 Bridge
Baron (1997)
Researcher:
Dana Nau
An advanced
AI planning technique for generating and evaluating bridge- playing
strategies, incorporated into an existing commercial product. A
generalization of the technique is useful in problems as diverse
as manufacturing and emergency evacuation planning.
Simulated
Processes in a Learning Environment (SimPLE) (1999)
Researchers: Gary Rubloff, Ben Shneiderman
Simulation-based
computer learning modules for diverse applications provide a rich, supportive
environment for active learning.
Optimization/Control
of Wastewater Processes
Researcher: Thomas McAvoy
Optimization/model
predictive control applied to wastewater processes.
Risk-Sensivite
and Mixed Estimation and Control of Markov Processes
Researcher: Steve Marcus
Derived risk-sensitive
and mixed risk-neutral/minimax controllers and state estimators
for discrete time Markov processes.
Nonlinear
Active Control of Jet Engine Stall (1995)
Researcher: Eyad Abed
Active control
laws to stabilize jet engine stall by applying bifurcation control
to nonlinear models of axial flow compressors. The controllers employ
one dimensional actuation in the form of throttle feedback.
Five-Bar
Linkage Driver (1994)
Researcher: Lung-Wen Tsai
A driver to provide planar movement to a "minimanipulator."
Minimanipulator (1994)
Researcher: Lung-Wen Tsai
This six-degree
of freedom parallel "minimanipulator," has three inextensible
limbs and is designed to provide high resolution, accuracy and stiffness
for fine position and force control in a hybrid serial-parallel
manipulator system.
Vibratory
Linear Motor System (1991)
Researcher: Roger Brockett
This high
force, low speed, vibratory linear motor employs electromagnetic
excitation and control and is suitable for use in robotics and extreme
environments.
Anti-Backlash
Drive Systems for Multi-Degree Freedom Devices (1993)
Researcher: Lung-Wen Tsai
Eliminates
gear backlash in a multiple-DOF manipulator, reducing noise and
vibration associated with gear trains and, at the same time, improving
accuracy and stability.
 Modular
Dexterous Hand (1991)
Researchers: Josip Loncaric
and Fabrice de Comarmond
This hand,
which can be attached to a robotic arm, has fingers that can grasp
a randomly shaped object lying on a flat plane, and provide fine
manipulation of the object.
 Starfield Display (1994)
Researcher: Ben Shneiderman
Compact graphical displays of multidimensional data using a zoomable scattergram with color and size coding and dynamic queries.
Web-Based
Manufacturability Analysis (1999)
Researcher: S.K. Gupta
This systematic
approach to performing manufacturability analysis in a distributed
environment offers advice on process/material selection during conceptual
design and is accessible using a web browser.
Real-Time
Metrology for Chemical Processes in Semiconductor Manufacturing (1999)
Researchers: Gary Rubloff, John Kidder
Gas sensors
deliver real-time chemical state information during dynamic process
cycles.
CVD
Reactor Modeling and Parameter Identification (1999)
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
A validated simulator that predicts true wafer temperature as a function of
reactant gas composition and other process operating conditions
for a commercial CVD reactor system.
MWRtools:
Software for Boundary-Value Problem-Based Simulation (1999)
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
A set of
MATLAB-based functions that simplify implementation of global spectral
methods for simulations requiring solutions to boundary value problems.
A Method of Fabricating Oxide Ceramic Articles (1996)
Ressearcher: Guangming Zhang
This is a method of fabricating
a steel article which includes cutting a steel workpiece with
at least one oxide ceramic cutting point.
An
Object-Oriented Approach to Implementing Global Spectral Methods
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
The MWRtools
library has been extended with a clear connection between model
development, numerical solution, and simulator prediction analysis
methods.
Model
Reduction for RF Plasma Discharge Reactor Systems
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
Simulation and model reduction methods to study numerical solutions to a plasma glow discharge model, a basic component of simulators for plasma processing systems used in microelectronic device fabrication.
Simulation
of Micro-Scale Gas Sensors
Researcher: Ray Adomaitis
A simulator that describes
a micro-scale gas sensor electrical response to target gas species
in air.
Mouth
Motion Simulator
Researcher: Guangming Zhang
A biomedical device
for dental research that simulates basic patterns of the human mouth
motion. Developed at ISR with support from the National Institute
of Health.
 Feedback
Optimization of Process and Manufacturing Systems Operation in the
Presence of Modeling Error
Researcher: Evanghelos Zafiriou
A paradigm that makes
actual system operation an integral part of its optimization, to
achieve robustness with respect to modeling error.
