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Theses and Dissertations
This collection contains theses and dissertations of graduate students of the University of Alberta. The collection contains a very large number of theses electronically available that were granted from 1947 to 2009, 90% of theses granted from 2009-2014, and 100% of theses granted from April 2014 to the present (as long as the theses are not under temporary embargo by agreement with the Faculty of Graduate and Postdoctoral Studies). IMPORTANT NOTE: To conduct a comprehensive search of all UofA theses granted and in University of Alberta Libraries collections, search the library catalogue at www.library.ualberta.ca - you may search by Author, Title, Keyword, or search by Department.
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Items in this Collection
- 2Atai, Ali Asghar.
- 2Belay, Tsegay
- 2Bhaduri,Swayamdipta
- 2Brenneis, Dylan
- 2Carrigy, Nicholas B.
- 2Chen, Jie
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Fall 2023
This thesis explores vibration monitoring of infrastructure or machinery through an uncrewed aerial vehicle (UAV) also commonly referred to as a drone. The vibration signature of an object may be used to assess the health of that object. This thesis looks at the means of acquiring this vibration...
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Fall 2018
Vibration signal analysis has been widely used for planetary gearbox condition monitoring and fault diagnosis. Vibration signals are normally measured by sensors mounted on a planetary gearbox’s housing. A vibration signal contains rich information about the health condition of the machinery....
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Fall 2020
Gearboxes are widely used in modern power transmission systems such as wind turbines, helicopters, and railway vehicles. Due to inappropriate operation conditions or fatigue degradation, faults may develop in gears. If early faults cannot be detected and their severity assessed in a timely...
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Fall 2020
Pelvic fractures are severe injuries that are associated with high rates of mortality and morbidity, especially in the elderly population. In severe cases of fracture, urgent surgical intervention may be required with the use of fixation plates to stabilize the fracture. The surgical planning...
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Fall 2018
This thesis work concerns the viscous fingering instability occurring during immiscible fluid-fluid displacement experiments using a novel radially-tapered fluidic cell. We use modified Hele-Shaw cells where a negative depth gradient is introduced by tapering the upper plate, so that the gap...
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Fall 2017
Vision-based algorithms designed to detect and track UAVs from an onboard moving platform have been the focus of active and extensive research over the last decade, and dozens of algorithms have been tested, compared and optimized. However, the existing approaches tend to rely on specific...
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Fall 2021
This thesis applied a combination of machine learning and computer vision to an engineering research project, using a two-armed Baxter robot hardware platform. The challenge was estimating the robot arm’s joint angles from monocular camera images. After evaluating several methods from...
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Fall 2023
In this work, a novel visual navigation method is proposed to estimate the state of mobile and fixed cold-spray material deposition systems using a stereocamera sensor installed in the workspace. Unlike other visual localization algorithms that exploit costly onboard sensors such as LiDARs or...
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Fall 2023
This thesis aims at improving robot perception for autonomous navigation in highly dynamic environments. In the first part of this research, a fixed frame visual localization method utilizing a fisheye monocular camera is proposed to enhance the navigation accuracy for autonomous mobile robots in...
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Fall 2016
This thesis is an experimental investigation using optical methods to study atomization of fuel injectors for IC engines using a dual fuel mixture involving diesel and gasoline blends, which is called "dieseline". Experiments were executed in a heated pressurized optical chamber which simulated...