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Eland, E.N. (author), Mehrotra, Shubham (author), Karmakar, S. (author), van Veldhoven, Robert (author), Makinwa, K.A.A. (author)Zoom ADCs combine a coarse SAR ADC with a fine delta-sigma modulator (?SM) to efficiently obtain high energy efficiency and high dynamic range. This makes them well suited for use in various instrumentation and audio applications. However, zoom ADCs also have drawbacks. The use of over-ranging in their fine modulators may limit SNDR, large...book chapter 2023
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van der Graaf, H. (author), Bertolini, Alessandro (author), van Heijningen, Joris (author), Bouwens, Bram (author), de Gaay Fortman, Nelson (author), van der Reep, Tom (author), Otemann, Lennart (author)The Rasnik system is a 3-point optical displacement monitor with sub-nanometer precision. The CCD-Rasnik alignment system was developed in 1993 for monitoring the alignment of the muon chambers of the ATLAS Muon Spectrometer at CERN. Since then, the development has continued as new CMOS imaging pixel chips became available. In this work the...journal article 2023
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Koorevaar, Loek (author)The problem of calibrating time-inhomogeneous exponential Lévy models with finite jump activity based on market prices of plain vanilla options is studied. Belomestny and Reiß introduced an estimation procedure for calibration in the homogeneous case with one maturity. The open-ended question that will be addressed is if we can extend this model...master thesis 2022
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Fu, Zhuohui (author)Class D audio amplifier is widely used in many electronic applications such as automobiles, laptops, and mobile phones. However, electromagnetic interference (EMI) generated by Class-D audio amplifiers frequently requires an external LC filter for suppression. The LC filter itself causes significant nonlinearity. Hence, feedback after LC is...master thesis 2022
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Gurbaxani, Rishabh (author)Phase-locked loops (PLLs) are ubiquitous in many RF applications such as frequency synthesizers in wireline and wireless transceivers. In this project, a charge-sampling PLL has been designed, which employs a charge-domain sub-sampling phase detector. The high gain of the phase detector helps suppress the in-band phase noise, while the lowered...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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Hennissen, Koen (author)This report describes the design, build and verification of a setup to measure and adjust the Rx, Ry, and Z coordinates of an element within a microscope at ASML to improve the precision of a microscope. The required tolerance budget for the measurement and adjustment of these coordinates are $\pm 1~mrad$ in Rx and Ry and $0.1~mm$ in Z. The...master thesis 2022
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Aubert, Franco (author)In the last decade, technological advances in the field of multicopters enabled a widespread use of drones that include professional research applications covering a wide field from civil engineering to geosciences and agriculture. In recreational spheres drones became popular for sport and leisure activities like private photography. In...master thesis 2022
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Liu, Anxian (author)Out-of-domain (OOD) generalization refers to learning a model from one or more different but related domain(s) that can be used in an unknown test domain. It is challenging for existing machine learning models. Several methods have been proposed to solve this problem, and multi-domain calibration is one of these methods. Model selection with the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Xu, Bo Wen (author), Kamminga, Arjan (author)A new antenna measurement setup, the Antenna Dome, is being developed, which can provide real time antenna and beamformer measurements. In order to be able to validate this setup, an existing beamforming system will be will be extensively studied and characterized. Multiple measurement setups will be used, providing multiple measured...bachelor thesis 2022
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Nambur Ramamohan, K. (author)Microphones are the most popular devices used to convert sound into electrical signals. However, with the advent of sensor technology, transducers capable of measuring vector quantities are opening up many new possibilities. One such device is an acoustic vector sensor (AVS), which measures both acoustic pressure and particle velocity, and has...doctoral thesis 2022
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Castelijn, Moos (author)Groundwater is an essential ingredient in farming, knowledge about how this is expected to change over time can help farmers improve yields and save water. Predictions about the groundwater level can be made using a mathematical model. This model takes into account the precipitation and evaporation, the flux towards a deeper aquifer and flux to...bachelor thesis 2022
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Roseboom, Jeroen (author)In my thesis I researched the potential paths and pitfalls of the newly created ``Taillardat index''.<br/>This index uses the tail characteristics of several CRPS-based distributions to rank forecasters on how well they forecast, with a slight emphasis on extreme events.<br/>From my research I concluded that the ``Taillardat Index'' in its...master thesis 2022
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Bierma, Sybren (author)The numerical modelling of a cone penetration test (CPT) has long been a challenging task due to the large deformations associated with the penetration of a CPT. Recent developments in advanced numerical methods have shown promising results in overcoming these difficulties by using the Material Point Method (MPM). In this thesis it is researched...master thesis 2022
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Arriaga, Jaime (author), Medellin, Gabriela (author), Ojeda, Elena (author), Salles, Paulo (author)Video monitoring has become an indispensable tool to understand beach processes. However, the measurement accuracy derived from the images has been taken for granted despite its dependence on the calibration process and camera movements. An easy to implement self-fed image stabilization algorithm is proposed to solve the camera movements....journal article 2022
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Yan, Y. (author), Helmons, R.L.J. (author), Schott, D.L. (author)The pin-on-disc test is a standard sliding wear test used to analyse sliding properties, including wear contour and wear volume. In this study, long-term laboratory test performance is compared with a short-term numerical model. A discrete element method (DEM) approach combined with an Archard wear model and a deformable geometry technique is...journal article 2022
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Yuan, Xiaotian (author), Jia, L. (author), Menenti, M. (author), Jiang, Min (author)Human activities modulate the impact of environmental forcing in general and of climate in particular. Information on the spatial and temporal patterns of human activities is in high demand, but scarce in sparsely populated and data-poor regions such as Northern Africa. The intensity and spatial distribution of nighttime lights provide useful...journal article 2022
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Krietemeyer, A. (author), van der Marel, H. (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)Low-cost dual-frequency receivers and antennas have created opportunities for a wide range of new applications, in regions and disciplines where traditional GNSS equipment is unaffordable. However, the major drawback of using low-cost antenna equipment is that antenna phase patterns are typically poorly defined. Therefore, the noise in...journal article 2022
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Benmahdjoub, Mohamed (author), Niessen, W.J. (author), Wolvius, Eppo B. (author), van Walsum, T. (author)Augmented reality (AR) permits the visualization of pre-operative data in the surgical field of view of the surgeon. This requires the alignment of the AR device’s coordinate system with the used navigation/tracking system. We propose a multimodal marker approach to align an AR device with a tracking system: in our implementation, an...journal article 2022
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Chen, Y. (author), Gong, J. (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author), Babaie, M. (author)In this article, we present a 4.5-5.1-GHz fractional-N digitally intensive phase-locked loop (DPLL) capable of maintaining its performance in face of a large supply ripple, thus enabling a direct connection to a switched-mode dc-dc converter. Supply pushing of its inductor-capacitor (LC) oscillator is suppressed by properly replicating the...journal article 2022