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Spring 2022

Puliyanda, Anjana Thimmaiah

Processing of complex feedstocks for the production of value-added chemicals and fuels is industrially important. The lack of a priori knowledge of the innumerable species and the reaction pathways governing their conversion, has posed challenges to monitoring these processes. Although,...

Spring 2023

Faridi, Pouria

The overall goal of this work was to design an intelligent method to reduce the cognitive and physical burdens associated with walking using lower-limb exoskeletons after paralysis. Lower-limb exoskeletons with many operating modes (i.e., walking patterns) can be challenging to work with....

2022-06-01

Zar, H. Ali, Goharimanesh, M., Janabi-Sharifi, F.

In this paper, estimation of the applied force on a planar catheter is considered. An image processing approach has been chosen as the most suitable tool. For this purpose, we create a comprehensive database of catheters with different shapes and operating forces. Using image processing...

Fall 2024

Khalil, Mostafa Wagih Tawfik

Nitrous oxide (N2O), a potent greenhouse gas, significantly contributes to the carbon footprint of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), with a global warming potential 300 times that of CO2 and also notorious for its ozone-depleting effect. Modelling can be a valuable alternative to...

Fall 2012

Joya, Michael

This thesis provides a description of the cardiac rhythm as a latent chain of heart sound arrivals which occur over time, where each arrival generates a fixed window of observable data that can be described with arbitrary feature functions. This description of the process produces tractable...

Spring 2022

Sahoo, Soumya Ranjan

Two-thirds of the world population faces severe water stress at least once per month in a year. The rapidly growing population exacerbates freshwater scarcity. Additionally, climate change, pollution, and bio-energy demands amplify the water demand problem. Since a large percentage of freshwater...

Spring 2024

Debnath, Sarupa

Modern industries are increasingly embracing complex, large-scale processes with interconnected units for their economic benefits. The increasing scale of industrial processes and the complexity of unit interactions substantially complicate the development of advanced process control systems....

Spring 2014

Bastani, Meysam

Each patient with Type-1 diabetes must decide how much insulin to inject before each meal to maintain an acceptable level of blood glucose. The actual injection dose is based on a formula that takes current blood glucose level and the meal size into consideration. While following this insulin...

Spring 2016

Bard, Nolan DC

Ideal agent behaviour in multiagent environments depends on the behaviour of other agents. Consequently, acting to maximize utility is challenging since an agent must gather and exploit knowledge about how the other (potentially adaptive) agents behave. In this thesis, we investigate how an...

Spring 2013

Ajallooeian, Mohammad Mahdi

In this thesis we consider problems where a self-interested entity, called the principal, has private access to some data that she wishes to use to solve a prediction problem by outsourcing the development of the predictor to some other parties. Assuming the principal, who needs the machine...