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Showing 1 to 20 of 58 for “"Research Platform"”.
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An autonomous forklift research platform for warehouse operations
… project, we develop a prototype forklift AGV research platform capable of operation in an indoor warehouse environment. The aim of the project is to provide researchers with a vehicle platform with which to experiment with advanced autonomy and push the boundaries of AGV capability. The …
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The Design of an Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform
… of a future society. However, through years of research, testing, and dedication they are becoming a modern day reality. To further expand research and testing capabilities in the field of autonomous vehicles, an Autonomous Vehicle Research Platform (AVRP) can be developed. The purpose of an …
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Design of an airborne wind energy (AWE) research platform
… 100 times over. As part of this work, an AWE research platform has been designed and developed based on a concept that emphasizes low-complexity, safety and low-cost. This research platform can be used to evaluate different sensor frameworks, airfoil/tether designs, control systems and optimal …
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The Mars Gravity Biosatellite as an innovative partial gravity research platform
… is an unprecedented independent spaceflight platform for gravitational biology research. With a projected first launch after 2010, the low Earth orbit satellite will support a cohort of fifteen 14.5- to 25.5-week-old female BALB/cByJ mice for up to five weeks. During this time, the spacecraft …
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Design Principles and Preliminary Testing of a Micropropulsion Electrospray Thruster Research Platform
… a syringe pump. The second thruster, named the Research thruster, is operated in the vacuum environment and is designed for modularity for its expected use in future research efforts. Propellant flow is also driven actively using a syringe pump. Initial configuration of the Research thruster is …
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A Low-Cost Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Research Platform: Development, Modeling and Advanced Control Implementation
… (UAV) for advanced control implementation. The platform is mostly constructed of low-cost commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) components. The only non-COTS components are the airdata probes which are manufactured and calibrated in-house, following a procedure provided herein. The airframe used is …
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Sociometric badges : wearable technology for measuring human behavior
… and deployment of a wearable computing research platform for measuring and analyzing human behavior in a variety of settings and applications. We propose the use of wearable sociometric badges capable of automatically measuring the amount of face-to-face interaction, conversational time, …
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Robotic Tour Guide Platform
… describes the development of a mobile robot research platform (Roberto) designed for use in developing LIDAR, vision, and other sensor-based mapping and localization systems, path planning and steering systems, and emotive human-robot interaction systems. The platform has been designed to …
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Design of Lower Legs of Mithra, a High-Performance Backdrivable Humanoid Robot
… Mithra will serve as a human movement controls research platform and is mechanically capable of running at 3 m/s.</p>
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Mission Tasking, Path Planning, and System Integration for an Autonomous Surface Vessel
… a fully autonomous surface vessel for use as a research platform for the Office of Naval Research and as a competition entry to the International Maritime RobotX Challenge in 2014 and 2016. The author’s contributions to this include the development of safety systems, power distribution systems, …
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Satisfiability Advancements Enabled by State Machines
This dissertation focuses on research for state-based Satisfiability (SAT), a variant of SAT that uses state machines (Smurfs) to represent constraints. Using this constraint representation allows for compact representations of SAT problem instances that retain more ungarbled user- domain …
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Exploring the human-car bond through an Affective Intelligent Driving Agent (AIDA)
… between a driver and another passenger. This research platform explores the possibility of using a sociable robot as an interface to connect driver and car, creating a stronger bond between them.
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The Neural MMO Platform for Massively Multiagent Research
Neural MMO is a computationally accessible research platform that combines large agent populations, long time horizons, open-ended tasks, and modular game systems. Existing environments feature subsets of these properties, but Neural MMO is the first to combine them all. We present Neural MMO as …
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Exploiting channel symmetry in two-way channels
… on the Rice University Wireless Open Access Research Platform (WARP).
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EvoGrip: design and model predictive control of a modular, cost-efficient robot hand for research applications
… 3D-printed robotic hand developed as an open platform for advanced control experimentation. Leveraging open-source designs, EvoGrip enhances accessibility, adaptability, and dexterity. Its mechanical structure, derived from the Inmoov arm, was refined to incorporate position and force sensing …
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Affective learning companions : strategies for empathetic agents with real-time multimodal affective sensing to foster meta-cognitive and meta-affective approaches to learning, motivation, and perseverance
This thesis has developed an affective agent research platform that advances the architecture of relational agents and intelligent tutoring systems. The system realizes non-invasive multimodal real-time sensing of elements of user's affective state and couples this ability with an agent capable of …
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Kinematic Analysis Of A Two Body Articulated Robotic Vehicle
… robotic vehicle is presented. Polaris, a research platform and contending robotic vehicle in the Intelligent Ground Vehicle Competition (IGVC) at Virginia Tech, was redesigned in 2006 to improve the mobility of the vehicle by incorporating an innovative four-bar linkage that connects the …
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Design, Development, and Testing of Research Payloads on Various Suborbital Flight-Test Platforms
… have become more common and accessible to researchers actively seeking solutions for problems involving prolonged space travel and future missions to Moon and Mars. Suborbital payload missions compared to orbital launches are less expensive and offer faster turnaround times; however, the …
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Virtual bioinstrumentation: Integrating biomedical experimentation with systems-level modeling and analysis
… and analysis as an integrated teaching and research platform. Virtual (i.e. computer-based) instrumentation forms the foundation for this platform development. Original virtual instruments (V1s) have been developed as a standardized means of acquiring, analyzing, and displaying data relevant …
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