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Numerical Analysis Of Hybrid Server Immersed In Synthetic Dielectric Fluid, Bhavana Reddy Mandadi Dec 2022

Numerical Analysis Of Hybrid Server Immersed In Synthetic Dielectric Fluid, Bhavana Reddy Mandadi

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In recent years there has been a phenomenal development in cloud computing, networking, virtualization, and storage, which has increased the demand for data centers. With this increase, there is a demand for higher CPU (Central Processing Unit) performance and an increase in the Thermal Design Power (TDP). Maintaining the CPU temperature within the specified parameters for air-cooled servers is a challenge in thermal engineering (due to performance). One of the components of the Data Centers with the largest energy consumption is the cooling system, which uses over 40% of the energy. Advancements in DRAMs and the increased support of CPUs …


Conceptual Gas Turbine Hybrid Engine Design For High Speed Rail Locomotive Propulsion, Frank Roger Tennyson Dec 2022

Conceptual Gas Turbine Hybrid Engine Design For High Speed Rail Locomotive Propulsion, Frank Roger Tennyson

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The modern experimental jet train developed by Bombardier Transportation was designed to partner with the present day electrified Acela high speed trains. The Jet train would provide transportation to areas (Rural etc.), as well as transcontinental capabilities to existing towns and cities where electrified propulsion units are not feasible. The Bombardier Jet Train utilizes petroleum-based fuel, diesel engine power, and multiple turboshaft engines, for higher speeds. The Pratt and Whitney PW150 engine design parameters will be used to develop the Conceptual Hybrid Turbo Shaft Engine (CHTS). The newer Conceptual Hybrid Turbo Shaft Engine (CHTS) should increase engine performance, lower specific …


Thermally Charging Capacitor: A New Protocol To Accurately Measure The Thermoelectric Potential, Amit Phalak Dec 2022

Thermally Charging Capacitor: A New Protocol To Accurately Measure The Thermoelectric Potential, Amit Phalak

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Harvesting energy from waste heat would benefit in creating sustainable systems. Specifically, thermoelectric energy conversion can be used for low-grade waste heat recovery. However, the efficiency of conventional solid-state (i.e., semiconductor) has reached to the upper limit and could not make any advancement for more than 30 years. As a paradigm shift from solid-state thermoelectric conversion, in this study, ionic thermoelectric phenomena in liquid are explored. An electrolyte, with disproportionate size of anions and cations, when subjected to a temperature gradient can experience induced ion separation. In the phenomenon known as “Soret effect”, the smaller ions with higher mobility move …


An Integrated Design Tool For Tow-Steered Composite Laminate In Abaqus, Twinkle Kothari Dec 2022

An Integrated Design Tool For Tow-Steered Composite Laminate In Abaqus, Twinkle Kothari

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The material of choice for contemporary aircraft and its component design over the past few decades has shifted more and more toward fiber-reinforced composites. This is mainly due to the improved strength, lightweight, corrosion resistance, design flexibility, and durability of composites over traditional metals. Advanced tailorable composites such as tow-steered composites can be designed and fabricated with fibers following prescribed curvilinear paths, which provides improved mechanical performance compared with unidirectional fiber-reinforced composites (UDFRCs). However, the potential of tow-steered composites oftentimes fails to be exploited due to the lack of design tools. Currently, there are no commercially available design tools for …


Fixed Wing Aircraft Collision Avoidance Using Collision Cone Theory, Andrew T. Iii Beary Aug 2022

Fixed Wing Aircraft Collision Avoidance Using Collision Cone Theory, Andrew T. Iii Beary

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This thesis develops the guidance and control components of an aircraft collision avoidance system, using a collision cone-based approach. These guidance and control laws are developed by considering the nonlinear relative kinematic equations of the aircraft that are on a collision course, as well as the nonlinear flight dynamics of the aircraft performing the collision avoidance maneuver. The longitudinal and lateral-directional axes of the aircraft are considered separately. The developed guidance and control laws are subsequently integrated with the nonlinear aircraft dynamics in a MATLAB/Simulink framework, and simulations performed to demonstrate the working of the overall system.


