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Bracelly, Fernão (author)
Quadrupedal robots possess the ability to move freely in the world and perform a variety of actions that would be unsafe or impractical for humans to perform. In the SNOW project, a quadrupedal robot is tasked with aiding firefighters in rescue missions during house fires by locating humans and assessing their health. Pushing away obstacles that...
master thesis 2023
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Florijn, Floris Jan (author)
Computer vision has been on the rise over the last decades. The applications of computer vision are mostly found within the domain of robotics and Unmanned Aerial Vehicle's. The use of computer visions in precision industry is new and offers both opportunities and challenges. In high performance precision systems the demands on sensors is set...
master thesis 2018
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Hogervorst, Luc (author)
There is a great amount of wave power in earth's oceans. The amount of power harvested for electricity is however very small in comparison to solar and wind. One of the reasons for this is the lack of consensus on the best design of wave energy converters. This thesis develops a novel system design for a wave energy converter array that has...
master thesis 2019
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Kalloe, Avinash (author)
With the current need of implementing renewable energy sources to combat climate change, significant developments are being done into storage options for these intermittent energy sources. Green Hydrogen can be produced by the connection of a renewable energy source to an electrolyser which produces hydrogen, in this project the Photovoltaic (PV...
master thesis 2021
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van Lookeren Campagne, Gijs (author)
In recent years, research in the field of autonomous driving has been subject to a significant increase in interest. Along with the advances in automation and electrification, cars are slowly transitioning to computers on wheels. The ever-increasing processing power in vehicles gives rise to the implementation of advanced control strategies. The...
master thesis 2019
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Ripoll Sanchez, Andrés (author)
There is no doubt that the smallest spacecraft platforms (CubeSats, NanoSats and microsats) are revolutionizing the market. The possibilities of developing spacecraft through standard platforms, commercial of the shelf components and then reduced the costs of development has allowed new organizations to enter the space section. On top of that,...
master thesis 2019
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Pamososuryo, Atindriyo Kusumo (author)
Wind turbine technology has become one of the most attractive solutions to generate electricity as well as to cope with the global carbon emissions. Having a prospective future in terms of growing worldwide demands, it becomes more important to reduce the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) of the wind turbine which is generally done by...
master thesis 2018
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van Wilsum, Max (author)
Based on sparsity maximization we propose a controller for Multiple Daily Injections (MDI)therapy for Type 1 Diabetes melitus (T1DM) individuals. Based on convex relaxations onthe sparsity maximization problems and by implementing personalised linear models of pa-tient we formulate a model predictive controller to determine insulin boluses. By...
master thesis 2021
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de Groot, Sjoerd (author)
The goal of this thesis is to present a framework which can be used to optimize the observer and controller performance by placement of sensors and actuators on a continuous domain. The framework provides choices of model structure, cost functions and optimization methods to perform the placement. Systems which would be suitable for the use of...
master thesis 2018
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Trullas Ballester, Marc (author)
The investigation of small bodies in the Solar System such as asteroids and comets is of increasing interest to the space exploration community for scientific and security reasons. A key enabling technology is the availability to control position and attitude of spacecraft for asteroid close-proximity operations. Dynamics and control issues...
master thesis 2018
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Fisscher, W.D. (author)
Airborne wind energy is a promising newly emerging wind energy harvesting technology. Due to low material use and high potential harvesting density it aspires to be competitor to the conventional wind turbines we see today. Kitepower bv, a company in the Netherlands, is developing a airborne wind energy system based on a flexible kite. To be...
master thesis 2020
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Orie, Nicolaas (author)
This thesis develops dynamical state-space models of the oil market and suggests opportunities for the application of control theory. The emphasis of this thesis is on the modelling, rather than the control theory applications. Most models that are currently employed by oil companies do not model short-term transient responses, but focus on long...
master thesis 2020
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Yadav, Sachin (author)
Climate change is driving the evolving energy mix in the world. The amount of renewables are rising to avoid the detrimental effects of fossil fuels to the environment. Solar and wind power are the major players in the rising renewable energy mix. Most of these power generation sources are interfaced through power electronic converters. In the...
master thesis 2019
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Willems, M.E. (author)
A study is performed analyzing the behavioral adaptation of pilots in skill based ramp tracking tasks performed with pursuit display. From data analyses of previous ramp tracking experiments an indication is found that pilots who repeatedly perform the same ramp tracking task show a high level of adaptation to characteristics of the control task...
master thesis 2012
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Hoogvliet, Jonathan (author)
Reinforcement learning (RL) is a model-free adaptive approach to learn a non-linear control law for flight control. However, for flat-RL (FRL) the size of the search space grows exponentially with the number of states, resulting in low sample efficiency. This research aims to improve the efficiency with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL)....
master thesis 2019
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Coroli, Iurie (author)
When acquiring information using imaging techniques, one wants to achieve the best possible resolution in order to obtain valuable results. In the ideal scenario the size of the smallest resolved object features is limited by the wave properties of light, with a number of techniques developed to overcome this limit. In real life measurements the...
master thesis 2018
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Baron, Koen (author)
Tall buildings lose a big part of their expensive space to elevator shafts. A ropeless elevator reduces the amount of shafts, because multiple cabins are able to move in the same shaft. Currently an elevator using a row of linear motors along the shaft is in the end phase of development. Tests on a full scale prototype 5 have proven the concept....
master thesis 2018
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Marif, Kizjè (author)
The thermal recovery efficiency of High Temperature Aquifer Thermal Energy Storage (HT-ATES) systems can be limited due to the effect of buoyancy flow of the injected hot water. This thesis has researched the application of a Multiple Partially Penetrating Wells (MPPWs) as a well design method to counteract the effect of buoyancy flow and...
master thesis 2019
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Koç, Kaan (author)
Advancements in knowledge and technology have led to an evolution of greenhouse operations: from simple transparent shelters to (one of) the most profitable sectors in agricultural industry. The understanding of the physiological and biological processes of the inside micro-climate and crop, as well as the introduction of climate control, were...
master thesis 2020
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Meulenbeld, Joost (author)
Previous years have seen a rise in the use of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs). Reaching a large endurance and range while being able to perform Vertical Take-Off and Landing (VTOL) landings allows a broad range of applications. For this purpose the DelftaCopter (DC) was developed, a tilt-body tailsitter UAV. It hovers using a single helicopter...
master thesis 2018
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