Viability assessment of privately owned battery energy storage systems and demand-side response for medium voltage grid congestion relief

In response to the urgent need for sustainable energy solutions and climate change mitigation, international agreements such as the Paris Agreement have been instrumental in advocating reduced greenhouse gas emissions. As the world shifts towards renewable energy sources and electrification, there arises a heightened challenge of increased...

Printing Reinforcement Steel: A study towards optimised, additive manufactured steel for reinforced concrete

In light of the global attempts to reduce material use by the construction industry, this research focuses on combining topology optimisation with additive manufacturing of steel. It is investigated whether an automated procedure can be developed to generate reliable strut and tie models for reinforced concrete elements, while satisfying the...

Learning to walk using minimum prior knowledge: And a small hexapod robot

Future robotic systems are expected to be so complex, that the required information -- or prior knowledge -- to program them is not always available and has thus to be discovered in an alternative way. This can be done using Reinforcement Learning (RL) algorithms, that learn from experience. This way of programming can also be beneficial for...

Textile reinforced double curved concrete elements

The construction of buildings with free-form concrete surfaces can be accompanied with relatively high costs due to the production of uniquely shaped curved concrete elements. Delft University of Technology researches a method to produce such elements in a cost-efficient way using a re-usable flexible mould. The method requires a flexible...