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Conferences

PSCR 2020_First Responder IoT Environments: Examining Data Foundations

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Alison M. Kahn

As Internet of Things (IoT) technologies become more prevalent in society, there is still a large technology gap existing in the public safety field. This...

PSCR 2020_ Public Safety ICAM Critical Topics and New NIST Documents

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

William J. Fisher

Overview of new Publics Safety ICAM NIST Documents.

PSCR 2020_INNOVATING ON DRONE TECHNOLOGY TO SUPPORT FIRST RESPONDER MISSIONS

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Hien V. Nguyen, Maxwell Maurice, Terese Manley, Kamel Saidi, Philip Hall, Christopher Stockhowe, Michael O'Shea, Raymond Sheh

Imagine the possibilities of using an unmanned aircraft system (UAS) to carry a wireless broadband communications network to support a public safety mission...

PSCR 2020_Expanding the SIM Card Use Prize Challenge Overview

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Michael J. Bartock, Conor Patrick, Matt Lourie, Shane Weeden

PSCR and a few partnering entities finished a recent PSCR sponsored prize challenge, the Expanding the SIM Card Use for Public Safety. The challenge requested...

PSCR 2020_Social Media Incident Streams

October 29, 2020

Author(s)

Ian M. Soboroff

The ubiquity of mobile internet-enabled devices combined with wide-spread social media use during emergencies is posing new challenges for response personnel...

Detecting and Understanding Sodium Movement in Solar Panel Encapsulant Polymers

October 28, 2020

Author(s)

Stephanie Moffitt

Large, utility-scale solar farms currently represent the most cost-efficient form of solar panel installation. However, photovoltaic (PV) panels in large arrays...

Combinatorial Methods for Explainable AI

October 24, 2020

Author(s)

David R. Kuhn, Raghu N. Kacker, Yu Lei, Dimitris Simos

This paper introduces an approach to producing explanations or justifications of decisions made by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) systems...

Curved-Edge Displacement Sensor for Spindle Dynamic Identification

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Seungjoo Lee, Jungsub Kim, ChaBum Lee, Gregory Vogl

Development of a New Standard for the Performance Evaluation of Single Axis Linear Positioning Systems

October 23, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory W. Vogl, Ronnie Fesperman, Steve Ludwick, Richard Klopp, Axel Grabowski, Justin Lebel, Jimmie Miller, Nathan Brown, Eric Belski, Nicholas Duncan, C W. Hennessey

Multipath Parameter Extraction and Correction from Frequency Dependent Amplitude Fading

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

Multipath interference can be a challenging problem in the determination of accurate outdoor and indoor localization. There are methods that exist to mitigate...

FPGA-based Low-Latency Digital Servo for Optical Physics Experiments

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Marco Pomponio, Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

We propose a general-purpose dual-channel field-programmable gate array (FPGA) based digital servo with a minimum latency around 200 ns. This servo implements a...

Application of ASCE 41 to a two-story CFS building

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew Speicher, Zhidong Zhang, Benjamin W. Schafer

The objective of this paper is to summarize the evaluation results from applying the updated performance-based seismic design provisions: ASCE 41-17, on a cold...

PSCR 2020_ Prototyping 3D User Interfaces for First Responders

October 22, 2020

Author(s)

Katelynn A. Kapalo

Due to rapid advances in technology, first responders will eventually have access to building information, sensor data, and fire protection system data in real...

International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding

October 21, 2020

Author(s)

Keith Curtis, George Awad, Shahzad K. Rajput, Ian Soboroff

This is the introduction paper to the International Workshop on Deep Video Understanding. In recent years, a growing trend towards working on understanding...

Human-Supervised Semi-Autonomous Mobile Manipulators for Safely and Efficiently Executing Machine Tending Tasks

October 16, 2020

Author(s)

Sarah Al-Hussaini, Shantanu Thakar, Hyojeong Kim, Pradeep Rajendran, Brual C. Shah, Alec Kanyuck, Jeremy Marvel, Satyandra K. Gupta

Mobile manipulators can be used for machine tending and material handling tasks in small volume manufacturing applications. These applications usually have semi...

FPGA Implementation of a Low Latency and High SFDR Direct Digital Synthesizer for Resource-Efficient Quantum-Enhanced Communication

October 15, 2020

Author(s)

FNU Nur Fajar Rizqi Annafianto, Jabir Marakkarakath Vadakkepurayil, Ivan Burenkov, Hasan Urgurdag, Abdella Battou, Sergey Polyakov

In most modulation schemes for a telecommunication system, a fast and efficient sinusoidal signal generator is needed. Here we report on an FPGA implementation...

