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Wu, H. (author)Pick and place robots are very popular in industry as they provide speedy and precise handling applications. They are especially practical in repetitive work as they can work long time with a faster and more accuracy motion than humans. Compared with serial manipulator, parallel robots have the advantages of high accuracy, high rigidity and high...master thesis 2012
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Zamanov, M.S. (author)Speeding and red light running are among the major causes for road crashes. Respectively, speeding is more crucial for rural areas, whereas red light running is more frequent in urban areas where most of the traffic lights are located. To adequately address both issues consistent actions are needed in three main directions (also known as the...master thesis 2012
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Bruinekool, R.A. (author)Body powered voluntary closing (VC) hand prostheses allow users to proportionally control grasping devices in a very intuitive sense using the concept of extended physiological proprioception (EPP). The operating force required for voluntary closing devices are however so high that muscle fatigue becomes a problem. The goal of this paper is to...master thesis 2012
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Jongejans, E. (author)Recently several studies have been performed at the TUDelft on the use of the generalized finite element method (GFEM) to model fiber reinforced composite materials in a two dimensional space. The GFEM model allows a large number of arbitrarily placed fibers to be taken into account. The fibers are placed on top of the ordinary mesh and...master thesis 2012
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Gahler, M.C. (author)Accurate positioning of the needle tip during insertion is essential to ensure a maximum effect of the treatment. Target error is a problem and a lot research fields aim to improve needle insertions. The possibility to measure cutting force and stiffness force separately from friction forces supports the development of new types of needles,...master thesis 2012
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Wolters, H.J. (author)A committee of Civieltechnisch Centrum Uitvoering Research en Regelgeving (CUR) is currently (2012) working on the update of the handbook Quay Walls (CUR 211). In the past the partial safety factors in this book were derived using a spring model, but new developments enable to use Finite Element Methods (FEM) to model sheet-pile structures and...master thesis 2012
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Sanabria Laporte, A. (author)In today’s highly competitive environment, it becomes increasingly common for many companies to face internal and external pressure for delivering their products and services with the lowest cost and/or fastest time possible. Information Technology Outsourcing (ITO) has helped to release part of such pressure by enabling companies to gain cost...master thesis 2012
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Keizer, A. (author)Gas is essential to the functioning of the Dutch energy system, as it covers nearly half of the total primary energy supply in the Netherlands. Biogas obtained by the digestion of wet biomass may become a growing source of green energy for the Netherlands. The Dutch ministry of Economic Affairs, Agriculture and Innovation (EL&I) considers biogas...master thesis 2012
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Clement, L.C. (author)The design of current industrial crystallizers is strongly focused on optimisation of known types of crystallization equipment. To get a better control over the physical events governing crystalline product quality the TU Delft started with the development of a task based design (TBD) strategy, which is an example of a phenomena based approach....master thesis 2012
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Singuran, A.I. (author)For determining the insulation dimensions, Smit Transformers uses a so called “design curve”. As the oil-impregnated paper insulation of the windings has been improved, a new design curve has to be established. A number of different types of transformer winding samples were subject to lightning impulse tests. The breakdown voltages measured from...master thesis 2012
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Tjin A Djie, M.E. (author)This thesis presents the design and implementation of a Chip-Multiprocessor (CMP) targeted at streaming applications(e.g. MPEG, MP3). Streaming applications are applications which can be split into several distinct stages working on data elements in a pipelined fashion. We propose a distributed-memory array (MEP- MAS), where the cores...master thesis 2012
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Nijkamp, E.J.S. (author)Bioplastics change the way plastics are made because they are manufactured from plants like corn and sugar instead of oil. This has many environmental advantages and in the future also financial advantages. Bioplastics are rapidly being developed and applied in various kinds of products. The challenge of this thesis was to understand bioplastics...master thesis 2012
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Do, P.B. (author)Desalinated or demineralised water or even soft water is characteristically low in hardness, alkalinity and pH. Thus, these kinds of water need to be re-conditioned (re-mineralized) before distributing for usage as drinking water. The produced water is expected to satisfy the following requirements: safe quality for human health, no quality...master thesis 2012
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Baskar, Y. (author)Product innovation alone is not sufficient to ensure sustained competitive advantage and growth prospects for a company. Increasingly companies are looking to compliment their products with services. The ability to provide better solution through service innovation ensures greater value for their products for customers among other important...master thesis 2012
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Cifuentes, J. (author)The existence of a Business Model does not lead to a feasible business on its own. Business models need to be translated into Business Process Models. These Business Process models represent the operational structure by which a company is going to deliver the Business Model. In this Master Thesis we explore the alignment of these two models. We...master thesis 2012
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Toemen, N.H. (author)This qualitative study developed a co-creation model for the Dutch WWF to increase the volunteer participation of their Action Team. The Design Research project consist of a literature analysis generating a theoretical framework for implementing co-creation in volunteer management and identified key elements in volunteer participation. A case...master thesis 2012
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Cencen, A. (author)Embedables is a new concept which invites every designer to start creating simple electronic products, without having to worry about how the electronic part of the product is going to come to life. While working on the CAD model of your product, choose the component you wish to use from the component library and simply drag and drop it at the...master thesis 2012
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Bachnas, A.A. (author)One of the main reasons for the success story of Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) control in process industries has been the difficulty and complexity of modeling chemical, thermal, and physical phenomena in these systems. Linear Time-Invariant (LTI) identification has been found incapable to accurately capture the dynamics in these...master thesis 2012
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Prins, R. (author), Van Beek, J. (author), Timmermans, T.T.M. (author)We, three students from the TU Delft, have created a new Secure Access Control System, named Glados. The goal of this system is to limit the access to a building, and separate 'zones' in that building, to authorized persons only. In 10 weeks, we created a prototype that can read an authentication token, and react with the permission from a...bachelor thesis 2012