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Visual sonar: Estimating depth using sound waves and neuromorphic cameras
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Author
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Bagepalli, Abhijith
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Date Created
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2020
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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This thesis proposes a novel method to recover depth of scene objects using an acoustic source and a calibrated neuromorphic camera or event camera sensor. The proposed system is a non-contact, monocular depth estimation method that observes subtl...
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UTILIZATION OF WIRELESS SIGNAL STRENGTH FOR MOBILE ROBOT LOCALIZATION IN INDOOR ENVIRONMENTS
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Author
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Shue, Samuel
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
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Description
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Localization is a key component of any mobile robot application. For any task a mobile robot might need to perform, precise knowledge of its pose within its environment is critical. Mobile robots employ a multitude of sensors to estimate position,...
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The Use of Fractals and Non-Foster Circuits for Wideband Metamaterials and Antennas
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Author
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Smith, Kathryn
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Date Created
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2015
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Implementations of two methods for broadening the performance bandwidth of resonant electromagnetic structures are presented. The first method is the use of non-Foster loading elements, and the second method is the use of fractal geometries. Non-F...
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NOVEL IMPLEMENTATIONS OF PLANAR ANTENNAS WITH GOVERNABLE CIRCULAR POLARIZATION
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Author
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Thakar, Dip
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Communication
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Description
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This document is an explicit and an exclusive account on two antennas. This literatureis an attempt to solve some of the challenges for planar antennas in the frequencyindependent class and exploit the radiative nature of narrow band patch antenna...
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Multi-destination rendezvous in cognitive radio networks
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Author
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Samak, Tamer
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Date Created
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2017
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer science, Computer engineering
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Description
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The radio spectrum is a limited natural resource and the increase of wireless devices operating in the unlicensed bands of the spectrum has led to its overcrowding resulting in poor performance of those radio devices. Moreover, the static spectrum...
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Microwave power imaging for ultra-wide band early breast cancer detection
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Author
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Shao, Wenyi
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Date Created
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2012
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Biomedical engineering, Electromagnetism
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Description
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Due to the critical need for complementary or/and alternative modalities to current X-ray mammography for early-stage breast cancer detection, a 3D active microwave imaging system has been developed. This thesis presents a detailed method for rapi...
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Title
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Low Power RFID System Design and Implementation
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Author
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Bowen, Jacob
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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A successful design and implementation of an RFID(Radio Frequency Identification)tag and reader.The RFID reader was implemented using a USRP board and GNU radio. TheRFID system designed here is considered a UHF(ultra high frequency) RFID. Thereade...
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Title
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Integration of the Simulation Environment for Autonomous Robots with Robotics Middleware
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Author
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Harris, Adam
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Date Created
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2014
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Computer engineering, Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Improving Dense Real-Time 3D SLAM Using Sparse Geometric Constraints
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Author
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Papadakis, John-Richard
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Date Created
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2018
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Subjects--Topical
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Robotics
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Description
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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...
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HUMAN-ROBOT COOPERATION USING EEG SIGNALS WITH SELF-LEARNING
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Author
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Bellary, Sunny Arokia Swamy
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Date Created
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2019
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Subjects--Topical
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Robotics
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Description
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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...
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Geometric Analysis Tools for Mesh Segmentation
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Author
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Zhou, Beibei
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Date Created
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2013
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering
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Description
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Surface segmentation, a process which divides a surface into parts, is the basis for many surface manipulation applications which include model metamorphosis, model simplification, model retrieval, model alignment and texture mapping. This dissert...
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Fan Noise Attenuation with an Acoustic Metamaterial
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Author
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Hill, Ryan
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Date Created
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2021
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Subjects--Topical
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Electrical engineering, Sound
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Description
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In a world continuously increasing in the number of electronic devices, the need for cooling fans increases and so does its contribution to noise pollution. This project explores a solution to this problem by designing an acoustic metamaterial tha...