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Conferences

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Reliability of using Periodic IO Data to Identify High Return Investments in Efficiency and Environmental Sustainability: An Examination of US Manufactured Tech Products

June 4, 2019

Author(s)

Douglas Thomas

This paper identifies industries within the supply chain for 50 high-tech assembly-centric commodities that have pervasive costs and environmental impacts...

Modifying interface cure properties of hierarchical CNT composites.

June 3, 2019

Author(s)

Ajay Krishnamurthy, Qi An, Aaron Forster

Hierarchical carbon nanotube (CNT) grafted fiber-reinforced polymer composites (FRP) display multifunctional capabilities such as enhanced mechanical and...

Accurate Monte Carlo Uncertainty Analysis for Multiple Measurements of Microwave Systems

June 2, 2019

Author(s)

Benjamin F. Jamroz, Dylan F. Williams, Jake D. Rezac, Michael R. Frey, Amanda A. Koepke

Large-Signal Network Analysis for Over-the-Air Test of Up-Converting and Down-Converting Phased Arrays

June 1, 2019

Author(s)

Alec Weiss, Dylan Williams, Jeanne Quimby, Rod Leonhardt, Thomas Choi, Zihang Chen, Kate Remley, andreas Molisch, Ben Jamroz, Jake Rezac, Peter Vouras

We explore large-signal network analysis for the over-the-air test of up-converting and down-converting phased arrays. The approach first uses a vector network...

An Approach for Characterizing the Frequency Response of Sampling-Oscilloscopes Using a Large-Signal Network Analyzer

June 1, 2019

Author(s)

Alirio De Jesus Soares Boaventura, Dylan Williams, Paul D. Hale, Avolio Gustavo

We propose an approach for characterizing the complex frequency response of sampling- oscilloscopes using a calibrated large-signal network analyzer (LSNA) and...

Confidence and Prediction Intervals for Microwave Measurements: Probe-to-Probe Coupling Corrections

June 1, 2019

Author(s)

Dylan F. Williams, Benjamin F. Jamroz, Jake D. Rezac

We discuss the estimation of confidence and prediction intervals for microwave measurements and highlight the difficulties of applying a conventional approach...

Integrative Modeling of Housing Recovery as a Physical, Economic, and Social Process

May 26, 2019

Author(s)

Elaina Sutley, Sara Hamideh, Maria Dillard, Donghwan Gu, Kijin Seong, John W. van de Lindt

This paper presents a set of four simultaneous housing recovery states: RS0 no recovery progress; RS1 repair completion; RS2 re-occupancy; RS3 restored...

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