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  • An analysis of the growth and development of the 'Tangent Grange Oil Company' as a case study

    Creator:
    Maina, Francis Mugoiyo
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    The foundation upon which any cooperative rests is the economic need for it as a business enterprise. The existence of such a need cannot by itself provide the basis for a thriving cooperative. Not only mus.t the need exist, but the members or the promoters must through realistic and diligent...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Francis Mugoiyo Mama for the M. S

  • Communication Planning for Cooperative Terrain-Based Underwater Localization

    Creator:
    Anderson, Jacob
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    This thesis presents a decentralized communication planning algorithm for cooperative terrain-based navigation (dec-TBN) with autonomous underwater vehicles. The proposed algorithm uses forward simulation to approximate the value of communicating at each time step. The simulations are used to build a directed acyclic graph that can be searched to provide a...
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  • Deployment Planning for Multiple Marsupial Robots

    Creator:
    Lee, Chris (Yu Hsuan)
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    Multi-robot systems are versatile and extremely capable of exploration tasks in complex environments. Increasingly sophisticated planners, which incorporate new features of a multi-robot system, are necessary for the operation of the systems. Marsupial robots are multi-robot systems consisting of a carrier robot (e.g., a ground vehicle), which is highly capable...
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    Multiple Marsupial Robots Abstract approved: Geoffrey Hollinger Multi-robot systems are versatile and

  • 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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    Human Preferences for Robot Autonomy Abstract approved: Geoffrey A. Hollinger Human-robot teams are

  • Modeling human expertise for providing adaptive levels of robot shared autonomy

    Creator:
    Milliken, Lauren
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    In shared autonomy, a robot and human user both have some level of control in order to achieve a shared goal. Choosing the balance of control given to the user and the robot can be a challenging problem since different users have different preferences and vary in skill levels when...
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    Providing Adaptive Levels of Robot Shared Autonomy Abstract approved: Geoffrey A Hollinger In shared

  • Model Predictive Control for Underwater Robots in Ocean Waves

    Creator:
    Fernández, Daniel C.
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    Underwater robots beneath ocean waves can benefit from feedforward control to reduce position error. This thesis proposes a method using Model Predictive Control (MPC) to predict and counteract future disturbances from an ocean wave field. The MPC state estimator employs a Linear Wave Theory (LWT) solver to approximate the component...
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    Waves Abstract approved: Geoffrey A. Hollinger Underwater robots beneath ocean waves can benefit from

  • Planning Under Uncertainty for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

    Creator:
    Skeele, Ryan
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    Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology has grown out of traditional research and military applications and has captivated the commercial and consumer markets, showing the ability to perform a spectrum of autonomous functions. This technology has the capability of saving lives in search and rescue, fighting wildfires in environmental monitoring, and...
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    Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Abstract approved: Geoffrey Hollinger Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology

  • Decentralized Multi-Robot Exploration with Sparse Communication through Deep Imitation Learning

    Creator:
    Senewiratne, Yomal K.
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    We present a method for decentralized, multi-robot exploration in adverse environments where communication is minimal. A key conceptual feature of our method is enabling implicit coordination between robots by training a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) as a heuristic for planning using Monte Carlo Tree Search (MCTS). Our method consists of...
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    approved: Geoffrey A. Hollinger We present a method for decentralized, multi-robot exploration in adverse

  • Breeding chronology, habitat utilization and nest-site selection of the long-billed curlew in northcentral Oregon

    Creator:
    Pampush, Geoffrey J.
    Abstract:
    Breeding ecology of long-billed curlews in Umatilla and Morrow Counties, Oregon, was studied during the spring and summer of 1978 and 1979. The first curlews were observed in the study areas on 16 and 19 March of 1978 and 1979, respectively. Earliest clutch completion and onset of incubation was on...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Geoffrey J. Pampush for the degree

  • Two projectiles connected by a flexible tether dropped in the atmosphere

    Creator:
    Frost, Geoffrey W.
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    This study investigates the atmospheric flight dynamics of a munition system and the effect of a tether reel resistance mechanism for limiting the impact that the unreeling process has on the munition system. The munition system consisting of two projectiles connected by a tether line is released from an aircraft...
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    atmosphere AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Geoffrey W. Frost for the degree of Master of Science in