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van Sambeek, Boudewijn (author)The European Union (EU) landfilled and incinerated 600 million tons of waste in 2013, which could have been recycled and returned as raw material to the economy. Resource efficiency can regain this value and bring economic, environmental and social benefits. The EU has therefore adapted the Circular Economy Package with targets to stimulate the...master thesis 2019
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Pezzato, Corrado (author)Dealing with inherently unmodeled dynamics and large parameter variations or faults, is a challenging task while controlling robot manipulators. Classical control techniques cannot usually provide satisfactory responses, and often external supervision systems have to be designed to handle the faults. Recent research has shown that active...master thesis 2019
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Zhou, Zequn (author)Urban areas are rapidly expanding in developing countries. One of goals of the United Nations Human Settlement Programme (UN-Habitat) is to understand and guide urban development for some developing regions.<br/>Currently, the approaches that UN-Habitat is using cost plenty of workforce, material, and time. Therefore, UN-Habitat is interested in...master thesis 2019
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de Groot, Stef (author)Technology developments are making it possible to start automating the last-mile of parcel logistics. This raises the question of how these autonomous technologies will interact with humans. The goal of this project is to design a concept of a delivery robot for DHL, that maximizes acceptance by pedestrians. <br/><br/>Literature research and...master thesis 2019
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de Wolde, Lotte (author)This design project investigates how commoning can support the practice of urban foraging, resulting in a framework that describes the social characteristics of commoning and the abilities and opportunities for urban foraging. The framework led to a design showcase, called Get To Gather, which is an interactive board in public space to let...master thesis 2019
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Wu, Ting Wei (author)Congestion in the landside air cargo supply chain occurs for different concurring reasons. Lack of coordination between freight forwarders, as example, might create truck congestion on the ground handler side. Horizontal collaboration between forwarders can be introduced and modeled via mathematical programming to mitigate congestion. Resulting...master thesis 2019
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Boerenveen, Jair (author)The fracture energy for hardwood was modeled using finite element modeling (FEM) software DIANA. The results of the model was compared to the fracture energy experimental research performed by Boerenveen (2019). The fracture energy results obtained by the model are similar to the results obtained from the experimental research. An model fracture...student report 2019
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Karthikeyan, Kritika (author)The ambitious energy policy goals set by the European Union have accelerated the pace at which energy efficiency and clean energy measures are being adopted. The Netherlands, lagging behind by a massive margin in transitioning to a green energy infrastructure, feel the need, now more than ever, to push the integration of renewable energy into...master thesis 2019
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Nagda, Neel (author)Stringent control demands from the high-tech mechatronics industry have warranted the need to explore potentially advantageous non-linear controllers. Variable Fractional Order (VFO) calculus provides one such avenue to build non-linear PID-like controllers. VFO calculus is the generalization of integer order differentiation and integration,...master thesis 2019
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Rijnveld, Justus (author)In a period where digitization rapidly influences the corporate world, Cloud Computing (CC) has emerged over the past years as well. CC refers to offering hardware, software, and data by a provider over a network and can benefit organizations enormously regarding cost efficiency, operational excellence, and innovation. Software-as-a-Service ...master thesis 2019
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ten Napel, Albert (author)Side-effect are ubiquitous in programming. Examples include mutable state, exceptions, non-determinism, and user input. Algebraic effects and handlers are an approach to programming that gives a structured way of programming with effects. Each effect in a system with algebraic effects is defined by a set of operations. These operations can then...master thesis 2019
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Torres Di Zeo, Alvaro (author)The availability of photolithography machines is key in the semiconductor industry, as downtime generally incurs in immense economic loss. Time to market is also very important for suppliers of photolithography systems, such as ASML. Photolithography machines include numerous measurement systems that are frequently used for qualification and...master thesis 2019
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Hong, Eunkyu (author)The family is the most intimate social environment given to us, and this basic social element plays an important role as we get older. However, changes in family structure and increasing physical distance between family members due to globalization make it difficult to care for the elderly by the family. In the global age, distance from the most...master thesis 2019
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Agrawal, Charu (author)Imagine being lost in a desert with a bunch of friends, all of a sudden. Survival will be difficult. You will have mirages, distrust among friends and no means to leave landmarks on the sand. Unable to locate yourself, you will have no means to contact people with maps. The best you can do in such a situation is to stay together in the vicinity...master thesis 2019
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Bolaños Arriola, Julieta (author)Product Service Systems (PSSs) are considered to be a promising approach towards a sustainable, resource efficient economy (Tukker, A., 2015) (defined as ‘a mix of tangible products and intangible services designed and combined so that they are jointly capable of fulfilling final customer needs’ (Tukker, A. & Tischner, 2006)), because they...master thesis 2019
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van der Plaats, Lisa (author)The quality of rigid endoscopes deteriorates during clinical use due to the sterilization process, mechanical forces and wear and tear during regular use. Regulations and standards on ensuring the quality of these instruments are currently non-existent or contain only qualitative measures, resulting in subjective examinations . Defective rigid...master thesis 2019
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Pandey, Saksham (author)Hydrogenated Indium Oxide (IOH) has been recognized as a high performance transparent conductive oxide (TCO) due to its excellent mobility (>100 cm2/Vs) and high transparency (>90%) in the visible and near infrared region of the spectrum. Plasma enhanced spatial atomic layer deposition (PESALD), a new type of deposition process developed...master thesis 2019
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Srinivasan, Aditya Vasan (author)The increasing availability of data, computing power & advances in the algorithms has really driven the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in recent years. However, many industries & societies despite realizing the value of AI are still skeptical in accepting AI, especially when several controversial incidents have come into our...master thesis 2019
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Goorden, Marjolijn (author)Reducing carbon emissions in the power generation sector can be done by generating energy from renewable sources such as wind and sun. However these sources alone cannot provide a reliable electricity system and therefore an energy storage system is needed. Power-to-gas is a concept in which surplus renewable electricity is used for the...master thesis 2019
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Vizcarro Carretero, Marc (author)Meaningful dual-polarized radar estimations suitable for radar meteorology require a cross-polarization discrimination (XPD) and isolation (XPI) in excess of 30 dB to reach a differential reflectivity accuracy lower than 0.1 dB. A planar dual-polarized patch antenna array featuring low cross-polarization is proposed to meet these requirements...master thesis 2019