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Author:

Shah, Mirza Akbar

Title:

A LANGUAGE-BASED SOFTWARE FRAMEWORK FOR MISSION PLANNING IN AUTONOMOUS MOBILE ROBOTS

Graduate Program:

Computer Science and Engineering

Keywords:

Software Engineering
Software Framework
Autonomy
Autonomous Robots
Autonomous Vehicles
Planning
Domain-Specific Programming Languages
Artificial Intelligence
Distributed Planning
Hierarchical Planning
Multi-Agent Planning

File:

Download thesis_shah.pdf

Committee Members:

John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
John Joseph Hannan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Kazandjian, Vahan

Title:

Template-Based Feature Map Creation Using GPS and 2D LIDAR Scan Intensity and Height Extrema

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

Feature Templates
LIDAR
Autonomous Vehicles
Mapping
GPS
Lane Detection
Vehicle
Road Detection
Data Clustering
Sensor Fusion

File:

Download Vahan_Kazandjian_MS_Thesis_Template-Based_Feature_Map_Creation_Using_GPS_and_2D_LIDAR_Scan_Intensity_and_Height_Extrema.pdf

Committee Members:

Daniel Haworth, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Satadru Dey, Committee Member

Author:

Mokhtari, Kasra

Title:

Incorporating Social Information into An Autonomous Vehicle's Decision-Making Process and Control

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Autonomous Vehicles
Navigation
Pedestrians
Path Planning
Risk-Aware Decision-Making

File:

Download Dissertation_KasraMokhtari_Summer2021.pdf

Committee Members:

Alok Sinha, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Alan Wagner, Dissertation Co-Advisor
Bo Cheng, Major Field Member
Vikash Gayah, Outside Unit & Field Member
Sean Brennan, Major Field Member
Daniel Connell Haworth, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Tang, Qing

Title:

Modeling and Operation of Leader-follower Autonomous Vehicle System for Work Zone Maintenance

Graduate Program:

Civil Engineering (PHD)

Keywords:

Autonomous Vehicles
Work Zone Maintenance
Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator (ATMA)
Autonomous Impact Protection Vehicle (AIPV)
Leader-Follower system
Connected and automated Vehicles
Autonomous Truck Mounted Attenuator
Driving Guideline
Operational Design Domain
Moving Bottleneck
Level of Service
Capacity Drop
Traffic Assignment
User Equilibrium

File:

Download Dissertation_Qing_Tang_2023_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Xianbiao Hu, Chair & Dissertation Advisor
Eric Donnell, Major Field Member
S. Ilgin Guler, Major Field Member
Sean Brennan, Outside Unit & Field Member
Jay Regan, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies

Author:

Spackman, Everett

Title:

Performance Evaluation of ICP Variants for Lidar Data Registration: A Comparative Study on KITTI Visual Benchmark Suite

Graduate Program:

Spatial Data Science (MS)

Keywords:

ICP Registration
Iterative Closest Point
lidar
LIDAR
Point to point ICP
Point to plane ICP
Generalized ICP
KISS ICP
Fast GICP
GICP
Iterative Closest Point Registration
Autonomous Vehicles
AV
Lidar Mapping

File:

Download Spackman_Everett_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Anthony Robinson, Program Head/Chair
S. Ilgin Guler, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Karen Schuckman, Committee Member

Author:

Putz, Marcus

Title:

A Unified Method to Calculate Safety Surrogates for an Autonomous Vehicle in Work Zones

Graduate Program:

Mechanical Engineering (MS)

Keywords:

ssurrogate safety measures
Work zones
Autonomous Vehicles
Space time
ray casting

File:

Download Marcus_Putz_Master_s_Thesis_Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Robert Kunz, Professor in Charge/Director of Graduate Studies
Sean N Brennan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Satadru Dey, Committee Member