• Adaptive prediction of aircraft loss-of-control margins and safe control envelopes with longitudinally and laterally coupled higher-order dynamics 

  Rafi, Melvin; Steck, James E.; Chakravarthy, Animesh (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, 2020-01-05)

  Predictive systems with the ability to warn pilots of impending entry into loss-of-control have the potential to improve safety in flight. Along these lines, research at the General Aviation Flight Lab at Wichita State ...

• Impact of launch injection error on orbit-raising of all-electric satellites 

  Bascue, Nikolas; Dutta, Atri; Ghosh, Pradipto (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, 2020-01-05)

  The effect of launch injection errors on the deployment time and deployed mass of all-electric satellites is investigated in this paper. A stochastic formulation is presented to capture the effect of uncertainties in the ...

• An adaptive flight control system for a morphing flapping wing aircraft 

  Chandrasekaran, Balaji K.; Steck, James E. (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, 2020-01-05)

  Our prior work1, 2 developed a model for a bird-like flapping wing aircraft using Modified strip theory3 for aerodynamics, a flight dynamics model4 and an adaptive flight controller. This model was simulated in MATLAB/Simulink5 ...

• Optimal auction for delay and energy constrained task offloading in mobile edge computing 

  Mashhadi, Farshad; Salinas Monroy, Sergio A.; Bozorgchenani, Arash; Tarchi, Daniele (Elsevier B.V., 2020-12-24)

  Mobile edge computing has emerged as a promising paradigm to complement the computing and energy resources of mobile devices. In this computing paradigm, mobile devices offload their computing tasks to nearby edge servers, ...

• Assessment of economic value of assistive technologies through quality-adjusted work-life years (qawly) 

  Joseph, Siny; Namboodiri, Vinod (Springer, 2020-09-04)

  Assistive technologies (ATs) are commonly used to improve the quality of life of persons with disabilities. While their utility to a person is usually clear, their cost-effectiveness or economic value is often unclear. ...

• Ibeaconmap: Automated indoor space representation for beacon-based wayfinding 

  Cheraghi, Seyed Ali; Namboodiri, Vinod; Sinha, Kaushik (Springer, 2020-09)

  Traditionally, there have been few options for navigational aids for the blind and visually impaired (BVI) in large indoor spaces. Some recent indoor navigation systems allow users equipped with smartphones to interact ...

• Sensor fusion of structural finite element model with inertial sensor data to measure wing deflection of a fixed wing aircraft 

  Schirmer, Georg; Steck, James E. (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, 2020-01-05)

  This research is a continuation of prior experimental work describing the application of sensor fusion to obtain structural wing deflection data with acceptable accuracy. A Kalman filter design is described introducing a ...

• Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure for regional economic Growth 

  Asaduzzaman, Abu; Gupta, Deepak P. (IEEE, 2020-08-04)

  Cyberinfrastructure (CI) has potential to assist economic activities that involve real-time data analytics. Important challenges include the integration of essential geospatial principles (such as spatial constraints in ...

• Random projection-based auxiliary information can improve tree-based nearest neighbor search 

  Keivani, Omid; Sinha, Kaushik (Elsevier, 2021-02-06)

  Nearest neighbor search using random projection trees has recently been shown to achieve superior performance, in terms of better accuracy while retrieving less number of data points, compared to locality sensitive hashing ...

• SSIoT: Energy-efficient optimal Admission Control for Body Area Networks 

  Nekoui, Mohammad Ali; Chu, Lichung; Eslami, Ali (IEEE, 2020-06-30)

  This paper proposes an optimal Admission Control (AC) scheme for Body Area Networks (BANs). The scheme captures BAN characteristics, such as limited buffer size and power consumption of sensor nodes, and QoS-sensitive ...

• Secure distributed storage: rate-privacy trade-off and XOR-based coding scheme 

  Chou, Remi; Kliewer, Jorg (IEEE, 2020-06)

  We consider the problem of storing data in a distributed manner over T servers. We require the data (i) to be recoverable from the T servers, and (ii) to remain private from any T -1 colluding servers, where privacy is ...

• Explicit construction of multiple access channel resolvability codes from source resolvability codes 

  Sultana, Rumia; Chou, Remi (IEEE, 2020-06)

  We show that the problem of code construction for multiple access channel resolvability can be reduced to the simpler problem of code construction for source resolvability. Specifically, we propose a multiple access channel ...

• WS2 and MoS2 counter electrode materials for dye-sensitized solar cells 

  Rashidi, Soheil; Rashidi, Sara; Heydari, Reza Kavousi; Esmaeili, Sajjad; Tran, Nhut G.; Thangi, Dan; Wei, Wei (John Wiley and Sons, 2020-09-23)

  Being confronted with the energy crisis and environmental problems, the exploration of clean and renewable energy materials as well as their devices are urgently demanded. Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have attracted ...

• Flow dynamics in partially blocked tibial artery 

  Gogineni, Aneesha; Ravigururajan, Tiruvadi S. (Begell House Inc., 2020-04)

  Tibial artery comprises of two branches, anterior and posterior sides of the subject. These arteries are often obstructed due to plaque formation. They are also affected by several other conditions like hypertension, ...

• Integrated micro x-ray tomography and pore-scale simulations for accurate permeability predictions of porous media 

  Wang, Fangzhou; Riley, Gennifer A.; Egbo, Munonyedi Kelvin; Derby, Melanie M.; Hwang, Gisuk; Li, Xianglin (Global Digital Central, 2020)

  This study conducts pore-scale simulations and experiments to estimate the permeability of two different types of porous materials: metal foams and sintered copper particles with porosities of approximately 0.9 and 0.4, ...

• A review of operations research models in invasive species management: state of the art, challenges, and future directions 

  Buyuktahtakin, Esra; Haight, Robert G. (Springer, 2017-10-28)

  Invasive species are a major threat to the economy, the environment, health, and thus human well-being. The international community, including the United Nations’ Global Invasive Species Program (GISP), National Invasive ...

• Mechanical and thermal properties of carbon fiber reinforced composite with silanized graphene as nano-inclusions 

  Shagor, Rifath Mahmud Rony; Abedin, Farhana; Asmatulu, Ramazan (SAGE, 2020-09-02)

  The use of nanofillers to enhance the properties of fiber reinforced composites is limited due to the adverse effect on mechanical properties caused by agglomeration of these nanofillers in the matrix materials. In this ...

• Algebraic insight on the concomitant motion of 3RPS and 3PRS PKMs 

  Nigatu, Hassen; Yihun, Yimesker S. (Springer, 2020-04-21)

  This study presents an algebraic method to detect, count, and identify concomitant motions of parallel robots at the velocity level. The pose and orientation of moving platform of parallel manipulators (PMs) with f-DOF ...

• Human factors to develop a safety guard model in human-robot interaction 

  MajidiRad, Amir Hossein; Maniar, Prasham; Yihun, Yimesker S.; He, Hongsheng (Springer, 2020-04-21)

  In this research, a strategy to incorporate an assist-as-needed scheme into human-robot collaboration during an object co-lifting and manipulation task is developed. Surface Electromyography (sEMG) signals from the upper-arm ...

• Aircraft loss-of-control: Real-time adaptive prediction of safe control margins and pilot advisory displays 

  Rafi, Melvin (Wichita State University, 2020-07)

  Predictive systems with the ability to warn pilots of impending entry into loss-of-control have the potential to improve safety in flight. Along these lines, the research documented in this dissertation has sought to develop ...

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