Miracle-dz/UniFAR-FTUs huggingface dataset:
Development of the Optimized Autonomous Navigation Algorithm for the Unmanned Vehicle using Extended Kalman Filter

Unmanned vehicle has a performance for finding the path and the way point by itself, so called orientation and direction. For the more precise navigation performance, Extended kalman filter, which is integrated with inertial navigation system and global positioning system is proposed in this paper. Extended kalman filter's performance is evaluated by the simulation and applied to the unmanned vehicle. The test result shows the effectiveness of Extended kalman filter for the navigation.
Are low cost accountability, communications, and management systems for emergency first responders using 3G and 4G cellular technologies feasible?

Reliable, easily deployed communication networks are a necessity for emergency responders as the coordination of their efforts and their safety depend on it. As a volunteer firefighter, this researcher is aware of the shortcomings ofthe current communication technologies presently deployed, and the risks it poses to firefighters. Some studies have proposed deployment of sophisticated hybrid, mesh networks and mobile ad hoc networks that allow for location tracking, environment and personnel vital signs monitoring, and data communications. Unfortunately the cost of these systems and required training in use of the equipment inhibits their adoption and wide scale deployment across the nation's emergency responder agencies. Weare surrounded by secure, reliable cellular network technologies that meet our voice and data communication needs, yet current studies focus on building network infrastructures from the ground up and discussing how to address the security and performance issues of their proposed networks. This study proposes the use of the existing cellular network architecture already in place across the nation as a foundation to explore the feasibility of a low cost communication, management and accountability system utilizing 3G and 4G technologies and architecture
Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System and the Future of Employability

Educational data is considered by researchers and data scientists as an indicator for the future predictions. The current research study aims for classifying IT alumni students into employed and unemployed. The data collected from two universities in Jordan. 781 of IT alumni students in two universities in Jordan participate in the current study. Three classifiers are compared to determine the most suitable one for predicting the future of IT students’ employability. The results show that Adaptive Network Based Fuzzy Inference System came as a suitable classifier for predicting IT students’ employment in Jordan. As gender, programming skills, and communication skills came as the most effective factors affecting IT recruitment field, a set of recommendations is presented to the ministry of higher education based on the significant factors affecting IT graduates employment.
Installation to Production of a Large-Scale General Purpose Graphics Processing Unit (GPGPU) Cluster at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory: Thufir

Abstract : This report documents the installation, acceptance testing, vendor interactions, and final system acceptance for production usage of a dedicated high performance computing project investment that was installed at the U.S. Army Research Laboratory facilities on the Aberdeen Proving Ground in MD. The uniqueness of this system lies in the use of the low latency 10 GigE (gigabit Ethernet) network fabric, many-core AMD Opteron central processing units (CPUs), Nvidia Fermi graphics processing unties (GPUs), and a mixture of CPU-only and CPU/GPU nodes. The final accepted production system is stable and capable of nearly 1 PetaFLOPS (1012 floating-point operations per second) of single precision performance.
Making Infrastructure: The Dream of a Common Language

Can the principles of participatory design be applied in large infrastructure projects? We address our experience as social scientists co-developing a larger digital library project funded by the US government. We focus on how to understand the ways in which potential use, new and old infrastructure, and large project organization interact. We use three concepts: commitments, object worlds, and trajectories, and their associated processes (crystallization, maintainm g ambiguity, finding users, and building on the inertia of the installed base). We discuss the importance of linked visions and dreams, drawing on Watson- Verran's notion of "imaginary. "
A New Era in Medical Training Through Simulation-Based Training Systems

Abstract : The mission of the Telemedicine and Advanced Technology Research Center (TATRC) is to explore medical science and engineering technologies ahead of programmed research, leveraging other programs to maximize benefits to military medicine. One of its major research portfolios is Medical Simulation and Training Technology. The vision for this portfolio is to facilitate a paradigm shift in medical training, from a subjective mode of skills assessment to a curriculum-aligned, metrics-driven, objective system to assess proficiency of skills -- both cognitive and psychomotor from the foxhole to the operating room and beyond. Based on a strategic plan developed on input from a 70-person Integrated Research Team in 2000, our technical strategy is to identify and develop enabling technologies into components that can be integrated into SYSTEMS of simulation-based training, then assess them to determine the degree to which they transfer skills learned via simulation to the delivery of actual health care. Examples of enabling technologies include real-time in vivo tissue property measurement, haptics, tool-tissue interactions, graphics and visualization, learning systems, and metrics development. TATRC is funding and managing research in four broad categories: PC-based interactive multimedia, digitally enhanced mannequins, part-task trainers, and total immersion virtual reality. This presentation will identify examples of enabling technology projects as well as representative projects within these four categories, identify their goals, report on progress toward milestones and, if data is available from two studies underway, they will be presented.
The identities for generalized Fibonacci numbers via orthogonal projection

