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Towards Scalable Spectral Clustering Via Spectrum-Preserving Sparsification, Yongyu Wang, Zhuo Feng Nov 2022

Towards Scalable Spectral Clustering Via Spectrum-Preserving Sparsification, Yongyu Wang, Zhuo Feng

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

Eigenvalue decomposition of Laplacian matrices for large nearest-neighbor (NN)graphs is the major computational bottleneck in spectral clustering (SC). To fundamentally address this computational challenge in SC, we propose a scalable spectral sparsification framework that enables to construct nearly-linear-sized ultra-sparse NN graphs with guaranteed preservation of key eigenvalues and eigenvectors of the original Laplacian. The proposed method is based on the latest theoretical results in spectral graph theory and thus can be applied to robustly handle general undirected graphs. By leveraging a nearly-linear time spectral graph topology sparsification phase and a subgraph scaling phase via stochastic gradient descent (SGD) iterations, our …


A Smart Parallel Gripper Industrial Automation System For Measurement Of Gripped Work Piece Thickness, Erik Kocher, Chukwuemeka George Ochieze, Ahmat Oumar, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, Nathir Rawashdeh Nov 2022

A Smart Parallel Gripper Industrial Automation System For Measurement Of Gripped Work Piece Thickness, Erik Kocher, Chukwuemeka George Ochieze, Ahmat Oumar, Travis Winter, Aleksandr Sergeyev, Mark Gauthier, Nathir Rawashdeh

Michigan Tech Publications, Part 1

As part of the advanced programmable logic controllers (PLC) course at Michigan Tech, this class project is performed on a mechatronics system gifted by Donald Engineering, a Michigan-based supplier of industrial automation systems and components. This paper explores the functionality and ladder programming of the smart parallel gripper system to measure the width of components grasped with the gripper. In addition, details of the system’s components, operation, more advanced uses are discussed. On the automation line, this smart gripper can be used to measure the thickness of work pieces while handling them and classifying these as either acceptable, too large …


Multi-Robot Symbolic Task And Motion Planning Leveraging Human Trust Models: Theory And Applications, Huanfei Zheng Nov 2022

Multi-Robot Symbolic Task And Motion Planning Leveraging Human Trust Models: Theory And Applications, Huanfei Zheng

All Dissertations

Multi-robot systems (MRS) can accomplish more complex tasks with two or more robots and have produced a broad set of applications. The presence of a human operator in an MRS can guarantee the safety of the task performing, but the human operators can be subject to heavier stress and cognitive workload in collaboration with the MRS than the single robot. It is significant for the MRS to have the provable correct task and motion planning solution for a complex task. That can reduce the human workload during supervising the task and improve the reliability of human-MRS collaboration. This dissertation relies …


Selected Topics Of The Past Thirty Years In Ocean Acoustics, Michael D. Collins, Altan Turgut, Michael J. Buckingham, Peter Gerstoft, Martin Siderius Nov 2022

Selected Topics Of The Past Thirty Years In Ocean Acoustics, Michael D. Collins, Altan Turgut, Michael J. Buckingham, Peter Gerstoft, Martin Siderius

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

This paper reviews some of the highlights of selected topics in ocean acoustics during the thirty years that have passed since the founding of the Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics. Advances in computational methods and computers helped to make computational ocean acoustics a vibrant area of research during that period. The parabolic equation method provides an unrivaled combination of accuracy and efficiency for propagation problems in which the bathymetry, sound speed, and other environmental parameters vary in the horizontal directions. The extension of this approach to cases involving layers that support shear waves has been an active area …


Real-Time Joint Ocean Acoustics And Circulation Modeling In The 2021 New England Shelf Break Acoustics Experiment (L), Brendan J. Decourcy, Ying-Tsong Lin, Weifeng Gordon Zhang, Emma Reeves Ozanich, Natalie Kukshtel, Martin Siderius, Glen Gawarkiewicz, Jacob Forsyth Nov 2022

