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Thermoelectric Transport in Disordered Materials
(2022)
Material disorder comes in two forms, dynamic energetic disorder and static energetic disorder, both of which can greatly influence charge and thermoelectric (TE) transport properties by altering the energy dependences of ...
Design and Testing Novel Wearable Instrumentation for Assessing Pelvic Floor Function and Exploring Continence Mechanisms
(2020)
Urinary incontinence (UI) and fecal incontinence (FI) affect 20% of North Americans, with a higher prevalence in women and the elderly. The prevention and treatment of these conditions unfortunately leaves much to be ...
Improving Collaboration Between Drivers and Automated Vehicles with Trust Processing Methods
(2021)
Trust has gained attention in the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) field, as it is considered an antecedent of people's reliance on machines.
In general, people are likely to rely on and use machines they trust, and to refrain ...
Design and Analysis of Extremely Low-Noise MEMS Gyroscopes for Navigation
(2018)
Inertial measurement sensors that include three gyroscopes and three accelerometers are key elements of inertial navigation systems. Miniaturization of these sensors is desirable to achieve low manufacturing cost, high ...
Input and State Estimation for Discrete-Time Linear Systems with Application to Target Tracking and Fault Detection
(2018)
This dissertation first presents a deterministic treatment of discrete-time input reconstruction and state estimation without assuming the existence of a full-rank Markov parameter. Algorithms based on the generalized ...
Origami and Kirigami Design Principles for Optical Tracking, Energy Harvesting, and Other Applications
(2017)
Origami and kirigami (the folding and cutting of paper, respectively, to achieve a desired shape) have been used in engineering to develop airbags, optical components, deployable spaceborne solar arrays, reprogrammable ...
Microsystem-Compatible Heterogeneous Micro-Hydrophone for Use at High Static Pressures
(2019)
Underwater acoustic sensing is important for multiple applications, including seismic sensing for the oil and gas industry, SONAR at extended ocean depth, localization of underwater vehicles, implementation in autonomous ...
Control of Micro-Hybrid Boosting
(2019)
Powertrain hybridization has been shown to greatly improve vehicle fuel economy, with significant additional component costs. A novel type of low voltage hybrid device, called a power split supercharger (PSS), has the ...
Data-Driven Methods for Geometric Systems
(2020)
The tools of geometric mechanics provide a compact representation of locomotion dynamics as ``the reconstruction equation''. We have found this equation yields a convenient form for estimating models directly from observation ...
Autonomous Scene Understanding, Motion Planning, and Task Execution for Geometrically Adaptive Robotized Construction Work
(2019)
The construction industry suffers from such problems as high cost, poor quality, prolonged duration, and substandard safety. Robots have the potential to help alleviate such problems by becoming construction co-workers, ...