Browsing by Author "Rathinam, Sivakumar"
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Hwang, Andy (2020-04-08)Object detection is important for autonomous vehicles. While regular cameras can be easily affected by low light environments or high brightness objects, thermal cameras can still get sharp images in those conditions. In ...
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Qin, Jianglei (2013-06-25)Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) have been significantly utilized in military and civil applications over the last decade. Path-planning of UVs plays an important role in effectively using the available resources such as the UVs ...
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Bae, Jung Yun (2014-06-02)Surveillance and monitoring applications require a collection of heterogeneous vehicles to visit a set of targets. This dissertation considers three fundamental routing problems involving multiple vehicles that arise in ...
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Sundar, Kaarthik (2016-02-15)Multiple small autonomous or unmanned aerial and ground vehicles are being used together with stationary sensing devices for a wide variety of data gathering, monitoring and surveillance applications in military, civilian, ...
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Wang, Bingyu (2020-07-31)Unmanned vehicles (UVs) have become increasingly common and accessible in many civilian and military applications. They are usually lightweight, many of them being cheap as well, making them ideal platforms for performing ...
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Taylor VI, William James (2018-08-17)Advanced driver assistance systems used to increase the safety of everyday transportation are increasingly common in today’s automotive industry. In conducting research for the Texas Department of Transportation’s ...
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Doshi, Riddhi Rajeev (2011-10-21)Various civil and military applications of UAVs, or ground robots, require a set of vehicles to monitor a group of targets. Routing problems naturally arise in this setting where the operators of the vehicles have to plan ...
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Rangarajan, Rahul (2011-08-08)Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) are developed for several civil and military applications. For these applications, there is a need for multiple vehicles with different capabilities to visit and monitor a set of given targets. In ...
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Wang, Zhan (2016-12-12)Arc faults have always been a concern for electrical systems as they can cause fires, personnel shock hazard, and system failure. In photovoltaic (PV) systems, a large number of electrical connectors and long wire runs are ...
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Montez, Christopher M. (2023-05-11)Cooperative behavior between mobile agents has received increasing interest in fields such as robotics, operations research, agriculture, and more. The use of multiple agents allows for a variety of problems to be addressed ...
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Automatic Positioning System for Inductive Wireless Charging Devices and Application to Mobile Robot Cortes, Ivan (2017-07-12)Inductive power transfer (IPT) remains one of the most common ways to achieve wireless power transfer (WPT), operating on the same electromagnetic principle as electrical transformers but with an air core. IPT has recently ...
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Sung, Hsin-Chuan (2015-05-13)This thesis presents several control methods on one wheeled and two wheeled balancing robot and implementation of a two wheeled robot. The purpose is to balance the robot at a standstill position and let it move smoothly. ...
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Chao, Kenneth Yi-wen (2019-01-14)Realizing the essentials of bipedal walking balance is one of the core studies in both robotics and biomechanics. Although the recent developments of walking control on bipedal robots have brought the humanoid automation ...
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Doraiswamy, Srikrishna (2013-12-06)The aim of the current work is to develop a Bayesian approach to model and simulate the behavior of materials with nonlinear mechanical response in the presence of significant uncertainties in the experimental data as well ...
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Yadlapalli, Sai Krishna (2011-02-22)In this dissertation, the problem of planning the motion of m Unmanned Vehicles (UVs) (or simply vehicles) through n points in a plane is considered. A motion plan for a vehicle is given by the sequence of points and the ...
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Rani, Avinash (2012-10-19)Vapor compression cycles are the primary method by which refrigeration and air-conditioning systems operate, and thus constitute a significant portion of commercial and residential building energy consumption. This thesis ...
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Vegamoor, Vamsi K (2021-12-06)Autonomous driving requires perception and control. The first part of the dissertation is focused on an aspect of control related to automatic vehicle following that is not well understood, namely, the influence of imperfect ...
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Mohsenizadeh, Daniel N (2014-05-01)This dissertation deals with two open problems in control theory. The first problem concerns the synthesis of fixed structure controllers for Linear Time Invariant (LTI) systems. The problem of synthesizing fixed ...
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Huh, Sung (2012-02-14)Mobile robots are used on many areas and its demand on extreme terrain, hazardous area, or life-threatening place is increasing to reduce the loss of life. A good decision making capability is essential for successful ...
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Stricklin, Bradford William (2017-12-01)This work presents, designs, models, and tests a two-phase permanent-magnet (PM) external-rotor AC motor utilizing a Halbach array for the purpose of precision positioning. The motor is made up of twelve coils and nine ...