Real-Time Joint Ocean Acoustics And Circulation Modeling In The 2021 New England Shelf Break Acoustics Experiment (L), Brendan J. Decourcy, Ying-Tsong Lin, Weifeng Gordon Zhang, Emma Reeves Ozanich, Natalie Kukshtel, Martin Siderius, Glen Gawarkiewicz, Jacob Forsyth

Electrical and Computer Engineering Faculty Publications and Presentations

During the spring of 2021, a coordinated multi-vessel effort was organized to study physical oceanography, marine geology and biology, and acoustics on the northeast United States continental shelf, as part of the New England Shelf Break Acoustics (NESBA) experiment. One scientific goal was to establish a real-time numerical model aboard the research vessel with high spatial and temporal resolution to predict the oceanography and sound propagation within the NESBA study area. The real-time forecast model performance and challenges are reported in this letter without adjustment or re-simulation after the cruise. Future research directions for post-experiment studies are also suggested.


Event-Triggered Optimal Adaptive Control Of Partially Unknown Linear Continuous-Time Systems With State Delay, Rohollah Moghadam, Vignesh Narayanan, Sarangapani Jagannathan Nov 2022

Event-Triggered Optimal Adaptive Control Of Partially Unknown Linear Continuous-Time Systems With State Delay, Rohollah Moghadam, Vignesh Narayanan, Sarangapani Jagannathan

Publications

This paper proposes an event-triggered optimal adaptive output feedback control design approach by utilizing integral reinforcement learning (IRL) for linear time-invariant systems with state delay and uncertain internal dynamics. In the proposed approach, the general optimal control problem is formulated into the game-theoretic framework by treating the event-triggering threshold and the optimal control policy as players. A cost function is defined and a value functional, which includes the delayed system output, is considered. First, by using the value functional and applying stationarity conditions using the Hamiltonian function, the output game delay algebraic Riccati equation (OGDARE) and optimal control policy are …


Design Of Low-Cost Power Quality And Energy Monitoring System For Low Voltage Distribution Network, Rami Moustafa Mohyeldeen Nov 2022

Design Of Low-Cost Power Quality And Energy Monitoring System For Low Voltage Distribution Network, Rami Moustafa Mohyeldeen

Theses

The constant increase of non-linear loads and the future high integration of renewable energy sources in the power grid make power quality monitoring systems crucial to maintain maximum efficiency and reliability. However, the current devices for power quality monitoring are costly, limiting PQ monitoring systems' usage to specific applications and for a particular time. This thesis aims to present a design and the implementation of a low-cost power quality monitoring system using a single-board computer (Raspberry Pi) and highly accurate multiphase power quality monitoring ADE9000 IC. The proposed PQM system is configured to work remotely through either a wireless connection …


Development Of A Smartphone Application As An Asset To Pavement Management Engineers, Smartp3m, Damien Stephens Oct 2022

Development Of A Smartphone Application As An Asset To Pavement Management Engineers, Smartp3m, Damien Stephens

Electrical Engineering Theses

An application specific multi-platform smartphone application can utilize on-board accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS sensors, along with software derived signals from the same sensors, to sample vibrational and geolocation datasets to capture pavement distresses such as potholes when mounted in a standardized configuration in a vehicle. Several observations were made with regard to the signals obtained from the accelerometer, gyroscope, and GPS sensors, and it was determined that the raw sensor outputs are capable of sampling statistically significant datasets which can be used to distinguish pavement distress from normal driving conditions. Furthermore, an approximate sensor noise margin is established, and a …


Analysis Of Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion Through 3d-Computational Fluid Dynamics : Application Of Rigid Wind Sails On A Bulk Carrier, Darnela Mboumba Mboumba Oct 2022

Analysis Of Wind Assisted Ship Propulsion Through 3d-Computational Fluid Dynamics : Application Of Rigid Wind Sails On A Bulk Carrier, Darnela Mboumba Mboumba

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A Safety Analysis On The Potential Risks Onboard Ships That Would Use Ammonia As Marine Fuel, Praveen Raghavan Nair Oct 2022

A Safety Analysis On The Potential Risks Onboard Ships That Would Use Ammonia As Marine Fuel, Praveen Raghavan Nair

