Browsing Theses by Supervisor "Smith, Stephen L."

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Path Planning Framework for Unmanned Ground Vehicles on Uneven Terrain

Adiyatov, Olzhas (University of Waterloo, 2022-08-23)

In this thesis, I address the problem of long-range path planning on uneven terrain for non-holonomic wheeled mobile robots (WMR). Uneven terrain path planning is essential for search-and-rescue, surveillance, military, ...
Preference and Performance-Based Adaptive Task Planning in Human-Robot Collaboration

Noormohammadi-Asl, Ali (University of Waterloo, 2024-04-23)

This thesis delves into a central challenge in human-robot collaboration (HRC): the adaptive task planning of robots to enhance team performance, fluency, and the human agent's perception of both the robot and the ...
Submodular Maximization Subject to Information Constraints

Downie, Andrew (University of Waterloo, 2022-04-11)

In general, submodular maximization is relevant in many problems in controls, robotics and machine learning, because it models many computationally difficult problems. A simple greedy strategy can provide strong approximation ...