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Internship Projects
Adaptive Battery Management System Testbed, Summer 2012
About the Project Students built a fast-prototyping experimental platform for future battery tests. By implementing the battery monitoring algorithms on this PHEV testbed, the algorithms can be evaluated and optimized and thus make PHEV batteries more reliable....
Graphic Display Interface for the AIS based Intelligent Transportation System, Summer 2010
About the Project This project aims at developing a Graphic Display Interface for the AIS based Intelligent Transportation System, which can run the Simulink module and display the result of the simulation graphically. Documentations Graphic Display Interface for the...
Closed-Loop Transportation Simulation, Summer 2010
About the Project The project aims to emulate common traffic scenarios on the road scenario using four Lego Mindstorms Robots.The algorithms implemented states of the robot,simulated in the simulink already, defining the robot behaviors.Each robots is assigned a...
Network Enabled Battery Health Monitoring and Management System, Summer 2010
About the Project This project aims at building online instruments that can transmit sampled voltage, load current and temperature of a PHEV Li-ion battery to laptop via ZigBee wireless network, and to Manicipal Parking Lot Charging Station via Internet....
Completed Projects
Cooperative Distributed Home Energy Management Systems
The goal of this project is to develop a cooperative distributed Home Energy Management System (HEMS) for 1) a single house, and 2) aggregated houses.
Big Data Framework for Electric Vehicle Range Estimation
Project Description The amount of data collected in Electric Vehicles has been growing fast because we have many more sensors, higher bandwidth communication systems, and cheaper memory to monitor and measure real-time driving range related data and store the data on...
Distributed Cooperative Performance Optimization for Large-scale PHEV/PEV Charging
Designing efficient demand management policies for charging Plug-in Hybrid Electrical Vehicles (PHEVs) and Plug-in Electrical Vehicles (PEVs) is becoming a vital issue as increasing numbers of these vehicles are being introduced to the power grid. Since these...
AIS Gene Library Based Real-Time Resource Allocation on Time-Sensitive Large-Scale Multi-Rate Systems
When looking forward towards Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), driver warning systems are an integral part of an ITS. There is a need for warning systems that can integrate the information that is currently available in the vehicles with the information about...
Control of Dynamic Network based Systems under Conditions of Partial or Missing Information using Stochastic Resonance
Intelligent Network-Based Control
Fig. 1 Intelligent Space via Network-Based Control. Project Description: The main objective of the Intelligent Network-Based Control Project is to develope a wireless unmanned vehicle to find its way through a platform with obstacles. It should arrive at the...
Edge detection and HPF based iSpace – Intelligent Space
Project Description: Intelligent space is a concept which fuses global information using sensors and actuators to take intelligent operational decisions for applications like robot navigation, tele-operation, remote surgery, manufacturing plant monitoring etc. iSpace...
Predictive Constrained Gain Scheduling for Robot Path Tracking in a Networked Control System
Project Description: In this project a predictive gain scheduler for robot path tracking control in a networked control system with variable delay is being developed. The controller uses the plant model to predict future position and find the amount of travel possible...
Grid Integration of Plug-in Electric Vehicle in Smart Grid
Within the next 5 years, there will be a significant increase in the number of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) and plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs). Since these vehicles utilize grid power for charging, this growth could pose potential threats and benefits...
Adaptive Battery Modeling and State Estimation
The recent acceleration of the battery technology, due to emergence of smart grid and electric vehicle (EV) applications, has increased the demand for advanced battery management systems (BMS). State of charge (SOC) and State of health (SOH) estimation are two of the...
Performance-Security Trade-off Modeling and Optimization on Networked Control System
Project Description: Since Networked Control Systems (NCS) are vulnerable to various network attacks when the network used is insecure, they need to be well protected by security mechanisms from the malicious attackers on the Internet, which may sacrifice its...
Time-sensitive Distributed Controls on FREEDM Systems
Compared with the conventional centralized control, distributed control can prevent single point of failure and ease heavy data exchange demand among controllers, thus distributed control are more suitable for large-scale systems. This project investigates the design...
Secure Distributed Control in Networked Control Systems
Project Description: While most Networked Control systems (NCS) have been safe in the past, they are increasingly more vulnerable to malicious cyber attacks and malwares (e.g. Stuxnet and Flame) with the rapid advancements and uses with networking, embedded systems,...
Small World Stratification for Power System Fault Diagnosis with Causality, 08/08 – 08/11
Small world stratification with causality aggregates both local spatial features (e.g., circuit connections, land use) and global logical features (e.g., strong wind is more likely to cause tree faults) from distributed information for effective and efficient power...
Intelligent Energy Management System for Charging of Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles at a Municipal Parking Deck, 08/08 – 07/10
There is a need to address potential problems due to the emergence of technologies that will affect the utility industry in a time horizon of less than 20 years. One such technology is the plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV); the emergence of these vehicles in the...
Predictive Constrained Gain Scheduling for UGV Path Tracking Control with Network Delay
In this project a predictive gain scheduler for robot path tracking control in a networked control system with variable delay is being developed. The controller uses the plant model to predict future position and find the amount of travel possible with the global path...
Intelligent Human-Machine Interface & Control for Highly Automated Chemical Screening Processes (with David Kaber, Robert St. Amant), sponsored by National Science Foundation (NSF), 10/01/04 – 09/31/07
Project Description: Biological and chemical compound screening for new drug discovery is an emerging industry with the potential to improve the quality of human life. The need for High Throughput Screening (HTS) process of organic or synthetic compounds for...