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


A Socio-Economic Analysis Of Automated Container Terminal (Act) Concept In Indonesia : Case Study : New Priok Container Terminal One, Febri Triana Hartami Siagian Oct 2022

A Socio-Economic Analysis Of Automated Container Terminal (Act) Concept In Indonesia : Case Study : New Priok Container Terminal One, Febri Triana Hartami Siagian

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Energy Efficient Smart Port Development, Implementing Renewable Energy In A Port : A Case Study In Port Of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Darshana Sampath Kumara Habakkala Watawala Kankanange Oct 2022

Energy Efficient Smart Port Development, Implementing Renewable Energy In A Port : A Case Study In Port Of Colombo, Sri Lanka, Darshana Sampath Kumara Habakkala Watawala Kankanange

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Selection Of The Optimal Alternative Fuel In Terms Of The Sustainability Of The Shipping Industry Through The Multi-Attribute Decision Making, Kyungrok Kim Oct 2022

Selection Of The Optimal Alternative Fuel In Terms Of The Sustainability Of The Shipping Industry Through The Multi-Attribute Decision Making, Kyungrok Kim

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


The Ship-Port Interface Safety Management : Case Study Of Lng Ports And Marine Terminals In Algeria, Benyebka Cherigui Oct 2022

The Ship-Port Interface Safety Management : Case Study Of Lng Ports And Marine Terminals In Algeria, Benyebka Cherigui

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Integration Of A Hybrid Microgrid System Using Renewable Energy Sources : A Case Study Of Lagos Port Nigeria, Juliet Inze Amwe Oct 2022

Integration Of A Hybrid Microgrid System Using Renewable Energy Sources : A Case Study Of Lagos Port Nigeria, Juliet Inze Amwe

World Maritime University Dissertations

No abstract provided.


Application Of The Core Shell Model For Strengthening Polymer Filament Interfaces, Yu-Chung Lin, Aniket Raut, Yiwei Fang, Yifan Yin, David Sprouster, Tai-De Li, Guillaume Freychet, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Steve Nitodas, Jonathan Sokolov, Yuval Shmueli, Miriam Rafailovich Oct 2022

Application Of The Core Shell Model For Strengthening Polymer Filament Interfaces, Yu-Chung Lin, Aniket Raut, Yiwei Fang, Yifan Yin, David Sprouster, Tai-De Li, Guillaume Freychet, Mikhail Zhernenkov, Steve Nitodas, Jonathan Sokolov, Yuval Shmueli, Miriam Rafailovich

Advanced Science Research Center

While surface segregation has been intensively studied in thin films, relatively little has been investigated in filament geometries. In contrast to thin films, the filament surface forms a continuum, with interactions both at the free air and internal filament interface, which makes it difficult to achieve an equilibrium configuration. This asymmetry has become particularly apparent with the increasing use of additive manufacturing where entire structures are constructed via layered deposition of filamentous layers from a moving thermal nozzle. In addition, this process is highly non-equilibrated with poor thermal retention and is responsible for insufficient filament–filament interfacial fusion and internal pore …


Electrochemical Syntheses Of Nanomaterials And Small Molecules For Electrolytic Hydrogen Production, Jia-Qi Wei, Xiao-Dong Chen, Shu-Zhou Li Oct 2022

Electrochemical Syntheses Of Nanomaterials And Small Molecules For Electrolytic Hydrogen Production, Jia-Qi Wei, Xiao-Dong Chen, Shu-Zhou Li

Journal of Electrochemistry

Hydrogen is a clean, efficient, renewable energy resource and the most promising alternative to fossil fuels for future carbon-neutral energy supply. Therefore, sustainable hydrogen production is highly attractive and urgently demanded, especially via water electrolysis that has clean, abundant precursors and zero emission. However, current water electrolysis is hindered by the sluggish kinetics and low cost/energy efficiency of both hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen evolution reaction (OER). In this regard, electrochemical synthesis offers prospects to raise the efficiency and benefit of water electrolysis by fabricating advanced electrocatalysts and providing more efficient/value-adding co-electrolysis alternatives. It is an eco-friendly and facile …


Alkaline Water Electrolysis For Efficient Hydrogen Production, Wen-Fu Xie, Ming-Fei Shao Oct 2022

Alkaline Water Electrolysis For Efficient Hydrogen Production, Wen-Fu Xie, Ming-Fei Shao

Journal of Electrochemistry

Hydrogen production from water electrolysis is a sustainable and environmentally benign strategy in comparison with fossil fuel-based hydrogen. However, this promising technique suffers from the high energy consumption and unsatisfactory cost due to the sluggish kinetics of both half reaction and inferior stability of electrocatalysts. To address this challenge, herein, we present a timely and comprehensive review on advances in alkaline water electrolysis that is already commercialized for large scale hydrogen production. The design principles and strategies with aiming to promote the performance of hydrogen generation are discussed from the view of electrocatalyst, electrode, reaction and system. The challenges and …


Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis At Industrial Level:Recent Progress And Perspective, Tao Zhang, Yi-Pu Liu, Qi-Tong Ye, Hong-Jin Fan Oct 2022

Alkaline Seawater Electrolysis At Industrial Level:Recent Progress And Perspective, Tao Zhang, Yi-Pu Liu, Qi-Tong Ye, Hong-Jin Fan

Journal of Electrochemistry

Industrial hydrogen generation through water splitting, powered by renewable energy such as solar, wind and marine, paves a potential way for energy and environment sustainability. However, state-of-the-art electrolysis using high purity water as hydrogen source at an industrial level would bring about crisis of freshwater resource. Seawater splitting provides a practical path to solve potable water shortage, but still faces great challenges for large-scale industrial operation. Here we summarize recent developments in seawater splitting, covering general mechanisms, design criteria for electrodes, and industrial electrolyzer for direct seawater splitting. Multi-objective optimization methods to address the key challenges of active sites, reaction …


A Self-Supported Ru-Cu3P Catalyst Toward Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution, Zi-Xuan Wan, Chao-Hui Wang, Xiong-Wu Kang Oct 2022

A Self-Supported Ru-Cu3P Catalyst Toward Alkaline Hydrogen Evolution, Zi-Xuan Wan, Chao-Hui Wang, Xiong-Wu Kang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Transition metal phosphide (TMP) is a kind of effective catalysts toward hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline electrolytes. However, the performance of TMP catalysts is strongly limited by water splitting. In this work, we developed a method to prepare a copper foam (CF) supported Ru-doped Cu3P catalyst (Ru-Cu3P/CF) by a consecutive growth of Cu(OH)2 nanoarrays, soaking in RuCl3 solution and phosphorization. A large surface area was obtained by the self-supported catalysts with the appropriative Ru doping. As an excellent HER catalyst, it exhibited a low overpotential of 95.6 mV at a current density of …


Catalytic Effect Of Disordered Ru-O Configurations For Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution, Xue Sun, Ya-Jie Song, Ren-Long Li, Jia-Jun Wang Oct 2022

Catalytic Effect Of Disordered Ru-O Configurations For Electrochemical Hydrogen Evolution, Xue Sun, Ya-Jie Song, Ren-Long Li, Jia-Jun Wang

Journal of Electrochemistry

Phase engineering is considered as an effective method for modulating the electronic structure and catalytic activity of catalysts. The disordered conformation of amorphous materials allows flexible reforming of the surface electronic structure, showing their attractiveness as catalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). Herein, we designed and developed an amorphous ruthenium dioxide (a-RuO2) catalyst with a disordered Ru-O configuration. The conformational relationship between Ru-O ordering and HER performance is established by combining advanced electron microscopic techniques with detailed electrochemical tests. Specifically, the disordered Ru-O coordination significantly enhanced the HER catalytic activity in both acidic and alkaline media, ultimately leading …


Device Free Indoor Localization Of Human Target Using Wifi Fingerprinting, Prasanga Neupane Oct 2022

Device Free Indoor Localization Of Human Target Using Wifi Fingerprinting, Prasanga Neupane

