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Lorentz, Rudy. "Roots and Routes." Thesis, Konstfack, Grafisk design & illustration, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:konstfack:diva-6338.
Full textMa, Xinyi M. Arch Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "From roots to routes." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/109027.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 78-79).
Over the past two decades, more than 200 million people in China moved from rural to urban areas. These migrants fled the countryside, which is regarded as an economic wasteland in perpetual stagnation that is locked by feudal traditions and peasant values, to the largest cities. They sought to be connected to a modern China, one that is marked by a booming economy and pronounced popular culture. These rural- to-urban migrants have formed the largest peacetime inland migration in history. Mobility is a socially produced motion that often bears ideologies. It is associated with a desire for progress, freedom, and opportunity. The massive inland migration in China demonstrates the tremendous social force that aims to overcome the outdated social strata. However, as migrants move, limitations on mobility emerge. The Hukou, the household registration system in China, is an institutional framework that has entrenched the social strata for ages. Records of births, marriages, and moves identify each person with a place. As soon as migrants move from their designated origins, immobility appears: welfare exclusion, job inequity, urban transit inaccessibility, to name just a few. This thesis proposes to study this condition of mobility, immobility and estrangement in the district of Minhang, Shanghai, where 1.5 million migrants currently live and work. Scooter, an emerging fast and cheap personal vehicle, is the protagonist in this story of migrants. Linking closely to migrants' life, scooters are not only their primary means of transportation but also their means of production. Its mobility empowers migrants to move beyond their territory, while its unique scale and flexibility links to rich spatial possibilities.
by Xinyi Ma.
M. Arch.
Joffe, Ben Philip. "Roots and routes : locating Tibetan identities in diaspora." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/14265.
Full textIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 81-87).
Cognisant of a legacy of exotification of Tibet and Tibetans, Tibetan studies scholars have argued for a certain instrumental internalisation of romantic Western portrayals by Tibetans. Exemplifying this perspective, Lopez worries that Tibetans have been forced to perpetuate limiting orientalist fantasies about themselves for political expediency. In reproducing Tibet as some hyper-real Shangri-la, it is turned into a floating signifier that loses its historical, nationalist, and political specificity. While I do not deny the relevance of such claims, I suggest that Lopez's formulation is problematic for how it risks implying that identity performed or articulated for an audience is likely to be less complex, less flexible, and to leave less room for personal innovation, socio-historical complexity and multivocality. In judging some self-representations as instrumental, the existence of a more genuine, entrenched, tacit Tibetan-ness behind such staged performances is presupposed. Seeking to problematise this position, I take as my entry-point the idea of instrumentality, and, sketching a rough trajectory of academic writing about Tibet, probe some of the dominant discourses and implicit strategies that emerge in the literature. I draw upon two months of ethnographic fieldwork where I interacted closely with the 'Office of Tibet' of South Africa (a representative organ of the Central Tibetan Administration (CTA)) and the three Tibetan families associated in various capacities with it. As a heuristic strategy, I attempt to locate 'Tibetan-ness' as it emerges (and fades from view) in a variety of contexts. Shifting from strategic and public performances of Tibetan-ness, to everyday gestures and habitus, and back again, I show how convenient distinctions between the public and the private, the local and the global, the political and the religious or cultural, are ultimately unsettled in the face of complex and contingent expressions of ethnic identity that take place in the midst of extensive transnational networks and audiences. As an alternative to a recourse to 'instrumentality,' I propose a rethinking of cultural identity as 'skilful'.
Gholami, Zhila. "Roots and Routes: Kurdish Literature as World Literature." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/404158.
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Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
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Madyibi, Nwabisa. "Roots or routes: A case for vertical farming allotments in Dunoon quarry." Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2018. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/28060.
Full textLiu, Chunjiao. "Roots and routes a reimaging of Chinese immigrant adolescents' identity constructions in Toronto /." Thesis, McGill University, 2010. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:8881/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=92386.
Full textSpence, Lynette. "Routes to roots, exploring questions of race, identities and knowing with "black" young women." Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/ftp01/MQ56205.pdf.
Full textKumlin, Johanna. "Disentangling sex segregation : studies on the roots and routes of labour market sex segregation /." Stockholm : Swedish Institute for Social Research (SOFI), 2007. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-6810.
Full textMaxwell, Neil Lawrence. "Local sites/global contexts negotiating the roots/routes of identity in Asian queer diaspora /." Thesis, Click to view the E-thesis via HKUTO, 2007. http://sunzi.lib.hku.hk/hkuto/record/B38792230.
Full textLewis, Susan. "Roots of/routes to : practice and performance of identity in the Isle of Man." Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2004. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/7297.
Full textRai, Smriti. "Roots and routes of tribalism: a study of the Kirati Khambu Rai community of Darjeeling Hills." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2020. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4374.
