Minimizing Environmental Impact of Cruise Flights using Meta-heuristic and Optimal Control Optimizations

Aviation has a negative impact on the environment. As the number of flights is expected to increase, the total environmental impact of aviation will continue to worsen. New solutions are required to mitigate these effects. Aircraft Trajectory Optimization For Environmental Impact (TOFEI) can help reduce the impact of aircraft pollutants while...

Privacy-preserving Model Predictive Control: Using Homomorphic Encryption

This thesis is focused on protecting sensitive data in optimization-based control methods. We propose a novel Privacy-preserving Model Predictive Controller (PMPC) where multiple agents are controlled by an untrusted external coordinator. By using the Paillier additively Homomorphic Encryption (HE) scheme, our PMPC allows the coordinator to...

Relationships in the age of collaboration: Finding opportunities for Qurrent

This report explores opportunities for Qurrent in the age of collaboration. Qurrent, a company focussing on reducing consumer energy consumption, is acting in a competitive market. Big players like Eneco, Nuon and Essent are rapidly developing products with comparable functionalities and services and they have larger customer bases than Qurrent...