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Fall 2018
Real-time simulation of biomechanical models has provided exciting potential for improving the outcomes of some medical interventions by allowing clinicians to visualize the displacements and strains of biomechanical tissues in real-time during the intervention. Through real-time visualization,...
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Towards Realizing Melt-electrospun Bone Scaffolds: Theoretical Modeling and Simulation of Melt-Electrospinning as a Multi-body System
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There has been a growing interest in integrating melt-electrospinning (MES) with three-dimensional (3D) fabrication methods to produce constructs with controlled internal micro-architectures. One application area that could benefit from this integration is bone tissue engineering (TE). Due to the...
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Fall 2019
Derived from Doll’s (1993) seminal conceptualization of a post-modern curriculum with the criteria of 4Rs (i.e., richness, relations, recursion and rigor), the present research continues the effort to complexify and theorize recursion and recursive curriculum. This study re-conceptualizes...
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Fall 2021
This thesis proposes novel algorithmic ideas in reinforcement learning for regret minimization. These algorithmic ideas enjoy nice theoretical guarantees and are more practical in large problems than their alternatives. We focus on finite-horizon episodic RL. We propose model-based and model-free...
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Towards Strategic and Sustainable Region-wide Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) Network Planning and Management
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Road Weather Information Systems (RWIS) are considered one of the most critical highway intelligent transportation system (ITS) infrastructures, combining several advanced technologies to collect, process, and disseminate road weather information. The collected information is used by road...
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Towards superior cancer drugs by modeling approaches: Modification and prediction of the mode of action
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Cancer is a leading cause of death that imposes significant economic and social suffering on a global scale. Based on the projected growth and ageing of populations, the global burden of cancer is set to increase. Despite the vast investment in cancer research, the rate of translation of research...
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Towards Supervisory Control for Remote Mobile Manipulation: Designing, Building, and Testing a Mobile Telemanipulation Test-Bed
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This dissertation has two main contributions, a modular design of a mobile manipulator and a set of tele-operation performance experiments using this platform. To experimentally evaluate system performance and operator preferences, several tests were designed: 1) Which robot camera placement...
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Fall 2020
In this thesis, the challenges involved with large-scale Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) 3-dimensional (3D) printing is explored through an industrial application in which a cantilever chair is produced as a case study. The chair is designed in SOLIDWORKS® in which easy variability and complex...