Save the meadow birds: Bird nest localization system for autonomous mowing machines

Inadvertent bird nest destruction by autonomous mowing machines poses significant threats to the breeding success of meadow birds. Drone-based detection methods represent the current state-of-the-art for bird nest localization to attain mower circumvention. However, they only identify 80% of bird nests with average localization error of 3.344...

The Effects of Open Data Communities on Open Data Benefits and Barriers

Governmental organisations worldwide are working on their open data strategies and are openly sharing their data with the public. Recently also open data communities have been set up by several national governments. The effects of setting up these data communities on open data benefits and barriers and whether an effect exists at all is not yet...

Study of Carbide Banding in 51CrV4 Spring Steel

51CrV4 is a spring steel commonly used for the production of trailing arms in the suspension assembly of trucks. It is essential for these products to be predictable and reliable. The presence of carbide banding in 51CrV4 steel can be detrimental to this predictable and reliable behavior. Therefore, in this research, the formation of carbide...

Graduation studio Havana, Cuba 2016

Providing analgesic laughing gas during birth in a home environment

This master thesis report, authored by Eva Schuurmans in 2016, lays the foundation for the development of a product that enables midwives in the Netherlands who facilitate births at home, to administer analgesic laughing gas to relief women in childbirth from pain. In this thesis, Eva presents a product concept that meets the strict regulations...

Validation of the force-field model for effective wake prediction. The force field model for effective wake prediction