ARchitechturing the journey: Speculating integration of immersive technologies in autonomous driving

Immersive technologies are redefining user interactions in the evolving digital landscape, promising deeper and almost physical digital experiences (Alpers et al., 2020). Concurrently, the mobility world is undergoing a paradigm shift, with an emphasis on advanced autonomous solutions. Such autonomy enables users to reclaim and repurpose their...

The Language of Reflection: A Linguistic Exploration of Reflection Written by Design Students

Reflective writing plays a vital role in the development of designers, enabling them to evaluate their experiences, enhance their learning, and foster professional growth. However, traditional methods of assessing reflective writing have limitations in terms of reliability and objectivity. To address this gap, this research project aims to...

Design Methodology and Optimization of Kick Stage Main Structures

Design and prototyping of high voltage switch for arbitrary waveform generator

Power Electronics in association with the high voltage technology has the potential to bring out new generation of electrification with well-integrated renewable resources. Various high voltage applications of power electronics include Solid State Transformers (SST), Photovoltaic Inverters (PV), and Shore-to-ship connections. A demand for faster...

Design of Control for Bidirectional DC/AC Converters

The increasing penetration of the distributed energy sources and the increasing load on the AC grid demands for integration of DC grids in AC distribution network. This has resulted in the requirement of power electronic converters such as DC/AC converters. For different operating conditions of the DC/AC converter it is not recommended for the...

Near-IR investigation of the thermal structure of the deep atmosphere of Venus

Despite a large number of in-situ missions, only VeGa-2 provided the high-resolution thermal measurements of the deep atmosphere of Venus below 12 km and they indicated a highly unstable layer below 7 km altitude. Lebonnois and Schubert (2017) tried to explain the VeGa-2 measurements by introducing a theory of a composition gradient in the deep...

Unsupervised Learning to Locate Weak Spots in the Medium Voltage Grid

The Medium Voltage (MV) network in the Netherlands is almost entirely composed of underground cables. The failure statistics show that the interruptions in the medium voltage have a high contribution in the mean outage time per year per customer. The interruptions in the medium voltage grid are often caused by failure of circuit components...

Disaggregating the costs and benefits of climate action: an assessment using DICE

Integrated assessment models (IAMs) are greatly influential in global climate policy discussions and decision making. Mainstream IAMs suggest climate mitigation pathways which amount to making very little changes to emissions, consumption, and investment patterns in the short term. Instead, they rely on back-loading the mitigation efforts to...

Exploring Multicore Architectures For Streaming Applications

The Smith Waterman algorithm is used to perform local alignment on biological sequences by calculating a similarity matrix. This process is computation-intensive. Only the elements along the minor diagonal of the matrix can be calculated in parallel, due to the nature of dependencies present in the algorithm. In the past, CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs...

Operating system support for a dynamically reconfigurable VLIW processor

The ρ-VEX is a dynamically reconfigurable VLIW processor, developed at TU Delft, which is capable of extracting large amounts of parallelism from applications running on it. However, without a dedicated software layer to dictate the reconfigurations, the ρ-VEX has to depend on another processor to carry out its reconfigurations meaningfully....

Economic outage scheduling of transmission line for long-term horizon under demand scenarios

Outage scheduling for maintenance in asset management of electrical transmission and distribution system plays an important role in power system reliability. For instance, failure probability of transmission line may change from time to time due to exogenous conditions. Impact of failure or service interruption can be described by using...

Maintenance planning of transmission assets under uncertainty for long-term horizon

Outage scheduling for maintenance in asset management of electrical transmission and distribution system plays an important role in power system reliability. For instance, failure probability of transmission line may change from time to time due to exogenous conditions. Impact of failure or service interruption can be described by using...

Computational Modeling of DLR Micro Gas Turbine Spray Burner

The current automobile industry is undergoing a paradigm shift from the conventional internal combustion engines to electric vehicles. Electro mobility is a greener alternative compared to the conventional engines. But one of the negative factors for the demand of electric cars is the maximum range which they can offer in a single battery charge...

Low Drift, Wireless Temperature Sensor for Harsh Industrial Applications

In this thesis, a stand-alone, battery powered, wireless temperature sensor that can be used for diagnostic purposes in harsh industrial environments, including magnetic interferences and very low pressure (vacuum), is presented. Being easily mountable and removable during machine stoppage, this autonomous temperature sensor can be used at any...

Numerical Modelling of Coastal Erosion using MIKE21

The purpose of this research is to model coastal erosion at a site on the Ural coast of the Baydara Bay, Russia. The research carried out in this thesis, aims to create a model to represent the hydrodynamics and sediment transport patterns prevalent at the site, using MIKE21 developed by DHI. The model is calibrated using the available data. The...