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Anil Meera, A. (author)The potential impact of a grand unified theory of the brain on the robotics community might be immense, as it might hold the key to the general artificial intelligence. Such a theory might make revolutionary leaps in robot intelligence by improving the quality of our lives. The last two decades have witnessed the rise of one such brain theory -...doctoral thesis 2023
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van Baasbank, Erik (author)Charting hyperlocal wind using a drone is a challenge of increased attention as it unlocks potential in a variety of fields. In context of the METeo Sensors In the Sky project, this study proposes a method to estimate the magnitude and direction of wind using a quadcopter in hover and cruise without a dedicated wind sensor. Only on-board sensors...master thesis 2023
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Khodabandeh, A. (author), Teunissen, P.J.G. (author), Psychas, D. (author)To obtain single-receiver Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) parameter solutions, the PPP-RTK user-filter combines measurements with time-correlated corrections that are separately computed by the filter of an external provider. The consequence of exercising such double-filtering is that the Kalman filter’s standard assumption of...journal article 2023
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Mohsan, M. (author), Vardon, P.J. (author), Vossepoel, F.C. (author)Data assimilation methods have been implemented on a slope stability problem, and the performance of different constitutive models and data assimilation schemes has been investigated. In the first part, a data assimilation scheme called the ensemble Kalman filter (EnKF) is implemented using a finite element model (FEM) and its performance with...conference paper 2023
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Tansel, Öykü (author)Due to the precise lithography and highly pure silicon used in IC technology, thermal-diffusivity (TD) temperature sensors can achieve high accuracy without the need for trimming. TD sensors employ electrothermal filters (ETFs) to measure the thermal diffusivity of silicon, i.e. the rate at which heat diffuses through silicon, which is a well...master thesis 2022
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Biological Bromate Reduction in the O3 -STEP Filter: Mechanism and Relationship with DenitrificationDeng, Tianyi (author)Bromate is a possible human carcinogen that does not naturally exist in surface or groundwater bodies. Its formation mostly results from ozonating bromide-containing water during wastewater treatment or drinking water production. Bromate is difficult to remove from water due to its high solubility and low reactivity in the aqueous environment;...master thesis 2022
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Joint human motion recognition and breathing frequency estimation for indoor healthcare applicationsCORTES PERALTA, Max (author)The challenge of dealing with patients suffering from chronic diseases and an aging population requires evolving from traditional hospital-based healthcare systems into a person-centered approach, where patients can be monitored remotely via modern technologies by cost-effective and reliable solutions based on emerging technologies in the...master thesis 2022
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Nijensteen, Ilse (author)The Catterline Bay, located in North East Scotland, is prone to erosion processes. Using Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS) two point clouds were obtained in 2019 and 2022 from this area of ca. 0.2 km<sup>2</sup>. Here, a methodology was proposed and tested to assess how erosion processes can be monitored from high resolution point clouds in small...master thesis 2022
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Veen, Thijs (author)Indoor localisation is a growing field of interest in recent studies. While GPS (global positioning system) is a standard for outdoor localisation, no such solution exists for indoor applications. The literature provides several methods to obtain the location of indoor systems, often using optical sensors. A small number of recent studies use...master thesis 2022
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Maasland, Anouk (author)The aim of this thesis is to study the dosimetric feasibility of FLASH proton therapy for early-stage breast cancer patients. The biological effect of FLASH is seen under ultra-high dose-rates conditions and is beneficial in the damage to healthy tissue. The FLASH effect could enable the clinical feasibility of definitive radiotherapy for low...master thesis 2022
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Liu, Changrui (author)Relative localization (RL) is essential for the successful operation of micro air vehicle (MAV) swarms. Achieving accurate 3-D RL in infrastructure-free and GPS-denied environments with only distance information is a challenging problem that has not been satisfactorily solved. In this work, based on the range-based peer-to-peer RL using the...master thesis 2022
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Kamstra, Haye (author)Inertial measurement units (IMUs) offer the possibility to capture the lower body kinematics of players of outdoor team sports. However, various sources of error are present when using IMUs: the definition of the body frames, the soft tissue artefact (STA) and the orientation filter. Methods to minimize these errors are currently being used...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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Conings, Vincent (author)To ensure long-term sustainable access to space, it is of paramount importance that humankind acts to alleviate the space debris problem in near vicinity of Earth. The most effective mitigation strategy for large debris items is provided by active debris removal missions, which remove one or more resident space objects from orbit. The execution...master thesis 2022
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Sarkar, Priya (author)Mathematical fairness notions introduced in literature aim to make algorithmic decisions fair. However, their usage has been criticized in domains such as recidivism and lending for producing unfair decisions. Questions regarding fairness, which also have an important role in hiring are giving way to concerns about the increasing adoption of...master thesis 2022
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Piera, Sybe (author)Future human-machine control tasks with preview (e.g., car driving) are expected to include automation for safety, but keep operators in charge for liability. Such shared control applications require time-varying human identification because the control feedback should be compatible with the operator's variable behavior. A promising time-domain...master thesis 2022
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Mignacco, Chiara (author)Since their introduction in 1993, particle filters are amongst the most popular algorithms for performing Bayesian inference on state space models that do not admit an analytical solution. In this thesis, we will present several particle filtering algorithms adapted to a class of models known as Piecewise Deterministic Markov Processes (PDMP), i...master thesis 2022
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Mast, Gijs (author)To fulfil the need in the industry for fast and accurate PFE calculations in practice, a new, semi-analytical method of calculating the PFE metric for CCR has been developed, tested and analyzed in this thesis. Herewith we focus on the calculation of PFEs for liquid IR and FX portfolios involving up to three correlated risk-factors: a domestic...master thesis 2022
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Verkleij, Simon (author)Receivers for millimeter-wave (mm-wave) 5G, with the ability to detect a low-power desired signal, in the vicinity of large power blockers, require highly linear circuitry with a large power consumption. Suppressing the out-of-band blockers reduces this power consumption. N-path filters (NPFs) have recently been used to reject interferers in...master thesis 2022
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Marting, Louis (author)Terahertz astronomy has been exceptionally unexplored until the last decades due to a technological gap, but exactly at these wavelengths the most distant galaxies appear very bright. Efficient instruments that are capable of spectrometry are essential in understanding the physics of these distant objects. Within the framework of this thesis, an...master thesis 2022