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Uav 6dof Simulation And Kalman Filter For Localizing Radioactive Sources, John G. Goulet
Uav 6dof Simulation And Kalman Filter For Localizing Radioactive Sources, John G. Goulet
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) expand the available mission-space for a wide range of budgets. Using MATLAB, this project has developed a six degree of freedom (6DOF) simulation of UAV flight, an Extended Kalman Filter (EKF), and an algorithm for localizing radioactive sources using low-cost hardware. The EKF uses simulated low-cost instruments in an effort to estimate the UAV state throughout simulated flight.
The 6DOF simulates aerodynamics, physics, and controls throughout the flight and provides outputs for each time step. Additionally, the 6DOF simulation offers the ability to control UAV flight via preset waypoints or in realtime via keyboard input.
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Particle Injection Simulation On Cold Spray Technology, Christopher A. Santini
Particle Injection Simulation On Cold Spray Technology, Christopher A. Santini
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) is a useful tool when it comes to research in the fields of Aerodynamics, Turbomachinery, and is used in several other fields of research. CFD is an important tool in the engineering industry because it allows for understanding and evaluation of a new design, this can lead to advancements in developing a more efficient and effective design. This tool helps in the understanding of the flow phenomena and how it can interact with its surroundings. One of the main reasons in the use of CFD is to reduce the cost of testing a design by running …
Investigating New Methods To Develop Perovskite Solar Cells, Amani Hussain Alfaifi
Investigating New Methods To Develop Perovskite Solar Cells, Amani Hussain Alfaifi
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Discovering the potential of organic-inorganic metal halide perovskites (MHP) as a harvesting material in solar cells has strongly affected the research direction in solar energy. The fascinating optical and electronic properties offered by MHP combined with tremendous effort from scientists around the world have improved the efficiency to about 25% in a decade.
In the first part of the dissertation, we studied the lamination process as a new fabrication method for producing self-encapsulated perovskite solar cells based on laminating half stacks,as opposed to the conventional layer-by-layer method. Our work focused on optimizing the lamination process of complex triple cations perovskite …