Browsing by Author "Miller, David"
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Correction of Kinematic Data from a Self-Initiated Prone Position Crawler Trainer for Infants with Cerebral Palsy
Wilson, Leonard Jr (2017-12)In recent years small, inexpensive inertial measurement units (IMUs) have been used clinically to monitor human body joint angles in order to assess the progression of, or recovery from, various diseases affecting movement, ... -
Development and Simulation of a Novel Guidance System for Quadrotors Flying in a Contested Environment
Domann, Coleton (2019-08-01)Due to their accessibility, quadrotors are used as testbeds for guidance, navigation, and control systems and have been used for a wide variety of applications. These applications range from commercial aerial photography ... -
Financial Operational Losses in Space Launch
Boone, Tom (2017-05-12)The high cost of access to space has been a problem since the beginning of the space age. Most attempts to reduce this cost are centered on improvements to launch vehicle design. While this approach has been fruitful, ... -
Homogeneous Vessels as Active Elements for Measuring Pressure
Nash, Michael (2018-05-11)This work investigates an approach to pressure sensor design in which a homogeneous vessel is used as the active element to sense pressure. The goal of this project was to synthesize a standard model for the design and ... -
Incorporation of Depth Feed for Prototype Rover Video and Other Usability Improvements
Dal Santo, Joseph (2019-12-14)NASA has been mandated by the US government to return to the moon within the next five years, meaning that functional technology for lunar exploration must be developed and tested in order to reach that goal. While most ... -
The Initial-Final Mass Relation Revisited: A Monte Carlo Approach with the Addition of the M67 White Dwarf Population
Canton, Paul (2018-12)The initial-final mass relation (IFMR) describes how the initial mass of a stellar object maps to its mass as a remnant. The focus of this work is to re-examine this relation for low to intermediate mass stars. Studies ... -
Investigation of Methodologies for Minimizing Buildings Electricity Demand and Cost
Ogunsola, Oluwaseyi (2016-05)Heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) systems are the largest consumer of electricity in buildings. The HVAC system is complex in terms of components that make them up and their different time scales. The ... -
Investigation of Tethered System for Creating Artificial Gravity
Waghule, Bhagyashree (2018)Interplanetary journeys are long; taking anywhere between 6 months to a few years. Studies performed with astronauts in the various space missions have provided insights on adverse effects of microgravity on the human body. ... -
Low-Cost Video-Oculography System for Eye Tracking
Smith, Matthew (2023-05-12)The vestibular system plays a critical role in balancing and the vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR), which aids in maintaining visual stability during head movements. Current methods of vestibular research rely on scleral coils ... -
Modeling Relationships Between Brain/Muscle Activity and Locomotive Behavior
Shotande, Monique (2022-12)The dynamics of locomotion involve a fine-tuned, continuous feedback loop between processes in the brain, functioning of the muscles, and interactions with the environment. Neurological or motor disability can often disrupt ... -
MOVIT: MONOCULAR VISION-BASED TRACKING
Ghazi, Mustafa (2018)Cerebral Palsy (CP) is a physical disability that affects approximately 17 million individuals globally. CP can severely impact the development of motor, cognitive, and social skills. Recent research efforts in this domain ... -
Nocturnal Boundary Layer and Low-level Jet Characteristics under Different Turbulent Regimes
Bonin, Timothy (2015-05-08)The intensity, extent, and continuity of turbulence in the nocturnal stable boundary layer (SBL) is governed by many interacting processes and features. Generally, SBLs can be grouped into two broad categories: weakly ... -
Passive Actuation of a Planetary Rover to Assist Sandy Slope Traverse
Smith, Jeremy (2016)This thesis introduces the design of a novel locomotive methodology. The problem being addressed is the traverse of unmanned locomotion over sandy inclined traverses. This is a special terramechanical issue regarding terrain ... -
Preliminary Design of Robust Adaptive Control Laws for an Aerial Manipulator
Burke, John-Paul (2019-05-10)One platform commonly used in modern control systems research is the quadcopter unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). This platform finds many uses in both civilian and military aviation, such as aerial surveillance and imaging, ... -
Strategies to Reduce the Foreign Body Response to Cortical Neural Interfaces
Markwardt, Neil (2013-12)Cortical neural interfaces offer unique capabilities to researchers and physicians, opening doors to superior understanding and treatment of a host of processes and diseases in the central nervous system. One of modern ... -
Translating Clojure to ACL2 for Verification
Ralston, Ryan (2016)Software spends a significant portion of its life-cycle in the maintenance phase and over 20\% of the maintenance effort is fixing defects. Formal methods, including verification, can reduce the number of defects in software ...