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Submitted by Ann Majewicz on January 28th, 2016
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Submitted by Yaser Fallah on January 28th, 2016
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GRID 2020: The power grid in the U.S. and many regions of the world is undergoing changes because of new technologies and government mandates. It is believed that smart meters and a smarter grid will lead to more efficient use of our infrastructure. In addition, increased renewable energy integration will provide power at low cost.
Submitted by Sean Meyn on January 28th, 2016
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The objective of this proposal is to exploit an early concept of a flexible, low-cost, and drone-carried broadband long-distance communication infrastructure and investigate its capability for immediate smart-city application in emergency response.
Submitted by Yan Wan on January 27th, 2016
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For reliable operation of programmed molecular systems, the capability to detect faults when they occur and to initiate recovery is essential. Since a faulty system cannot be depended upon to report its own failure, a monitoring device is needed. The work presented here describes the design of one such fault protection device, called a molecular watchdog timer.
Submitted by Robyn Lutz on December 23rd, 2015
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In this work, target or source localization and tracking by a network of primitive binary sensors under various imperfections are studied. Detailed analysis and mathematical modeling of imperfect binary sensors are presented. Imperfections include sensor failures of two types, uncertainty and heterogeneity in binary sensor trigger thresholds, presence of noise and non-radial symmetry of sensing ranges. Numerical algorithms for source localization and tracking are proposed along with convergence and asymptotic normality results.
Submitted by Er-Wei Bai on December 23rd, 2015
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This project designs algorithms for the integration of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PEVs) into the power grid. Specifically, the project will formulate and solve optimization problems critical to various entities in the PEV ecosystem -- PEV owners, commercial charging station owners, aggregators, and distribution companies -- at the distribution / retail level.
Submitted by Vijay Gupta on December 23rd, 2015
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General purpose operating systems (OS) are concurrent and multithread, and the primary goal of thread scheduler is to enforce fairness among all threads. This design is unsuitable for Real-Time (RT) systems, because tasks have soft or hard deadline of finishing time. Concurrency breaks timing of RT applications because users never know when their program is actually running. Explicitly allocation of processor resource to programs (threads) is thus necessary for timing-aware applications.
Submitted by Rajesh Gupta on December 22nd, 2015
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The overarching goal of this project is to develop a novel cyberphysical platform for fast and efficient, fully digital, 3-dimensional, 5-axis machining. Proposed methodology is inspired by 3D printing, which is easy to program but limited in terms of the materials that can be used, the finishing quality that can be achieved, and relatively slow printing speeds. By contrast, CNC milling can address these limitations.
Submitted by Thomas Kurfess on December 22nd, 2015
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It's common in controller design to assume that the controller reads the sensors and writes to the actuators at the same time instant. This assumption is often violated in practice because the controller executes its code sequentially on a microprocessor. If the microprocessor is "fast enough," often the controller will still work.
Submitted by Joao Hespanha on December 22nd, 2015