Browsing Theses by Subject "localization"
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Balancing Act: Local fair trade in Kitchener-Waterloo
(University of Waterloo, 2004)This research has investigated local fair trade in Kitchener-Waterloo, seeking to determine its extent, the supports and obstacles it experiences, and the reasons people engage in it. Local fair trade combines localism ... -
Cooperative Navigation for Teams of Mobile Robots
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-05)Teams of mobile robots have numerous applications, such as space exploration, underground mining, warehousing, and building security. Multi-robot teams can provide a number of practical benefits in such applications, ... -
Globality and Locality in the Discourse of Advertising: the Use and Function of Language Variation in TV Commercials
(University of Waterloo, 2014-09-08)The main interest of this thesis lies in the analysis of television advertising with respect to language varieties, in this case regional dialects as well as foreign accents. With advertising being understood as a form of ... -
Improving Scan Registration Methods Using Secondary Point Data Channels
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-27)Autonomous vehicle technology has advanced significantly in recent years and these vehicles are poised to make major strides into everyday use. Autonomous vehicles have already entered military and commercial use, performing ... -
Localization and Counting of Indoor Populations on a University Campus using Wi-Fi Connection Logs and Floor Plans
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-17)The localization and counting of persons in indoor spaces is an area of extensive research. Indoor population metrics can inform energy conservation, health and safety, security, resource optimization, and location-aware ... -
On Cohomological Algebras in Supersymmetric Quantum Field Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2019-08-16)In this thesis we compute certain supersymmetric subsectors of the algebra of observables in some QFTs and demonstrate an application of such computation in checking an instance of Holographic duality. Computing the algebra ... -
On the Application of Bandlimitation and Sampling Theory to Quantum Field Theory
(University of Waterloo, 2020-10-07)It is widely believed that combining the uncertainty principle with gravity will lead to an effective minimum length scale. A particular challenge is to specify this scale in a coordinate-independent manner so that covariance ... -
On the Enhancement of the Localization of Autonomous Mobile Platforms
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-27)The focus of many industrial and research entities on achieving full robotic autonomy increased in the past few years. In order to achieve full robotic autonomy, a fundamental problem is the localization, which is the ... -
SIVO: Semantically Informed Visual Odometry and Mapping
(University of Waterloo, 2018-11-12)Accurate localization is a requirement for any autonomous mobile robot. In recent years, cameras have proven to be a reliable, cheap, and effective sensor to achieve this goal. Visual simultaneous localization and mapping ... -
Statistical Model-Based Corneal Reconstruction
(University of Waterloo, 2013-12-10)Precise measurements of corneal layer thickness are required to treat, evaluate risk of, and determine the progression of pathologies within the eye. The thickness measurements are typically acquired as 2d images, known ... -
Temporospatial Context-Aware Vehicular Crash Risk Prediction
(University of Waterloo, 2020-05-29)With the demand for more vehicles increasing, road safety is becoming a growing concern. Traffic collisions take many lives and cost billions of dollars in losses. This explains the growing interest of governments, academic ...