationships to answer questions like “Do people have a relationship with technology?” “What does that relationship feel like?” And “Do people understand the commitments that they are making when they explore, enter into and dissolve these relationships?” There are parallels between messy human relationships and the kinds of relationships that people develop with technology. As with human relationships, we move through states of discovery, commitment and breakup with digital applications as well. Technology …


Job Scheduling And Simulation In Cloud Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning, Qirui Li, Xinyi Peng Feb 2022

Job Scheduling And Simulation In Cloud Based On Deep Reinforcement Learning, Qirui Li, Xinyi Peng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To solve the difficulty in job scheduling in the complex and transient multi-user, multi-queue, and multi-data-center cloud computing environment, this paper proposed a job scheduling method based on deep reinforcement learning. A system model of cloud job scheduling and its mathematical model were built, and an optimization goal consisting of transmission time, waiting time, and execution time was obtained. A job scheduling algorithm based on deep reinforcement learning was designed, and its state space, action space, and reward function were given. A simulated cloud job scheduler was designed and developed, and simulated scheduling experiments were conducted on it. The …


Multi-Floor Evacuation Model Based On Wavelet Neural Network, Juan Wei, Lei You, Yangyong Guo, Zhihai Tang Feb 2022

Multi-Floor Evacuation Model Based On Wavelet Neural Network, Juan Wei, Lei You, Yangyong Guo, Zhihai Tang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Crowd evacuation in a multi-floor environment is a popular social concern, while the stagnation phenomenon easily occurs when simulating a multi-floor complex environment with the traditional social force model. Therefore, An improved social force model is proposed by a wavelet neural network, and a new multi-floor evacuation model is built. In the model, a pedestrian's direction of movement is obtained by the field model, which is used as the self-driving direction of the social force model. Meanwhile, the evaluation indexes of the exit congestion degree, path congestion degree, and average velocity in a multi-floor environment are given, and a …


Research On Semantic Segmentation Of Natural Landform Based On Edge Detection Module, Qizong Shen, Chunyan Gao Feb 2022

Research On Semantic Segmentation Of Natural Landform Based On Edge Detection Module, Qizong Shen, Chunyan Gao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: To classify pixels of natural landform edges in remote sensing images, this paper proposes a multi-channel fusion model and a decoder-side module model both integrating an edge detection module. The edge detection module takes the Canny operator as the base to perform closed operations and mean filtering, as a result of which accurate image edges can be achieved. Based on DeepLabV3+, the semantic segmentation network is connected with an edge planning module in parallel at encoder and decoder sides respectively. The experimental results show that the two improved networks can achieve a better segmentation effect on a high-resolution natural …


Zoomfft-Based Demodulation Algorithm For Underwater Acoustic Ofdm Signals, Qing Guo, Angdi Li, Jing Wu, Haitao Su Feb 2022

Zoomfft-Based Demodulation Algorithm For Underwater Acoustic Ofdm Signals, Qing Guo, Angdi Li, Jing Wu, Haitao Su

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The picket fence effect of fast Fourier transform (FFT) restricts the demodulation performance of the underwater acoustic(UWA) communication systemusing orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM). To solve this problem, we propose a demodulation algorithm based on ZoomFFT. Specifically, the received signal is processed by frequency shifting and downsampling forarefined spectrum, which improves the spectralresolution and weakens the picketfence effect.Meanwhile, the channel response is refined, and the channel equalization algorithm is constructed on the basis of the minimum mean square error (MMSE) principle to eliminate the channel influence. Simulations show that the performance of underwater acoustic OFDM demodulation algorithm based on …