Optimally sparse and adaptive far-field sampling and pattern reconstruction: Approach for faster calibration of antenna system using compressed sensing

Radiation pattern measurements is a critical step in characterizing antennas before they are used in any system for a specific application. To identify any defects or to acquire the true radiation characteristics of the antenna under test, densely sampled measurements are desired. However, this results in a time and cost expensive measurement...

A FAST.Farm and MATLAB/Simulink Interface for Wind Farm Control Design

Increasing the efficiency of wind farms is important for speeding up the transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy sources. Current wind farm control relies on maximization of power generation of individual turbines. However, research has demonstrated that plant-wide wind farm control could optimize the performance of a wind farm. Wind...

Boundary layer flashback prevention by active control: Combining process and control engineering knowledge

Hydrogen is a promising fuel for both reducing greenhouse gas emissions and being used as an energy carrier for renewable energy sources. The adaption of hydrogen instead of natural gas as a fuel in gas turbine combustors introduces additional challenges regarding flame stability. One instabilities is boundary layer flashback. This phenomenon...

Parasite Detection using Hyperspectral Microscopy: Hyperspectral microscopy in Malaria and Schistosoma diagnostics: the approximation and detection of spectral signatures

Parasitic diseases such as malaria remain a mayor burden on global health. One of the biggest challenges still to be overcome is that of inadequate diagnoses. This research explores the opportunities that Hyperspectral Imaging yields in this field. The first goal is to estimate the spectral signature of Malaria parasites in non-stained or Giemsa...

Attenuating (Sub)Nanometre Vibrations Using Piezoelectric Shunt Damping

Settels Savenije van Amelsvoort is interested in investigating the use of piezoelectric shunt damping for a measurement and calibrations setup. The goal is to damp the remaining vibrations from previous vibration isolation stages to sub-nanometre amplitude. There was interest in piezoelectric shunt damping as a damping mechanism. Although...

Phase Diversity for Blind Multi-Frame Deconvolution

When objects are imaged, often aberrations slip into the captured images. Many techniques exist to remove part of those aberrations using hardware, software or a combination of those. This research will focus on Phase Diversity for Blind Multi-Frame Deconvolution. In Blind Multi-Frame Deconvolution both the object and the aberrations are...

Design and Control of a Portable AO System: A Continuous Model Based Approach

In the field of Adaptive Optics (AO) a new development has been introduced recently: the Wavefront Sensorless Adaptive Optics (WFSless AO) approach, which only uses camera measurements to optimize image quality and does not use a Shack-Hartman (SH) Wavefront Sensor (WFS) [Booth, 2006, Débarre et al., 2009, Hinnen et al., 2008]. In order to...