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Many systems in engineering applications are modeled as piecewise smooth systems. The piecewise smoothness presents great challenges for stability analysis and control synthesis for these systems. Over the years, the theory of absolute stability has been one of the few tools developed
The rapid degradation of conventional material piling is one of the major problems in the bridge and civil infrastructure industry. Conventional construction materials have major disadvantages that increase their maintenance cost and reduce their service life especially in aggressive environments. The use
The ongoing efforts to apply advanced technologies to help solve transportation problems advanced the growing trend of integrating mobile wireless communications into transportation systems. In particular, vehicular ad hoc networks (VANETs) allow vehicles to constitute a decentralized traffic information system on roadways
The transport of intense beams for advanced accelerator applications with high-intensity beams such as heavy-ion inertial fusion, spallation neutron sources, and intense light sources requires tight control of beam characteristics over long distances. The University of Maryland Electron Ring (UMER), which uses
Constructing 3D models from video is one of the most important problems in computer vision. We propose a novel 3D face modeling approach from monocular video captured by a conventional camera. An algorithm is proposed to estimate the head pose by comparing
One of the prominent challenges in deploying Wide Area Applications (WAA) is scalable performance management. The unpredictable behavior of WAN calls for models to predict the end-to-end latency between a client and server…. Contents 1 Introduction 1.1 Wide Area Application and Challenges
The purpose of this study is to design a real-time robust arterial signal control system that gives priority to buses while simultaneously maximizing progression bandwidths and optimizing signal timing plans at each intersection along the arterial… Contents LIST OF TABLES LIST OF
Plastic tearing occurs in compact tension (C(T)) specimens fabricated from ductile steels. This tearing, however, is not an elastic fracture problem governed by a crack tip singularity parameter. The current application of the J-integral and the J-R curve to plastic fracture mechanics…
Connectivity is one of the most fundamental properties of wireless ad-hoc networks as most network functions are predicated upon the network being connected. Although increasing node transmission power will improve network connectivity, too large a power level is not feasible as energy
The motivation of this dissertation is to develop a ‘Seeing-Eye‘ video-based interface for the visually impaired to access environmental text information. We are concerned with those daily activities of the low-vision people involved with interpreting ‘environmental text’ or ‘scene text‘ e.g., reading