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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 ...
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(2020-09-21)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWearable assistive devices (exoskeletons, exosuits and prostheses) can assist human movement to achieve a variety of goals such as alleviating musculoskeletal disorders, compensating for a missing limb, offloading muscles, ...
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(2019-04-01)Department: Interdisciplinary Materials ScienceDespite numerous promising preclinical in vivo models and several decades of clinical trials, the overwhelming majority of human drug trials have failed to translate into effective treatments for many diseases and disorders. ...
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(2018-09-07)Department: Mechanical EngineeringBladder cancer is the 4th leading cancer type in 2018 in the US male population. Staging and treatment of non-muscle-invasive bladder tumors using TURBT (Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumors) is challenging due to ...
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DESIGN, MODELING AND CONTROL OF CONTINUUM ROBOTS FOR MULTI-SCALE MOTION AND OCT-GUIDED MICRO-SURGERY (2021-08-01)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe applications of Continuum Robots in surgery have seen a rapid growth in the last two decades. The design of these robots requires unique electro-mechanical architectures of Actuation Units and their end- effector that ...
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(2020-03-28)Department: Mechanical EngineeringAffordable diagnostic endoscopy is a growing need worldwide. Gastric cancer (GC) is the third most deadly cancer; it accounts for over 10% of cancers and more than 70% of these cases are concentrated ...
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(2008-09-24)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents the design, modeling, simulation, fabrication, and experimental characterization and model validation of a free liquid-piston engine compressor (FLPC). The FLPC is a proposed device that utilizes ...
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(2015-03-12)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis work presents the design, first-principles model, and experimental setup of a Stirling pressurizer. The Stirling pressurizer is a Stirling engine with an independently controlled displacer piston. The directly controlled, ...
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(2020-07-17)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThis dissertation presents a model informed design methodology to evaluate and refine innovative hydraulic pump concepts. This methodology is demonstrated on three very different applications: 1) industrial and mobile ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2024-03-26)Department: Mechanical EngineeringWorkers across multiple sectors of industry are often put at risk of developing musculoskeletal disorders such as carpel tunnel syndrome, tendinitis, and lower back pain. These work-related musculoskeletal disorders stem ...
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(2023-11-03)Department: Mechanical EngineeringThe overarching goal of this dissertation is to advance the capabilities of continuously flexible robots through new design, sensing, and control strategies, with a focus on medical applications. Continuously flexible ...
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(2006-03-28)Department: ChemistryThe projects described herein show the effect of double bond geometry on the ƒÒ-fragmentation of biologically relevant methyl octadecadienoate peroxyl radicals and analogous pentadecadiene peroxyl radicals. From these ...
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(2009-12-02)Department: ChemistryConjugation of targeting, imaging and drug molecules to nanoparticles has been a developing area of interest over the last 10-15 years. Although great strides have been made, characterization and activity of functionalized ...
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(2015-08-18)Department: Learning, Teaching and DiversityThis study focuses on the learning of preteen children who must repeatedly spend periods of several days or weeks in a hospital setting because they require treatment for Cystic Fibrosis, a chronic disease. Hospitalized ...