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Author:

Shipley, Jenny Lynn

Title:

Semi-autonomous Line Following Domino Dispensor

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Arduino
robot
toy
domino
line follower
automation
microcontroller

File:

Download Shipley_Jenny_Dominobot.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Stankiewicz, Paul Geoffrey

Title:

Vehicle Path Following and Rollover Prevention Using Previewed State Information

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

path following
rollover
preview control

File:

Download Stankiewicz_-_Honors_Thesis_FINAL_-_no_signature.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Pangborn, Herschel Cyrus

Title:

Development and Applications of a Robot Tracking System for NIST Test Methods

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

robot
mechatronics
image processing
fiducial identification
MATLAB
Python
NIST
object identification
emergency response

File:

Download Pangborn_Thesis_FINAL.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Karl Martin Reichard, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Barnes, Matthew John

Title:

Autonomous Wheelchair Control

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Robotics
wheelchair
autonomous control

File:

Download Barnes-Dissertation.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor
Dr. Hosam Kadry Fathy, Faculty Reader

Author:

Leary, Robert D

Title:

Occlusion Detection in a Driving Scene By Registering Forward-looking Camera Images to a Rendered Map

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

map database
vehicle
occlusions
image registration
camera calibration

File:

Download LearyHonorsThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Francis, Zachary Ryan

Title:

The Dyanmics of Pumped Hydro Storage with a Pelton Wheel and Bypass: Response and Revenue

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Mechanical engineering
Hydropower
Pumped Storage
Dynamic model
Simulation

File:

Download Thesis_Final.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Horacio Perez Blanco, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Reigh, Kyle Michael

Title:

Simulation of a Vehicle Docking and Collision Avoidance System Using LIDAR-based Object Tracking

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

simulation
vehicle
docking
collision
avoidance
lidar
tracking
laser
automated
parking
laser
obstacle

File:

Download Reigh_Kyle_SimulationOfAVehicleDocking.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Thesis Honors Advisor

Author:

Shetty, Pralav P

Title:

Experimental determination of the coefficient of thermal expansion of flexible, binder-free single wall carbon nanotube membranes

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

carbon nanotube
membrane
coefficient of thermal expansion
optical profilometry
thermal cell

File:

Download Final_Year_Thesis_pps5028.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. John Michael Cimbala, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Kofi W Adu, Faculty Reader

Author:

Mangus, Anthony Joseph

Title:

Robust Vehicle Localization using GPS, In-Vehicle Camera, Magnetic Guidance and Kalman Filtering

Area of Honors:

Mechanical Engineering

Keywords:

Kalman Filtering
GPS
Vehicle Estimation
Localization

File:

Download Mangus_HonorsThesis.pdf

Thesis Supervisors:

Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Supervisor
Dr. Sean N Brennan, Thesis Honors Advisor
Henry Joseph Sommer III, Faculty Reader