Development Of An Electro-Pneumatic Servo Clutch And Industry-Level Controller, Timothy Stevens May 2022

Development Of An Electro-Pneumatic Servo Clutch And Industry-Level Controller, Timothy Stevens

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This thesis covers the simulation and development of an electro-pneumatic servo clutch used on an FSAE racecar. This project utilizes a sophisticated simulation and various techniques to increase performance such as utilizing pulse-width and pulse-frequency modulation and the use of a 36V supply with constant current limiting to drive the solenoids. The clutch is actuated using a pneumatic cylinder with the internal pressure modulated using commercially available CNG fuel injectors. This thesis also describes the development of the electronic controller designed using analog circuits, as well as the integration of digital circuits to control operations such as launch control and …


Computational Reliability Analysis Of Blind Micro-Via With 3d And Axisymmetric Multi-Layer Pcb, Jayendra Bazaru May 2022

Computational Reliability Analysis Of Blind Micro-Via With 3d And Axisymmetric Multi-Layer Pcb, Jayendra Bazaru

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Micro-via are components that are used to form connections from one layer to another in most Multilayered Printed Circuit Boards (PCBs). The failure of Micro-via has always been a concern of the electronic industry. The failures are exaggerated during the reflow process due to the high thermal loading. Electronic components have become ubiquitous in our society. It is important to take some measures to reduce (or) eliminate the failures at interconnects in the Printed Circuit Board to obtain highly reliable Input/Output (I/O). This work is based on a hypothetical belief that the possible cause of failure is an insufficient or …


Internal Pressure Response Of A Human Head Surrogate Model Subject To Variable Impact Loading With Finite Element Analysis, Aaron Ronald Jackson Dec 2021

Internal Pressure Response Of A Human Head Surrogate Model Subject To Variable Impact Loading With Finite Element Analysis, Aaron Ronald Jackson

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Traumatic brain injury (TBI) from blunt impacts to the head is a major cause of brain disease and dysfunction for thousands of people every year. Each year in the United States approximately 1 million TBI cases occur causing as many as 56,000 deaths and leaving nearly 90,000 individuals with long-term disabilities. Damage resulting from a TBI occurs on a multiscale level including the macroscopic, tissue, and neuron length scale. This research focuses on correlating the macroscopic blunt impact conditions to the internal pressure developed in the coup and countercoup for water and gelatin-filled head models. Two separate 3D printed models …


Synthesis And Characterization Of Graphene-Reinforced Polymer Filaments For Additive Manufacturing, Sean Menezes Dec 2021

Synthesis And Characterization Of Graphene-Reinforced Polymer Filaments For Additive Manufacturing, Sean Menezes

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Fused Deposition Modeling (FDM) is a popular 3D printing process which uses a spool of thermoplastic polymer filament that is melted by the movable extruder printer head onto the bed to generate the required shape. The most used polymer filaments in FDM are Acrylonitrile Butadiene Styrene (ABS) and Poly Lactic Acid (PLA). However, these conventional polymer filaments have lower mechanical strength and are more susceptible to cracking as the cooler parts of the printed part shrink so much that they cause cracks to develop, leading to warping. The current investigation focuses on the synthesis of graphene, synthesis of polymer filaments …


Reverse Engineering To Create High Quality Polymer Parts Using Additive Manufacturing, Gurtej Singh Tarsem Singh Channa Dec 2021

Reverse Engineering To Create High Quality Polymer Parts Using Additive Manufacturing, Gurtej Singh Tarsem Singh Channa

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Reverse engineering is a process of recreating parts for which the tools no longer exist, reducing the cost of an original part by manufacturing it in-house or redesigning and improving the original part's function. This research demonstrates two methods to reverse engineer a part using Polyworks software, having it printed using an SLS printer and checking the accuracy of the printed part to the original scan. The part is first scanned using a Faro-Arm laser scanner to obtain the point cloud data. The two methods used to recreate and extract the STEP file are: • Exporting NURBS. • Exporting Features …


