Allen, Ann Nichole

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Biology; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references. / Many species of whales migrate annually between high-latitude feeding grounds and low-latitude breeding grounds. Yet, very little is known about how these animals navigate during these migrations. This thesis takes a f...

Binkley, James K.

Ph. D.

Torgrimson, Mark T.

Ph. D.

Daltorio, Kathryn A

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Deffenbaugh, Max

Thesis (Sc. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 148-153). / by Max Deffenbaugh. / Sc.D.

Escudero San José, Laura

Thesis (S.M. in Technology and Policy)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Engineering Systems Division, Technology and Policy Program, 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 143-148). / The European Satellite Navigation Program is a case study that combines Technical / Public / Private aspects in an integrative way. Therefore, it is a sound case for a TPP thesis candidate. This thesis analyzes the European Union policies for the Galileo progr...

O'Hara, Michael Patrick

Through the Freedom of Navigation Program, established in 1979, the United States exercises diplomatic and military options for disputing maritime claims it judges to be inconsistent with customary international law and the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Yet, despite the United States’ universal commitment to freedom of navigation and the law of the sea, it has behaved inconsistently from 1979-2013. This dissertation examines the variation and asks under what conditions the Uni...

Mayran de Chamisso, Fabrice

Il est fondamental pour un robot d'être capable de se déplacer de manière complètement autonome afin d'accomplir une mission qui lui a été confiée, et ce avec un budget énergétique fini, dans un laps de temps contraint et sans connaissances préalables de l’environnement. Afin d'atteindre un objectif dans le plan ou l'espace, un robot doit à minima être capable d'accomplir quatre tâches: maintenir une représentation abstraite de l'environnement (une carte), être capable de se localiser à l'intéri...

Kanthan, Rupesh R

Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2005. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 81-82). / The deployment of autonomous underwater devices has increased dramatically in the last several years, presenting a strong and growing need for a network protocol to mediate acoustic communications between devices. This network protocol must also provide an infrastructure for acoustic navigation, while ensuring that provi...

Steiner, Theodore J., III (Theodore Joseph)

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-182). / Maps used for navigation often include a database of location descriptions for place-recognition (to enable localization or loop-closing), which permits bounded-error navigation performance. A standard localization system must describe the entire operational environment in its place-recognition da...

Kunz, Clayton Gregory

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2012. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 91-98). / This thesis presents a ...

Willhite, Weldon Barry

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 123). / This thesis investigates the potential of a space-based navigation concept known as Skymark to improve upon the accuracy of inertially-guided intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs). The concept is to use an optical tracker to take line-of-sight measurements to nearby space objects with known ephemerides t...

Tweddle, Brent Edward

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2010. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226). / The use of computer vision for spacecraft relative navigation and proximity operations within an unknown environment is an enabling technolo...

Paschall, Stephen C. (Stephen Charles), 1978-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2004. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 169-170). / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / An atmospheric entry and descent full-state navigation filter is developed and presented. Using this filter a navigation performance analysis is performed to examine the effects of various instrumen...

Campion, Joseph (Joseph F.)

Thesis: S.B., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / In this thesis, I designed and implemented an autonomous navigation system for a four-wheeled mobile robot with ultrasonic sonar sensors and a National Instruments myRIO real-time controller. LabVIEW code was developed to control the motors with PWM signals based on sensor feedback. A low-pass filter was used to improve the signal to noise ratio since the sig...

Wetherbee, Lisa D. (Lisa Dawn)

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1994. / GRSN 698605 / Includes bibliographical references (p. 231-232). / by Lisa D. Wetherbee. / M.S.

Gavin, Andrew S. (Andrew Scott)

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 70-73). / by Andrew S. Gavin. / M.S.

Azarbayejani, Ali J

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics and Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 125-127). / by Ali J. Azarbayejani. / M.S.

