# Browse Graduate Dissertations and Theses at Illinois by Title

• (2016-04-26)
In light of some major disturbances in the Western Interconnection over the past two decades, efforts are being made to improve the representation of the system to help prevent the underutilization or overutilization of ...

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• (1987)
In algebraic graph theory one studies algebraic variants of graphs by forming matrices and groups relating to the graph. One example of this is the distance matrices, $\Gamma\sb{\rm i}$, and their associated groups.

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• (1994)
Much of the work in algebraic K-theory today is devoted to the search for "motivic cohomology." This hoped-for cohomology theory of algebraic geometry should be analogous to the known singular homology groups of topology. ...

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• (1973)

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• (1966)

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• (2011-05-25)
Polymer-matrix fiber-reinforced composites have seen increasing use in applications requiring high specific strength and stiffness. These materials typically show excellent in-plane properties but are particularly susceptible ...

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• (2017-12-12)
Thermal management opens the new era of next generation electronic and thermal devices. Research on nano-scaled autonomic thermal switching is lacking because the suitable material is hard to synthesis. Our approach is ...

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• (2014-01-16)
Over the past few decades two prominent paradigms for information seeking in the form of search engines and recommendation systems have been developed. However neither of these is well suited to serve queries representing ...

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• (2008)
With careful interpretation, the UAV images are an excellent source of high spatial and temporal resolution data for precision agricultural applications. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).

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• (2002)
The time required to solve the "lost-in-space" problem for this star tracker prototype is on average 9.5 seconds. This is an improvement over the 60 seconds needed by the current off-the-shelf autonomous star tracker by ...

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• (2015-12-03)
The research presented in this thesis is focused on the navigation technique for an autonomous ground-based robotic system for use in an agricultural row crop environment. The performance of the navigational system was ...

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• (1996)
Modern high-resolution numerical simulations of multiscale physical phenomena require enormous computer resources; however, these resources are largely wasted on subdomains whose solutions do not require such high resolutions. ...

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• (2015-07-21)
Industrial coatings are applied for their aesthetic appeal and ability to protect the underlying substrate material from the environment. The indication of coating flaws for correction becomes more important for coatings ...

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• (2011-05-25)
For creation of an artificial agent that is capable of using language naturally, models that only manipulate symbols or classify speech are ineffective. The semantic information which language conveys must be grounded in ...

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• (2006)
Applications considered are supply-side and demand-side management. On the supply side, droop control is examined as a form of autonomous local control that adds damping to stabilize the power system. On the demand side, ...

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• (2009)
This research proved the feasibility of the machine vision applications in the three targeted problems, and has shown that machine vision is capable of navigating agricultural vehicles in open field environments.

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• (2010-01-06)
A feasibility study of machine vision applications was conducted for agricultural vehicle navigation in open field environments, and focused on solving certain fundamental issues in vision-based agricultural vehicle ...

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