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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Autonomous Platform"”.
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SHARC Buoy: Robust firmware design for a novel, low-cost autonomous platform for the Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone in the Southern Ocean
… generation of in situ ice-tethered measurement platform as part of a larger UCT and NRF SANAP project on realistic modelling of the Marginal Ice Zone in the changing Southern Ocean (MISO). This thesis focuses on the firmware development for the device and the design process taken to obtain key …
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Artificial Intelligence-Aided Synthesis and Characterization of 2D Materials
… processes. This thesis aims to develop an autonomous platform to accelerate 2D material synthesis with four distinct projects. First, we employ named entity recognition (NER) and extractive question-answering (EQA) models to extract experimental recipes, including categorical and numerical …
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Reduced order modeling for stochastic prediction and data assimilation onboard autonomous platforms at sea
… are many significant challenges for unmanned autonomous platforms at sea including predicting the likely scenarios for the ocean environment, quantifying regional uncertainties, and updating forecasts of the evolving dynamics using their observations. Due to the operational constraints such as …
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Reduced Order Modeling for Stochastic Prediction and Data Assimilation Onboard Autonomous Platforms At Sea
… are many significant challenges for unmanned autonomous platforms at sea including predicting the likely scenarios for the ocean environment, quantifying regional uncertainties, and updating forecasts of the evolving dynamics using their observations. Due to the operational constraints such as …
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The Design of an Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform
… and testing capabilities in the field of autonomous vehicles, an Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform (AVRP) can be developed. The purpose of an AVRP is to provide researchers with an autonomous ground vehicle testing platform they can outfit with sensors and equipment to meet their …
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Continuous flow synthesis of colloidal semiconductor nanocrystals: towards autonomous experimentation for accelerated material discovery
… This dissertation focuses on developing an autonomous flow synthesis approach that enables accelerated screening of synthesis recipes, while also providing key kinetic insights into the underlying chemistry. In Chapter 2, a modular millifluidic reactor that leverages precise control over …