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A Feasibility Study on Using Infrared- transmitting Fiber-optics for Thermal Imaging
Keyword:
thermography
,
Scanning
,
fiber-optics
,
infrared
, and
Thermal Imaging
Creator:
Manning, Bryan James
Advisor:
Furlong-Vazquez, Cosme
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-03-16
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Deployment of Autonomous Electric Taxis with Consideration for Charging Stations
Keyword:
Taxi Dispatch and Rebalancing
,
MATSim
,
Charging Assignments
,
Autonomous Electric Taxi Fleet
, and
Online Optimization Model
Creator:
Manickavasagam, Sounthar
Advisor:
Trapp, Andrew C
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Decentralized Approach to SLAM using Computationally Limited Robots
Keyword:
Multi-robot systems
,
Swarm robotics
,
Swarm intelligence
, and
SLAM
Creator:
Sudheer Menon, Vishnu
Advisor:
Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-25
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Virtual Coordination in Collective Object Manipulation
Keyword:
Collective behaviors
,
Swarm Systems
, and
Object Manipulation
Creator:
Tasdighi Kalat, Shadi
Advisor:
Onal, Cagdas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mechanical Engineering
Phosholipase Cβ interacts with Argonaute 2 in stress granules to changethe microRNAs population in response to osmotic stress
Keyword:
osmotic stress
,
Phospholipase Cβ
,
fluorescence microscopy
,
stress granules
, and
Ago2
Creator:
Singla, Ashima
Advisor:
Scarlata, Suzanne Frances
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-12-04
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemistry & Biochemistry
Drizzle: Design and Implementation of a Lightweight Cloud Game Engine with Latency Compensation
Keyword:
time warp
,
drawing commands
,
cloud
,
Drizzle
, and
game engine
Creator:
Sun, Jiawei
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
,
Harrison, Lane T.
, and
Kesselman, Jeffrey P.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-12-08
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
ME
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media and Game Development
Scalable User Assignment in Power Grids: A Data Driven Approach
Keyword:
power grid
,
ADMM
,
Optimization
, and
assignment
Creator:
Li, Shijian
Advisor:
Li, Yanhua
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-12-08
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Chemical Changes in Hydrothermal Carbon with Reaction Time
Keyword:
characterization
,
spectroscopy
, and
carbon material
Creator:
McKeogh, Brendan James
Advisor:
Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-09-07
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Threshold Implementations of the Present Cipher
Keyword:
Cryptography
,
Masking
,
Threshold implementation
,
Countermeasure
,
Present cipher
,
FPGA
,
Side channel countermeasure
, and
Lightweight cryptography
Creator:
Farmani, Mohammad
Advisor:
Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-09-06
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Nonparametric Inverse Reinforcement Learning and Approximate Optimal Control with Temporal Logic Tasks
Keyword:
Inverse Reinforcement Learning
,
Learning with uncertainty
,
Reinforcement Learning
, and
Unsupervised learning
Creator:
Perundurai Rajasekaran, Siddharthan
Advisor:
Fu, Jie
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-08-30
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
An Economic Analysis of Injecting Energy Storage into Power Systems Containing Renewables
Keyword:
renewable
,
energy storage
,
economic
,
storage
, and
Energy
Creator:
McGlashan, Kelsey Bekr
Advisor:
Uzunovic, Edvina
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-07-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Efficient Factor Graph Fusion for Multi-robot Mapping
Keyword:
variable ordering
,
pose graph initialization
,
graph SLAM
,
smoothing and mapping
,
sam
,
isam
,
multi-robot
, and
SLAM
Creator:
Natarajan, Ramkumar
Advisor:
Gennert, Michael A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-06-12
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
The Incorporation of Decellularized Cardiac ECM into Fibrin Microthreads
Keyword:
extracellular matrix
,
decellularized
, and
microthreads
Creator:
Marengo, Kaitlyn A
Advisor:
Gaudette, Glenn R.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Biomedical Engineering
CUDA-Accelerated ORB-SLAM for UAVs
Keyword:
SLAM
,
ORB-SLAM
,
NVidia
,
CUDA
, and
visual SLAM
Creator:
Bourque, Donald
Advisor:
Gennert, Michael A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-06-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Using Ballistocardiography to Perform Key Distribution in Wearable IoT Networks
Keyword:
key distribution
,
wireless communication channel security
,
symmetric cryptography
,
wearable IoT networks
,
physiological signals
,
vital signs
, and
ballistocardiography
Creator:
Witt, Alexander W.
