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Hablé, Joelle (author)Floating photovoltaic (FPV) is an emerging concept. Potential is recognized in combining FPV and off shore wind farms to create an offshore wind and solar farm. One of the remaining uncertainties around the potential of an offshore wind and solar farm is the value of the operations and maintenance cost. As one of the main contributing factors...master thesis 2022
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Giasoumi, Sofia (author)Installing wireless sensors on a network of waste containers, that monitor at regular intervals their waste fill levels and transmit the data to the cloud of a waste management operator over the internet, describes the Internet of Things (IoT). With this constant stream of data, the dynamic organization of waste collection schedules is enabled...master thesis 2022
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Rosado Bailon, Gisela (author)The safety of a commercial aircraft is a factor to consider from the early stages of its design to guarantee that this one's structure can protect the occupants inside in a low-speed crash. In an aircraft's primary structure such as a fuselage, where the occupants and cargo should be protected, the design regulations imposed by the EASA have...master thesis 2022
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van Bokkem, Dirk (author)The increasing global food demand, accompanied by the decreasing number of expert growers, brings the need for more sustainable and efficient solutions in horticulture. Consultancy company Delphy aims to face this challenge by taking a more data-driven approach, by means of autonomous growing inside the greenhouse. The controlled environment of...master thesis 2022
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Prins, Nina (author)Purpose - This development project is focused on the combination of project scheduling and risk mitigation for large infrastructure projects. The aim of this project is to develop a model that can automatically restructure the network schedule to enable that delay is mitigated as much as possible while the effects on multiple project criteria...master thesis 2022
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Wolbert, Jorick (author)The purpose of this thesis is to determine the most optimal material use and configuration of structural elements with regard to minimizing shadow costs associated with the main bearing construction of industrial halls. Central themes in thesis are reusability, parametric modelling and generative design. <br/><br/>The construction sector is...master thesis 2022
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van Bavel, Henri (author)In order to improve the autonomy of construction robots, a Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) solution is needed that localizes the robot using solely on-board sensing with sub-5 mm accuracy. As pointed out by the results of the Hilti SLAM Challenge, the state-of-the-art in SLAM currently does not offer a solution that comes close to...master thesis 2022
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van Veggel, Britt (author)Access to healthcare is a requirement for human well-being that is partly dependent upon safe infrastructure. One of the UN Sustainable Development Goals regarding healthcare is to achieve universal healthcare coverage, which includes access to qual- ity essential health-care services. In many developing nations, roads are often vulner- able to...master thesis 2022
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van Til, Yannick (author)The swift reduction of human’s carbon footprint is essential to prevent irreversible damage to the climate and to meet climate policy targets. Designing flexible and reliable future energy systems is a big contributor to meeting these goals. While energy system models have improved in the last few decades, they remain vulnerable against...master thesis 2021
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Thomson, Michael (author)The potential gain in energy production and profit by improving the placements of turbines within a wind farm is driving interest. However, finding the optimal placements provides a complex problem. A large number of inter-dependent design variables create a design space that is difficult to solve. Therefore there is much attention for offshore...master thesis 2021
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Gamboa Hernandez, Aline (author)This thesis aimed to aid ErasmusMC in the workforce planning process of deciding how to implement training among the nursing personnel in order to build a more flexible workforce, so the hospital can be prepared for fluctuating and unexpected demand, while minimizing the costs of doing so.<br/><br/>To accomplish this, a mathematical model was...master thesis 2021
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Corvaglia, Francesca (author)The growing global energy demand and correlated rise in carbon emissions is forcing us to increase the use of renewable sources. The residential sector represents a large part of the total energy consumption, and European governments are investing in distributed PV to increase the renewable share in this sector. However, on top of the solar...master thesis 2021
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Suryanarayanan, Surya Narayanan (author)Inverse design with topology optimization has followed the same computational<br/>graph for decades. The unknown material density is distributed within a domain,<br/>a computational analysis predicts the response of that design and its derivative<br/>with respect to the unknown, and this information is used by a chosen gradient<br/>based...master thesis 2021
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Feijen, Sven (author)The large-scale integration of variable renewable energy sources (VRES) brings about challenges related to the stochastic characteristics in supply. In this light, a recent and promising approach which has received increasing attention is that of multi-energy systems (MES). A MES is defined as an energy system whereby different energy sectors...master thesis 2021
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Kroonenberg, Nick (author)The Autonomous Low Energy Replenishment Dredger (ALERD) strives to revolutionize the dredging world. The ALERD operates autonomously underwater, which saves energy during the dredging process and transit. Autonomous underwater operation drives the need of alternative energy facilities. However, due to the energy savings of dredging, alternative...master thesis 2021
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van der Vlugt, Yanna (author)Patients visiting a hospital for elective surgery often have multiple consultations with a surgeon before undergoing surgery. Hospitals discern between different types of consultations, and make a schedule allocating timeslots of outpatient department sessions to these different consultation types several weeks in advance. Changing the...master thesis 2021
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Govers, Ide (author)Aviation has a negative impact on the environment. As the number of flights is expected to increase, the total environmental impact of aviation will continue to worsen. New solutions are required to mitigate these effects. Aircraft Trajectory Optimization For Environmental Impact (TOFEI) can help reduce the impact of aircraft pollutants while...master thesis 2021
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Talia, Lisa Marie (author)Climate change challenges the resiliency of our cities, and lack of spaces in densely paved areas makes it impossible to implement adaptation and mitigation strategies on the street level. However, buildings have often unused roofs, which can be converted into sustainable roofing options. Green roofs are systems which allow for the growth of...master thesis 2021
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de Koeijer, Niels (author)With the aid of an array of loudspeakers, sound zone algorithms seek to reproduce multiple distinct zones of audio inside an enclosure. Typical approaches determine the loudspeaker inputs by optimizing over a cost function that models the sound pressure inside the enclosure. However, recent methods propose cost functions that include a...master thesis 2021
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Vreugdenhil, Robbie (author)We propose a novel approximation hierarchy for cardinality-constrained, convex quadraticprograms that exploits the rank-dominating eigenvectors of the quadratic matrix. Each levelof approximation admits a min-max characterization whose objective function can be op-timized over the binary variables analytically, while preserving convexity in the...master thesis 2021