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Author:

Chakrabarty, Anjan

Title:

Energy Aware Path Planning in Complex Four Dimensional Environments

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

path planning
UAV
complex environment
energy aware
ground vehicle
wind

File:

Download Chakrabarty_PhD.pdf

Committee Members:

Jack Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jack Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Committee Member

Author:

Depenbusch, Nathan Thomas

Title:

Development and Field Testing of an Autonomous Soaring System

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous soaring
aerial robotics
thermal soaring
soaring
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download Depenbusch-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
Constantino Manuel Lagoa, Outside Member

Author:

DeAngelo, Mark Patrick

Title:

Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

localization
feature-based navigation
UAV
UAS
navigation
computer vision
landmark detection
object detection
cascade object detector
bag of words
bag of visual words
bag of keypoints
SVM
visual flight rules
VFR
image processing
UUV
AUV
sonar
underwater
airplane
quadcopter
aircraft
unmanned aerial vehicle
unmanned aerial system
remotely piloted vehicle
RPV
unmanned underwater vehicle
autonomous underwater vehicle
localisation

File:

Download MPDeAngeloDissertation_FinalMSWordPDF.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Robert G. Melton, Committee Member
Sean N. Brennan, Committee Member
Richard Lee Culver, Outside Member

Author:

Bird, John Joseph

Title:

Atmospherically Aware Aircraft Guidance Using In Situ Observations

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

UAV
drone
atmospherically aware
autonomy
reinforcement learning
flight planning
soaring

File:

Download bird_dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Mark David Maughmer, Committee Member
Sean N Brennan, Committee Member
George Spencer Young, Outside Member

Author:

Geng, Junyi

Title:

Control, Estimation and Planning for Coordinated Transport of a Slung Load By a Team of Aerial Robots

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Slung Load Transportation
Coordinated Control
Parameter Estimation
Trajectory Planning
UAV
Multi Robot

File:

Download Geng-Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Joseph Francis Horn, Committee Member
Eric Norman Johnson, Committee Member
Minghui Zhu, Outside Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair