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Author:

Brown, Alexander Allen

Title:

Model-based Inclusion of Previewed Information for Lateral Vehicle State and Environment Estimation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

MODEL-BASED ESTIMATION
PREVIEW ESTIMATION
STATE ESTIMATION
VEHICLE DYNAMICS
AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES

File:

Download Brown-Dissertation_Final_ETD.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Special Member
Richard Laurence Tutwiler, Special Member

Author:

Swanson, Kevin Scott

Title:

Identification of Stability Thresholds in Time-delayed Vehicle Teleoperation

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

vehicle teleoperation
time delay
stability
feedback
driver phase margin

File:

Download SwansonThesisFinal_FormatFix.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Froede, Erick W

Title:

Computer Aided Design, Simulation and Transmission Error Analysis of a Face Gear Pair

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Face Gear
Pericyclic Mechanical Transmission
Transmission Error

File:

Download Erick_Froede_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Martin Wesley Trethewey, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Surendra B Rao, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Melville, Christopher Martin

Title:

Design and Experimental Testing of a Battery Balancing System for Lead-acid Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lead-Acid
Batteries
Balancing
BMS
VRLA
Degradation Modes

File:

Download MelvilleMSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Beeney, Michael David

Title:

Lithium Ion Battery Modeling using Orthogonal Projections And Descriptor Form

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium Ion Battery
Orthogonal Projections
Descriptor Form

File:

Download Beeney_Michael_Thesis_2013_07_19_FINAL_2.pdf

Committee Members:

Hosam Kadry Fathy, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Mangus, Anthony Joseph

Title:

Robust Vehicle Localization using GPS, In-Vehicle Camera, Magnetic Guidance and Kalman Filtering

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Kalman Filter
Vehicle Localization
Estimation
GPS

File:

Download Mangus_MSThesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kirsch, Kathryn Louise

Title:

Pin Fin Surface Heat Transfer in Arrays of Oblong-shaped Pins

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

heat transfer
gas turbine
internal cooling

File:

Download Kirsch_MS_Thesis_final.pdf

Committee Members:

Karen Ann Thole, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Daniel Connell Haworth, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Feldick, Andrew Mark

Title:

Coupled Nonequilibrium Flow, Energy And Radiation Transport For Hypersonic Planetary Entry

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Radiation
Hypersonic Flow
Hypersonic
RTE
Monte Carlo

File:

Download AndrewFeldick-Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Michael F Modest, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Michael F Modest, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Deborah Levin, Committee Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Committee Member
Gary Stuart Settles, Committee Chair/Co-Chair

Author:

Prasad, Githin K

Title:

Control Oriented Modeling and State of Health Estimation for Lithium Ion Batteries

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Lithium ion batteries
modeling
state of health
estimation

File:

Download Dissertation_GithinPrasad.pdf

Committee Members:

Christopher Rahn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Tummala, Yashwanth

Title:

Design and Optimization of Contact-aided Compliant Mechanisms with Nonlinear Stiffness

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Design optimization
compliant mechanisms
passive morphing
ornithopters
contact-aided compliant mechanisms

File:

Download Dissertation_Tummala_Final_Submitted.pdf

Committee Members:

Mary I Frecker, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
George A Lesieutre, Committee Member
Matthew B Parkinson, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member