Abstract: In this paper, we consider the space R(p, 1) of generalized Fibonacci sequences and orthogonal bases of this space. Using these orthogonal bases, we obtain the orthogonal projection onto a subspace R(p, 1) of R. By using the orthogonal projection, we obtain the identities for the generalized Fibonacci numbers.
An Application of Con-Resistant Trust to Improve the Reliability of Special Protection Systems within the Smart Grid

Abstract : This thesis explores an application of a con-resistant trust mechanism to improve the performance of communications-based special protection systems to further enhance their effectiveness and resiliency. New initiatives in the energy sector are paving the way for the emergent communications-based smart grid technology. Smart grids incorporate modern technologies in an effort to be more reliable and efficient. However, with the benefits of this new technology comes added risk. This research utilizes a con-resistant trust mechanism as a method to quickly identify malicious or malfunctioning protection system nodes in order to mitigate the resulting instabilities in the smart grid. The feasibility and performance of this trust architecture is demonstrated through experiments comparing a simulated special protection system implemented with a con-resistant trust mechanism and without via an analysis of variance statistical model. The simulations yield positive results when implementing the con-resistant trust mechanism within the communications-based special protection system for the smart grid.
The Motor Vehicle Supply Chain: Effects of the Japanese Earthquake and Tsunami

This report discusses the effect that the March 2011 Great Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami in the northeast coast of Japan has on the auto production facilities in the United States. Not long after the earthquake and tsunami the disruptions in Japanese industrial activity, the impact on global supply chains could also be significant. This is especially important in industries such as autos, telecommunications and consumer electronics.
Guide Teaming Development

A major emphasis in the development of teaming is pre-planning and pre-organization. Many times concentration is on end results with a tendency not to do as much advance planning and as much pre-staging of information for teachers as necessary. Educators talk about anticipatory set for instructional effectiveness or setting the stage for learning. Development of teaming has a need for setting the stage so teachers may progress through development in a sequential fashion. During development of teaming expectations should be set to focus teachers toward teaming outcomes. Like most collaborative small group processes, particular teaming concepts develop over time. Pickler (1987) identified this concept as well through his evolution of interdisciplinary teams which show five stages that teams evolve through. This concept of development over time has led me to formulate a timeline of expectations for teaming over a three year period (Figure 1).
Solar energy : lessons from the Pacific Island experience

The successful experience of the Pacific islands in using and maintaining solar photovoltaic systems (PV) indicates that such systems could come to play a substantial role in the electrification of rural areas in many developing countries. In particular, the Pacific island experience suggests that present-technology household-sized PV systems can provide reliable power at costs less than those of the more commonly used diesel systems in small, remote villages for consumers with a limited number of appliances. It also suggests that the long-term success of solar PV programs will depend on the establishment of effective institutional approaches for maintaining the systems, and it indicates that ownership and maintenance of the systems by utilities appears to be the soundest option. In the Pacific islands, solar PV programs encountered a variety of difficulties in their early phases. Most of the early systems suffered from technical deficiencies - stemming primarily from unreliable controllers, batteries, and appliances rather than the PV panels themselves. The lesson drawn is that systems must be appropriately designed, use reliable even if initially high-cost components, and be properly installed and adequately maintained. Tuvalu provides a case study illustrating the potential effectiveness of solar PV systems in remote areas for rural electrification under appropriate institutional arrangements. A comparison of solar PV and diesel systems on the basis of life-cycle costs of providing the final services that the customer desires for a number of years shows that the life-cycle costs of solar PV systems are marginally lower than those of diesel systems for households in remote rural areas. The difference in overall costs is about 1 to 14 percent, with the higher savings applicable to households with low energy consumption and lower savings applicable to households with higher energy consumption.
Transferring Capacity: The Flipside of Absorptive Capacity

