Improving rowing performance by adjusting oar blade size and angle

A 1:5 scaled rowing boat had been designed by a previous research group to determine the performance of rowing blades with different sizes and blade angles. In this research modifications were done to allow more control of the rowing motion. The aim of this study is to assess whether an angled oar blade can reach faster speeds with the same...

Semantic Segmentation using Deep Neural Networks for MAVs

Semantic segmentation methods have been developed and applied to single images for object segmentation. However, for robotic applications such as high-speed agile Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) in Autonomous Drone Racing (ADR), it is more interesting to consider temporal information as video sequences are correlated over time. In this work, we...

Electrified Haber-Bosch Process: Green Ammonia Production

This report provides a design for a new process to make the ammonia-producing Haber-Bosch process more sustainable by reducing its CO2 emissions. It presents different elements of a process design with most importantly; process diagrams, mass and energy balances and a techno-economic analysis. The most important differences in this process is...

Realizing community land trusts for affordable homeownership: Capitalizing on opportunities and overcoming barriers in the Dutch housing market

The Dutch housing sector is overheating, leaving mid-income earners stuck in the major Dutch cities' expensive rental sector. As a reaction to this, community land trusts (CLT) are sprouting in different European countries. The CLT presents a model which nullifies speculation, empowers the community and guarantees affordable ownership. In the...

Efficient Modeling of Hybrid-Electric Aircraft for Design and Performance Optimization Studies

The world is faced with two concurrent trends. The first is the growing demand for air travel in the long term. The second is the need to cut aircraft emissions due to environmental goals and ambitions set by authorities. Fully-electric aircraft are currently infeasible due to the limited battery specific energy and power. Hybrid-electric...

Playground for the Performing Arts: Investigating the spatiality of the commons

This project is a thematic investigation of the relationship between inside and outside, public and private, and how the thresholds between them can stimulate play in the city. This is explored in two key ways - firstly, on a spatial and material level it involves complex overlapping, intersecting and superimposed planes of geometry that result...

Bogota - Positions in Practice: Constructing the Commons in the Latin American Metropolis

Experiments of Analysis and Intervention MSc3/MSc4 Graduation Studio - Spring 2017.

Foresea: An installation about sea level rise at Oerol 2016

Foresea is the result of course 'AR0148 - landscape architecture ON site' 2016, initiated by the section Landscape Architecture at the faculty of Architecture. Central aim of this course is to express the given site in a project at the interface between landscape architecture and landscape art, which will be performed during the Oerol festival...

Selecting the Most Cost-Efficient Air Emission Reduction Technology for a ship under IMO Compliance: A Decision Support Model Approach

Decision support model that determines which air emission reduction technologies can be installed on a ship, such that the ship will comply with IMO ANNEX VI Regulation 13 (NOx regulation). Consecutively, the model will determine which remaining air emission reduction technology is the cheapest so a long term cost-efficient decision can be taken.

Design of an intrauterine insemination device

This master thesis shows the development and design of an intrauterine insemination (IUI) device. The graduation project is done by order of the VU medical university in Amsterdam. IUI is a treatment for couples that have problems with their fertility and is conducted by IVF-doctors. Basically the procedure contains the following steps: • Drug...

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