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(2021-05-11)Department: Mechanical EngineeringEngine health monitoring is an emerging technology with economic and environmental benefits in automotive, marine, and industrial diesel engines applications. Engine oil quality is a strong marker of engine health and ...
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(2019-03-27)Department: Mechanical EngineeringLung cancer is one of the most prevalent and deadly forms of cancer, claiming more than 154,000 lives in the USA per year. Accurate targeting and biopsy of pulmonary abnormalities is key for early diagnosis and successful ...
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(2007-04-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringDesign of a device for intuitively commanding an in-development prosthetic arm for transhumeral amputees is described in this thesis. The goal of the device is to allow complex tasks and behaviors to be easily demonstrated ...
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(2009-11-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis thesis presents the design of an electrically-actuated, proportional brake that provides a significantly greater torque-to-weight ratio than a magnetic particle brake (considered a benchmark of the state-of-the-art) ...
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(2011-03-11)Department: Mechanical EngineeringMuch of today’s research in military assets is focused on remotely controlled designs and alternative energy. In this thesis, a modified design for a current UAV used by the military is discussed. Four distinct designs ...
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(2012-02-22)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis work describes the design and implementation of a powered lower limb exoskeleton for providing legged mobility to the spinal cord injury (SCI) population. The exoskeleton has a mass of 12.5 kg and provides sagital ...
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(2007-07-18)Department: Electrical EngineeringRobot-assisted rehabilitation has been an active research area for the last few years to automate therapy for regaining mobility with arm and hand movements following a deficiency in facility due to stroke. However, ...
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(2016-07-27)Department: Biomedical InformaticsBackground Effective medical software is designed to fit the needs of the end users, translating their work into action. User-centered design seeks to involve users at all stages of the design process, but the process ...
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Design of an Upper-Limb Exoskeleton for Functional Assistance of Bimanual Activities of Daily Living (2019-11-11)Department: Mechanical EngineeringHemiparetic loss of upper-limb function is a common occurrence following a stroke. A portion of individuals will regain substantial function through therapy and learning of adaptive behaviors, but a substantial population ...
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(2022-01-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringConventional rigid-link robots have become ubiquitous in many industries, expanding and even surpassing human capabilities in terms of precision, repeatability, and endurance. However, these robots are not well suited for ...
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(2021-11-18)Department: Biomedical EngineeringCell-based therapies are becoming an increasingly popular strategy for treating a multitude of pathologies, especially those characterized by loss of or atypical cellular function. However, acute and chronic immune rejection ...
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(2019-09-11)Background The first Multi-center Medication Reconciliation Quality Improvement Study (MARQUIS1) demonstrated that implementation of a medication reconciliation best practices toolkit decreased total unintentional medication ...
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(2014-11-25)Department: Mechanical EngineeringLosing a lower limb and specifically the power that it generates, has a major impact on ambulation including having to expend more metabolic energy and exert more hip power and torque on the affected side. There are currently ...
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(2021-03-16)Department: Biomedical EngineeringOver 1.6 million bone grafting procedures are performed annually in the United States as a result of underlying illness or trauma. Bone grafts are required when a defect is critical sized or is unable to spontaneously heal ...
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(2018-03-20)Department: Electrical EngineeringA single-event effect (SEE) of circuits is strongly dependent on the supply voltage and the physical capacitance. Reduction in supply voltage as well as technology scaling trends (smaller nodal capacitances) may result in ...
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(2020-04-02)Department: Mechanical EngineeringFlexible medical devices provide many advantages over their rigid counterparts. In the surgical realm, where applying too much force in the wrong place can have catastrophic consequences, having some amount of intrinsic ...
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Design of the peer agent for multi-robot communication in an agent-based robot control architecture (2002-04-29)Department: Electrical EngineeringThe role of communication among mobile robots remains one of the most important issues in multi-agent robotics system design. There are many research groups currently working on communication and cooperation among robots. ...
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(2014-12-10)Department: Electrical EngineeringEnsuring low power operation is a major challenge for designers in the era of portable devices, cloud computing and networked sensor systems. Concomitantly, combinational logic soft errors caused by radiation particle ...
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(2023-07-25)Department: Community Research & ActionThis study examines the effects of a place-based action civics intervention, Design Your Neighborhood (DYN), on middle school students’ place attachment (PA) and sociopolitical control (SPC). DYN is a cross-curricular ...
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(2018-10-19)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe current state of the art in ankle-foot prostheses is a leaf-spring-like device typically constructed from carbon fiber. While passive leaf-spring-like prosthetic ankles perform well on level terrains, they lack the ...