Polymerization
Process Engineering
Researcher: K.-Y. Choi
Advanced
estimation and control techniques for various industrial polymerization
process systems.
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EHD
MEMS for Micro-Channel Cooling
Researcher: Don DeVoe
Prototype EHD mirochannels
have been designed and fabricated.
Parallel
Kinematic Machines (1998)
Researchers: Lung-Wen Tsai, Don DeVoe
Parallel
fabricate of 3-D microstructures advances the state-of-the-art in
MEMS industry.
DRIE
Microfabrication Technology for Navy Safety and Arming Systems
Researcher: Don DeVoe
A demonstration of
the respective components of a Naval Safety and Arming (S&A)
device in Deep Reactive Ion Etching (DRIE) on a Silicon on Insulator
(SOI) substrate.
Parallel
Fabrication of 3-Dimensional
Microstructures
Researcher: Don DeVoe
3DMEMS technology for
silicon-based spatial micromechanisms.
 Integration
of Micro-Optics for Safety and Arming Systems
Researcher: Don DeVoe
An optical configuration
coupled with a LIGA- or DRIE-based micro-actuator that provides
a junction between a low power input and a high power output, allowing
for “fail-safe” activation and termination of an optical
path.
Frame
Relay Network Planning Tool (1999)
Researcher: S. Raghavan
Patented
tool analyzes status, evaluates configurations, optimizes expansion,
and ensures cost effectiveness, reliabiliy
and capacity for high-speed Frame Relay data transfer networks.
A
Multimedia Transmission Framework for Broadband Networks
Researcher: K.J. Ray Liu
A robust
multimedia transmission framework.
Energy
Conserving Sensor Communications (1999)
Researcher: Leandros Tassiulas
Communication
network protocols for sensor networks that conserve energy and maximize
the system lifetime.
 Temporally-Ordered
Routing Algorithm (1999)
Researcher: M. Scott Corson
A scalable
routing algorithm originally designed for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks
(MANETs), this is a significant departure from traditional routing
technology, and is potentially applicability for use in fixed/mobile-converged
Internet domains as well.
Broadcast
Information Delivery (1999)
Researcher: Leandros Tassiulas
A methodology
and algorithms for the design of broadcast-based information delivery
systems.
Feasible
Sequential Quadratic Programming (FSQP) algorithm (1989 and 1993)
Researcher: André Tits
CONSOL and
FSQP make available software tools for interactively assessing design
decisions free from mathematical complexity to a broad set of engineers.
Cochlear
Filter Bank with Switched-Capacitor Circuits (1994)
Researcher: Shihab Shamma
A cochlear
filter bank for use in multichannel integrated filter banks in applications
such as speech/music processing and wavelet transforms.
Optimal
Unified Architectures for the Real-Time Computation of Time Recursive
Discrete Sinusoidal Transforms (1994)
Researcher: K.J. Ray Liu
This invention
merges buffering and transform operations into a single unit of
total hardware complexity.
Precoding
Scheme for Transmitting Data Using Optimally-Shaped Constellations
Over Intersymbol-Interference Channels (1995)
Researchers: Nariman Farvardin
and Rajiv Laroia
This precoding
method can be used with a variety of shaping methods without destroying
the shaping gain.
 Processing
Data from a Tomographic Imaging System (1999)
Researchers: Carlos Berenstein
and K.J. Ray Liu
Patented algorithm allows computer tomography images to be quickly reconstructed with superior definition and less radiation exposure.
Toolkit
for Auditory Processing
Researcher: Shihab Shamma
A Matlab-based software
package is developed for auditory simulations. Speech processing
and recognition, sound manipulations, music, etc.
Complexity
of Solving the Algebraic Bezout Equation
Researcher: Carlos Berenstein
Solving
the algebraic Bezout equation is central to the problem of control
of linear distributed parameter systems and related questions in
Systems Theory.
Low
Complexity CELP Speech Coder (1994)
Researcher: John Baras
This patented
coder accurately and efficiently digitally codes human speech using
a CELP speech processor. It substantially reduces the computational
complexity of processing through use of a deterministic codebook.
 DCT-Based
Motion Estimation (1998)
Researcher: K.J. Ray Liu
A motion
estimation method for applications such as high-definition television
(HDTV), multimedia, video telephony, target detection and tracking
and computer vision.
Techniques
for Design of Wireless Communication Networks (1999)
Researcher: Tony Ephremides
Techniques
for design of wireless communication networks that cut across the layers.
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ISR research accomplishments before 2000
