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Fritz, Casper (author)The automotive industry is continuously improving the safety and comfort of the vehicles. To improve the safety and comfort of the vehicle more focus is put on improving driver assistance systems and also on making the vehicles more autonomous. In order for the safety systems to work properly and also to drive autonomously, it becomes essential...master thesis 2018
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Broekhuizen, Joost (author)Current Ballistic Missile (BM) defence systems intercept an incoming threat in its terminal phase, and to some extend during its coast phase. During the boost phase of a BM, the initial velocity of the BM is low and the hot exhaust plume is easy to spot for infrared sensors, which provides a good opportunity for interception. To do so, the...master thesis 2018
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Suresh Kumar, Nivas Kumar (author)In research, the overall power production in a wind farm is typically increased by employing model-based wind farm control. A controller, in an open-loop setting, operates based on the velocity of the wind flow, predicted by a wind farm model. For a controller to achieve the desired level of power production, a wind farm model has to be accurate...master thesis 2018
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de Vries, Bob (author)Objective: Estimators to accurately monitor ventricular relaxation, cardiac contractility and cardiac output (CO) during support of a left ventricular assist device (LVAD), based on the left ventricular pressure (LVP) and pump-intrinsic signals, were developed. The aim was to continuously monitor these cardiac parameters, hereby tracking the...master thesis 2018
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Vos, Jacco (author)Haptic shared control (HSC) is a method to combine the abilities of humans and machines, in which human and automation jointly exert forces on an input device. According to human-centered design, the underlying controller for HSC should closely resemble human behavior. This paper aims to continuously adapt HSC based on an online identified...master thesis 2018
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Izeboud, Petra (author)Polder areas as typical in the Netherlands require real time control on the water levels. Efficient pumping is a subject with increasing interest due to a required use of 20% green energy by 2020 set by the government. In 2010, the energy requirements already exceeded 175 GWh per year. For optimal control, water level predictions are important....master thesis 2017
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Stijnman, Marco (author)Offshore excavators are large hydraulically driven machines which are difficult to control due to slow dynamics, inherent nonlinearities, a varying environment and complex kinematics. As digging is performed under water, only limited visual feedback of the task can be provided by means of a visualization interface. Operators require an extensive...master thesis 2017
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Ammiwala, Huzefa (author)A petroleum production system is generally modelled based on the concept of nodal analysis, where the entire system is broken down into discrete elements such as near-well bore, tubing, surface choke and flow line. Operating flow rates and pressures can be estimated with a nodal analysis procedure by calculation of the intersection of...master thesis 2017
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van Wijk, Bryan (author), de Koning, Dorian (author), Lugtenburg, Jochem (author)A start-up creates videos which users can watch to experience their running or cycling activity all over again. Currently, the company depends on external data sources to generate a video. To be less dependent on these sources the company wants to create their own tracking solution. This solution has to fit in their existing smartphone...bachelor thesis 2017
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Markensteijn, G.C. (author)Floods are a big problem for Jakarta; the capital of Indonesia is subsiding below mean sea level and floods will become more frequent. Flood protection and measures against subsidence are, therefore, of high importance to Jakarta’s government. One of the options they are studying is a great sea wall to regulate the water levels in Jakarta Bay....master thesis 2017
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Rijnsdorp, J. (author)Re-entry is a term that is applied when one would like to transport some (human) payload from an orbit around a certain body towards the surface of that body. With an entry velocity of multiple kilometers per second, having the vehicle carrying this payload not smashed into pieces at the end of flight is one of the key points of re-entry. Using...master thesis 2017
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Roobeek, M. (author)Injuries are a sportsman’s worst nightmare: They withhold players from playing, they weaken teams and they force clubs to buy a bench-full of substitutes. On top of that, injuries can cause an awful lot of pain. Regulating match and training intensity can drastically decrease the risk of getting injured. Furthermore, it can optimally prepare...master thesis 2017
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Munatsi, P. (author)Spacecraft attitude refers to the orientation of the spacecraft body axes with respect to the inertial reference frame. Attitude determination and control is the estimation of the current orientation of a satellite and controlling or changing it on demand to reach a desired orientation. The SPS-2 Attitude Control System consists of four modes:...master thesis 2017
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Keemink, H. (author)With the advent of smart thermostats like Toon®, detailed information about operation and usage of central heating boilers has become easily available. However, this information is not used in a systematic way by most companies including Eneco, and the wealth of information within is not available to the users. This has a few drawbacks. For...master thesis 2016
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Noordam, A.F. (author)For decades, researchers try to model the subsoil as accurate as possible in order to make cost-efficient and safe geotechnical decisions. A troublesome aspect in modelling of the soil is to determine the heterogeneity within the soil, as this is usually associated with a great deal of uncertainty. Delft University of Technology used a recursive...master thesis 2016
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Raghavan, V.S. (author)In the elderly population, falls are one of the major causes of injuries. Fall detection algorithms for wearable devices in the literature were found to focus on differentiating Activities of Daily Living (ADL) from falls, rather than on early fall detection and prevention before impact. This thesis work was aimed at providing accurate estimates...student report 2016
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de Ridder, K.M. (author)Convex guidance is a developing guidance algorithm that seeks to unify the trajectory optimisation for pin-point landings. The unification would mean the elimination of the need of different optimisation techniques for different stages of the landing. Using convex optimisation, convex guidance is guaranteed to find the global-optimum of the design...master thesis 2016
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Struijk, M. (author)Four Wheel Drive (4WD) vehicles are almost as old as the automobile itself, however for more than half a century the main use case of a 4WD system was to improve traction on off-road terrains. The advancement in technology over the recent decades resulted in more advanced and light weight solutions shifting the focus more towards sports cars and...master thesis 2015
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De Koning, D. (author)This thesis discusses the applicability of assimilation of artificial SMAP data into a quasi steady state hydrological model to improve soil moisture estimates. The model used for this research was SIMGRO and since no real SMAP data were available at the time of the research, artificial SMAP data were used. The ensemble Kalman filter was used to...master thesis 2015
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Paiman, C.J.F.N. (author)Knowledge of the state of balance of the moving human is essential for the design of fall detection algorithms and wearable robotic controllers for balance assistance. Still, there is no known general method to make an online estimation of the state of balance of the walking human, with the limited and local sensor measurements that are usually...master thesis 2015