Design and Functional Assessment of a Versatile Gripper for a Care-Robot

The Netherlands has a severe shortage of care workers. The shortage is expected to increase in the coming years. Care-robots could provide a solution, by taking work out of the hands of the care workers. The potential utility of the care-robot is dependent on the functionality of the gripper. The goal of this study was to design and develop a...

Two-dimensional morphodynamical equilibria in a double inlet system

In this thesis, the foundations are explored for establishing two-dimensional depth-integrated morphodynamical equilibria for a long embayment with two tidal inlets connected to the open sea. Governing water motion, suspended sediment transport and bed evolution equations had to be rederived from the underlying balances, where the tidal inlets...

Shear Strengthening of Prestressed Concrete I-Girders: Using Externally Bonded Carbon-Fibre Reinforced Polymers

The innovative shear strengthening method using externally bonded CFRP reinforcement to strengthen prestressed concrete I-girders has been investigated in this thesis. These girders potentially have insufficient shear capacity because of the combination of thin webs and insufficient shear reinforcement. Shear failure of these girders should be...

The elderly network: Implementation of an elderly network in an existing neighbourhood

Designing for Care: Towards an inclusive living environment for elderly people. The implementation of an elderly network in an existing neighbourhood.

Modelling and Control of Deep Sea Heave Compensation

Heave Compensation (HC) greatly improves the operability of lifting operations at sea, performed from ships under influence of heave motion. Especially with long cables and heavy payloads, the payload starts moving with larger amplitudes than the ship itself when no HC control is involved. HC aims to decouple the ships vertical motion due to the...

A fault tolerant memory architecture for a RISC-V softcore

Technolution B.V. is developing a custom Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC)-V based softcore for implementation on a Field Programmable Gate Array (FPGA). Previously, the softcore used the memory residing on the FPGA only, which is very limited in capacity and limits scaling. To solve this problem, a connection is made from the softcore to...

Optische krachtmeting op een roeiboot: Een onderzoek naar het meten van de buiging van een roeiriem met behulp van een lasersensor afkomstig uit een computermuis

Op dit moment is er in de roeisport geen goedkope oplossing om het individuele vermogen van roeiers in de boot te meten en daarover nuttige informatie aan de roeiers te verstrekken. In deze scriptie is uitgezocht op wat voor manieren dit wel mogelijk zou zijn. Er worden meetsystemen op de roeiriem, op de dol en op de dolpen besproken om de...

Development Plan Dordrecht Seaports: Determination of the potential segments for the Dordrecht Seaports

Dordrecht Seaports (DS) is an inland port located next to Rotterdam with a direct connection to the North Sea. Since the first of July 2011 the Port of Rotterdam Authority (PoR) is taking over the management of the port from the municipality of Dordrecht. In the current situation not all companies are port related. The port related companies are...

Herontwikkeling Turmac fabriek

Redevelopment of an old sigarette factory in Zevenaar, the Netherlands. The programme contains a public groundfloor with markethall, Agricultural school and municipality. The first and second floor are residential areas

Prefeasibility study for the Port of Itajai

In southern Brazil, in the province of Santa Catarina, the port of Itajai is situated. The port is located at the mouth of the river Itajai-Acu, about 3 km inland. The Port of Itajai is very important for both the local and national economy because of its role in foreign trade, and due to this prominent role in the community many stakeholders...

Enkele ééndimensionale getijberekeningen volgens de impliciete methode met centrale differenties

De aanleiding om naast het hoofdonderwerp "de afsluiting van de Oosterschelde" ook een deelonderwerp te maken is, dat de afsluiting van een grote zeearm als de Oosterschelde niet tot stand kan worden gebracht voor dat men goed inzicht heeft in de hydraulische aspecten van de afsluiting. Er is alleen een eenvoudige kombergingsberekening van het...

De stofoverdracht met een snelle polycondensatiereactie in een vloeistof-vloeistof dispersie