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  • Utilizing emergent web-based software tools as an effective method for increasing collaboration and knowledge sharing in collocated student design teams

    Creator:
    Koch, Michael D.
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    Over the last few decades, the methods and tools through which humans collaborate, share knowledge and generally communicate have been advancing at a rapid pace. Thanks mostly to advances in broadband internet, cheap data storage and fast microprocessors, humans now have the ability to work together in ways that even...
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    not have access to locally, diversify their pool ideas through open communication or tap into

  • A computer-based design history tool

    Creator:
    Chen, Ai-hua
    Abstract:
    In current practice, design documentation often fails to support the activities of design understanding, communication, and redesign. A Design History Tool has been developed to improve current design documentation. This tool is a computerized design history that represents and plays back important information generated during the process of designing a...
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    of design understanding, communication, and redesign. A Design History Tool has been developed to

  • CLEAN learning to improve coordination and scalability in multiagent systems

    Creator:
    HolmesParker, Chris
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    Recent advances in multiagent learning have led to exciting new capabilities spanning fields as diverse as planetary exploration, air traffic control, military reconnaissance, and airport security. Such algorithms provide a tangible benefit over traditional control algorithms in that they allow fast responses, adapt to dynamic environments, and generally scale well....
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    6.1.1 UAV Communication Network Domain . . . . . . . . . . . . 73 6.1.2 CubeSat Coordination Domain

  • Applying hierarchical and adaptive control to coordinating simple robots

    Creator:
    Knudson, Matthew D.
    Abstract:
    Coordinating multiple robots to achieve a complex task requires solving two distinct control problems: the high-level control problem of ensuring that each robot aims to perform a useful task (e.g., coordination) and the low-level control problem of ensuring that each robot actually performs the correct actions to achieve its task...
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    individuals are strongly limited in sensing, communication, and computational ability. Possible extensions

  • Swept time-space domain decomposition on GPUs and heterogeneous computing systems

    Creator:
    Magee, Daniel J.
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    Modern scientific and engineering problems often require simulations with a level of resolution difficult to achieve in reasonable amounts of time—even in effectively parallelized programs. Therefore, applications that exploit high performance computing (HPC) systems have become invaluable in academia and industry over the past two decades. Addressing the questions that...
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    accesses, which becomes significantly larger when access requires communication between two distant CPU

  • Global distributed design of a Formula SAE race car

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Trenton J.
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    Future engineers need to be competitive in today's expanding global industries. They must have capabilities beyond standard engineering practice. In an attempt to develop students capable of working in a globally distributed design and manufacturing environment, Oregon State University (OSU) and Duale Hochschule Baden-Württemberg Ravensburg (DHBW) have developed a senior...
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    . Data exchange and communication tools were developed to allow students to accomplish their everyday

  • Non-Myopic Distributed Coordination and Planning for Robotic Teams

    Creator:
    Smith, Andrew
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    As robotic systems become increasingly prevalent in our lives (e.g., by harvesting food, assisting with disaster response and defense, and transporting persons and our goods around the world) there is a growing need to ensure that they can cooperate to achieve their intended goals. Robotic cooperation in the real-world is...
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    both computation and communication abilities, risk of component failure, hard deadlines for decision

  • Multi-Objective Optimization in Multiagent Systems

    Creator:
    Yliniemi, Logan Michael
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    Cooperative multiagent systems are used as solution concepts in many application domains including air traffic control, satellite communications, and extra planetary exploration. As systems become more distributed and complex, we observe three phenomena. First, these systems cannot be accurately modeled, rendering traditional model based control methods inadequate. Second, system parameters...
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    traffic control, satellite communications, and extra planetary exploration. As systems become more

  • Micro adiabatic combustion engine : concept development, simulation and combustion experiments

    Creator:
    Chewning, Scott R.
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    The current proliferation of portable electronic devices for personal communication, business and entertainment has created a demand for high energy density power supplies. A hydrocarbon fuel with a conversion efficiency of over 15% can provide greater energy density than current battery technology for these applications. Current micro-scale heat engines do...
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    for personal communication, business and entertainment has created a demand for high energy

  • Navigation and coordination of autonomous mobile robots with limited resources

    Creator:
    Knudson, Matthew D.
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    The use of autonomous robots in complex exploration tasks is rapidly increasing. Indeed, robots can provide speed and cost effectiveness in many tasks, as well as allow operation in environments that are hostile to humans. In this dissertation we: 1) provide two adaptive navigation algorithms; 2) develop a coordination mechanism;...
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    multi-robot domains where communication is expensive, the coordination must be achieved in a passive