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Broadband acoustical scattering in coastal environments: application to gelatinous organisms and gas microbubbles
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Broadband acoustical technology revolutionized our ability to explore, monitor, and operate in the ocean. While strides have been made in numerous physical and biological applications, there remain many standing scientific ... -
Design, fabrication, and application of bioinspired soft photonic materials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)When one thinks of color, the first thing which comes to mind is often absorption by pigments and dyes or emission by lights and displays. However, there is another mechanism known as structural color, most commonly seen ... -
From Lab to Life: Bridging Gaps in Motion Capture to Increase Public Usability through Integrated Hardware and Software Solutions
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)This Master’s thesis delves into the initial stages of the Lab-In-A-Box (LabX) project, an initiative within MIT’s Center for Clinical and Translational Research (CCTR). LabX is dedicated to simplifying the incorporation ... -
Data-driven ocean modeling using neural diferential equations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Even with today’s immense computational resources, climate models cannot resolve every cloud in the atmosphere or eddying swirl in the ocean. However, collectively these small-scale turbulent processes play a key role in ... -
Long-term Object-based SLAM in Low-dynamic Environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) is fundamental for autonomous agents to understand their surroundings. Moreover, for advanced robotic tasks, engaging in consistent object-level reasoning is critical, especially ... -
Convective Dynamics of the Tropical Atmosphere in Three Idealized Approaches
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Atmospheric convection organized at large spatial scales significantly influences precipitation patterns and weather events in tropical and subtropical regions, and has a rich, two-way interaction with Earth's climate. ... -
Integrative and Scalable Pipeline for Multi-omic Characterization of Biological Tissues
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Study of mammalian organs is essential to understand functions and dysfunctions at the state of health and disease. Specifically, comprehensive characterization of the mammalian brain is crucial to understand brain physiology ... -
Sensitivity of Precipitation to Land-use Changes in a Regional Climate Model of West Africa
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Limited water resources, climate change and food security needs in West Africa present a special set of challenges in the years to come as the population grows. An optimized irrigation scheme for agriculture can change ... -
T2 Characterization of Oil-In-Water Emulsions for NMR Sensor Applications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Fluid status assessment is an essential aspect of healthcare with implications in chronic conditions such as renal disease and congestive heart failure. Current fluid status determination techniques lack quantitative methods ... -
Large-Scale Airline Recovery using Mixed-Integer Optimization and Supervised Learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Airlines plan their aircraft and crew schedules using operations research methods. However, these schedules are often disrupted due to the irregular nature of flight operations. Airline recovery is the process in which ... -
Multi-Agent Relative Pose Estimation with Ultra-Wideband Ranging
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Inter-agent relative localization is critical for any multi-robot system operating in the absence of external positioning infrastructure or prior environmental knowledge. Motivated by the applications of nuclear ... -
A Stress-equivalent Spalart-Allmaras Wall Model with Local Boundary Conditions for RANS, DES, and LES
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)While high-fidelity, scale-resolving methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) are increasingly applied, the cost of these methods remains a significant barrier to their effective use. In this thesis, a new wall model ... -
Monte Carlo Methods for Motion Planning and Goal Inference
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Human cognition exhibits remarkable abilities in reasoning about the plans of others. Even infants can swiftly generate effective predictions from minimal observations. This capability largely stems from our ability to ... -
Mitigating Social Dilemmas in Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning with Formal Contracting
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)As society deploys more and more sophisticated artificial intelligence (AI) agents, it will be increasingly necessary for such agents, while pursuing their own objectives, to coexist in common environments in the physical ... -
Wireless Scheduling for Monitoring Remote Correlated Sources
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)We study the design of scheduling policies to minimize monitoring error for a collection of correlated sources, where only one source can be observed at any given time. We model correlated sources as a discrete-time Wiener ... -
Data-driven Analysis of Clinical Trials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)The research combines two studies in the field of clinical trials. The first evaluates the amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) drug AMX0035 using Bayesian decision analysis (BDA), balancing FDA safety standards with patient ... -
A Unified Framework for Characterization of Mode and Spike Routes to Rotating Stall
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)In this thesis, we characterize modal and spike-type rotating stall inception for an isolated rotor using a low order, non-linear actuator disk model. The actuator disk representation is capable of capturing stall inception ... -
Engineering Robust and Autocatalytic Architectures for Human Missions to Mars
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)For decades, Mars architectures had been constrained to up to 6 crew members for surface endurances up to 600 days because the increased mass for larger missions implied significantly higher costs. More recently, reusable ... -
System-Theoretic Safety Analysis for Teams of Collaborative Controllers
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Human teams collaborate by establishing roles, changing functional authorities, maintaining team cognition, coordinating, and helping one another close control loops. These complex interactions are inspiring novel system ... -
Nanosatellite Hyperspectral Imaging Performance Modeling for Ocean Color Detection.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2024-02)Earth’s oceans are an integral sub-system of our planet, an invaluable resource, and an informative proxy for understanding human-related climate impact. Ocean color observations are particularly useful for monitoring and ...