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posterPosters and demonstrations

The 2008 Systems Symposium featured many research posters from the Institute for Systems Research.You can view PDFs of many of the posters presented by clicking on the titles below. Posters from our 2004 program also are available for viewing.


Advanced control systems techniques

Human-Robotic Symbiosis to Enable Future Planetary Extravehicular Activity
Shane E. Jacobs; David L. Akin
Space Systems Laboratory

Task Scheduling for Cooperative Human/Robotic Space Operations
Sharon M. Singer, David, L. Akin
Space Systems Laboratory

Human-Machine Interfaces in Space Robotic Operations
Martin F. Stolen, David L. Akin
Space Systems Laboratory

Augmented Reality In Space Applications
Massimiliano Di Capua, Dr. David Akin
Space Systems Laboratory

Optical Alignment for Intersatellite Optical Communication
Arash Komaee, P.S. Krishnaprasad, Prakash Narayan
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory

Motion camouflage in a stochastic setting
K.S. Galloway, E.W. Justh, P.S. Krishnaprasad
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory

Motion camouflage with sensorimotor delay
P.V. Reddy, E.W. Justh, P.S. Krishnaprasad

Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory

Adaptive Synchronization and Trajectory Tracking for Mechanical Systems
YenChen Liu, Nikhil Chopra

Modeling and Simulation of Pursuit Control Laws in Bat Prey Capture
Ermin Wei, Eric W. Justh, P.S. Krishnaprasad
Intelligent Servosystems Laboratory

Solving Continuous-State POMDPs via Density Projection
Enlu Zhou, Michael C. Fu, Steven I. Marcus

Micro Robotics Laboratory
Sarah Bergbreiter

Tractable Problems in Unidirectional Link Decentralized Optimal Control
Serban Sabau, Nuno Martins, M. Rotkowitz

Connectivity in Networked Systems: Consensus Problems and Small World Graphs
Pedram Hovareshti, John Baras

Consensus problem in stochastic communication topologies
Ion Matei, John Baras

Hybrid communication networks

Analysis and experimental demonstration of a conformal adaptive phase-locked fiber array for laser communications and beam projection applications
Ling Liu, Mikhail A. Vorontsov
Intelligent Optics Laboratory

Speckle-Averaging Phase Conjugative Adaptive Optics
Ernst Polnau, Mikhail A. Vorontsov
Intelligent Optics Laboratory

Efficient Analytical and Numerical Techniques for the Analysis and Design of Wireless Networks
John Baras, Vahid Tabatabaee, George Papageorgiou
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

Information and Communication Theory

A New Achievability Scheme for the Relay Channel
Wei Kang, Sennur Ulukus
Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory

Effects of Cooperation on the Secrecy of Multiple Access Channels with Generalized Feedback
Ersen Ekrem, Sennur Ulukus
Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory

A New Upper Bound for a Binary Additive Noisy Multiple Access Channel with Feedback
Ravi Tandon, Sennur Ulukus
Communication and Signal Processing Laboratory

Delay-Minimal Transmission for Energy Constrained Wireless Communications
Jing Yang, Sennur Ulukus

Information Theoretic Network Secret Key Generation
Sirin Nitinawarat, Chunxuan Ye, Alexander Barg, Prakash Narayan, Alex Reznik

Information and network security

On the Random Graph Induced by a Random Key Predistribution Scheme under Full Visibility
Osman Yagan, Armand Makowski

Analyzing Network Threats
Robin Berthier, Daniele Chrun, Ed Condon, Keith Jarrin, Michel Cukier
Center for Risk and Reliability

Randomized Frameproof Codes for Content Protection
N. Prasanth Anthapadmanabhan, Alexander Barg

Discovering Designer Intent through Dynamic Binary Analysis of Obfuscated Malcode
Keith Jarrin, Bertrand Sobesto, Michel Cukier

Modeling and Analysis of Computer Security Incident Data
Edward Condon, Angela He, Michel Cukier

SPRT Based Cooperative Intrusion Detection of In-Band Wormholes
Shanshan Zheng, Tao Jiang, and John S. Baras

Multicarrier RF Authentication
Paul Yu, John Baras, Brian Sadler
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

A Lightweight Certificate-Based Authentication Protocol for Hybrid Networks
Ayan Roy-Chowdhury, John Baras

Manufacturing and product realization systems

Effects of Geometry on Fracture Initiation and Propagation in All-Ceramic Crowns
Guangming Zhang (UMD), Dianne Rekow, Van Thompson, Jae-Won Kim, Paula Cochlo, Yu Zhang (NYU)
National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research

In-Mold Assembly: A New Approach to Assembly Automation
Arvind Ananthanarayanan, Wojciech Bejgerowski, Anita Maghdouri, Dominik Mueller, S.K. Gupta

A Virtual Environment-Based System for Simulating Mechanical Assembly Operations
J.E. Brough, M. Schwartz, A. Thakur, S.K. Gupta

Automated Micro and Nanoscale Assembly Using Optical Tweezers
Arvind Balijepalli, Ashis G. Banerjee, S.K. Gupta, Tom LeBrun, Tao Peng

Separating Engineering Design Optimization Problems
Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Peyman Karimian

Full Wafer Map Response Surface Models for Combinatorial Chemical Vapor Deposition Systems
Maria del Pilar Leon, Raymond A. Adomaitis
Computer Aided Control Systems Engineering Laboratory

 