Full textRai, Smriti. "Roots and routes of tribalism: a study of the Kirati Khambu Rai community of Darjeeling Hills." Thesis, University of North Bengal, 2020. http://ir.nbu.ac.in/handle/123456789/4369.
Full textCopitch, Belinda Joy. "Roots and routes : identity development of researcher and researched in a Jewish Youth Movement context." Thesis, Manchester Metropolitan University, 2009. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.496034.
Full textWillem, Cilia. ""Roots and Routes". Young people from diverse ethno-cultural backgrounds constructing their identities using digital media." Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1273.
Full textThe relationship between media, representation and identity is explored through an examination of the theoretical body of work on identity politics, and of previous empirical studies focusing specifically on the portrayal of IEM in the media, at both the transnational and Spanish levels. Additionally, special attention is given to media discourses regarding multiculturalism and the multicultural society, with the aim of examining participants' positions towards cultural and identity politics. Approaches to audience studies, in terms of to what audiences do with media rather than what media do to audiences, are examined and evaluated with regards to their relevance to this study.
A discussion of critical methodologies involving ethnographic and visual methods within social research, introduces the research activities carried out as part of this study. A paradigm based on the assumption of a universal capacity for language and communication informs this study's methodological choices and eliminates the hierarchy between 'researcher' and 'researched', as both are seen as participants in a mutual learning process.
A total of sixteen young people (18-33 years old) from diverse ethnic and cultural backgrounds, living in Barcelona between 2006 and 2008, participated in this study. They were part of a natural group of media-makers in an ongoing artistic and intercultural project called 'Roots and Routes', which was the inspiration for this thesis title. Seven audio-visual texts produced by the participants were analysed, together with accompanying reflective commentaries, interviews and life narratives.
The analysis reveals that young IEM are fully aware of the negative portrayals in the media of cultural groups, and articulately identify consequences for their daily lives. The study highlights the double hazard for IEM of mainstream media constructions of cultural identity, as participants cannot escape the identities imposed on them, and at the same time they are forced to constantly prove themselves to the locals. However, deeper analysis shows how IEM construct their own cultural and gendered identities in coming to terms with their 'routes' in an urban and intercultural context, rather than falling back on their 'roots', despite attempts by media discourses to focus attention on cultural differences in terms of origin, ethnicity, nationality or religion.
Additionally, the study illustrates how IEM are able to break the 'circle of representation' by creating alternative imagery and distributing it by means of online social networks, the pitfalls of the so-called 'social web' notwithstanding.
CATALÀ:
'ARRELS I CAMINS'. JOVES DE PROCEDÈNCIES ETNO-CULTURALS DIVERSES CONSTRUEIXEN LA SEVA IDENTITAT MITJANÇANT EL VÍDEO DIGITAL.
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Aquest estudi parteix del fet que els mitjans construeixen la imatge de l'altre mitjançant discursos exclusors basats en les diferències culturals. Les imatges de 'nosaltres' i 'ells' dominen la representació mediàtica dels grups culturals, freqüentment estudiada des del punt de vista de l'anàlisi del discurs. Aquest estudi busca investigar, però, la percepció que tenen els immigrants i les minories ètniques (IME) de les seves representacions mediàtiques, amb un enfoc específic en les seves creences i opinions sobre la construcció de la identitat cultural. La tesi vol mostrar com els joves IME fan servir el mitjà digital, tant com a consumidors com com a productors de textos mediàtics, per tal de contestar representacions estereotipades dels grups culturals, i com construeixen una identitat cultural des de la seva pròpia realitat.
La relació entre mitjans, representació i identitat s'explora a través del cos teòric sobre polítiques d'identitats, relacions de poder i representació de grups culturals, i a través dels estudis empírics enfocats específicament en les representacions mediàtiques dels IME a nivell trans-nacional i local. Adicionalment, l'estudi donarà una especial atenció a com es posicionen els participants en els discursos mediàtics sobre la societat multicultural.
En total, setze adults emergents d'entre 18 i 33 anys, de procedències ètniques i culturals diverses, van participar en aquest estudi. Tots vivien a Barcelona entre els anys 2006 i 2008, i formaven part d'un grup natural de joves interessats en el vídeo dins del projecte Roots and Routes ('arrels i camins'), el qual va donar nom a aquesta tesi. Es van analitzar set textos audiovisuals produïts pels participants, amb els seus respectius comentaris auto-reflexius i addicionalment es van analitzar narratives de vida i entrevistes amb els setze participants.
