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Optimization of Critical Infrastructure with Fluids
(2021)
Many of the world's most critical infrastructure systems control the motion of fluids. Despite their importance, the design, operation, and restoration of these infrastructures are sometimes carried out suboptimally. One ...
Geometric, Semantic, and System-Level Scene Understanding for Improved Construction and Operation of the Built Environment
(2019)
Recent advances in robotics and enabling fields such as computer vision, deep learning, and low-latency data passing offer significant potential for developing efficient and low-cost solutions for improved construction and ...
Advances in Game-Theoretic, Set-Theoretic and Optimal Control to Enhance Mobility
(2022)
Advances in mobility technology are expected to greatly improve our access to transportation and the convenience of life. Many challenges in achieving the safety, efficiency, and comfort of mobility systems still exist. ...
Generative Reciprocity: A Computational Approach for Performance-Based and Fabrication-Aware Design of Reciprocal Systems
(2020)
Using the capabilities of computation and digital fabrication this thesis provides a basis for a novel process of design to fabrication for reciprocal systems.
In the traditional sense, reciprocal structures combine the ...
Autonomous Scene Understanding, Motion Planning, and Task Execution for Geometrically Adaptive Robotized Construction Work
(2019)
The construction industry suffers from such problems as high cost, poor quality, prolonged duration, and substandard safety. Robots have the potential to help alleviate such problems by becoming construction co-workers, ...
Transportation in Transition: Data-Driven Sustainability Assessment of Automated, Electric, and Shared Mobility
(2021)
Emerging technologies in transportation, including vehicle automation, electrification, and shared mobility, are poised to transform the mobility paradigm, transportation markets, and travelers’ behavior in the coming ...