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  • 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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    data. In all cases, RAGS is shown to reduce the probability of executing high-cost paths over A*, D

  • Improving robotic grasping performance using machine learning techniques

    Creator:
    Goins, Alex Keith
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    Robots are being utilized in ever more complex tasks and environments to help humans with difficult or dangerous tasks. However, robotic grasping is still in its infancy and is one of the limiting factors which prevent the deployment of robots in the home and other assisted living scenarios. Traditional methods...
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    ) Sarah (b) Shadow (c) iRobot (d) Sandia. 3 2.1 Flow chart of experimental procedure

  • 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

  • Multiagent learning for locomotion and coordination in tensegrity robotics

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    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

  • The effects of inbreeding in a flock of Hampshire sheep

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    Lamberson, William Russell
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    A registered flock of Hampshire sheep that had been predominantly closed for approximately 30 years was utilized to study the effects of inbreeding on productivity of the 1980 and 1981 lamb crops. Five generation pedigrees for ewes and rams were used to calculate inbreeding coefficients. The median inbreeding coefficient of...
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    period and for his continuing friendship. I thank my committee members, Drs. William D. Hohenboken and

  • Nonlinear internal waves on the continental shelf

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    Shroyer, Emily L.
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    The properties and evolution of nonlinear internal waves (NLIWs) depend upon the background conditions within which waves form, propagate, and dissipate. As a result, the NLIW field on the New Jersey shelf displayed dramatic variability during the Shallow Water 2006 experiment. Wave variability was exhibited by 1) amplitudes that ranged...
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    Smyth, and William Hetherington. I feel very fortunate to have worked with such ex- ceptional

  • Water management decentralization in rural Honduras

    Creator:
    Sano, Yoshiko
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    Numerous water supply systems and community based water boards have been created with the aid of international organizations and NGOs in developing countries. These water systems have great potential to improve people’s social life and health in these countries. However, in reality, these water systems are often not effectively managed;...
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    and sanitation systems, as well as protection of water quality; d. promote drinking water and

  • Prompt gamma neutron activation analysis of niobium for characterization of light interstitials

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    Love, Ian J.
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    High purity niobium metal is used in the construction of superconducting radio frequency (SRF) cavities in superconducting particle accelerators, such as the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN or the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. The usual method for characterizing the impurities in this niobium, the...
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    : ______________________________________________________ Julie D. Tucker High purity niobium metal is used in the construction of superconducting

  • Effect of Imprinting Process on Fracture Behavior of a Zr-based Bulk Metallic Glass

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    Li, Bosong
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    Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) are relatively new amorphous materials that have received much attention in recent years. Rapid cooling methods from the liquid state provides the possibility to bypass crystallization during solidification. Due to the lack of crystal defects such as grain boundaries and dislocations, BMGs can have some special...
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    ]. ................................................................. 22 Figure 8. (a–c) Schematic representation of the imprinting process. (d–e) Resulting surface

  • Agriculture teachers' work and family domain characteristics, work-family conflict, and turnover intentions : a national study

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    Sorensen, Tyson J.
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    The purpose of this study was to describe and explore the relationships between work and family domain characteristics, time-based work-family conflict (WFC), and turnover intention of agriculture teachers. This study sought to identify factors influencing agriculture teachers' turnover intentions. An additional focus of this study was to explore differences between...
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    ......................................... 178 Appendix D: Follow-up emails to participants