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Investigating Autonomous Ground Vehicles For Weed Elimination, Abraham Mitchell
Investigating Autonomous Ground Vehicles For Weed Elimination, Abraham Mitchell
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The management of weeds in crop fields is a continuous agricultural problem. The use of herbicides is the most common solution, but herbicidal resistance decreases effectiveness, and the use of herbicides has been found to have severe adverse effects on human health and the environment. The use of autonomous drone systems for weed elimination is an emerging solution, but challenges in GPS-based localization and navigation can impact the effectiveness of these systems. The goal of this thesis is to evaluate techniques for minimizing localization errors of drones as they attempt to eliminate weeds. A simulation environment was created to model …
Cybersecurity In Critical Infrastructure Systems: Emulated Protection Relay, Mitchell Bylak
Cybersecurity In Critical Infrastructure Systems: Emulated Protection Relay, Mitchell Bylak
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Cyber-attacks on Critical Systems Infrastructure have been steadily increasing across the world as the capabilities of and reliance on technology have grown throughout the 21st century, and despite the influx of new cybersecurity practices and technologies, the industry faces challenges in its cooperation between the government that regulates law practices and the private sector that owns and operates critical infrastructure and security, which has directly led to an absence of eas- ily accessible information and learning resources on cybersecurity for use in public environments and educational settings. This honors research thesis addresses these challenges by submitting the development of an …
Preserving User Data Privacy Through The Development Of An Android Solid Library, Alexandria Lim
Preserving User Data Privacy Through The Development Of An Android Solid Library, Alexandria Lim
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
In today’s world where any and all activity on the internet produces data, user data privacy and autonomy are not prioritized. Companies called data brokers are able to gather data elements of personal information numbering in the billions. This data can be anything from purchase history, credit card history, downloaded applications, and service subscriptions. This information can be analyzed and inferences can be drawn from analysis, categorizing people into groups that range in sensitivity — from hobbies to race and income classes. Not only do these data brokers constantly overlook data privacy, this mass amount of data makes them extremely …
Critical Infrastructure Workforce Development Pods For Teaching Cybersecurity Using Netlab+, Gideon Sutterfield
Critical Infrastructure Workforce Development Pods For Teaching Cybersecurity Using Netlab+, Gideon Sutterfield
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
As digital automation for Industrial Control Systems has grown, so has its vulnerability to cyberattacks. The world of industry has responded effectively to this, but the world of academia is still lagging as its emphasis is still almost entirely on information technology. Considering this, we created a workforce development pod that serves as a hands-on learning module for teaching students key cybersecurity ideas surrounding operational technology using the NETLAB+ platform. A pod serves as the virtual environment where the learning exercise takes place. This project’s implementation involved the creation of a segmented network within the pod where a student starts …
Analysis Of Gpu Memory Vulnerabilities, Jarrett Hoover
Analysis Of Gpu Memory Vulnerabilities, Jarrett Hoover
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Graphics processing units (GPUs) have become a widely used technology for various purposes. While their intended use is accelerating graphics rendering, their parallel computing capabilities have expanded their use into other areas. They are used in computer gaming, deep learning for artificial intelligence and mining cryptocurrencies. Their rise in popularity led to research involving several security aspects, including this paper’s focus, memory vulnerabilities. Research documented many vulnerabilities, including GPUs not implementing address space layout randomization, not zeroing out memory after deallocation, and not initializing newly allocated memory. These vulnerabilities can lead to a victim’s sensitive data being leaked to an …
Comparative Study Of Snort 3 And Suricata Intrusion Detection Systems, Cole Hoover
Comparative Study Of Snort 3 And Suricata Intrusion Detection Systems, Cole Hoover
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Network Intrusion Detection Systems (NIDS) are one layer of defense that can be used to protect a network from cyber-attacks. They monitor a network for any malicious activity and send alerts if suspicious traffic is detected. Two of the most common open-source NIDS are Snort and Suricata. Snort was first released in 1999 and became the industry standard. The one major drawback of Snort has been its single-threaded architecture. Because of this, Suricata was released in 2009 and uses a multithreaded architecture. Snort released Snort 3 last year with major improvements from earlier versions, including implementing a new multithreaded architecture …
Using Bluetooth Low Energy And E-Ink Displays For Inventory Tracking, David Whelan
Using Bluetooth Low Energy And E-Ink Displays For Inventory Tracking, David Whelan
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The combination of Bluetooth Low energy and E-Ink displays allow for a low energy wire-less display. The application of this technology is far reaching especially given how the Bluetooth Low Energy specification can be extended. This paper proposes an extension to this specification specifically for inventory tracking. This extension combined with the low energy E-Ink display results in a smart label that can keep track of additional meta data and inventory counts for physical inventory. This label helps track the physical inventory and can help mitigate any errors in the logical organization of inventory.
