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AUTOMATIC SYSTEM RESTORATION FOR INDUSTRIAL POWER SYSTEMS
(2021-04-06)The power system industry often operates close to its limits to accommodate the increased demand posing a high risk of blackouts. Power system restoration techniques are utilized post breakout with the focus on load pickup ... -
AUTOMATIC TEST CASE GENERATION WITH DYNAMIC SYMBOLIC EXECUTION FOR PROGRAMS THAT ARE CODED AGAINST INTERFACES AND ANNOTATIONS OR USE NATIVE CODE
(University of Texas at Arlington Libraries, 2015-05)It is important to generate useful test cases to ensure the quality of software programs. Modern software programs are built upon code written in different programming languages. Automatic test case generation for such ... -
Automating Aerospace Synthesis Code Generation A Tool for Generic Vehicle Design and Technology Forecasting
(2021-01-08)The principal development and deliverable of this research is a generic synthesis assembling decision support environment for early conceptual design that automates the assembly of synthesis architectures for enhanced ... -
Automating Inhabitant Interactions In Home And Workplace Environments Through Data-driven Generation Of Hierarchical Partially-observable Markov Decision Processes
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2007-08-23)Markov models provide a useful representation of system behavioral actions and state observations, but they do not scale well. Utilizing a hierarchy and abstraction through hierarchical hidden Markov models (HHMMs) improves ... -
Automation Of Thermal Model Extraction And Optimization
(Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)Semiconductor device model optimization is highly beneficial; it improves the accuracy with which we can predict the performance of real devices and whole circuits before they are fabricated. This helps save time and money ... -
Autonomic Trust Management In Dynamic Systems
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)Research in pervasive computing is aimed at creating environments where users can seamlessly benefit from ubiquitous computing resources despite the complexity of the environment. Providing security in such systems is a ... -
Autonomous Abstraction Of Policies Based On Policy Homomorphism
(Computer Science & Engineering, 2009-09-16)A life long learning agent performing in a complex and dynamic environment needs the ability to learn increasingly complex tasks over time. These agents over their lifetime have to learn new tasks, adapt the policies of ... -
AUTONOMOUS AERIAL VEHICLES DISTRIBUTED CONTROL AND INTERACTIVE GAMES
(2022-04-05)As the number of quadrotors and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) increases in industrial and urban areas, the development of reliable engineering methods to control their behavior as they interact with each other ... -
Autonomous And Cooperative Multi-UAV Guidance In Adversarial Environment
(Aerospace Engineering, 2007-08-23)The research presented in this dissertation is aimed at developing rule-based autonomous and cooperative guidance strategies for UAVs to perform missions such as path planning, target tracking and rendezvous while ... -
AUTONOMOUS CARRIER LANDING OF A FIXED-WING UAV WITH AIRBORNE DECK MOTION ESTIMATION
(2019-12-06)This study focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of an autonomous carrier landing system featuring an airborne deck motion estimation module. The three-dimensional dynamics of a fixed-wing UAV with the ... -
Autonomous Guidance of Unmanned Combat Air Vehicles in Basic Fighter Maneuvering
(2022-01-10)Basic fighter maneuvering, or BFM, is the dynamic engagement of two or more aircraft in close-range air combat. The relatively recent introduction of advanced unmanned combat air vehicles (UCAVs) has opened the possibility ... -
Autonomous landing of quadrotor on a moving UGV with the optimal control policies
(2020-12-01)This thesis proposes an offline method that uses an integral reinforcement learning (IRL) technique along with the system identification to determine the optimal control of a system with completely unknown dynamics. Unmanned ... -
Autonomous Robotic Landmine Detection, Mapping And Avoidance
The objective of this thesis is to develop detection algorithm to can solve socially challenging issue of Landmine mapping & removal. Landmines which used to be a safety measure during wars, play a dangerous role in civilian ... -
Autonomous Teaming of Multileader System - Robust Cluster Formation Approach
(2022-12-20)The cluster consensus problem of Multileader MAS Is considered and the clustering problem of interconnected multileader systems is formulated as a disturbance attenuation problem. For the first time, it's proved that the ... -
Autotrophic Denitrification Of Groundwater In A Granular Sulfur-packed Up-flow Reactor
(Civil & Environmental Engineering, 2007-09-17)Autotrophic denitrification is an effective treatment technique for nitrate removal from groundwater. Six basic elements are required for the growth of autotrophic denitrifiers: (1) electron donor, (2) electron acceptor, ... -
Awareness Of Psychological Based Strategies And Modes Of Perception By Landscape Architects In North Texas
This research presents a study of the diffusion of innovation (Figure 2.8) as it relates to the manipulation of psychological responses through landscape architecture that enhance the user’s experience and achieves the ... -
Away O'er The Waves: The Transatlantic Life And Literature Of Captain Mayne Reid
(History, 2007-08-23)Although largely forgotten today, adventure novelist Mayne Reid, an Irish-born veteran of the United States' war with Mexico, was a household name on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean during the mid-to-late nineteenth ... -
Axial Wave Propagation In Truncated Cones
(Mechanical Engineering, 2011-03-03)While dealing with problems of impact analysis, where the force is dependent on the time, one can use the transient analysis to compute the response. Transient wave propagation has drawn interest from a long time mainly ... -
Azerbaijani-Russian Code-switching And Code-mixing: Form, Function, And Identity
(Linguistics, 2010-03-03)From incorporation into the Russian Empire in 1828, through the collapse of the U.S.S.R. in 1991 governmental language policies and other socio/political forces influenced the Turkic population of the Republic of Azerbaijan ... -
Azul - Using multimodal sensors from mobile and wearable devices for assessment and monitoring of depression symptoms
(2019-12-10)With the ubiquitous presence of mobile phones, there is too much data that can be collected for different purposes which can be correlated to monitor multiple more user information. If used responsibly, this data can be ...