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Effects Of Equivalence Ratio During Shutdown Of A Rocket Engine On Hardware Longevity, Benjamin Black

Discovery Day - Prescott

During the shutdown or purge period after firing of a rocket engine it is critical to understand what equivalence ratios are desirable and implement a shutdown sequence so that the hardware is subjected to the lowest thermal and mechanical loading. Furthermore, it is essential that hazards to the test technicians caused by this method be minimized. The initial study was conducted into combustion mechanics, to understand how the reactants would ideally behave at varying equivalence ratios and in both pre-mixed and diffusion flame combustion. Using this foundation an analytical model for a Propane-Oxygen flame was created and tested using a …

Space Debris Characterization Using Machine Learning Methods, Anson Biggs, Ana Bader-Elenes

Discovery Day - Prescott

Orbital debris is a form of pollution that is growing at an exponential pace and puts current and future space infrastructure at risk. Satellites are critical to military, commercial, and civil operations. Unfortunately, the space they occupy is increasingly becoming more crowded and dangerous, potentially leading to a cascade event that could turn orbit around the Earth into an unusable wasteland for decades proper mitigation is not introduced. Unfortunately, existing models employed by NASA rely on a dataset created from 2D images and are missing many crucial features required for correctly modeling the space debris environment. Our approach uses highresolution …

Team Keryx: Project Lifelink, Robert Belz-Templeman, Evan Hefflin, Jessica Millard, Ariana Anderson, Jacob Hindmarsh, Corey Washburn

Discovery Day - Prescott

First responders such as wildland firefighters, search and rescue crews, and disaster relief workers often operate in cellular-service-denied environments. This lack of long-range communication channels greatly inhibits the spread of vital information. Project LifeLink is Team Keryx’s capstone project designed to solve this issue as well as meeting the course goals of AE 420/421. The course goals for AE 420/421 are to utilize the skills and knowledge obtained in prior classes to design, develop, build, and test an aircraft tailored to a specific challenge. The students will work together in an organized structure and process to prepare them for industry …

An Applied Electromagnetics Course With A Conceiving-Designing-Implementing-Operating Approach In Engineering Education, M. R. Pérez-Cerquera, Hurtado Londono, Juan M. Cruz-Bohorquez

Henry M. Rowan College of Engineering Departmental Research

This paper describes and discusses the implementation of a project-based undergraduate course on applied electromagnetics in electronics engineering with a conceiving-designing-implementing-operating (CDIO) approach involving active project-based learning (PBL). The course, which requires a combination of mathematical and physics concepts for its completion, allows students to understand the principles of electromagnetic transmission theory in wireless communication systems. This paper presents the course proposal, its project description, and results hinting at the relationship with the CDIO process. The proposed projects allow students to engage in core concepts such as complex vectors, Maxwell’s equations, boundary conditions, Poynting's theorem, uniform plane waves, reflection and …

Predicting Lattice Vibrational Frequencies Using Deep Graph Neural Networks, Nghia Nguyen, Steph-Yves V. Louis, Lai Wei, Kamal Choudhary, Ming Hu, Jianjun Hu

Faculty Publications

Lattice vibrational frequencies are related to many important materials properties such as thermal and electrical conductivity as well as superconductivity. However, computational calculation of vibrational frequencies using density functional theory methods is computationally too demanding for large number of samples in materials screening. Here we propose a deep graph neural network based algorithm for predicting crystal vibrational frequencies from crystal structures. Our algorithm addresses the variable dimension of vibrational frequency spectrum using the zero padding scheme. Benchmark studies on two data sets with 15,000 mixed-structure and 35,552 rhombohedra samples show that the aggregated R2 scores of the prediction reach …

Autonomous Vehicles On The Smart Roads: Challenges And Potentials, Laura Cristancho, Baleki Campbell, Mahyar Amirgholy

The Kennesaw Journal of Undergraduate Research

Self-driving vehicles and smart roads are not new concepts. These ideas have been discussed for many years but for much of this time, the required technology was not available to make them a reality. Just recently has our technology caught up to our ideas and we are beginning to see progress towards the realization of the automated highway system. As the transition to a complete automated system is still in progress, this leaves many questions that still need to be answered as well as allowing for novel solutions to be presented. Using modern research papers to formulate a sound basis …

