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Machado Lima de Camargo, C. (author)As a result of climate change, sea level is changing all over the world at unprecedented rates. Sea-level change can have significant impacts on coastal communities, infrastructure and global economy, as most of the major cities are located near to or at the coast. Rising sea levels can lead to, for instance, more severe and more frequent...doctoral thesis 2023
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Mottinelli, Lorenza (author)Understanding the role of ocean swell, monitoring and modelling it is critical for a diverse range of oceanographic research, coastal management initiatives and for better weather forecasting and climate modelling. <br/>Currently, swell measurements are obtained through in-situ measurements, wave models, and satellite measurements. So far, swell...master thesis 2023
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Klein Holkenborg, Emie (author)Small to medium-sized man-made freshwater reservoir are a reliable source for drinking water supply, hydropower generation and irrigation purposes worldwide. However, water volumes in these reservoirs can be significantly affected by prolonged droughts, resulting in severe impacts on society (Kozacek, 2014; Mahr, 2018). To mitigate the impact of...master thesis 2023
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Knoppert, Sammie (author)In the last decades, climate change is causing our environment to change rapidly, unprecedented in recent history. Civil engineering structures are dependent on the deteriorating environment they are situated in. Changes can cause an increase in loading due to, for example, extreme weather events or alter the structure’s resistance by, for...master thesis 2023
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Keijzer, T. (author)Without us realizing it, solutions for safety and security are present all around us. However, everyone has undoubtedly also experienced how inconvenient some safety and security measures can be. For example, think about security checks at the airport, the need to wear a bicycle helmet, or being asked to perform 2-factor authentication to log...doctoral thesis 2023
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Lenferink, Luc (author)The ability to model other agents can be of great value in multi-agent sequential decision making problems and has become more accessible due to the introduction of deep learning into reinforcement learning. In this study, the aim is to investigate the usefulness of modelling other agents using variational autoencoder based models in partially...master thesis 2023
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Tapia Barroso, Roderick (author)Future communication scenarios will require massive Multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) by the use of multi-beam antenna systems. Maximizing the number of beams for a given antenna size is paramount given that the space allocated to the antenna is often limited. This work aims at evaluating the maximum number of beams by analyzing the SIR in...master thesis 2023
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Borja Rosales, L.P. (author), Scherpen, Jacquelien M.A. (author), Fujimoto, Kenji (author)In this article, we treat extended balancing for continuous-time linear time-invariant systems. We take a dissipativity perspective, thus, resulting in a characterization in terms of linear matrix inequalities. This perspective is useful for determining a priori error bounds. In addition, we address the problem of structure-preserving model...journal article 2023
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Tseremoglou, I. (author), van Kessel, Paul J. (author), Santos, Bruno F. (author)Condition-based maintenance (CBM) scheduling of an aircraft fleet in a disruptive environment while considering health prognostics for a set of systems is a very complex combinatorial problem, which is becoming more challenging in light of the uncertainty included in health prognostics. This type of problem falls under the broad category of...journal article 2023
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Chen, Bei (author), Yu, Xin (author), Dong, Fuqiang (author), Wu, Wenxiu (author), Zu, Yuanzhe (author), Ren, S. (author)High-viscosity modified asphalt (HVMA) is the most commonly applied method in drainage asphalt pavements. However, some disadvantages of hot-mix HVMA, including high energy consumption and unavoidable environmental pollution, should be improved. Therefore, warm-mix additive (WMA) was introduced. In this paper, the effects of WMA on the...journal article 2023
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Morato, P. G. (author), Andriotis, C. (author), Papakonstantinou, K. G. (author), Rigo, P. (author)In the context of modern engineering, environmental, and societal concerns, there is an increasing demand for methods able to identify rational management strategies for civil engineering systems, minimizing structural failure risks while optimally planning inspection and maintenance (I&M) processes. Most available methods simplify the I...journal article 2023
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van Vledder, C.A. (author), Rueda, José L. (author), Stefanov, Alexandru (author), Palensky, P. (author), Anaya-Lara, Olimpo (author), Kruimer, B. (author), Gonzalez-Longatt, Francisco (author)The amount of power electronic interfaced generation (PEIG) is significantly proliferating in modern cyber-physical energy systems (CPESs). The limited capabilities (e.g. inertia, over-current) of PEIG, together with their location and technology-specific designed control systems, alter the dynamic properties of different types of stability...conference paper 2023
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Falckenheiner Soria, Sebastian (author)Synthetic Aperture Radars (SAR) have demonstrated to be great instruments for space-based Earth observation in the microwave frequency. Metasurface antennas, on the other side, are a new type of planar antennas with a great potential for space applications, as they are compact and easy to produce. Several methods have been developed in the past...master thesis 2022
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ZHANG, XINYI (author)Infragravity (IG) waves (0.005-0.04 Hz) are surface waves that can dominate the nearshore hydrodynamics and can impact various coastal processes (e.g., run-up, overwash). A proper offshore description of incident IG waves is required for storm impact models, which generally assume a local equilibrium between sea-swell (SS) waves (0.04-0.33 Hz)...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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Gudi, A.A. (author)Machines that interact with humans can do so better if they can also visually understand us, but they have limited resources to do so. The main topic of this dissertation is contrasting the use of resources by machine vision systems against the accuracy obtained by them. This thesis focuses on reducing the need for data, memory, and computation...doctoral thesis 2022
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Nanda, S. (author)Aerosols are the source of the largest uncertainties in our climate models, blurring our outlook of the future. This has been attributed to the complexity of measuring their properties, which vary over time and space. Atmospheric circulation spreads aerosols across the globe from a point source, which makes satellite-based observations lucrative...doctoral thesis 2022
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Grauss, Antonie (author)To operate in open world environments a symbolic Artificial Intelligence (AI) to be able to adapt and incorporate new objects and relations in its Knowledge Base (KB). Symbolic AI use the objects and relations in their KB to navigate the world and create plans. These KB are filled with knowledge in advance, so they can not add new knowledge when...master thesis 2022
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Tariq Alaa Mohamed Aziz Ibrahim, Tariq (author)Wireless data traffic is projected to steadily increase in the near future, necessitating the demand for transceivers with higher linearity and efficiency. Digital power amplifiers have the potential to achieve these higher efficiency demands while digital pre-distortion can be used to improve their linearity. Digital pre-distortion requires a...master thesis 2022