BACKGROUND The technological advancements in subcutaneous continuous glucose monitoring and insulin pump delivery systems have paved the way to clinical testing of artificial pancreas devices. The experience derived by clinical trials poses technological challenges to the automatic control expert, the most notable being the large interpatient and intrapatient variability and the inherent uncert...

Run-to-Run (R2R) control has been widely used in semiconductor manufacturing to compensate for process disturbance and to improve quality. The traditional R2R controller only takes the process output in a previous run as its input and generates an optimal recipe for the next run. In a multistage semiconductor manufacturing process, variations in upstream stations are propagated to downstream st...

This paper analyzes data taken by Gower-Hall for his MIT PhD thesis. In his thesis, Gower-Hall examines run-to-run control of epitaxial film deposition by way of thickness and resistivity measurements of the film deposited. Our main focus is analysis of the resistivity data captured from the experiments. We give an overview of the thesis, confirm Gower-Hall’s findings of the main factors influe...

In this work, we initially develop a parallelized multiscale, multidomain modeling scheme that directly reduces computation time requirements without compromising the accuracy of established chemical models for a batch protein crystallization process. Then, a double exponentially weighted moving average (dEWMA)-based model predictive controller (MPC) is applied to a multiscale model of a batch ...

In semi-conductor manufacturing industry, production resembles an automated assembly line in which many similar products with slightly different specifications are manufactured step-by-step, with each step being a complicated physiochemical batch process performed by a number of tools. This constitutes a high-mix production system for which effective run-to-run control (RtR) and fault detection...

Academic pursuits are inseparable from the medium within which they take place - life. The lives of medical trainees can present many challenges that are independent of academic demands. Poor psychological health has been found to develop in medical trainees. Can medical educators minimize this decline in well-being? Positive education - learning skills for traditional academia and to foster ha...

SYSTEM R is a variant of the original STRIPS by Fikes and Nilsson (1971) (called forwardchaining, recursive STRIPS in Nilsson [1998]). Briefly speaking, given a conjunction of simple goals, it selects one of them to work on. If there is an action that is executable and will make this simple goal true once executed, then it does this action and then tries to achieve the other simple goals in the...

A dozen people who cannot speak and have very limited voluntary muscle control because of cerebral palsy or traumatic brain injury have tried using a new technology called the Camera Mouse to access the computer. Nine of the people were successful, in many cases being able to spell words or run commercial software or access the internet for the first time. The Camera Mouse is non-invasive and u...