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Author:: Lapapong, Sittikorn
Title:: Vehicle Rollover Prediction for Banked Surfaces
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Rollover Prediction
Vehicle Rollover
Vehicle Dynamics
Vehicle
Zero-Moment Point
File:: Download SittikornLapapong_PhDThesis_2010_11_20.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Eric Todd Donnell, Committee Member
Karen Ann Thole, Committee Member

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Author:: Varunjikar, Tejas
Title:: Design of Horizontal Curves with Downgrades using Low-Order Vehicle Dynamics Models
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: horizontal curve design
vehicle dynamics
friction demand
bicycle model
CarSim
point mass model
LuGre tire model
tire pavement friction
File:: Download MS_Thesis_Varunjikar_Tejas.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Gupta, Vishisht Vijay
Title:: Vehicle Localization Using Low-Accuracy GPS, IMU and Map-Aided Vision
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: GPS
Kalman Filter
IMU
Vehicle Localization
Terrain-Aided Vision
Map-Aided Vision
File:: Download Dissertation_Final.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Alok Sinha, Committee Member
Robert T Collins, Committee Member
Jack W Langelaan, Committee Member

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Author:: Vemulapalli, Pramod Krishna
Title:: Extrema Features for Global-localization and Pattern Matching of Time-series Data
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: extrema features
subsequence matching
time series features
File:: Download PramodPhDThesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean N Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Asok Ray, Committee Member
Vishal Monga, Committee Member
Dr Robert T Collins, Committee Member

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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

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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

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Author:: Briggs, Kathryn Launa
Title:: a coupled mobile base manipulation system for robotic refueling
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: inverse kinematics
robotic refueling
mobile base
robotic manipulator
File:: Download Penn_State_University_Thesis_FINAL.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Dorris, James Theodore
Title:: Automated Docking of a Small-scale Tractor-trailer Using an Infrastructure-based System
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: automation
tractor-trailer
infrastructure-based
position
orientation
detection
sensors
docking
File:: Download Dorris_MS_Thesis.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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Author:: Jerath, Kshitij
Title:: Influential Subspaces in Self-organizing Multi-agent Systems
Graduate Program:: Mechanical Engineering
Keywords:: Self-organization
multi-agent system
influential subspace
traffic flow
statistical mechanics
intelligent vehicles
File:: Download PhD_-_Kshitij_Jerath_-_Influential_subspaces_in_self-organizing_multi-agent_systems.pdf
Committee Members:: Sean N Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Asok Ray, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Vikash Varun Gayah, Committee Member
Hosam Kadry Fathy, Committee Member

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