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  • Adaptive Multiagent Traffic Management for Autonomous Robotic Systems

    Creator:
    Rebhuhn, Carrie
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    There is growing commercial interest in the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) in urban environments, specifically for package delivery applications. However, the size, complexity and sheer numbers of expected UAVs makes conventional air traffic management that relies on human air traffic controllers infeasible. To enable UAVs to safely and...
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    V do 2: d[u] := f [u] := infinity initialize vertex u 3: color[u] = WHITE 4: p[u] := u 5: end for 6

  • From running birds to walking robots : optimization as a unifying framework for dynamic bipedal locomotion

    Creator:
    Hubicki, Christian M.
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    Bipedal locomotion is a complex phenomenon to understand and control, making it difficult for legged robots to achieve the speed, agility, efficiency, and robustness of their animal counterparts. This thesis argues for the use of numerical optimization to investigate and implement bipedal control as it applies to biology, dynamical models,...
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    . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57 4.7 When a lateral force, F, is applied at the toe that exceeds the designed failure point a set

  • Multi-Objective Optimization in Multiagent Systems

    Creator:
    Yliniemi, Logan Michael
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    Cooperative multiagent systems are used as solution concepts in many application domains including air traffic control, satellite communications, and extra planetary exploration. As systems become more distributed and complex, we observe three phenomena. First, these systems cannot be accurately modeled, rendering traditional model based control methods inadequate. Second, system parameters...
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    : Updated policy πT (RL) or fitness evaluation F (EA) 2.1.1 Reinforcement learning One common approach to

  • Geometry of Locomotion

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    Ramasamy, Suresh
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    Many animals and robots move through the world by coupling cyclical changes in shape called gaits to an interaction with the environment. Because mobility is an important aspect of such robots, a key metric when evaluating design and performance of mobile robots is the efficiency of their optimal gaits. The...
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    to the connection vector field plots. The red circles in (b),(d),(f) and (g) show where the systems