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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"no-human intervention"”.
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Perception and Motion Planning for Autonomous Surface Vehicles in Aquaculture
… solution that will enable the Oystermaran to autonomously depart from its parked location, navigate to its destination, execute the flipping tasks, and return to a designated location with little to no human intervention. The details explored in this project and discussed in the thesis focus on …
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The Design and Implementation of a Context -Aware File System for Ubiquitous Computing Applications
… which are automatically launched with little or no human intervention. This task-driven environment challenges existing application construction and data management techniques. One of the distinguishing features of ubiquitous computing is the integration of context into the system. Context, such …
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Functional Safety Assessment in Autonomous Vehicles
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are a class of safety-critical systems that are capable of decision-making and operate with little or no human intervention. For such complex systems designed to function in diverse operational domains such as rain, snow, freeway, urban roads, etc., system safety is …
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RELIGION AND RITUAL AMONG THE CHINESE OF SINGAPORE : AN ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY
… study is Chinese Religion, by which term I denote the religious system underlying the beliefs and practices of some one million Chinese in Singapore. It is my purpose to show that the various aspects of religion and ritual among the Singapore Chinese relate to one another to form a coherent …
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Building query-based relevance sets without human intervention
… the relevance assessments is done manually by human judges. But in large scale environments, such as the web, examining each document retrieved to determine its relevance is not possible. In the past there have been several studies that aimed to reduce the human effort required in building …
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A study of the translation of sentiment in user-generated text
Emotions are biological states of feeling that humans may verbally express to communicate their negative or positive mood, influence others, or even afflict harm. Although emotions such as anger, happiness, affection, or fear are supposedly universal experiences, the lingual realisation of the …
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Thermally/Mechanically Responsive Polymeric Composites with Shape Memory/Self-Healing Properties
… world of Materials Science including those that no human intervention is a necessity. The objective of this dissertation is to employ different techniques to develop novel thermally and mechanically responsive polymeric composites for several industrial applications.</p> <p>In Chapter 2, the …
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Generative Adversarial Networks for Inverse Design Problems in Engineering: Methods to handle performance, constraints, and creativity requirements
… proposed in this body of work, the impacts on humanity as a whole would be extraordinary. The engineering design process is an omnipresent aspect of our modern life, affecting our day-to-day lives in a major way. Accelerating this process through enabling inverse design and automation can …
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Design, Synthesis and Study of Thermomechanically Active Polymer Networks Based on Latent Crosslinking of Semicrystalline Polymers
… at design, fabrication, and characterization of novel crosslinkable semicrystalline polymeric materials utilizing different techniques and mechanisms in order to explore their special thermomechanical features as well as the possibilities for potential industrial application based on shape memory …
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Treatment Planning Automation For Rectal Cancer Radiotherapy
… and the shapes of GTV and involved lymph nodes. The results of the predicted apertures were evaluated by a GI radiation oncologist. We then designed an algorithm to automate the forward-planning process with the capacity of adding fields to homogenize the dose at the target volumes using …