MEMS sensor/actuator design and fabrication

An Optical MEMS Sensor for On-Chip Catechol Detection
P. H. Dykstra, S. T. Koev, J. Hao, G. F. Payne, L. Yu and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Toward an Integrated Microsystem for Monitoring Bacterial Quorum Sensing
S. T. Koev, M. T. Meyer, G. F. Payne, W. E. Bentley, G. W. Rubloff, and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Friction and Wear in High Speed Microball Bearing Supported MEMS
B. M. Hanrahan, M. McCarthy, C. M. Waits, and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Adaptive Vibrational Energy Harvesting
M. Khbeis, J. A. McGee, I. Ganelin and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Chemical Sensor Utilizing Indium Phosphide Cantilever Resonators with Integrated Photodetectors
N. P. Siwak, X. Z. Fan, D. R. Hines, E. D. Williams, N. Goldsman, and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Towards a Smart Adaptive Feedback Circuit for Microsensors
X. Z. Fan, N. P. Siwak, and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

A New Paradigm for High Resolution 3D Lithography
L. A. Mosher, C. M. Waits, B. C. Morgan and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Closed Loop Control of a Linear Micromotor Using Integrated Photodiodes
M. I. Beyaz, M. McCarthy, N. Ghalichechian, and R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Microbatteries with Tobacco Mosaic Virus Templated Electrodes •
K. Gerasopoulos, M. McCarthy, E. Royston, J.N. Culver, R. Ghodssi
MEMS Sensors and Actuators Laboratory

Mobile and sensor networks

Optimal rate control policies for proportional fairness in wireless networks
Anna Pantelidou, Tony Ephremides

Network coding of packets for multicast over a time-varying communication channel
Brooke Shrader, Tony Ephremides (UMD) Randy Cogill (UVA)
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

WiFi Connectivity at High Speed
Nikolaos Frangiadakis, Danila Kuklov, Nick Roussopoulos
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

Swarm Intelligence Based Network Optimization
Punyaslok Purkayastha, Tao Jiang and John S. Baras

Distributed Trust Management in Autonomic Networks
Tao Jiang and John S. Baras

Impact of Probabilistic Neighbor Discovery on Performance of Sensor Networks
Leeger Yu, Anthony Ephremides

Component-Based Performance Analysis for MANET Routing Protocols
He Huang, John Baras

Topology Aware Component Based Model for Performance Evaluation of Ad-Hoc Routing Protocols
John Baras, Vahid Tabatabaee, Punyaslok Purkayastha, Kiran Somasundaram, Shah-An Yang, George Papageorgiou
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

Nanotechnology

Synthesis and Characterization of Nanotubes in Anodic Aluminum Oxide (AAO) Templates •
Parag Banerjee, Israel Perez, Erin Robertson, Laurent Henn-Lecordier, Sang-Jun Son, Sang Bok Lee, Gary Rubloff
Maryland NanoCenter

Enzyme Assembly and Catalytic Activity in a Reusable BioMEMS Platform for Metabolic Engineering
Xiaolong Luo, Angela Lewandowski, Gregory Payne, Reza Ghodssi, William Bentley and Gary Rubloff
Nano-Bio-Systems Laboratory

Signal-Guided Sequential Assembly of Nano-Bio-Components in the Completely Packaged Microfluidic Environment
Xiaolong Luo, Angela T. Lewandowski, Hyunmin Yi, Gregory F. Payne, Reza Ghodssi, William E. Bentley and Gary W. Rubloff
Nano-Bio-Systems Laboratory

Gene Network Detection using Directed Mutual Information
Pramod Mathai, Nuno Martins, Benjamin Shapiro

Neuroscience and neuromorphic engineering

Binaural Spectral Cues for Ultrasonic Localization
Hisham Abdalla, Timothy K. Horiuchi
Computational Sensorimotor Systems Laboratory

Foreground and background at the cocktail party: A neural and behavioral study of top-down and bottom-up auditory attention
Juanjuan Xiang, Mounya Elhilali, Shihab A. Shamma, Jonathan Z. Simon
Computational Sensorimotor Systems Lab and Neural Systems lab

Modeling the Head-Direction Cell System: A Neuromorphic VLSI Implementation
Tarek M. Massoud, Timothy K. Horiuchi
Computational SensorimotorSystems Laboratory

Signal processing and multimedia systems

Speech Enhancement for Noise—Robust Speech Recognition
Vikramjit Mitra, Carol Espy-Wilson
Speech Communication Laboratory

Language Detection for Music Information Retrieval
Vikramjit Mitra, Daniel Garcia-Romero, Carol Y. Espy-Wilson
Speech Communication Laboratory

Supply chain management

Planning Models for Mass Vaccination and Dispensing Clinics
Jeffrey W. Herrmann, Samuel Fomundam, Peyman Karimian, Varun Santosh

Systems engineering methodologies

Backbone Infrastructures for Sustainable Systems-of-Systems Management
Scott Selberg, Mark Austin

Telecommunications Network Design

The Mobile Facility Routing Problem
Russell D. Halper, S. Raghavan
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

Dual-Ascent for the Connected Facility Location
M. Gisela Bardossy and S. Raghavan
Maryland Hybrid Networks Center

Transportation systems; air traffic management

Advanced Stochastic Network Queuing Models of the Impact of 4D Trajectory Precision
Kleoniki Vlachou, David J. Lovell
NEXTOR

Determining an Optimal Airport Slot Profile
Andrew Churchill, David Lovell, Michael Ball
NEXTOR

Estimation of Enroute Air Traffic Controller Requirements in Response to Future Air Traffic Growth
Shin-Lai Tien, Paul Schonfeld
NEXTOR

Using Ration-by-Distance on Ground Delay Programs
Charles N. Glover, Michael O. Ball, Bob Hoffman
NEXTOR

Resource Allocation in Flow-Constrained Areas with Stochastic Termination Times
Moein Ganji, Alex Nguyen, David Lovell, Michael Ball

Dynamic Determination of Air Traffic Flows Using Clustering
Alex T. Nguyen, John S. Baras