Advisor:
Venkatasubramanian, Krishna Kumar
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Improvements on Trained Across Multiple Experiments (TAME), a New Method for Treatment Effect Detection
Keyword:
treatment effect detection
,
Data Mining
, and
linear regression
Creator:
Patikorn, Thanaporn
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-08
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
PhD
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Outdoor Gas Emission Sampling System: A Novel Method for Quantification of Fires in Outdoor Conditions
Keyword:
Fire
,
calorimetry
,
outdoor
, and
heat release rates
Creator:
Tukaew, Panyawat
Advisor:
Rangwala, Ali S.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-05-02
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Fire Protection Engineering
Arbitrage-Free Pricing of XVA for American Options in Discrete Time
Keyword:
funding spread
,
XVA
,
American option
,
counterpart credit risk
, and
no-arbitrage
Creator:
Zhou, Tingwen
Advisor:
Sturm, Stephan
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Side-Channel Attacks on Intel SGX: How SGX Amplifies The Power of Cache Attack
Keyword:
trusted execution environment
,
side-channel
,
Attack
,
SGX
,
cache attack
,
Security
,
Cryptography
,
key recovery
,
AES
,
TEE
,
T-Table
, and
cache
Creator:
Moghimi, Ahmad
Advisor:
Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Control-flow Integrity for Real-time Embedded Systems
Keyword:
CFI
,
ARM
,
real-time
,
cybersecurity
, and
Embedded
Creator:
Brown, Nicholas
Advisor:
Walls, Robert Joseph
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Occlusion: Creating Disorientation, Fugue, and Apophenia in an Art Game
Keyword:
art game
,
surrealism
,
collage
,
decollage
,
folie a deux
,
psychedelia
,
walking simulator
,
genart
,
apophenia
,
fractal art
,
art.net
,
glitch art
,
internet art
,
materiality
, and
narrative
Creator:
Williams, Klew
Advisor:
Moriarty, Brian J.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media and Game Development
Dynamic viscoelastic model of the Hydro Muscle and the control of a multi-fiber Hydro Muscle actuated bionic ankle
Keyword:
Hydro Muscle
,
multi-fiber
,
model-based design
, and
viscoelastic model
Creator:
Harmalkar, Chinmay
Advisor:
Popovic, Marko B.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Molten Salt Pyrolysis of Polystyrene: Optimization and Investigation of Reaction
Keyword:
Pyrolysis
,
recycling
,
Optimization
,
GC
,
polystyrene
,
Plastic waste
,
GC-MS
, and
styrene
Creator:
Yang, Zhengyang
Advisor:
Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-24
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Decentralized Control of an Energy Constrained Heterogeneous Swarm for Persistent Surveillance
Keyword:
Energy awarenesses
,
Robot Swarms
, and
Persistent Surveillance
Creator:
Advani, Nikhil Kamalkumar
Advisor:
Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Comparison Between Confidence Intervals of Multiple Linear Regression Model with or without Constraints
Keyword:
Confidence interval.
,
Likelihood ratio test
,
Chi-bar-square distribution
, and
Least favorable distribution
Creator:
Tao, Jinxin
Advisor:
Peiris, Buddika
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
Inference in Constrained Linear Regression
Keyword:
Restricted prediction interval
,
Least favorable distribution
,
Likelihood ratio test
, and
Chi-bar- square distribution
Creator:
Chen, Xinyu
Advisor:
Peiris, Buddika
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
A Decentralized Strategy for Swarm Robots to Manage Spatially Distributed Tasks
Keyword:
multi-robot
,
task allocation
,
spatial topolgies
, and
swarm robots
Creator:
Sheth, Rohit S
Advisor:
Pinciroli, Carlo
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Deep Learning Binary Neural Network on an FPGA
Keyword:
FPGA
,
Real time
,
Neural Networks
, and
Deep Learning
Creator:
Redkar, Shrutika
Advisor:
Huang, Xinming
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Efficient Side-channel Resistant MPC-based Software Implementation of the AES
Keyword:
multiparty computation
,
AES
,
polynomial masking
, and
side-channel analysis
Creator:
Fernandez Rubio, Abraham
Advisor:
Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Compressed Sensing via Partial L1 Minimization
Keyword:
partial L1 minimization
,
the augmented Lagrangian method
,
L0 minimization
,
truncated L1 minimization
,
compressed sensing
, and
L1 minimization
Creator:
Zhong, Lu
Advisor:
Paffenroth, Randy Clinton
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Staying in the Flow using Procedural Content Generation and Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment
Keyword:
DDA
,
Infinite Mario
,
dynamic difficulty
,
procedural content
,
Mario
, and
PCG
Creator:
Parekh, Ravi
Advisor:
Rich, Charles
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-27
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Interactive Media and Game Development
