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Thanks to my coilinlittee chair and co-advisor, Prof. Debasish Dutta who led me,witli a lot of patience and dedication, through the cliallenging processes of defining myresearch project, handling hi~rdles on the way, and finalizing my dissertation. He alwaysmade sure that I was heading in tlie right direction to achieving my goals.Tlianlts to my co-advisor, Prof. Juyang Weng, who introduces me to the world oflearning and development (theory and implementation), and directed me tlirough theprocess of matching these concepts witli the very practical issi~e ofniacliine visioninspection. He showed me that witli a creative thinking, new, innovative solutio~is mightarise fro111 a completely unexpected direction.I would like to thank Professor Koren, tlie director of tlie Engineering ResearchCenter for Reconfigurable Manufacturing Systems, for supporting mc and trusting in myability to make a difference witli my PhD work, for supplyi~ig all the means, teclinical aswell as moral, needed for me success.I wish to thank illy parents for supporting me, as always, during hard times in myPIiD program, for giving great advices and for non-stop encouragement and help...tested for theQ1 PC1 bus cardBoth these projects mere sofixare des elopment efforts tonards contributing to dlfferentaspects of Roboucs and lZ1echatronics projects m the Controls and Roboucs Group..
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