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Conferences

Analysis of Automatic through Autonomous Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs) Towards Performance Standards

July 18, 2019

Author(s)

Soocheol Yoon, Roger V. Bostelman

Automatic through Autonomous - Unmanned Ground Vehicles (A-UGVs), as termed by ASTM F45 for driverless industrial vehicles, have much potential for use in

Quantifying Macroeconomic Resilience Dividends in Cedar Rapids

July 17, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Jennifer F. Helgeson, Cheyney M. O'Fallon, David H. Webb, Harvey Cutler

Cedar Rapids, Iowa offers a unique case study in planning for increased resilience. In 2008, Cedar Rapids experienced severe flooding. Rather than simply

Constant-Round Group Key Exchange from the Ring-LWE Assumption

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Daniel C. Apon, Dana Dachman-Soled, Huijing Gong, Jonathan Katz

Group key-exchange protocols allow a set of N parties to agree on a shared, secret key by communicating over a public network. A number of solutions to this

Facilitating Large-Scale Data Collection by Synthesizing Remote Sensing, GIS, and Machine Learning

July 14, 2019

Author(s)

Patrick S. Crawford, Judith Mitrani-Reiser, Andrew Graettinger

Post-disaster studies are critical for measuring impact to communities, from physical infrastructure performance and vulnerabilities, to interdependencies with

Wireless Channel Model Development Across the Product Life Cycle

July 12, 2019

Author(s)

David Michelson, Camillo A. Gentile, Nada T. Golmie, Jeanne T. Quimby, Catherine A. Remley, Ken Gracie, Yvo de Jong

Wireless channel models play a critical role at all stages of the product life cycle, from standards development to network deployment. However, the distinctive

From the Beginnings of Artificial Cold to Climate-Friendly Fluids; Evolution of Refrigerants Application

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

The presentation will discuss the application of refrigerants starting from the beginnings of artificial cold in the era of industrial revolution to the

RTL-PSC: Automated Power Side-Channel Leakage Assessment at Register-Transfer Level

July 11, 2019

Author(s)

Miao (Tony) He, Jungmin Park, Adib Nahiyan, Apostol T. Vassilev, Yier Jin, Mark Tehranipoor

Power side-channel attacks (SCAs) have become a major concern to the security community due to their non- invasive feature, low-cost, and effectiveness in

Machine Learning in a Quality Managed RF Measurement Workflow

July 7, 2019

Author(s)

Aric W. Sanders, John Bass, Arpita Bhutani, Mary A. Ho, James C. Booth

Advances in artificial intelligence, or more specifically machine learning, have made it possible for computers to recognize patterns as well or better than

Reflectance data set and variability study for human skin reflectance

July 1, 2019

Author(s)

Catherine C. Cooksey, David W. Allen, Benjamin K. Tsai

The optical properties of human skin have been of interest to researchers for some time. Their interest is based on a need to know for a variety of different

SIS Contagion Avoidance on a Network Growing by Preferential Attachment

June 30, 2019

Author(s)

Brian D. Cloteaux, Vladimir V. Marbukh

The economic and convenience benefits of interconnectivity drive the current explosive growth in networked systems. However, as recent catastrophic contagious

Non Nulling Measurements of Flue Gas Flows in a Coal-Fired Power Plant Stack

June 28, 2019

Author(s)

Aaron N. Johnson, Iosif I. Shinder, Bernard J. Filla, Joey T. Boyd, Rodney A. Bryant, Michael R. Moldover

Exhaust flows from coal-fired stacks are determined by measuring the flue gas velocity at prescribed points in the stack cross section. During the last 30+

Automated Substitution Weighing Apparatus for Liquid Volume Measurement

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, Sherry D. Sheckels, Joey T. Boyd

The custody transfer of petroleum worth $1 × 1012 / year is traced to the volume delivered from provers and liquid test measures. Mistakes as small as 0.02 % in

Reproducibility of Liquid Micro-Flow Measurements

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

John D. Wright, James W. Schmidt

New applications in biology, medicine, and manufacturing require reliable measurements of liquid flows smaller than 100 υL/min. NIST addressed this requirement

Selecting Building Characteristics to Predict Seismic Retrofit Costs of a Building Portfolio

June 26, 2019

Author(s)

Juan F. Fung, Siamak Sattar, David T. Butry, Steven L. McCabe

An accurate yet simple estimate of the retrofit cost plays an important role in the decision-making process of retrofitting existing buildings. Fung et al.

