Browsing Theses and Dissertations(library) by Author "Huff, Brian"
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The Application Of Discrete-event Simulation For Demining Strategy Evaluation
Jen, Hui-Chiao (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2008-08-08)Teams of mobile autonomous robots have been proposed for the detection and clearing of landmines. Several competing strategies for automated mine detection have been proposed. This paper will discuss the development of a ... -
Facility Capital Equipment And Labor Decision Support System Using A Discrete-event Simulation And Bottleneck Detection Approach
Almansouri, Mohammed (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2014-07-14)Market demand is constantly changing. Therefore, it is critical for companies to be flexible and willing to adapt in order to remain competitive. This study will evaluate bottleneck detection techniques that have been ... -
PILOT DEMONSTRATION BASED REINFORCEMENT LEARNING WITH APPLICATION TO LOW SPEED AIRSHIP CONTROL
Daskiran, Onur (2017-01-12)Designing control systems for airship has unique challenges as compared to conventional aircraft. Highly nonlinear dynamics, different mass/inertia relations, vast uncertainties in the model parameters and underactuation ... -
A Robust Cooperative Localization System For A Heterogeneous Team Of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicles
Vibeeshanan, Veera Jawahar (Industrial & Manufacturing Engineering, 2007-09-19)This dissertation presents an organic approach to the cooperative localization problem by sequentially solving the problems of sensor calibration, multi-sensor fusion filtering, and cooperative localization. Successful ...