Learning control strategies for high-rate materials testing machines

Ultrasonic Thermometer for High Temperature Materials Testing

This past year there were a total of 14 faculty members involved in 40 sponsored research projects. Sponsors included government agencies, navy labs and industry. In addition to the sponsored faculty research there were 15 midshipmen involved in independent research projects with faculty, four of which were Bowman Scholars. Many of these projects were also funded by outside sponsors. Overall, 2...

Roughness Model for Adhesion Testing of Pharmaceutical Coating Materials

Objective Roughness is the main parameter in interlocking bonding mechanism. Yet there is no model designed to evaluate the effect of surface roughness on adhesion of coating materials in pharmaceutical sciences. Materials and Methods In this study polymethyl metacrylate spherical beads with different sizes were poured into 10 mm mold, then it was pressed by hand screw and finally heated to 141...

On Learning Machines for Engine Control

LeCoPro - Learning Control for Production Machines

Advanced control methods are of vital importance for the machine building industry to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of production machines as traditional controllers have important limitations. Firstly, in many cases it is intricate or even impossible for the designers and operators to optimally tune the parameters of a traditional production machine controller due to the complex natur...

Learning Strategies for Saccade Control