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100 Gbps ptical coherent modem for low earth orbit optical inter-satellite links
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Free space optical communication (FSOC) provides a viable and cost-effective solution for future satellite systems with advantages in bandwidth, unregulated frequencies, and reduced system mass, volume, and power consumption ...
New problems in revenue management, theory and applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
This thesis studies new applications of revenue management that can be used by airlines and the ride-sharing industry. Our first and main focus is on online advertising with applications to advertisement of flight tickets. ...
Systems analysis of community noise impacts of advanced flight procedures for conventional and hybrid electric aircraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Recent changes to aircraft approach and departure procedures enabled by more precise navigation technologies have created noise concentration problems for communities beneath flight tracks. There may be opportunities to ...
Plan summarization for decision support in human team planning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Humans often make their plans in groups, sharing information, ideas, and preferences before arriving at a final plan. Human team planning sessions, however, often suffer from inefficiencies such as getting off topic, losing ...
Systems analysis of urban air mobility operational scaling
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Urban air mobility (UAM) refers to a set of vehicles and operational concepts that provide on-demand or scheduled air transportation services for passengers and cargo within a metropolitan area. Prior UAM systems based on ...
Leveraging prior information for real-time monocular simultaneous localization and mapping
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Monocular cameras are powerful sensors for a variety of computer vision tasks since they are small, inexpensive, and provide dense perceptual information about the surrounding environment. Efficiently estimating the pose ...
Tensor-train-based algorithms for swarm state estimation with a team of mobile sensors
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021)
Rapid development and deployment of large-scale swarms of robotic agents motivates the need for computationally-efficient algorithms for monitoring the state of the swarm. This dissertation is concerned with the state ...
Provably convergent anisotropic output-based adaptation for continuous finite element discretizations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The expansion of modern computing power has seen a commensurate rise in the reliance on numerical simulations for engineering and scientific purposes. Output error estimation combined with metric-based mesh adaptivity ...
Information exchange and robust learning algorithms for networked autonomy
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
Networked autonomy deals with problems in which several autonomous agents interact via a communication network to cooperatively perform intelligent tasks. Networked autonomous systems operate in a constantly changing, ...
Deposition, crystallization and nanoindentation of substrate-bound biomolecule-assembled nanomaterials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)
The directed assembly of nanoscale components has the potential to generate novel macroscopic materials with specific hierarchically ordered structures and programmable physical and chemical properties. DNA is a particularly ...