Model Predictive Control for Reticle Cooling

During the exposure process of a wafer scanner, problems occur due to reticle heating. In this project, the consequences of reticle heating in terms of image aberrations are discussed along with how they could be solved with feedback controlled cooling. The problem is defined in terms of a performance index and constraints, which fits the Model...

Fault Detection and Isolation for Lateral Control of an Autonomous Vehicle: A Model Based Approach

Over the past years, the automotive industry has seen a constantly increasing level of automation of automotive vehicles. This increasing level of automation contributes to an increasing safety in traffic and a reduction of traffic congestions due tio faster response times and higher reliability, with respect to the human driver. The automation...

String-stable automated steering in cooperative driving applications

The ever-increasing road transport demand in the developing and the developed world has resulted in road-traffic networks nearing maximum capacity. Traditional approaches to this problem, such as increasing road capacity, do not offer long-term solutions. Combined with rising environmental concerns, the demand for smarter solutions has never...

Force Estimation for Offshore Heavy Lifting Equipment

One of the phases of the installation of Offshore Wind Turbines is the installation of the foundation for the turbine. Herein, a monopile is one of the most frequently used foundation-types. This monopile is a high steel cylinder, over 60 meters high, which supports the wind turbine to the seabed. Currently, monopiles are lifted with large boom...

Robust output-feedback control of 3D directional drilling systems

The amount of mineral and energy resources in conventional reservoirs has been drastically diminished in recent years. This has led to the development of techniques to reach reservoirs which are not easy to access and, more specifically, where boreholes with complex geometries need to be drilled. Directional drilling allows to accomplish such...

A Hybrid Model of a Two-Dimensional Directional Drilling System

Due to the exhaustion of conventional reservoirs of oil, gas and mineral resources over the recent years, the need to drill to unconventional, hard-to-reach wells has increased. Directional drilling techniques allow to drill the complex borehole geometries necessary to reach those wells. In practice, boreholes drilled with a directional drilling...

Lateral Path-Following Control of Automated Vehicle Platoons.

Nowadays, traffic congestion on highways is still an increasing problem, in the Netherlands and worldwide. Hence, there is an increasing societal demand for innovative solutions for this problem. Preferably, these solutions also contribute to the reduction of fuel consumption (and hence emissions) and higher traffic safety. This has raised the...