Browsing Department of Electrical Engineering by Author "Lewis, Frank"

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    • A STUDY OF CONSENSUS AND COLLISION AVOIDANCE IN A PLATOON OF VEHICLES USING ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL 

      Porter, Audrey Devin; 0000-0002-0784-2118 (2017-05-09)
      Vehicle platooning has been the subject of much research. Transfer function analysis of intervehicle distance errors is traditionally utilized to analyze the string stability of platoons. Consensus theory has been the ...

    • ADAPTIVE OPTIMAL TRACKING OF UNCERTAIN DISCRETE-TIME SYSTEMS 

      Kiumarsi Khomartash, Bahare (2017-08-01)
      Optimal feedback control design has been responsible for much of the successful performance of engineered systems in aerospace, manufacturing, industrial processes, vehicles, ships, robotics, and elsewhere. Although most ...

    • BIO-INSPIRED ADAPTIVE TUNING OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERFACES 

      Alqaudi, Bakur; 0000-0002-1060-6458 (2018-08-07)
      Motivated by recent advancement in neurocognitive in brain modeling research, multiple model-based Q-learning structures are proposed for optimal tracking problem of time-varying discrete-time systems. This is achieved by ...

    • Cooperative Control Of Multi-agent Systems; Stability, Optimality And Robustness 

      Hengster Movric, Kristian (Electrical Engineering, 2013-10-22)
      In this work design methods are given for distributed synchronization control of multi-agent systems on directed communication graphs. Conditions are derived based on the relation of the graph eigenvalues to a region in a ...

    • DATA-DRIVEN DECISION MAKING AND CONTROL OF RATIONAL AGENTS 

      Kolaric, Patrik; 0000-0002-4332-3462 (2021-05-07)
      This dissertation studies the problem of data-driven optimal decision making. The 4main contributions of this work are listed here. First, we develop a model-based and data-driven techniques for learning the cost of an ...

    • Data-logging & Supervisory Control In Wireless Sensor Networks 

      Das, Choudhury Aditya Narayan (Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
      This thesis mainly emphasizes on the inclusion and implementation of the Supervisory control unit in the wireless sensor networks with a brief overlook on the cross-bow sensors and mobile sentry robots. The aim of this ...

    • Decision And Control In Distributed Cooperative Systems 

      Ballal, Prasanna Mohan (Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)
      This dissertation presents novel matrix-based approaches for decision and control in distributed cooperative systems such as wireless sensor networks. A novel matrix-based Discrete Event Controller has been implemented for ...

    • Diagnosis And Prognosis Of Electrical And Mechanical Faults Using Wireless Sensor Networks And A Two-stage Neural Network Classifier 

      Ramani, Akarsha (Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)
      Diagnosis and isolation of electrical and mechanical problems in induction motors has always been a very challenging task. Some of the common problems in induction motors are: bearing, stator winding, and rotor bar failures. ...

    • Discrete Event Controller: Application Using Dynamic Resource Allocation 

      Trivedi, Abhishek (Electrical Engineering, 2007-09-17)
      This work consists of developing a Discrete Event Controller with Dynamic Resource Allocation, simulating it and than applying it on a test-bed using robots and static sensor nodes. These are the contributions ...

    • Discrete-time Control Algorithms And Adaptive Intelligent Systems Designs 

      Al-Tamimi, Asma Azmi (Electrical Engineering, 2007-10-08)
      In this work, approximate dynamic programming (ADP) designs based on adaptive critic structures are developed to solve the discrete-time optimal control problems in which the state and action spaces are continuous. This ...

    • Distributed Optimal Policies for Multi-Agent Systems under Uncertainties 

      Liu, Mushuang (2020-05-14)
      Multi-agent systems (MAS) have attracted increasing attention in the past years due to their wide applications in mobile robots, sensor networks, autonomous driving systems, etc. Along with this trend, developing ...

    • Distributed Resilient Control of Multi-agent Systems with Applications to Microgrids 

      Zuo, Shan (2020-08-03)
      Distributed cooperative control of multi-agent systems (MAS) has been an active research area over the last few decades. Distributed cooperative controller is locally designed using the neighborhood relative information. ...

    • H-infinity Output Feedback Control: Application To Unmanned Aerial Vehicle 

      Gadewadikar, Jyotirmay (Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
      This dissertation presents new necessary and sufficient conditions for static output-feedback control of linear time-invariant systems using the H-Infinity approach. Simplified conditions are derived which only require the ...

    • Hardware Platform For Research In Helicopter UAV Control 

      Stingu, Petru Emanuel (Electrical Engineering, 2008-09-17)
      The topic discussed in this work addresses the current research being conducted at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute in the areas of UAV helicopter instrumentation targeted towards aerobatic flight control and ...

    • Intelligent Control And Cooperation For Mobile Robots 

      Stingu, Petru Emanuel (Electrical Engineering, 2012-04-11)
      The topic discussed in this work addresses the current research being conducted at the Automation & Robotics Research Institute in the areas of UAV quadrotor control and heterogenous multi-vehicle cooperation. Autonomy can ...

    • Internal Structure And Dynamic Decisions For Coalitions On Graphs 

      Aurangzeb, Muhammad (Electrical Engineering, 05-07-2013)
      The notions of collaboration, advantage, cost and impact are investigated in this dissertation, following are the details. Contribution to Cooperation between Agents for Routing in an Unknown Graph Using Reinforcement ...

    • A Literature Review On Neuro-cognitive Learning And Control 

      Joshi, Patanjalikumar Shashankkumar (Electrical Engineering, 2014-12)
      This thesis is an effort to provide a foundation work linking neuroscience, psychology and control theory as a part of research going on developing fast satisficing autonomous systems at the University of Texas at Arlington ...

    • Localization In Noisy Environment Using Extended Kalman Filter 

      Patkar, Aneeket Suresh (Electrical Engineering, 2008-04-22)
      Localization is an important aspect of Wireless Sensor Networks. Information regarding the position of the sensor nodes is not always known. Without the position information of the sensors, the data reported by the sensors ...

    • Localization System For UAV/UGV In Urban Environments 

      Coelho, Vishal Savio (Electrical Engineering, 2010-03-03)
      An implementation of relative localization of wireless sensor nodes using a potential field method is presented in this work. The system is designed to assist in UAV/UGV navigation in urban environments like rooms and ...

    • Modeling And Feedback Control Of MEMS Devices 

      Borovic, Bruno (Electrical Engineering, 2007-08-23)
      As MEMS actuators reach maturity and emerge from the research lab into commercial applications, their increased reliability, speed, and performance accuracy is needed. MEMS are typically driven directly in an open-loop ...