Development Of The Vehicle Configuration Compendium: A Comprehensive Data-Information-Knowledge System To Aid In High-Speed Vehicle Design, Stenila Simon Dec 2021

Development Of The Vehicle Configuration Compendium: A Comprehensive Data-Information-Knowledge System To Aid In High-Speed Vehicle Design, Stenila Simon

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The conceptual design phase is the most crucial phase in hypersonic vehicle design. Choices made during this phase will have significant impact on the success of the overall project and the feasibility of the end-product. Therefore, it is of utmost importance for the design decision-maker to be adequately informed of past-to-present projects throughout the aerospace community and lessons learned from them. This avoids wasting valuable time and resources for reinventing the wheel. There currently exists no one-stop solution in the aerospace industry to address the issue of lost data, information and knowledge in the field of high-speed vehicle design. The …


Relating Linear And Rotational Accelerations With Internal Pressures Developed Inside Human Head Surrogate Models, Arthur Thomas Koster Dec 2021

Relating Linear And Rotational Accelerations With Internal Pressures Developed Inside Human Head Surrogate Models, Arthur Thomas Koster

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Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a chronic disease process that is difficult to both detect and treat. TBI can result from blast, kinetic, sonic, and electromagnet energy sources. This research focuses on correlating the bulk acceleration of a human-like head model to the localized internal pressure developed in the coup and contrecoup regions due to variable impact loading. Damage resulting in a TBI occurs on a multiscale level from the macroscale down to the damage of each individual neuron. Obtaining a relationship between bulk acceleration and localized internal pressure will allow for further correlation to the damage done on these …


Investigation Of Heat Transfer Performance Of Double Pipe Counter-Flow Heat Pipe Using Three Fluids Water, Dowtherm, And Water-Based Nanofluid, Alaa Abed Harchan Al Hasseun Dec 2021

Investigation Of Heat Transfer Performance Of Double Pipe Counter-Flow Heat Pipe Using Three Fluids Water, Dowtherm, And Water-Based Nanofluid, Alaa Abed Harchan Al Hasseun

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Heat pipes are two-phase devices, capable of converting a significant amount of energy with low losses. They have been used in several applications such as systems thermal control and cooling. The purpose of the present work is to investigate the thermal performance of a double pipe counterflow against the fluid type. The pipe is divided into three zones including evaporator, adiabatic, and condenser zones. All thermal boundary conditions are defined in terms of heating or cooling temperatures in which the operating temperatures are defined between 303 K to 470 K. using Ansys Fluent, the pipe is analyzed in two-and three-dimensional …


Prediction Of Solder Joint Fatigue Life Of Photonic Package Using ?-? Materials, Ojas Tyagi Dec 2021

Prediction Of Solder Joint Fatigue Life Of Photonic Package Using ?-? Materials, Ojas Tyagi

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Fatigue life prediction has become very important factor in reliability of any electronic components to withstand extreme thermal stresses in industrial standard. Hence, photonic packages are widely used in telecommunication and computer applications. The primary focus of this study is to determine the thermal cycles to crack initiation of solder bump used in laser array waferboard for telecommunication applications. This includes GaAs Laser chip on waferboard and Si substrate with pure Indium solder balls in between. Indium has proved higher fatigue life in various experimental studies in the field of reliability and lead-free material. Therefore, a solder ball was designed …


Analysis Of Blood Pressure Waveform For Detection And Diagnosis Of Cardiovascular Anomalies, Atul Shrotriya Dec 2021

Analysis Of Blood Pressure Waveform For Detection And Diagnosis Of Cardiovascular Anomalies, Atul Shrotriya

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Cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of mortalities worldwide as well as in the United States. Early diagnosis and prediction of these diseases is critical to mitigate the risks to the patient. A common method to assess a person’s heart health is through the use of cuff type oscillometric devices placed on the arm of the patient. As the mean pressure in the cuff is increased the blood flow in the brachial artery becomes blocked. When the cuff pressure is reduced the blood starts flowing again; during this cycle, pressure fluctuations in the cuff are measured using a pressure transducer. …


