Smart material technology has become an area of increasing interest for the development of lighter and stronger structures, which are able to incorporate sensor and actuator capabilities for collocated control. However, to obtain the optimized control performance, the actuators must be placed at locations to excite the desired modes most effectively. In this work a plate with bonded piezoelectr...

RFID technology has many potential applications that would ease object identification seamlessly. One of its potential benefits to government is the adoption of RFID tag as embedded smart material within vehicle license plate. However, adoption of RFID in vehicle license plate is fragile from various RFID attacks while efforts to improve its security will lead to additional cost. Enhancing RFID...

This paper presents fuzzy logic based independent modal space control (IMSC) and fuzzy logic based modified independent modal space control (MIMSC) of vibration. The rule base of the controller consists of nine rules, which have been derived based upon simple human reasoning. Input to the controller consists of the first two modal displacements and velocities of the structure and the output of ...

Landmark placement is crucial in manual demarcation and registration of anatomical structures, registration of different image modalities (i.e. MRI/CT), labeling training data for lip and face principal component models, training for neural networks, and signal interpolation to name some applications. Although landmark placement at curvature and coordinate extrema (e.g. corners of the mouth, lo...

The previous two projects jointly conducted by the same team, AVT/T-121 Application of Smart Materials in the Vibration Control of Aeronautical Structures (April 2000March 2002) and AVT/T-129 Development of Control Strategies for the Vibration Control of Smart Aeronautical Structures (April 2002March 2004), form the basis of this project. During these, first the smart beam-like structures were ...

An effective wide band active control law through one kind of the Dynamic Vibration Absorber (DVA) is proposed and studied in this paper. With the help of mechanical impedance method, active DVA control law is formulated based on the passive mechanical model. The electrical DVA can generate multi-mode active damping to the structure. The host structure is an aluminum plate and acceleration sign...

Smart city-aspiring urban areas should have a number of necessary elements in place to achieve the intended objective. Precise controlling and management traffic conditions, increased safety surveillance, enhanced incident avoidance be top priorities smart city management. At same time, Vehicle License Plate Number Recognition (VLPNR) has become hot research topic, owing several real-time appli...