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Allegaert, Elias (author)As the complexity of high-tech systems continuously increases, engineers look for possibilities to reduce time and cost of the development of these systems. Architecture-based design enables a front-loaded design process with knowledge reuse. By enabling the automatic synthesis of simulation models, different configurations of an architecture...master thesis 2017
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Li, Natalie (author)A proposal of the hyperloop was announced by Elon Musk in 2013. It is a new mode of transportation where vehicles travel in a low-pressure tube to minimise air friction. Hardt Global Mobility is one of the companies developing this new transportation system. One of the main challenges for Hardt is to attain a highly efficient system that also...master thesis 2017
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Bovens, Bella (author)When you are ill, a visit to the hospital is often a stressful and worrisome experience. Especially when you are a child and you cannot fully understand or imagine what is going to happen to you. A clinical environment that contains ‘scary’ looking medical equipment does not make you feel at ease. On the contrary, this can be experienced as...master thesis 2017
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Henseler, Matthijs (author)The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) form potentially a great communications framework for financial institutions to report on their indirect environmental sustainability performance. To date, however, no serious effort has been made to specifically assess a financial institution's indirect impact - its impact through the...master thesis 2017
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van Lierop, Bas (author)With the introduction of the BS115, an ultra-light two-seater general aviation aircraft, a new opportunity for military pilot training is presented. To increase the training potential of this aircraft, the training effectiveness has been investigated. Previous research on training effectiveness assessment has failed to address the influence of...master thesis 2017
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Bruyn, Tim (author)This report is a discussion of the 1984 report 'An automatic proof procedure for several geometries' by Th. Bruyn and H.L. Claasen, inspired by a personal desire to understand the work of Th. Bruyn. See: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:b768c6ce-f625-4236-9b0b-32a47fab143e <br/>Bruyn and Claasen prove that certain true propositions of the theory...bachelor thesis 2017
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van der Meché, Jolien (author)In the Netherlands, approximately 1.750 people are diagnosed with pancreatic cancer each year. Approximately 20% of these new patients are operated with curative intent. This surgical treatment, called pancreaticoduodenectomy leads to a five-year survival rate of 5-10%. Laparoscopic pancreaticoduodenectomy (LPD) is a complex surgical procedure...master thesis 2017
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Ravulakollu, Anil (author)Today, shipping industry is a complex system involving multiple actors, multiple interests and intricate interactions occurring at different levels.With any disruption to interaction occurring there would be multiple impacts and accumulation of costs on individual actors operating in the system.Unless these risks are well understood and...master thesis 2017
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Grutterink, Roeland (author)Spliethoff is a ship-operating company with around 120 cargo vessels under management.<br/>The vessels of Spliethoff are generating a lot of operational data as they sail around the globe. To make better decisions based on this data, a system is required that takes operational data and translates it to useful information, accessible in the offce...master thesis 2017
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Zijta, Marcella (author)In this Bachelor thesis we researched the second order finite element method as a method to solve the one-dimensional Westervelt wave equation. The Westervelt equation is a wave equation that describes the propagation of a nonlinear plane wave. The goal was to use a first order finite element method and a second order finite element method to...bachelor thesis 2017
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Moreels, Simon (author)In order to produce more complex parts, additive manufacturing is on the rise as a competitor for more conventional manufacturing methods. Unfortunately, additive manufacturing often produces products with a less desirable tolerance and surface roughness. Subtractive methods require special tooling and fixtures for each part design and typically...master thesis 2017
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Jiang, Jingyan (author)Nowadays, there is growing consensus, among policy makers and market participants, that Demand Response (DR) is a critical resource for achieving increasing competitiveness and more efficient operation in the electricity system, as well as greater sustainability in the society. When there will be more intermittent energy sources like solar and...master thesis 2017
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Li, Xilin (author)A pathological tremor is an involuntary and periodic motion of a body part. The detection and quantification of a pathological tremor are essential for diagnosis and therapy. The goal of this research is to detect the frequency of the pathological tremor. Instead of detecting tremors by using a specific medical device, we propose a new...master thesis 2017
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Elpenhof, Chris (author)Applying wind turbines to create renewable energy is used by many companies around the world. However, in the mining industry, only two projects use wind energy. In the mining industry, energy consumption can be up to twenty-five megawatts per tonne of produced material. The main reason is the use of fossil fuel for generators in off-grid...bachelor thesis 2017
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Neven, Job (author)Nowadays, the number of robotic systems grows enormously. In order to execute their task, many of these robots need a fixturing gripper to grasp and hold objects. To reduce the environmental impact, the operational costs, the size of actuators and to improve the uptime of mobile robots, it becomes increasingly important to design robots for a...master thesis 2017
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van der Spaa, Linda (author)Current robots consume a lot of energy. The work required for a task is generally just a tiny fraction of the total energy consumed. Most energy wastefully dissipated. Design of the 2 degree of freedom (DoF) Plugless Robot Arm shows that clever design can reduce these energy losses to a tiny remaining fraction. The Plugless Arm is designed to...master thesis 2017
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Voorrips, Yvonne (author)In the PHD researches of Jasper Wesselingh and Phuc Vuong, an active air film positioning system for thin substrates was developed. To apply this concept in an industrial environment, this research has to be extended to include both a positioning and a transportation system. An important part for up scaling the system is having an accurate...master thesis 2017
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Meijer, Ricardo (author)Container vessels arriving in a port before or after their scheduled time can cause problems in the container terminal planning and planning of hinterland transportation. This in turn leads to an increase of the costs in the supply chain. Vessels communicate their Estimated Time of Arrival via Automatic Idetification System(AIS) data to the port...master thesis 2017
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Li, Ke (author)Due to the rapid increase of global trade and deepening integration within the European Union (EU), freight transport across the EU has had relatively fast growth. However, constraints of transport infrastructure, interoperability and governance issues do slow down the developments of freight transport. There is a need for transport planning...master thesis 2017