Andersson, Philip, Kugelberg, Edvin

With the market for autonomous home assistants steadilygrowing, reasons for the development of new ways of communicatingwith the robot assistants have emerged. Thisthesis aims to develop a system wherein a human can drawinstructions for the robot to interpret and follow or perform.An autonomous robot based on an Arduino boardwas built. Software for pattern recognition through a camerawas developed and tested for precision and efficiency.The device was able to read a command drawn on asheet of pa...

Runsten Fredriksson, Malin

Guiding a player through a 3D environment can be a difficult task, especially in a game with a choice of multiple paths. Because of this, designers are often forced to implement various navigational tools such as maps, user interface (UI) elements and written explanations to help the player get from one point to another. This study explores the possibility of using research of spatial design along with player exploration patterns to better influence how player navigates in game environments.Play...

Lemieux, Chantal

Many studies have shown a gender difference in spatial navigation ability, including a related gender difference in global metacognitive self-assessment and spatial anxiety. However, it has yet to be determined whether trial-by-trial metacognitive accuracy differs between the genders and how this may be related to gender differences in navigation performance. The goal of this research was to determine, using the Nelson and Nerens (1990) metamemory framework, if there exist gender differences in ...

abstract: The presented work in this report is about Real time Estimation of wind and analyzing current wind correction algorithm in commercial off the shelf Autopilot board. The open source ArduPilot Mega 2.5 (APM 2.5) board manufactured by 3D Robotics is used. Currently there is lot of development being done in the field of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAVs), various aerial platforms and corresponding; autonomous systems for them. This technology has advanced to such a stage that UAVs can be used ...

abstract: "Navigation, Trade, and Consumption in Seventeenth Century Oxfordshire" investigates how the inhabitants of Oxfordshire transitioned from an agricultural to a consumer community during the Jacobean and post-Restoration eras. In agrarian England, this reconfigured landscape was most clearly embodied in the struggle over the access to available land. Focusing on the gentleman farmer's understanding of the fiscal benefits of enclosure and land acquisition, I argue that the growth in agric...

Fagerberg, Petra

Much of contextaware application research has dealt with the technical aspects of context capturing and how to interpret the context of a user. Little effort has been spent on the experience and usage of these systems. This thesis will present the general aspects of social awareness and present an example on how these concepts can be implemented into a location-based information system to help users navigate a potential information overload. This thesis also states that giving the users an exper...

Mavridis, Avraam

Natural User Interfaces (NUI) are system interfaces that aim to make the human-computer interaction more “natural”. Both academic and industry sectors have developed for years new ways to interact with the machines. With the development of these interaction techniques to support more and more complex communication actions between a human and a machine new challenges arise. In this work the theory part describe the challenges of developing NUI from the perspective of developers and designers of t...

Bodnar, Adam Michael

As the amount of information that must be understood by people continues to grow, techniques for efficiently exploring large datasets become increasingly important. Pan and zoom interaction has been shown to be effective for exploring small datasets. However, pan and zoom on its own provides no visual cues about regions of the dataset outside the current field of view, which can result in loss of orientation, leading to inefficient patterns of navigation. Overviews offer one possible solut...

Nekrasovski, Dmitry

As information visualization tools arc used lo visualize datasets of increasing size, there is a growing need for techniques that facilitate efficient navigation. Pan and zoom navigation enables users to display areas of interest at different resolutions. Fbcus+contexl techniques aim to overcome the drawbacks of pan and zoom by dynamically integrating areas of interest and context regions. To date, empirical comparisons of these two navigat ion paradigms have been limited in scope and inco...

Slack, James Gerald Alphonso

My thesis presents a new rendering infrastructure for information visualization applications that use the accordion drawing navigation metaphor. Accordion drawing techniques use rubber-sheet navigation methods, with the borders tacked down, and provide guaranteed visibility for marked areas of interest. Our accordion drawing algorithms are based on screen-space partitioning, which eliminates overculling and tightly bounds overdrawing. By eliminating the overculling effects of rendering den...

Zhang, Yunfei

This dissertation addresses autonomous navigation of robots in a dynamic environment where the existence of moving and/or unknown objects leads to more serious challenges for the robots than those when operating in a traditional stationary environment. Therefore, the use of learning capabilities to facilitate proper robotic operation in a dynamic environment has become an important research area in the past decade. This dissertation proposes several novel learning-based methods to overcome the s...

Piekarski, Sarah

Navigating to a previously seen target without vision was unaffected by a 30-sec delay period at the beginning of the walking task. This study investigated whether a 60-sec delay, with or without a cognitive task, would modify the accuracy of reaching an 8-meter target. Thirty young adults participated. The delay, located at 0, 4, or 7 meters, was either to wait, or to count backwards. Kinematic data of distance travelled, distance-to-target, angular deviation, and body rotation from participant...

