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A method for replicating ice accretion roughness using multi-scale analog distributions.
(2018-03-23)A new approach of creating an analog surface for a surface with natural roughness is presented based on the hypothesis that the dominant skin friction and heat transfer augmentation mechanisms are 1) the vortex shedding ... -
A neural inspired grid cell aid for robot intertial navigation.
(2018-05-08)Accurate position information is needed for a robot's guidance and control systems. Therefore, the navigation system is foundational for a robot's interactions with the world. This thesis explores a biologically inspired ... -
A photogrammetric method for measuring transient frost surface roughness.
(2018-11-26)Cold-soaked fuel frost (CSFF) is a form of aircraft wing contamination that results in aerodynamic degradation. Unless a certification exemption for a specific aircraft model is provided by the FAA, an operator of an ... -
Accelerating path planning algorithms with high level synthesis tools and FPGAs.
(, 2013-05-15)Accelerating path planning algorithms with field programmable gate arrays (FPGA) allows the designer to achieve significant performance increases over using a traditional central processing unit (CPU). Converting an ... -
Adaptive load impedance optimization for power amplifiers in reconfigurable radar transmitters.
(, 2013-05-15)A fundamental tradeoff exists in radar transmitter design between linearity and efficiency due to the signal amplification. These transmitters are driven into saturation in order to increase efficiency, but may potentially ... -
Aerodynamic design considerations for small-scale, fixed-pitch, horizontal-axis wind turbines operating in class 2 winds.
(, 2012-08-08)Renewable sources of energy, such as wind, are necessary to meet the growing demand as conventional energy sources are depleted. Very little research has been accomplished to improve wind turbine performance in Class 2 ... -
Age classification from facial images for detecting retinoblastoma.
(, 2012-11-29)Facial age estimation from images is a difficult problem, both because it is naturally difficult to tell the exact age of a person visually, and because of the variations in images, such as illumination, pose, and expression. ... -
Algorithmic specified complexity.
(, 2013-09-24)Information theory is a well developed field, but does not capture the essence of what information is. Shannon Information captures something in its definition of improbability as information. But not all improbable ... -
Algorithms for fast power amplifier load impedance and input power optimization using the Power Smith Tube.
(2016-04-08)The increasing number of devices occupying the finite wireless broadband spectrum has led to serious concerns regarding spectral congestion. To facilitate radar and communication spectral coexistence, reconfigurable, ... -
Alternatives using the Leap Motion to extend mid-air word-gesture keyboards.
(2015-12-14)Lately, the use of touchless, mid-air, gesture-based interactions has increased significantly due to the popularity of augmented and virtual reality and advances in other industries (e.g., medicine, gaming), and with this ... -
Ambiguity function magnitude inversion and applications of morphological dilation in POCS.
(2018-11-15)This dissertation examines morphological dilation for applications in Projection onto Convex Sets (POCS) as well as the inversion of ambiguity function magnitude. In general, POCS solvers implement Least-Squares (LS) ... -
An algorithmic solution to mission planning via auto-routing algorithms.
(2016-04-08)Mission planning for radar jamming escort missions is a tedious and complex problem to solve. For years this type of mission planning has taken many hours to solve and used multiple pilots to develop a solution. This thesis ... -
An explicit electron-vibron model for olfactory inelastic electron transfer spectroscopy.
(2019-04-01)The vibrational theory of olfaction was posited to explain subtle effects in the sense of smell inexplicable by models in which molecular structure alone determines an odorant’s smell. Amazingly, behavioral and neurophysiological ... -
An investigation into the electrical, optical, and microstructural effects of aluminum-doping amorphous indium zinc oxide via ultra-high vacuum co-sputter deposition.
(2019-04-24)Indium Zinc Oxide (IZO) has emerged as a high-potential material candidate for electronic applications involving novel flexible and transparent devices. IZO’s rapid growth can be attributed to its high carrier mobility ... -
An investigation of observed Algorithmic Specified Complexity.
(2017-11-16)Two experiments were carried out to investigate how Algorithmic Specified Complexity (ASC) might serve as a tool, specifically in the area of classification AI, and how well the theory around it predicts the characteristics ... -
Analysis of transaction throughput in P2P environments.
(2006-05-28)In recent years P2P systems have gained tremendous popularity. Support of a transaction processing facility in P2P systems would provide databases at a low cost. Extending distributed database algorithms such as 2PC and ... -
Annual energy use of series and parallel fan powered terminal units.
(2017-12-06)Traditional mass and energy balance component models of fixed and variable airflow series and parallel fan powered terminal units (FPTUs) were used to estimate the annual energy use in a small office building with hourly ... -
Anti-Symmetry and Logic Simulation
(2012-01-19)Like ordinary symmetries, anti-symmetries are defined in terms of relations between function cofactors. For ordinary symmetries, two cofactors must be equal, for anti-symmetries two cofactors must be complements of ... -
AN APPLICATION OF GROUP THEORY TO THE ANALYSIS OF SYMMETRIC GATES
(2009-10-26)A method for determining the symmetries of the inputs of a logic gate either from its truth table or from facts obtained by inspection of its circuit is presented. The symmetry rule of a gate with n inputs is defined in ... -
Applying mass and energy balances to model series and parallel fan-powered terminal units.
(2015-07-31)Performance data from four manufacturers of fan-powered terminal units was analyzed and simple models of the fan/motor power use developed. These data included two fan motors: permanent split capacitor motors with silicon ...