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Spring 2017
Fluxgate magnetometers are an essential tool for solar-terrestrial research and monitoring or forecasting space weather. They provide high precision measurements of the Earth’s magnetic fields and can be used to infer the currents that transport energy and momentum through the magnetosphere and...
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Applications of nonautonomous infinite-dimensional systems control theory for parabolic PDEs
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Parabolic partial differential equations (PDEs) are used as models of transport-reaction phenomena in a variety of different industrial chemical and materials engineering processes, and can yield precise descriptions of process variables with complex temporal and spatially dependent system...
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Assessing The Benefits Of Cost-Effective Monitoring Technology On Unstable Slopes Sensitive To Weather
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Across Canada, the presence of ground hazards, such as rock falls, rock slides, or earth slides, next to transportation corridors, is a potential risk to transport system users, the infrastructure, and traffic operations. Monitoring instrumentation systems tracking unstable slopes are a key...
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Fall 2018
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are receiving increasing interest from industry and academia due to their wide application in search and rescue, infrastructure inspection, and surveillance. This thesis focuses on research in the area of nonlinear control for rotary wing UAVs. Throughout this...
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Fall 2021
Motion control of multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) is an area of research which continues to generate significant interest in the community. Being able to accurately follow a broad class of trajectories clearly improves the mission capabilities of the vehicle. Model uncertainty and...
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Spring 2018
In recent years rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are seeing more uses in applications such as transmission line inspection, event filming, parcel delivery, and search-and-rescue missions. Recent improvements in embedded systems have lead to more research for improving unmanned aerial...
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Estimation, Soft Sensing and Servo-control of Linear Distributed and Lumped Parameter Systems
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State-of-the-art advancements in the realm of industrial process control and monitoring often require accurate descriptions of complex processes and their dynamical behaviours. Usually, many industrial processes are described by partial differential equations (PDE) or ordinary differential...
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Fall 2019
Object detection is an image processing technology to detection different classes of objects using computer vision, i.e. putting bounding boxes over objects from a camera video feed. A landmark detection method was the Viola-Jones Algorithm introduced in 2001. The object classifier in this...
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Fall 2013
Helicopter Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) present a challenging control problem since their dynamics are nonlinear, underactuated and non-minimum phase. Although it is inherently an applied research field, due to the difficulty of building and maintaining an experimental platform relatively few...
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Spring 2010
Many geological deposits contain nonlinear anisotropic features such as veins, channels, folds or local changes in orientation; numerical property modeling must account for these features to be reliable and predictive. This work incorporates locally varying anisotropy into inverse distance...