Chandhoke, Gursimran Singh

According to the Canadian Cancer Society, half of Ontario’s population will be diagnosed with cancer in their lifetime. Many patients being assessed for cancer however become overwhelmed when having to manage information overload, many appointments with different instructions and locations, and recommendations on how to improve their lifestyle. This causes much anxiety and uncertainty among patients. Some cancer assessment clinics offer some guidance in the form of paper-based patient navig...

Dag, Antymos

With an increasing need for greater traffic safety, there is an increasing demand for means by which solutions to the traffic safety problem can be studied. The purpose of this thesis is to investigate the feasibility of using an autonomous indoor navigation system as a component in a demonstration system for studying cooperative vehicular scenarios. Our method involves developing and evaluating such a navigation system. Our navigation system uses a pre-existing localization system based on pass...

Miah, Md. Suruz

Navigation techniques are of a paramount importance in the field of mobile robotics. They are employed in many contexts in indoor and outdoor environments such as delivering payloads in a dynamic environment, building safety, security, building measurement, research, and driving on highways. Skilled navigation in mobile robotics usually requires solving two problems, determining the position of the robot, and selecting a motion control strategy. Moreover, when no prior knowledge of the environme...

Shi, Feng

This thesis presents methods for novel image synthesis from cubic panoramas taken with multi-sensor cameras. The pre-captured cubic panoramas are used to interpolate arbitrary views to allow a virtual walkthrough of the remote real environment. In our approach, the "transfer" and "triangulation" methods are adopted to analyse the geometry of cubic panoramas and recover an accurate essential matrix between cubes. To generate a novel view between two aligned cubes, a warping model is applied to wa...

Gagne-Roussel, Dave

A recurrent problem in mobile robotics is the difficulty to accurately estimate a robot's localization. The ability to successfully estimate the localization of a mobile robot is highly dependent on the type of sensory data used to infer its pose. Traditionally, this has been achieved with odometry and the integration of wheel encoders signals. A major drawback of this approach, however, is the inability to provide an accurate estimate of the heading orientation; a significant cause of odometry ...

Brind'Amour, Francois

This thesis presents a possible inexpensive and simple solution for humanitarian demining in developing countries. It consists of a group of mobile robots that can advance and interact collaboratively with each other in a mine field. A base station controls the group and can map their position with the aid of a long range positioning system, thus, identify the landmine position when one is detected by a robot. A short range positioning system is used within the group to measure the distance sepa...

Forsberg, Johan

This thesis concerns localization and control of mobile robots using range measurements from optronic sensors, in particular scanning time-of-flight lasers. The thesis covers the localization algorithms, on-line sensor calibration and tele-operation for semi-autonomous control of mobile robots. A real-world application of an autonomous mobile robot equipped with an arm for surface finishing operations is also developed. The Range Weighted Hough/Radon transform is introduced for robust detection ...

Miles, Michael, Jetter, Joshua

A common issue faced by people who are visually impaired is the difficulty of navigating and traveling through unfamiliar outdoor and indoor environments. The current state-of-the-art solutions to this problem consist of very expensive guide dogs and simple canes for obstacle detection. The team sought to develop a LIDAR-based navigation system with binaural auditory feedback that would allow the blind to navigate in unfamiliar environments and perform basic obstacle avoidance. Though basic...

Islam Rasel, Rashedul

Obstacle detection is one of the major focus area on image processing. For mobile robots, obstacle detection and collision avoidance is a notorious problem and is still a part of the modern research. There are already a lot of research have been done so far for obstacle detection and collision avoidance. This thesis evaluates the existing various well-known methods and sensors for collision free navigation of the mobile robot. For moving obstacle detection purpose the frame difference approach i...

This research is mainly about autonomously navigation of an agricultural wheeled mobile robot in an unstructured outdoor setting. This project has four distinct phases defined as: (i) Navigation and control of a wheeled mobile robot for a point-to-point motion. (ii) Navigation and control of a wheeled mobile robot in following a given path (path following problem). (iii) Navigation and control of a mobile robot, keeping a constant proximity distance with the given paths or plant rows (proximity-...

del Peral-Rosado, José A.

En comunicaciones móviles, los avances de nuevas tecnologías están principalmente impulsados por el incremento en las velocidades de transmisión. Uno de estos avances es el uso de señales multiportadora que permiten una distribución flexible y eficiente de recursos en tiempo y frecuencia. Diversos sistemas utilizan esta característica para combinar funcionalidades de comunicaciones con posicionamiento, debido a la creciente demanda de servicios de datos y localización en dispositivos móviles. Si...

