Prior imaging studies of torso muscle moment arms for use as inputs into biomechanical models have been derived from subjects lying supine. Recent research suggests moment arms of the rectus abdominis are larger when ...

In the past few years support for mobility has increased to a large extent. Mobile IP enables nodes to move from one network to the other while maintaining the same IP address. Minimal packet loss during handoff is a ...

This study considers the problem of scheduling casting lines of an aluminium casting and processing plant. In aluminium processing plants, continuous casting lines are the bottleneck resources, i.e. factory throughput ...

Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tags are being adopted rapidly for item-level identification by retail giants such as Walmart. While this technology brings many benefits to consumers, it has also caused a lot of ...

Network security is a very important parameter and is always been a challenge for the emerging technologies especially for high-speed data networks. The storage industry is sprouting at a faster pace with efficient and ...

Cloud computing creates exciting opportunities like reduced costs and flexibility to the users. It also comprises of some risks like data security within the cloud. Several common security threats like data leakage, insecure ...

As the technologies for ad-hoc networks emerge, an ad-hoc routing protocol that can supply connectivity to mobile devices while utilizing a minimal amount of bandwidth as overhead becomes increasingly important. Minimal ...

This work is concerned with semi-globally and globally exponential observer/controllers for robotic plants. This dissertation work culminated in the following six [6] journal publications: 1. Malagari, S. and Driessen, ...