Proposal To Augment U.S. Army Lsa And Uars, Cameron Beard

Discovery Day - Prescott

The U.S. Army currently has a gap in its aerial reconnaissance capabilities, with the OH-58D Kiowa completing its phase transition to the AH-64E. Since the Army has done away with its rotary-wing scout aircraft, it currently relies on the AH-64E attack helicopter (an aircraft not designed for such a role), in tandem with UAS RQ- 7Bs and MQ-1C Grey Eagle. These aircraft use the MUM-T (Manned-Unmanned Teaming) system, which allows AH-64E pilots to control the camera and weaponry of the drones while both aircraft are in flight. The draw back to this system lies in two categories; 1) the inability …

Interactive Planetarium Project, Eric Babcock, Cody Park, Johann Van Hilst

Discovery Day - Prescott

The Interactive Planetarium Project will design and build the software framework for connectivity between the Digistar 6 planetarium projection software and the smartphones of all audience members in the Jim and Linda Lee Planetarium. The goal of this project is to make planetarium shows more participatory, add a feature to our planetarium shows that many other universities do not yet have, and create a framework for future students and faculty to build from. To demonstrate our technology, we will make a real-time competitive trivia game able to support 60 concurrent users (number of expected audience members in the planetarium).

The …

Tip Driven Rotor System, Kevin Allyas

Discovery Day - Prescott

The Tip-Driven Rotor System (TDRS) Project is a product designed for KRyanCreative, LLC (KRC), as the basis of a Levitated Annular Rotor System (LARS) for commercial and tactical military vertical takeoff and landing (VTOL) vehicles. Conceptually, this design will greatly increase power density and lift capacity over conventional shaft-centric helicopters. The design also enables variable rotational velocity control that can greatly expand the VTOL flight envelope. The LARS innovatively leverages electromagnetism and superconductive levitation in the transfer of energy from vehicle source to aerodynamic lifting surface. The benefits of LARS include: the reduction of wing tip vortices due to a …

Adherence To Selected Air Carrier (Airline) Operational Regulations For Improved General Aviation Flight Safety In Degraded Visibility, Douglas D. Boyd, Mark T. Scharf

Journal of Aviation Technology and Engineering

Introduction: General aviation largely comprises fixed-wing piston-engine light aircraft (,12,500 lbs). Unfortunately, this civil aviation sector suffers a vastly inferior safety record when compared with air carriers (60- to 80-fold higher accident rate). Additionally, such mishaps pose a considerable financial burden to both the affected family and the United States: US$1.64–4.64 billion annually. We hypothesize that this safety disparity partly reflects more stringent operational regulations for air carriers. Herein, we determined whether compliance with six selected air carrier regulations could potentially reduce general aviation accidents in degraded visibility (IMC) the majority of which are fatal. Methods: Accidents (2005–2019) were identified …

Persistent Mapping Of Sensor Data For Medium-Term Autonomy, Kevin Nickels, Jason Gassaway, Matthew Bries, David Anthony, Graham W. Fiorani

Engineering Faculty Research

For vehicles to operate in unmapped areas with some degree of autonomy, it would be useful to aggregate and store processed sensor data so that it can be used later. In this paper, a tool that records and optimizes the placement of costmap data on a persistent map is presented. The optimization takes several factors into account, including local vehicle odometry, GPS signals when available, local map consistency, deformation of map regions, and proprioceptive GPS offset error. Results illustrating the creation of maps from previously unseen regions (a 100 m × 880 m test track and a 1.2 km dirt …

A Modified Point Matching Method For Non-Rigid Image Registration, Jintai Shangguan, Yawen Dang, Wei Lian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the problem that the registration results tend to converge to local minima due to the complexity of the relative position changes between two point sets in the non-rigid body point matching process, a joint estimation method for non-rigid body point matching based on precenter alignment is proposed, a modified matching method for non-rigid image registration based on centre preregistration is proposed. To better achieve the point matching accuracy between two point sets, a centre preregistration step is applied before the iterative closest point matching algorithm, which converges to a solution more close to a global optimum and …