Characterization of a Josephson Junction Comb Generator

October 13, 2020

Author(s)

Akim Babenko, Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Nathan Flowers-Jacobs, Justus Brevik, Anna Fox, Dylan Williams, Zoya Popovic, Paul Dresselhaus, Samuel P. Benz

We present a new type of microwave frequency combs with a potentially calculable pulse shape. The device is an array of 1500 Josephson junctions (JJs) connected...

Storing and retrieving wavefronts with resistive temporal memory

October 10, 2020

Author(s)

Advait Madhavan, Mark D. Stiles

We extend the reach of temporal computing schemes by developing a memory for multi-channel temporal patterns or "wavefronts." This temporal memory re-purposes...

Frequency tunable label-free surface acoustic wave-based flow sensor

October 7, 2020

Author(s)

Aurore F. Quelennec, Jason J. Gorman, Darwin Reyes-Hernandez

We present a label-free SAW-based flow sensor with enhanced precision and repeatability. This sensor improves the signal-to-noise ratio by one order of...

Link-Level Abstraction of IEEE 802.11ay based on a Multi-Path Fading Channel Model from Measurements

October 6, 2020

Author(s)

Neeraj Varshney, Jiayi Zhang, Jian Wang, Anuraag Bodi, Nada T. Golmie

This paper presents a performance analysis of the link-level abstraction for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and single-carrier (SC) modes in...

Serial microfluidic cytometry with inertial and hydrodynamic flow focusing

October 4, 2020

Author(s)

Matthew DiSalvo, Paul Patrone, Gregory A. Cooksey

Microfluidics are increasingly used to develop flow cytometers with novel functionalities. Although various approaches exist to control particle positioning...

Matching and comparing objects in a serial cytometer

October 4, 2020

Author(s)

Nikita Podobedov, Matthew DiSalvo, Jason A. Hsu, Paul Patrone, Gregory A. Cooksey

Flow cytometers are indispensable for clinical studies, yet are hindered by inherent uncertainties. We have developed an optofluidic device capable of multiple...

DYNAMIC MEASUREMENT OF NANOLITER PER MINUTE FLOW BY SCALED DOSAGE OF FLUORESCENT SOLUTIONS

October 3, 2020

Author(s)

Gregory A. Cooksey, Paul Patrone, James R. Hands, Stephen E. Meek, Anthony J. Kearsley

This work describes a new method for continuous measurement of flow in a microchannel from 1 nL/min to 1000 nL/min using an optofluidic device with waveguides...

SCALABLE THERMAL SIMULATION OF POWDER BED FUSION

October 1, 2020

Author(s)

Paul Witherell, Vadim Shapiro, Yaqi Zhang

Powder bed fusion (PBF) has become a widely used additive manufacturing (AM) technology to produce metallic parts. As the PBF process is driven by a moving heat...

NDN-DPDK: NDN Forwarding at 100 Gbps on Commodity Hardware

September 29, 2020

Author(s)

Junxiao Shi, Davide Pesavento, Lotfi Benmohamed

Since the Named Data Networking (NDN) data plane requires name-based lookup of potentially large tables using variable-length hierarchical names as well as per...

Adaptive Estimation of Near-Optimal Electrostatic Force in Micro Energy-Harvesters

September 28, 2020

Author(s)

Kamran Sayrafian, Masoud Roudneshin, Amir G. Aghdam

Recent advancements in micro-electronics have led to the development of miniature-sized wearable sensors that can be used for a variety of health monitoring...

It's the Company, the Government, You and I: User Perceptions of Responsibility for Smart Home Privacy and Security

September 25, 2020

Author(s)

Julie M. Haney, Yasemin Acar, Susanne M. Furman

Smart home technology exposes adopters to increased risk to network security, information privacy, and physical safety. However, users may lack understanding of...

Anteater: Interactive Visualization for Program Understanding

September 24, 2020

Author(s)

Rebecca Faust, Kartherin Isaacs, William Z. Bernstein, Michael Sharp, Carlos Scheidegger

Debugging is famously one the hardest parts in programming. In this paper, we tackle the question: what does a debugging environment look like when we take...

Machine Learning Methods for Predicting Seismic Retrofit Costs

September 23, 2020

Author(s)

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

Aging building clusters all around the world, especially in high seismic regions, will require a retrofit approach to improve the resilience of the built...

Vulnerability trends in web servers and browsers

September 21, 2020

Author(s)

M S Raunak, David Kuhn, Richard Kogut, Raghu Kacker

In previous work we have looked at trends in vulnerabilities due to ordinary programming errors [2, 3]. This analysis focuses on two of the most widely used...

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