Recursive Kronecker-based Vector Auto-Regressive identification for large-scale Adaptive Optics systems

Adaptive Optics (AO) play an essential role in the field of astronomical seeing for ground-based telescopes, providing a corrected image from the disturbance caused by the light having to travel through the turbulent atmosphere of our Earth. To provide us with more detailed images, the sizes of these telescopes are getting increasingly larger....

Online Interaction-Based Property Estimation of Objects

The goal of this thesis is to develop online model-based parameter estimation techniques for robotics towards extracting geometrical or physical properties of an unknown (or partially unknown) dynamic environment through a tactile interaction with it. The thesis focuses on a one-dimensional case of a rigid movable object, not yet studied in the...

Design and Implementation of Adaptive Brake Pressure Controller

Road safety has been the subject of interest for research from the time the first automotive was invented. Safety has been characterized by many factors but the most prominent is maintaining control over the vehicle motion in all situations. Modern safety systems especially Antilock Braking System (ABS) in combination with Electronic Stability...