If you have any problems related to the accessibility of any content (or if you want to request that a specific publication be accessible), please contact us at scholarworks@unr.edu.
Browsing by Subject "UAV"
Now showing items 1-10 of 10
-
.
.
.
A Realistic Simulation for Swarm UAVs and Performance Metrics for Operator User Interfaces
(2017)Robots have been utilized to support disaster mitigation missions through exploration of areas that are either unreachable or hazardous for human rescuers [1]. The great potential for robotics in disaster mitigation has ... -
.
.
.
Active Faulting in the Northern Walker Lane and Post-Earthquake Reconnaissance in the Central Walker Lane, Nevada and Eastern California
(2021)The Walker Lane is a region of diverse tectonic activity situated along the Pacific-North American plate boundary. Unmapped and under characterized faults within the northern Walker Lane are associated with large uncertainties ... -
.
.
.
An Extended Potential Field Controller for use on Aerial Robots
(2016)This thesis focuses on the design and implementation of an extended potential field controller (ePFC) which enables a quadcopter aerial robot to track a dynamic target while simultaneously avoiding obstacles in the ... -
.
.
.
Design Distributed Control and Learning Algorithms for a Team of UAVs for Optimal Field Coverage
(2018)Optimal field coverage problem refers to an active research branch that studies how we can use a finite set of sensors, such as camera, to optimally cover a field with arbitrary shape that can either be static or dynamically ... -
.
.
.
Development of a Multispectral Albedometer and Deployment on an Unmanned Aircraft for Evaluating Satellite Retrieved Surface Reflectance over Nevada's Black Rock Desert
(2018)Bright surfaces across the western U.S. lead to uncertainties in satellite derived aerosol optical depth (AOD) where AOD is typically overestimated. With this in mind, a compact and portable instrument was developed to ... -
.
.
.
Development of methods to improve soybean yield estimation and predict plant maturity with an unmanned aerial vehicle based platform
(2016)Advances in phenotyping technology are critical to ensure the genetic improvement of crops meet future global demands for food and fuel. Field-based phenotyping platforms are being evaluated for their ability to deliver ... -
.
.
.
Distributed Control Of Multi-Agent Systems Using Biologically-Inspired Reinforcement Learning
(2018)In this dissertation, we investigate the real-time flocking control of Multi-Agent Systems (MAS) in presence of system uncertainties and dynamic environment. To handle the impacts from system uncertainties and dynamic ... -
.
.
.
Phenology-based UAV remote sensing for classifying invasive annual grasses to the species level
(2021)The spread of invasive plant species severely alters wildfire regimes, degrades critical habitat for native species, and has detrimental impacts on ecosystem function, rangeland productivity, and long-term carbon storage ... -
.
.
.
Real-Time Inference of Topological Structure and Vulnerabilities for Adaptive Jamming Against Covert Ad Hoc Networks
(2016)With the emerging reliance of critical communications on ad hoc architectures, ensuring the security of such networks is paramount. Even though the independence of ad hoc networks from a single point of failure is seen as ... -
.
.
.
Securing a UAV Using Features from an EEG Signal
(2017)This thesis focuses on an approach which entails the extraction of Beta component of the EEG (Electroencephalogram) signal of a user and uses his/her EEG beta data to generate a random AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) ...