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  • Validation of Wave Energy Converter Models and the Development of Control Strategies in WEC-Sim

    Creator:
    So, Ratanak
    Abstract:
    When the term renewable energy is mentioned in a conversation, wind, solar, and hydro energy typically come to mind. However, there is one major resource that has remained mostly untapped: wave energy. Wind and solar power technologies are well established around the world but they cannot generate electricity all the...
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    Dr. Belinda Batten. Special thanks to my GCR, Dr. Janet Nishihara. The Energy Systems faculty group

  • Predicting Aerodynamic Loads on Highly Flexible Membrane Wings

    Creator:
    Carpenter, Trenton James
    Abstract:
    Through passive adaptation to incidental flow, flexible aerodynamic surfaces exploit effects of increased lift, delayed stall and disturbance rejection. Wings of birds, bats, and insects exhibit these passive effects, and at the same time through the use of structural state feedback sensed from the loads on the wing, active control...
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    Roberto Albertani, and committee members Robert Paasch and Belinda Batten. Also invaluable, were the

  • Incorporating and Learning Behavior Constraints for Sequential Decision Making

    Creator:
    Pinto, Jervis
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    Writing a program that performs well in a complex environment is a challenging task. In such problems, a method of deterministic programming combined with reinforcement learning (RL) can be helpful. However, current systems either force developers to encode knowledge in very specific forms (e.g., state-action features), or assume advanced RL...
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    Dissertation

  • Theoretical and implementation improvements for difference evaluation functions

    Creator:
    Colby, Mitchell Kataichi
    Abstract:
    Multiagent learning with cooperative coevolutionary algorithms is a critical area of research, and is relevant to many real-world applications including air traffic control, distributed sensor network control, and game-theoretic applications such as border patrol. A key difficulty in multiagent learning is the credit assignment problem, where the impact of each...
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  • Development of vehicle dynamics tools for motorsports

    Creator:
    Patton, Chris
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    In this dissertation, a group of vehicle dynamics simulation tools is developed with two primary goals: to accurately represent vehicle behavior and to provide insight that improves the understanding of vehicle performance. Three tools are developed that focus on tire modeling, vehicle modeling and lap time simulation. Tire modeling is...
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  • Learning based methods applied to the MAV control problem

    Creator:
    Salichon, Max
    Abstract:
    This thesis addresses Micro Aerial Vehicle (MAV) control by leveraging learning based techniques to improve robustness of the control system. Applying classical control methods to MAVs is a difficult process due to the complexity of the control laws with fast and highly non-linear dynamics. These methods are mostly based on...
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    me to improve the quality of my work. I would like to thank my committee, Dr Belinda Batten, Dr

  • Navigation and coordination of autonomous mobile robots with limited resources

    Creator:
    Knudson, Matthew D.
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    The use of autonomous robots in complex exploration tasks is rapidly increasing. Indeed, robots can provide speed and cost effectiveness in many tasks, as well as allow operation in environments that are hostile to humans. In this dissertation we: 1) provide two adaptive navigation algorithms; 2) develop a coordination mechanism;...
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    . Specifically to Dr. Belinda Batten for starting me on this road. Without your eye for talent and the

  • Optimal soaring by a small autonomous glider

    Creator:
    Kyle, Jason A.
    Abstract:
    Extending the flight time of an autonomous unmanned air vehicle by soaring is considered. A suboptimal controller is developed and successful static soaring is demonstrated with a 6 degree of freedom glider model. Altitude gain rates of between ¼ and ½ m/s are achieved with this simple implementation. A hybrid...
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    Dissertation

  • Wave Energy Converter Array Optimization : Algorithm Development and Investigation of Layout Design Influences

    Creator:
    Sharp, Christopher J.
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    Realizing the vast amount of energy available in ocean waves, an industry has emerged that is progressing towards the deployment of grid–connected wave energy converters. Likely to be deployed in arrays, a challenge to the wave energy industry is maximizing the energy production of such arrays. We have been developing...
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    honor to be your first PhD student. I would also like to thank the rest of my committee, Belinda Batten

  • Architectures and algorithms for dynamic overlay networks

    Creator:
    Abdelwahab, Sherif
    Abstract:
    Most of today’s Internet of Things (IoT) applications assume that data will be moved offdevices into centralized cloud platforms. While existing IoT systems leverage cloud-based analytics for meaningful data reasoning, the assumption that data should always be moved off the devices is problematic. The amount of data to be moved...
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