Transfer Method Of Operational Simulation Experiment Scope Using Compromised Case-Based Reasoning, Jun Ma, Jingyu Yang, Xi Wu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The scope of operational simulation experiment is usually determined by experts, which costs relatively high. In order to transfer the knowledge of experimental scope selection from historical data of operational simulation experiment to new operational experiment cases, the method of compromised case-based reasoning is proposed. According to the data characteristics of the case, the representation method of the operational simulation experiment case is proposed; according to the structure and attribute characteristics of the case, the hybrid similarity calculation method of subjective and objective comprehensive weighting is proposed; aiming at the problems of retrieval failure and less information content …

Optimal Dispatch Of Integrated Energy System Considering Ladder-Type Carbon Trading, Liying Wang, Jialin Lin, Houqi Dong, Ming Zeng, Yuqing Wang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: With the development of the electricity market and carbon market,the introduction of demand response and carbon trading mechanisms into the operation and dispatch of integrated energy systems will help guide users and system operators to optimize electricity consumption and dispatch plans.The comprehensive incentive measures such as time-of-use electricity prices and demand response incentive subsidies are used to guide users to participate in demand response.A two-layer stochastic optimal scheduling model for a comprehensive energy system considering the ladder-type carbon trading mechanism and demand response is constructed based on IGDT (information gap decision theory) theory.The two-layer model is converted …

Bi-Level Optimization Of Distribution Network For Hybrid Energy Storage System Of Storage Battery And Hydrogen Storage, Feibo Feng, Xingde Yan, Baoqiang Zheng, Xiaofeng Yin, Mengzhen Zhou, Xin Jiang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Under the background of carbon neutralization and emission peaking goals and the utilization of clean hydrogen energy, aiming at the demand of distribution network configuring electrochemical energy storage and hydrogen energy storage system to form a hybrid energy storage system to improve power quality, a bi-level optimization model of the hybrid energy storage system is established. The upper level location and capacity model comprehensively considers the investment cost, network loss cost and voltage offset, while the lower level optimization operation model considers the operation cost of hybrid energy storage system, and the voltage stability index is introduced for evaluation. …

Modeling And Simulation Of Optimal Strategy For Electric Vehicles Participating In Power Grid Frequency Regulation, Li Yao, Junjie Hu, Wenshuai Ma, Zhile Yang

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Electric vehicles (EVs) have similar characteristics of distributed energy storage, and making full use of the flexibility of EVs can provide ancillary services to the grid and gain benefits. Considering the influence of uncertain factors, a bidding model for electric vehicle aggregator (EVA) to participate in the day-ahead energy market and frequency regulation ancillary service market is constructed with the maximum revenue expectation of EVA as the target. A real-time energy distribution incentive strategy based on contract theory is proposed to realize the distribution of EVA's frequency regulation demand under the condition of maximizing social welfare. Through case studies, …

Simulation Model Of Forest Fire Spread Based On Swarm Intelligence, Aibin Chen, Fubo Ding, Guoxiong Zhou, Bo Zhou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aiming at the shortcomings of high computational complexity and low simulation accuracy of traditional forest fire spread model, a forest fire spread simulation model based on swarm intelligence is proposed.By establishing fuel factor matrix and landform factor matrix, and combining with the real-time meteorological information, the computational complexity is reduced; the spread behavior of the forest fire is abstracted as the cluster behavior of each module fire point, and the correlation between modules is considered to improve the accuracy of forest fire spread simulation model.The model is compared with Wang Zhengfei model and two-dimensional cellular automata model. …

Two Stage Optimization Algorithm To Solve The Green Packing Vehicle Routing Problem, Rong Hu, Wen Jiang, Bin Qian, Naikang Yu

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The green open vehicle routing problem with two-dimensional loading constraints (2L-GOVRP) is integration of the green open vehicle routing problem and two-dimensional bin packing problem. The model of 2L-GOVRP is established and a two-stage optimization algorithm (TSOA) is proposed to minimize fuel consumption. In the first stage of TSOA, adaptive whale optimization algorithm (AWOA) is designed to solve the vehicle routing problem, which determine the initial delivery route of the vehicle (the initial solution of 2L-GOVRP). The algorithm has four kinds of variable neighborhoods local operation to perform a local search. In the second stage of TSOA, the skyline …

A Method Of Loose Coupling Entity Modeling Based On Variable Rules, Zheng Yang, Zhimin Xiang, Shiwen Ma

