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Ceelen, Marcel (author), van der Geer, C.J. (author), Rouwen, Floris (author), Seuren, Stijn (author)In this thesis, a swarm is defined as:<br/>”A swarm is a large number of homogenous, unsophisticated agents that interact locally<br/>among themselves and their environment, without any central control or management to<br/>yield a global behaviour to emerge.”<br/>The bigger perspective is to have the units within a swarm operate for a...bachelor thesis 2015
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Douma, Gijs (author), Lim, Tom (author), van Rijen, Gijs (author), Vorage, Christian (author), van Wering, Nino (author)This research paper describes the design and implementation of a Model Predictive Controller, using economic engineering principles, on a model of the US economy. The purpose of the Model Predictive Controller is to mimic the US<br/>government policy by maximizing the Net Domestic Product. The Model Predictive Controller is integrated with a...bachelor thesis 2021
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ten Hoopen, Rick (author)An important durability question is whether military off-road vehicles can cope with the fatigue damage from extreme random, complex, and non-stationary loads for the design life of up to 30 years. An accurate life cycle fatigue damage estimation is essential for military off-road vehicles as the lives of military personnel can depend on a...master thesis 2022
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Tempelaar, Willem Jan (author)Multi-pedestrian tracking in camera networks has gained enormous interest in the industry because of its applicability in travel-flow analysis, autonomous driving, and surveillance. Essential to tracking in camera networks is camera calibration and, in particular extrinsic camera calibration. Extrinsic camera calibration incorporates the 3D...master thesis 2022
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Bijl, Jorn (author)Green hydrogen plays an important role in the energy transition. It can function as a storage medium, as well as a replacement for fossil fuels in transport or high-temperature heat processes. However, the economic feasibility of electrolysers has proved to be a problem. Even though a lot of research has been done to the electrolysis technology,...master thesis 2023
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Schol, Jasper (author)Teleoperated semi-autonomous care robots aim to alleviate work pressure from care workers. Unlike many traditional stiff position-controlled robots, the care robot is operating in a shared environment with humans that is often unpredictable and unknown. Especially when dealing with tasks that involve contact with the environment, modulation of...master thesis 2020
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Kempen, Sander (author)This paper presents a manufacturing method for a zero-stiffness compliant mechanism to be used as a flexible head support. The manufactured design consists of two curved, thin-walled U-beams made of high strength steel. The beams are prestressed in opposite directions to obtain zero torsional stiffness so that rotation of the head is allowed....master thesis 2021
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Wróbel, Przemysław (author)Over the years the introduction of new Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) software into the design process allowed engineers to significantly shorten the time necessary to produce finished designs. There seems to be an agreement that using CAE tools shortens the time of the design process and improves the quality of finished products. Although,...master thesis 2023
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Milano, Luca (author)Conventionally, the geometry of the Fri-Jado open vertical refrigerated display cabinet design is optimized by drawing and producing the new components and testing the new configuration in a climate chamber, which is known to be an iterative process that consumes a large amount of time. To speed up the optimization process, the application of...master thesis 2022
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de Vries, Jelle (author)Mobile soft robots show great potential for exploration of unknown and hard to navigate environments. Sadly, most of these robots are currently being held back by their power sources and control systems. These components, which are usually quite heavy and bulky, need to be integrated before mobile soft robots can cut their tethers and explore...master thesis 2021
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Arntzen, Stefan (author)High-fidelity optimisation studies are a useful asset in the design of critical components for large gas turbines. These studies require the computation of numerous computationally expensive CFD simulations and result in predominantly optimisation graphs of design objectives (e.g. Pareto-front figure). The quantity of generated data is...master thesis 2019
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Ramírez Montero, Mariano (author)Recent research has shown that a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approach is useful for teaching robots flexible skills efficiently, and it opens the possibility for non-expert users to program these skills. When learning from demonstration data, learning frameworks should learn representations that are flexible and can generalize to unseen...master thesis 2023
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Peereboom, Joris (author)Objective: In this thesis, we explore whether augmented and diminished reality interfaces, which, respectively, add and remove information from the environment, improve a pedestrian's feeling of road crossing safety, and how this information should be conveyed to the pedestrian.</p> <p class="MsoNormal">Background:...master thesis 2022
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Griffioen, Laurence (author)Carbon mineralization is a form of carbon utilization in which carbon dioxide is reacted with a calcium or magnesium-bearing mineral, herewith forming a carbonate. Previous research has found that mineralization shows the ability to permanently store large amounts of CO2 while at the same time delivering a product of potential added value,...master thesis 2021
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van Dijk, Job (author)The convection section of fired heaters consists of finned tubes to enhance heat transfer. However, finned tubes make heat transfer in the convection section of fired heaters considerably more complex. Consequently, engineers depend heavily on correlations to determine heat transfer in the convection section of fired heaters. The problem related...master thesis 2020
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Bootsma, B.G.N. (author)This work applies interactive imitation learning for the navigation of a mobile robot. The algorithm"Learning Interactively to Resolve Ambiguity in Sensor Policy Fusion" (LIRA-SPF) is introduced in the field of machine learning for robot navigation. This algorithm extends on existing methods by allowing the ambiguity-free fusion of existing...master thesis 2021
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Krishnakumar, Ajinkya (author)Autonomous vehicles are the inevitable future of the industry as theoretically they guarantee higher road throughput and a much safer means of transport compared to today’s ground vehicle. This has attracted the industries and universities making it a very important topic of research. The basic function of the autonomous vehicle boils down to...master thesis 2019
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Zelvyte, Aureja (author)Twisted and Coiled Polymer Actuators (TCPAs) are a new type of thermally driven fiber artificial muscles with many attractive advantages, including high power-to-weight ratio, large contractions, lightweight, and low cost. However, one drawback is a low force that one TCPA can generate. To fully implement TCPAs in robotic systems, TCPAs must be...master thesis 2018
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Malik, Naseem (author)Magnets for High Energy Physics applications built to date are generally superconducting magnets, which operate at cryogenic temperatures. The reliability and safety of the applications are entirely dependent on good design which in turn rely heavily on predictable materials performance. Where at these low temperatures the fracture toughness is...master thesis 2021
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van Dijk, Didi (author)When we manipulate objects in our day-to-day life, we perceive information on the object via force feedback that we sense with our sensorimotor system. However, in virtual reality, we lack these forces, which makes it more challenging to interact with the digital world. Wearables, such as hand exoskeletons, can provide force feedback in VR....master thesis 2022
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