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  • Using Point Clouds for Single Tree Forest Inventory at the Beginning and End of the Rotation

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    Garms, Cory G.
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    The portability and reduced price of unmanned aerial systems (UAS) in recent years has led to a broad range of new UAS-enabled scientific inquiries, including for forestry. Small, consumer-grade UAS are advantageous for forest measurements due to their portability, ease and safety of deployment, and notably, they are currently the...
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    Abstract approved: ______________________________________ Bogdan Strimbu Abstract

  • Assessment of the Vegetation Changes using High-Resolution 4-Band Imagery

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    Galapita Pallayapelage, Sudeera Wickramarathna
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    Natural resources are essential to humanity. With the increase in global development in recent decades, people must monitor the state of the environment, whose disturbance has a more significant impact on society than before. However, conventional environmental monitoring is challenged in highly dynamic ecosystems and large areas. As a solution,...
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    appreciation and sincere thanks to Dr. Bogdan Strimbu, my advisor, for his guidance, support, encouragement

  • Measuring and Modeling the Structure of Coniferous Trees with Point Clouds Data

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    Fang, Rong
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    Coniferous trees are a major North American crop that has been intensively managed for its commercial value, while also serving as critical habitat for abundant wildlife and as carbon sinks. Having diverse functions, North American temperate coniferous forests have become a research hotspot for numerous scientific studies aiming to integrate...
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    Abstract approved: ____________________________________________________ Bogdan Strimbu Coniferous

  • Mechanical Design for Robot Locomotion

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    Abate, Andrew M.
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    Robotic limbs have been shown to enable mobility in unstructured, real-world terrain; they allow robots to step around cluttered environments, scramble up hills, carry heavy loads, and even perform acrobatics. However, mechanical limbs cannot operate as a means for such dynamic locomotion if they are simply treated as general articulated...
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    THE DISSERTATION OF Andrew M. Abate for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Robotics presented on

  • Agile Bipedal Locomotion via Hierarchical Control by Incorporating Physical Principles, Learning, and Optimization

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    Green, Kevin
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    Robotic Bipedal locomotion holds the potential for efficient, robust traversal of difficult terrain. The difficulty lies in the dynamics of locomotion which complicate control and motion planning. Bipedal locomotion dynamics are dimensionally large problems, extremely nonlinear, and operate on the limits of actuator capabilities, which limit the performance of generic...
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    labels. . . 101 7.4 Body and foot traces for an optimized 1.0 m/s walking gait from the actuated SLIP

  • Localized Variable Selection with Random Forest

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    Niyaghi, Faraz
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    Due to recent advances in computer technology, the cost of collecting and storing data has dropped drastically. This makes it feasible to collect large amounts of information for each data point. This increasing trend in feature dimensionality justifies the need for research on variable selection. Random forest (RF) has demonstrated...
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    , Dr. Charlotte Wickham, Dr. Katherine Mclaughlin, and Dr. Bogdan Strimbu. My special acknowledgment

  • 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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    using the power metric M, and the blue line indicates the optimal gait when the power metric is replaced

  • Non-Myopic Distributed Coordination and Planning for Robotic Teams

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    Smith, Andrew
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    As robotic systems become increasingly prevalent in our lives (e.g., by harvesting food, assisting with disaster response and defense, and transporting persons and our goods around the world) there is a growing need to ensure that they can cooperate to achieve their intended goals. Robotic cooperation in the real-world is...
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  • Learning to coordinate in sparse asymmetric multiagent systems

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    Dixit, Gaurav
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    Multiagent learning offers a rich framework to address challenging real-world problems such as remote exploration and healthcare coordination, which require autonomous agents to express elaborate interactions. To be effective in such systems, agents must collectively reason about and pursue high-level, long-term, and possibly nebulous objectives while adapting their strategy to...
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  • Investigating Provers' Understandings of Combinatorial Proof

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    Erickson, Sarah A.
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    Enumerative combinatorics is an area of mathematics that is both highly accessible for students and widely applicable to other sciences and areas of mathematics (Kapur, 1970; Lockwood, Wasserman, & Tillema, 2020). One important class of problems in combinatorics is combinatorial proofs of binomial identities, which is a type of proof...
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    Beisiegel, Dr. Tom Dick, Dr. Wendy Aaron, and Dr. Bogdan Strimbu. Mary’s Mathematical Knowledge for