Department of Mechanical Engineering
Recent Submissions
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Aspects of computational homogenization at finite deformations: A unifying review from Reuss' to Voigt's Bound
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2016)The objective of this contribution is to present a unifying review on strain-driven computational homogenization at finite strains, thereby elaborating on computational aspects of the finite element method. The underlying ... -
Dielectrophoresis in microfluidics technology
(2011)Dielectrophoresis (DEP) is the movement of a particle in a non-uniform electric field due to the interaction of the particle's dipole and spatial gradient of the electric field. DEP is a subtle solution to manipulate ... -
Noncontact atomic force microscopy II
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Stability analysis of human–adaptive controller interactions
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA, 2017)In this paper, stability of human in the loop model reference adaptive control architectures is analyzed. For a general class of linear human models with time-delay, a fundamental stability limit of these architectures is ... -
Modeling of evaporation from a sessile constant shape droplet
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)In this study, a computational model for the evaporation from a sessile liquid droplet fed from the center to keep the diameter of the droplet constant is presented. The continuity, momentum and energy equations are solved ... -
Modeling of an AC-electro-osmosis based microfluidic mixer
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)The purpose of this study is presenting an active micromixer, which is based on AC electro-osmotic flow driven on 3D micro wires. In order to solve governing equations of AC electroosmosis, a commercial software COMSOL ... -
Modeling of electro-kinetic motion of Janus droplet
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)Electro-kinetic manipulation Janus particles and droplets has attracted attention in recent years due to their potential application in microfluidics. Due to the presence of two different zone on the surface of particles ... -
Design and operation of MinIAQ: An untethered foldable miniature quadruped with individually actuated legs
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)This paper presents the design, development, and basic operation of MinIAQ, an origami-inspired, foldable, untethered, miniature quadruped robot. Instead of employing multilayer composite structures similar to most ... -
Trajectory control of a quadrotor using a control allocation approach
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)A quadrotor is an underactuated unmanned aerial vehicle with four inputs to control the dynamics. Trajectory control of a quadrotor is a challenging task and usually tackled in a hierarchical framework where desired/reference ... -
Effects of linear filter on stability and performance of human-in-the-loop model reference adaptive control architectures
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)Model reference adaptive control (MRAC) can effectively handle various challenges of the real world control problems including exogenous disturbances, system uncertainties, and degraded modes of operations. In human-in-the-loop ... -
Adaptive control design for nonlinear systems via successive approximations
(American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2017)The paper presents an approach to the Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) design for nonlinear dynamical systems. A nonlinear reference system is considered such that its response is designed to be stable via Successive ... -
Automated cancer stem cell recognition in H&E stained tissue using convolutional neural networks and color deconvolution
(SPIE, 2017)The analysis and interpretation of histopathological samples and images is an important discipline in the diagnosis of various diseases, especially cancer. An important factor in prognosis and treatment with the aim of a ... -
Modeling and cross coupling controller development for a 6DOF laser micro-machining system
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2017)In recent years, studies on manufacturing systems have proved the importance of cooperation of positioning systems with laser cutting technology. The performance of the manufacturing system can be improved by utilizing ... -
Unmanned aircraft systems airspace integration: A game theoretical framework for concept evaluations
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc., 2017)The focus of this paper is to present a game theoretical modeling framework for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems into the National Airspace System. The problem of predicting the outcome of complex scenarios, ... -
Pressure control of cold air testing plant with delay resistant closed-loop reference model adaptive control
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc., 2017)This paper deals with the control problem of obtaining desired gas pressure inside a control volume with constant inlet mass flow rate of cold air. Cold air flow system dynamics is similar to that of a gas generator of a ... -
Low cost, ultra-high throuhput particle counting using inertial microfluidics
(Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2016)In this work, an ultra-high throughput microfluidic particle counting system is demonstrated. For the particle counting, a low cost custom-design optical hardware is developed. The microfluidic chip utilizes the inertial ... -
A game theoretical modeling and simulation framework for the integration of unmanned aircraft systems in to the national airspace
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Inc, AIAA, 2016)The focus of this paper is to present a game theoretical modeling and simulation frame- work for the integration of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) into the National Airspace system (NAS). The problem of predicting the ... -
3d modeling of on-chip acoustophoretic particle manipulation in a polymer microfluidic device
(Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2016)This study focuses on understanding of the sensitivities of the acoustophoretic process on uncertainties/errors in the geometric properties of the chip material and the piezoelectric actuators. The sensitivity of the ... -
Capillary origami as a new method for printing nanoparticles on 3D surfaces
(Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2016)We introduce capillary origami as a new method to print nanoparticles on curved, three dimensional polymer surfaces. When a liquid droplet containing nanoparticles is placed on a thin PDMS (polydimethylsiloxane) membrane, ... -
3D printed microfluidic reactor for high throuhput chitosan nanoparticle synthesis
(Chemical and Biological Microsystems Society, 2016)The major bottleneck for the commercialization of nanoparticle related technologies is the mass production of the nanoparticles. One approach to overcome this bottleneck is use of microfluidic devices. In this paper, a 3D ...