The primary aim of the paper is to propose a conceptualisation of the transferring abilities related to successful knowledge transfer whether internally between project teams or externally across organisational boundaries. While absorptive capacity (Cohen and Levinthal, 1989; Cohen and Levinthal, 1990) and the notinvented-here syndrome (Katz and Allen, 1982) describe receiving qualities of an organization, transferring capacity defines the ability, willingness and competence of the transferor to transmit and convey information to a recipient. In analogy to the not-invented-here syndrome, the not-shared-here effect is described. The basic argument underlying the paper is that the quality and effectiveness of knowledge transfer greatly depends on the transferring capacity and the not-shared-here syndrome.
The Factors Affecting Students’ Online Learning Outcomes during the COVID-19 Pandemic: A Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis

The COVID-19 pandemic, a public health crisis of worldwide importance, announced by the World Health Organization (WHO) in January 2020 as an outbreak, has made distance education through the E-learning system an urgent and irreplaceable requirement. The study assessed factors affecting students’ online learning outcomes during the COVID-19 pandemic through interviews with 404 students who were subjects of the survey using the convenience sampling method via questionnaires. The study utilized the reliability analysis through Cronbach’s Alpha and the Bayesian Exploratory Factor Analysis (BEFA). The evaluation results of the research scales showed that 28 observed variables were used to measure 7 research concepts. Test results of the hypotheses showed that students’ online learning outcomes are affected by 6 factors in the descending order, respectively, learner characteristics, perceived usefulness, course content, course design, ease of use, and faculty capacity.
High Density Crowd Simulation based on SPH

Producing high density crowd simulation is time-consuming task as increasing the number of individuals in the crowds. In this paper, we propose a new control technique that can create realistic high density crowd simulation by using Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH) method from fluid simulation field. Equations in SPH method are modified for evacuation, distance maintenance, and group maintenance forces for individual behaviors in the crowds. Experimental results showed that the proposed system could enable natural high density crowd simulation efficiently.
Electrical impedance tomography: algorithms and applications

Electrical impedance tomography (EIT) is an imaging technique for detecting the internal conductivity distribution of an object by voltage measurements taken by an exterior electrode. EIT has been researched in many different application areas in the world as a simpler, cheaper alternative to many other imaging methods. The topic of this PhD study is mainly focused on a number of key developments in both hardware and software implementation. The basic theories of EIT, including forward problem, inverse problem of EIT and the sensor design have been described. Major contributions of the thesis are in computational and experimental aspects of EIT in a wide variety of geometries. A sparse and memory efficient method has been presented to solve large scale 3D EIT problems. A parallel conjugate gradient (PCG) has been applied to demonstrate computational improvements using synthetic and experimental data. 3D EIT has been implemented for planar array geometry for limited access tomography. Furthermore, multiple frequencies with complex conductivity reconstruction are presented and applied to an EIT-based fabric pressure mapping sensor. A comparative study with traditional tank phantom is presented to provide a context for a fabric pressure mapping sensor. As the motivation for different frequency response with different conductivity inclusions, frequency difference EIT has been implemented to overcome problems of time difference EIT.
Lagrangian Gravity Wave spectra in the lower stratosphere of current (re)analyses

Due to their increasing spatial resolution, numerical weather prediction (NWP) models and the associated analyses resolve a growing fraction of the gravity wave (GW) spectrum. However, it is unclear how well this “resolved” part of the spectrum actually compares to the actual atmospheric variability. In particular, the Lagrangian variability, relevant, e.g., to atmospheric dispersion and to microphysical modeling in the Upper Troposphere-Lower Stratosphere (UTLS), has not yet been documented 5 in recent products. To address this shortcoming, this paper presents an assessment of the GW spectrum as a function of the intrinsic (air parcel following) frequency in recent (re)analyses (ERA-Interim, ERA5, the ECMWF operational analysis , MERRA-2 and JRA-55 (cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58) and (cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58) MERRA-2). Long-duration, quasi-Lagrangian balloon observations in the equatorial and Antarctic lower stratosphere are used as a reference for the atmospheric spectrum and compared to synthetic balloon observations along trajectories 10 calculated using the wind and temperature ﬁelds of the reanalyses. Overall, the reanalyses represent realistic features of the spectrum, notably the spectral gap between planetary and gravity waves and a peak in horizontal kinetic energy associated with inertial waves near the Coriolis (cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58)(cid:58) frequency (cid:58) f in the polar region. In the tropics, they represent the slope of the spectrum at low frequency. However, the variability is generally underestimated, even in the low-frequency portion of the spectrum. In particular, the near-inertial peak, although present in the reanalyses, has a much reduced magnitude compared to balloon ob- 15 servations. We compare the variability of temperature, zonal momentum ﬂux and vertical wind speed, which are related to low, mid and high frequency waves, respectively. The distributions (PDFs) have similar shapes, but show increasing disagreement with increasing intrinsic frequency. Since at those altitudes they are mainly caused by gravity waves, we also compare the geographic distribution of vertical wind ﬂuctuations in the different products, which emphasizes the increase of both GW variance and intermittency with horizontal resolution. Finally, we quantify the fraction of resolved variability and its dependency on model resolution for the different variables. In all (re)analyses products, a signiﬁcant part of the variability is still missing and should hence be parameterized, in particular at high intrinsic frequency. Among the two polar balloon datasets used, one was broadcast on the global telecommunication system for assimilation in analyses while the other is made of independent observations (unassimilated in the reanalyses). Comparing the Lagrangian spectra between the two campaigns shows that they are largely inﬂuenced by balloon data assimilation, which especially enhances the variance at low frequency.
Virtualization of network environment and study of dynamic routing protocols

