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Author:

Chakrabarty, Anjan

Title:

FLIGHT PATH PLANNING OF UAV BASED ON ATMOSPHERIC ENERGY HARVESTING

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

path planning
UAV
energy harvestation

File:

Download Chakrabarty_MS.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

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:

DeAngelo, Mark Patrick

Title:

Optimal Search Strategies for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

search
UAV
UAVs
UAS
optimal
unmanned
aerial
vehicles
camera
cameras
airplane
optimization
surveillance

File:

Download DeAngeloMSthesis2.pdf

Committee Members:

Joseph Francis Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Harkins, Joseph

Title:

Automatic Controller Synthesis for a Reconfigurable UAV

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Modular Aircraft
UAV
Controls
Aerodynamics

File:

Download JosephHarkins-Thesis-Draft-Final.pdf

Committee Members:

Jacob Langelaan, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Bottai, Auriane

Title:

Computational Fluid Dynamics / Flight Dynamics Simulations of an Autonomous Helicopter using Actuator Disk Couplings for Main and Tail Rotors

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Actuator Disk Coupling
Coupled CFD Flight Dynamics
UAV
Autonomous Helicopter
SFS2
Ship based operations

File:

Download MSThesisPSU2018_Bottai_FINAL.pdf

Committee Members:

J.F.Horn, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor

Author:

Dunbabin, Oliver

Title:

Rolling-Shutter Correction for Monocular Vision-Based Obstacle Mapping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Rolling shutter
progressive scan
Monocular vision
Visual mapping
SLAM
feature-point estimation
obstacle detection
obstacle avoidance
EKF
UKF
time-delay
time delay
time delay compensation
mapping algorithm
UAV
UAV mapping
localization
Simultaneous localization and mapping
Cameras
Image sequences
Layout
Trajectory
camera
image sequences
trajectory
image sensors
Kalman filters
motion estimation
nonlinear filters
SLAM (robots)
kalman filter
real-time vision
inverse depth parametrization
monocular SLAM
monocular simultaneous localization and mapping
extended Kalman filter
feature initialization
camera motion estimates
inverse depth
inverse depth parameterization
monocular mapping
rolling shutter time delay
GPS denied
navigation
feature-extraction
robot vision
computer vision
rolling-shutter model

File:

Download OliverDunbabin_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Program Head/Chair
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Puneet Singla, Committee Member

Author:

Chien, Wen Yu

Title:

Stereo-camera Occupancy Grid Mapping

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

3D occupancy grid mapping
stereo camera
RealSense
SLAM
UAV
inverse sensor model

File:

Download MS_Thesis_Chien_v20.pdf

Committee Members:

Eric Norman Johnson, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Jacob Willem Langelaan, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair

Author:

Scroger, Shawn

Title:

Urban Air Mobility Rotor Icing Performance Degradation

Graduate Program:

Aerospace Engineering

Keywords:

Urban Air Mobility
Advanced Aerial Mobility
Icing
Rotorcraft Icing
Performance Degradation
UAV
UAM
AAM
Performance Prediction

File:

Download ShawnScroger_MS_Thesis.pdf

Committee Members:

Jose Palacios, Thesis Advisor/Co-Advisor
Yiqiang Han, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Committee Member
Amy Ruth Pritchett, Program Head/Chair