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Spring 2022
The repetitiveness and precision of manufacturing tasks has increased the need for robots in the automation of the manufacturing industry; however, the complex and varied nature of manufacturing production lines poses challenges in terms of applying the rule-based automation approach. This has...
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Spring 2023
Process industries involve processes that have complex, interdependent, and sometimes uncontrollable/unobservable features that are subject to a variety of uncertainties such as operational fluctuations, sensory noises, process anomalies, human involvement, market volatility, and so forth. In the...
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Spring 2024
In reinforcement learning, the notion of state plays a central role. A reinforcement learning agent requires the state to evaluate its current situation, select actions, and construct a model of the environment. In the classic setting, it is assumed that the environment provides the agent with...
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Spring 2012
We study linear estimation based on perturbed data when performance is measured by a matrix norm of the expected residual error, in particular, the case in which there are many unknowns, but the “best” estimator is sparse, or has small L1-norm. We propose a Lasso-like procedure that finds the...
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Fall 2017
The idea of an amputee playing the piano with all the flair and grace of an able-handed person may seem like a futuristic fantasy. While many prosthetic limbs look lifelike, finding one that also moves naturally has proved more of a challenge for both researchers and amputees. Even though...
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Towards Practical Offline Reinforcement Learning: Sample Efficient Policy Selection and Evaluation
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Offline reinforcement learning (RL) involves learning policies from datasets, rather than online interaction. The dissertation first investigates a critical component in offline RL: offline policy selection (OPS). Given that most offline RL algorithms require careful hyperparameter tuning, we...
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Fall 2015
The control of powered prosthetic arms has been researched for over 50 years, yet prosthetic control remains an open problem, not just from a research perspective, but from a clinical perspective as well. Significant advances have been made in the manufacture of highly functional prosthetic...
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Two-Step Rigid and Non-Rigid Image Registration for the Alignment of Multi-View Three-Dimensional Echocardiography Sequences
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Ultrasound is a widely used imaging modality, which provides continuous real-time imaging of the human heart, brain, liver, and many other organs. Accurate cardiovascular evaluation plays an important role in early disease diagnosis and echocardiography plays an important role in the assessment...
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Spring 2022
Sajjadi Ghaemmaghami, Saeedehsadat
Today’s users are spending more time on web applications. Many users browse web applications and navigate through different web pages. They may have different interests, especially when it comes to large-scale applications. The more the developers of the applications know about their users’ needs...
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Fall 2009
Character behaviours in computer role-playing games have a significant impact on game-play, but are often difficult for story authors to implement and modify. Many computer games use custom scripts to control the behaviours of non-player characters (NPCs). Therefore, a story author must write...