Georgia Tech Theses and Dissertations
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Recent Submissions
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Design and Analysis of Millimeter-wave Backhaul Networks in Urban Environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2019-09-03)The objective of this dissertation is to design and analyze the relay-assisted mmWave backhaul network in the urban environment for 5G communication systems. First, for constructing a multi-hop relay path between a pair ... -
An acoustical based approach to conceptual design of non-traditional rotorcraft configurations
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-31)As interstate and highway traffic increases, commute times become drastically large. Such large commute times create fatigue and take away from productive hours at work, or joyful hours at home. The idea of urban air ... -
The crowning of king cotton in the American south: Evidence from 1840 to 1975
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)This is an episode of Southern cotton kingdom across the antebellum and postbellum periods. The study includes two events to explore the importance of cotton during the antebellum and postbellum periods. The study first ... -
A quaternion approach to the modal analysis and reduced-order modeling of three-dimensional fluid systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-31)In 1967, Lumley derived the proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) in an attempt to provide a mathematical description of patterns that emerge in turbulent flow, which he called coherent structures. The POD method derived ... -
Improved search techniques for structured prediction
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-29)Many useful AI tasks like machine translation, captioning or program syn- thesis to name a few can be abstracted as structured prediction problems. For these problems, the search space is well-defined but extremely large ... -
Long-duration robot autonomy: From control algorithms to robot design
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)The transition that robots are experiencing from controlled and often static working environments to unstructured and dynamic settings is unveiling the potential fragility of the design and control techniques employed to ... -
Computational methods for creative inspiration in thematic typography and dance
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-04)As progress in technology continues, there is a need to adapt and upscale tools used in artistic and creative processes. This can either take the form of generative tools which can provide inspiration to artists, human-AI ... -
Search-based collision-free motion planning for robotic sculpting
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)In this work, I explore the task of robot sculpting. I propose a search-based planning algorithm to solve the problem of sculpting by material removal with a multi-axis manipulator. I generate collision free trajectories ... -
Extracting ICS models from malware via concolic analysis
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)While there has been significant progress in automated malware analysis, the focus of prior work has been mostly on programs written in C/C++. Advanced malware such as the Triton malware, however, also employ Python which ... -
Universal bound states of two- and three-body quantum systems
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)When there is a low-energy resonance between two particles, the typical separation of physical length scales no longer holds, and quantum systems can form states that are much larger on average than the characteristic size ... -
Deep-learning for automated diatom detection and identification for the ecological diagnosis of fresh-water environments
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-29)Diatoms are a type of unicellular microalgae found in all aquatic environments. Their great diversity and ubiquity make these organisms recognized bio-indicators for monitoring the ecological status of watercourses, notably ... -
Improved understanding of earthquake interaction with waveform matching method
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-03)As one of the most common geological phenomena, earthquake occurs in various tectonic settings, such as fault zone along plate boundaries, volcanoes, and oil/gas production sites. The stress changes caused by large earthquake ... -
Enabling parallelism and optimizations in data mining algorithms for power-law data
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Today's data mining tasks aim to extract meaningful information from a large amount of data in a reasonable time mainly via means of --- a) algorithmic advances, such as fast approximate algorithms and efficient learning ... -
Asphalt pavement crack detection and classification using deep convolutional neural networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-08-03)The Georgia Department of Transport (GDOT) maintains around 12,000 miles of interstate roadways. Annual pavement surveys are conducted to report the condition of the pavement. Survey engineers from GDOT conduct manual ... -
Fundamentals of bacteria-based molecular communication for Internet of Bio-Nanothings
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Today, thanks to synthetic biology, we can engineer living cells as biosensor devices and thanks to MEMS & nanotechnology, we can manufacture electronic devices at nanoscale. Molecular communication (MC), a novel communication ... -
Coverage control: From heterogeneous robot teams to expressive swarms
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)Coverage control constitutes a canonical multi-robot coordination strategy that allows a collection of robots to distribute themselves over a domain to optimally monitor the relevant features of the environment. This thesis ... -
Toward infrastructure mobility for next-generation wireless networks
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)The objective of the proposed research is to investigate the methods to enhance the robustness of wireless communications using infrastructure mobility. The position of a wireless device in a network has considerable ... -
Statistical detection and survival analysis with applications in sensor networks and healthcare
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-28)In this thesis, we present novel statistical methods for detecting abnormalities in a sequence of observations. We focus on two topics in statistics: change-point detection and survival analysis, and we demonstrate the ... -
Improving vision-based robotic manipulation with affordance understanding
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)The objective of the thesis is to improve robotic manipulation via vision-based affordance understanding, which would advance the application of robotics to industrial use cases, as well as impact the area of assistive ... -
Residual capacity of concrete subjected to impulsive loads
(Georgia Institute of Technology, 2020-07-27)This research aims to achieve a better understanding of the behavior and residual capacity of concrete materials subjected to impulsive loading conditions such as blast and impact. Previous research efforts investigating ...
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