Determination Of Guidance Laws For Uav Systems In Communication Networks Using Collision Cone Theory, Utsav Mudgal Dec 2021

Determination Of Guidance Laws For Uav Systems In Communication Networks Using Collision Cone Theory, Utsav Mudgal

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also commonly known as drones, are used in various applications, including military applications such as surveillance and intelligence-gathering as well as civilian applications such as search and rescue. The use of UAVs to form communication networks is a topic of active research interest. This thesis aims to investigate the development of guidance laws for multiple UAVs to form such communication networks. Toward this end, this thesis employs tools from collision cone theory and incorporates them with parameters used to describe a communication network. Different types of networks are evaluated for use of the guidance laws. Simulation …


Guidance Laws For N-Mobile Agents To Grip A Moving Target, Pranay Gadiya Dec 2021

Guidance Laws For N-Mobile Agents To Grip A Moving Target, Pranay Gadiya

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In this thesis, we consider the problem of n mobile agents carrying a gripper, with the objective of gripping a moving circular target. The target may move with constant velocity, or even maneuver. We develop guidance laws by which the agents can first cage the target and subsequently grip it. These guidance laws are developed based on a collision cone framework, using which the mobile agents cooperatively steer their velocity vectors in an appropriate fashion to meet their objective. It is assumed that each of the mobile agents are equipped with a lidar sensor, using which they obtain the range …


Buckling Load Optimization Of Variable Stiffness Composite Plate Using Fem And Semi-Analytical Method, Jeegar Vallabhbhai Patel Dec 2021

Buckling Load Optimization Of Variable Stiffness Composite Plate Using Fem And Semi-Analytical Method, Jeegar Vallabhbhai Patel

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The advent of new composite manufacturing techniques like Automated Fiber Placement (AFP) offers greater flexibility in structural designs by allowing curvilinear fiber paths. Hence, it is now possible to change laminate stiffness locally, thereby enabling Variable Stiffness (VS) composite structures. Such structures demonstrate superior buckling performance over traditional constant stiffness structures. However, obtaining the optimum fiber paths to improve buckling performance remains an open area of research due to the complexity of determining such fiber paths. This research investigated two approaches for optimizing fiber paths; First, a Finite Element Method (FEM) approach that utilizes linear shape functions to interpolate local …


A Modular Platform For Intrusive Diagnostics And Tps Testing In The Onr-Uta Arc-Jet Facility, Blake Anthony Hamilton Dec 2021

A Modular Platform For Intrusive Diagnostics And Tps Testing In The Onr-Uta Arc-Jet Facility, Blake Anthony Hamilton

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This work presents an approach to the design, and successful experimental implementation, of a modular platform for intrusive diagnostics and TPS testing in the ONR-UTA Arc-Heated Wind Tunnel "Leste" Facility. The harsh conditions typical of arc-jet facilities (hypersonic, high-enthalpy, chemically-reacting, continuous flows) present a challenge to the design of insertion platforms. In this work a detailed analysis of the aerothermal loads is used to aid in the design process. Specific design points for this modular platform and its ancillary instrumentation have been identified. Based on this design approach, a modular platform for intrusive diagnostics and TPS testing has been developed. …


Multi-Parametric And Multi-Objective Optimization Of Heatsinks For Forced And Natural Convection Based Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Of Server, Tushar Rohidas Wagh Dec 2021

Multi-Parametric And Multi-Objective Optimization Of Heatsinks For Forced And Natural Convection Based Single-Phase Immersion Cooling Of Server, Tushar Rohidas Wagh

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An increase in utility of internet-based services, cloud computing and greater performance demands due to rising AI and ML applications have led to a steep growth in GPU and CPU thermal design power. Efficient thermal management of these processors has become a bottleneck in performance enhancement and corresponding power densification of these components. Furthermore, increased pressure on data center owners to reduce power demands and move towards green computing has exacerbated the data center cooling challenges. Single-phase immersion cooling allows data center owners to not only dissipate the increasing heat fluxes efficiently but can also potentially improve equipment reliability as …


