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Title: A Growth-Based Approach to the Automatic Generation of Navigation Meshes
Author: Hale, David
Date Created: 2011
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Providing an understanding of space in game and simulation environments is one of the major challenges associated with moving artificially intelligent characters through these environments. The usage of some form of navigation mesh has become the ...

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: 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: Creating New Concept-based Representations for Superior Text Analysis and Retrieval
Author: Shalaby, Walid
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Text analytics represent a set of scalable techniques that mine unstructured and semi-structured textual resources in order to extract useful knowledge for performing a task at hand. For example, document clustering and classification, entity extr...

Title: Deep Structured Learning in Medical Image Analysis
Author: Kong, Bin
Date Created: 2020
Subjects--Topical: Artificial intelligence, Diagnostic imaging
Description: Deep learning-based techniques have been widely employed in solving various medical image analytical problems. Currently, most of these methods directly employ deep architectures from natural image scenarios without considering the specific struct...

Title: IMPROVING FAIRNESS AND THROUGHPUT OF A CMP PROCESSOR BY OPTIMIZING THE UTILIZATION OF THE LAST LEVEL SHARED CACHE IN REAL-TIME USING A CONSTRAINED-EXTENDED KALMAN FILTER
Author: Panday, Ashish
Date Created: 2017
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering, Computer engineering
Description: Cache Partitioning is a technique which maps the data pertaining to each core to acorresponding partition in the cache memory exclusively. Cache partitioning has beenshown to improve performance metrics like fairness and throughput in most cases b...

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: New Algorithms for Protein Structure Analysis: From Nonparametric Density Estimation to Characterization of Molecular Volume Spatial Distributions
Author: Farmer, Jenny
Date Created: 2018
Subjects--Topical: Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Physics
Description: The Flexibility and Stability Test (FAST) is a C++ class library designed in the early 2000’s to execute free energy decomposition and reconstitution operations applied to protein structures. The library has been substantially expanded to include ...

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: Optimal Management and Control of Renewable Energy Based Generation Rich Integrated Transmission and Distribution Electric Grid
Author: Ogundairo, Olalekan
Date Created: 2023
Subjects--Topical: Electrical engineering
Description: Renewable energy resources advancement and offerings are steadily increasing, a major factor leading to its global fast adoption. The connection of these resources to the electric grid, however, needs to be studied to ensure efficiency both from a...

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: 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...

Title: Surface-based 3D Object Modeling, Detection, and Pose Estimation in Cluttered Environments for Robotic Manipulation
Author: TENG, ZHOU
Date Created: 2016
Subjects--Topical: Computer science
Description: Automatic identification and pose estimation of a target object through robotic perception is necessary for many robotic tasks, such as object manipulation, scene reconstruction and view planning. However, general object recognition and pose estim...

Title: Topology-aware approach for the emergence of social norms in multiagent systems
Author: Hasan, Mohammad
Date Created: 2014
Subjects--Topical: Computer science, Information technology
Description: Social norms facilitate agent coordination and conflict resolution without explicit communication. Norms generally involve restrictions on a set of actions or behaviors of agents to a particular strategy and can significantly reduce the cost of co...

Title: Towards Explainable Robots: Developing Consensus Reaching Mechanisms for Co-Robots in Haptic Shared Control Paradigms
Author: Izadi, Vahid
Date Created: 2022
Subjects--Topical: Mechanical engineering
Description: Human-automation teaming (HAT) is gaining importance in military and commercial applications with autonomous vehicles because it promises to improve performance, reduce operating and designing platforms' costs, and increase adaptability to new sit...