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  • In-Situ Stereo Vision Metrology for Metal Powder Bed Fusion Additive Manufacturing

    Creator:
    Mosher, Daniel P.
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    Powder Bed Fusion (PBF) techniques are additive manufacturing (AM) technologies with paradigm-shifting potential for the production industry. However, before they can become viable production solutions for quality critical industries, issues with process consistency and repeatability need to be addressed. There is a need for in-situ sensing systems that characterize process...
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    Dissertation
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    Annual International Solid Freeform Fabrication Symposium 7. Dunsky C (2014) Process Monitoring in

  • One Service Robot’s Exploration of Entertainment Methods During COVID-19

    Creator:
    Tsai, Yao-Lin
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    The study focuses on how to use entertainment method approach to prompt people with best practices for COVID safety. During COVID times, there have been many robots deployed in public places such as social distancing enforcer or a robot that provide facial masks, but few investigations have been done to...
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    likability. In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN

  • Multi-Robot Coordination : Applications in Orchard Bin Management and Informative Path Planning

    Creator:
    Zhang, Yawei
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    Efficient coordination is desired for multi-robot systems in many scenarios. In this research, we first provide a multi-robot system to help human workers during tree fruit harvest. We present an auction-based method to coordinate a team of self-propelled bin carriers to retrieve fruit bins. Second, we propose a more general...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Risk-based design for multidisciplinary complex systems

    Creator:
    Farhangmehr, Farzaneh
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    The ultimate goal of large-scale design organizations are mainly to reduce costs and improve reliability and performance of systems while assessing how much risk (cost, schedule, scope) they can take and still remain competitive. To achieve this goal they need to develop tools to reach the most preferred design product...
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    Masters Thesis

  • A Conceptual Design Tool for High-performance Wave Energy Converters for Blue Economy Applications

    Creator:
    Roach, Aeron L.
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    Much like wind energy in its early years, marine energy has vast potential, and wave energy converter (WEC) concepts are constantly in development. Consequently, wave energy faces many challenges for expansion and has a wide-ranging design space of WEC concepts. The large design space demands new methods for understanding the...
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    Masters Thesis
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    potential. The DTOcean and DTOceanPlus projects are comprised of international teams of academic

  • Efficiently Learning Human Preferences for Robot Autonomy

    Creator:
    Somers, Thane N.
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    Human-robot teams are invaluable for mapping unknown environments, exploring difficult-to-reach areas, and manipulating inaccessible equipment. However, guiding autonomous robots requires dealing with these dynamic domains while synthesizing a significant amount of data and balancing competing objectives. Current mission planning methods often involve manually specifying low-level parameters of the mission, such...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Enabling design for energy efficient additive manufacturing

    Creator:
    Nagarajan, Hari Prashanth Narayan
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    Manufacturing exists as a stronghold for continuous growth and development of economies, a trend that is likely to continue as the demand for commodities and products grow. Manufacturing drives innovation and productivity in developed nations, as well as promoting economic stability and development in developing nations. However, manufacturing activities pose...
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    Masters Thesis
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    pattern for the desired layer geometry [9]. ASTM International [19] defines seven key process the

  • A shared-autonomy heavy-lift assistive robot for manufacturing

    Creator:
    Finley, Taylor M.
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    Automating pick-and-place operations for large steel castings in a foundry is challenging, particularly from a perception point of view. Accurately estimating the identity and orientation of a given part is an open and complex problem, especially if that part sits in a bin of very similar parts. The problem is...
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    Masters Thesis

  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

    Creator:
    Rueben, Matthew R.
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    This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human-robot interaction, which we call "privacy-sensitive robotics." Our understanding of "privacy" is very broad, including not just information privacy but also physical, psychological, and social privacy. We begin by surveying the scholarly literature on privacy and talking about why it applies to interactions...
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    Dissertation

  • Designing and Evaluating a User Interface for Multi-Robot Furniture

    Creator:
    Stoddard, Brett
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    A chair, once placed, will stay put until moved. Or will it? With the rise of technology being embeddable into everyday objects, what if that chair could move itself? Such robotic furniture has been featured in advertisements, art, and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research. Existing methods for operating robotic furniture have...
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    enable these transitions at the touch of a button. On the International Space Station, astronauts