Contrastive Learning For Unsupervised Auditory Texture Models, Christina Trexler
Contrastive Learning For Unsupervised Auditory Texture Models, Christina Trexler
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Sounds with a high level of stationarity, also known as sound textures, have perceptually relevant features which can be captured by stimulus-computable models. This makes texture-like sounds, such as those made by rain, wind, and fire, an appealing test case for understanding the underlying mechanisms of auditory recognition. Previous auditory texture models typically measured statistics from auditory filter bank representations, and the statistics they used were somewhat ad-hoc, hand-engineered through a process of trial and error. Here, we investigate whether a better auditory texture representation can be obtained via contrastive learning, taking advantage of the stationarity of auditory textures to …
Automated Report Based System To Encourage A Greener Commute To Campus, Ronald Velasquez
Automated Report Based System To Encourage A Greener Commute To Campus, Ronald Velasquez
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This project consists of the design and implementation of a tool to encourage greener commutes to the University of Arkansas. Trends in commuting of the last few years show a decline in not so environment-friendly commute modes. Nevertheless, ensuring that this trend continues is vital to assure a significant impact. The created tool is an automated report system. The report displays information about different commute options. A Google form allows users to submit report requests, and a web app allows the sustainability office to process them in batches. This system was built in the Apps Script platform. It implements several …
Applications Of Fog Computing In Video Streaming, Kyle Smith
Applications Of Fog Computing In Video Streaming, Kyle Smith
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The purpose of this paper is to show the viability of fog computing in the area of video streaming in vehicles. With the rise of autonomous vehicles, there needs to be a viable entertainment option for users. The cloud fails to address these options due to latency problems experienced during high internet traffic. To improve video streaming speeds, fog computing seems to be the best option. Fog computing brings the cloud closer to the user through the use of intermediary devices known as fog nodes. It does not attempt to replace the cloud but improve the cloud by allowing faster …
Designing A Distributed Network Of Air Quality Sensors, Kaylee Rauso
Designing A Distributed Network Of Air Quality Sensors, Kaylee Rauso
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The deterioration of human and environmental health due to worsening outdoor air quality is a serious global threat. A step towards improving the current state of ambient air worldwide is the increased collection of data for government policy, research, and general public use. Currently, reliable data is only collected at a handful of sites in the state of Arkansas and sparsely across the country. The purpose of this project was to design an inexpensive air quality sensor to saturate entire cities with nodes which transmit air data to a sensor for a web application to display. The prototype node was …
Dynamic 3d Network Data Visualization, Brok Stafford
Dynamic 3d Network Data Visualization, Brok Stafford
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Monitoring network traffic has always been an arduous and tedious task because of the complexity and sheer volume of network data that is being consistently generated. In addition, network growth and new technologies are rapidly increasing these levels of complexity and volume. An effective technique in understanding and managing a large dataset, such as network traffic, is data visualization. There are several tools that attempt to turn network traffic into visual stimuli. Many of these do so in 2D space and those that are 3D lack the ability to display network patterns effectively. Existing 3D network visualization tools lack user …
Project Pradio, Trigg T. La Tour
Project Pradio, Trigg T. La Tour
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
This paper examines the design and manufacturing of a device that allows two or more users to share a wireless audio stream. Effectively, this allows a group of people to listen to the same audio in a synchronized manner. The product was unable to be completed in the allotted time. Regardless, significant progress was made and valuable insight into the circuit board design process was gained.
Bluetooth Low Energy Platform With Simblee, Calvin W. Freeman
Bluetooth Low Energy Platform With Simblee, Calvin W. Freeman
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Bluetooth Low Energy provides a platform for many developers to implement low power communication for a wide range of applications. The Internet of Things (IoT) is an emerging concept that is gaining traction in the world of embedded systems. Bluetooth Low Energy is one of the latest enablers of this movement and the Simblee module improves BLE accessibility. This thesis provides an evaluation of the average power consumption the Simblee uses in different use cases. By leveraging one of the Simblee’s most notable features, the Ultra Low Power mode, very low power consumption can be achieved, potentially increasing battery life …
Tweetement: Pseudo-Relevance Feedback For Twitter Search, Kanatbay Bektemirov
Tweetement: Pseudo-Relevance Feedback For Twitter Search, Kanatbay Bektemirov
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
Microblogging platforms such as Twitter let users communicate with short messages. Due to the messages’ short content and the users’ tendency to type short queries while searching, it is particularly challenging to locate useful tweets that match user queries. The fundamental problems of word mismatch due to ambiguity are especially acute. To solve this problem, this thesis explores and compares multiple automatic query expansion methods that involve the most frequent hashtags and keywords. We built a Web service that provides real-time Twitter Search results incorporating automatic query expansion. Six pseudo-relevance feedback methods were studied and the numbers indicate that results …
Key Factors In Tag Recognition For Rfid System, Nachiketa Das
Key Factors In Tag Recognition For Rfid System, Nachiketa Das
Computer Science and Computer Engineering Undergraduate Honors Theses
The research effort described here was a study of factors that affect the efficiency of a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) system in reading a certain type of commonly used passive RFID tag ('Squiggle' by Alien Technologies). The two sets of experiments conducted under this study focus on two response variables namely: readability and read rate. The factors in focus are distance between antenna and tags, the number and combinations of tags simultaneously read by the system and position of the tags left or right of the center of the antenna. Two separate experimental setups as explained in the following sections …