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Lab-on-a-chip devices with nanophase surface topography for neural electrophysiological applications
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Large load manipulation and controller design with flexible joint manipulators
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-05)Recent years have seen an increased interest in the use of flexible joint robots. This is due to wider use of collaborative and space robots. Flexibility is desired for collaborative robots because the inherent compliance ... -
Large-scale atomistic computations of the phonons in twisted bilayer graphene
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2020-08)To help explore new combinations of techniques not available in existing software, a new code is written specialized to meet the unique demands of this problem. Details of the implementation are discussed in depth, ... -
Lattice defects and dislocation mediated plasticity in cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine : a molecular dynamics study
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-05)This thesis presents an investigation into lattice defects and their role in mechanical response of energetic molecular crystal cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine, commonly known as RDX. The investigations are performed using ... -
Layout planning in a robotic fuel cell stack assembly system
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Leaf, twine, nail, and stick: everyday life in composition, collection, and creative non-fiction
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Learning controllers for human-robot interaction
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Learning to coordinate a redundant motor system : the role of postural comfort
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-12)When realizing a motor goal, actors have access to a large number of redundant action possibilities from which a particular movement must be selected. Comfort has been shown to play an important role in the selection of ... -
Levee erosion simulation using smoothed particle hydrodynamics
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LiDAR data manipulation: object detection, segmentation, and inpainting
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Light of reason and dead butterflies
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Liquid dynamics in dielectrophoretic actuation
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Listeners' expectation of room acoustical parameters based on visual cues
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Long contextualized document embeddings for financial reports
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-05)With rapid advancements in the area of Natural Language Processing (NLP), Transformer-based techniques have been applied to a variety of downstream tasks such as question answering, text classification, and so on. However, ... -
Loss-tolerant TCP (LT-TCP) : adapting TCP to modern wireless networks
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2014-08)The transport protocol most widely adopted for reliable network communication, TCP, does not fully utilize wireless networks where packet losses and topological changes are prevalent. To address this issue, Loss-Tolerant ... -
Low power interface IC's for electrostatic energy harvesting applications
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Low-order methods for nonconvex functional constrained optimization
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2022-07)Recently, many real-world problems in engineering and data science not only have very large scales and complicated functional constraints, but also go beyond the scope of convex optimization and inevitably include nonconvex ... -
Low-temperature electronic transport in one-dimensional systems : metal embedded carbon nanotubes
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Lyapunov based control of a six degree of freedom satellite testbed
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2013-08)The development of novel techniques for the guidance, navigation, and control of spacecraft is a necessary step in the effort to create new autonomous spacecraft. The costs of on-orbit testing can be mitigated by the use ... -
Machine learning strategies for power systems
(Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, 2021-08)As renewable energy penetration into the United States power system continues to increase, maintaining situational awareness of the complex power grid becomes increasingly challenging. Machine learning models developed ...