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Conferences

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...

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...

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...

W -Band Vibrometer for Noncontact Thermoacoustic Imaging

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Archita Hati, Craig Nelson

Noncontact thermoacoustic imaging (TAI) has several desirable characteristics for applications such as explosive detection in high-water-content media. In this...

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...

Decision Support for Smart Grid: Using Reasoning to Contextualize Complex Decision Making

June 20, 2019

Author(s)

Edward R. Griffor, David A. Wollman, Patrick Kamongi, Claire Vishik, Michael Huth, Marcello Balduccini

The smart grid is a complex cyber-physical system (CPS) that poses challenges related to scale, integration, interoperability, processes, governance, and human...

Motivating Cybersecurity Advocates: Implications for Recruitment and Retention

June 19, 2019

Author(s)

Julie Haney, Wayne Lutters

Given modern society's 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...

Cell Image Segmentation using Generative Adversarial Networks, Transfer Learning, and Augmentations

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Michael P. Majurski, Petru S. Manescu, Sarala Padi, Nicholas J. Schaub, Nathan A. Hotaling, Carl Simon Jr., Peter Bajcsy

We address the problem of segmenting cell contours from microscopy images of human induced pluripotent Retinal Pigment Epithelial stem cells (iRPE) using...

Manipulation Data Collection and Annotation Tool for Media Forensics

June 17, 2019

Author(s)

Eric Robertson, Haiying Guan, Mark Kozak, Yooyoung Lee, Amy Yates, Andrew 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...

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...

Building Design Considerations to Support Immediate Occupancy Performance Objectives

June 16, 2019

Author(s)

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

A Collaborative Work Cell Testbed for Industrial Wireless Communications - The Baseline Design

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Yongkang Liu, Rick Candell, Mohamed Hany, Karl Montgomery

The work cell is an essential industrial environment for testing wireless communication techniques in factory automation processes. A new testbed was recently...

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...

INNOVATIVE APPROACH TO COMBAT HEALTHCARE-ASSOCIATED INFECTIONS USING STANDARDS DEVELOPED THROUGH INDUSTRY AND U.S. FEDERAL COLLABORATION

June 14, 2019

Author(s)

Carl C. Miller, Thomas C. Larason, Dianne L. Poster, Yaw S. Obeng, Mike Postek, Richard Martinello

Nationwide, healthcare-associated infections (HAIs) infect one in every 25 hospital patients, account for more than 99,000 deaths and increase medical costs by...

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

June 13, 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...

DEVELOPING MEASUREMENT SCIENCE TO VERIFY AND VALIDATE THE IDENTIFICATION OF ROBOT WORKCELL DEGRADATION

June 13, 2019

Author(s)

Brian A. Weiss

Robot systems have become more prevalent in manufacturing operations as the technology has become more accessible to a wider range of manufacturers, especially...

Bearing Metrics for Health Monitoring of Machine Tool Linear Axes

June 13, 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...

Wireless Interference Estimation Using Machine Learning in a Robotic Force Seeking Scenario

June 12, 2019

Author(s)

Richard Candell, Karl R. Montgomery, Mohamed T. Hany, Yongkang Liu, Sebti Foufou

Cyber-physical systems are systems governed by the laws of physics that are tightly controlled by computer-based algorithms and network-based sensing and...

An Analysis of Recent Standards on Composite Product Models to Enable Digital Transformation of Composite Product Manufacturing

June 12, 2019

Author(s)

Thomas D. Hedberg, Allison Barnard Feeney, Vijay Srinivasan

ASME and ISO are issuing new editions of their standards that deal with definitions and models for composite products. The new edition of ASME Y14.37 deals with...

CASFinder: Detecting Common Attack Surface

June 11, 2019

Author(s)

Meng Zhang, Yue Xin, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal

Code reusing is a common practice in software development due to its various benefits. Such a practice, however, may also cause large scale security issues...

Design Space Exploration for Wireless-Integrated Factory Automation Systems

June 10, 2019

Author(s)

Jing Jeng, Honglei Li, Yongkang Liu, Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, Shuvra Bhattacharyya

Recent years have brought significantly increased interest in integrating wireless communication capabilities within factory automation systems. Such...

On the Impact of Wireless Communications on Controlling a Two-Dimensional Gantry System

June 10, 2019

Author(s)

Mohamed Hany, Rick Candell, sebti foufou

Industrial wireless is essential to achieve the vision of future manufacturing systems which are highly dynamic and reconfigurable, and communicate large...

BotSifter: A SDN-based Online Bot Detection Framework in Data Centers

June 9, 2019

Author(s)

An Wang, Zili Zha, Yang Guo, Douglas Montgomery, Songqing Chen

Botnets continue to be one of the most severe security threats plaguing the Internet. Recent years have witnessed the emergence of cloud-hosted botnets along...

Creating Training Data for Scientific Named Entity Recognition with Minimal Human Effort

June 8, 2019

Author(s)

Roselyne B. Tchoua, Aswathy Ajith, Zhi Hong, Logan T. Ward, Kyle Chard, Debra Audus, Shrayesh N. Patel, Juan J. de Pablo, Ian Foster

Scientific Named Entity Referent Extraction is often more complicated than traditional Named Entity Recognition (NER). For example, in polymer science, chemical...

Effects of Ageing on Tensile Strength of Flexible Unidirectional Composite Laminates for Body Armor

June 6, 2019

Author(s)

Amy E. Engelbrecht-Wiggans, Amanda L. Forster

Many body armors are made of on unidirectional (UD) laminates, constructed of thin layers of high-performance fibers held in place using binder resins and thin...

Efficient volumetric non-destructive testing methods for additively manufactured parts

June 6, 2019

Author(s)

Anne-Francoise Obaton, Bryan Butsch, Ewen Carcreff, Nans Laroche, Jared B. Tarr, Alkan Donmez

As additive manufacturing (AM) moves towards industrial production in critical sectors such as aerospace and medical, the integrity of the fabricated AM parts...

Investigating the Effects of IF Bandwidth and Averaging on Calibrated Scattering-Parameter Measurements

June 6, 2019

Author(s)

Jeffrey Jargon, Amanda Koepke, Paul D. Hale

We investigate the effects of IF (intermediate-frequency) bandwidth and averaging on calibrated scattering-parameter measurements made with a vector network...

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