Computer Science Theses and Dissertations
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Item SysML Executable Model of an Energy Efficient House and Trade-Off Analysis(2018) Cawasji, Kersasp Aspi; Baras, John S.; Systems Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)With the growing complexity of energy efficient buildings, the methods of modeling and simulating such structures must account for monitoring several thousand design parameters across multiple diverse domains. As a result, modeling tools are now very specific to their respective domains and are growing more and more incongruous with each other. This calls for a way to integrate multiple modeling tools in the effort to create a single, large model capable to encapsulate data from multiple, different models. Thus, in this thesis, different methods to perform an integration with Systems Modeling Language (SysML) and a simulation tool were identified, described and evaluated. Then, a new method was developed and discussed. Finally, the new method was demonstrated by developing a SysML executable model of a simple two-room house that utilizes solar power for space heating, with a heat pump used as a backup. Using the Functional Mock-up Interface (FMI) standard, the SysML model is integrated with a Modelica model, and a simulation is run in Simulink. Finally, a tradeoff analysis was performed for the purpose of design space exploration.Item Development and Integration of Tactile Sensing System(2018) Agarwal, Rishabh; Bergbreiter, Sarah; Systems Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)To grasp and manipulate complex objects, robots require information about the interaction between the end effector and the object. This work describes the integration of a low-cost 3-axis tactile sensing system into two different robotic systems and the measurement of some of these complex interactions. The sensor itself is small, lightweight, and compliant so that it can be integrated within a variety of end effectors and locations on those end effectors (e.g. wrapped around a finger). To improve usability and data collection, a custom interface board and ROS (Robot Operating System) package were developed to read the sensor data and interface with the robots and grippers. Sensor data has been collected from four different tasks: 1. pick and place of non-conductive and conductive objects, 2. wrist-based manipulation, 3. peeling tape, and 4. human interaction with a grasped object. In the last task, a closed loop controller is used to adjust the grip force on the grasped object while the human interacts with it.Item Integration of SysML with Trade-off Analysis Tools(2012) Spyropoulos, Dimitrios; Baras, John S.; Systems Engineering; Digital Repository at the University of Maryland; University of Maryland (College Park, Md.)Changes in technology, economy and society create challenges that force us to rethink the way we develop systems. Model-Based Systems Engineering is an approach that can prove catalytic in this new era of systems development. In this work we introduce the concept of the modeling "hub" in order to realize the vision of Model-Based Systems Engineering and especially we focus on the trade-off analysis and design space exploration part of this "hub". For that purpose the capabilities of SysML are extended by integrating it with the trade-off analysis tool Consol-Optcad. The integration framework, the implementation details as well as the tools that were used for this work are described throughout this thesis. The implemented integration is then applied to analyze a very interesting multi-criteria optimization problem concerning power allocation and scheduling of a microgrid.