L'anàlisi de les dades mostra que els joves IME són plenament conscients de la imatge negativa dels grups culturals als mitjans, i que identifiquen amb precisió les conseqüències dels estereotips negatius per a la seva vida diària: l' estigmatització, la discriminació i la exclusió principalment. L'estudi assenyala el doble parany per a IME que suposen les construccions mediàtiques de la identitat cultural, donat que els participants no podien 'escapar' de les identitats imposades sobre ells, a la vegada que havien de demostrar continuadament a la població que ells 'no són així'.
Una anàlisi més profunda, però, mostra com els IME construeixen les seves identitats culturals i de gènere mirant cap endavant (els seus 'camins') més que mirant cap enrere (les seves 'arrels'), malgrat els intents dels discursos mediàtics d'enfocar l'atenció sobre les diferències culturals relacionades amb nocions d'etnicitat, d'origen, de nacionalitat o de religió. Finalment, l'estudi mostra com els IME són capaços de trencar el 'cercle de la representació' exclusor i crear imatges alternatives i distribuir-les mitjançant xarxes socials online, malgrat els paranys de la invisibilitat en el web 2.0 o el web social.
NOTA IMPORTANT: Aquesta tesi doctoral es troba acollida a la Llicència Creative Commons "BY-NC-ND" (Reconeixement - NoComercial - Sense Obra Derivada). Per tant, no es permet un us comercial de l'obra original ni la generació d'obres derivades". Vegeu més detalls sobre el particular a:
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Chkaiban, Marie. "The routes beneath the roots : a system map for prospective food innovators striving for sustainable disruption." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/104540.
Full textCataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 86-88).
From sci-fi food-substituting floury drinks to lab-engineered, plant blood-based patties that grill and smell just like steak, food innovation is blossoming. The modern food movement is challenging the assumptions at the root of our current food system in the face of an appalling health and environmental bill; and all of the voices in the system are implicated in this resounding trial. On the one hand, 40% of the food we grow goes to waste in a country in which two thirds of eaters are overweight or obese, prisoners outnumber farmers and all the cattle aligned head to tail could circle the earth up to 35 times. On the other hand, 2.3 billion dollars were injected in food tech in 2015 in the United States alone, to tackle these problems on the private front. But where do dollars meet flaws? What sparks innovation in food and agriculture today and what would a food innovation map look like for the United States? The hereby report presents a selective, subjective and dynamic representation of food and agriculture innovation, after eight months of immersion in the American food system as a buyer, an eater, an investigator and a narrator; all of Netflix and TED's food repertoire; thousands of pages from food, agriculture, agronomy and system thinking literature; days of cumulated conversations with prominent food thinkers and fast-food queuers alike; and 10,000+ kilometers walked, driven and flown to food talks and conferences across Boston, Cambridge, New York and San Francisco. This report explores the root causes behind the problematic symptoms of our broken food system, and the current and prospective pathways to spur innovation-driven systemic and behavioral change, in a collective effort to build a more sustainable food system.
by Marie Chkaiban.
S.M. in Management Studies
Williams, Ruth. "Ahliat va Masir (roots and routes) : Narratives of identity and adaptation from Persian Baha'i refugees in Australia." Thesis, University of Ballarat, 2008. http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/62715.
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Lemaire, Charles-Éric. "Estimation des efforts de contact cylindre / matériau d'un compacteur vibrant." Nantes, 2005. http://www.theses.fr/2005NANT2135.
Full textAragones, Julien. "Commande et évaluation des performances d'un robot omnidirectionnel à roues." Montpellier 2, 2002. http://www.theses.fr/2002MON20113.
Full textBelloni, Milena. "Cosmologies of destinations: rootes and routes of Eritrean forced migration towards Europe." Doctoral thesis, Università degli studi di Trento, 2015. https://hdl.handle.net/11572/368011.
Full textBelloni, Milena. "Cosmologies of destinations: rootes and routes of Eritrean forced migration towards Europe." Doctoral thesis, University of Trento, 2015. http://eprints-phd.biblio.unitn.it/1625/1/COSMOLOGIES_OF_DESTINATIONS_MBELLONI.pdf.
Full textPierre, Jarrault. "Optimisation des capacités de franchissement des robots mobiles hybrides "roues-pattes"." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00867306.
Full textJarrault, Pierre. "Optimisation des capacités de franchissement des robots mobiles hybrides "roues-pattes"." Paris 6, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013PA066211.
