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  • Initial Designs for Improving Conversations for People Using Speech Synthesizers

    Creator:
    Nguyen, Duy M.
    Abstract:
    This thesis aims to determine the impact that Augmentative and Alternative Communication (AAC) devices have on social interactions, and then improves the AAC user experience through a user focus design process. AAC devices enable people who cannot speak to communicate with others. Unfortunately, they are tedious to use and make...
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    Masters Thesis
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Duy M. Nguyen for the degree of

  • Potential Additive-Manufacturing of Ablative Thermal Protection Systems

    Creator:
    Hazell, Kenya K.
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    Electrodeposition is a versatile polymer deposition technique to create nano-microscale materials using an electrical field generated from a charged droplet of solution and a grounded collector. Electrospinning or electrospraying can occur during electrodeposition, leading to the creation of nanofibers or bead-like materials depending on the process parameters. Photopolymerization of the...
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    Dissertation
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    approved: ______________________________________________________ Vincent T. Remcho

  • Toward Machine Learning-Enabled Adaptivity for Humorous Robots

    Creator:
    Gray, Carson C.
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    Social robots benefit from a sense of humor, which requires the ability to recognize and adapt to human responses during playful interactions. Past work on humorous robots has classified audience responses with audio-based and preliminary visual-based methods following the joke punchline. Building on this progress, we conducted a survey of...
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    Masters Thesis
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    Walcott and Huy Nguyen. Thank you to Professors Grimm, Smart, Hollinger, Jerman, Fitter, Hatton, Calvo

  • A heuristic algorithm for operating yard cranes over storage blocks to minimize the handling time in a container yard

    Creator:
    Denkaew, Weerakit
    Abstract:
    In container terminals, the efficiency of loading operations in a container yard highly depends on the productivity of yard cranes. In loading operation, yard cranes have to pick-up the containers which are stacked in the yard-bays to satisfy the work schedule requirement of quay crane, the equipment for loading and...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Vehicle routing and scheduling with delivery and installation

    Creator:
    Kim, Kyoung Cheol
    Abstract:
    For manufacturing and service industries to stay competitive in this rapidly changing, globalized world, one of the most important operations, and one that many businesses struggle to plan and manage efficiently, is material handling. There has been a large amount of research on various vehicle routing problems (VRPs) in recent...
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    Dissertation
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    . Funk and Dr. Thinh Nguyen for their constant encouragement and useful feedback, which have been of

  • Optical sensing and metrology for on-machine surface inspection in manufacturing processes

    Creator:
    Lee, Eddie T.
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    Optical sensing technologies are pivotal in the manufacturing process, specifically in defect detection, tool condition estimation, and monitoring. The research aims to enhance the accuracy, efficiency, and reliability of manufacturing metrology by employing optical sensing technologies, such as laser profilometers and image processing techniques. The dissertation proposes intelligent and flexible...
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    understanding of the characteristics of AE signals during the grinding process. Nguyen et al. [32] and Guo et

  • Evaluation of Heat and Mass Transfer Models for Sizing Low-Temperature Kalina Cycle Microchannel Condensers

    Creator:
    Fronk, Brian M. and Zada, Kyle R.
    Abstract:
    Waste heat driven ammonia/water Kalina cycles have shown promise for improving the efficiency of electricity production from low-temperature reservoirs (T < 150 °C). However, there has been limited application of these systems to utilize widely available, disperse, waste heat streams for smaller scale power production (1–10 kWe). Factors limiting increased deployment of these...
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    Article
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    . Therm. Eng., 51(1-2), pp. 787–800. [12] Nguyen, T.-V., Knudsen, T., Larsen, U., and Haglind, F

  • Fluidic and thermal modeling for the high production rate synthesis of high quality nanoparticles

    Creator:
    Peterson, Daniel Alan
    Abstract:
    Advances of colloidal nanomaterials for societal benefit have been hampered by the high cost and low quality of nanoparticles (NPs). The production of high quality nanoparticles within colloidal suspension has two related concerns; (1) current high production rates methods of synthesizing nanoparticles result in a larger range of particle size,...
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    Dissertation
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    characteristics provides the ability to tune the NP size. T-mixing, interdigital mixing and reverse oscillatory

  • Control of spring-mass running robots

    Creator:
    Vejdani Noghreiyan, Hamid Reza
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    We seek the control strategies that are applicable on legged robots and control them to run in real world as robust and efficient as animals. To achieve this goal, we need to understand the principles of legged locomotion and the control policies that animals use during running. In this study...
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    Masters Thesis
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    vector v = (v x , vy ) T , a symmetric gait can be obtained. This policy continuously updates the leg

  • Vortical Structures in Transition to Turbulence through Randomly Packed Porous Media: Scale, Energy, and Mixing Characteristics

    Creator:
    Mohammadi Ziazi, Reza
    Abstract:
    Vortical structures are the driving mechanism of transition to turbulence in porous media requiring adequately resolved observations along with analysis of the scale and energy of flow within the pores. Of specific interest is to understand the vortex dynamics, energy, and turbulent mixing and transport properties in the scale of...
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    Dissertation
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    al., 2014; Agnaou et al., 2016; Khayamyan et al., 2017; He et al., 2018; Nguyen et al., 2018; Jost