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Title: A SELECTIVE SENSOR FRAMEWORK USING SENSOR FUSION AND SENSOR MAPS TO ACHIEVE COMPLETE COVERAGE PLANNING OF A SEMI-AUTONOMOUS ROBOTIC VEHICLE
Author: CHANDRASEKARAN, BALASUBRAMANIYAN
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Autonomous vehicles are increasingly used in many applications, such as elderly care, medical care, military, schools, and space exploration. In this research, we introduce the use of a framework for achieving the autonomy in a vehicle and describ...

Title: An Approach to Reducing Parameter Uncertainty for Robotic Surface Assembly Tasks
Author: Saric, Amar
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: In contrast to hard automation, which relies on the precise knowledge of all parameters and special-purpose machinery, the goal of flexible assembly is to overcome the inherent uncertainty in the location of the parts. The main result of this diss...

Title: Autonomous Vehicle Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Along a Predetermined Vector
Author: Pfeifer, Elijah
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: Search and Rescue (SaR) operations rely on civilian volunteers to provide mandatory manpower when covering large areas of land. These SaR operations are typically conducted in remote environments where conditions can be hazardous and GPS signal in...

Title: CONTINUUM ROBOT MANIPULATION
Author: Li, Jinglin
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Unlike conventional robotic manipulators, continuum manipulators are inspired by invertebrate structures found in nature, such as octopus arms and elephant trunks. The shape of a continuum manipulator can continuously deform via changing the contr...

Title: Design of a vision-based control system for quadrotor swarm autonomy
Author: Wesley, Christopher
Date Created: 2015
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics
Description: Recently, small radio-controllable aircraft known as quadrotors, or quadcopters, have become very popular. These aircraft have the ability to vertically takeoff and move in any direction with great stability. They are also capable of carrying smal...

Title: EKF Accelerometer Wheel Based Odometry
Author: Morgan, Jacob
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer science, Robotics
Description: Gathering information on robot motion is critical in determining how a mobile robothas interacted in its environment. The information about a robot’s motion, called odometry is generally collected by tracking wheel behavior for ground based robots...

Title: FREE BODIES IN UNSTEADY VISCOUS FLOWS AND SIMPLE MECHANICAL ANALOGS: NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND UNDERACTUATED CONTROL
Author: Abrajan Guerrero, Rodrigo
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering, Mechanics, Robotics
Description: In this dissertation we study the interactions between free bodies and unsteady viscous flows, with particular interest in locomotion and in particle transport in streaming flows.For self-propelling bodies, we present systems with two different me...

Title: Generalized Coverage Using Multiple Robots: Theory, Algorithms, and Experiments
Author: Agarwal, Saurav
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Recent technological advances have facilitated the use of mobile robots for a wide range of coverage applications such as inspection and mapping of infrastructure, precision agriculture, and disaster management. With the proliferation of these tas...

Title: HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION USING EEG SIGNALS WITH SELF-LEARNING
Author: Bellary, Sunny Arokia Swamy
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Able-bodied humans express and communicate their needs and ideas with each other through the exchange of verbal and non-verbal information. However, those with neuromuscular disorders, either inherited or acquired by other factors, have high needs...

Title: IMPLEMENTATION OF PATH PLANNING ALGORITHMS ON A MOBILE ROBOT IN DYNAMIC INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
Author: Panchpor, Aishwarya
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Robotics
Description: The objective of this thesis was to review and analyze existing algorithms for robot localization and mapping in dynamic indoor environments. Some of the existing algorithms include occupancy grid approach, artificial intelligence approach, dense ...

Title: Implementation of Multi Robot Simultaneous Localization and Mapping
Author: KSHIRSAGAR, JAYDEEP
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: For any robot to effectively traverse its environment, it requires a map and its pose (location along with the orientation) within that map. Often, a map will not be available if the robot is presented with an unfamiliar environment. This scenario...

Title: Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
Author: Papadakis, John-Richard
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: This thesis explores the extension of a state of the art dense RGBD SLAM system to include detected geometries as elements in the estimated global map. The existing approach leverages an algorithm for dense visual odometry, which is analyzed in de...

Title: Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
Author: Harris, Adam
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
Description: Robotic simulators have long been used to test code and designs before any actual hardware is tested to ensure safety and efficiency. Many current robotics simulators are either closed source (calling into question the fidelity of their simulation...

Title: MULTI-ROBOT SLAM USING PARTICLE FILTER
Author: Gupta, Raj
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is the conventional chicken and egg problem where a robot has to map the environment as well as localize itself in the newly created map simultaneously. One of the most used approaches to solving this p...

Title: Manipulation and Perception Synergy for Autonomous Robots in Unknown Environments
Author: Mao, Huitan
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: Intelligent robots have been increasingly used in unstructured and unknown environments rather than being limited in well-controlled settings. The key to successful autonomous robot operations in such environments is to combine robot manipulation ...

Title: Online Robot Exploration and Perceptual Coverage of Large-Scale Unknown Environments: Scalable Optimization and Generalized Software Framework
Author: Vutetakis, David
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Robotics, Computer science, Artificial intelligence
Description: This dissertation addresses the problem of non-myopic online exploration and visual sensor coverage of large-scale unknown environments using an autonomous robot. We introduce a novel perception roadmap, referred to as the Active Perception Networ...

Title: Perceiving guaranteed collision-free robot trajectories in unknown and unpredictable environments
Author: Vatcha, Rayomand
Date Created: 2012
Subjects--Topical: Robotics
Description: The dissertation introduces novel approaches for solving a fundamental problem: detecting a collision-free robot trajectory based on sensing in real-world environments that are mostly unknown and unpredictable, i.e., obstacle geometries and their ...

Title: Prototype System for Autonomous Detection and Extraction of Floating Pollution from Aquatic Environments
Author: Brake , Jeremy
Date Created: 2021
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics, Mechanical engineering
Description: This research aims to develop an autonomous system for pollution acquisition and extraction within waterways. Currently, there are approximately 270,000 tons of pollution within the world’s oceans, with 80% originating from inland waterways. The e...

Title: REPLACEMENT OF HUMAN OPERATOR WITH VISION-GUIDED ROBOT FOR ELECTRONIC COMPONENT PICK-AND-PLACE WORK CELL
Author: Vutetakis, David
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Engineering, Robotics
Description: Picking and placing parts is a fundamental operation involved in circuit board manufacturing and assembly plants. Pin thru-hole (PTH) components with non-standard features are incompatible with most existing high speed pick-and-place systems; this...

Title: Robust and Reliable Real-time Adaptive Motion Planning
Author: Mcleod, Sterling
Date Created: 2019
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Robotics
Description: A key goal in robotics is to enable autonomous motion for mobile robots in a real world dynamic environment with unknown obstacles. This problem requires bringing together state-of-the-art algorithms in path planning, robot control, and perception...