Maintaining environmental stability in a dynamic system is a difficult challenge. In your living room, when you set your thermostat to 68 degrees the actual temperature cycles above and below 68 degrees. We attempt to use a Recurrent Neural Network (RNN) in an Aquarium Control System that reduces such environmental swings (see Figure 1).

A microfluidic analysis system based on photometric measurements is presented. Feasibility of photometric analysis in silicon flow channels has been shown using commercially available reagents and a microspectrometer. Quantitative determination of iron and phosphate in water in the concentration range around the legal limit for drinking water has been carried out as an example. An integrated an...

Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) are characterized by a tight coupling between the physical and the computational worlds. As system complexity and heterogeneity increase, it is becoming more difficult to perform design space exploration at the system level and analyses between the system architecture and control algorithms. Often, designers are expected to solve combinatorial problems over a large ...

There are two dominant conceptual models of common property resource management: a capitalist model and a socialist model. The capitalist model argues that resources that are held commonly are subject to degradation. Hence, privatization of public resources is the only viable solution to the problem. The socialist model explains that economic poverty caused by inequitable distribution of resour...