Full textThe research presented in this thesis report focuses on the optimization of crossing capabilities for "wheel-legged" hybrid mobile robots. We consider that a robot is able to overcome an obstacle if he is able, for each geometric configuration of the contact points encountered during the crossing , to balance the external forces applied to it while maintaining contact adhesion. Our approach consist in using two features of poly-articulated robots in order to optimize the distribution of contact forces. Firstly, the actuation redundancy allows the application of internal forces. Secondly, the kinematic redundancy allows to change the CoM position, changing the set of possible solutions to the force distribution problem. The criterion used for the optimization measures the contacts stability robustness relatively to uncertainties in the force control. It was chosen based on a comparative analysis of different criteria used in the field of grasping. The resulting control algorithm allows for simultaneous control of both robot movements and contact forces. Experimental results on robot HyLoS 2 show that the algorithm allow for the crossing of an obstacle represented by a slope of 60\char6 with a height of 19 cm, while the wheels radius is only 7 cm
Padois, Vincent Chiron Pascale Fourquet Jean-Yves. "Enchaînements dynamiques de tâches pour des manipulateurs mobiles à roues." Toulouse : INP Toulouse, 2006. http://ethesis.inp-toulouse.fr/archive/00000339.
Full textKrid, Mohamed Larbi. "Commande en suivi de chemin et en roulis des robots mobiles rapides en présence de glissements et d’instabilités." Paris 6, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012PA066094.
Full textIntervention robotics must meet the continuing need to go farther and faster. Within this framework, all-terrain mobile robots undergoing high velocities endure complex dynamic excitation including vibration, shock, impact and the resulting deterioration in quality of forces transmission in the wheel-ground contact that can lead to a loss of stability and hence undermine their mission. This thesis contributes to the development of control laws that ensure a robust path tracking besides a certain degree of stability (minimize the risk of rollover). In addition, the thesis proposes a new mechatronic device for active control of vehicle roll and increase the performance of mobility, and in particular its dynamic control during cornering. The control laws are developed based on physical models that take into account the vehicle dynamics and slippage phenomenon resulting from the wheel-terrain interaction. Validation and identification of these models are achieved from experimental results performed on the robot FAST-A (one of the two prototypes of the ANR-FAST project). These analytical models and experimental results are also compared to a complete 16 DOF numerical model, developed under the multi-body system environment MSC. ADAMS, in which the mechanisms of suspension, steering and traction, and the conditions of wheel-terrain contact are more accurately represented. The first control algorithm based on the LQR approach is used for the path-tracking problem. It considers a linear vehicle dynamics, and a linearized model of the kinematics of the robot in relation to its reference trajectory. The control algorithm is based on an optimization of tracking errors and system inputs. The performance of this control law is evaluated using the results from both the numerical simulation on MSC. ADAMS and the actual experience performed using the prototype. Furthermore, a comparison with another enhanced control law based on Model Predictive Control (MPC) techniques has been provided. This control technique has the ability to predict and anticipate future changes on the reference. The latter approach based on nonlinear continuous-time generalized predictive (NCGPC) proved to be more accurate in terms of path tracking and smother in terms of control signal. The applied method is also extended to any MIMO system with arbitrary numbers of inputs and outputs. Finally, a linear MPC is developed for the anti-roll device. This is based on an optimization on a finite time horizon of a certain criterion consists of a stability index and an index of energy consumption of the integrated device. The behaviour obtained is similar to the behaviour of a motorcycle rider who leans into the turn to counteract the centrifugal force. The lateral load transfer between the right and left wheel sides defines the stability index. Simulation results of this device are very promising with a remarkable reduction of the charge transfer of about 30%, thus increasing the safety of the device and finally a larger speed range (at a constant radius of curvature). The device in question is being assembled on the platform FAST-B (second prototype of ANR-FAST project) and will be tested during March and April 2012
Lucet, Eric. "Contribution à la commande dynamique des robots mobiles rapides à roues sur sols glissants." Paris 6, 2010. http://www.theses.fr/2010PA066642.
Full textEllouze, Mahmoud. "Modélisation et commande de robots mobiles à roues en présence de glissements." Paris, ENMP, 2001. http://www.theses.fr/2001ENMP1030.
Full textThuilot, Benoît. "Contribution à la modélisation et à la commande de robots mobiles à roues." Phd thesis, École Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris, 1995. http://pastel.archives-ouvertes.fr/pastel-00838914.
Full textPeng, Zhaoxia. "Contribution à la Commande d'un Groupe de Robots Mobiles Non-holonomes à Roues." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale de Lille, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00864197.
Full textAmouri-Jmaiel, Lobna. "Contribution à la commande et au pilotage réactif de robots mobiles à roues." Thesis, Orléans, 2012. http://www.theses.fr/2012ORLE2013/document.
Full textIn this thesis we contributed on developing a fuzzy control of two types of mobile robots : two unicycle robots (Khepera II and wheelchair). Then, we used a reactive pilotingarchitecture insuring the integration of both the fuzzy controller and an obstacle avoidance algorithm using the deformable virtual zones theory (DVZ). Simulation and experimental results validate the developed approach
Leroquais, William. "Modélisation et commande de robots mobiles à roues en présence de pseudo-glissements." ENSMP, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998ENMP0830.
