Planning for justice: A value-based framework to help spatial planners develop just housing strategies in Dutch regions

The current Dutch housing domain is characterised by injustices on multiple scales, such as a shortage of housing, disparities in well-being across regions, and unaffordable housing. This situation can partially be attributed to spatial planning practices focused on promoting growth-oriented economic thinking. These contemporary planning...

Constraint Handling in RV-GOMEA

The Real-Valued Gene-pool Optimal Mixing Evolutionary Algorithm (RV-GOMEA) is a state-of-the-art algorithm for single-objective, real-valued optimization. As many practical applications are inherently constrained, evolutionary algorithms are equipped with constraint handling techniques to allow optimizing constrained problems. The approach...

Switching from Open Source to Cloud Protection License: What is the impact on Community Health?

This thesis studies companies which developed open source software but adopted cloud protection licenses, a novel type of software licenses which protect their business from competitors but potentially affect their open source communities. It addresses the practical problem of executives of the companies who miss information about the effects of...

PLASTICITY: Shaping the transitions to a resilient and circular plastic manufacturing system

Different government bodies, from the European Union down to the Port of Rotterdam Authority have implemented the policy goal to become circular by 2050 to minimize demand and dependence on finite resources. However, a circular economy - an economic model in which materials circulate in closed loops and waste is viewed as a resource - is vastly...

The Northern European Enclosure Dam: A study on the technical feasibility of the enclosure dam

Sea level rise caused by climate change directly affects and threatens low-lying countries. In August of 2021, the report of the IPCC was published, and the findings were disturbing. The sea could rise by a few meters in the coming centuries, causing floods in large parts of West-Europe. Groeskamp and Kjellson proposed a solution to adapt to the...

Nonlinear control of electronic converters: Fast and optimal control using sampling-driven nonlinear MPC

This thesis considers the design of the sampling-driven nonlinear model predictive controller (SD-NMPC) for power electronic converters. Most MPC schemes that are used nowadays lack in the application for systems with high sampling frequencies because of their high computational time, especially when the system is nonlinear. This is, for example...

Socio-Technical Agent-Based Modelling of Decision-Making in an Airline Operational Control Center: Application to an unexpected diversion use case at KLM CityHopper

This paper proposes a socio-technical agent-based model developed to increase the understanding of decision-making in an airline operational control center (AOCC). In this model human decision-makers, a Decision Support Tool, and technical systems are included. The selected case study encompasses the<br/>unexpected diversion of a flight from...

An Optimisation and Forecasting Framework for ULD Packing in the Air Cargo Supply Chain

The air cargo industry is a challenging environment due to the high competition between the stakeholders involved. This demands, as example, high efficiency from cargo airlines. Efficiency can be ensured by designing loading strategies that fully exploit the available cargo volume. Unknowns in the booking dimensions and flight information make...

Characterization of the inflow wind field using SpinnerLiDAR measurements in ScanFlow project

The height of wind turbines continues to increase, making the need for more and higher wind measurements for wind turbine model calibrations also increase. The Energy-research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN) and the Danish Technical University (DTU) have conducted the ScanFlow campaign in the winter of 2016/2017 to study the inflow wind field of...

Ultra Wide Band Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging: Radar Movement

This thesis is part of the ”Ultra Wideband Synthetic Aperture Radar Imaging” project of the bachelor Electrical Engineering graduation program in the fourth quarter of the teaching year 2016-2017. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) is used to make images of the environment of a car. These images are, in combination with GPS, needed to give an...

Crafting the disused: Local waste material transformation potential and integrated waste management on a decentralised scale

Waste pollution is becoming an ever increased challenge and this is even more so the case in Indonesia. Landfills are notoriously overfilled which, together with little spatial opportunity for appropriate waste storage and separation on a local scale, as well as a lack of knowledge leads to a majority of waste being disposed of on road sides,...

At Home in the City

The aim of this graduation studio was to find new ways of housing elderly with dementia in the city of Rotterdam. Current nursing homes lack a connection with their surroundings, due to their organization of smaller living groups clustered in islands of elderly. Inside the living groups there is great attention for creating a home-like feeling...

Derivative versus Clean-Sheet Approach: Design and Analysis of Different Concepts for a new Medium-Range Aircraft

Two approaches were used and compared to design a new medium-range passenger aircraft: a derivative design based on the A330-200 long-range aircraft and a completely new clean-sheet design. Four different derivative configurations, with different materials and levels of commonality to the A330-200, and one clean-sheet configuration were defined,...

Beo Rhythm - Physically engaged audio product

The graduation project of Filippo Koch covers the student’s seven-month of collaboration with Bang & Olufsen focusing on proposing alterative way of interacting with audio systems. The thesis explores the current mood color based selction system implemented in the BeoSound Moment and propose a design exploration about it. The overall intention...

An asymmetric speech coding algorithm for non real-time speech applications in multi-media systems

After looking at properties of speech and existing speech coding algorithms, a proposal for a new asymmetric speech coding algorithm is done. An asymmetric algorithm is a system in which the decoder is significantly simpler than the encoder. The purpose of this asymmetry is to exchange encoding delay for a decrease in bitrate. These algorithms...