Accelerated Performance Degradation Of Single-Phase Cold Plates For Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooled Data Centers, Lochan Sai Reddy Chinthaparthy Dec 2021

Accelerated Performance Degradation Of Single-Phase Cold Plates For Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooled Data Centers, Lochan Sai Reddy Chinthaparthy

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Expanding demands for cloud-based computing and storage, the Internet of Things, and AI-based applications have escalated thermal loads in high-density data centers which necessitated the utilization of more efficient cooling technologies. Direct-to-chip liquid cooling using cold plates has proven to be one of the most efficient methods to dissipate the high heat fluxes of modern high-power CPUs and GPUs. While the published literature has well-documented research on the thermal aspects of direct liquid cooling, a detailed account of reliability degradation is missing. The present investigation provides an in-depth analysis of the reliability degradation of copper cold plates used in high-power …


Design Of Streamline-Traced Inlets And Their Integration With Rotating Detonation Engines, Malcolm Lee Branch Aug 2021

Design Of Streamline-Traced Inlets And Their Integration With Rotating Detonation Engines, Malcolm Lee Branch

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This thesis has two parts: 1) design of the streamline-traced inlets (STIs); and 2) integration of STIs with rotating detonation engines (RDEs). The STI design starts with a two-dimensional, isentropic compression flowfield as the parent flowfield. The method of characteristics was used to generate the flowfield throughout the entire STI. For a given flight altitude 18 km, freestream Mach number M?=3.0, and inlet exit-plane Mach number M?=1.2, a parametric sweep of the initial deflection angle ?1=4.0--11.0 deg and the Mach number at the entrance of the internal compression system M3=1.3--1.7 was performed to determine the STI performance sensitivity as a …


Haptic Interface Optimization For Virtual Anastomosis Surgery Training, Kangji Huang Aug 2021

Haptic Interface Optimization For Virtual Anastomosis Surgery Training, Kangji Huang

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Virtual anastomosis surgery study allows surgeons to perform or practice suturing in virtual reality using a commercial haptic device. The haptic device can generate force feedback so that the user can feel the real touch sensation of the object in virtual reality. The virtual anastomosis surgery study has two requirements which are that the haptic device must be fixed on the operating table and haptic device location must be suitable for different surgeons. The goal is to use a commercially available haptic device for this purpose, rather than design a new device for each possible surgery that must be performed. …


Design And Cfd Analysis Of Bimetallic Based Passive Dynamic Cold Plate For High Power Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooling, Apurv Pravin Deshmukh Aug 2021

Design And Cfd Analysis Of Bimetallic Based Passive Dynamic Cold Plate For High Power Direct-To-Chip Liquid Cooling, Apurv Pravin Deshmukh

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Rising demand for high-performance chips results in the need for advanced and efficient cooling technologies like direct to chip liquid cooling. Cold plates based utilizing direct liquid cooling is one of the most efficient and the most investigated cooling technology since the 1980s. Major data services and cloud providers like IBM, Microsoft, and Google had already started a shift towards liquid-cooled data centers for their high computational servers. At the chip level nowadays, the processors are divided into several cores and each of these cores continuously works at varying computational demands. This creates a non-uniform heat distribution across the processor, …


Simulation Of A Soft Body Non-Grasp Manipulator Using A Spring-Mass-Damper Cloth Model, Cristian Almendariz Aug 2021

Simulation Of A Soft Body Non-Grasp Manipulator Using A Spring-Mass-Damper Cloth Model, Cristian Almendariz

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Simulation and modeling are well known and important tools in the field of robotics, being used to validate design and in the development of robotic control systems. Traditionally, robotic systems have been primarily rigid body systems and used in well controlled environments where interactions are highly predictable, and exceptions are minimized. With the ever-increasing adoption of robotics in the medical field, typical robotic environments are becoming highly unpredictable and requiring the modeling and simulation of not only rigid body systems but soft systems and interactions between the two. This work addresses model improvement of a “soft and hard” robotic system …


