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Ferretti, Luca (author)This research project, conducted in collaboration between TU Delft and MN, a pension fund asset manager, focuses on the optimal venue selection in FX trading. The objective is to investigate how the venue selection affects trading performance and to improve MN trading execution algorithm, named ALGO. The research aims to propose a new approach...master thesis 2023
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Knoop, Stijn (author)This master thesis aimed to develop an optimized operating strategy for an electricity grid incorporating hydrogen storage, while considering three key performance indicators: financial costs, reliability, and sustainability. The central research question guiding this study was: "How can the electricity demand be reliably met by a system...master thesis 2023
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Porta i Ko, Agustà (author)Airborne wind energy (AWE) systems benefit from a high lift airfoil to increase the power output, to that end, multi-element airfoils are investigated for AWE applications. This thesis aims to optimize a multi-element airfoil for a rigid AWE kite that operates in a pumping cycle. Since the kite has distinct operational phases, i.e., reel-out and...master thesis 2022
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Leal Jauregui, Pedro (author)In the context of the energy transition, the energy sector is experiencing a paradigm shift towards electrification in a decentralized model, where renewable energy sources are becoming the protagonists. However, such shift comes with several challenges. In particular for this thesis, the intermittency of renewable energy sources coupled with...master thesis 2022
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Schoorl, Daan (author)The past years there has been a significant increase in the popularity and commercial availability of consumer drones.master thesis 2021
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Pasvanti, Nikoleta (author)The demand for efficient lightweight structures grows rapidly in the aerospace sector. Topology optimization, introduced in the late 80s, is a method capable of producing such structures and has been mainly studied for isotropic materials. On the other hand, the performance of composite structures, which are already widely employed in the...master thesis 2021
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Vroom, Nino (author)The concept of motion planning for a path following task is highly relevant. Having a comfortable reference motion is an advantage for automated vehicles, since this leads to more higher comfort for the passengers, in turn leading to higher adoption of ADAS. Defining a speed profile can be done in three different ways. First is a heuristics...master thesis 2021
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Westra, Koos (author)Previous research has shown automated robotic mechanism design to be both deceptive (prone to local minima) and rife with linkage problems (having highly interdependent parameters). This results in a barrier to optimization that is unable to be breached by simply applying more iterations and computational power. The research also indicates that...master thesis 2021
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An, Jerry (author)This work presents a decentralized optimization conflict resolution method based on a novel Alternating Directions Method of Multipliers (ADMM) variant and model predictive control (MPC). The variant, titled Online Adaptive Alternating Direction Method of Multipliers (OA-ADMM) aims to unify the application of ADMM to online systems, i.e. systems...master thesis 2020
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Guijt, Arthur (author)In many real world scheduling problems there exist hard deadlines after which tasks can no longer be performed. Conversely, not all tasks are necessarily required to be scheduled. Furthermore, the problem investigated in this thesis includes sequence dependent setup times, an aspect reminiscent of the Travelling Salesperson problem. These...master thesis 2019
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Paanakker, Marnix (author)The objective of this research is to understand what smart charging can bring business and society at large. In close collaboration with the largest fleet operator in the world and a commercial aggregator, the impact of smart charging on both cost reduction and carbon reduction was simulated for an electric vehicle (EV) fleet in 2018. The...master thesis 2019
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Lagerweij, Bram (author)Complex structural shapes can be produced with additive manufacturing. The geometrical complexity that can be achieved translates into an increase in possible designs. Designing these structures with traditional methods is difficult. A design process with computational optimization will enable engineers to use the geometrical freedom offered by...master thesis 2019
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Lagerweij, Pascal (author)Nowadays, reinforcement learning algorithms on Markov decision processes (MDPs) face computational issues when the state space is large. To reduce this state space of a MDP several state aggregation, or clustering, methodologies have been applied. Recently, a new clustering algorithm has been proposed that is able to cluster states from a single...master thesis 2019
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Diwangkoro Muhammad Dolaputra, Dola (author)There are many methods for solving an optimal power flow (OPF) problem. Most of them employ one central unit to solve the problem (centralized) while in others, every node/area computes for its coverage and send information to its neighbor(s) every time. The mentioned method is called Distributed OPF. In this thesis, the Distributed OPF aims for...master thesis 2018
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De Marco, Andrea (author)The present thesis has the objective to create a procedure for the automatic preliminary design of reinforced concrete structures, based on the Evolutionary Structural Optimization method (ESO). The developed algorithm performs heuristic topology optimization based on multiple criteria, in subsequent optimization cycles executed in series. In...master thesis 2018
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Samiotis, Ioannis Petros (author)Side-Channel Attacks, are a prominent type of attacks, used to break cryptographic implementations on a computing system. They are based on information "leaked" by the hardware of a computing system, rather than the encryption algorithm itself. Recent studies showed that Side-Channel Attacks can be performed using Deep Learning models. In this...master thesis 2018
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Nijhof, Daniëlle (author)These are exciting times to work in the field of acoustics: researchers have a more granular understanding of sound than ever before due to the ability to acquire, store and analyze unprecedented amounts of acoustical data. The purpose of acoustic imaging is noise reduction. If noise can be measured, it can be reduced. Acoustic imaging is...master thesis 2018
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de Vette, Martin (author)In this thesis, the effect of traffic light control on urban networks is investigated, with the main focus on the optimization algorithms used to solve the optimization problems resulting from a model predictive control approach. This will be done by using a macroscopic traffic flow model (the S-Model) to simulate the real-time traffic flows...master thesis 2017
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Jonker, Denise (author)This graduation thesis aimed to find an answer to the following question: 'How to design a grid shell for the canopy of a stadium that uses performance based densification to enhance the performance of the structure?'. De Nieuwe Kuip in Rotterdam is used as a case study to put the findings into practice. In order to answer this question a...master thesis 2017
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Lanaras, E. (author)The transfer of energy between systems that are not connected by physical contact between them can be accomplished by wireless power transfer methods, through electromagnetic field or radiation between a primary-transmitter and a secondary-receiver section. In the particular field of e-mobility, inductive power transfer systems have been...master thesis 2014