Robust agent control of an autonomous robot with many sensors and actuators by Ferrell, Cynthia

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Autonomous navigation of distributed spacecraft using intersatellite laser communications by Dave, Pratik K.(Pratik Kamlesh)

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Robust Object-based SLAM for High-speed Autonomous Navigation by Ok, Kyel, Liu, Katherine Y, Frey, Kristoffer M. (Kristoffer Martin), How, Jonathan P, Roy, Nicholas

“…We present Robust Object-based SLAM for High-speed Autonomous Navigation (ROSHAN), a novel approach to object-level mapping suitable for autonomous navigation. …”
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Urban Swarms: A new approach for autonomous waste management by Alfeo, Antonio Luca, Ferrer, Eduardo Castello, Carrillo, Yago Lizarribar, Grignard, Arnaud, Pastor, Luis Alonso, Sleeper, Dylan T, Cimino, Mario GCA, Lepri, Bruno, Vaglini, Gigliola, Larson, Kent, Dorigo, Marco, Pentland, Alex lSandy'

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Hydraulic Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish for 3D Swimming by Katzschmann, Robert K., Marchese, Andrew D., Rus, Daniela

“…Thiswork presents an autonomous soft-bodied robotic fish that is hydraulically actuated and capable of sustained swimming in three dimensions. …”
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Hydraulic Autonomous Soft Robotic Fish for 3D Swimming by Katzschmann, Robert Kevin, Marchese, Andrew Dominic, Rus, Daniela L

“…Thiswork presents an autonomous soft-bodied robotic fish that is hydraulically actuated and capable of sustained swimming in three dimensions. …”
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Image-based Deep Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous Lunar Landing by Scorsoglio, Andrea, Furfaro, Roberto, Linares, Richard, Gaudet, Brian

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Robust Control and Learning for Autonomous Spacecraft Proximity Operations with Uncertainty by Oestreich, Charles E.

“…For practical realization of these technologies, the involved spacecraft must be highly autonomous and able to perform complex proximity operations maneuvers in a safe manner. …”
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Consistent Depth Estimation in Data-Driven Simulation for Autonomous Driving by Beveridge, Matthew

“…We demonstrate efficacy in VISTA, an end-to-end autonomous vehicle simulation engine capable of training robust control policies directly applicable to the real-world. …”
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Adaptive Collaborative Channel Finding Approaches for Autonomous Marine Vehicles by Gershfeld, Nikolai

“…This thesis presents an investigation into the problem of rapid identification of a channel that crosses a body of water, using one or more Autonomous Marine Vehicles (AMVs). A new algorithm called Proposal Based Adaptive Channel Search (PBACS) is presented as a potential solution that improves upon current methods. …”
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The parallel lives of autonomous systems: ASN allocations vs. BGP by Nemmi, Eugenio Nerio, Sassi, Francesco, La Morgia, Massimo, Testart, Cecilia, Mei, Alessandro, Dainotti, Alberto

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Adaptive Stochastic Reduced-Order Modeling for Autonomous Ocean Platforms by Ryu, Young Hyun (Tony)

“…Onboard forecasting and data assimilation are challenging but essential for unmanned autonomous ocean platforms. Due to the numerous operational constraints for these platforms, efficient adaptive reduced-order models (ROMs) are needed. …”
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A Practical Search with Voronoi Distributed Autonomous Marine Swarms by Evans, Nicholas Craig

“…This thesis provides various Voronoi partition-based methods to autonomously control a swarm of identically capable autonomous surface vessels in a limited coverage and tracking problem. …”
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Modeled and Unmodeled Approaches for Quantification of the Cardiac Autonomic Nervous System by Birjiniuk, Jonathan

“…The autonomic nervous system (ANS) is a branch of the nervous system that regulates involuntary functions within the body, such as blood pressure control (the baroreceptor reflex) and arousal. …”
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Rapidly Estimating Swarm Resource Needs Through Autonomous Simulation by Young, Eric

“…Despite their incredible potential, perpetually operating productive autonomous swarms creates significant logistic challenges. …”
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Performance Enhancements to Visual-Inertial SLAM for Robots and Autonomous Vehicles by Abate, Marcus

“…Our first contribution is to present a system built around Kimera for autonomous valet parking of self-driving cars, and test on real-world self-driving car datasets. …”
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Characterizing and Improving Resilience of Accelerators to Memory Errors in Autonomous Robots by Shah, Deval, Xue, Zi Yu, Pattabiraman, Karthik, Aamodt, Tor

“…Motion planning is a computationally intensive and well-studied problem in autonomous robots. However, motion planning hardware accelerators (MPA) must be soft-error resilient for deployment in safety-critical applications, and blanket application of traditional mitigation techniques is ill-suited due to cost, power, and performance overheads. …”
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Age-Inclusive Design Framework for On-Demand, Shared Autonomous Vehicles by Hong, David

“…The often repeated promise of autonomous vehicles is to make transportation safer, cleaner, more accessible, and convenient - in particular for vulnerable and underserved groups, such as older adults and people using mobility devices. …”
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Wingsail Design Methodology and Performance Evaluation Metrics for Autonomous Sailing by Cole, Blake Ian Barry

“…This thesis also introduces a novel instantiation of the unscented Kalman filter (UKF) that is particularly well suited to long-distance surface vessel tracking, and facilitates affordable collision avoidance capabilities on autonomous surface vessels. One such low-cost collision avoidance system is presented, utilizing real-time data from the Automatic Information System (AIS) and the behavior-based autonomy middleware, MOOS-IvP. …”
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Syntax-based guidance for autonomous aggressive aerobatics in urban environments by Lyasoff, Rodin, 1979-

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