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Operational Entity Modeling is a hot research topic in the field of combat simulation. A loose coupling entity modeling method based on variable rules is proposed. The architecture of operational entity model based on variable rules and the internal and external interaction mechanism of the model are presented in terms of entity, mission, action, interaction, event and rule. On this basis, the running framework of operational entity model is designed, and the entity model uniform scheduling mechanism is standardized, which solves the problems of over-tight coupling of operational rules in the operational entity model and low reliability of the …

Research On Prediction Of Model Based On Multi-Scale Lstm, Junjie Qiu, Hong Zheng, Yunhui Cheng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Aircraft engine remaining useful life (RUL) prediction is the core issue in equipmentfailure prognostics and health management (PHM). Aiming at the characteristics of high dimensionality, high lag and complexity of engine data, a multi-scale attention-based bidirectional long short-term memory neural network model based on self-training weights is proposed. Multi-scale features are extracted through bidirectional long short-term memory neural network (BiLSTM) of different scales. A fusion algorithm based on self-training weights is proposed, and an attention mechanism is introduced to screen features at different scales to improve prediction accuracy. Various models are compared on the NASA's C-MAPSS data set. The …

Space Science Satellite Data Processing Framework Research And System Implementation, Wenzhen Ma, Ziming Zou, Jianhui Li, Qinsi Yu, Jizhou Tong, Jingjing Li

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Based on the needs of China's space science strategy and series of on-orbit and forthcoming satellite missions in China's Strategic Priority Program on space science, data processing framework and key technologies of the satellite ground segment are studied. A general technical framework SDPF (space science satellite data processing framework) is proposed with two-layer scheduling engine, including mission-level and resource-level. The design and implementation of an automatic, efficient, real-time and standard space science satellite data processing system has been established. In this way, complicated processing procedures on large-scale data from multi-satellite missions and multi-payload can be completed quickly in parallel. …

Ultra-Real-Time Visual Simulation System For Multi-View Rendering Tasks, Xunyun Liu, Xinhai Xu, Chengzhang Zhu, Hao Li, Lei Zeng

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: For multi-view rendering tasks, a theoretical analysis of ultra-real-time visual simulation is given in terms of implementation principle and feasibility. Based on the theoretical results, an ultra-real-time visual simulation architecture is designed, which decouples the simulation and rendering computation. A parallel-rendering-based ultra-real-time visual simulation method is proposed to solve the problems of rendering task assignment, simulation world synchronization, and rendering-execution time selection. An ultra-real-time visual simulation system is implemented based on Unreal Engine 4 (UE4), the performance of which is demonstrated on a designated application case per rendering efficiency and ultra-real-time simulation.

Verification Of Transaction Ordering Dependence Vulnerability Of Smart Contract Based On Cpn, Hong Zheng, Zerun Liu, Jianhua Huang, Shihui Qian

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: The formal verification of smart contracts researches mainly focus on programming language-level vulnerabilities, and the transaction ordering dependence is more difficult to be detected as a blockchain-level vulnerability.The latent transaction ordering dependence vulnerability in smart contracts is formally verified based on colored Petri nets.The latent vulnerability in the Decode reward contractis analyzed, anda colored Petri net model of the contract itself and its execution environment is established from top to bottom.The attacker model is introduced to consider the situation that the contract is attacked. By running the model to verify the existence of transaction ordering dependence vulnerability in …

Commercial Janus Fabrics As Reusable Facemask Materials: A Balance Of Water Repellency, Filtration Efficiency, Breathability, And Reusability, Steven Cheng, Weixing Hao, Yuchen Wang, Yang Wang, Shu Yang

Civil, Architectural and Environmental Engineering Faculty Research & Creative Works

Facemasks as personal protective equipment play a significant role in helping prevent the spread of viruses during the COVID-19 pandemic. A desired reusable fabric facemask should strike a balance of water repellency, good filtration efficiency (FE), breathability, and mechanical robustness against washing cycles. Despite significant efforts in testing various commercial fabric materials for filtration efficiency, few have investigated fabric performance as a function of the fiber/yarn morphology and wettability of the fabric itself. In this study, we examine commercial fabrics with Janus-like behaviors to determine the best reusable fabric facemask materials by understanding the roles of morphology, porosity, and wettability …

