Graph-based entity resolution and its application in debtor payment prediction

In real life, the phenomenon of delayed payment of invoices often occurs. Malicious delayed payment may even lead to the break of capital flow of companies. Debtor payment prediction according to the historical payment behaviour of debtors can help give companies more insight into the risk of late payment. The debtor payment prediction is...

Two dimensional swarming: Neighbour detection

Robot swarming has been done for quite some years now. However, creating a very large swarm can become very difficult, since the networking becomes complex. With small swarms, a robot can broadcast information, or a central node can coordinate the robots. However, when a swarm becomes very large, these techniques fall short. Broadcasting all...

Beyond the Correspondence: An Archival Research of the BPH

I named my work Beyond the Correspondence. In the archival research I conducted on the Post Box for the Development of the Habitat (the B.P.H. mailbox), I analyzed the content of the publications which are stored in the archives of the Het Nieuwe Institute Rotterdam. I realized that there is so much beyond the correspondence and understanding of...

RoCE based 100GbE RDMA network stack on FPGA hardware

Big data analytics is one of the foundations for booming technologies such as machine learning, genetics/genomics, and computer vision. These big data applications require a large amount of data transfers for distributed and parallel processing. Networking is thus a crucial facilitator and could make big impact on big data processing.<br/><br/...

Phase Cancellation and Range Extension in Backscatter Networks

Progress has been made recently in the research of equal hierarchy backscatter communications. There are, however, challenges to overcome before this technology can become mainstream. For example, state-of-the-art solutions to the phase cancellation problem that occurs in such networks are still trivial and sub-optimal, especially in terms of...

Cryostat Control: Real time control for a cryogenic refrigerator

In order to measure the spectrum of radio emissions from galaxies and other deep space objects, a new superconducting spectrometer, working at very cold temperatures close to the absolute zero, is developed. An advanced cooling system called a cryostat is used to cool down the spectrometer. The cool down of the cryostat involves the control of...

Multimodal sensory pipeline for Interactive Robots

Interactive Robotics aims to familiarize children with robotics, which they try to do with their RoboTutor. Towards this goal they developed a platform for controlling the robots but this platform only worked for the Nao robot and not for the Pepper robot.<br/>So for our bachelor end project we have been asked to build a connection tunnel...

Internet of Things in the kitchen: Design of a connected product

"Lella" is a system that allows users to follow and create recipes in a new way exploiting the internet of things technology. The system is composed by a cutting board, a dock station and an app.