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Utilization of Vehicle-Specific Power as a Powertrain Independent Platoon Controller Performance Metric
(2022-12-05)
Heavy-Duty hauling faces challenges regarding the efficiency of transportation, which opens the door to new pathways to saving money while refueling via platooning. Platooning vehicles travel together intending to reduce ...
Fracture of Brittle Materials and Bimaterial Interfaces in the Presence of Compressive Stresses
(2022-12-05)
The present work is aimed at the experimental investigation of the effect of local compressive stress fields on a crack lying along an interface. This is relevant to problems such as interfaces found in adhesively bonded ...
High Strain Rate Material Characterization of Lead-Free SAC Solder Alloy and Solder Joint Reliability under Vibration and Thermal Loads
(2022-12-09)
Electronics will experience high and low working temperatures during operations, handling, and storage in severe environments applications such as automotive, oil and gas, aerospace, medical technologies, and defense ...
Advanced Process-Property Characterization of Additively Printed Flexible Hybrid Electronics (FHE)
(2022-12-09)
Printed Electronics (PE) is a constant evolving and growing technology that shows a tremendous potential for the future of electronics. Advancements in PE processes demonstrates its viability to fabricate electronic circuits ...
Graph-Based Relative Path Estimation Using Landmarks for Long Distance Ground Vehicle Following
(2022-12-08)
This dissertation presents a graph-based sensor fusion framework for the localization of automated ground vehicles for leader-follower path duplication. A specific focus is given to scenarios where the following distance ...
Aerial Vision-Based Relative Positioning and Ground Vehicle Speed Estimation for Cooperative UAV-UGV Automated Platoons
(2022-12-09)
This thesis is not approved for public release.
Neuromuscular Insights for the Design and Control of Hand-Assistive Robots
(2022-12-09)
Engineers often neglect the dynamics of neuromuscular control when developing hand-assistive robots. Models of the hand that decouple ‘peripheral’ kinematic and sensory dynamics from the ‘central’ dynamics of neural ...
A Multi-Antenna Vector Tracking Beamsteering GPS Receiver for Robust Positioning
(2022-05-17)
This thesis proposes the coupling of a Global Positioning System (GPS) L1 C/A vector tracking software-defined receiver with controlled reception pattern array array (CRPA) satellite constrained beamsteering, i.e. a ...
Collaborative Architectures for Relative Position Estimation of Ground Vehicles with UWB Ranging and Vehicle Dynamic Models
(2022-12-09)
The relative position to neighboring vehicles is critical to ongoing autonomy efforts including
collision avoidance and path planning; therefore, it should not be fully dependent
on an external reference such as GPS. ...