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Theses and Dissertations
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Items in this Collection
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Adaptive Nonlinear Control for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles: Visual Servoing and Aerial Manipulation
DownloadSpring 2022
With the improvements in the autonomy and capability of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), there is an increased interest in their applications in infrastructure inspection and maintenance. The focus of this thesis is to study new methods for improved UAV autonomy. In this regard, the motion...
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Computer Vision-Based Motion Control and State Estimation for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs)
DownloadSpring 2018
To achieve a fully autonomous unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) the vehicle needs a high level of self awareness. At a minimum it needs to know where it is and where it wants to go. Computer vision (CV) is a logical solution to this problem. However, using CV to solve motion control problems for UAVs...
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Spring 2021
There is a growing trend of using unmanned aerial vehicles (also known as UAVs, uncrewed aerial vehicles, or drones) to manipulate and interact with their surroundings. The algorithms and tools used are typically unique to the different tasks performed by UAVs; however, the fundamental UAV system...
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Uncalibrated Vision-Based Control and Motion Planning of Robotic Arms in Unstructured Environments
DownloadFall 2012
Many robotic systems are required to operate in unstructured environments. This imposes significant challenges on algorithm design. Particularly, motion control and planning algorithms should be robust to noise and outliers, because uncertainties are inevitable. In addition, independence from...