Friction Identification on the Gantry Stage

In an era marked by the demand for unprecedented levels of precision in engineering applications, the profound impact of friction forces on motion control systems cannot be underestimated. This thesis extensively investigates the frictional behavior of the Proton Motion Stage, an advanced high-precision motion control system developed by...

Autonomous Wireless Charging System for Robot Swarms: Robot Control and Navigation

The goal of this thesis is to develop a ROS package that facilitates the control and navigation of a Duckiebot robot. With the rise of robot swarms the need for autonomous charging system for robots is increasing. An implementation for decentralised autonomous behaviour for a Duckiebot for a wireless charging system in a Duckietown environment...

On-chip SPAD array with IO designed for quantum sensing

In this Bachelor graduation project, a 16x16 Single Photon Avalanche Diode (SPAD) array is designed in 40nm TSMC CMOS for diamond single Nitrogen Vacancy center array readout. It includes an active quenching and recharge circuit (AQC), a hold-off circuit for controllable dead-time and IO electronics for off-chip communication. The chip is part...

Few shot emotion recognition using intelligent voice assistants and wearables: Learning from few samples of speech and physiological signals

Emotion Recognition is one of the vastly studied areas of affective computing. Attempts have been made to design emotion recognition systems for everyday settings. The ubiquitous nature of Intelligent voice assistants (IVAs) in households, make them a great anchor for the introduction of emotion recognition technology to consumers. The existing...

A Decentralised Key Management System for the European Railway Signalling System

Modern railway signalling systems are based on a wireless communication link between train and trackside entities. Secure communication between these entities is established using cryptographic symmetric keys loaded beforehand. Train and trackside entities across Europe are maintained by different Key Management Centres (KMC), making the...

Analyzing Functional Ultra- sound Images of the Brain Using Tensor Decompositions

Functional ultrasound (fUS) is a neuroimaging modality that offers high spatial and temporal resolution while also providing portability. In this thesis, neuroimaging data acquired with fUS at Center for Ultrasound and Brain imaging at Erasmus MC (CUBE) is processed. Due to the fact that fUS data is inherently multidimensional, we propose using...

Time Synchronization for Anchorless Satellite Networks

In this thesis, we propose a new class of pairwise frequency, multi-domain time synchronization and ranging algorithms for anchorless mobile networks of asynchronous nodes. We apply these techniques and study network and mission level aspects of time synchronization to Orbiting Low Frequency Array for Radio astronomy (OLFAR), a proposed...

GNSS Chirp Interference Estimation and Mitigation

GNSS receivers can suffer severely from radio frequency interference (RFI). RFI can introduce errors in the position and time calculations or if the interference is very severe, can lead to a total loss of GNSS reception. This vulnerability of GNSS can have large implications on critical infrastructure such as power plants, telephony, aviation...

Improving Ultrawide Band Ranging Using Two Antennas

Ultrawideband technology can be used to measure the distance between two device equipped with ultrawideband transceivers. Multiple ultrawideband devices known as anchors can localize a device that supports ultrawideband communication after each anchor measures the distance between itself and the device. The anchor and the tag can measure the...

Electronic markers for geological research: Tag Design

In this thesis, the implementation of a passive, chipless, frequency coded Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for bedload transport studies is proposed. The proposed tag will be deployed in the semi-arid Río Colorado river, Bolivia with the aim to develop quantitative sediment transport models that relate transport to grain size. The...

Respiration monitoring based on information fusion from Impedance pneumography and Electrocardiography

In the hospital environment, the variations in respiratory information (RI) are typically used for indicating the health condition of the patients. With RI known, corresponding parameters in both time domain (respiratory rate) and frequency domain (respiratory power) can be extracted to indicate the health condition. However, the monitoring...

Designing an innovative brake system: Hitch Connection Unit