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Pennings, Casper (author)A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) has advantages over traditional manufacturing systems due to its ability to deal with unpredicted circumstances such as changes in demand or component breakdowns by re-routing. However, this flexibility increases the complexity of controlling such a system. Traditionally, the system model is simplified to...master thesis 2023
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Bărbulescu, Liliana (author)Robot manipulators are significantly more accurate than their human counterparts and enhance the repeatability of various tasks. However, manufactures still provide reduced information regarding the robot controller functions, typically affecting robots' predictability. Additionally, industrial examples show that system transparency could be...master thesis 2023
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PANAGOPOULOS, IOANNIS (author)Humanitarian, environmental, and political concerns have contributed to the evolution of agricultural technology, also known as AgTech. Researchers from various scientific backgrounds are diving into AgTech to ensure the world's food security, create a sustainable future for agriculture, and pave the way for autonomous cultivation methods. This...master thesis 2023
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Probst, Johanna (author)Creating autonomous Micro Aerial Vehicles for executing complex missions poses various challenges, including safe navigation in the presence of external wind disturbances. Most current navigation methods handle external wind disturbances through real-time estimation and rejection algorithms in the control stage, but lack safety guarantees in...master thesis 2023
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Fricano, Tommaso (author)The Model Predictive Control (MPC) method provides a control strategy providing inherent robustness and improved capabilities in handling constraints while guaranteeing the satisfac- tion of the control objective. In recent years, Model Predictive Control (MPC) has started to see more application for the purpose of Rendezvous and Docking (RVD)...master thesis 2023
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Vitanov, George (author)This thesis discusses the chemical composition (basicity) control problem of HIsarna, an experimental iron furnace which operates with 30% less CO2 emissions than its traditional blast furnace counterparts. The control challenge is keeping the basicity of the plant in a narrow operating region. A mass balance model of the plant was constructed -...master thesis 2022
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Cador, Andrei (author)Full vehicle automation requires complete control over all driving scenarios that can be encountered on roads in order to ensure passenger safety at all times. This extends to dangerous situations such as losing control on slippery surfaces, commonly known as drifting. This work aims to make a step toward ensuring passenger safety in these...master thesis 2022
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Balla-Somogyi, Csaba (author)Since industrialization, world population is constantly on the rise, and so the demand for nutritious and healthy food is increasing as well. Traditional agriculture is steadily extended with and substituted by crop growing in greenhouses, which has better yield, more resistance against weather extremes, and overall more control over the growing...master thesis 2022
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Sareen, Anant (author)Steel production is a critical index to measure the infrastructural growth and development of a nation. The steel production capacity of a nation has a significant impact on its GDP. Even though steel rolling has been in the industry since the early 1700s, there have not been significant advancements in its technology space. The safety hazards...master thesis 2022
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Janssen, Femke (author)Energy demand for heating and cooling makes up 73\% of total energy use of buildings [2]. This figure is expected to increase over the coming decades, as demand for cooling energy may rise in the Netherlands due to climate change. The heating and cooling of buildings are at relatively low temperature compared to the industry and thus allowing...master thesis 2022
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van Duijn, Miranda (author)With the rapidly growing world population and improving living standards of upcoming economies, the demand for fresh food is increasing vastly. Greenhouses have proven to be very effective in increasing crop yield since they offer a sheltered environment that can be controlled. Greenhouse growers need to take care of many processes, among which...master thesis 2021
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van Liere, Art (author)Pose Graph Optimisation is a technique that is used to solve the Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping problem by relying on least-square minimisation techniques to find the most likely set of robot poses (i.e., location and orientation) given the set of measurements. It formalises the maximum likelihood formulation using a pose graph, where...master thesis 2021
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Plasmeijer, Thijs (author)Aircraft efficiency has over the last decades increasingly improved by a large-scale usage of lightweight composite materials in high aspect ratio airframes. A tedious property of this advancement is that the increased structural flexibility produces unfavourable interactions between aerodynamics and structural dynamics. Existing literature has...master thesis 2021
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Korthals Altes, Maurits (author)The introduction of Robotic & Autonomous Systems (RAS) in modern combat seems inevitable, with clear advantages like reduced risk and extensification of personnel. To scope this research, persistent reconnaissance with heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) is selected, being one of the more prominent applications. Despite continuous...master thesis 2021
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Koch, Rik (author)This thesis considers the design of the sampling-driven nonlinear model predictive controller (SD-NMPC) for power electronic converters. Most MPC schemes that are used nowadays lack in the application for systems with high sampling frequencies because of their high computational time, especially when the system is nonlinear. This is, for example...master thesis 2021
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Bosland, Liam (author)A common problem in robotics is the simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) problem. Here, a robot needs to create a map of its surroundings while simultaneously localizing itself in this map. An unknown environment is assumed. Traditionally, it has been approached through filtering solutions. This paradigm has shifted to pose graph...master thesis 2021
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Tsolakis, Anastasios (author)Nonholonomic mechanical systems encompass a large class of practically interesting robotic structures, such as wheeled mobile robots, space manipulators, and multi-fingered robot hands. However, few results exist on the cooperative control of such systems in a generic, distributed approach. In this work we extend a recently developed distributed...master thesis 2021
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Koç, Kaan (author)Advancements in knowledge and technology have led to an evolution of greenhouse operations: from simple transparent shelters to (one of) the most profitable sectors in agricultural industry. The understanding of the physiological and biological processes of the inside micro-climate and crop, as well as the introduction of climate control, were...master thesis 2020
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Berndt, Alexander (author)In this thesis we consider multiple Automated Guided Vehicles (AGVs) navigating a common workspace to fulfill intralogistics tasks, typically formulated as the Multi-Agent Path Finding (MAPF) problem. To keep plan execution deadlock-free, one approach is to construct an Action Dependency Graph (ADG) which encodes the ordering of AGVs as they...master thesis 2020
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Michalak, Chris (author)Traditional electric power systems with large centralized base load power plants have a limited ability to react rapidly to the high supply variability associated with the increasing deployment of variable and intermittent renewable energy sources (RESs). Furthermore, with current power distribution networks primarily designed for unidirectional...master thesis 2019