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  • Computing Substation Fragility as a Function of Seismic Component Failure

    Creator:
    Stark, William D.
    Abstract:
    The electrical grid of the Western Interconnection is vulnerable to earthquake damage, especially large-magnitude megathrust events, due to the unique seismic profile of the region. However, the size of the Western Interconnection makes it difficult to model seismic failure in electrical substations to the level of detail necessary to improve...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF William Daigle Stark for the

  • Benchmarking and Programming Practices for the Intel Xeon Phi Coprocessor

    Creator:
    Leslie, William
    Abstract:
    The Intel Xeon Phi is a relative newcomer to the scientific computing scene. In the recent years, GPUs have been used extensively for mathematical simulations. The Xeon Phi is Intel’s response to the use of these cards. Like the GPU, it is highly parallelizable but can be programmed like a...
    Resource Type:
    Capstone Project
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE MASTERS PROJECT OF William

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

    Creator:
    Curran, William
    Abstract:
    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    Dissertation
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    -Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Abstract approved: William D. Smart Prasad Tadepalli

  • A peer-to-peer communication system based on Walsh-Hadamard codes for fading environments

    Creator:
    Moranvil, William
    Abstract:
    High data rate transmission has become an important challenge in today digital communication systems. One of the most difficult problems faced by engineers is to transmit data at sufficiently high rates through fading channels. This is the main motivation for the research presented herein. In this thesis, we investigate a...
    Resource Type:
    Masters Thesis
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    THE THESIS OF William Moranvil for the degree of Master of Science in Electrical and Computer

  • Applications of Magnetic Materials in Soft Robotics

    Creator:
    Davis, William M.
    Abstract:
    Magnetic materials can be used in modern soft robotics as a method for external stimulus actuation and motion control. By combining aspects of biology and mechanics, devices are fabricated to create a structure capable of complex movement. Applications that these devices are subject to can be broken down into four...
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    Capstone Project
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE PROJECT OF William

  • Sensorless Localization for Robots and Wheelchairs

    Creator:
    Subramanian, Ashwin
    Abstract:
    Despite an increase in the number of people who rely on manual wheelchairs, there are still substantial economic barriers to affordable and accessible localization systems. As a result, there is a pressing need to build a versatile yet low cost localization system for manual wheelchairs. Such systems allow users to...
    Resource Type:
    Honors College Thesis
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    :_____________________________________________________ William Smart Despite an increase in the number of people who rely on manual wheelchairs, there

  • Information theoretic approach to quantization and classification for signal processing, communications, and machine learning applications

    Creator:
    Thuan Nguyen D.
    Abstract:
    There are five main contributions of this dissertation. The first contribution is new closed-form expressions for channel capacity of a new class of channel matrices. The second contribution is the discovery of the structure for optimal binary quantizer and the associated methods for finding an optimal quantizer that maximizes mutual...
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    Dissertation
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    impurity using (a) N = 10; (b) N = 20; (c) N = 30; (d) N = 40. Our approximation (R(emax)) are the red

  • On the Role of Spatial Clustering Algorithms in Building Species Distribution Models from Community Science Data

    Creator:
    Roth, Mark
    Abstract:
    This paper discusses opportunities for developments in spatial clustering methods to help leverage broad scale community science data for building species distribution models (SDMs). SDMs are critical tools that inform the science and policy needed to mitigate the impacts of climate change on biodiversity. Community science data span spatial and...
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    Capstone Project
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    objects, x and y, is defined as follows: d(x, y) = αd1(x, y) + (1 − α)d2(x, y) where d1 and d2 are

  • Algorithmic Problems on Simplicial Complexes

    Creator:
    Maxwell, William
    Resource Type:
    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF William Maxwell for

  • From multitarget tracking to event recognition in videos

    Creator:
    Brendel, William
    Abstract:
    This dissertation addresses two fundamental problems in computer vision—namely, multitarget tracking and event recognition in videos. These problems are challenging because uncertainty may arise from a host of sources, including motion blur, occlusions, and dynamic cluttered backgrounds. We show that these challenges can be successfully addressed by using a multiscale,...
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    Dissertation
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF William Brendel for the