Localization and communication are critical components for functioning autonomous robots. The infrastructure required or these operations commonly includes global positioning system (GPS) and easily recognizable and re-identifiable landmarks. Howe...
A variety of magnetic gear topologies have been investigated in recent years as alternatives to traditional mechanical gearboxes. In general these magnetic gears offer advantages in the non-contact transmission of torque including inherent overloa...
Research in the area of wireless sensor networks has seen unprecedented growth inthe last decade. Human deployable ad-hoc networks are being used to communicateessential information in places where there is no network or the network is destroyeddu...
In the realm of metamaterials and electromagnetic engineering, a metasurface is a two-dimensional array of subwavelength-scale structures meticulously engineered to manipulate electromagnetic waves. Unlike conventional bulky optical elements, meta...
Growing concerns related to the environmental impacts of rising global energy consumption compel the continued development of low-emission technologies for the building sector. In the United States, space conditioning and domestic hot water genera...
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...
Modern photovoltaic converters and energy storage modules are shifting to a cascaded or distributed module-level inverters to reduce the required voltage output of each module and thereby optimizing production costs. The switch to an AC-stacked ar...
In this project, we explore methods of implementing an autonomous agent that simulates human behaviour, in order to produce common mistakes that create vulnerabilities in enterprise networks. The objective of this research is to aid in testing the...