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Spring 2021

Xie, Bowen

This thesis applies computer vision and machine learning techniques to three engineering projects: a self-driving vehicle, a predictive display system, and a vision-based robot manipulator joint detector. In the first project, we build a remote-controlled car and implement three core self-driving...

Fall 2023

Singh, Charanjot

Conventional control of an articulated manipulator such as robot arms involves the use of sensor measurements of joint values to calculate the position and orientation of the end-effector and to perform motion control. Conversely, in cases where direct sensing is not available, a vision-based...

Fall 2023

Ebrahimnezhad, Amir Hossein

Unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs have largely become and continue to be an inseparable part of modern warfare, security and surveillance systems, first aid response, aerial cinematography and many other sectors. Therefore, achieving full autonomy for UAVs and drones would ensure mass mobilization...

Fall 2023

Allan, Shane

Unique challenges arise when attempting to navigate unknown GPS-denied subterranean environments. To successfully explore these environments a vehicle much be able to reconcile the nonlinear dynamics of motion, accommodate for diverse terrain, adjust to static and moving obstacles, combat...

Spring 2023

Al-Younes, Younes M. A.

Navigating robotic systems autonomously through unknown, dynamic, and GPS-denied environments is a challenging task. One requirement of this is a path planner which provides safe trajectories under real-world conditions such as nonlinear vehicle dynamics, real-time computation requirements,...

Spring 2020

Olmedo, Nicolas Alejandro

Unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) can be integrated as part of environmental characterization campaigns in difficult terrains, such as oil sands tailings ponds. The feasibility of using such systems and designing sampling tool payloads which can deliver sufficient performance and reliability to...

Spring 2024

Jelani Batcha, Mohamed Rizwan

Helix-25 is a screw-propelled mobile robot designed by Copperstone Technologies® to survey hazardous ponds and fields. Currently this robot is manually operated, which may not be feasible during various circumstances. The control strategies for screw propelled robots have been limited, with a...

Fall 2017

Martinez, Pablo

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...

Fall 2021

Han, Mingjie

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...