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    • Knowledge Acquisition of Self-Organizing Systems With Deep Multiagent Reinforcement Learning 

      Ji, Hao; Jin, Yan (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Self-organizing systems (SOS) can perform complex tasks in unforeseen situations with adaptability. Previous work has introduced field-based approaches and rule-based social structuring for individual agents to not only ...
    • simd-Optimized Search Over Sorted Data 

      Mastripolito, Benjamin; Koskelo, Nicholas; Weatherred, Dylan; Pimentel, David A.; Sheppard, Daniel; Graham, Anna Pietarila; Monroe, Laura; Robey, Robert (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Applications often require a fast, single-threaded search algorithm over sorted data, typical in table-lookup operations. We explore various search algorithms for a large number of search candidates over a relatively small ...
    • Engineering Knowledge Graph From Patent Database 

      Siddharth, L.; Blessing, Lucienne T. M.; Wood, Kristin L.; Luo, Jianxi (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      We propose a large, scalable engineering knowledge graph, comprising sets of real-world engineering “facts” as &lt
    • Reviewer’s Recognition 

      Unknown author (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2022)
      The Editor and Editorial Board of the Journal of Computing and Information Science in Engineering would like to thank all of the reviewers for volunteering their expertise and time reviewing manuscripts in 2021. Serving ...
    • A Scalable Framework for Process-Aware Thermal Simulation of Additive Manufacturing Processes 

      Zhang, Yaqi; Shapiro, Vadim; Witherell, Paul (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Many additive manufacturing (AM) processes are driven by a moving heat source. Thermal field evolution during the manufacturing process plays an important role in determining both geometric and mechanical properties of the ...
    • Design of a Serious Game for Children to Raise Awareness on Plastic Pollution and Promoting Pro-Environmental Behaviors 

      Panagiotopoulou, Loukia; Cía Gayarre, Nora; Scurati, Giulia Wally; Etzi, Roberta; Massetti, Gemma; Gallace, Alberto; Ferrise, Francesco (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      The massive presence of plastic in the oceans, both in the form of large debris and micro-plastic, is raising global concern due to its severe effects on the marine environment and fauna, causing loss of biodiversity and ...
    • An Energy-Based Framework for Nonlinear Kinetostatic Modeling of Compliant Mechanisms Utilizing Beam Flexures 

      Chen, Guimin; Ma, Fulei; Bai, Ruiyu; Zhu, Weidong; Magleby, Spencer P.; Howell, Larry L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Although energy-based methods have advantages over the Newtonian methods for kinetostatic modeling, the geometric nonlinearities inherent in deflections of compliant mechanisms preclude most of the energy-based theorems. ...
    • Automated Procedure Reconfiguration Framework for Augmented Reality-Guided Maintenance Applications 

      Young, Crystal; Rai, Rahul (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      The application of augmented reality (AR) to maintenance issues has resulted in significant improvements in reducing the time operators spend finding and comprehending manual maintenance procedures. One area that requires ...
    • Monitoring the Degradation in the Switching Behavior of a Hydraulic Valve Using Recurrence Quantification Analysis and Fractal Dimensions 

      Prakash, Jatin; Kankar, P. K.; Miglani, Ankur (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Valves are crucial components of a hydraulic system that enable reliable fluid management. Hydraulic valves actuated by a solenoid are prone to degradation in their switching behavior, which may induce undesirable fluctuations ...
    • Assisted Spatial Sit-to-Stand Prediction—Part 2: Virtual Injured Elderly Individuals 

      Ozsoy, Burak; Yang, James (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Sit-to-stand (STS) is a challenging task, especially for injured elderly in their daily life. This paper presents Part 2 of the assisted spatial STS computational motion prediction to investigate the effect of a unilateral ...
    • A Cost-Efficient Data-Driven Approach to Design Space Exploration for Personalized Geometric Design in Additive Manufacturing 

      Kang, SungKu; Deng, Xinwei; Jin, Ran (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Additive manufacturing (AM) is considered as a key to personalized product realization as it provides great design flexibility. As the flexibility radically expands the design space, current design space exploration methods ...
    • Segmentation-Based Wireframe Generation for Parametric Modeling of Human Body Shapes 

      Huang, Jida; Kwok, Tsz-Ho (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Wireframes have been proved useful as an intermediate layer of the neural network to learn the relationship between the human body and semantic parameters. However, the definition of the wireframe needs to have anthropological ...
    • Static Response Analysis of a Dual Crane System Using Fuzzy Parameters 

      Zhou, Bin; Zi, Bin; Zhu, Weidong (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Static response analysis of a dual crane system (DCS) is conducted using fuzzy parameters. The fuzzy static equilibrium equation is established and two fuzzy perturbation methods, including the compound function/fuzzy ...
    • A Novel Nonlinear Disturbance Observer Embedded Second-Order Finite Time Tracking-Based Controller for Robotic Manipulators 

      Ren, Bin; Wang, Yao; Chen, Jiayu; Chen, Silu (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Robotic manipulators are complex and dynamic nonlinear mechanical systems subject to numerous uncertainties, such as payload variations, frictions, and unmodeled dynamics. To mitigate the uncertainty caused by these ...
    • A Circle Intersection Method for Bi-Objective Optimization 

      Zhou, Jianhua; Li, Mian; Fu, Xiaojin (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Multi-objective optimization (MOO) problems are encountered in many applications, of which bi-objective problems are frequently met. Despite the computational efforts, the quality of the Pareto front is also a considerable ...
    • Memory-Efficient Modeling and Slicing of Large-Scale Adaptive Lattice Structures 

      Liu, Shengjun; Liu, Tao; Zou, Qiang; Wang, Weiming; Doubrovski, Eugeni L.; Wang, Charlie C. L. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Lattice structures have been widely used in various applications of additive manufacturing due to its superior physical properties. If modeled by triangular meshes, a lattice structure with huge number of struts would ...
    • Stiffness Optimization of Redundant Mechanism Based on Elastic Coupling and Inertial Coupling Characteristics 

      Wan, Xiao-Jin; Jia, Dengfeng (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Aiming to redundant parallel mechanism, on the basis of the kinetic energy method, virtual work principle, and perturbation method, the generalized mass matrix and generalized stiffness matrix are obtained, respectively. ...
    • Virtual Fixture Generation for Task Planning With Complex Geometries 

      Sharp, Andrew; Pryor, Mitch (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Many robotic processes require the system to maintain a tool’s orientation and distance from a surface. To do so, researchers often use virtual fixtures (VFs) to either guide the robot along a path or forbid it from leaving ...
    • Motoric and Perceptual Kinesthetic Symmetry in Bi-Manual Interactions 

      Mohanty, Ronak R.; Adhikari, Riddhi R.; Krishnamurthy, Vinayak R. (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      Bi-manual (two-handed) actions have shown notable success in rehabilitative and therapeutic applications from the point of motor symmetry. Recent studies have shown that symmetry in actions is attributed to sensorimotor ...
    • A Study of Human Balance and Coordination Using a Head Mounted Display 

      De Luna, Daniel Gracia; Tijernia, Roel; Butler, Alley; Tomai, Emmett; Timmer, Douglas; Caruntu, Dumitru (The American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2021)
      This paper investigates the hypothesis that men and women perform differently in virtual environments in terms of balance and coordination during surprise events. It reports on an experiment in human subject balance and ...