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Author:

Hoskins, Andrew Howard

Title:

Development and Characterization of a Robotic Dynamic Activity Simulator

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

cadaver walking simulation
dynamic gait simulation
foot and ankle biomechanics
robotics

File:

Download AHoskins_PhD_Diss_HiQ.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Neil Sharkey, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member

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

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:

Okita, Noriaki

Title:

Development of a novel foot slip sensor algorithm

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

slip sensor
gait cycle detection
walking robot
stick-slip
stochastic state estimation
anomaly detection

File:

Download Nori_Okita_Dissertation.pdf

Committee Members:

Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Stephen Jacob Piazza, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Jason Zachary Moore, Committee Member

Author:

Pentzer, Jesse Lorenzo

Title:

Utilization of ICR Kinematics in Estimation, Control, and Energy-Aware Mission Planning for Skid-Steer Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

ground robotics
robot performance
motion estimation
state estimation
skid-steer robotics
path planning

File:

Download Pentzer_Dissertation_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Sean Brennan, Dissertation Advisor/Co-Advisor
Sean Brennan, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Karl Martin Reichard, Committee Chair/Co-Chair
Henry Joseph Sommer Iii, Committee Member
Christopher Rahn, Committee Member
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member