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Florida International University

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Autonomous Pipeline Monitoring And Maintenance System: A Rfid-Based Approach, Jong-Hoon Kim, Gokarna Sharma, Noureddine Boudriga, S.S. Iyengar, Nagarajan Prabakar Dec 2015

Autonomous Pipeline Monitoring And Maintenance System: A Rfid-Based Approach, Jong-Hoon Kim, Gokarna Sharma, Noureddine Boudriga, S.S. Iyengar, Nagarajan Prabakar

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Pipeline networks are one of the key infrastructures of our modern life. Proactive monitoring and frequent inspection of pipeline networks are very important for sustaining their safe and efficient functionalities. Existing monitoring and maintenance approaches are costly and inefficient because pipelines can be installed in large scale and in an inaccessible and hazardous environment. To overcome these challenges, we propose a novel Radio Frequency IDentification (RFID)-based Autonomous Maintenance system for Pipelines, called RAMP, which combines robotic, sensing, and RFID technologies for efficient and accurate inspection, corrective reparation, and precise geo-location information. RAMP can provide not only economical and scalable remedy …


A Multiple Resonant Frequencies Circular Reconfigurable Antenna Investigated With Wireless Powering In A Concrete Block, Shishir Shanker Punjala, Nikki Pissinou, Kia Makki Apr 2015

A Multiple Resonant Frequencies Circular Reconfigurable Antenna Investigated With Wireless Powering In A Concrete Block, Shishir Shanker Punjala, Nikki Pissinou, Kia Makki

School of Computing and Information Sciences

A novel broadband reconfigurable antenna design that can cover different frequency bands is presented.This antenna has multiple resonant frequencies. The reflection coefficient graphs for this antenna are presented in this paper. The new proposed design was investigated along with RFMEMS switches and the results are also presented. Investigations were carried out to check the efficiency of the antenna in the wireless powering domain. The antenna was placed in a concrete block and its result comparison to that of a dipole antenna is also presented in this paper.


Diffeomorphism Spline, Wei Zeng, Muhammad Razib, Abdur Bin Shahid Apr 2015

Diffeomorphism Spline, Wei Zeng, Muhammad Razib, Abdur Bin Shahid

School of Computing and Information Sciences

Conventional splines offer powerful means for modeling surfaces and volumes in three-dimensional Euclidean space. A one-dimensional quaternion spline has been applied for animation purpose, where the splines are defined to model a one-dimensional submanifold in the three-dimensional Lie group. Given two surfaces, all of the diffeomorphisms between them form an infinite dimensional manifold, the so-called diffeomorphism space. In this work, we propose a novel scheme to model finite dimensional submanifolds in the diffeomorphism space by generalizing conventional splines. According to quasiconformal geometry theorem, each diffeomorphism determines a Beltrami differential on the source surface. Inversely, the diffeomorphism is determined by its …


Statistical Methods In Ai: Rare Event Learning Using Associative Rules And Higher-Order Statistics, V. Iyer, S. Shetty, S.S. Iyengar Jan 2015

Statistical Methods In Ai: Rare Event Learning Using Associative Rules And Higher-Order Statistics, V. Iyer, S. Shetty, S.S. Iyengar

School of Computing and Information Sciences

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