Browsing Auburn Theses and Dissertations by Department "Industrial and Systems Engineering"
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Optimization methods incorporating statistical and machine learning models in traffic safety
(2021-07-28)
In this dissertation, we investigated the optimization and statistical models regarding the safety aspects of trucking operations. A significant gap in the literature has been identified concerning the interaction between ...
Optimization Models for Advanced Cyber-security in the Smart Grid
(2014-06-18)
The power grid is increasingly dependent on information and communication technologies, which puts more emphasis on the importance of power system security as one of the top priorities. Internal and external factors can ...
Optimization Models for the Inspection of Electric Power System Assets Using Drones
(2019-07-09)
To inspect electric power system assets, electric utilities have relied on inspection personnel and costly equipment. For example, the utilities inspect a power transmission tower by dispatching line crews and helicopters. ...
Optimization of Block Layout for Grocery Stores
(2015-03-09)
Because of the proportion of the retail industry worldwide of the global economy and the lack of analytic approaches in the literature to retail facility design, this dissertation addresses block layout in grocery stores ...
Optimization of Off-grid Photovoltaic Systems
(2020-04-17)
Among various renewable energy sources, solar energy is considered one of the most effective solutions because it is abundant, eco-friendly, sustainable energy resources to address the energy shortage of the present and ...
Optimizing and Scheduling of a Pooled Log Transport System
(2009-07-15)
The log truck scheduling problem (LTSP) under capacity constraints and time window constraints which is an NP-hard problem, involves the design of a set of best possible routes for a set of trucks starting and ending the ...
Optimizing Military Tactical MANETs efficiently using PSO
(2009-11-05)
A mobile ad-hoc network (MANET) is a self-configuring network of autonomous agents designed to continuously support users who change the topology of the network dynamically and independently. The dynamic mobility of user ...
The Optimum Upper Screening Limit and Optimum Mean Fill Level to Maximize Expected Net Profit in the Canning Problem for Finite Continuous Distributions
(2006-05-15)
The “canning problem” occurs when a process has a minimum specification such that any product produced below that minimum incurs a scrap/rework cost and any product over the minimum incurs a “give-away” cost. The objective ...
Order Picking Method for Multi-entity Cooperation in Picking Warehouses
(2023-06-08)
In recent years, different kinds of autonomous robots have been widely studied and applied in warehouses to meet the increasing demand for dealing with more customer orders, providing shorter delivery time, and achieving ...
Overmolded Substrate on Aluminum Metal Backing for Harsh Environment Applications
(2008-12-15)
Demand for high-temperature electronics in the automotive industry increases daily with the increasing number of electronics going into under-the-hood locations. Along with keeping costs low and reliability high while the ...
Participatory Design of Warning Symbols Using Distributed Interactive Evolutionary Computation
(2009-12-14)
Safety warnings play an important role in communicating risk via product labels and environmental signs. With the diversification of cultures and languages in the United States, and with the increasing globalization of ...
Patient Handling: Restrictions & Conditions
(2007-12-15)
Injuries to healthcare personnel performing patient transfers are a worldwide problem and have been listed as a primary research interest by the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) since the 1980’s. ...
Patient-Centric Facility Design for Physical Rehabilitation Hospitals
(2019-09-25)
This dissertation presents two novel models for solving the facility layout problem in a physical rehabilitation hospital. The first model solves the block layout problem, where the relative location and size of the ...
PBGA Reliability of Lead Free Solder Balls Assembled with Tin Lead Solder Paste for Harsh Environment Electronics
(2006-08-15)
The demand for high-temperature electronics is growing rapidly in the automotive industry. This stems directly from the fact that these electronics are being transferred from their passive environments to under-the-hood ...
Physical Fatigue at Work: Prevalence and Interventions
(2019-07-23)
Advanced manufacturing has resulted in significant changes on the shop-floor, influencing
work demands and the working environment. The corresponding safety-related impacts, including
fatigue, have not been fully captured ...
Portfolio Risk-Return Decision Optimization Using AI
(2023-12-04)
Academia and businesses have extensively studied portfolio decision-making under uncertainty and risk. Prediction-based portfolio models usually forecast either the portfolio's future return or risk. On the other hand, ...
Prediction of the Erector Spinae Muscle Lever Arm Distance for Biomechanical Models
(2013-04-22)
Low Back Pain (LBP) remains the U.S.’s most significant and costly injury. Improved
biomechanical modeling of the lumbar spine may allow better evaluation of LBP risk. To
calculate the forces acting on the spine, accurate ...
Predictive Modeling for University Technology Transfer Success for Automation and Robotics
(2024-04-29)
Technology transfer, particularly within the context of Industry 4.0, is a complicated process full of challenges. Integrating and commercializing advanced technologies of Industry 4.0, such as automation and robotics, ...
Profile Monitoring of Multivariate Processes for Efficient Detection of Parameter Changes
(2018-10-31)
Profile monitoring has been extensively studied when the profile of a quality characteristic is normally distributed. There are a limited number of studies for the case when a profile follows other distributions such as ...
Quantification of Ergonomic Risk Factors in Southeastern Logging Operations
(2017-07-18)
This dissertation aimed to expose and partially fill a gap in logging research regarding ergonomic risk factors associated with operating logging machines in the fully mechanized logging operations typical in the southeastern ...