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Abstracts

Bluegrass Community and Technical College

New Technical College Campus

Central Community College 

Mechatronics Education Center

Georgia Institute of Technology

Real World Application of Novel Position Feedback Technology for Fluid Power Cylinders

Evaluation of a Haptic Operator Interface using Hardware in the Loop Simulation of Pump Displacement Control of Excavator Functions

Hardware in the Loop Design & Control Implementation

User Interface to 18 Degrees of Freedom Powered by Gas

Designing a Hardware in the Loop Testbed for Emulating the Hydraulic Loads on an Independent Metering Valve

Numerical Modeling of Hydraulic Rod Seals

Iowa State University 

Multifrequency Dielectric Sensing for Hydraulic Fluid Contamination Detection

Milwaukee School of Engineering 

Analysis of Silting and Contaminant Lock in Hydraulic Valves Using Lattic Boltzmann Simulation of Suspensions

Hydro-Pneumatic Pulsed Jet Demolition Tool

North Carolina A & T 

A User-Centered Design Approach to Emerging Fluid Power Systems

Human Performance Modeling in Fluid Power Systems

Purdue University 

Noise Reduction in Axial Piston Machines

Self-Propelled Water Hydraulic Vehicle

Development of Controller Area Network (CAN) Based Training Station for Industrial and Mobile Applications

Hydraulic Dynamometer for Small-Medium Sized Engines

Intelligent & Precision Coordinated Control of Electro-Hydraulic/Pneumatic Systems

An Adaptive Robust Framework for Model Based Fault Detections and Fault Tolerant Controls of Electro-Hydraulic Systems

University of Illinois at Chicago

Real Time Control, Motion and Path Planning for High Degree of Freedom Mechanism for Earth Moving Eq.

University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign 

Advanced Multivariable Control Strategies for Energy Allocation in Fluid Power Networks

A Fluid Power Assisted Orthosis Design

Dynamic Scaling for Fluid Power Systems

Dynamic Behavior of an Electrohydraulic Valve: Typology of Characteristic Curves

High Efficiency Control Methodology for EH Control Sys.

University of Minnesota 

Single Stage Proportional Valve that Utilizes Unstable Flow Forces

Rotary Self-Spinning High Speed On-Off Valve

Zero-Leak O-Rings Using Smart Materials

University of Missouri-Columbia 

Metering Poppet Valve System Control

University of Waterloo 

Smart Pneumatic Valves with Energy-Saving Feature

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Design of a Free-Piston Stirling Engine-Pump

 Vanderbilt University

Energy Saving in Pneumatic Servo Control Utilizing Inter-Chamber Cross-Flow

Western Michigan University 

Parameter Identification for Motion Control of a Statically Loaded Hydraulic System

Youngstown State University 

Computational and Experimental Analysis of Gear Pumps