Browsing MIT Theses by Title
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Autonomous city form
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)Innovations in transportation give us a chance to rethink and redefine the art of city design, centered as much on the quality of public space as on economic efficiency. Transportation is the backbone of urbanism. What is ... -
Autonomous communicative behaviors in avatars
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Autonomous control and membrane maintenance optimization of photovoltaic reverse osmosis systems
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2013)The supply of clean water in remote and off-grid areas has been a major global challenge for humanity. Over 780 million people lack access to clean water [1]. However, a significant fraction of these people have access to ... -
An autonomous control system for a planetary micro-rover
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1993) -
Autonomous cooperation of heterogeneous platforms for sea-based search tasks
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2008)Many current methods of search using autonomous marine vehicles do not adapt to changes in mission objectives or the environment. A cellular-decomposition-based framework for cooperative, adaptive search is proposed that ... -
Autonomous data collection techniques for approximating marine vehicle kinematics
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)Understanding vehicle kinematics is essential in allowing autonomous guidance algorithms to accurately assess short range encounters. Low cost, reconfigurable autonomous vehicles motivate using in-field online techniques ... -
Autonomous data processing and behaviors for adaptive and collaborative underwater sensing
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2012)In this thesis, I designed, simulated and developed behaviors for active riverine data collection platforms. The current state-of-the-art in riverine data collection is plagued by several issues which I identify and address. ... -
Autonomous energy efficiency improvements : relevance, use, and empirical basis for global climate change policy analysis
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1995) -
Autonomous error bounding of position estimates from GPS and Galileo
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2006)In safety-of-life applications of satellite-based navigation, such as the guided approach and landing of an aircraft, the most important question is whether the navigation error is tolerable. Although differentially corrected ... -
Autonomous Flight Arcade: Reinforcement Learning for End-to-End Control of Fixed-Wing Aircraft
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2021-06)In this paper, we present the Autonomous Flight Arcade (AFA), a suite of robust environments for end-to-end control of fixed-wing aircraft and quadcopter drones. These environments are playable by both humans and artificial ... -
Autonomous flight in unstructured and unknown indoor environments
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2009)This thesis presents the design, implementation, and validation of a system that enables a micro air vehicle to autonomously explore and map unstructured and unknown indoor environments. Such a vehicle would be of considerable ... -
An autonomous forklift research platform for warehouse operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2018)Autonomous vehicle technology has seen transformative change over the past decade, enabling products such as autonomous automobiles. In the field of warehouse automation, autonomous vehicles have a long history, with ... -
Autonomous interactive intermediaries : social intelligence for mobile communication agents
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2005)Today's cellphones are passive communication portals. They are neither aware of our conversational settings, nor of the relationship between caller and callee, and often interrupt us at inappropriate times. This thesis is ... -
An autonomous landing and charging system for drones
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2019)A sensor-equipped consumer-grade drone can help collect data about the world. However, a drone's flight time today is measured in tens of minutes. Charging multiple drones in a network also requires manual assistance. In ... -
An autonomous mission manager for the multiple vehicle system
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Autonomous mission scheduling for satellite operations
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997) -
Autonomous navigation and tracking of dynamic surface targets on-board a computationally impoverished aerial vehicle
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2011)This thesis describes the development of an independent, on-board visual servoing system which allows a computationally impoverished aerial vehicle to autonomously identify and track a dynamic surface target. Image ... -
Autonomous navigation in unknown environments using machine learning
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017)In this thesis, we explore the problem of high-speed autonomous navigation for a dynamic mobile robot in unknown environments. Our objective is to navigate from start to goal in minimum time, given no prior knowledge of ... -
Autonomous navigation of distributed spacecraft using intersatellite laser communications
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2020)Autonomous navigation refers to satellites performing on-board, real-time navigation without external input. As satellite systems evolve into more distributed architectures, autonomous navigation can help mitigate challenges ... -
Autonomous navigation with mobile robot using ultrasonic rangefinders
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2015)In this thesis, I designed and implemented an autonomous navigation system for a four-wheeled mobile robot with ultrasonic sonar sensors and a National Instruments myRIO real-time controller. LabVIEW code was developed to ...
