Understanding and modelling of motion sickness and its individual differences for the comfortable control of automated vehicles

By 2050 a large proportion of the cars on our roads will be self-driving and completely automated. We will no longer be driving these vehicles, but will be transported comfortably as passengers. We will be able to indulge in all sorts of media items in our vehicles, do work, or even just relax and sleep. Indeed, these fully automated vehicles...

Measuring, modelling and minimizing perceived motion incongruence: for vehicle motion simulation

Humans always wanted to go faster and higher than their own legs could carry them, leading them to invent numerous types of vehicles to move fast over land, water and air. As training how to handle such vehicles and testing new developments can be dangerous and costly, vehicle motion simulators were invented. <br/>Motion-based simulators in...

Time-series analysis to estimate aquifer parameters, recharge, and changes in the groundwater regime

The objective of this thesis is twofold: to develop time series analysis methods for the estimation of aquifer parameters and recharge to be used in groundwater models and to develop time series analysis methods for the identification and quantification of a regime change.<br/>In Chapter 2, a pumping test is replaced by time series analysis of...

Using Distributed Fiber-Optic Sensing Systems to Estimate Inflow and Reservoir Properties

Recent developments in the deployment of distributed fiber-optic sensing systems in horizontal wells carry the promise to lead to a new, cheap and reliable way of monitoring production and reservoir performance. Practical applicability of distributed pressure sensing for quantitative inflow detection will strongly depend on the specifications of...

Quantitative characterization of solute transport processes in the laboratory using electrical resistivity tomography

The shallow subsurface is an important zone from a social, economical, and environmental point of view. The increased use of the shallow subsurface together with the call for its protection and sustainable exploitation have increased the need for tools to monitor and characterize the subsurface, as well as for an improved understanding of the...

Data Assimilation for Marine Ecosystem Models

In the presence of environmental issues caused by climate change and eutrophication, ecosystem models capable of providing accurate predictions are of considerable interest. Even the most advanced ecological models are not capable of reproducing reality perfectly, therefore it is essential to integrate them with the available observations. Data...

Model-Based Control of Industrial Batch Crystallizers: Experiments on Enhanced Controllability by Seeding Actuation

Crystallization is one of the oldest separation and purification techniques. Batch crystallizers are widely used in production of fine chemicals, food ingredients, specialty chemicals, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Control of the crystalline material properties is a challenging task due to complexity and nonlinearity of batch...

Model-based optimization of the operation procedure of emulsification

Emulsions are widely encountered in the food and cosmetic industry. The first food we consume is an emulsion, namely breast milk. Other common emulsions are mayonnaise, dressings, skin creams and lotions. Equipment often used for the production of oil-in-water emulsions in the food industry consists of a stirred vessel in combination with a...

Statistiscal Experimental Design for Quantitative Atomic Resolution Transmission Electron Microscopy

Statistical experimental design is applied to set up quantitative atomic resolution transmission electron microscopy experiments. In such experiments, observations of the atomic structure of the object under study are always subject to spontaneous fluctuations. As a result of these fluctuations, the precision with which structure parameters can...

Semi-analytical long-arc satellite orbit computation and the estimation of time-varying gravity parameters