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Showing 1 to 20 of 66 for “"Plug and Play"”.
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Towards resilient plug-and-play microgrids
… renewable energy penetration, reduce costs, and improve reliability of the electric grid. However, today's microgrids are unreliable, lack true modularity, and operate with rudimentary control systems. This thesis research makes contributions in the areas of microgrid modeling and simulation; …
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Modeling medical devices for plug-and-play interoperability
… engineers is to support the connectivity and interoperability of medical-electrical point-of-care devices. A system that could enable plug-and-play connectivity and interoperability for medical devices would improve patient safety, save hospitals time and money, and provide data for …
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Design of a process to create PAPRAS (Plug-And-Play Robotic Arm System) applications
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2024-08-01
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Robots as Minions, Sidekicks, and Apprentices: Using Wearable Muscle, Brain, and Motion Sensors for Plug-and-Play Human-Robot Interaction
This thesis presents algorithms and systems that use unobtrusive wearable sensors for muscle, brain, and motion activity to enable more plug-and-play human-robot interactions. Detecting discrete commands and continuous motions creates a communication vocabulary for remote control or collaboration, …
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Biomanufacturing Automation Plug & Play
… manufacturing equipment requires custom coding and lengthy efforts to integrate any new piece of equipment with others in a process. Plug-and-play is an evolving concept that would enable new equipment to quickly connect and seamlessly integrate with the existing automation control system, …
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Performance and stability in decentralised network systems with applications to distributed optimisation and power systems
… with the concept of decentralised control playing an essential role in regulating the behaviour of large-scale, heterogeneous architectures. Ensuring that such controllers perform well when interconnected with the rest of the network, while also guaranteeing that the interconnection remains …
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Seeing Beyond Limits with Physics-Informed Priors
… imaging systems are limited by dimensionality and visibility: standard sensors capture only two-dimensional data, while light diffuses or scatters across surfaces and through complex media. This dissertation reformulates imaging as an interplay of optical encoding and neural decoding. It models …
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Power Electronic Building Block Applications in Optimization, Control, and Simulation
… dynamics. Ripple correlation control is analyzed and the present theory expanded upon. The ripple correlation control method is shown to be a virtually ideal optimization method that is truly plug-and-play for a class of systems. The PEBB concept is applied to the hybrid electric vehicle to …
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Anomaly Detection and Forecasting Techniques and their Applications Scenarios, Challenges and Limits in Industrial Production Settings
What needs to be done to get machine learning and artificial intelligence from the lab to the shop floor? This work and its affiliated publications focus on challenges and solutions to apply machine learning applications inside industrial setups and what steps are needed to improve those setups. In …
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An object-oriented design of a subsumption architecture
… in software in an object-oriented way and used for strategies of trucks in the Truckin' simulation game. The subsumption architecture is a layered mediator invented by Rodney Brooks for behaviour-based control of robots. The layers are minimally dependent and use minimal communication. …
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Modeling barriers to cost change in solar and nuclear energy technologies
… to global energy transitions in the past, and our capacity to decarbonize the electricity sector will depend on the cost of low-carbon electricity production technologies like photovoltaic and nuclear energy. Understanding the mechanisms behind historical cost evolution and potential future …
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Examining Autoexposure for Challenging Scenes
… the lack of platforms to evaluate AE algorithms and suitable image datasets. To address this issue, we have designed a software platform allowing AE algorithms to be used in a plug-and-play manner with the dataset. In addition, we have captured a new 4D exposure dataset that provides a complete …
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Design and Implementation of an Eye Blink Controlled Human Computer Interface
… area of research important for improving the standard of living for people with disabilities. An eye blink system is presented to allow people with disabilities to control a standard computer mouse. This system is designed for people who are paralytic with no control over their arms, speech, and …
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Flying Qualities Built-in-Test for Unmanned Aerial Systems
… axis. A doublet input waveform excites the AV and both α and q are used by EUDKF to estimate the A and B matrices which are short period approximations of the system. ζ, ω, GM, PM, observability, and controllability are calculated to determine flying qualities with the results displayed to the …
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Adaptive Control Applied to the Cal Poly Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics Simulator
… Direct Model Reference Adaptive Control and Adaptive Output Feedback Control. The Spacecraft Attitude Dynamics Simulator is a student-built air bearing spacecraft simulator controlled by four reaction wheels in a pyramidal arrangement. Tests were performed to determine the effectiveness …
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Technical and Commercial Feasibility Assessment of Nuclear Microreactors as a Clean Energy Source for Data Centers and Mining Sites
Nuclear Microreactors are 1-10MWe stand-alone, plug-and-play energy platforms that can supply electricity and heat from a small footprint. Factory-assembled and factory-fueled, they are compact enough to fit within ISO standard shipping containers. Proposed to be used as a co-located source of …
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AeroSandbox: A Differentiable Framework for Aircraft Design Optimization
… for conceptual aircraft design called AeroSandbox. This framework leverages modern techniques for automatic differentiation developed in the optimal control and machine learning communities. By combining these efficient gradient calculations with robust optimizers such as IPOPT, …
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Agnostic Testing Kiosk for Remote Vitals Sensing
… each was developed independently of the other and are largely incompatible, making it difficult to collaborate by sharing sensors and code. An agnostic testing system was developed from Ivan Goryachev’s Kiosk for Non-Contact Vital Sign Detection to incorporate RGB camera, thermal camera, radar, …
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