With the world’s growing use of autonomous unmanned aerial systems (UASs), there is also a growing need for higher education to teach students how to design and implement the autopilot systems that many of these UASs depend ...

For this exploratory study, flight data of a Bell Model 205A-1 helicopter, flying under contract to the United States Forest Service, is analyzed to investigate its operational conditions. Usage of the helicopter, specifically ...

It is well known that time and temperature are not direct measurements of either material state during cure or mechanical properties after cure in polymer composites. Rather, in current practice, the viscoelastic properties ...

Radio frequency identification (RFID) is used to identify, track, and manage tagged animate or inanimate objects automatically using wireless communication technology. A serious concern faced by RFID technology is the ...

Face recognition is an attractive biometric measure due to its capacity to recognize individuals without their cooperation. This thesis proposes a method to dynamically recognize a facial image with the help of its valid ...

The most desirable characteristic of a facility layout is its ability to maintain its efficiency over time while coping with the uncertainty in product demand. A traditional facility layout design method is governed by the ...

Effective health diagnosis provides multifarious benefits such as improved safety, improved reliability and reduced costs for operation and maintenance of complex engineered systems. This paper presents a novel multi-sensor ...

As the popularity and demand grow, high-performance systems are adopting more processing cores. IBM Roadrunner, a petascale supercomputer, has 130K+ cores. No wonder, designing and/or analyzing such a gigantic system is ...

The methodology proposed in this research extends the current full-scale test approach based on the life factor and the load enhancement factor, and provides information necessary to define inspection intervals for composite ...

Structural elements are subjected to variable amplitude/spectrum fatigue loading where tensile overloads and compressive underloads may occur randomly. Depending on the magnitude of these loads, localized plastic deformation ...