Characterization of Biomass Materials for Understanding the Processing
Keyword:
thermogravimetry
,
vibrational spectroscopy
,
characterization
, and
Biomass
Creator:
Ma, Zijian
Advisor:
Timko, Michael T.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-25
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
Validation of Electromagnetic CAD Human Phantoms
Keyword:
MRI
,
Computational Electromagnetic
, and
Human body modeling
Creator:
Tankaria, Harshal
Advisor:
Makarov, Sergey N.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-23
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Development of the VHP-Female CAD model including Dynamic Breathing Sequence
Keyword:
CAD
,
breathing sequence
,
virtual human model
, and
VHP
Creator:
Tran, Anh Le
Advisor:
Makarov, Sergey N.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Optical Non-Destructive Surface Inspection and Automatic Classification of Cast Iron Automotive Part
Keyword:
Optical Non Destructive Testing
,
Transform domain Analysis
, and
Shape from Polarization
Creator:
Borwankar, Raunak
Advisor:
Ludwig, Reinhold
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-26
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Performance Evaluation of QUIC protocol under Network Congestion
Keyword:
Google
,
TCP
,
Performance Evaluation
,
network congestion
, and
QUIC
Creator:
Srivastava, Amit
Advisor:
Claypool, Mark L.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-18
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Locomotion Trajectory Generation For Legged Robots
Keyword:
Climbing
,
Locomotion
,
Legged Robots
,
quadruped
,
Walking
,
Robosimian
,
Motion Planning
, and
Multi-modal planning
Creator:
Bhat, Aditya
Advisor:
Gennert, Michael A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-22
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Robotics Engineering
Mining Spatio-Temporal Reachable Regions over Massive Trajectory Data
Keyword:
reachability query
,
spatio-temporal data management
, and
trajectory query
Creator:
Ding, Yichen
Advisor:
Li, Yanhua
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-15
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Incorporating Rich Features into Deep Knowledge Tracing
Keyword:
Deep Learning
,
RNN
,
Knowledge tracing
, and
DKT
Creator:
Zhang, Liang
Advisor:
Heffernan, Neil
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-04-14
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Data Science
Flexible Sensor for Measurement of Skin Pressure and Temperature for the Prevention of Pressure Ulcers
Keyword:
Flexible Sensor
,
Skin Pressure
, and
Pressure Ulcer
Creator:
Crivello, Matthew DeMorais
Advisor:
McNeill, John A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-03-01
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Electrical & Computer Engineering
Developing Building Information Modeling (BIM) Guidelines for Campus Planning and Facilities Management at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Keyword:
Campus Planning
,
Guidelines
,
Building Information Modeling
, and
Facilities Management
Creator:
Padhye, Purvashri V
Advisor:
Salazar, Guillermo F.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-31
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Civil & Environmental Engineering
Implicit Cache Lockdown on ARM: An Accidental Countermeasure to Cache-Timing Attacks
Keyword:
cache-timing
,
cross-core
,
cache
,
ARM
,
Security
,
Countermeasure
,
lockdown
, and
side-channel
Creator:
Green, Marc
Advisor:
Eisenbarth, Thomas
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
Maximum Likelihood Identification of an Information Matrix Under Constraints in a Corresponding Graphical Model
Keyword:
Closed Form Solutions
,
Convex Optimization
,
Graphical Models
, and
Information Matrix
Creator:
Li, Nan
Advisor:
Paffenroth, Randy Clinton
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-22
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Mathematical Sciences
A Liquid Gallium-Air Battery Study
Keyword:
Metal-Air
and
Battery
Creator:
Howard, Tyler Trettel
Advisor:
Datta, Ravindra
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-12
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Chemical Engineering
The Role of Integrins in Cellular Response to Mechanical Stimuli
Keyword:
Cell adhesion
,
cell signaling
, and
Atomic Force Microscopy
Creator:
Thomas, Gawain M.
Advisor:
Wen, Qi
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-19
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Physics
Pivot-based Data Partitioning for Distributed k Nearest Neighbor Mining
Keyword:
kNN Search
,
Data Mining
, and
distributed computing
Creator:
Kuhlman, Caitlin Anne
Advisor:
Rundensteiner, Elke A.
Publisher:
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Date Created:
2017-01-20
Resource Type:
Thesis
Degree:
MS
Unit (Department):
Computer Science
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