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Mol, N. (author)When tasks need to be performed in remote, potentially inaccessible and/or hostile environments for humans, it is often more convenient to send a robot. Such environments are often only partially known, and therefore not suitable for fully autonomous robots to operate in. In these situations teleoperation can be used, which combines the problem...master thesis 2016
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Schuit, T.E. (author)In the oil and gas industry, safety and efficiency are taken into high regard when obtaining new natural resources. An increasing demand for automation arises to meet with the new safety and efficiency standards. During drilling operations, drilling fluid maintenance has an important role in guaranteeing safety on the rig. Controlling the...master thesis 2016
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Nugroho, H. (author)Optical beamforming networks (OBFNs), which consist of many small and flat antennas, called phased array antennas (PAAs), can be tuned such that the signal beam from the airplanes can be steered towards a satellite. This was proposed as a alternative to the mechanically steered antenna, which has many disadvantages. The problem of tuning a large...master thesis 2015
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Anema, F.J.C. (author)The topic of this study is the control of signalized intersections, specifically the control of switching lanes, which are approach lanes of which the traffic assignment can be changed. When the demand at an intersection varies considerably, being able to change the lane configuration can reduce delay, especially in saturated conditions....master thesis 2015
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Koomen, T.J. (author)Shape Memory Alloy (SMA)-based actuators are versatile actuators with a high power-to-weight ratio. These actuators are ideal for applications such as smart wings and smart rotors. However, SMA-based actuators are generally difficult to control, due to a low bandwidth and a hysteretic and non-linear response. The general control framework, or...master thesis 2015
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Meijerman, M.J. (author)The number of cars on the road and the need for transportation has increased rapidly during the past decades, leading to an increase of congestion. Traffic congestion and delays lead to high societal costs. Congestion leads to a capacity drop, i.e. the capacity of the road is reduced when congestion sets in. Due to limited financial and physical...master thesis 2015
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- Kühne, M. (author) master thesis 2015
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Linskens, H.T.K. (author)Recent years have seen a steep increase in research being performed towards active space debris removal: space debris has proven to be a very real threat to operational spacecraft, and studies indicate that the frequency of collisions will only increase if nothing is done to remove large pieces of debris. In particular, ESA has done studies...master thesis 2015
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Van Niekerk, H.A.J. (author)The challenge in this thesis is to find out if an off-the-shelf embedded system can replace an off-the-shelf laptop or desktop computer when its task is to perform vision-based velocity control using inverse kinematics on a robotic arm. The results of this thesis are that an algorithm was developed which had to be tested in simulation and should...master thesis 2014
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- Rocchi, G. (author) master thesis 2014
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Holtkamp, G.C. (author)This report deals with the design of a complete guidance, navigation and control system for a planetary lander on Enceladus, for both descent and repositioning. A basic lander model with a main engine, attitude thrusters and a landing gear is presented, for which the equations of motion in different reference frames are derived, including the...master thesis 2014
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Voglitsis, D. (author)The utilization of IPT technology in electric vehicles (EVs) charging applications and in the microgrid restoration/islanding mode, has the potential to bring about a change in how EVs are perceived today. Firstly in consumer level, by making the charging process more convenient, safe and user-friendly, by removing the messy cords , and secondly...master thesis 2014
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Prahladsingh, S.V. (author), Rutten, D. (author)This thesis will describe our research and process during the Bachelor project "Wireless control of LED lighting system using Bluetooth and Android". Our team was a 4 man team, where we, the authors, worked on the Android app development, the PCB design and the Power Supply. For work done on an FPGA and the flexible LEDs, see thesis written by P...bachelor thesis 2014
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Kootstra, P. (author)This thesis investigates whether interval methods can be employed in the construction of a novel controller synthesis algorithm based on backward induction. Interval methods are methods employing interval arithmetic, which is an arithmetic defined on real-valued intervals rather than on real-valued numbers. In the controller synthesis algorithm...master thesis 2014
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Van Baar, I.J. (author), El Bakkali, Z. (author), Van Dalfsen, J.J. (author), Van der Schrier, E.D. (author), Vogelzang, L.G.J. (author)In the history of the World Solar Challenge, a six day challenge from Darwin to Adelaide, one car has proved to be dominating: the Nuon Solar Car. A telemetry application played an important role in this, but needed to be updated. This was realised by the new Mission Control application project: "Building a GUI for Nuna's Mission Control". In...bachelor thesis 2014
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Drenth, J.F.T. (author)Graduation project on the Public Realm. Topic of study is how to restructure the city of Rotterdam to increase its legibility. Furthermore the design focuses on creating an a-typical typical plan. A plan that can be repeated, thus inheriting the qualities of Typical Plan -flexibility and legibility, without giving in to the worst threat of...master thesis 2014
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Wensveen, M.H. (author)Optimistic Planning is a model-based online planning algorithm that guarantees near-optimal actions for the control arbitrarily nonlinear systems. Planning algorithms aim to find optimal actions by starting from the current state and developing a tree representation of sequences of actions and resulting states, using a model to simulate state...master thesis 2014
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Valk, R. (author)This master thesis describes the dynamical behaviour of a loudspeaker woofer and the modelling of it. By the use of the knowledge gained from the model, a feedback controller is implemented in order to enhance the woofer’s performance in terms of acoustic total harmonic distortion (THD) and low frequency bandwidth. The first objective of the...master thesis 2013
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Bliek, L. (author)Most robots receive information about their own dynamics or about their environment before starting to work on their tasks. This makes them less fit for operating in unknown environments without human supervision. In this thesis, the goal is to let a robot learn the relation between its actions and perceptions autonomously. This problem is...master thesis 2013
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Papadopoulou, A. (author)The current graduation project is investigating contemporary spatial conditions in the Balkan territory. The overall theme of the code has been carried carefully throughout the whole process tracing the development of spatial conditions from the 15th century until today. Within this timeframe the code has emerged from an underlying power...master thesis 2013