Robotics and Computer Engineering - Master's theses: Recent submissions
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Augmented reality (AR) for enabling human-robot collaboration with ROS robots
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)With current industrialization trends on the reintroduction of human into the manufacturing process and development of augmented reality I propose the interface, which uses Augmented reality to allow the operator to interact ... -
Sending and storing data from a smart scoliosis brace
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Scoliosis is a widely known disease that troubles many people globally. Scoliosis is treated with a specialized brace and assigned therapy, which consists of exercise routines that are recorded in patient journals. Often ... -
Object search and retrieval in indoor environment using a Mobile Manipulator
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Robots are increasingly viewed as service agents in offices and homes. In many countries where the average population is aging, robots can be used for elderly care. This Thesis explores one such possibility using a mobile ... -
Assessment of ethnic and gender bias in automated first impression analysis
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)This thesis aims to investigate possible gender and ethnic biases in state-of-the-art deep learning methods in first impression analysis. Analysing a person with some software, businesses want to find the best candidate, ... -
Synthetic Vascular Tissue with Binary Control for Dynamic Stiffness
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)In the scope of this work, a synthetic vascular tissue with binary control for dynamic stiffness was built. The task had two distinct objectives – design and build a vascular cellular system for dynamic stiffness and design ... -
Energy rearrangement between individual capacitive electrodes
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)Soft Robotics is a subfield of robotics that allows safer interactions with humans and opens the door to applications such as wearable healthcare devices where the shape-changing is highly beneficial, such as muscle injury ... -
Design, Testing and Analysis of an Affordable Direction of Arrival System Using Off-The-Shelf SDR Hardware and Software
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)The growing use of wireless communication increases the need for devices to determine the location of the signal source. Affordable, accessible and universal devices can have a great role in addressing this aside precision ... -
Improving object detection in adverse weather conditions for Auve Tech’s autonomous vehicle
(Tartu Ülikool, 2022)As autonomous vehicles are becoming more prominent in our lives we want their computing systems to be able to recognize objects with the best accuracy possible, regardless of the weather conditions. In order to achieve ... -
Wavelet based digital art protection
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis objective is to provide a robust watermarking algorithm to protect digital images. The proposed algorithm is using wavelet-based watermarking in which we are investigating how embedding in high-frequency ... -
Digital Twin for Industrial Robotics
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)This thesis aims to develop a Digital Twin model for robot programming that incorporates Virtual Reality (VR). The digital twin is a concept of creating a digital replica of a physical object (such as a robot), which is ... -
Design and Implementation of a Generalized Resource Management Architecture in the TeMoto Software Framework
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)Autonomous robots are utilized in a wide range of domains, combining a large number of resources like sensors, actuators and algorithms to form a self-acting robotic system. Tools, such as ROS and TeMoto, have been ... -
Disentangling the association between functional connectivity and genetics in Mild Cognitive Impairment via multivariate regression models
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)The aim of this study is to analyse links between phenotype and genotype for patients with Mild Cognitive Impariment (MCI) and Cognitively Normal (CN) using regression based model. Data was collected from 177 subjects ... -
Communications subsystem hardware and software development for the ESTCube-2 nanosatellite
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)One of the most crucial components of satellites is their communications subsystem. Without a functioning radio link, it would be challenging to receive telemetry and payload data from the satellite and send telecommands ... -
Design of Dynamic Anisotropy for Soft Robotic Simulation Trainers
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)A model based incorporation of stiff fibers into an elastomeric matrix to program the stiffness profile of a soft robotic cervix is presented. The proposed soft actuator is designed to have similar mechanical properties ... -
Methods and implementation of contamination control on Milrem Robotics UGV sensors
(Tartu Ülikool, 2021)In this thesis two modules with different cleaning systems were designed. These modules contain the sensors and navigation lights used by the Milrem Robotics THeMIS UGV. The goal of the modules is to protect the sensors ... -
Human Activity Recognition Based Path Planning For Autonomous Vehicles
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Human activity recognition (HAR) is wide research topic in a field of computer science. Improving HAR can lead to massive breakthrough in humanoid robotics, robots used in medicine and in the field of autonomous vehicles. ... -
Facial Expression Recognition using Neural Network for Dyadic Interaction
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Computers are machines that don’t share emotions as humans do. With the help of Machine Learning (ML) and Artificial Intelligence (AI), social robots can become a reality. These robots are currently capable of interacting ... -
English-Estonian Machine Translation: Evaluation Across Different Models and Architectures
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)This thesis is based on three main objectives: at first, the implementation of RNMT+ archi-tecture with Relational-RNN model. This is an interaction between this architecture and the RNN model. Secondly, train three different ... -
Autonomous motion planning for spacecrafts near small solar system bodies: simultaneously refining the gravitational field model and re-planning gravity dependant maneuvers
(Tartu Ülikool, 2020)Small solar system bodies can be better studied while orbiting in their vicinity. However, orbital motion around such bodies is challenging due to their irregular and weaker gravity as compared to larger bodies. Moreover, ...