Dynamic Positioning around an alternative control point

Traditionally, the control point (CP) of a dynamically positioned vessel is located around its center of gravity (CoG). However, during offshore operations, other locations, such as the crane tip or gripper position, become more critical due to the load being located there. This thesis proposes shifting the control point from the CoG to an...

Effects of a Digital Platform Within Container Shipping: Scenarios for the Reconfiguration of the Container Shipping Ecosystem

Since the introduction of the shipping container as early as 1968, the shipping industry experienced great increase in trade and efficiency. The shipping container revolutionised the way goods are handled within the ports and enabled the growth of international supply chains. However, as this growth of trade continued into the late 1900s and...

Emergence of collective digital innovations through the process of control point driven network reconfiguration and reframing: the case of mobile payment

Decentralized digital technologies require multiple organizations to collectively create digital innovations. Control over the resources required for digital innovations is often therefore dispersed among multiple actors. Actors may have conflicting interests and business models which cause collective digital innovations to come to a...

Overcoming blockages to collective innovation in digital infrastructures: The case of mobile payment

Decentralized digital technologies increasingly enable multiple organizations to co-create digital infrastructures. However, collective innovation processes often come to a stand-still because of conflicting interests and business models. While existing research suggests various factors that block collective innovation processes, there is still...

The SIM card as control point for Mobile Network Operators: A secure means for authentication and identification services

The SIM card is as a secure authentication and identification means and that can be used for services that reach beyond the mobile world. Therefore this research tries identify markets where the SIM could possibly be exploited by applying the concept of control points.

Evaluation of close range photogrammetric support for Pavescan

Pavescan is a low cost mobile system for road modelling survey. Because of the absence of navigation sensors it has several practical drawbacks compared to most of the other mobile mapping systems, but those sensors are very expensive and do not fulfil most of the accuracy requirements. Pavescan will be more attractive if some of the practical...