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Sterkman, Pam (author)Water management is an integral part of Dutch history, driven by the continuous need to reduce flood risk. Because a large area of the country is located below Normaal Amsterdams Peil (NAP), there is an ongoing challenge to safely discharge all the water to the sea. Therefore, flood safety policy has become crucial to protect the Netherlands...master thesis 2024
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Holman, Storm (author)In response to the increasing challenges of Cyber Electromagnetic Activities (CEMA) in urban settings, characterized by dense electromagnetic (EM) signals and rising data traffic, this research introduces an Agent-Based Model (ABM) aimed at prioritizing critical signals. The primary goal of this research is to deploy a Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ...master thesis 2024
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Brandwijk, Marijn (author)The TU Delft has acquired a UAV LiDAR system and can be used to acquire an 3D point cloud of the terrain below the system. It is of interest how such a flight mission would be best performed and what the corresponding quality would be. Current free software provided limited data quality estimation and mission planning support for the DJI Matrice...master thesis 2023
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van Wissen, Alexis (author)Capable of both vertical take-off and landing and forward flight, tail-sitters are a versatile class of UAVs with a large range of potential applications. A variant of tailsitters using tilt-rotors instead of ailerons for pitch and roll control has been proposed to mitigate the reduced control authority at low to zero velocities. The control of...master thesis 2023
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de Zoete, Jasper (author)Visible light communication(VLC) is an emerging form of wireless communic- ation that uses visible light, where standard light sources such as LEDs serve as communication devices. Due to visible light bandwidths being significantly higher and underused, VLC offers an alternative to the more commonly used Radio Frequency(RF) devices. While VLC...master thesis 2023
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den Ridder, Luc (author)Although deep reinforcement learning (DRL) is a highly promising approach to learning robotic vision-based control, it is plagued by long training times. This report introduces a DRL setup that relies on self-supervised learning for extracting depth information valuable for navigation. Specifically, a literature study is conducted to investigate...master thesis 2023
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Hoogendoorn, Niels (author)Water is essential for life on earth and is vital for numerous sectors of our society. Pressures arising from climate change, growing populations, and the shift towards clean energy accentuate the importance of effective water management. To make decisions about water resource allocation, hydraulic modeling studies have been undertaken on large...master thesis 2023
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Brummelhuis, Martijn (author)Aerial physical interaction opens the door for many operations at height to be automatised using aerial robots. This research presents a novel manipulator design mounted on a traditional quadrotor, which utilises both mechanical and software compliance to perform physical interaction on vertical walls and overhanging surfaces, such as those...master thesis 2023
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Labaar, Anna Lisa (author)For European Union member states, it is mandatory to assign Natura 2000 areas and regularly monitor them. Currently, vegetation mapping is done mainly manually, which is a time-consuming and expensive practise. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs or drones), manoeuvrable vehicles with which high-resolution measurements can be done, could increase...master thesis 2022
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Barbera, Matteo (author)Flying-wings show great potential for a vast number of applications, in both commercial and military sectors, thanks to their long range and fast forward flight, but suffer due to their lack of vertical take-off and landing capabilities. This paper presents a proof of concept for a novel landing method for a conventional flying wing that does...master thesis 2022
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Lovell-Prescod, Gervase (author)By combining the ability to hover with a wing for fast and efficient horizontal flight, hybrid unmanned aircraft extend the flight envelope and therefore mission capabilities of unmanned aircraft. However, this comes at a cost: increased complexity control-wise and being more susceptible to wind disturbances. This susceptibility to wind gusts is...master thesis 2022
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Shetty, Siddhy Ganesh (author)With the advancement in technology, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) have been able to safely maneuver in risky environments. During landing, the UAV should be able to slow down while not affecting its physical design. Currently, multiple sensors are being used to increase the accuracy while landing which might weigh down some of the smaller UAVs...master thesis 2022
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Knuyt, Jerry (author)The loss of wildlife due to illegal poaching activity poses threats on both the survival of iconic animal species and the livelihood of local communities. This research proposes a distributed surveillance model in which a UAV swarm autonomously coordinates continuous surveillance in a dynamic environment. The adaptive behaviour of poachers has...master thesis 2022
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van Beurden, Bas (author)Abstract—Ultra-wideband (UWB) ranging is a very suitable method for indoor localisation of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). Current solutions of UWB ranging however either focus on achieving a high accuracy or focus on scalability. In this research a positioning algorithm for UAVs is presented that combines high accuracy performance with a high...master thesis 2021
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Kuijpers, Jan-Willem (author)With standard aircraft configurations reaching their limits in efficiency, new aircraft configurations are being theorized and analyzed. One type of analysis is remotely piloted scaled flight tests. One of the aspects that can be analyzed through remotely piloted scaled flight tests is the dynamic behavior of the aircraft. This thesis shows a...master thesis 2021
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Korovilas, Dionisios (author)The medium-altitude long-endurance (MALE) unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) plays a key role in both military and civilian applications around the world. However, in a world where electric UAVs are increasingly becoming the norm, the MALE UAV is still primarily powered by hydrocarbon fuels and its design is very much constrained by existing general...master thesis 2021
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Alfieri, Andrea (author)Transformers can generate predictions auto-regressively by conditioning each sequence element on the previous ones, or can produce output sequences in parallel. While research has mostly explored upon this difference on tasks that are sequential in nature, we study this contrast on visual set prediction tasks, to analyze the core behaviour of...master thesis 2021
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van der Weerd, Joost (author), Holshuijsen, Joris (author)In a world with limited resources and a growing awareness of the destructive effects greenhouse gasses, the concept of sustainability is becoming more and more prominent in research. Some of the biggest polluters are the aerial shipping and travel industries, for this reason it is vital that they become more sustainable. Therefore a transition...bachelor thesis 2021
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Pandey, Akash Pandey (author)Advancements in technology have made commercial unmanned aerial vehicles reliable and readily available, leading to an exponential rise in their market demand over the past few years. COVID-19 has further accelerated this growth through an increase in demand for contact-less delivery and crowd monitoring systems. However,...master thesis 2021
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Juffermans, Stefan (author)For decades the physical appearance of aircraft remained more or less unchanged. The increase in efficiency which still can be made by improving this design, is limited. More researchers have started to investigate new design options that represent a departure from established concepts. The main drivers behind these endeavors are the tightening...master thesis 2021