1. Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors Open Access Author: DeAngelo, Mark Patrick Title: Landmark-Aided Localization for Air Vehicles Using Learned Object Detectors Graduate Program: Aerospace Engineering Keywords: localizationfeature-based navigationUAVUASnavigationcomputer visionlandmark detectionobject detectioncascade object detectorbag of wordsbag of visual wordsbag of keypointsSVMvisual flight rulesVFRimage processingUUVAUVsonarunderwaterairplanequadcopteraircraftunmanned aerial vehicleunmanned aerial systemremotely piloted vehicleRPVunmanned underwater vehicleautonomous underwater vehiclelocalisation File: Download MPDeAngeloDissertation_FinalMSWordPDF.pdf Committee Members: Joseph F. Horn, Dissertation Advisor/Co-AdvisorJoseph F. Horn, Committee Chair/Co-ChairRobert G. Melton, Committee MemberSean N. Brennan, Committee MemberRichard Lee Culver, Outside Member
2. Maritime Navigation and Contact Avoidance through Reinforcement Learning Open Access Author: Davis, Steven Title: Maritime Navigation and Contact Avoidance through Reinforcement Learning Graduate Program: Computer Science and Engineering Keywords: reinforcement learningmachine learningmaritimeunmanned underwater vehicleautonomous underwater vehicleq learningnavigationautonomous File: Download Davis_MS_Thesis_Final.pdf Committee Members: Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, Thesis Advisor/Co-AdvisorJohn Phillip Sustersic, Jr., Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