Toward data-driven production simulation modeling: dispatching rule identification by machine learning techniques

June 24, 2019

Author(s)

Satoshi Nagahara, Timothy A. Sprock, Moneer M. Helu

Production simulation is useful to predict and optimize future production. However, it requires much effort and expertize to create accurate simulation models

Optimization of Air-to-Refrigerant Evaporator with Low-GWP Refrigerants

June 23, 2019

Author(s)

Piotr A. Domanski

An analytical evaluation of the performance of low-GWP refrigerants in a finned-tube evaporator used for residential cooling applications will be presented. The

Enhancing the ns-3 IEEE 802.11ad Model Fidelity: Beam Codebook, Multi-Antenna Beamforming Training, and Quasi-Deterministic mmWave Channel

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

Next generation wireless local area networks are envisioned to serve a high number of devices with heterogeneous capabilities and service requirements

An Implementation Proposal for IEEE 802.11ay SU/MU-MIMO Communication in ns-3

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Jian Wang, Tanguy Ropitault, Nada T. Golmie

Wireless communications in the millimeter-wave band bring unprecedented capabilities to achieve wireline performance in wireless networks and alleviate the

High Fidelity Simulation of IEEE 802.11ad in ns-3 Using a Quasi-deterministic Channel Model

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Hany Assasa, Joerg Widmer, Tanguy Ropitault, Anuraag Bodi, Nada T. Golmie

Supporting high data-rates and a large number of connected devices has always been challenging for wireless technologies operating in the microwave band

Supplementing rigorous electromagnetic modeling with atomistic simulations for optics-based metrology

June 21, 2019

Author(s)

Bryan M. Barnes, Hui Zhou, Richard M. Silver, Mark Alexander Henn

The successful combination of electromagnetic scattering simulations and optical measurements allows for the quantification of deep-subwavelength features

FEA solver integration framework

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock, Jerome Szarazi

Integrating finite element analysis (FEA) with systems engineering (SE) would improve traceability, consistency, and interoperability between SE and FEA

Motivating Cybersecurity Advocates: Implications for Recruitment and Retention

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Wayne Lutters

Given modern societys dependence on technological infrastructure vulnerable to cyber-attacks, the need to expedite cybersecurity adoption is paramount

Reducing Localization Error of Vision-Guided Industrial Robots

June 18, 2019

Author(s)

Marek Franaszek, Geraldine S. Cheok, Jeremy A. Marvel

In many manufacturing applications, such as automated drilling or inspection of large parts, accurate knowledge of both position and orientation is critical. In

Discriminated properties of PEI functionalized gold nanoparticles (Au-PEIs) predetermined by synthetic routes of ligand exchange and reduction processes: Paths and Fates

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, John M. Pettibone, Vincent A. Hackley

Polyethyleneimine (PEI) functionalized AuNPs (Au-PEIs) are have potent as positively charged gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) for nano-medicinal applications, due to

Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Siamak Sattar, Christopher L. Segura, Katherine J. Johnson, Therese P. McAllister, Steven L. McCabe

The intent of current building codes for typical commercial and residential buildings is to safeguard against loss of life to building occupants by minimizing

The Blind Side: Using Canned Loading Protocols in Seismic Testing

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Matthew S. Speicher, Bruce F. Maison

The seismic behavior of a building component (e.g., shear wall) is a fundamental attribute engineers need to assess the earthquake performance of a building. It

Manipulation Data Collection and Annotation Tool for Media Forensics

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Eric Robertson, Haiying Guan, Mark Kozak, Yooyoung Lee, Amy N. Yates, Andrew P. Delgado, Daniel F. Zhou, Timothée N. Kheyrkhah, Jeff Smith, Jonathan G. Fiscus

With the increasing diversity and complexity of media forensics techniques, the evaluation of state-of-the-art detectors are impeded by lacking the metadata and

Bearing Metrics for Health Monitoring of Machine Tool Linear Axes

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Brian C. Galfond, Jordan Jameson

Diagnostics and prognostics of rotating machinery ball bearings is quite mature with an abundance of available methods and algorithms. However, extending these

Testing of the MTConnect OPC-UA Companion Specification

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Ryan Fisher, Guodong Shao

Smart Manufacturing (SM) is the future of the manufacturing industry. Seamless, accurate, and fast connection and communications among devices are critical for

Integrating Dynamic Simulator and Advanced Process Control using the OPC-UA Standard

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Hasan Latif, Guodong Shao, Binil Starly

Insufficient interoperability has long been an issue on the factory floor, however, new technologies and standards are enabling production systems to become