Low cost power quality measuring unit for household usage and small to enterprise scale installations: Designing a Low Cost Power Quality Analyzer

The increase in non-linear loads of modern electronics raises concerns over power quality. Additionally, existing power-quality analyzers are expensive and not intended for household use. This thesis aims to develop a single-phase, user-friendly power-quality analyzer using a Raspberry Pi 4 Model B with an emphasis on low cost and class S...

Simulating the Energy Transition: Raspberry Pi Hardware Hub

Before the project was started, there was an energy system integrator demonstrator. This demonstrator was purely software, there was no physical interaction possible with it. It demonstrated the energy system by simulations. The objective of this project was to design and built peripherals that represents the components of an energy system....

UV-C LED Seed Disinfection: Mechanics Group

This thesis presents the design and development of a UV-C LED-based seed treatment machine aimed at enhancing seed quality by the extermination of pathogens. The research covers design choices, including a round irradiation pattern, consisting of two rings with three and nine LEDs for the inner and outer ring respectively, the use of a quartz...

Image-based Video Search Engine: Keyframe Extraction

In this report, the analysis and design of a system that extracts keyframes from videos is detailed. The need for such a sub-module stems from the similarity of frames in a video. To aid in reducing the computation time of the content based video search engine, the Keyframe Extraction Module reduces the amount of frames by discarding frames that...

Image-based Video Search Engine: Data Compression and Nearest Neighbour Search

One of the main problems with Instance-level Image Retrieval in video data is that for longer query videos or large amount of image queries, comparing all of the query images to every extracted frame is time-inefficient. This thesis aims to solve this problem by implementing Nearest Neighbour Search (NNS) algorithms and data compression methods,...

Modular GPS Receiver for Indoor use: Bsc Thesis

The company invented a product that can monitor vulnerable people. It is important that they know exactly where their products are located. If a situation occurred where a vulnerable person needs immediate help, first responders can use the knowledge of the location to get to the patient as fast as possible. This thesis investigates if a modular...

Weight sensor readout system: Accurately measuring the resonance frequency of a passive wireless RLC resonator

This thesis’s objective was to re-design a weight sensor readout system for Intralox, an international manufacturer of conveyor belts and equipment. Intralox’s current implementation is expensive, too complicated, and inaccurate. After considering several possible readout implementations, an inductively coupled solution with a frequency-based...

Wireless passive weight sensor: Design and simulation of an RLC-resonance sensor for weight sensing in conveyor belts

This thesis presents a resonant sensor circuit design that converts the deformation of a load cell in a conveyor belt into a change in resonance frequency. The sensor is inductively coupled to a reader circuit using planar PCB inductor coils. A sensor circuit was designed, fitted on a square PCB with 14.14 mm side length. The circuit consists of...

Radar Based Human Vital Sign Detection In Cars: A System Analysis

This thesis analyses different radar systems for sensing chest movement to detect human presence inside a car. The detection in this thesis is limited to sensing breathing rate, although heartbeat detection is considered a possibility. A comparison is made between CW-, FMCW-, pulsed- and UWB pulsed radar. UWB pulsed radar was chosen to be a...

Digital implementation of motional feedback in a bass loudspeaker

This thesis report focuses on possible methods of digital implementation of motional feedback in a bass loudspeaker. In this thesis, the control system will be created for a monopole and a dipole speaker specifically. It does so by sketching the outlines of such a system and examining possible designs for the components required to suppress...

Measurement Light Bulb: Light source and camera synchronization

This document describes the design process the prototype of a measurement light bulb which is able to project spherical harmonics of orders 0-1-2. Photographs of these projections can be combined to represent many light distributions. The measurement light bulb can be used in the field of research focused on the computation of the illumination...

Measuring Device for Controlling a Vaporising Liquid Microthruster

The objective of the project is to design a system which can control the temperature of a va-porizing liquid microthruster (VLM). The liquid in a VLM is heated using a heater resistor.This resistor will be used to both heat the liquid and measure the temperature.In this thesis the subsystem responsible for the measurements and the conversion of...

Instrumented Skeleton Sled: Focussing on Data Processing and User Interface

This report details the design of an instrumentation system to be used on a skeleton sled. The system will measure several quantities on a skeleton track for the athlete to learn from. This data is stored during the run using several sensors on the sled and processed and visualised immediately afterwards on a mobile device. The project is tailor...

Wireless Charger for Hand-held Mobile Devices: EE3L11 - BSc Project: Final Thesis

In recent years the field of wireless charging has seen remarkable developments. More and more devices like mobile phones and laptops can be charged wirelessly, and larger equipment like electric vehicles are likely to follow the same path. The air gaps over which the power can be transferred keeps increasing, as do the <br/>amount of power that...

High precision Analog-to-Digital Conversion: Nuna Sensor System

This thesis is part of the development of a sensor system for measuring currents in the Nuna solar car. A big problem within this system is the processing of incoming sensor data. Therefore, a solution in the form of a sensor-data-processing-unit was proposed, with its primary focus on the analog-to-digital conversion. The converter should not...

Motion Reference Unit Testing Platform: Software

The Motion Reference Unit (MRU) is an important component in the Ampelmann Operation B.V. systems. In order to assess the performance of different MRUs a test system is developed. By using a one Degree of Freedom rail, wave motions can be simulated in the sway, surge and heave direction of a ship. The test system is divided in three parts:...

Designing an Innovative Brake Control System

Current trailers and caravans use overrun brakes, which cause overheated brakes in the mountains. A solution is to design an electric brake system in which the brakes are controlled electronically instead of mechanically. The report discusses the control models associated with braking, anti-sway detection and velocity sensor fusion. The RDW...

Designing an innovative brake system: Hitch Connection Unit