SharedState 2.0

More and more devices are gaining some form of smartness either by sensing their environment on their own or by communication. An example of this is Smart Lighting, a field in which Chess Wise is active for over 6 years. By adding sensors and communication lighting can be controlled more efficiently. For example motion sensors to turn off...

State Estimation and Optimal Control for Racing Drones: In search of control algorithms for competing against human pilots

The e-sport of drone-racing involves human pilots to race against time. Recently, drone races have also gone fully-autonomous. As a result, these agile robotic platforms not only pose challenges of flying fast to the participating pilots but also create challenges for the flight control computers. As a result, the concept of autonomous drone...

Wireless Clock Synchronisation for UWB Positioning

An Indoor Positioning System (IPS) is being developed at TOPIC Embed- ded Systems to track equipment in hospitals. The system should prevent the loss of equipment en make procedures more efficient. The IPS will con- sist of anchors and tags. Anchors are the radios that form an infrastructure in the building to localise tags that are placed on...

Virtual Referee: A system to identify off- sides in Football

The off-side rule is the most complicated rule in soccer. Today, off-sides are determined with the help of referees running on the sides of the field or with the help of cameras. However, for lower league games the installation of a camera based system is very expensive. <br/><br/>This work proposes a sensor based system that can be worn by...

UItra-Wideband Communication and Relative Localisation for Swarming Robots: UItra-Wideband Communication and Relative Localisation for Swarming Robots

A robot swarm of zebros (Dutch: ZEs Benige RObots) is being developed at the TU Delft, with the purpose of forming a large self-deploying sensor network that survey remote locations without the need for any pre-existing infrastructure, or be used for evaluating swarming algorithms in the field. Towards this goal, zebros need to be able to...

MAES: A Multi-Agent Systems Framework for Embedded Systems

Miniaturization and cost reduction of hardware components have created a trend in the space industry where the traditional centralized computer is being replaced by distributed computer architecture. However, this trend comes with a cost: the on-board software complexity of the space missions has increased. The complexity has origins in the...

Outlier Detection for Pedestrian Movement

Fast development of tracking devices has made trajectory outlier detection(TOD) possible and meaningful. Given a set of trajectories T, a TOD algorithm outputs a subset of T, of which trajectories are different from mostof the other trajectories in some aspect(s). These trajectories, namely outliers, can indicate important or interesting...

Design of a Fast and Reliable Wireless Link for Kite Power Systems

Kite Power Systems present technological advantages over traditional windmills. In this work, the design of a dual wireless link for kite applications requiring high reliability and low delays is presented. The link provides realtime data exchange between the system components that allows researchers to run closed-loop controllers, and to...