Using Tensor Decompositions To Obtain Biomarkers From Auditory Event-Related Potentials

Brain disorders in children pose significant challenges to their development, impacting cognition, speech, movement, and behavior. The uncertainty surrounding prognostic information at the time of diagnosis leaves families with numerous questions about the future. The Child Brain Lab at Erasmus MC Sophia Children's Hospital conducts IQ,...

Development of 2D subsurface site characterization by the fusion of geotechnical and geophysical data

Site characterization is indispensable in the design phase of geotechnical engineering projects. As a key factor in site characterization, the characterization of soil undrained shear strength (S_u) is always in the spotlight. Various methods, including laboratory and in-situ tests, have been developed to measure S_u....

Water Balance Data Fusion Applied to River Basins in China

To obtain and fully use long series of high-precision observations of water balance components, it is necessary to quantify and reduce random and systematic data errors. This thesis applies and evaluates a previously developed data fusion methodology for bias-correcting and noise-filtering remote sensing observations of water balance variables...

Vegetation monitoring in coastal areas using readily available Remote Sensing data

Monitoring of the status of vegetation is required for nature conservation. However, doing this for large areas is a time intensive task. Now the use of aerial data from airplanes has made this task easier. However this data source is dependent on the weather conditions and permission to fly in the busy airspace above the Netherlands. An...

Reconstructing the attitude of the GRACE-FO mission based on fusion of star sensor, gyroscope and steering mirror data

On May 22, 2018, the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment Follow On (GRACE-FO) mission was launched with the goal to map the spatiotemporal variations in the Earth's gravity field and to extend the 15-year monthly mass change observations of its predecessor, the GRACE mission. Similarly to GRACE, the measurement principle of GRACE-FO is based...

Truck-platooning impacts on traffic

This research is carried out to determine the effect of truck platooning on traffic flow using empirical data. This research contains two parts, data fusion, and statistical analysis. For data fusion, loop detector data, infrastructure information and weather data will be added to the original data set. For statistical analysis, the time gap...

Dual-polarization multi-frequency radar data processing for moving target detection

This project develops and tests algorithms for joint signal processing of data from two radars located on the rooftop of EWI (PARSAX and MESEWI). The particular tasks consist of automatic alignment of radar data in space (2D map) and time by observing moving targets of opportunity in the high-resolution mode. After the data alignment procedure,...

Distributed State Estimation for Medium-Fidelity Wind Farm Models in pursuit of Model-Based Closed-Loop Control

In research, the overall power production in a wind farm is typically increased by employing model-based wind farm control. A controller, in an open-loop setting, operates based on the velocity of the wind flow, predicted by a wind farm model. For a controller to achieve the desired level of power production, a wind farm model has to be accurate...

Agent-based security risk assessment of the airport security system

The thought of being secure has been on the minds of people throughout history. Security is the protection against intended incidents. Intended incidents happen due to a result of a deliberate and planned act. Security systems are implemented in order to set up security precautions which have as main goal the protection of all assets present...