Development Of Virtual Simulation For Evaluation Of Robotic Assistive Environment, Shubham Raosaheb Gunjal Aug 2021

Development Of Virtual Simulation For Evaluation Of Robotic Assistive Environment, Shubham Raosaheb Gunjal

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Robotics research in virtual simulation has the advantage of reduced testing time, verification of algorithms on different systems before implementation, and cost-saving. Today’s simulation softwares are capable of providing the physics of the simulation such as torque requirements of the joints which aid in the selection of appropriate hardware. In this research, Webots, an open-source physics-based simulation, and visualization software is evaluated and then used to study and evaluate the performance of two robotic systems for a robotic assistive environment for persons with upper limb disabilities. This includes a wheelchair, a table with objects, and two robotic arms attached to …


Investigating A Finite Element Model Updating Methodology For Characterizing Mechanical Properties Of Ncf Composites, Pasworn Chanchai Aug 2021

Investigating A Finite Element Model Updating Methodology For Characterizing Mechanical Properties Of Ncf Composites, Pasworn Chanchai

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Composite materials have been a key breakthrough in developing aircraft structures. Their superior strength and stiffness-to-density ratio, which are unmatched by no other materials, allow engineers to create high strength and ultra-lightweight aircraft structures. Recently, non-Crimp Fabric (NCF) composites have emerged as attractive alternatives to traditional autoclave pre-impregnated composites allowing for lower production costs, better handling and improved shelf life while maintaining excellent in-plane mechanical properties compared to other types of textile composites. NCF out-of-plane mechanical properties can also be enhanced by stitching a high tensile strength yarn throughout their entire laminate thickness, improving the resistance to delamination. However, stitch-reinforced …


Rotor Performance Model (Rpm), Chadwick Scott Balfantz Aug 2021

Rotor Performance Model (Rpm), Chadwick Scott Balfantz

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Rotorcraft performance modeling is of high interest with multiple industry codes in existence, many of which are high-fidelity and are comprehensive in the analyses that are achievable. Along with the high-fidelity and the comprehensive nature of the industry codes comes an equally high level of complexity in the inputs required to extract meaningful results. The ever-increasing fidelity in the existing codes creates a need for an analysis code that is built to be highly flexible, designed from the top down and implemented from the bottom up in a structured format. The Rotor Performance Model (RPM) was developed to provide high-fidelity …


Object Classication, Detection And State Estimation Using Yolo V3 Deep Neural Network And Sensor Fusion Of Stereo Camera And Lidar, Kamalkumar Bharatkumar Mehta Aug 2021

Object Classication, Detection And State Estimation Using Yolo V3 Deep Neural Network And Sensor Fusion Of Stereo Camera And Lidar, Kamalkumar Bharatkumar Mehta

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Real-time object classification, localization, and detection with region-based convolution neural network (R-CNN) require high computational power, or it consumes a tremendous amount of time with the use of the available onboard computer system. Therefore, either of those ways is not practical in real-time object detection. In contrast, the YOLO-v3 network, which stands for you only look once, that uses the YOLO algorithm seems to be practical in live object classification, localization, and detection, since the YOLO algorithm seems to work faster than the sliding window algorithm used by R-CNN. Sensor fusion in this context requires estimation and association of information …


Development Of A Test Method For Characterizing An Indirect Evaporative Cooling Module For Data Center Cooling Application, Abhijit Rajendra Bhosale May 2021

Development Of A Test Method For Characterizing An Indirect Evaporative Cooling Module For Data Center Cooling Application, Abhijit Rajendra Bhosale

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Evaporative cooling is a smarter way of maintaining optimum operating conditions in data centers. Indirect Evaporative Cooling (IEC) provides the advantage of cooling without changing the humidity of the Data Center (DC) air. We analyze and develop a method of testing to help build IEC modules at larger scales with improved characterization that is intended to help DC engineers achieve stringent Power Utilization Efficiency (PUE) targets by expending minimum power. We study the design parameters pertinent to sizing an IEC module used in DC cooling and develop a test method while technically selecting the components involved. The module is planned …