Model-free motion control of positioning stage

Driven by the rise of market demand and development of technology, high-precision motion systems must meet the increasing accuracy requirement. Currently, High-precision positioning stage is widely used in many different application areas, such as hard disk drives, wafer steppers and electron and atomic force microscopes for nano-scale imaging....

Fast MPC Solvers for Systems with Hard Real-Time Constraints

Model predictive control (MPC) is an advanced control technique that offers an elegant framework to solve a wide range of control problems (regulation, tracking, supervision, etc) and handle constraints on the plant. The control objectives and constraints are usually formulated as an optimization problem that the MPC controller has to solve ...

Learning Control Policies for Tooth Extraction: An Application of Programming by Demonstration

: Tooth extraction is one of the most common procedures in oral surgery. However, it is complicated as well as not fully understood. Different teeth have different structures and strengths. Even teeth of the same type differ depending on ages, genders, races, and other reasons affecting its integrity. During the procedure, the properties of the...

Noise Prediction of a NACA 0015 Airfoil with Gurney Flap: A study based on Time-Resolved Particle Image Velocimetry

Air traffic noise, especially during the aircraft take-off and landing, has been universally acknowledged as a nuisance, for which reason, the International Civil Aviation Organization(ICAO) has ratified articles and established specifications aiming at the attenuation of air traffic noise, such as the Annex 16. The implementation of large...

Dortmund-Ems Landscape Canal: Adjusting the post-navigable canal to the landscape system of Mu?nster

The project will explore a comprehensive landscape approach with Dort- mund-Ems-Canal in Mu?nster. By integrating the canal into the context of Mu?nster, I want to gain a applicable strategy to convert the post-navigable canal into a crucial component of the landscape structure in the modern city.

Photocatalytical effect of TiO2 pigments on the surface of paint films

TiO2 has been widely applied as white artistic pigment since 19th century. And the photo-catalytic effect of TiO2 makes it aggressive and causes degradation on painting surface. The damage of binder by TiO2, also known as chalking, has been suggested as the main cause of the painting surface degradation and studied a lot. However, the danger to...

A Rehab Monastery: Rijndam Clinic

A communication and collaboration tool design for caregivers of seniors with cognitive impairments

Due to the demographic shift and aging population, the number of the seniors with cognitive impairments is increasing. In taking care of these seniors, caregivers experience both financial and emotional burdens. This project studies three care parties of this special group of people, who take care of the seniors with a mild cognitive impairment ...

A Framework for the Modelling and Ex-ante Evaluation of Coordinated Network Management

Since the second half of last century, traffic congestion on road network has become a predominant phenomenon due to the rapid increases in transport demand and number of vehicles. It starts to become clear until later that century traffic congestion cannot be solved single-handedly by expansions of road network. During peak hours, besides...

Design of a Baseband Section for LTE-Advanced Mobile Communiation

Old Beijing New Life: Climate Adaptive Urban Regeneration in Old Beijing Center

The site Dashilan is the most sever UHI area of Beijing currently. Located in the center of Old Beijing, it is consist of historical courtyards with flourish old brand commercial and many cultural heritages. High density (15m2/house), almost fully covered by concrete without enough green space, make this area really have a bad living quality and...

Company Strategy in an increasing returns market: A case study of the PDA industry