Browsing Theses and Dissertations (UMKC) by Thesis Advisor "Chen, ZhiQiang"
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Development of Aerial-Ground Sensing Network: Architecture, Sensor Activation, and Spatial Path-Energy Optimization
(University of Missouri -- Kansas City, 2019)The advent of autonomous navigation, positioning, and in general robotics technologies has enabled the maturity of small to miniature-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs; or colloquially called drones) and their wide ... -
Disaster and infrastructure scene understanding
(2021)Urban scenes are visually complex as they contain physical objects and their spatial-temporal dynamic processes, including natural disasters and human-centered socio-economic activities. Image-based understanding of urban ... -
Mobile hyperspectral imaging for structural damage detection
(2020)Numerous optical-imaging and machine-vision based inspection methods are found that aim to replace visual and human-based inspection with an automated or a highly efficient procedure. However, these machine-vision systems ... -
Multi-hazard resilience assessment of river-crossing bridges
(2021)Bridge structures are required to possess high reliability and robustness against the concurrent effect of extreme loads and environmental attacks. To achieve such interrelated goals, it is necessary to assess the system ... -
Parametric Soil-Structure Modeling for Rapid Climatic Disaster Response
(2014-09-30)Global climate changes have seemly caused acerbating impacts on coastal environments in terms of severe meteorological hazards, such as hurricanes and their induced storm surges, flooding, and heavy precipitation. Recent ... -
Seismic Vulnerability Analysis of Scoured Bridge Systems
(2014)Bridges are a vital infrastructure component of the transportation networks in both rural and urban areas. Damaged or destroyed bridges can affect the reliability and resilience of transportation networks that are critical ... -
Statistical Analysis of Resilience Distribution and Application to Rural Electric Distribution System subjected to Hurricane Wind
(2021)Several mathematical frameworks and models are proposed to quantify the resilience of power systems against hurricane events. However, these frameworks contribute to the urban area's large-scale transmission system or ... -
A study of smart device-based mobile imaging and implementation for engineering applications
(2013)Mobile imaging has become a very active research topic in recent years thanks to the rapid development of computing and sensing capabilities of mobile devices. This area features multi-disciplinary studies of mobile hardware, ...