Systems Design Engineering
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Systems Design Engineering .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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Investigating Scene Understanding for Robotic Grasping: From Pose Estimation to Explainable AI
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-22)In the rapidly evolving field of robotics, the ability to accurately grasp and manipulate objects—known as robotic grasping—is a cornerstone of autonomous operation. This capability is pivotal across a multitude of ... -
Experimental and Computational Micromechanical Investigations for Developing Mechanically Competent 3D Printable Nanocomposite Biomaterials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-19)The development of mechanically competent biomaterials that can also facilitate new bone formation is a major challenge in the field of bone repair, especially critically-sized bone defect reconstruction. 3D printed synthetic ... -
Harmonizing the Scale: An End-to-End Self-Supervised Approach for Cross-Modal Data Retrieval in Histopathology Archives
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-18)In recent years, the exponential growth of data across various domains has necessitated the development of advanced techniques to process and analyze multi-modal big data. This is particularly relevant in the medical domain ... -
Evaluation of Control Modalities in Highly Automated Vehicles
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Autonomous driving vehicles are classified by researchers into six levels, ranging from 0 to 5. The level of autonomy increases with the level number, with vehicles at levels 4 or 5 possessing the capability for full ... -
Fair Compression of Machine Learning Vision Systems
(University of Waterloo, 2023-09-01)Model pruning is a simple and effective method for compressing neural networks. By identifying and removing the least influential parameters of a model, pruning is able to transform networks into smaller, faster networks ... -
The effects of simulated physiological conditions on the performance of novel 3D printed nanocomposite biomaterials
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)3D printable biopolymer nanocomposites are an exciting novel class of materials with potential as biomaterials for skeletal reconstruction. In recent years, there has been an increasing demand for synthetic bone graft ... -
Synthetic Correlated Diffusion Imaging for Prostate Cancer Detection and Risk Assessment
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-31)Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common form of cancer among men worldwide and the most frequently diagnosed cancer among men in 112 countries. While the overall 5-year survival rate for prostate cancer is very ... -
Improving Robustness of Homography Estimation for Ice Rink Registration
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)Hockey analytics involves obtaining information from games so that coaches, managers, and teams can make better decisions in training, playing, and hiring. As there is a large amount of information available in each game, ... -
Human Detection And Tracking For Human-Robot Interaction On The REEM-C Humanoid Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-28)The interactions between humanoid robots and humans is a growing area of research, as frameworks and models are being continuously developed to improving the ways in which humanoids may integrate into society. These humanoids ... -
Advancing the Extraction of Mechanical Properties from Biaxial Data
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-24)Mechanical characterization is vital to understand soft tissue behaviour in health and pathology. In aortic aneurysms, for instance, it is used to develop techniques for rupture risk assessment. In skin, for instance, it ... -
Subject-Specific Assistive Control of a Stroke Rehabilitation Robot
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-23)The branch of medicine known as rehabilitation involves an injured patient employing repetitive practices under the supervision of a physiotherapist in an effort to help the patient recover motor control. But during stroke ... -
Out-of-Distribution Generalization of Gigapixel Image Representation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-18)This thesis addresses the significant challenge of improving the generalization capabilities of artificial deep neural networks in the classification of whole slide images (WSIs) in histopathology across different and ... -
Representational Redundancy Reduction Strategies for Efficient Neural Network Architectures for Visual and Language Tasks
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-14)Deep neural networks have transformed a wide variety of domains including natural language processing, image and video processing, and robotics. However, the computational cost of training and inference with these models ... -
Spatial Modeling of Compact Polarimetric Synthetic Aperture Radar Imagery
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-14)The RADARSAT Constellation Mission (RCM) utilizes compact polarimetric (CP) mode to provide data with varying resolutions, supporting a wide range of applications including oil spill detection, sea ice mapping, and land ... -
Predictive Dynamic Simulation of Human Movement Following Hip and Knee Replacement
(University of Waterloo, 2023-08-01)Total joint arthroplasty is a surgical intervention that involves the removal of arthritic or damaged components of a joint and their replacement with an artificial joint. The ultimate goal is to restore the joint’s ... -
Development of an In-Vitro Model to Study the Effect of Shear and Biomaterial on Neutrophil Extracellular Trap Release by Blood Neutrophils and HL-60 Cells
(University of Waterloo, 2023-07-10)Cardiovascular biomaterials are essential for the support of damaged or diseased cardiovascular tissue and structures. Their applications include stents, heart valves, vascular grafts, and pacemakers. The success of these ... -
Continual learning-based Video Object Segmentation
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-23)Machine learning models, specifically deep convolutional neural networks, have exceeded human-level performance in many research areas, such as object classification and voice recognition. However, they are not comparable ... -
Resonant Drive Techniques for MEMS: A Comparative Study
(University of Waterloo, 2023-06-12)Electrostatic actuation is popular in microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) because of its many advantages. However, it requires high voltage, typically provided by a power supply and a high voltage amplifier, which is ... -
Multi-sensor Fusion for Positioning and Semantic Information Extraction in Indoor Environments
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-30)This thesis focuses on three significant challenges in multi-sensor data fusion for real-world uses: (1) Lack of multisensory datasets for mapping and positioning datasets in underground environments, (2) inefficient and ... -
Tickle Trunk: a Toolkit for Communication and Brainstorming Between Hapticians and Non-Hapticians
(University of Waterloo, 2023-05-25)This thesis introduces the Tickle Trunk, a haptic communication toolkit designed to support communication and brainstorming for haptic and tangible interaction design. Haptic technology is becoming increasingly popular in ...
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