Vallejo Sáenz, Arturo.

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Zhou, Yating

Proper selection of new moving direction after external mechanical stimulation is essential for animals to avoid danger (i.e. predators), and thus is vital for survival. This process involves sensory inputs, central processing and motor outputs. Recent studies have made considerable progress in identifying mechanosensory neurons and mechanosensation receptor proteins. The molecular and cellular mechanisms that convert mechanosensation into proper navigation decision, however, remain largely und...

Salman Ali, Thamer

The widespread use of navigation devices is increasing rapidly. This all becomes possible mainly due to increased development of hardware, for instance increased computing power (e.g. microcontroller, GPS, Compass) and software. The Handheld Navigation (HNS) is one of the navigation techniques. It is used in different fields. Just like any-other means of navigation, it is used to determine the position and direction of the user accurately and find the shortest track with precision. Global Positi...

Keydel, Wolfgang, Chandra, Madhu

Im Rahmen der Aktivitäten des ITG Fachausschusses 7.5 „Wellenausbreitung“ im VDE wird eine Fachtagung auf dem Gebiet Wellenausbreitung bei Funk-, Mikrowellensystemen und Navigation vom 4. – 5. Juli 2007 in Chemnitz abgehalten. Die Tagungsphilosophie betont den gemeinsamen Nenner der Wellenausbreitung in diversen Bereichen wie Mikrowellensensorik und Mikrowellensystemen. Bei der Fachtagung sind zusätzlich zu den Beiträgen der Fachausschussmitglieder, die zur Information über die Fachausschussakt...

LaPierre, Charles M.

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Milan, Toufic

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Di Vittorio, Joseph J.

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Li, Ming-Yan.

Thesis (M.Eng.Sc.)--University of Adelaide, Dept. of Engineering, 1999. / Bibliography: leaves 109-113.

Sjölinder, Marie,

Diss. (sammanfattning) Stockholm : Stockholms universitet, 2006. / Härtill 3 uppsatser.

Slack, Marc G.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1990. / Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 166-175). Also available via the Internet.

Griffiths, Stephen Richard,

Thesis (M.S.)--Brigham Young University. Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 61-63).

Rubner, Yossi,

Thesis (Ph.D)--Stanford University, 1999. / Title from pdf t.p. (viewed May 9, 2002). "May 1999." "Adminitrivia V1/Prg/19990823"--Metadata.

Ma, Mo.

Thesis (M.Phil.)--Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, 2007. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 61-68). Also available in electronic version.

Farrel, Inez Hofner.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 2000. / Title from electronic submission form. Vita. Abstract. Includes bibliographical references.

Včelák, Jan

Zugl.: Prague, Techn. Univ., Diss., 2007

Mirza, Mustafa Ahmad.

Thesis (M.A. Sc.)--University of Toronto, 2004. / Adviser: G.M.T. D'Eleuterio.

Hernandez, Michelle. Katz, Jeffrey S.,

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Auburn University, 2008. / Abstract. Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81).

Latif, Shehzad A.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2008. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references.

Lane, Christopher Morgan.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Colorado at Boulder, 2007. / Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 68-11, Section: B, page: 7464. Adviser: Penina Axelrad.

Grubb, Thomas C.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Wisconsin--Madison, 1971. / Typescript. Vita. eContent provider-neutral record in process. Description based on print version record. Includes bibliography.

Röben, Frank.

Univ., Diss., 2009--Bielefeld.

Campbell, Jacob L.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Ohio University, June, 2006. / Title from PDF t.p. Includes bibliographical references (p. 104-112)

Kayirhan, Alp.

Thesis (M.S. in Engineering Science (EE)) Naval Postgraduate School, June 1994. / Thesis advisor(s): Roberto Cristi. "June 1994." Includes bibliographical references. Also available online.

Boulanger, Sylvie.

Th. sc. techn. EPFL Lausanne ; No 1735. / Résumés en anglais et en français. Literaturverz.

Tobler, Chad Karl.

Thesis (M.S.)--University of Florida, 2004. / Title from title page of source document. Document formatted into pages; contains 138 pages. Includes vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Gul, Ugur Dogan

Due to the conditions peculiar to underwater, distinctive approaches are required to solve the navigation and path planning problem of an unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV). In this study, first of all, a detailed 6 degrees-of-freedom (DOF) mathematical model is formed, including the coupled non-linear forces and moments acting on an underwater vehicle. The hydrodynamic coefficients which correspond to the geometry of the vehicle which the model is based on are calculated using the strip theory. ...

Kitasaka, Takayuki, Mori, Kensaku, Suenaga, Yasuhito

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