Lopez, Brett Thomas

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109). / The ability for quadrotors to navigate autonomously through unknown, cluttered environments at high-speeds is still an open problem in the robotics community. Advancements in light-weight, small form factor computing has allowed the application of state-of-the-art perception and planning algorithms ...

Steiner, Theodore J., III (Theodore Joseph)

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2012. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-146). / In recent years, considerable attention has been paid to hopping as a novel mode of planetary exploration. Hopping vehicles provide advantages over traditional surface exploration vehicles, such as wheeled rovers, by enabling in-situ measurements in otherwise inaccessible terrain. However, significa...

Yates, Max William, Major

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2017. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-256). / The technique of angles-only navigation consists of a single surveyor making line-of-sight observations of a target to deduce...

Aoudé, Georges Salim

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-224). / This thesis develops threat assessment algorithms to improve the safety of the decision making of autonomous and human-operated vehicles navigating in dynamic and uncertain environments, where the source of uncertainty is in the predictability of the nearby vehicles' future trajectories. The first part o...

Lefebvre de Plinval-Salgues, Henry Jacques

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-194). / Many future space missions will involve fleets with a large number of satellites flying in formation. Indeed, such fleets provably offer more reliability, redundancy, scalability and repeatability. However, large fleets also represent a challenge, especially for the navigation algorithms, which must provide an accurate estimate of the state of t...

Matarić, Maja J

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1990. / M.I.T. copy lacks leaf 139. / Title as it appears in the M.I.T. Graduate List, Feb. 1990: A distributed model for mobile robot environment learning and navigation. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 127-136). / by Maja J. Mataric. / M.S.

Welch, Christian Livingston

Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2015. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 95-99). / The dismantling of offshore structures, known as decommissioning, is a complex task in the oil and gas industry, driven by strict environmental standards. As the environments in which decommissioning is necessary become more challenging, autonomy presents itself as a solution to conduct this work as cost-ef...

Fourie, Dehann

Thesis: Ph. D., Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2017. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-357). / This thesis presents a sum-product inference algorithm for in-situ, nonparametric platform navigation called Multi-modal iSAM (incremental smoothing and mapping), for problems of t...

Fuhry, Douglas Paul

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references. / by Douglas Paul Fuhry. / M.S.

Patrick, Nicholas J. M

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 1996. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 119-122). / Most decisions made in the cockpit are related to safety, and have therefore been proceduralized in order to reduce risk. There are very few which are made on the basis of a value metric such as economic cost. One which can be shown to be value based, however, is the selection of a flight profile. Fuel consumption and flight time both have a...

Essenburg, Joseph R

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2008. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Page 221 blank. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-220). / When mankind returns to the moon and eventually voyages to Mars, the ability to effectively carry out surface extra-vehicular activities (EVAs) ill be critical to overall mission success...

Park, Junghee, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Mechanical Engineering, 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-234). / Semi-autonomous and autonomous vehicles have been of interest for reasons such as safety, efficiency, and convenience. The thesis proposes a homotopy-based hierarchical motion planning and control framework for vehicle navigation. A homotopy is, roughly speaking, a set of trajectories with the same high...

Hagg, Alexandre F. (Alexandre Frédèric), 1975-

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2000. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 47-48). / by Alexandre F. Haag. / S.M.

Rochlis, Jennifer Lisa

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1998. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 138-140). / by Jennifer Lisa Rochlis. / M.S.

Anderson, Sterling J., Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, 2013. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 138-147). / Human error in machine operation is common and costly. This thesis introduces, develops, and experimentally demonstrates a new paradigm for shared-adaptive control of human-machine systems that mitigates the effects of human error without removing humans from the control loop. Motivated by observed human procl...

Kaliardos, William N

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-264). / by William N. Kaliardos. / M.S.

Eustice, Ryan M

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Joint Program in Applied Ocean Science and Engineering (Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering; and the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution), 2005. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 173-187). / This thesis describes a vision-based, large-area, simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) algorithm...