Adaptive Balancing Compensation In Distribution Grid Of Ultra High-Power Manufacturing Plants, Motab Almousa

LSU Doctoral Dissertations

This dissertation presents a method of adaptive compensation, capable of handling power factor and the supply quality improvement under non-sinusoidal conditions. The focus in this dissertation is put on developing compensation for ultra-high power metallurgical plants, meaning on compensation in three-phase, four-wire ultra-high power dynamic, distribution systems. A separate attention in the dissertation is put on the adaptive compensation of ultrahigh power arc furnaces. The dissertation also presents an original method of adaptive compensation of DC current generated by such arc furnaces.

The proposed compensator is developed in the frame of the Currents’ Physical Components (CPC) – based power theory. …

Wetland Soil Development Along Salinity And Hydrogeomorphic Gradients In Active And Inactive Deltaic Basins Of Coastal Louisiana, Amanda Fontenot

LSU Master's Theses

Coastal wetlands provide an abundance of ecosystem services that benefit society, such as essential habitat for commercial species, storm protection, nutrient cycling, and carbon storage. Louisiana faces rapid rates of relative sea level rise (natural subsidence and eustatic sea levels) that threaten wetland survival, which are amplified by a reduction of riverine sediment input. An important determining factor of marsh survival is the formation of wetland platform elevation, known as vertical accretion, which is determined by several processes including sediment deposition & erosion, below ground biomass (BGB) productivity, decomposition of organic matter, shallow & deep subsidence, and soil compaction. Feldspar …

Modeling And Simulation Of Sofc System With Heat Transfer Among Bop Components, Ling Hong, Rongmin Wu, Jianwu Zhou, Tian Xia, Xiaojie Li, Pengjie Tian, Hao Peng, Chunhui Shou

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: High temperature solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) is a high temperature and efficient hydrogen-electric conversion device. Its high temperature operating environment puts forward higher requirements for thermal insulation of stack and balance of plants(BoP) in the system. In this paper, a lumped SOFC system model is established based on the thermal efficiency-heat transfer unit number method (ε-NTU method), in combination with limited measurable parameters for high-temperature system.Quantitative analysis of components temperature and heat transfer among components can be achieved by heat exchange simulation between components and BoP hot-box environment. A simple feedback controlleris designed for system self-starting and operation. …

Research On Multi-Robot Slam Map Fusionmethod Based On Heuristics, Tong Wang, Guangtao Shang, Shan Gao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is a key technology for mobile robots to complete map construction and positioning tasks in an unknown environment. Aiming at the map fusion problem in multi-robot SLAM, a heuristic search method is proposed to guide the repeated regions of the local map for map fusion. Each robot can build a local map without knowing its relative position, and send the local map information to the same workstation, and use the similarity of the local map as the judgment index to fuse to obtain the optimal global map.Verified on the robot physical platform, the …

Aerial Target Threat Assessment Method Based On Deep Learning, Huimin Chai, Yong Zhang, Xinyue Li, Yanan Song

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Due to many factors of aerial target threat assessment and the lack of self-learning ability of current assessment methods, a deep neural network model for aerial target threat assessment is established using deep learning theory. In order to improve the fitting effect of the model training, a symmetric pre-training method is given. The hidden layers of the model are pre-trained layer by layer, and finally the whole model is trained. Sample data and air to air simulation scene experiments are carried out respectively. The experiments results show that the accuracy of the model using the symmetric pre-training method is …

Game-Based Resource Allocation And Task Offloading Scheme In Collaborative Cloud-Edge Computing System, Xuewen Wu, Jingxian Liao

Journal of System Simulation

Abstract: Considering the delay, energy consumption and computing resource cost, the utility maximization problem in collaborative cloud-edge system is constructed, and divided into three subproblems: computing resource allocation, uplink power allocation and task offloading strategy. A game-based resource allocation and task offloading(GRATO) scheme is proposed to solve those subproblems. The optimal solution of computing resource allocation is obtained by using convex optimization conditions; a low complexity uplink power allocation method is designed to reduce wireless interfere; a game-based distributed task offloading algorithm (GDTOA) is proposed to optimize the task offloading strategy. Simulation results show that the performance of GRATO is …