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Health condition monitoring and failure detection play a crucial role in estimating the performance of solar panels such as degradation trend over time and occurrence of failures. Monitoring and detecting significant degradation can help...
One of the main goals of robotics research is to give physical platforms intelligence, allowing for the platforms to act autonomously with minimal direction from humans. Motion planning is the process by which a mobile robot plans a...
This work’s objective is to apply the model predictive control method to the intelligent energy management layer of the Future Renewable Electric Energy Delivery and Management system. This allows for optimal power reference signals to...
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is one of the most common neurodegenerative disorders and causes cognitive impairment and memory deficits of the patients. The mechanism of AD is not well known, due to the lack of study materials, e.g., human...
Recently, the smart grid technologies have been developed rapidly recently, which an important component is the so called demand response management (DRM). With the help of a DRM program, a utility company can adjust the power demand and...
The innovation and accessibility of Internet across the globe has made life easy. For instance, enormous information in the form of digital data (images, audios, videos, pdf, etc.) is available on Internet, which can easily be accessed...
With the advent of nanotechnology, nanomaterials have drastically improved our lives in a very short span of time. The more we can tap into this resource, the more we can change our lives for better. All the applications of nanomaterials...
The aim of this work is to develop a deeper understanding of the nuances involved in designing and optimizing the performance of gas/liquid plasma reactors for chemical synthesis. The design of such reactors requires integrating...
The simulation and study of fluid properties and dynamics in a microgravity environment on the Earth’s surface is of great interest due to the high costs associated with conducting research in space. Cryogenic fluids like liquid helium, ...
Grid codes impose immunity requirements to the generation systems that are connected to the transmission lines. Immunity refers to the generator’s capability to overcome grid abnormal conditions. One of the requirements is to remain...
Weight of a material and the system formed by such material is a critical factor for many applications. Traditionally, engineering designed porous structures, typically honeycomb structures, have been utilized for weight critical...
Nowadays the medium-voltage dc system (MVDC) has been proposed in the renewable energy collector fields, long distance power transmission, small-scale industrial networks and all-electric shipboards due to its relatively higher...
The study of user-behavior and decision-making dynamics in transportation network are vital in modeling and simulation of user interactions. Different users access transportation network in order to accomplish different activities. Such...
Tightly coupled microgrid power systems strike a balance between maintaining the desired power quality and insuring a high utilization efficiency of large-nonlinear loads. This is of great interest to the US Navy. Application of large...
Power Electronic-based Distribution Systems (PEDS) can provide excellent features such as load regulation, high power factor, and transient performance; especially in the large scale grids which are highly penetrated with the renewable...
It has been clear in the recent decades that there is an urgent need to progress towards renewable energy. There are few established technologies that provide a suitable economic option. These include hydropower, solar, wind, geothermal, ...
The deployment of high flux magnetic processing in industry requires the ability to model the expected results of a proposed processing, and the current assumptions in the literature did not reflect the actual outcome in measurements of...
The current trend for naval destroyer-class ships is the move toward DC distribution systems as the next generation of ships is developed. The main motivation for using DC is to increase the power density of the ships to accommodate...
Resilience simply means to rebound when exposed to a disruptive event. Damage to bridges in transportation networks usually result in long detours and increased travel time hence have massive cost implications. Transportation networks...
Autonomous robots are increasingly working alongside humans in a variety of environments. While simple applications in controlled environments work fine with fully autonomous robots and little interaction between human and robot, mission...
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) provides a unique contrast based on the restricted directionality of water movement in an anisotropic environment. As such, DTI-based tractography can be used to characterize and quantify the structural...
A significant responsibility of officials involved in transportation planning is ensuring people's accessibility to critical facilities such as multi-modal terminals and emergency shelters. This challenging task depends on the available...
Ethylene 1-alkene copolymers with the same molar mass, same molar mass distribution and very similar average comonomer content of 3.8 +/- 0.4 mol% but different broad interchain comonomer content distribution (CCD), are found to display...
Unsteady fluid flows have complex dynamics due to the nonlinear interactions amongst vortical elements. In this thesis, a network-theoretic framework is developed to describe vortical and modal (coherent structure) interactions in...
Intelligent morphing structures will revolutionize micro-robotics, wearable technology, and tiny electro-mechanical systems. The ideal morphing structure is thin and flexible with the ability to deform and sense its surroundings....
Diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) provides a map of diffusional anisotropy based on the Brownian motion of water within the restricted boundaries of tissues. In this work, a high angular resolution DTI acquired with 18 diffusion directions...
This dissertation describes the propagation of near atmospheric nitrogen gas that rushes into a liquid helium cooled vacuum tube after the tube suddenly loses vacuum. The loss-of-vacuum scenario resembles accidental venting of...
Intelligent and effective monitoring of power system stability in control centers is one of the key issues in smart grid technology to prevent unwanted power system blackouts. Voltage stability analysis is one of the most important...
The Modular Multilevel Converter (MMC) is a potential candidate for power conversion in a Medium Voltage DC System (MVDC) based electric ship. One of the major advantages of utilizing MMC in an MVDC environment is the capability of...
Wind energy has become one of the most important and thriving renewable energy resources in the world. Transforming the kinetic energy of wind into electric power is more environmentally friendly than traditional processes such as the...
Poly-ϵ-caprolactone (PCL) based copolymers have received much attention as drug or growth factor delivery carriers and tissue engineering scaffolds due to their biocompatibility, biodegradability, and tunable biophysical properties....
Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers are very promising materials for many applications. Strong interactions among individual CNTs could produce a dense yarn results in exceptional properties. These properties are used in the application of high...
The benefits of a smart grid system greatly depends on the efficient implementation of the power delivery system utilizing the data communication infrastructure. This makes it necessary to have a co-simulation platform to test the...
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) are considered as a novel candidate for cell therapy due to the differentiation potential, migration ability, and secretion function. Late stage clinical trials require a large amount of cells that...
This paper demonstrates a throughout study of Florida State University main campus distribution system, particularly for Stadium power distribution system. With the advanced power system analysis software, a refined distribution...
The research investigated the effect of aging altered driving posture on injury criteria of the head (HIC15) and chest (peak resultant chest acceleration) in low speed frontal impact. The aging altered driving postures were described in...
Computational material simulation is becoming more and more important as a branch of material science. Depending on the scale of the systems, there are many simulation methods, i.e. first-principles calculation (or ab-initio), molecular...
As the strategy of green building becomes more and more popular due to a combination of environmental and economic concerns, there develops a need for clearly being able to understand the potential implications for choosing green...
With an increase in the number of space transport applications, the need for larger, more powerful and efficient rocket motors are the need of the day. Thus, optimizing the thrust generated by these rocket motors is of great importance, ...
Due to environment concerns and the government incentives, renewable generations are growing rapidly these years. In particular, large-scale photovoltaic (PV) installations are increasing dramatically. However, the limited lifetime of PV...
Human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs) isolated from various adult tissues are primary candidates in cell therapy for tissue regeneration. The pro-regenerative properties of hMSCs are largely attributed to their trophic effects by the...
A major challenge to the study of the structure-property relationship of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks is to characterize the complex nanostructure with complicated nanoscale contacts and pore structures. An image-based characterization...
One of the major concerns for many athletes in todays' sports is mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI), which is commonly known as concussion. Researchers and manufacturers of sport helmets are constantly trying to develop new designs and...
There is a plethora of interesting science and many applications that rely on wrinkling in thin sheets. Though wrinkling may not be appreciated in some instances, in many other situations wrinkles can help to comprehend various physical...
Intelligent energy management systems (EMSs) play pivotal roles for microgrids (MGs). The integration of distributed generators (DGs), energy storage devices (ESDs), electrical vehicles (EVs), and flexible loads in a large-scale system...
In this study, the flow and acoustic field characteristics of dual high-speed axi-symmetric impinging jets will be examined. Initially, the short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) facility was redesigned by adding a second jet to the...
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides an effective approach to track the labeled pluripotent stem cell (PSC)-derived neural progenitor cells (NPCs) for neural transplantation and neurological disorder treatments. However, labeling...
With the advancement in technology and the constant need for optimization, a lot of resources are directed towards analyzing information collected. This information is in the form of large amounts of data that is gathered at every...
Practically all engineering applications require knowledge of uncertainty. Accurately quantifying uncertainty within engineering problems supports model development, potentially leading to identification of key risk factors or cost...
Visibility is an important part of highway driving. Weather-related visibility limitations have caused several major pile-ups (crashes) over the years all over the country. These limitations are caused due to, but not limited to, fog and...
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