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2008-01-01
Potapov, A. B., Lewis, Mark A.
We consider the model of invasion prevention in a system of lakes that are connected via traffic of recreational boats. It is shown that, in presence of an Allee effect, the general optimal control problem can be reduced to a significantly simpler stationary optimization problem of optimal...
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Spring 2012
Since the late 1970s, the design of chemical processes has evolved towards highly integrated operations that can increase plant efficiency. Although plant-wide integration offers substantial opportunities to improve the performance of an entire plant, it often results in large-scale systems that...
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Coordination and Optimization of Power Distribution Systems with Stochastic Distributed Energy Resources using Artificial Intelligence
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High levels of penetration of distributed photovoltaic generators can cause serious overvoltage issues, especially during periods of high power generation and light loads. It is of vital importance to gain more understanding of the system and to prepare mitigation plans before the number of PV...
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Fall 2019
Modern residential buildings are complex cyber-physical systems housing energy systems with numerous sensors and actuators. In recent years, the falling costs of battery storage and photovoltaic systems have substantially increased the number of “solar-plus-battery” installations in these...
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Movement coordination and control in children with and without Developmental Coordination Disorder in ball catching
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A rigorous investigation of functional collectives of musculo-skeletal articulators is lacking in DCD literature, in spite of powerful empirical arguments suggesting that they represent a critical unit of control (e.g., coordinative structure theory). Thus, the purpose of this dissertation was...
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2007
Lewis, M. A., Finnoff, D., Potapov, A.
A metapopulation model for alien species invasion of a lake network is coupled with an economic model of prevention. The model restates a stochastic problem in deterministic terms. It provides a macroscopic description of the lake network with prevention methods controlling both the outflow of...
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Fall 2017
This thesis investigates the optimal control of two nonholonomic mechanical systems, Suslov's problem and the rolling ball. Suslov's problem is a nonholonomic variation of the classical rotating free rigid body problem, in which the body angular velocity must always be orthogonal to a prescribed,...
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Spring 2012
The Naïve Theory is one the dominant accounts amongst philosophers of language. This theory has much to offer, however it does not in all cases bode well with intuitions. Two puzzles are raised and investigated here. The first is a puzzle regarding certain simple sentences. The Naïve Theory does...
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Fall 2010
Many sports biomechanics research studies follow a traditional task analysis concept that there is only one best possible movement pattern and thus focus on the examination of kinematics and kinetics of movement without considering the influence of constraints that are imposed on it. This study...