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Hinssen, Yara (author)Aeroacoustic testing in wind tunnels is crucial for understanding and mitigating the noise generation mechanisms in several devices while maintaining satisfactory aerodynamic performance in the conceptual design stage. However, current measurements in closed-section wind tunnels face challenges in terms of installation, due to the effect of the...master thesis 2024
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Agarwal, Sakshi (author)Reconfigurable Intelligent Surfaces (RIS) are envisioned to become a pivotal transformative technology within the realm of 6G mobile networks. In this study, we introduce three heuristic algorithms designed to optimize radio resource management, ultimately enhancing throughput within a RIS-enhanced mobile network. Our findings demonstrate that...master thesis 2023
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Chen, Wenxu (author)Hybrid beamforming (HBF) architecture provides promising trade-offs between the system performance and computational/hardware complexity in practical implementations of millimeter wave (mm-Wave) massive multiple-input multiple-output (mMIMO) 5th generation (5G) mobile networks compared to its fully digital beamforming (DBF) counterpart. In this...master thesis 2023
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WEI, LAI (author)3-D ultrasound imaging using a 2-D array provides much more information about our body than conventional 2-D imaging. However, due to the large number of elements in a 2-D array, channel count reduction is required and the power and area budget for each element is limited. It is quite challenging to design an ultrasound interface circuit with...master thesis 2023
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Hirsch, Quentin (author)In 3D seismic data acquisition, sufficiently dense spatial sampling is most often not possible, because of physical, financial, and temporal constraints. The resulting aliased data is a major obstacle for accurate subsurface images. Therefore, methods are needed to reconstruct these sparse data to an adequate sampling. We develop a novel...master thesis 2022
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Birari, Natasha (author)An exponential growth in the mobile communications industry over the past decade has raised concerns over it’s energy consumption, especially in light of the current climate crisis. 5G technologies in particular exhibit features that imply high power consumption, such as the densification of 5G base stations. Implementing mitigation measures...master thesis 2022
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den Ouden, Carleyn (author)To run Nature’s Heat geothermal operations (Kwintsheul, The Netherlands) in a safe and efficient manner, and with the support of the local population, it is important to mitigate potential hazards. A well known potential hazard related to geothermal operations is the occurrence of induced seismicity due to injection and extraction of fluids in...bachelor thesis 2022
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Moree, Tijs (author)The most common serious heart rhythm disease is atrial fibrillation. It is not fatal on its own but does increase the risk of heart failures and strokes. There is little understanding about the mechanisms behind the disease, so more insight is desired. Using an array of electrodes, measurements are being performed of the electrical atrial...master thesis 2022
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Subramaniam, Indulakshmi (author)Active implantable devices are conventionally powered with batteries. The miniaturisation of implants necessitates the need to find an efficient way to transfer power wirelessly. Ultrasound energy transfer with its short wavelength, small receiving transducer size, beamforming capability makes deep tissue penetration possible making it a good...master thesis 2021
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Buenaventura Camps, Marta (author)New generations of mobile communications are much more demanding in order to provide critical real-time services and extremely fast connections that have become feasible with 5G. A wider spectrum is needed to achieve such high data rates and millimeter-wave frequencies are used for this purpose. Adaptive beamforming is applied at base stations...master thesis 2021
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Gîrdianu, Alex (author)There is an increasing demand for a highly accurate weather system on the runway for early detection and warning of severe weather phenomena. Due to the high performances of a phased array radar system in terms of time-resolution and elevation-resolution, an already existing fast-rotating phased array radar, 60 RPM, is studied to find the...master thesis 2021
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Smit, Hein-Dirk (author)In recent years, there has been a rise of electric propeller aircraft in the field of general aviation. These propeller aircraft greatly reduce the emissions and engine noise compared to conventional aircraft, but noise coming from the propeller stays unchanged. Acoustic imaging, using beamforming, could help in the characterization of...master thesis 2021
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Buijs, Laurens (author)This thesis is focused on Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks (WASNs) used for beamforming in a speech enhancement task. Since each node in a WASN has its own clock, clock offsets and clock skews between the nodes are inevitable. Clock offsets and clock skew can be detrimental to the beamformer performance. In this thesis we focus on the effect of...master thesis 2020
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Morandini, Ludovic (author)Measuring temperature variations of the deep ocean is necessary to evaluate the heat flux between the atmosphere and the hydrosphere and thus calibrate climate change models. In the last two decades a passive alternative to profiling oceanographic floats has emerged: hydroacoustic thermometry. This method consists of using the oceanic ambient...master thesis 2020
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Sathyapriyan, V. (author)For people with hearing impairment, it is important to have good speech intelligibility, while also being able to localise the sound sources. Many beam-forming algorithms for hearing aids have been proposed, that minimise the noise, in combination with spatial scene preservation of the target and the interferers. By constraining the spatial cues...master thesis 2020
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Cesari, Eleonora (author)To achieve CO2 emissions reductions, the automotive industries are moving towards more sustainable solutions. One of those are fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) which rely on the chemical reaction of hydrogen to produce electricity. The hydrogen is stored in a gaseous and compressed form in composite pressure vessels (CPVs) which must be...master thesis 2020
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Besnea, Irina (author)With increasing UAV operations, tailored measures need to be implemented to integrate the massive employment of these vehicles in day-to-day operations. One of the current issues of UAVs is the noise emitted by these vehicles. The purpose of this research is to offer a doorway towards understanding the behavior of drone noise with changing...master thesis 2020
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von den Hoff, Bieke (author)Over the past years, noise nuisance around airports strongly increased resulting in the need for aircraft noise reduction. Therefore, the noise sources should be known. This thesis assesses a new acoustic imaging method to identify sources on aircraft fly-over measurements. The proposed Global Optimisation (GO) algorithm is based on the theory...master thesis 2020
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Laguduvan Thyagarajan, Prithvi (author)Stereo Thermo-Optically Enhanced Radar for Earth, Ocean, Ice, and land Dynamics (STEREOID) is one of the candidates of the ESA (European Space Agency) , Earth Explorer 10 missions. The novel constellation system will consist of the active Sentinel-1 satellites and two passive spacecrafts, which can provide flexible baseline configurations. The...master thesis 2019
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Ahmed, Sheeraz (author)Recent advancements in Multiple-Input Multiple-Output (MIMO) radar techniques has created a paradigm shift in the overall radar technology to increase degrees of freedom in multi-function radar capabilities. The underlying principle of MIMO transmissions is to transmit independent waveforms from each antenna-element which do not interfere with...master thesis 2019