A screw based methodology for instantaneous dynamic balance

Fast-moving industrial robots exert large varying reaction forces and moments on their base frame, inducing vibrations, wear and accuracy degeneration. These shaking forces and moments can be eliminated by a specific design of the mass distribution of the robot links, resulting in a dynamically balanced mechanism. Obtaining the conditions for...

How to achieve safe, high-quality clinical studies with non-Medicinal Investigational Products? A practical guideline by using intra-bronchial carbon nanoparticles as case study

Background: Clinical studies investigating medicinal products need to comply with laws concerning good clinical practice (GCP) and good manufacturing practice (GMP) to guarantee the quality and safety of the product, to protect the health of the participating individual and to assure proper performance of the study. However, there are no...

Performance study on point target detection using super-resolution reconstruction

When bright moving objects are viewed with an electro-optical system at very long range, they will appear as small slightly blurred moving points in the recorded image sequence. Detection of point targets is seriously hampered by structure in the background, temporal noise and aliasing artifacts due to undersampling by the infrared (IR) sensor....

Superresolution reconstruction for moving point target detection

Process and device for the reuse of fluranes

The invention relates to a process for the treatment of an exhaled anaesthetic gas comprising at least one anaesthetic agent, said process comprising the steps of: - in a first step contacting said anaesthetic gas with an adsorbent to adsorb said anaesthetic agent onto said adsorbent, - in a second step desorbing said anaesthetic agent from said...

Method for transforming a coloured image

The invention relates to a method of transforming a colour image, wherein for each separate pixel a measured level of lightness, a measured chroma and a measured colour is determined, followed by a predetermined adjustment in the three-dimensional level of lightness, chroma and colour, wherein a. for each separate pixel a direction of adjustment...

In Search of an Objective Measure for the Perceptual Quality of Printed Images

This thesis is concerned with the topic of perceptual image quality. Our visual communication is mainly based on images, either natural or synthetic. Humans are able to judge whether an image is a good image. However, for many applications it would be faster and cheaper to estimate the quality of images using a computer. The major goal of this...

Room for the Rhine in The Netherlands: Summary of research results

Raum für den Rhein in den Niederlanden: Zusammenfassung der Untersuchungsergebnisse

Ruimte maken voor de Rijn: Samenvatting van wat het onderzoek heeft opgeleverd

A new measure for the effect of sharpening and smoothing filters on images

A quantitative measure for the perception of sharpening and smoothing in images

Dynamic capsize behaviour of damaged passenger ro-ro vessel in waves Part 1: Dynamic capsize behaviour of damaged passenger ro-ro vessels in waves. Part 2: Simulation of capsize mechanism

Document transfer by a digital satellite link

In this paper the general user and system requirements are specified for an electronic document delivery (EDO) system and a protocol is given for a high-resolution EDD system by satellite. The proposed system is compatible with the APOLLO system concept for bulk data transfer via satellite, developed by the European Space Agency (ESA)....

System design study for an electronic document delivery system

The objectives of this study are to define the technical facilities which are required for electronic document delivery over a satellite link. In this report, the user requirements and system requirements are analysed for the complete chain of Electronic Document Delivery (EDD) facilities, consisting of archiving, transmission and reproduction...

The formation and thermal decomposition of aluminium hydroxide doped with Fe(III) and Cr(III)