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Adrichem, Daley (author)
The last few years, automation and autonomous vehicles has been one of the main research topics for control engineers. This field ranges from autonomous cars to autonomous package delivery drones. In this thesis, the focus will be on autonomous boats. <br/><br/>This thesis presents a control module that controls an \acs{USV} from its starting...
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Kist, Martijn (author)
Pioneering Spirit, Allseas's largest pipelay vessel, will be outfitted with a novel Jacket Lift System (JLS). A jacket refers to the steel frame which supports the topside of a fixed offshore platform. The Pioneering Spirit was already capable of lifting the topsides of offshore platforms, like the former oil platform Brent Delta, but would have...
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Disario, Gianmarco (author)
<br/>Wind energy currently is one of the most attractive solutions to help in the goal of switching to a more sustainable way of energy production. To stay competitive with other forms of energy production, the reduction of the Levelized Cost of Energy (LCoE) is an important indicator. One way of achieving this goal is by increasing the size of...
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Valk, Laurens (author)
Passivity-based control is a well-established technique for coordinating groups of fully-actuated systems, but existing methods for underactuated systems are limited to groups of homogeneous systems, coordinate synchronization tasks, and to specific applications. We propose a generic distributed control method that enables heterogeneous groups...
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Bellan, Daniele (author)
Machine learning techniques aim to train a model in such a way that it can approximate complex dynamics like the vehicle routing problem. In the recent years, combinatorial neural networks and deep learning methods have been used to predict the solution of routing problems. However, the approaches investigated so far in literature could be...
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Jürisson, Andres (author)
Aircraft lifespan can be extended by upgrading and modernizing the electrical subsystems and instruments. However, this often introduces increased power demands and heat generation that the aircraft was not originally designed for and can result in a reduced flight performance and increased wear. Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and the...
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Romagnuolo, Marco (author)
The cooperative output regulation problem has attracted considerable attention due to its wide applications in several real life problems; in the past decade, the cooperative control of multi-agent systems has become a trendy topic in the control community.<br/>In the cooperative output regulation problem the main purpose consists in achieving...
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Uribe Jaramillo, Julian (author)
The non-linear Fourier transform may be considered an extension of Fourier analysis to non-linear problems. It has applications in many different scientific and engineering disciplines, for instance as a solution to the non-linear Schrödinger equation which describes how electro-magnetic waves travel through ideal non-linear media. Hence, the...
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Kalamboukis, Vangelis (author)
The relation between graph theory and max-plus algebra has been well studied since the inception of max-plus algebra. It has been shown that any square matrix over the maxplus semiring can be represented as a weighted directed graph. Furthermore, properties of these matrices, such as irreducibility and its (unique) eigenvalue, can be determined...
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Laudiero, Nico (author)
Fast depleting fossil fuels and growing awareness for environmental protection have led us to the urgency of a long-term energy planning where reduction of emissions, integration of renewable supply, and energy efficiency improvement represent the main targets of a ‘smarter’ employment of primary resources. Research is needed nowadays to drive a...
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Claassen, Eva (author)
The Ampelmann system offers a safe and reliable solution for offshore access. As safety is a key factor, an extensive safety and warning management system is employed which accommodates for different fault types that may occur. Accommodation of sensor failure in the Ampelmann system is currently done through switching to a redundant component....
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Heinen, Kars (author)
PID is the most popular controller in the industry. PID controllers are linear, and thus have fundamental limitations, such that certain performance criteria cannot be achieved. To overcome these limitations, nonlinear reset control can be used. Reset control can achieve less overshoot and a faster response time than linear controllers. However,...
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Brouwer, Jochem (author)
The autonomous transit market is on the rise. 2getthere is one of the lead suppliers of automated people moving systems, located in the Netherlands. Their vehicles can be classified as SAE level 4 automation (Highly Automated) vehicles. This thesis is concerned with the dynamic trajectory generation for 2getthere’s Group Rapid Transport (GRT)...
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Smit, Ruud (author)
Neoclassical economics dictates the decision-making process of economic agents as the mathematical problem of maximizing utility over a prescribed planning horizon. The mathematical similarities with optimal control theory lead to a new interpretation of economic agents as optimal controllers. Pontryagin's maximum principle generates the...
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Razoux Schultz, Lex (author)
Automated Sentiment Classification (SC) on short text fragments has been an upcoming field of research. Different machine learning techniques and word representation models have proven to be successful in classifying sentiment of opinion expressions in various domains, i.e. different topics or source media. However, when training on a source...
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Berger, Niels (author)
In the past years a number of SAE level 2 driving automation systems have come available in commercial vehicles. An example is Volvo's Pilot Assist, which provides a more comfortable journey for the driver as certain parts of the dynamic driving task are taken away, but it still requires the driver to be attentive in order to supervise the...
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Márquez Bonilla, Fran (author)
Autonomous navigation has become, in the last years, one of the main field of research for both transportation and robotic purposes, employing all kind of terrain, maritime and aerial vehicles. An example of its growing importance is the recent development of autonomous driving solutions that is been carried out by most of the world leader car...
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van Bruggen, Thomas (author)
Infant mortality is a significant problem in mooring design. The objective of this thesis is to design a generic fault detection system for mooring line failures, which can accurately detect a mooring line failure within a certain time frame. The research is done through Catenary Arm Leg Mooring (CALM) buoy systems, as this thesis is a Proof of...
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Yuvraj, Kirti (author)
With the tremendous increase of vehicles and limited infrastructure for its smooth movement, traffic jams have become a significant problem these days. To address this issue, significant research and development in the field of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) is currently being carried out. One such technological development that allows...
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Sorgedrager, Riemer (author)
This study focuses on automated malaria diagnosis in low quality blood smear images, captured by a low-cost smartphone based microscope system. The aim is to localize and classify the healthy and infected erythrocytes (red blood cells) in order to evaluate the parasitaemia in an infected blood smear. Due to the lower quality of the smartphone...
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