LSU Master's Theses

Indoor localization of human objects has many important applications nowadays. Proposed here is a new device free approach where all the transceiver devices are fixed in an indoor environment so that the human target doesn't need to carry any transceiver device with them. This work proposes radio-frequency fingerprinting for the localization of human targets which makes this even more convenient as radio-frequency wireless signals can be easily acquired using an existing wireless network in an indoor environment. This work explores different avenues for optimal and effective placement of transmitter devices for better localization. In this work, an experimental environment is …


A 2d Chaotic Oscillator For Analog Ic, Partha Sarathi Paul, Parker Hardy, Maisha Sadia, Md Sakib Hasan Oct 2022

A 2d Chaotic Oscillator For Analog Ic, Partha Sarathi Paul, Parker Hardy, Maisha Sadia, Md Sakib Hasan

Faculty and Student Publications

In this paper, we have proposed the design of an analog two-dimensional (2D) discrete-time chaotic oscillator. 2D chaotic systems are studied because of their more complex chaotic behavior compared to one-dimensional (1D) chaotic systems. The already published works on 2D chaotic systems are mainly focused either on the complex analytical combinations of familiar 1D chaotic maps such as Sine map, Logistic map, Tent map, and so on, or off-the-shelf component-based analog circuits. Due to complex hardware requirements, neither of them is feasible for hardware-efficient integrated circuit (IC) implementations. To the best of our knowledge, this proposed work is the first-ever …


Accelerating Multiparametric Mri For Adaptive Radiotherapy, Shraddha Pandey Oct 2022

Accelerating Multiparametric Mri For Adaptive Radiotherapy, Shraddha Pandey

USF Tampa Graduate Theses and Dissertations

MR guided Radiotherapy (MRgRT) marks an important paradigm shift in the field of radiotherapy. Superior tissue contrast of MRI offers better visualization of the abnormal lesions, as a result precise radiation dose delivery is possible. In case of online treatment planning, MRgRT offers better control of intratumoral motion and quick adaptation to changes in the gross tumor volume. Nonetheless, the MRgRT process flow does suffer from some challenges that limit its clinical usability. The primary aspects of MRgRT workflow are MRI acquisition, tumor delineation, dose map prediction and administering treatment. It is estimated that the acquisition of MRI takes around …


Synthetic Pseudo-Spin-Hall Effect In Acoustic Metamaterials, Matthew Weiner, Xiang Ni, Andrea Alù, Alexander B. Khanikaev Oct 2022

Synthetic Pseudo-Spin-Hall Effect In Acoustic Metamaterials, Matthew Weiner, Xiang Ni, Andrea Alù, Alexander B. Khanikaev

Advanced Science Research Center

While vector fields naturally offer additional degrees of freedom for emulating spin, acoustic pressure field is scalar in nature, and it requires engineering of synthetic degrees of freedom by material design. Here we experimentally demonstrate the control of sound waves by using two types of engineered acoustic systems, where synthetic pseudo-spin emerges either as a consequence of the evanescent nature of the field or due to lattice symmetry. First, we show that evanescent sound waves in perforated films possess transverse angular momentum locked to their propagation direction which enables their directional excitation. Second, we demonstrate that lattice symmetries of an …


Electro-Optical Sensors For Atmospheric Turbulence Strength Characterization With Embedded Edge Ai Processing Of Scintillation Patterns, Ernst Polnau, Don L. N. Hettiarachchi, Mikhail A. Vorontsov Oct 2022

Electro-Optical Sensors For Atmospheric Turbulence Strength Characterization With Embedded Edge Ai Processing Of Scintillation Patterns, Ernst Polnau, Don L. N. Hettiarachchi, Mikhail A. Vorontsov

Electro-Optics and Photonics Faculty Publications

This study introduces electro-optical (EO) sensors (TurbNet sensors) that utilize a remote laser beacon (either coherent or incoherent) and an optical receiver with CCD camera and embedded edge AI computer (Jetson Xavier Nx) for in situ evaluation of the path-averaged atmospheric turbulence refractive index structure parameter C-n(2) at a high temporal rate. Evaluation of C-n(2) values was performed using deep neural network (DNN)-based real-time processing of short-exposure laser-beacon light intensity scintillation patterns (images) captured by a TurbNet sensor optical receiver. Several pre-trained DNN models were loaded onto the AI computer and used for TurbNet sensor performance evaluation in a set …