Full textThuilot, Benoît. "Contribution a la modelisation et a la commande de robots mobiles a roues." Paris, ENMP, 1995. http://www.theses.fr/1995ENMP0603.
Full textPeng, Zhaoxia. "Contribution à la Commande d’un Groupe de Robots Mobiles Non-holonomes à Roues." Thesis, Ecole centrale de Lille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ECLI0006.
Full textThis work is based on the multi-agent system / multi-vehicles. This thesis especially focuses on formation control of multiple nonholonomic mobile robots. The objective is to design suitable controllers for each robot according to different control tasks and different constraint conditions, such that a group of mobile robots can form and maintain a desired geomantic pattern and follow a desired trajectory. The leader-follower formation control for multiple nonholonomic mobile robots is investigated under the backstepping technology, and we incorporate a bioinspired neurodynamics scheme in the robot controllers, which can solve the impractical velocity jumps problem. The distributed formation control problem using consensus-based approach is also investigated. Distributed kinematic controllers are developed, which guarantee that the multi-robots can at least exponentially converge to the desired geometric pattern under the assumption of "perfect velocity tracking". However, in practice, "perfect velocity tracking" doesn’t hold and the dynamics of robots should not be ignored. Next, in consideration of the dynamics of robot with unknown parameters, adaptive torque controllers are developed such that the multi-robots can asymptotically converge to the desired geometric pattern under the proposed distributed kinematic controllers. Furthermore, When the partial knowledge of dynamics is available, an asymptotically stable torque controller has been proposed by using robust adaptive control techniques. When the dynamics of robot is unknown, the neural network controllers with the robust adaptive term are proposed to guarantee robust velocity tracking
Guerra, Matteo. "Le déploiement et l'évitement d'obstacles en temps fini pour robots mobiles à roues." Thesis, Ecole centrale de Lille, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015ECLI0024/document.
Full textThis dissertation work addresses the obstacle avoidance for wheeled mobile robots. The supervisory control framework coupled with the output regulation technique allowed to solve the obstacle avoidance problem and to formally prove the existence of an effective solution: two outputs for two objectives, reaching the goal and avoiding the obstacles. To have fast, reliable and robust results the designed control laws are finite-time, a particular class very appropriate to the purpose. The novelty of the approach lies in the easiness of the geometric approach to avoid the obstacle and on the formal proof provided under some assumptions. The solution have been thus extended to control a leader follower formation which, sustained from the previous result, uses two outputs but three controls to nail the problem. The Leader role is redesigned to be the reference of the group and not just the most advanced agent, moreover it has a active role slowing down the formation in case of collision avoidance manoeuvre for some robots. The proposed method, formally proven, makes the group move together and allow each agent to avoid obstacles or collision in a decentralized way. In addition, a further contribution of this dissertation, it is represented by a modification of the well known potential field method to avoid one of the common drawback of the method: the appearance of local minima. Control theory tools helps again to propose a solution that can be formally proven: the application of the definition of Input-to-State Stability (ISS) for decomposable sets allows to treat separate obstacles adding a perturbation which is able to move the trajectory away from a critic point
Ndlovu, Ndumiso Thamsanqa. "Novel synthetic routs towards the synthesis of mono-, di- and tri-substituted qunoxallines." Thesis, University of Limpopo, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10386/1703.
Full text2-Benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline was prepared following literature procedure followed by palladium-catalysed Negishi coupling reactions to yield the corresponding, 2-mono-substituted quinoxaline derivatives, 2-phenylquinoxaline and 2-butylquinoxaline. These Negishi cross-coupled derivatives were treated with various nucleophiles, in tetrahydrofuran at room temperature, to yield a series of di-substituted quinoxaline derivatives containing; aryl-, heteroaryl-, arylalkynyl- and alkyl-substituents. Tri-substitution was successful with reaction of 6-chloro-2-benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline with excess phenyl-magnesium bromide to yield 2,3,6-triphenylquinoxaline. Sonogashira cross-coupled compounds were successfully synthesised by reacting 2-benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline, 6-nitro-2-benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline and 6-chloro-2-benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline using phenylacetylene, respectively. Nucleophilic substitution was only successful on 2-(2-phenylethynyl)quinoxaline to yield 3-butyl-2-(2-phenylethynyl)quinoxaline. The formation of carbon-nitrogen bonds was accomplished via palladium-catalysed Buchwald-Hartwig amination of 2-benzenesulfonyloxyquinoxaline with arylamines to afford N-phenylquinoxalin-2-amine and N-benzylquinoxalin-2-amine in good to high yields. N-phenylquinoxalin-2-amine was subsequently treated with iodomethane to synthesise N-methyl-N-phenylquinoxalin-2-amine. Nucleophilic substitution on Buchwald-Hartwig coupled compounds was only successful when using alkyl nucleophiles. The reaction of all these quinoxaline derivatives with various nucleophiles does not stop at the stage of α-adduct formation, but continues with the oxidation of these compounds to aromatic substitution products. All synthesised compounds were characterised by NMR, and mass spectral data as well as melting points where applicable. N-Methyl-N-phenylquinoxalin-2-amine and 2,3,6-triphenylquinoxaline showed percentage parasite viability of 42.64% and 58.12%, respectively, against the Plasmodium falciparum strain 3D7. N-Methyl-N-phenylquinoxalin-2-amine showed MIC90 of 16.4 and MIC99 of 19 μM, while 6-chloro-2-(2-phenylethynyl)quinoxalin showed MIC90 of 8.15 and MIC99 of 9.26 μM values against Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb)-H37Rv strains.
