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  • Making the Unconscious Unconscious : Reclaiming Microinteractions for People with Motor Disabilities

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    Lazewatsky, Daniel A.
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    Numerous diseases and injuries can limit a person's ability to perform everyday tasks -- things like getting dressed, bathing, and eating. Anything that requires physical activity can be affected; even simple things like turning on the lights can become difficult or impossible. Until recently, the only way for a person...
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    Abstract approved: William D. Smart Numerous diseases and injuries can limit a person’s ability to

  • Privacy-Sensitive Robotics

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    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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    Robotics Abstract approved: William D. Smart This dissertation focuses on personal privacy in human

  • High-Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback

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    Curran, William
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    State-of-the-art personal robots need to perform complex manipulation tasks to be viable in complex scenarios. However, many of these robots, like the PR2, use manipulators with high degrees of freedom. High degrees of freedom are desirable from a functionality standpoint, but make the learning task more difficult by adding a...
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    -Dimensional Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback Abstract approved: William D. Smart Prasad Tadepalli

  • Influences on State-funded categorical enrollment patterns in thirteen of Oregon's community colleges

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    Smart, Ann Dillie
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    The purpose of this investigation was to examine the influence of selected historical, fiscal, and organizational factors on enrollment patterns in Oregon Community Colleges during the academic years 1978-79, 1981-82, and 1984-85. Oregon was selected insofar as it is one of the few remaining states which observes the principle of...
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    in thirteen of Oregon's community colleges AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Ann Dillie Smart for the

  • Robotic Actuation and Control with Programmable, Field-Activated Material Systems

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    Bira, Nicholas P.
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    This dissertation presents novel, field-activated smart material systems for the actuation and control of autonomous robots. Smart materials, a type of material whose properties can be changed with an external stimuli, represent a promising direction to expand upon existing robotic control and actuation methods, particularly in the sub-fields of soft...
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    : Joseph Davidson This dissertation presents novel, field-activated smart material systems for the ac

  • Microgrids and the Transition Toward Decentralized Energy Systems in the United States: A Multi-Level Perspective

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    Ajaz, Warda
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    The last decade has seen a drastic interest in microgrids throughout the world. Even though this trend might seem to be just another technological solution in the energy sector, it is a part of a greater transition from a centralized energy system to a more decentralized one. However, unlike most...
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    major problems with the current energy infrastructure, and therefore, gives it a D+ grade in their

  • Counterfactual thinking applied to multiagent systems

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    Zerbel, Nicholas
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    Multiagent approaches are well suited to designing autonomous solutions for systems that feature complex interactions between many individuals such as in autonomous traffic systems and multi-robot exploration systems. However, creating autonomous agents that function effectively in these systems is a challenging task. In these complex environments, agents need informative reward...
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  • Robust Long Term Autonomy Through Local Behaviors

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    Yates, Connor L.
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    Multi-robot teams offer promising solutions for many long term deployments in remote and dangerous domains, such as extraterrestrial or underseas exploration. However, long term deployments present many problems preventing robot teams from operating effectively. Learning over long time scales is makes it difficult to assign credit to robots' actions, as...
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    will only equal 1 if and only if B-type and D- type POIs have been observed

  • Deep Perception Without a Camera: Enabling 3D Reconstruction and Object Recognition using Lidar and Sonar Sensing

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    DeBortoli, Robert A.
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    Deep learning has recently revolutionized robot perception in many canonical robotic applications, such as autonomous driving. However, a similar transformation has yet to occur in more harsh environments including underwater and underground. This is due in part to the difficulty in deploying robots in these environments, which lack large real...
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    Bill Smart for offering their diverse expertise and being available whenever I sought advice. I would

  • Multiagent learning for locomotion and coordination in tensegrity robotics

    Creator:
    Iscen, Atil
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    Tensegrity structures are composed of pure compressional elements that are connected via a network of pure tensional elements. The concept of tensegrity promises numerous advantages to the field of robotics. Tensegrity robots are, however, notoriously difficult to control due to their oscillatory nature and nonlinear interaction between the components. Multiagent...
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    to show similarities. Subfigure (d) shows that groups of signals have similar patterns