Tutorial: Knowledge-Infused Learning For Autonomous Driving (Kl4ad), Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Cory Henson, Sebastian Monka, Daria Stepanova, Amit Sheth Oct 2022

Tutorial: Knowledge-Infused Learning For Autonomous Driving (Kl4ad), Ruwan Wickramarachchi, Cory Henson, Sebastian Monka, Daria Stepanova, Amit Sheth

Publications

Autonomous Driving (AD) is considered as a testbed for tackling many hard AI problems. Despite the recent advancements in the field, AD is still far from achieving full autonomy due to core technical problems inherent in AD. The emerging field of neuro-symbolic AI and the methods for knowledge-infused learning are showing exciting ways of leveraging external knowledge within machine/deep learning solutions, with the potential benefits for interpretability, explainability, robustness, and transferability. In this tutorial, we will examine the use of knowledge-infused learning for three core state-of-the-art technical achievements within the AD domain. With a collaborative team from both academia and …


Investigation Of Polymer Nanocomposites With Silicon Dioxide Fillers As Helium Cooled High-Temperature Superconducting Cable Dielectrics, Jordan Thomas Cook Oct 2022

Investigation Of Polymer Nanocomposites With Silicon Dioxide Fillers As Helium Cooled High-Temperature Superconducting Cable Dielectrics, Jordan Thomas Cook

Theses and Dissertations

In this thesis, three polymer nanocomposite configurations are fabricated for investigation as dielectrics in helium-cooled high-temperature superconducting (HTS) cables. Polyimide, polyamide, and polymethyl methacrylate are utilized as host polymers. The composite samples are synthesized through an in situ process, dispersing silicon dioxide nanoparticles throughout the polymer hosts. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy were employed to validate the synthesis of each composite configuration. Thin film samples of each configuration were also tested for their dielectric strength at both room (300 K) and cryogenic (92 K) temperatures. When going from room to cryogenic temperatures, all materials demonstrated a significant …


Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering With Dynamic Time Warping For Household Load Curve Clustering, Fadi Almahamid, Katarina Grolinger Oct 2022

Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering With Dynamic Time Warping For Household Load Curve Clustering, Fadi Almahamid, Katarina Grolinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

Energy companies often implement various demand response (DR) programs to better match electricity demand and supply by offering the consumers incentives to reduce their demand during critical periods. Classifying clients according to their consumption patterns enables targeting specific groups of consumers for DR. Traditional clustering algorithms use standard distance measurement to find the distance between two points. The results produced by clustering algorithms such as K-means, K-medoids, and Gaussian Mixture Models depend on the clustering parameters or initial clusters. In contrast, our methodology uses a shape-based approach that combines Agglomerative Hierarchical Clustering (AHC) with Dynamic Time Warping (DTW) to classify …


Virtual Sensor Middleware: Managing Iot Data For The Fog-Cloud Platform, Fadi Almahamid, Hanan Lutfiyya, Katarina Grolinger Oct 2022

Virtual Sensor Middleware: Managing Iot Data For The Fog-Cloud Platform, Fadi Almahamid, Hanan Lutfiyya, Katarina Grolinger

Electrical and Computer Engineering Publications

This paper introduces the Virtual Sensor Middleware (VSM), which facilitates distributed sensor data processing on multiple fog nodes. VSM uses a Virtual Sensor as the core component of the middleware. The virtual sensor concept is redesigned to support functionality beyond sensor/device virtualization, such as deploying a set of virtual sensors to represent an IoT application and distributed sensor data processing across multiple fog nodes. Furthermore, the virtual sensor deals with the heterogeneous nature of IoT devices and the various communication protocols using different adapters to communicate with the IoT devices and the underlying protocol. VSM uses the publish-subscribe design pattern …