Kerwin, Dale Wayne, and n/a. "Aboriginal Dreaming Tracks or Trading Paths: The Common Ways." Griffith University. School of Arts, Media and Culture, 2006. http://www4.gu.edu.au:8080/adt-root/public/adt-QGU20070327.144524.
Full textFOULON, GILLES. "Generation de mouvements coordonnes pour un ensemble constitue d'une plateforme mobile a roues et d'un bras manipulateur." Toulouse, INSA, 1998. http://www.theses.fr/1998ISAT0026.
Full textLucet, Éric. "Contribution à la commande dynamique des robots mobiles rapides à roues sur sols glissants." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2010. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00642620.
Full textHamel, Tarek. "Sur la robustesse et la precision du controle des deplacements robots mobiles a roues." Compiègne, 1996. http://www.theses.fr/1996COMP869S.
Full textHamerlain, Faïza. "Stratégies de commande par modes glissants d’ordre supérieur appliquées à des robots mobiles à roues." Ecole Centrale de Lille, 2007. http://www.theses.fr/2007ECLI0025.
Full textThis work addresses the automatic control problem of wheeled mobile robots via the higher order sliding mode approach. After presenting aspects of modelling of wheeled mobile robots, as flatness approach to planning, different sliding mode control strategies are elaborated. Under the assumption of pure rolling of wheels without sliding (non holonomic constraints satisfied), the first strategy solves the problem of the stabilization of the car at a fixed point by switching of control laws between second and third order sliding mode controllers. The latter is based on geometric homogeneity property with a discontinuous term. The second strategy solves the problem of the trajectory tracking. Two second order sliding mode control laws are then developed. The first rests on the Lyapunov type approach, while the second uses the input/output linearization techniques of flat systems. Both control laws have been tested in simulation and validated experimentally on the platform Robucar. In order to study the robustness of our approach to unmatched disturbances (sliding and skidding effects of the wheels), a third higher order sliding control strategy is proposed. In the case of pseudo-sliding, we have developed for the unicycle and the car a control law based on the sliding surfaces ensuring the asymptotic convergence of both lateral and longitudinal errors. However, due to the sliding and the skidding effects, those errors are only stabilized in an arbitrarily small neighborhood of the origin
Allouche, Jean-Marc. "Etude de la problématique, méthologies et concepts d'un système de navigation autonome d'un véhicule : application au contrôle continu de route." Université Paul Cézanne (Aix-Marseille). Faculté des sciences et techniques de Saint-Jérôme, 1992. http://www.theses.fr/1992AIX30064.
Full textKaske, Axel. "Contribution à la détection des bords de route imprécis : implantation sur le robot ROMANE." Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, INPL, 1997. http://www.theses.fr/1997INPL039N.
Full textAbranches, Maria. "The route of the land's roots : connecting life-worlds between Guinea-Bissau and Portugal through food-related meanings and practices." Thesis, University of Sussex, 2013. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/45314/.
Full textSert, Hugues. "De l'utilisation de l'algèbre différentielle pour la localisation et la navigation de robots mobiles autonomes." Phd thesis, Ecole Centrale de Lille, 2013. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00862870.
Full textKrid, Mohamed Larbi. "Commande en suivi de chemin et en roulis des robots mobiles rapides en présence de glissements et d'instabilités." Phd thesis, Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI, 2012. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00831602.
Full textPadois, Vincent. "Enchaînements dynamiques de tâches pour des manipulateurs mobiles à roues." Phd thesis, Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - INPT, 2005. http://tel.archives-ouvertes.fr/tel-00011677.
Full textBraconnier, Jean-Baptiste. "Maintien de l'intégrité de robots mobiles en milieux naturels." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016CLF22667/document.
