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Wortel, T.P. (author)Due to changing contract forms in road construction, contractors feel the need for accurate and fast quantity measurement methods. UAV Photogrammetry is a potential answer for contractors. Photogrammetric measurement processing should be automated in order to reach its full potential in speed and obtainability. Automatic extraction of reliable...master thesis 2009
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Van Zomeren, M. (author)The current way of communicating situation awareness through sketches has been found not sufficient as is seen during exercises of usar.nl. The proposed solution RubbleViewer presents the personnel with a 3d map where they can annotate information on. This map of a collapsed building is calculated by running photogrammetric algorithms on an...master thesis 2009
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Stam, J. (author)With the advent of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles, it becomes possible to use these vehicles to acquire photogrammetric images in a more cheap and flexible way compared with conventional photogrammetry from a full-sized airplane. A big factor in costs and resources in conventional photogrammetry is signalling and measuring ground control points, which...master thesis 2011
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Hummelink, B.A. (author)Today, there is an increase in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV's), for applications that can be considered dull, dirty or dangerous when compared to those applications of conventional aircraft or helicopters. To further increase the use of UAV's, their navigation filters must be robust and reliable. The trend in current autopilot...master thesis 2011
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Duives, D.C. (author)Several pedestrian crowd events that became disasters occurred in the last decade. Most of these events were either religious festivals, sport or music events. Even though these events are organized frequently, not a lot is known about pedestrian crowd movements. One of the key problems in the analysis is the lack of crowd movement data....master thesis 2012
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Van der Spek, I.T. (author), Voorsluys, M.H. (author)In this thesis first a study is conducted on which position determination method should be used in a UAV and especially in the Parrot AR.Drone. Then an autonomous control for the AR.Drone is designed. The best position determination method in this case appeared to be a combination of a GPS sensor and a barometer. The autonomous control is...bachelor thesis 2012
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Veerman, H.C.M. (author)Unmanned vehicles are important when it comes to performing a desired task in a dangerous or inaccessible environment. Unmanned robots, have been successfully used for many years. More recently, a growing interest in Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UASs) has arisen. In the past few years the development of sensors, microprocessors and propulsion...master thesis 2012
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Homulle, H.A.R. (author), Zimmerling, J.T. (author)An embedded electronic camera system for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) was developed in the scope of the final bachelor project at the TU Delft in 2012. The aim of the project was to develop a prototype for a new UAV competition. The electronic system of the prototype had to able to track an object, make a picture of it and send it to a ground...bachelor thesis 2012
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Meun, K. (author), Radeljic-Jakic, N. (author)In deze thesis laten we zien hoe we een sensor-node hebben ontwikkeld om te gebruiken in een Self Deploying Sensor Swarm (SDSS). Het doel van de opdracht is een systeem te maken dat het concept van follow-the-data demonstreert ter inspiratie voor verder onderzoek. De opdracht is opgesplitst in drie delen. Een deel intelligentie, een deel...bachelor thesis 2013
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Van den Bor, J. (author), Van Dijk, J.P.G. (author)In dit verslag behandelen we de aansturing van UAVs, afstandsbepaling tussen UAVs, communicatie tussen UAVs en collision avoidance voor een Self Deploying Sensor Swarm (SDSS). Het doel van de opdracht is om een demonstratie te maken van een SDSS waarmee bewezen kan worden dat het concept haalbaar is en dat hierin tevens ook het ‘follow-the-data’...bachelor thesis 2013
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Dukalski, R.R. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are an up-and-coming cost-effective solution in aerial monitoring, analysis and documentation. To this end, multi-rotor UAVs, such as the Aerialtronics Altura V2, offer accurate, automated, suspended flight, with minimal user engagement. The project investigated into whether such devices can be used effectively for...master thesis 2013
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Sunil, Emmanuel (author)This research investigates a neuromuscular analysis based tuning algorithm for haptic cues that has been hypothesized to simultaneously improve safety and workload when compared to heuristic tuning, applied to a haptic collision avoidance system for unmanned aircraft teleoperation. This novel tuning method considers the combined stiffness of the...master thesis 2014
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Ketelaars, V.J.M.J. (author)Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) are emerging in the industrial, consumer and re- search domains. A key challenge for UAS communications is overcoming slow and unreliable wireless connectivity by achieving high link utilization on multiple radio interfaces. We have developed and implemented a peer-to-peer communication framework, based on Dispersy...master thesis 2014
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Kolsteeg, J.M. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) teleoperators suffer from a reduced situational awareness, contributing to a high UAV accident rate. The implementation of a haptic interface is a way to provide them with more information about obstacles in the environment in order to compensate for this. Research focused on systems that actively help the...master thesis 2014
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Beuselinck, S.M.L. (author)Civil Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are outnumbered compared to the military equivalents. They could however be of great value to various organizations, companies and the general public. They currently seem to be on the verge of a breakthrough. An interesting technology that could help increase the flight performance of civil UAVs is the micro...master thesis 2015
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Marcellan, A. (author)A Master Thesis Research has been undertaken with the goal of investigating the potential of micro gas turbines as propulsion system of choice for small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) used in civil applications. The UAV market is likely to develop great economic and technological importance on a near future because of the wide variety of...master thesis 2015
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Kerkkamp, J.S.F. (author)With the increased use of small unmanned systems, and even automated flight, safety is becoming an issue. For helicopters specifically, engine failure typically results in a crash. For manned helicopters, autorotation is a manoeuvre used to reduce the downward speed and land at safe velocities. In this thesis, we examine a technique of modelling...master thesis 2016
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Hogeweg, Marijn (author)Looking at performance prediction of small coaxial rotorcraft, it was found that there are no fast methods available for designers. This research was aimed at using a blade element method in combination with the momentum theory to quickly predict the performance at small coaxial rotorcraft. These methods are successfully applied in larger...master thesis 2017
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Heil, Tobias (author)The reconstruction of dense depth maps is of great value to resource-constrained Mirco Air Vehicles (MAVs), in the pursuit of achieving autonomous flight with a high situational awareness. Most MAVs implement sensing methods which provide a sparse depth map, limiting their capabilities significantly. This article introduces two novel methods to...master thesis 2017
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Bhowal, Abhranil (author)A Reinforcement Learning (RL) agent learns about its environment through exploration. For most physical applications such as search and rescue UAVs, this exploration must take place with safety in mind. Unregulated exploration, especially at the beginning of a run, will lead to fatal situations such as crashes. One approach to mitigating these...master thesis 2017