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Author:

Ross, James Alton

Title:

Computer Vision and Target Localization Algorithms for Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

autonomous
georeferencing
target localization
computer vision
unmanned aerial vehicle
UAV

File:

Download James_Ross_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Lyle Norman Long, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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