Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Kairoscope : coordinating time socially
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)If everyone says time is relative, why is it still so rigidly defined? There have been many attempts to address the issue of coordinating schedules, but each of these attempts runs into an issue of rigidity: in order to ... -
Kaizen events implementation for cycle time reduction in gauge production line
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)This thesis describes the implementation of three Kaizen events designed to improve efficiency on a gauge production line which consists of both semiconductor and mechanical equipment for manufacturing complex products ... -
Kakeya sets and the method of multiplicities
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)We extend the "method of multiplicities" to get the following results, of interest in combinatorics and randomness extraction. 1. We show that every Kakeya set (a set of points that contains a line in every direction) in ... -
Kalani : product development and leadership in a new venture
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The development of a start-up creating physical products follows a different path than those working in the digital space. The process of creation requires multiple steps, with many disparate people involved in those steps. ... -
Kaleido : individualistic visual interfaces for software development environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Programming, especially programming in the context of art and design, is a process of reconciling and shifting between individual creative thought and rigid conceptual models of code. Despite advances of programming support ... -
Kalman filter estimation of underwater vehicle position and attitude using Doppler velocity aided inertial motion unit
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Kalman filter non-linear control law for a gyroscope pulse width modulation torque loop
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Kalman filtering for aided inertial navigation system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999)This thesis develops a Kalman filter which integrates the inertial navigation system of the Vorticity Control Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (VCUUV) with redundant navigation sensor measurements. The model for the Kalman filter ... -
Kalman filtering of IMU sensor for robot balance control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)This study explores the use of Kalman filtering of measurements from an inertial measurement unit (IMU) to provide information on the orientation of a robot for balance control. A test bed was created to characterize the ... -
Kami : an anarchic approach to distributed computing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2000)This thesis presents a distributed computing system, Kami, which provides support for applications running in an environment of heterogeneous workstations linked together by a high speed network. It enables users to easily ... -
Kaon production in Au-Au collisions at 11.6 GEV/c per nucleon
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Kaon production in relativistic heavy ion collisions at 14.6 GeV/c per nucleon
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Kasbah, an agent-based marketplace for buying and selling goods
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Kasbah@MIT : a real-world agent mediated electronic marketplace
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Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials and cells for affine Weyl groups and unequal parameters
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Kähler structures on cotangent bundles of real analytic Riemannian manifolds
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Keep it secret, keep it safe : privacy, security, and robustness in an adversarial world
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)The deployment of large-scale systems involving many individuals or devices necessitates the design of computational frameworks that are resilient to failures or malicious actors. This thesis introduces algorithms and ... -
Keep the Lights On: Ensuring Bulk-Power System Reliability in a Decarbonized Future
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-09)Policy and market forces are ushering in a new power system, one dominated by variable renewable energy (VRE) resources (wind and solar) and energy-limited resources like energy storage. Because these resources have different ... -
Keep the ORCs at bay : how eukaryotic cells ensure one round of DNA replication per cell cycle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)During each cell cycle, eukaryotic cells must faithfully replicate their genome, ensuring exactly one full copy is made. Both under-replicating or over-replicating the genome can have deleterious consequences including ... -
Keeping mom and pop fresh : strategies for getting produce into corner stores
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)Availability of fresh, healthy produce for low-income people is a growing concern for advocates and public officials concerned with health disparities and diet-related disease. Healthy corner store conversions are a promising ...
