Conventional rotorcraft generally operate with a fixed-geometry rotor and perform sub-optimally over the flight envelope. Rotor morphing, as a concept, allows planform variation that can overcome this limitation to improve ...

QUISP outputs line drawings of the quadric-surface bodies, with optional removal of hidden curves. All the lines in the drawings are projections of Quadric-Surface Intersection Curves (QSICs), which are calculated using ...

Let X ∈ R n×d be a data matrix of rank ρ, representing n points in R d . The linear support vector machine constructs a hyperplane separator that maximizes the 1-norm soft margin. We develop a new oblivious dimension ...

In an ever-evolving digital world, the onset of the Internet of Things leads to a new problem in secure communications. Embedded devices may lack the computational power to generate high entropy random numbers for cryptographic ...

This thesis addresses "smart rooms", living and working spaces that intelligently react to the presence and behavior of their occupants. Smart rooms require sensors and algorithms that enable real-time occupancy detection, ...