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Lee, Joe (author)Composite lattice structures (CLS) offer high performance and demonstrate significant mass savings in space structure applications. Local modifications of regular lattice designs have the potential to further improve the lattice performance. This research explored the micro-structural quality features of CLSs manufactured with pre-preg fibre...master thesis 2019
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Gokçe, Yağmur (author)Imagine a neighborhood where almost all of the decisions are left to its inhabitants; a neighborhood where all of the inhabitants cultivate soil to grow their food for their own consumption, in other words prosumerism*. This newly established neighborhood is Oosterwold which is located in the intersection of Dutch cities Almere and Zeewolde....master thesis 2019
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Prajod, Pooja (author)With the advent of social robots which are designed to be 'social', human-like interactions have become a necessity. It is natural for us to use a plethora of emotions to convey additional information or to make an interaction more engaging. But emotion expression is not commonly associated with robots. Many humanoid robots cannot generate...master thesis 2019
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Kensen, Chav (author)In hospitals, the duration of surgical procedures is susceptible to a number a factors resulting in varying procedure durations of the same procedure. When these procedure times deviate from the predicted surgical duration, scheduling conflicts arise, leading to patient discomfort and inefficient use of hospital resources. Considering the aging...master thesis 2019
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Ambrosi, Matteo (author)During the advance of a tunnel boring machine (TBM), the torque applied to rotate the cutterhead must overcome the resisting moments acting on it. Hence, one of the major concerns of TBM design is to determine the torque and power requirements of the excavation machine. The first empirical approach for torque estimation was developed in the 80’s...master thesis 2019
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Bļinovs, Arturs (author)Before performing a field production forecast, an inverse problem has to be solved. Resulting in an ensemble of models that include the integration of real data with a complex physical and geological data describing subsurface processes. For large models, this approach can be very time and computationally expensive, therefore we propose an...master thesis 2019
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Ali, Irfan (author)Offshore wind farms are being developed at locations with moderate ice conditions such as the Baltic Sea, where drifting sea ice upon interacting with offshore structures could lead to the development of a phenomenon known as Ice-induced vibrations (IIV). These vibrations are especially severe when the turbine is idling. Current mitigation...master thesis 2019
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Gideonse, Pieter (author)Currently a new small and automated dairy factory for the onsite production of cheese at farms is under devel-opment. This new factory aims at the production of cheese without any human interaction, based on the (raw) milk from cows who are milked with a milking robot. At the moment only a small test factory exists, in which human interaction is...master thesis 2019
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Todorović, Tea (author)New, innovative technologies are important. More and more companies are using digital technologies to their benefit. The act of leveraging such digital technologies to enable organisational improvements in a strategic way is called a digital transformation. In such transformations, the customer experience, operational processes and business...master thesis 2019
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Shor, Dan (author)Arthur C. Clarke said: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic,” and cutting edge Virtual Reality (VR) certainly is quite the illusion. VR opens to us a near infinite set of worlds and possibilities. Comprehensive, Immersive, Virtual Environments (IVEs) will change the way we shop, explore, love and live. They’ll...master thesis 2019
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Su, Guigeng (author)With an LFMCW automotive radar operating at its center frequency of 77GHz, the sequential estimation of frequency and amplitude for vital signs, namely, respiration and heartbeat, are considered. The radar response of vital signs is described and analyzed. With extraction of the phase history, extended Kalman filter and particle filter are...master thesis 2019
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van der Mark, Kevin (author)OFDM is a common modulation technique applied in the video downlink of drones. In order to eavesdrop on this link, the OFDM signal needs to be demodulated. OFDM demodulators separate orthogonal subcarriers to obtain single carrier signals. This process requires a lot of prior information on the signal parameters. <br/><br/>This thesis presents...master thesis 2019
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Epe, Gerco (author)Temperature excursions show that goods that are transported from an aircraft to the warehouse are exposed to ambient temperature for too long, affecting the temperature of the cargo. KLM Cargo has a cool chain project that tends to gain more insight in the operational performance. With the exposure as KPI, defined as Degree-Hours, all subsequent...master thesis 2019
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Martinez Lopez, Arturo (author)As solar energy finds its way into unexpected applications such as buildings or objects, the traditional rectangle-shaped module becomes inadequate. Although traditional modules have been optimized to deliver a large amount of power, they cannot be fitted easily into a façade or a wearable. This is why, new methods for integrating solar power...master thesis 2019
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van den Bergh, Arjan (author)Grabs are often used for unloading bulk carriers that transport iron ore cargoes around the globe. The unloading process is time-consuming, and terminals strive to maximise their turnover capacity. Grab performance is a combination of maximum crane capacity, grab design and bulk material behaviour. Due to bulk uncertainties occurred by varying...master thesis 2019
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Li, Jiahui (author)A cross-domain visual place recognition (VPR) task is proposed in this work, i.e., matching images of the same architectures depicted in different domains. VPR is commonly treated as an image retrieval task, where a query image from an unknown location is matched with relevant instances from geo-tagged gallery database. Different from...master thesis 2019
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de Visser, Rolan (author)After the construction of the Grevelingendam (1965) and Brouwersdam (1971), the tidal movement in Lake Grevelingen disappeared. This caused a deterioration of ecological parameters influencing the surrounding flora and fauna and consequently a decline of the water quality set in. Amongst others, Rijkswaterstaat and the provinces of Zeeland and...master thesis 2019
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Hegde, Anoosh (author)Safety is an important parameter considered during the design of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and fully autonomous vehicles.<br/>One of the ways to assess the road vehicle's safety is by estimating the likelihood with which the vehicle can react to prevent the danger. <br/>In the presence of an impending collision (hazard), the trajectory...master thesis 2019
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Venkateswaran, Srivats (author)With the increase in the number of utility-scale PV power plants being integrated into the grid, there has been a rise in interest in the testing and validation of components involved in these power plants. Due to the inflexibility of the current field testing methods, there is an increased push towards validation of the involved components...master thesis 2019
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Hanif Dinul Islam, Hanif (author)More than 30% of the world’s hydrocarbon reserves are located in carbonate reservoirs, and this percentage is likely to increase, as a result of discoveries of new giant oil fields in carbonate rocks, generically named “Pre-salt layers”. However, there are still some problems in understanding karst systems that still unresolved. The karst caves...master thesis 2019