[ANGLES] The main purpose of this thesis has been to build a Virtual Network Laboratory Environment. This concept has been performed with a virtual environment generator called VNUML developed by “Universidad Politecnica de Madrid”. All the component of this labs like VNUML, Quagga and the tools to test it like Wireshark has been studied before. In fact, we've learnt how to install Ubuntu in an USB pen-drive and all the study environment has been developed using this USB. During the thesis, we've realised that a virtual machine can act as router whether there is installed Quagga, and more Quagga routers can communicate among them using static routing or dynamic routing protocol like RIP, OSPF. The thesis is organized in three parts. The first part provides the background of Virtualization required to understand the thesis. Virtualization provides many benefits – greater efficiency in CPU utilization, greener IT with less power consumption, better management through central environment control, more availability, reduced project timelines by eliminating hardware procurement, improved disaster recovery capability, more central control of the desktop, and improved outsourcing services. In the second part, we introduce the most known Routing Shortest Path Algorithms: Bellman-ford and Dijkstra.Those are to understand how RIP and OSPF Protocols are working. Afterwards, we deeply study all the characteristics of both protocols thanks to the virtualization techniques. The differences that we can see in both protocols are mainly in their development, because both use algorithms determining distances and lower cost. OSPF will always find the shortest path, however, the RIP protocol seeks the fewest number of hops between routers, for example using the RIP protocol a shorter or better way in terms of lower cost from Router origin to destination may exist, however whether this path have a greater number of routers or hops chosen it will be discarded. And finally, the third part provides an appendix with information regarding the simulation tool and how to install and prepare all the study environment. The last part can be read independently from the others since understanding the internals of the modeling tool is not required to understand the simulation results.
Living and Working in Automated Environments Evaluating the Concerns of End-Users in Technology-Enhanced Spaces

This paper reports on a cross-cultural user study, which analyzes the perception of concerns commonly associated with technology-enhanced environments. The results of the study show that the concerns addressed in stateof-the-art literature do only partially reflect the concerns of potential users. The analysis also shows that the perception is significantly influenced by several factors. Especially the participants’ cultural background has a significant influence on the perception of most concerns. Keywords-Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing, Ambient Intelligence, Intelligent Environments, Smart Spaces, Technology Acceptance, User Study, Evaluation,
Optimizing the integration and energy efficiency of through silicon via-based 3D interconnects

The aggressive scaling of CMOS process technology has been driving the rapid growth of the semiconductor industry for more than three decades. In recent years, the performance gains enabled by CMOS scaling have been increasingly challenged by highlyparasitic on-chip interconnects as wire parasitics do not scale at the same pace. Emerging 3D integration technologies based on vertical through-silicon vias (TSVs) promise a solution to the interconnect performance bottleneck, along with reduced fabrication cost and heterogeneous integration. As TSVs are a relatively recent interconnect technology, innovative test structures are required to evaluate and optimise the process, as well as extract parameters for the generation of design rules and models. From the circuit designer’s perspective, critical TSV characteristics are its parasitic capacitance, and thermomechanical stress distribution. This work proposes new test structures for extracting these characteristics. The structures were fabricated on a 65nm 3D process and used for the evaluation of that technology. Furthermore, as TSVs are implemented in large, densely interconnected 3D-system-on-chips (SoCs), the TSV parasitic capacitance may become an important source of energy dissipation. Typical low-power techniques based on voltage scaling can be used, though this represents a technical challenge in modern technology nodes. In this work, a novel TSV interconnection scheme is proposed based on reversible computing, which shows frequencydependent energy dissipation. The scheme is analysed using theoretical modelling, while a demonstrator IC was designed based on the developed theory and fabricated on a 130nm 3D process.