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Observation Centric and Central Distance Recovery for Tracking of Sports Athletes
Multi-Object Tracking on humans has improved rapidly with the development of object detection and re-identification algorithms. However, multi-actor tracking over humans with similar appearance and non-linear movement can ... -
Using an off-the-shelf rigid gripper to grasp objects of different strengths and compliances
Robotic grippers are being increasingly used in everyday tasks and complex missions that require the ability to perform a range of grasps. Rigid grippers have been used for decades since their start in industrial applications, ... -
Optimizing Renewable Energy Utilization Ratio with Model Predictive Control
This work focuses on optimizing the performance of power networks bymaximizing and optimizing the utilization of renewable energy sources (RESs). In order to accomplish this, a cooperative distributed model predictive ... -
Low-Power Communication for Environmental Sensing Systems
Over the last decade, the Internet of Things (IoT) has been changing the world, from enabling connected electronics, smart homes, to smart agriculture. Today, IoT systems have the potential to make a significant impact ... -
Multilevel Resistive Switching in a Metal Oxide Semiconductor based on MoO3
Over the years a resistive random-access memory (ReRAM) has received great attention due to its simple structure, CMOS compatible fabrication process, low-power consumption. Among other attracting memory characteristics, ... -
Modeling and Enhancing Human-Machine Interaction for Accessibility and Health
Multi-channel closed-loop interfaces using biosignals measured from sensors in, on, or around our bodies have the potential to revolutionize the way we interact with devices, machines, and each other. Such signals can be ... -
Power and Energy Implications for Electrification of the UW Transportation Vehicle Fleet
As climate change and greenhouse gas emissions become an increasing concern, there is a push for phasing out traditional combustion engine vehicles and replacing them with electric vehicles. The University of Washington ... -
Automatic Summarization of Endoscopic Surgical Videos
Endoscopic endonasal surgery is a medical procedure that utilizes an endoscopic video camera to view and manipulate a surgical site accessed through the nose. Despite these surgeries being video recorded, these videos are ... -
Generalized Machine Learning Quantization Implementation for High Level Synthesis Targeting FPGAs
The Large Hadron Collider produces a large amount of data while operating, approximately one petabyte of data per second. The collider is currently undergoing an upgrade to collide more particles and produce even more data. ... -
High Linearity Full Duplex System Implemented with Novel Impedance Matching Network
This thesis provides a design of a full-duplex (FD) communication system that hurdles in the form of the linearity and bandwidth (BW) by utilizing a feedforward canceler for self-interference (SI) cancellation purpose and ... -
Hardware Prototyping and Algorithm Development for Endoscopic Vision Systems
Medical endoscopy is a key technology of (semi)surface-based imaging of human organ for diagnosis in medical screening, surgical guidance in minimally invasive surgery or tele-surgery and cancer surveillance in re-examinations. ... -
Electromechanically control the optoelectronic properties of 2D semiconductors
2D materials have exhibited rich distinct properties, which can cover a broad optical spectral range with strong light-matter interactions. The properties of 2D materials are very sensitive to the local environment so their ... -
Privacy-Preserving Image Filtering and Thresholding Using Numerical Methods for Homomorphically Encrypted Numbers
Homomorphic encryption (HE) is an important cryptographic technique that allows one to directly perform computation on encrypted data without decryption. In HE-based applications using digital images, a user often encrypts ... -
Certifiable Algorithms for Reinforcement Learning: Safety-Critical and Game-Theoretic Perspectives
Reinforcement learning has seen significant advances over the last decade in simulated or controlled dynamic systems. These successes have lead to interests in deploying learning algorithms in more complex environments ... -
Towards Unsupervised Learning of Submodular Functions for Summarization
In the information age, vast volumes of data are generated daily. There exist a plethora of data sources, including text, videos, and sensor networks. The large size of data can make it difficult to process. Furthermore, ... -
Machine Learning to Optimize Embedded Adaptive Deep Brain Stimulation
This thesis focuses on the development and application of novel machine learning approaches to the problem of optimization in adaptive deep brain stimulation. As brain-computer and brain-machine interfacing has rapidly ... -
Deep Generative Models for Natural Language Generation
Natural language generation plays an important role in language intelligence, which is an essential topic of artificial intelligence over the past years. Recent advances in generative models combining with deep neural ... -
Time-domain analysis of multiple scattering effects on the radar cross section (RCS) of objects in a random medium
This dissertation presents a theory of the time-domain radar cross section (RCS) of large conducting objects in discrete random media. The time-domain formula is obtained by applying the inverse Fourier transform of the ... -
Geometry of Feedback Control and Learning
In this thesis, we shall study optimal control problems, e.g. linear-quadratic-regulator (LQR), least squares stationary optimal control, linear quadratic (LQ) dynamic games, through the lens of first-order algorithms. The ... -
Stepping Towards Control of Systems Undergoing Impact for Legged Locomotion
This dissertation focuses on bringing control theory to mechanical systems subject to uni- lateral constraints, with the focus on legged locomotion. The key feature of these systems is the impact that occurs, causing a ...
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