Sentinel-1 InSAR Coherence as an Indicator of Monitor Farming Activities

Reliable crop monitoring is paramount to achieve the objectives of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and Food and Agriculture Organization. Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) provides high-resolution imaging and all-weather data acquisition capabilities for crop monitoring. This study investigates the sensitivity of parcel-level Sentinel-1...

Automated design of pneumatic soft grippers through design-dependent multi-material topology optimization

Soft robotic grasping has rapidly spread through the academic robotics community in recent years and pushed into industrial applications. At the same time, multimaterial 3D printing has become widely available, enabling the monolithic manufacture of devices containing rigid and elastic sections. We propose a novel design technique that...

Topology Optimization of Fluidic Pressure-Driven Multi-Material Compliant Mechanisms

Compliant mechanisms actuated by pneumatic loads are receiving increasing attention due to their direct applicability as soft robots that perform tasks using their flexible bodies. Using multiple materials to build them can further improve their performance and efficiency. Due to developments in additive manufacturing, the fabrication of...

A PMUT based photoacoustic system as a microfluidic concentration detector

We report on the development of a novel piezo-MEMS-based optofluidic platform to detect the concentration of various species dissolved in a fluid. This platform employs piezoelectric micromachined ultrasound transducers (PMUTs) to work as a photoacoustic receiver, receiving ultrasound from fluid targets present in microfluidic channels while...

Building Rhythms: Reopening the Workspace with Indoor Localisation

Indoor localisation methods are an essential part for the management of COVID-19 restrictions, social distancing, and the flow of people in the indoor environment. Moving towards an open work space in this scenario requires effective real-time localisation services and tools, along with a comprehensive understanding of the 3D indoor space. This...

Vector Doppler imaging of small vessels using directionally filtered Power Doppler images

Power Doppler (PD) imaging has become a staple in high frame rate ultrasound imaging due to its ability to image small vessels and slow-moving flows, such as in the case of imaging blood flow in the brain. Alternatively, color Doppler (CD) can be used to determine the one-dimensional directional information of the blood scatterers. This can help...

Dynamic 3d visualization of floods: Case of the Netherlands

In this paper, we review state of the art 3D visualization technologies for floods and we focus on the Netherlands since it has a long history of dealing with floods and developing information technology solutions to prevent and predict them. We discuss the most recent advances in using 3D city models for modelling floods and discuss future...

Repetitive pitch control for Vertical Axis Wind Turbine

Increasing demands in decentralized power plants have focused attention on Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWTs). However, accessing high range of power from VAWTs is an impediment due to increased loads on the turbine blades. Here, we derive an optimal pitching action that reduces the periodic disturbance on turbine blades of VAWTs without...

Modelling urban noise in CityGML ADE: Case of the Netherlands

Road traffic and industrial noise has become a major source of discomfort and annoyance among the residents in urban areas. More than 44 % of the EU population is regularly exposed to road traffic noise levels over 55 dB, which is currently the maximum accepted value prescribed by the Environmental Noise Directive for road traffic...

A CityGML extension for handling very large tins

In addition to buildings, the terrain forms an important part of a 3D city model. Although in GIS terrains are usually represented with 2D grids, TINs are also increasingly being used in practice. One example is 3DTOP10NL, the 3D city model covering the whole of the Netherlands, which stores the relief with a constrained TIN containing more than...

Comparative analysis of data structures for storing massive tins in a DBMS

Point cloud data are an important source for 3D geoinformation. Modern day 3D data acquisition and processing techniques such as airborne laser scanning and multi-beam echosounding generate billions of 3D points for simply an area of few square kilometers. With the size of the point clouds exceeding the billion mark for even a small area,...

Methods for optical modeling and cross-checking in ellipsometry and scatterometry

Marine survey design and analysis using all multiples

Despite a tremendous leap in efficiency and wave field sampling over the last two decades, it is sometimes still difficult to achieve adequate coverage and resolution with marine streamer acquisition. It is therefore necessary to carefully study the acquisition geometry, especially with respect to resolution and image quality in the cross-line...

3-D acquisition geometry analysis: Incorporating information from multiples

Recent advances in survey design have led to conventional common-midpoint-based analysis being replaced by the subsurface-based seismic acquisition analysis and design, with the emphasis on advance techniques of illumination analysis. Amongst them are wave-equation-based seismic illumination analyses such as the so-called focal beam method. The...

Experimental techniques for aberration retrieval with through-focus intensity images

Measurement techniques to determine the aberration of an optical system, by obtaining through-focus intensity images that are produced when the object is a point source at infinity, are shown. The analysis of the aberrations is made using the extended version of the Nijboer-Zernike diffraction theory. This theory provides a semi analytical...

Rapid simulation of permanent magnet drives

Optimization technique for ED&PE

Multi-objective optimization of a BLDC drive