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Frijlink, Tenzin (author)The installation rate of offshore wind energy has to be quadrupled by 2030 to meet the green climate ambitions of European countries, but this growth is hindered by logistical challenges. Therefore, this study explores how two transportation and installation strategies, shuttling and feedering, affect the installation rate with the inclusion of...master thesis 2024
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Opstal, Anton (author)The yachting industry is embracing sustainable practices in response to global environmental concerns, particularly those outlined in the Paris Agreement, which aim to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and limit global temperature increases. Although diesel engines are most commonly used in yachts and are a major contributor to greenhouse gas...master thesis 2024
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Liu, Jingxian (author)Dysarthric speech, characterized by articulation problems and a slower speech rate, shows lower automatic speech recognition (ASR) performance compared to normal speech. To improve performance, researchers often try to enhance dysarthric speech to be more like normal speech before passing it through an ASR trained on normal speech. In this...master thesis 2024
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Agrawal, Tanuj (author)Designing lightweight aircraft parts to improve fuel efficiency is crucial to meet the aviation sector’s goals of reducing CO2 emissions. However, it is also important to ensure that these lightweight parts have a lower CO2 footprint over their entire lifetime. Previous studies have successfully achieved this using topology optimization and low...master thesis 2024
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Follis, Patrick (author)Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) is commonly used to optimize the power output of solar arrays for LEO satellites. Traditional MPPT techniques such as Perturb & Observe often struggle when the satellite is rotating and the temperature and incident irradiance are rapidly changing. This scenario frequently occurs with miniaturized...master thesis 2024
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Singh, A. (author)Conventional computing systems involve physically separated storing and processing units. To perform the processing, data is shuttled from the storing unit to the processing unit followed by the actual processing, and the processed data is shuttled back into the storing unit. Unfortunately, this data shuffling contributes significantly to the...doctoral thesis 2024
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Venkatesh, Vijay (author)The global shift towards low-carbon and renewable energy sources, driven by climate concerns associated with fossil fuels, has positioned solar photovoltaics (PV) as a major alternative. With the increasing adoption of PV technologies, it is crucial to study various PV module types. This thesis focuses on the HyET Powerfoil, an amorphous silicon...master thesis 2024
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Tanmeet Kaur, Tanmeet (author)This thesis describes the implementation of a phase-domain readout system for a thermal-diffusivity (TD) based temperature sensor. Such sensors measure the phase shift of an electro-thermal filter (ETF), which exhibits a near-linear dependency on absolute temperature. The phase shift is measured by a phase-domain delta-sigma modulator (PD-DSM)....master thesis 2024
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Goel, Saransh (author)This research investigates the impact of multipath signals in UWB communications and explores their potential to improve localization accuracy of tags using the additional information captured in the Channel Impulse Response (CIR). While traditional localization typically relies on multiple anchors, this study focuses on using a single anchor...master thesis 2024
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Irazoqui Ahlig, Diego (author)Decarbonizing industrial processes by transitioning to carbon-neutral energy sources poses significant challenges for industrial operations. The integration of technologies such as Power-To-Heat (PtH) with electric boilers and furnaces, Power-To-Gas (PtG) facilities employing electrolyzers, variable speed drives for energy-intensive machinery,...master thesis 2024
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Power in wheelchair propulsion: Advancing the use of wearable sensors for wheelchair sports practicevan Dijk, M.P. (author)From the perspective of wheelchair sports practice, there is a growing need to provide feedback on power output. Power can be used to monitor athletes' fitness and fatigue levels, thereby preventing overtraining and potential injuries, to individualize and analyze training programs, and it is also an objective measure of effort or intensity....doctoral thesis 2024
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Wang, R. (author)Federated Learning (FL) is a revolutionary approach to machine learning that enables collaborative model training among multiple parties without exposing sensitive data. Introduced by Google in 2016, FL taps into the wealth of data generated by edge devices while prioritizing user privacy and minimizing communication costs. Its applications span...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shokolarov, Aleksandar (author)The estimation of optical flow, which determines the movement of objects in a visual scene, is a crucial problem in computer vision. It is essential for applications such as autonomous navigation, where precise motion estimation is critical for performance and safety.<br/><br/>Frame-based cameras capture sequences of still images at regular...master thesis 2024
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Pradelli, Elena (author)One important environmental concern in operating wind farms is the bat risk of collision with wind turbines’ rotating blade. To avoid this, the bat curtailment practise is implemented, in which the turbines are shutdown during bat activity periods. This, however, leads to a decrease in the annual energy production (AEP). A proper assessment of...master thesis 2024
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Raue, Timothy (author)This thesis introduces a new computational methodology to solve partial differential equations within cracked domains, focusing on coupling in-crack physics with the adjacent environment. The crack is represented discretely, allowing to describe explicitly the crack opening, which is a key parameter in the description of the in-crack physics....master thesis 2024
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Arkes, Lisa (author)Introduction:<br/>Virtual surgical planning is often used to prepare mandibular segment resection with subsequent reconstruction. Patient-specific cutting guides translate the planned resection and reconstruction osteotomies to the surgery. The accuracy of computer-assisted surgery is currently evaluated by heterogeneous methodologies for post...master thesis 2024
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Orbons, Sander (author)Future Very High-Throughput Satellites are foreseen to implement optical ground-to-satellite feeder links to achieve multi-terabit-per-second data rates. Optical links however, are highly susceptible to atmospheric losses caused by turbulence, absorption, and scattering, especially at low elevation angles. Despite prior confirmation of the...master thesis 2024
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Bollen, C.J.M. (author)We have a general idea of what the term empathy refers to. We typically use the concept in a normative way - to express appreciation, concern, value, risks, etc, - with regard to how we relate to one another. However, the exact meaning of the concept is far from agreed upon. As such, it actually is unclear whether and how we can fairly use this...doctoral thesis 2024
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Bouwmeester, D. (author)This dissertation centers around two topics: graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) and superconductors. The aim of this thesis is to work towards combine these two topics, in order to study how superconducting correlations interact with magnetic correlations within graphene nanoribbons, such as the magnetic edge states present in the zigzag edges of...doctoral thesis 2024