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Serné, Luke (author)In recent years, computers have found their way into nearly every part of life. This led to the creation of many embedded devices, which are usually quite different from the more commonly known computers and each other. The cause of this is the diversity in constraints that are placed on these devices, in terms of size, weight, energy...master thesis 2022
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Hoefnagel, Tom (author)Debugging and testing battery-free intermittently-powered systems is notoriously difficult. This is not only due to the additional complexity of maintaining state through power failures but also due to the lack of proper tools to test and debug these systems. As a solution, we present DIPS: a fully-featured hardware debugger for battery-free...master thesis 2022
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den Hoedt, Dirk (author)When a patient is in a hospital, it is very important to monitor their vital signs. Doctors and nurses use this information to assess the condition of the patient. Most of the existing vital signs measurement devices need physical contact with the patient. This thesis focuses on a non-contact vital signs estimation method. Using a mmWave radar,...master thesis 2022
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Prins, Nathan (author)The growing field of research into batteryless or intermittent systems has enabled Internet of Things applications that were previously impossible. For example, the FreeBie system recently introduced Bluetooth Low-Energy (BLE)<br/>to intermittent devices, making medium to long range bi-directional communication a reality for the first time....master thesis 2022
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Mohapatra, Sourav (author)In this thesis we propose a novel memory architecture design that is robust to frequent memory failures targeting next generation low power embedded system. We explore the how the architecture works and perform detailed evaluations to show that our system achieves better performance than the state-of-the-art.master thesis 2022
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Narchi, William (author)This paper presents how a convolutional neural network can be constructed in order to recognise gestures using photodiodes and ambient light. A number of candidates are presented and evaluated, with the most performant being adopted for in-depth analysis. This network is then compressed in order to be ran on an Arduino Nano 33 BLE...bachelor thesis 2022
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van de Water, Stijn (author)This paper describes the design of an adaptable, low-cost, and energy efficient gesture detection system. The system leverages the ambient light available in the environment to perform Visible Light Sensing (VLS) using powerful Convolutional Neural Networks. The focus lies on designing a system that is capable of robust gesture detection in any...bachelor thesis 2022
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Kortbeek, V. (author), Ghosh, Souradip (author), Hester, Josiah (author), Campanoni, Simone (author), Pawełczak, Przemysław (author)Intermittently operating embedded computing platforms powered by energy harvesting require software frameworks to protect from errors caused by Write After Read (WAR) dependencies. A powerful method of code protection for systems with non-volatile main memory utilizes compiler analysis to insert a checkpoint inside each WAR violation in the...conference paper 2022
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de Winkel, J. (author), Tang, Haozhe (author), Pawełczak, Przemysław (author)We present an architecture for intermittently-powered wireless communication systems that does not require any changes to the official protocol specification. Our core idea is to save the intermediate state of the wireless protocol to non-volatile memory within each connection interval. The protocol state is then deterministically restored at...conference paper 2022
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Sharma, S. (author), Simha, A. (author), Venkatesha Prasad, Ranga Rao (author), Gokhale, V. (author), Narayana, S. (author)In this letter, we present Hermes - a novel, low-cost, wireless, batteryless, energy harvesting system for aerial vehicles for sensing wind speed and Angle of Attack (AoA) concurrently. Hermes comprises a set of piezoelectric films which flutter due to incoming wind and the characteristics of this aeroelastic flutter are utilized for...journal article 2021
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Hofman, Stefan (author)An increase in the performance of mobile devices has started a revolution in deploying artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms on mobile and embedded systems. In addition, fueled by the need for privacy-aware insights into data, we see a strong push towards federated machine learning, where data is stored locally and not shared with a central...master thesis 2020
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Karavelas, Konstantinos (author)Space has always been fascinating to humans, since the dawn of civilization. From the first astronomers and philosophers of ancient times, who looked at the night sky searching for answers, to the scientists and engineers of modern missions, commanding space probes to the edge of the solar system, space has always been at the epicenter of...master thesis 2020
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Vette, Marek (author)Ever since its invention in the 1930s, photoplethysmography (PPG) is a wide-spread technique used for health-monitoring. Via illumination of the human skin with a light source and capturing the light, an estimate of important physiological properties such as the heart rate can be made. This is commonly done with dedicated medical equipment, but...master thesis 2020
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Nogd, Suhail (author)With the proliferation of multicore platforms, the embedded systems world has shifted more and more towards multiprocessing to make use of high computing power and increased cyber functionalities. Although today multiprocessor platforms have been extensively adopted by real-time embedded systems, there exists a need for tools and techniques that...master thesis 2020
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Eigbe, Eghonghon (author)While multiprocessor platforms have been widely adopted by the embedded systems industry in the past couple of years, there are still fundamental challenges about their timing predictability for applications with real-time timing constraints. The common-off-the-shelf (COTS) multiprocessor platforms typically use complex hardware components,...master thesis 2020
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Bekker, Bernard (author)Large cities in the Netherlands, like Rotterdam, have hundreds of playgrounds, but local governments have little information on how children and adults use them. Usage data can help create playgrounds that better fit with the residents' needs by identifying what elements of a playground are the most popular, and which do not get used. The AMS...master thesis 2020
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Jujjavarapu, Satyajith (author)Schistosomiasis is a neglected tropical disease (NTD) that affects around a quarter-billion people worldwide. Most of the infected people live in tropical regions, especially in sub-Saharan Africa, where there is limited access to diagnostic and other relevant medical facilities. The current reference standard diagnostic procedure - conventional...master thesis 2020
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Lazaridis, Lazaros (author)As software security expert Bruce Schneier argues, the pervasive vulnerability of embedded systems today is structurally similar to the security crisis of PCs in the mid-1990s—only much worse. Embedded devices are ideal malware targets for several reasons. Firstly, Internet-connected devices are inherently more exposed to remote exploitation....master thesis 2020
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Majid, A.Y. (author), Schilder, Patrick (author), Langendoen, K.G. (author)The main obstacles to achieve truly ubiquitous sensing are (i) the limitations of battery technology - batteries are short-lived, hazardous, bulky, and costly - and (ii) the unpredictability of ambient power. The latter causes sensors to operate intermittently, violating the availability requirements of many real-world applications. In this...conference paper 2020