Full textThis thesis focused on the issue of the preseving of the integrity of mobile robots in off-road conditions. The objective is to provide control laws to guarantee the integrity of a vehicle during autonomous displacements in natural environments at high speed (5 to 7 m.s -1 ) and more particularly in The framework of precision farming. Integrity is here understood in the broad sense. Indeed, control of the movements of a mobile robot can generate orders that affect its physical integrity, or restrains the achievement of its task (rollover, spin, control stability, maintaining accuracy , etc.). Moreover, displacement in natural environments leads to problems linked in particular to relatively variable and relatively low adhesion conditions (especially since the speed of the vehicle is high), which results in strong sliding of wheels on the ground, or to ground geometries that can not be crossed by the robot. This thesis aims to determine in real time the stability space in terms of permissible controls allowing to moderate the actions of the robot. After a presentation of the existing modelings and observers that allow the use of these modelizations for the implementation of predictive control law for trajectory tracking, a new method of estimation of side-slip angles based on a kinematic observation is proposed. It permit to address the problem of variable speed of the vehicle (and in particular the case of zero values) and also to allow the observation during a displacement without reference trajectory. This new observer is essential for the further development of this thesis, since the rest of the work is concerned with the modulation of the speed of the vehicle. So, in the further work, two predictive control laws acting on the speed of the vehicle have been set up. The first one provides a solution to the problem of the saturation of steering actuators, when the speed or side-slip angles make the trajectory inadmissible to follow with respect to the physical capacities of the vehicle. The second one adress the problem of guaranteeing the accuracy of trajectory tracking (keeping the vehicle in a corridor of displacement). In both cases, the control strategy is similar: the future state of the vehicle is predicted according to the current conditions of evolution and the simulated one for the future evolution (obtained by simulating the evolution of dynamics models of the vehicle) in order to determine the value of the optimum speed so that the target variables (in one case the value of the steering and in the other the lateral deviation from the trajectory) comply with the imposed conditions (not exceeding a target value). The results presented in this thesis were realized either in simulations or in real conditions on robotic platforms. It follows that the proposed algorithms make it possible : in one case to reduce the speed of the vehicle in order to avoid the saturation of the steering actuator and therefore the resulting over and under steering phenomena and thus make it possible to preserve the vehicle’s controllability. And in the other case, to ensure that the lateral deviation from the trajectory remains below a target value
Guillet, Audrey. "Commande locale décentralisée de robots mobiles en formation en milieu naturel." Thesis, Clermont-Ferrand 2, 2015. http://www.theses.fr/2015CLF22609/document.
Full textThis thesis focuses on the issue of the control of a formation of wheeled mobile robots travelling in off-road conditions. The goal of the application is to follow a reference trajectory (entirely or partially) known beforehand. Each robot of the fleet has to track this trajectory while coordinating its motion with the other robots in order to maintain a formation described as a set of desired distances between vehicles. The off-road context has to be considered thoroughly as it creates perturbations in the motion of the robots. The contact of the tire on an irregular and slippery ground induces significant slipping and skidding. These phenomena are hardly measurable with direct sensors, therefore an observer is set up in order to get an estimation of their value. The skidding effect is included in the evolution of each robot as a side-slip angle, thus creating an extended kinematic model of evolution. From this model, adaptive control laws on steering angle and velocity for each robot are designed independently. These permit to control respectively the lateral distance to the trajectory and the curvilinear interdistance of the robot to a target. Predictive control techniques lead then to extend these control laws in order to account for the actuators behavior so that positioning errors due to the delay of the robot response to the commands are cancelled. The elementary control law on the velocity control ensures an accurate longitudinal positioning of a robot with respect to a target. It serves as a base for a global fleet control strategy which declines the overall formation maintaining goal in local positioning objective for each robot. A bidirectionnal control strategy is designed, in which each robot defines 2 targets, the immediate preceding and following robot in the fleet. The velocity control of a robot is finally defined as a linear combination of the two velocity commands obtained by the elementary control law for each target. The linear combination parameters are investigated, first defining constant parameters for which the stability of the formation is proved through Lyapunov techniques, then considering the effect of variable coefficients in order to adapt in real time the overall behavior of the formation. The formation configuration can indeed be prone to evolve, for application purposes and to guarantee the security of the robots. To fulfill this latter requirement, each robot of the fleet estimates in real time a minimal stopping distance in case of emergency and two avoidance trajectories to get around the preceding vehicle if this one suddenly stops. Given the initial configuration of the formation and the emergency behaviors calculated, the desired distances between the robots can be adapted so that the new configuration thus described ensures the security of each and every robot of the formation against potential collisions
Solatges, Thomas. "Modélisation, conception et commande de robots manipulateurs flexibles. Application au lancement et à la récupération de drones à voilure fixe depuis un navire faisant route." Thesis, Toulouse, ISAE, 2018. http://www.theses.fr/2018ESAE0012/document.
