Next generation innovation vehicle HMI system

Modern vehicles have multiple different buses to communicate between components, like CAN (FD) and FlexRay. ZF builds ”innovation vehicles” with new components to showcase and test them. These components are connected to the automotive buses. ZF uses a web-based Human Machine Interface (HMI) to control and view the state of these parts. This HMI...

Statistical Detection of Adversarial examples in Blockchain-based Federated Forest In-vehicle Network Intrusion Detection Systems

The internet-of-Vehicle (IoV) can facilitate seamless connectivity between connected vehicles (CV), autonomous vehicles (AV), and other IoV entities. Intrusion Detection Systems (IDSs) for IoV networks can rely on machine learning (ML) to protect the in-vehicle network from cyber-attacks. Blockchain-based Federated Forests (BFFs) could be...

Development of an Efficient Modelling Approach to Support Economically and Socially Acceptable Flood Risk Reduction in Coastal Cities: Can Tho City, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Flooding is one of the most frequently occurring and damaging natural disasters worldwide. Quantitative flood risk management (FRM) in the modern context demands statistically robust approaches (e.g. probabilistic) due to the need to deal with complex uncertainties. However, probabilistic estimates often involve ensemble 2D hydraulic model runs...

ADome: Implementing CAN in a multi­sensor measurement setup

This thesis focuses on improving the readout of the ADome by implementing MCUs at each antenna probe, enabling local sampling and memory storage. The serial communication protocols CAN, SPI and I2C are considered and compared with one another. Ultimately, CAN is decided due to its robustness and simplicity which make the system cheap and ensures...

Instant flood risk modelling (Inform) tool for co-design of flood risk management strategies with stakeholders in Can Tho city, Vietnam

Flood risk reduction strategies play an important role in flood risk management (FRM) and these strategies are being co-designed with the engagement of the stakeholder through multiple consultations and co-designing sessions. Effective participation of stakeholders in interactive work sessions requires fast and accurate modeling systems with...

Multivariate and location-specific correlates of fuel consumption: A test track study

Current predictors of fuel consumption are typically based on computer simulations or data collections in real traffic, where the route and vehicle type are not under the researcher's control. Here, we predicted fuel consumption using test track data, an approach that allowed for location-specific predictions. Ninety-one drivers drove a total...

A Blockchain-Based Federated Forest for SDN-Enabled In-Vehicle Network Intrusion Detection System

In-vehicle communication systems are usually managed by controller area networks (CAN). By broadcasting packets to their bus, the CAN facilitates the interaction between Electronic Control Units (ECU) that coordinate, monitor and control internal vehicle components. With no authentication mechanism for identifying the legitimacy and source of...

Scheduling Strategies for Event-Triggered Control Using Timed Game Automata Over CAN Networks

Modern times have seen an increasing use of networked control systems, in which plants and controllers may not necessarily have a direct link but instead be connected through a network, thereby closing control loops over multiple nodes.<br/><br/>The system may also be spread out spatially over a large area, and thus the associated network delays...

Tidal Turbine Generators

Recently, tidal stream turbines have become a preferable mode of harvesting tidal energy. The main issue for low utilization of tidal energy is the high levelized cost of energy (LCoE) from tidal stream turbines. A major reason for this is the high operation and maintenance costs for submerged installations. A possible way of minimizing the LCoE...

Effects of Saturation for High-Throughput Satellite Buses

Bus saturation is deemed as one of the primary causes of delays in the data propagation between spacecraft components. However, the conditions under which bus congestion can affect measurements variability were not well characterized before. This paper presents a bus saturation model and a set of experiments to characterize the bus...

An effective modelling approach to support probabilistic flood forecasting in coastal cities-Case study: Can Tho, Mekong Delta, Vietnam

Probabilistic flood forecasting requires flood models that are simple and fast. Many of the modelling applications in the literature tend to be complex and slow, making them unsuitable for probabilistic applications which require thousands of individual simulations. This article focusses on the development of such a modelling approach to...

Comparing different materials for rotor-can in flooded generators

Flooded Generators have been proposed as a possible solution to eliminate the risks due to the seal failure, and improve cooling in tidal stream turbine generators. In a flooded generator, the stator-rotor gap is filled with the seawater; this poses a serious corrosion risk to the material inside the generator. For this reason, a can or a...

Electric/Electronic-Architectures - Automating and optimizing communication matrices

This research aims at optimizing the Electric/Electronic-Architecture of modern day vehicles. Due to the massive increase in new Advanced Driver Assistance Systems, currently implemented communication technologies are no longer sufficient to deal with the massive increase in transmitted information. Instead of the costly procedure of introducing...

Design and Validation of an Innovative Data Bus Architecture for CubeSats

Since the first successful CubeSat missions in the early 2000s, payloads for this form factor have emerged and have increased in technical performance level. This trend is likely to continue in the near future. However, despite the subsequent increase in data load and the increasing modularity of components, there are no clear trends for a new...

A CANS-preventing posture-coaching shirt accompanied by an application that is positioned in a world of professionals

Goal of the graduation project is to make a market proposition for an existing innovative product, the FysioPal. This is done by researching the internal and external market environment as well as the stakeholders that can be influencing in the business model network of the product-service FysioPal. By combining the insights found internal as...

Level of Service estimation with in-vehicle sensor floating car data

In the Smart In-Car project, in-vehicle signals obtained from the CAN (Controller Area Network) bus are collected along with the GPS position from 200 equipped vehicles. The main CAN bus signals in the available data set from the Smart In-Car project are: speedometer, brake usage, steering position, rpm, indicator usage and fuel consumption, but...

Can Tho, how to grow? Flood proof expansion in rapidly urbanising delta cities in the Mekong delta: The case of Can Tho

Since 2008, for the first time in history, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in cities. This development can be seen in the Mekong delta in Southern Vietnam, one of the world’s most threatened delta areas related to climate change. This area is experiencing a quick process of urbanisation and economic growth. Meanwhile, large areas...