As communications satellite services become increasingly integrated into the world economy, the reliability and robustness of the satellites that provide those services grow in importance. In a highly competitive mark...
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Unlike internal combustion engines, fuel cells cannot deliver full power upon cold start. Furthermore, while low temperature fuel cells are capable of cold start, medium and high temperature fuel cells are not and mus...
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In this paper, we propose an emergent system in which an autonomous mobile robot can acquire environment oriented behavior. In the general robotic engineering, a system designer gave the model of environment and senso...
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In this paper, we propose an emergent system in which an autonomous mobile robot can acquire environment oriented behavior. In the general robotic engineering, a system designer gave the model of environment and sensory-motor commands beforehand. However, we think that the autonomous robot has to be developed through the interaction between robot's behavior and the environmental information by itself. So, we construct the controller for the autonomous robot to acquire the adaptive behavior with the chaotic neural networks (CNNs). Furthermore, we make use of the dynamic learning method (DLM) as an on-line learning method. The results of the computational experiments show the chaotic search of this network plays an important role for the acquisition of the adaptive behavior.
Hydrogen is the preferred fuel for low-temperature fuel cells that are envisioned by some for future transportation. A pure hydrogen supply is technically challenging, presently uneconomical, energetically costly and ...
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Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), is used to examine multilength scale, confined heat conduction phenomena in solids for which sub-continuum regime is important This paper describes the implementation of the method and ...
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Lattice Boltzmann method (LBM), is used to examine multilength scale, confined heat conduction phenomena in solids for which sub-continuum regime is important This paper describes the implementation of the method and its application to cases pertinent to data storage and electronic devices. Thin solid films with internal heat generation and with temperature difference across the boundaries are used as case studies to illustrate the benefits of the LBM. We compare our results with various hierarchical equations of heat transfer such as Fourier, Cattaneo, and Boltzmann transport equations, as well as with experimental and numerical data from the literature. Our results exhibit a good agreement with other methodologies in one and two dimensions, at a much lower computational effort.
In this paper a sensorless controller for induction motor is presented. It provides local exponential stability properties with an explicit estimation of the convergence domain since Lyapunov direct method is adopted ...
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The motivating principle of the BESTEAMS (Building engineering Student Team Effectiveness and Management systems) project is to create a modular student team training program that can be integrated into any existing e...
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The motivating principle of the BESTEAMS (Building engineering Student Team Effectiveness and Management systems) project is to create a modular student team training program that can be integrated into any existing engineering undergraduate curriculum. Funded by a three-year NSF-Course, Curriculum, Laboratory Improvement (CCLI) grant, the BESTEAMS curriculum is comprehensive and developmental, offering three levels of instruction (introductory, intermediate, advanced) in three key areas of team functioning (personal awareness, interpersonal dynamics, and project management). The purpose of this paper is to describe the results of student evaluation of the introductory level curriculum that has been introduced into the Clark School of engineering's - Introduction to engineering Design course (ENES 100). Students completed three team work modules presented by faculty trained in the module delivery during the 2001-2002 academic year. The first Introductory module related to personal effectiveness and increasing self awareness. Using the widely recognized Kolb Learning Style Inventory (LSI), the module shows students how knowing their own preferred learning style can give them insight into themselves as well as their teammates' view of educational and team tasks (N = 379 students). The second Introductory module (interpersonal dynamics) addressed basic communication issues including giving and receiving feedback, typical stages of team development, and brainstorming activities (N = 125 students). The final module on project management, covered personal time management in the context of team projects and included project definition, scoping and the creation of Gantt charts (N = 144 students).
Whiskers are powerful sensors for robots that are not only useful for basic tasks such as obstacle avoidance, but also have the potential for gathering rich information about objects. We have developed an active multi...
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Whiskers are powerful sensors for robots that are not only useful for basic tasks such as obstacle avoidance, but also have the potential for gathering rich information about objects. We have developed an active multi-whisker array modeled on the rat whisker system which can be amounted on a mobile robot. We show that with this whisker array we can discriminate different textures based on the frequencies elicited by the whiskers. We exploit the phase-locked structure of our data using sensory-motor integration. Two factors enable better discrimination of the textures: firstly, considering several touch events from one whisker; and secondly, combining the information from more than one whisker.
An active research experience for undergraduates (REU) was discussed. research experience for undergraduate students provides educational experience through specially designed active research projects. A quasi-experim...
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An active research experience for undergraduates (REU) was discussed. research experience for undergraduate students provides educational experience through specially designed active research projects. A quasi-experimental design was applied to analyze the impact of REU on academic achievements. Retention rates, cummulative grade point average (GPA) and overall academic persistence measured by ratio of earned and attempted credit hours were also analyzed. Educational outcomes such as obtaining graduate education and employment were measured.
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Runnerstrom, EERIC RUNNERSTROM is an executive engineer at MPR Associates. For the last eight years
Mr. Runnerstrom has performed research and development engineering for several of the U.S. Navy 's projects to improve firefighting doctrine and to develop and demonstrate technology for damage control with reduced manning. Mr. Runnerstrom also supported the Program Executive Office for the DD 21 acquisition in the areas of HSI and damage control. Prior to working for MPR Associates Mr. Runnerstrom was an engineering duty officer in the U.S. Navy where some of his work involved ship systems survivability. He worked on the survivability features of the DDG 51 design and he developed the Navy 's deactivation diagram-damage tolerance methodology for assessing the survivability of distributed ship systems. Mr. Runnerstrom holds degrees in naval architecture marine engineering and ocean engineering from Webb Institute of Naval Architecture and from Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
As the United States and other maritime nations move towards operating combatant ships with fewer people, human-systems integration (HSI), or human-centered design, is getting increasing attention in new ship designs....
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As the United States and other maritime nations move towards operating combatant ships with fewer people, human-systems integration (HSI), or human-centered design, is getting increasing attention in new ship designs. Aboard most ships operating today, damage control is a mostly manual, manpower intensive function. Consequently, it is a key area of concern for ship acquisition programs that need to produce ships that will operate with fewer people. Damage control also is critical to the survival of a warship and the safety of the crew. Consequently, it is very important to ship operators. It is no surprise, therefore, that damage control is a key function of concern when designing new ships to operate with fewer people. This paper discusses the state-of-the-art in HSI and damage control aboard ships today as evidenced by the damage control performance of some of today's ships. The paper draws conclusions about the importance of HSI for effective damage control in new ship designs. The successful application of a human-centered design approach in the development of a damage control supervisory control system for the ***'s Damage Control Automation for Reduced Manning (DC-ARM) program is described. Finally, major challenges to achieving effective HSI in new ship designs are presented.
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