Full textRobot manipulators are generally stiff machines, designed in a way that flexibility does not affecttheir movements. Indeed, significant flexibility introduces additional degrees of freedom witha complex behavior. However, reducing the mass of a system allows for costs, performance, andsafety improvements. In order to allow those benefits despite important flexibility, this thesis focuseson modeling, design and control of flexible robot manipulators. It is motivated by the YAKAproject, which aims at developing a robot to launch and recover fixed wing UAVs from a movingship. It implies reaching very high dynamics on a large workspace, way beyond the specificationsof common rigid robots. The proposed tools for modeling, design and control allow for taking intoaccount both joint and link flexibility, for any number of degrees of freedom and flexible links.The elastodynamic model is obtained with Lagrange principle, each flexible link being representedwith one ormany Euler-Bernouilli beams. The proposed control scheme uses a nonlinear rigiddynamic inversion and extends classical Input Shaping techniques to flexible robot manipulators.The proposed design tools allow for performance prediction of the system including its actuatorsand controllers thanks to a realistic simulation. Experiments conducted with the YAKA robot validatedthe proposed approach. The results of the YAKA project confirmed the feasibility of usinga large scale, highly dynamic flexible robot in an industrial context, in particular for UAVs launchand recovery operations from amoving ship
Sert, Hugues. "De l’utilisation de l’algèbre différentielle pour la localisation et la navigation de robots mobiles autonomes." Thesis, Ecole centrale de Lille, 2013. http://www.theses.fr/2013ECLI0002/document.
Full textThis work investigates the contribution of differential algebra to two main issues of wheel mobile robotics, localization and navigation. The first issue is to be able to tell where the robot is in its environment. We assume that we have a number of landmarks in space whose coordinates are known in this area. Depending on the number of landmarks, it is possible or not to localize the robot. This notion of localizability is defined and studied in the algebraic framework. We show that this framework is more interesting than the geometric framework in the sense that it not only allows the study of localizability, but it also allows us to construct estimators states to reconstruct the posture of the robot. This study was conducted in five cases study for four of the five classes of wheeled mobile robots. The second problem studied is that of a robot decentralized swarm navigation in a complex environment. This work presents an architecture that can be used in a wide class of problems and enjoying the benefits of discrete approaches and continuous approaches. Indeed, high-level block strategy specifies the goal, constraints and parameters as well as the cost function, a low-level block is used to compute a trajectory that minimize the cost function in accordance with the objective and the problem constraints. This minimization is done on a sliding window so it is possible to take changes in the environment or mission during navigation into account
Allouche, Benyamine. "Modélisation et commande des robots : nouvelles approches basées sur les modèles Takagi-Sugeno." Thesis, Valenciennes, 2016. http://www.theses.fr/2016VALE0021/document.
Full textEvery year more than 5 million people worldwide become hemiplegic as a direct consequence of stroke. This neurological deficiency, often leads to a partial or a total loss of standing up abilities and /or ambulation skills. In order to propose new supporting solutions lying between the wheelchair and the walker, this thesis comes within the ANR TECSAN project named VHIPOD “self-balanced transporter for disabled persons with sit-to-stand function”. In this context, this research provides some answers for two key issues of the project : the sit-to-stand assistance (STS) of hemiplegic people and their mobility through a two wheeled self-balanced solution. These issues are addressed from a robotic point of view while focusing on a key question : are we able to extend the use of Takagi-Sugeno approach (TS) to the control of complex systems ? Firstly, the issue of mobility of disabled persons was treated on the basis of a self-balanced solution. Control laws based on the standard and descriptor TS approaches have been proposed for the stabilization of gyropod in particular situations such as moving along a slope or crossing small steps. The results have led to the design a two-wheeled transporter which is potentially able to deal with the steps. On the other hand, these results have also highlighted the main challenge related to the use of TS approach such as the conservatisms of the LMIs constraints (Linear Matrix Inequalities). In a second time, a test bench for the STS assistance based on parallel kinematic manipulator (PKM) was designed. This kind of manipulator characterized by several closed kinematic chains often presents a complex dynamical model (given as a set of ordinary differential equations, ODEs). The application of control laws based on the TS approach is often doomed to failure given the large number of non-linear terms in the model. To overcome this problem, a new modeling approach was proposed. From a particular set of coordinates, the principle of virtual power was used to generate a dynamical model based on the differential algebraic equations (DAEs). This approach leads to a quasi-LPV model where the only varying parameters are the Lagrange multipliers derived from the constraint equations of the DAE model. The results were validated on simulation through a 2-DOF (degrees of freedom) parallel robot (Biglide) and a 3-DOF manipulator (Triglide) designed for the STS assistance