Browsing Engineering (Faculty of) by Title
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Automating and Optimizing a Transportation Mode Classification Model for use on Smartphone Data
(University of Waterloo, 2015-04-01)As transportation engineering and planning evolve from “data poor” to “data rich” practices, methods to automate the collection and translation of data to information become increasingly important. Advances in wireless ... -
Automating Manufacturing Surveillance Processes Using External Observers
(University of Waterloo, 2022-09-29)An automated assembly system is an integral part of various manufacturing industries as it reduces production cycle-time resulting in lower costs and a higher rate of production. The modular system design integrates main ... -
Automating Radiotherapy: Parameterizations of Sensor Time Delay Compensators and the Separation Principle
(University of Waterloo, 2006)Motivated by recent research to automate radiotherapy, this thesis looks into feedback control problems where the feedback sensor imposes considerable time delay. The use of an asymptotic estimator is considered as a ... -
Automating Water Capital Activities Using Naïve Bayes Classifier with Supervised Learning Algorithm
(University of Waterloo, 2021-08-09)Municipal governments have the responsibility to provide safe drinking water to residents. Maintaining water infrastructure systems to keep a certain level of service is a vital service. It is possible by assessing all ... -
Automation of Electrospark Deposition of TiCp/Ni on RSW Copper Electrodes
(University of Waterloo, 2010-10-22)Electrospark Deposition (ESD) is a specialized micro-bonding process which is used to coat a base material, known as the substrate, with a stronger, tougher, and more durable top layer, the electrode. Short durations of ... -
Automation of Shoe Last Modification and Tool Path Planning
(University of Waterloo, 2009-02-20)To make mass production of footwear a viable operation for manufacturers and retailers, the number of sizes per model must be optimized. For this reason, manufacturers generally only scale designs by length and width ... -
Automation of Sleep Staging
(University of Waterloo, 2010-01-21)This thesis primarily covers the automation problem for sleep versus awake detection, which is sometimes accomplished by differentiating the various sleep stages prior to clustering. This thesis documents various experimentation ... -
Autonomous Control of a Differential Thrust Micro ROV
(University of Waterloo, 2007-01-22)Underwater vehicles that use differential thrust for surge and yaw motion control have the advantage of increased maneuverability. Unfortunately, such vehicles usually don’t have thrusters/actuators to control the lateral ... -
Autonomous Driving at Intersections: A Critical-Turning-Point Approach for Planning and Decision Making
(University of Waterloo, 2020-08-28)Left-turning at unsignalized intersection is one of the most challenging tasks for urban automated driving, due to the various shapes of different intersections, and rapidly changing nature of the driving scenarios. Many ... -
Autonomous Driving: A Multi-Objective Deep Reinforcement Learning Approach
(University of Waterloo, 2019-05-23)Autonomous driving is a challenging domain that entails multiple aspects: a vehicle should be able to drive to its destination as fast as possible while avoiding collision, obeying traffic rules and ensuring the comfort ... -
Autonomous Driving: Baseline Autonomy
(University of Waterloo, 2017-07-13)In near future Autonomous driving will affect every aspect of transportation and offer a significant boost in mobility for everyone. Autonomous driving techniques and modules must be chosen according to the task the ... -
Autonomous Driving: Mapping and Behavior Planning for Crosswalks
(University of Waterloo, 2019-09-23)As autonomous driving integrates with every day traffic, early adopters are initially skeptical and designers are overly cautious. With safety as the top priority, current systems are sometimes too slow at executing maneuvers. ... -
Autonomous Radar-based Gait Monitoring System
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-16)Features related to gait are fundamental metrics of human motion [1]. Human gait has been shown to be a valuable and feasible clinical marker to determine the risk of physical and mental functional decline [2], [3]. ... -
Autonomous Railway Defect Detection
(University of Waterloo, 2023-04-27)Railway defects can lead to enormous economic and human losses. Among all types of the defects, surface defects are the most common and prominent. Although various non-destructive methods can be used to detect railway ... -
Autonomous Vertical Recovery of Fixed Wing Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2013-04-25)As unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) prevail in commercial and first responder applications, the need for safer and more consistent recovery methods is growing. Standard aircraft landing manoeuvres are only possible with a ... -
Autopsy: Redesigning Urban Transportation
(University of Waterloo, 2010-08-31)According to the United Nations’ report, State of World Population 2008, humankind has come to a turning point; more than 50% of the earth’s population now lives in urban centres. Along with considerations for housing, ... -
Autoregressive models for text independent speaker identification in noisy environments
(University of Waterloo, 2008-09-25)The closed-set speaker identification problem is defined as the search within a set of persons for the speaker of a certain utterance. It is reported that the Gaussian mixture model (GMM) classifier achieves very high ... -
Availability-Aware Spare Capacity Allocation with Partially Protected Rings
(University of Waterloo, 2008-02-19)This thesis work focuses on designing a survivable IP-core network with the minimal investment of spare capacity. A span-oriented spare capacity allocation (SCA) scheme is proposed to satisfy customers' availability ... -
The Average Best Solution: A Generative Design Tool for Multi-Objective Optimization of Free-Form Diagrid Structures
(University of Waterloo, 2014-08-29)This research describes the generative modeling method implemented in an open-source program (Grasshopper) as a computational tool for performance evaluation and multi-objective optimization. It explores the initial steps ... -
Average Cell Orientation, Eccentricity and Size Estimated from Tissue Images
(University of Waterloo, 2005)Five image processing algorithms are proposed to measure the average orientation, eccentricity and size of cells in images of biological tissue. These properties, which can be embodied by an elliptical 'composite cell', ...