Ocholi, Ojonimi A

Thesis (M. Eng. and S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 79-81). / This thesis describes an interface that has been developed to assist in medical procedures. Several commercial systems are currently available each with their own strength and weaknesses and the goal of this interface is to leverage each of them. It is based upon a number of toolkits such as the Visualization Toolkit (VT...

Deffenbaugh, Max

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Ocean Engineering, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (p. [117]-118). / by Max Deffenbaugh. / M.S.

Kollar, Thomas (Thomas Fleming)

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2011. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (p. 103-108). / This thesis focuses on understanding task-constrained natural language commands, where a person gives a natural language command to the robot and the robot infers and executes the corresponding plan. Understanding natural language is difficult because a system must infer the location of la...

Wang, Yin, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, 2016. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-199). / People are increasingly relying on smartphones to solve a lot of their daily problems, among which navigation is one of the most fundamental tasks. Estimating the locations of pedestrians and tracking them in an indoor environment is a long sought after research goal. This thesis develops a...

Ananthabhotla, Ishwarya

Thesis: M. Eng., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2016. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (page 73). / As a result of advances in computer vision, mapping, and controls, wearable technology for visually-impaired individuals ...

Suleiman, Amr S. (Amr AbdulZahir)

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2018. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-149). / Autonomy is becoming an increasingly desirable feature for very small nano/pico robots to navigate cluttered and con...

McCormick, James E, Axley, John H, Hanvey, Forrest R

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1959. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 128-132). / by James E. McCormick, John H. Axley, Forrest R. Hanvey. / M.S.

Weigl, Harald Jürgen

Thesis (M.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79). / by Harald Jürgen Weigl. / M.S.

Chaudhari, Pratik (Pratik Anil)

Thesis: E.A.A., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2014. / Cataloged from PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 58-62). / This thesis addresses problems in planning and control of autonomous agents. The central theme of this work is that integration of "low-level control synthesis" and "high-level decision making" is essential to devise robust algorithms with provable guarantees on performance. We pursue two main direc...

Shen, Yuan, Ph. D. Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Thesis: Ph. D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 2014. / This electronic version was submitted by the student author. The certified thesis is available in the Institute Archives and Special Collections. / Cataloged from student-submitted PDF version of thesis. / Includes bibliographical references (pages 221-231). / Reliable and accurate localization of mobile network nodes is a key enabler for numerous emerging applications in th...

Singh, Mona

Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, 1996. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 109-117). / by Mona Singh. / Ph.D.

Fu Chi-wing. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1999. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 141-149). / Abstract --- p.i / Acknowledgments --- p.iii / Chapter 1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Introduction to Image-based Rendering --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Scene Complexity Independent Property --- p.2 / Chapter 1.3 --- Application of this Research Work --- p.3 / Chapter 1.4 --- Organization of this Thesis --- p.4 / Chapter 2 --- Illumination Control --...

Haro, Zelda

Narratives of successful navigation are the personal stories of 13 Latin@ undergraduate students who navigated the public school system and completed high school in the United States. Their words recount their individual journeys resulting in their enrollment at a 4-year research university in the Pacific Northwest as opposed to a 2-year community college. More than half of the study respondents begun their postsecondary studies at a community college. The navigation of these particular individu...

Amayo, Paul Omondi

This project involved an investigation into low-cost navigation of mobile robots with the aim of creating and adaptive navigation system inspired by behaviour seen in animals. The navigation module developed here would need to be able to successfully localise a robot and navigate it to a defined target. A critical literature review was carried out of current localisation and path-planning architectures and a bio-inspired approach using an Echo State Network and Liquid State Machine architecture ...

Nilsson, Mao-Wei

Autonomous shipping is a coming field, where it will be important tooperate a ship without manual intervention. Although there are manyissues yet to be solved, not the least the legal ones, it would be interestingto investigate functions that already now would be possibleto use in today’s ship operation. One such field is autonomous navigationin narrow areas. The purpose of this study is to implement amotion control system to navigate marine vessel autonomously, and aGuidance, Navigation and Con...