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Verbist, S. (author)Reinforcement Learning is a much researched topic for autonomous machine behavior and is often applied to navigation problems. In order to deal with growing environments and larger state/action spaces, Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning has been introduced. Unfortunately learning from experience, which is central to Reinforcement Learning,...master thesis 2017
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Burger, R. (author)The current ship speed prediction at a given fuel consumption shows large differences with the actual operational values for the Happy Star. This can result in schedule fines, unexpected fuel expenditures and difficulties in bunker schedules. The first goal of this research is to improve these predictions for the expected range of weather...master thesis 2017
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de Sario, A. (author)Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion is a relatively new renewable energy technology, aiming at producing electricity by combining deep cool sea water with tropical warm surface water. One of the biggest technical challenge for offshore OTEC plants is represented by the installation and deployment of the cold-water pipe, which is required to bring...master thesis 2017
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Zwarts, E.T. (author)In this report, we derive some tools that can be used to construct semi-analytical solution for the electromagnetic field of a dipole in an arbitrary multilayer system. The proposed methods consist of a recursive determination of electric fields -- using the mathematical principle behind a Fabry-Perot interferometer -- and two different...bachelor thesis 2017
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de Groot, P.J. (author)The Dutch internet service provider KPN focusses on offering high quality products to the market and facilitating their users in the best way possible. In the perception of the consumer they are, however, unable to deliver this high standard on the facilitation of online video games. It is expected that this is caused by a relatively high...master thesis 2017
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den Heeten, Thomas (author)1.3 billion people in the world lack access to electricity (International Energy Agency (2013). The largest share of this group is poor and lives in the developing world, and has to deal with unmet basic needs. Having the possibility to use reliable and clean energy is seen as a driver for social development and environmental sustainability....master thesis 2017
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van Haalen, N.P. (author)Public version - Challenging offshore fields in harsh environments and poor infrastructure call for sophisticated Floating Production Storage and Offloading solutions. Conventional conversions provided the bulk of these platforms in the past, but their limits are pushed as demand for larger facilities and capacity increases the value of new...master thesis 2017
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Schuttevaer, D. (author)Confidential thesis, only summary available.master thesis 2017
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Spijkerman, B. (author)Discus throwing outdoors provides the coach and athlete with direct feedback on the performance in the form of a final distance. Even by eye this can intuitively be judged. When switching to indoor training come winter, this intuitive measure is taken away as the athletes throw into a net suspended 5–8 metres in front of them. The coach believes...master thesis 2017
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Engwerda, H.J.A. (author)Focusing on the rapidly increasing debris population around Earth as well as the scientific and corporate interest in Asteroids, multiple missions for interaction with non-cooperative bodies have been proposed over the last years. Applications such as the Electrostatic Tractor (ET) aiming to reduce the debris populations and missions introducing...master thesis 2017
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van Zaal, C.J. (author)To protect the hinterland, flood defences are often located on the border between water and land. This same border however is also an attractive place to live, which may hamper improvement of flood protections. Closing off a tidal (river) system, especially in case of little discharge, may in this case be a logical consideration. This would...master thesis 2017
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Stokkink, Q.A. (author)There are two key components for high throughput distributed anonymizing applications. The first key component is overhead due to message complexity of the utilized algorithms. The second key component is an nonscalable architecture to deal with this high throughput. These issues are compounded by the need for anonymization. Using a state of the...master thesis 2017
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Cramer, S.J.E. (author)Apnea of prematurity is one of the most common diagnoses in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. Frequent breathing pauses occur in almost all infants born at <28 weeks gestational age or with a birth weight of <1000g and can result in serious brain damage. Medicines are used to suppress the apnea but are not able to eliminate it. Manual tactile...master thesis 2017
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de Winter, A.J. (author)At this moment a revolution is going on in the development of our vehicles. The driver is going to be replaced by the vehicle itself. To investigate this autonomy Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) is project leader of a partnership called Dutch Automated Vehicle Initiative (DAVI). This group of industry and academics are combining their...master thesis 2017
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Burger, R.F.S. (author)Uniphy is a product-service system that is able to help the patient at every step in the therapy process. It is a smartphone application that uses technology from Google’s project Tango to record the exercise in 3D at the practice of the therapist. This recording can be played back to the patient at a later time. When the patient executes the...master thesis 2017
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Gensen, M.R.A. (author)Wave overtopping in harbour areas is a fairly untreated topic in the context of flood risk analyses. Pragmatic approaches were undertaken to evaluate the possible influence of wave overtopping on the frequency of flooding. However no consensus was reached on how wave overtopping in a harbour area could be quantified. Therefore it is also...master thesis 2017