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Brachmi, Walid (author)As turbofan technology advances, periodic engine inspection and maintenance still remain a significant part of aircraft operational costs. Operators are thus looking to engine condition-based maintenance (ECBM), leveraging sensor data and numerical engine models for continuous diagnostics. KLM Engine Services developed a surrogate model based on...master thesis 2024
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Schieren, Jonathan (author)Conceptual models in hydrology are widely used, allow for easy interpretation and require little data. Machine learning models in hydrology often outperform conceptual models but lack the ease of interpretability, require large amounts of data and and do not obey physical laws. Hybrid approaches aiming to combine the advantages of both...master thesis 2024
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Gökalan, Emre (author)Greenhouses offer the promise to mitigate the challenges faced by traditional open field agri- culture. Operating these systems on a commercial scale demands effective control and forecast models. This thesis contributes to the increasing field of research that applies methods from systems and control to greenhouse systems. The primary objective...master thesis 2024
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van Marrewijk, Josine (author)In this research the possibilities of the application of machine learning models at ‘Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland’ are studied. A random forest (RF) and an LSTM model are used for the prediction of the sum of the discharge in the next 2, 8 and 12 hours from the polders to the boezem canals. This research has showed the potential of machine...master thesis 2023
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Yao, Zhongbo (author)This thesis aims at maximizing the profit of a strawberry producer while satisfying the retailer's demand and meeting other constraints. The amount of strawberries to be delivered to the retailer signed in the contract is the main decision variable to be optimized in the problem. Furthermore, the transportation scheduling is also optimized to...master thesis 2023
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Marramiero, Daniela (author)Considering the goals set by the international community, the implementation of new energy sources has to increase considerably in the next seven years. In this thesis, the focus is on the acceleration and improvement of the application of offshore wind turbines. The power produced using this technology should become 3.6 times more before the...master thesis 2023
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Xie, yukun (author)Research pertaining to end-use water analysis plays a pivotal role in enabling local communities to enhance their management of pipelines, water resources, and associated policies. Nowadays, various end-use models have been developed based on diverse databases and measurements. Nonetheless, a predominant drawback prevalent in most of these...master thesis 2023
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DENG, Jing (author)Under future warmer climates, drought events are projected to occur more frequently with increasing impacts in many regions and river basins. This study focuses on exploring the potential of the LSTM deep learning (DL) approach for operational streamflow drought forecasting for the Rhine River at Lobith with a lead time (LT) of up to 46 days. ...master thesis 2023
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van den Broek, Sem (author)Visible light sensing is a field of research that creates new possibilities for human-computer interaction. This research shows the viability of designing a system for detecting hand gestures using a cost-effective detection circuit employing 3 light-sensitive photodiodes. The way this research shows viability is by developing a machine-learning...bachelor thesis 2023
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Üzel, Ziyar (author)Accurate short-term traffic forecasting plays a crucial role in Intelligent Transportation Systems for effective traffic management and planning. In this study, the performances of three popular forecasting models are explored: Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM), Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA), and Facebook's Prophet, for short-term...bachelor thesis 2023
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Nachev, Nikola (author)Accurate traffic forecasts are a key element in improving the traffic flow of urban cities. An efficient approach to this problem is to use a deep learning Long Short Term Memory (LSTM) model. Including weather data in the model can improve prediction accuracy because traffic volumes are sensitive to weather changes. The aim of this study is to...bachelor thesis 2023
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Assessing Methods for Handling Missing Data Using an LSTM Deep Learning Model in Traffic ForecastingBüthker, Wouter (author)Due to the increasing popularity of various types of sensors in traffic management, it has become significantly easier to collect data on traffic flow. However, the integrity of these data sets is often compromised due to missing values resulting from sensor failures, communication errors, and other malfunctions. This study investigates the...bachelor thesis 2023
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Kuiper, Thomas (author)The amount of cars on the roads is increasing at a rapid pace, causing traffic jams to become commonplace. One way to decrease the amount of traffic congestion is by building an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) which helps traffic flow optimally. An important tool for an ITS is short term traffic forecasting. Better forecasts will enable...bachelor thesis 2023
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Kadiev, Adam (author)The goal of this research is to model and understand the effects of tourism demand on air quality by performing data integration on multi-source data. This research is aimed at researchers and practitioners aiming to perform multidisciplinary research in the fields of data science and geoscience, presenting the methods and challenges that arise...master thesis 2023
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Jonnalagadda, Aravind (author)Natural Language Processing (NLP) deals with understanding and processing human text by any computer software. There are several network architectures in the fields of deep learning and artificial intelligence that are used for NLP. Deep learning techniques like recurrent neural networks and feed-forward neural networks are used to develop...master thesis 2022
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van den Belt, Glenn (author)Earthquakes can have tremendous effects. They can result in casualties, massive damage, and hurt the economy. Therefore, one would like to predict earthquakes as early as possible and with the highest accuracy possible. This paper contains the proposal for the optimal prediction-time, which is the time between the execution of a prediction and...bachelor thesis 2022
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Glynis, Konstantinos (author)Water utilities face many challenges, including pipe bursts that cause significant non-revenue water losses. Detecting those bursts early is important for the water sector in its path to achieve sustainable water resource management. This study presents a scalable data-driven methodology for burst detection in water distribution systems that is...master thesis 2022
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Vaessen, Kasper (author)Classification of sedentary activities using gaze tracking data can be of great use in fields such as teaching, human-computer interaction and surveilling. Conventional machine learning methods such as k-nearest neighbours, random forest and support vector machine might be used to classify such activities, but this requires knowledge about the...bachelor thesis 2022
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Charlot, Amaury (author)Different methods have been studied to predict earthquakes, but the results are still far from optimal. Due to their seemingly dynamic and unpredictable nature, it has been very hard to find data correlating with earthquakes happening. But recently, various research has been done using neural networks, and some has suggested that it could...bachelor thesis 2022
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van Bokkem, Dirk (author)The increasing global food demand, accompanied by the decreasing number of expert growers, brings the need for more sustainable and efficient solutions in horticulture. Consultancy company Delphy aims to face this challenge by taking a more data-driven approach, by means of autonomous growing inside the greenhouse. The controlled environment of...master thesis 2022