Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Autonomous rock acquisition for a microrover to be used in planetary exploration
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Autonomous routing algorithms for networks with wide-spread failures : a case for differential backlog routing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)We study the performance of a differential backlog routing algorithm in a network with random failures. Differential Backlog routing is a novel routing algorithm where packets are routed through multiple paths to their ... -
Autonomous Sensing and Navigation in Challenging Environments Using Unmanned Air Vehicles in Single- and Multi-Agent Settings
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)Small unmanned air systems (UAS), due to their navigational versatility and ability to operate autonomously, serve as an intriguing platform on which to carry out advanced sensing operations in otherwise untraversable or ... -
Autonomous stair climbing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)As the face of warfare changes, the military has started to explore the application of robotics on the battlefield. Robots give soldiers a flexible, technologically advanced, disposable set of eyes and ears to assist them ... -
Autonomous thruster failure recovery for underactuated spacecraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Thruster failures historically account for a large percentage of failures that have occurred on orbit. Therefore, autonomous thruster failure detection, isolation, and recovery (FDIR) is an essential component to any robust ... -
Autonomous underwater data muling using wireless optical communication and agile AUV control
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Underwater exploration and surveillance currently relies on subsea cables and tethers to relay data back to the user. The cause for this is that water heavily absorbs most electromagnetic signals, preventing effective radio ... -
Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) path planning and adaptive on-board routing for adaptive rapid environmental assessment
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2007)In shallow water, a large part of underwater acoustic prediction uncertainties are induced by sub-meso-to-small scale oceanographic variabilities. Conventional oceanographic measurements for capturing such ocean-acoustic ... -
Autonomous underwater vehicle navigation and mapping in dynamic, unstructured environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)This thesis presents a system for automatically building 3-D optical and bathymetric maps of underwater terrain using autonomous robots. The maps that are built improve the state of the art in resolution by an order of ... -
Autonomous vehicles : a solution to facilitate human mobility and increase face-to-face interactions : a study inside a large campus organization
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)The world is and has been in constant change. Disruptive technologies have emerged and integrated into our day to day lives and have radically improved the way we live. Today, in our overly connected world technology is ... -
The autonomy of the political
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003)This thesis examines and critically assesses five arguments for the autonomy of the political. The arguments I examine are those of Niccol6 Machiavelli, Jean Bodin, Thomas Hobbes, Carl Schmitt, and John Rawls. After ... -
Autopoietic landscapes : the architectural implications of mining the Marcellus Shale
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)Hydraulic fracturing, a form of natural gas extraction, is a process deeply embedded in the networks of politics, power, economics, energy, infrastructure, and land use. Hydraulic fracturing has become a standard practice ... -
The AutoScope : an automated point-of-care urinalysis system
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)The goal of this project was to develop an automated, low-cost microscopic urinalysis system that could accurately detect red blood cells (RBCs), white blood cells (WBCs), and other particles in urine. The Autoscope is a ... -
Autosegmental phonology
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1976) -
Autosomal random asynchronous replication is analogous to X-chromosome inactivation
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)A number of mammalian genes are expressed from only one of two alleles in either an imprinted or random manner. Those belonging to the random class include X-linked genes subject to X inactivation, as well as a number of ... -
An autostereoscopic display using reflection Edgelit holograms
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001) -
Autotuning divide-and-conquer matrix-vector multiplication
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016)Divide and conquer is an important concept in computer science. It is used ubiquitously to simplify and speed up programs. However, it needs to be optimized, with respect to parameter settings for example, in order to ... -
Autotuning programs with algorithmic choice
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2014)The process of optimizing programs and libraries, both for performance and quality of service, can be viewed as a search problem over the space of implementation choices. This search is traditionally manually conducted by ... -
Auxiliary field approach to effective potentials
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Auxiliary metabolic genes in viruses infecting marine cyanobacteria
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010)Marine viruses shape the diversity and biogeochemical role of their microbial hosts. Cyanophages that infect the cyanobacteria Prochlorococcus and Synechococcus often carry metabolic genes not found in other bacteriophages. ... -
The availability of credit and corporate investment.
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1968)
