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Jirovská, Hana (author)The goal of quantum application scheduling is to enable the execution of applications on a quantum network. As the final step in the application scheduling process, program scheduling locally schedules execution of blocks of instructions on each node by defining so-called node schedules. In this thesis, we present a formal definition of program...master thesis 2023
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Pennings, Casper (author)A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) has advantages over traditional manufacturing systems due to its ability to deal with unpredicted circumstances such as changes in demand or component breakdowns by re-routing. However, this flexibility increases the complexity of controlling such a system. Traditionally, the system model is simplified to...master thesis 2023
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van Winkel, Caroline (author)Amsterdam Airport Schiphol aims to have a fully autonomous taxibot fleet that can taxi all incoming and outgoing flights by 2050. To support the transition towards this future state, wherein the demand for taxibots will initially be higher than the supply and operational concepts will continuously evolve, a flexible taxibot allocation model is...master thesis 2023
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Vermin, Berry (author)The increase in online retail demand has stimulated automation in order picking systems, leading to new challenges and opportunities in task assignment and scheduling. In partially automated order picking systems, such challenges and opportunities exist regarding human factors implementation in the job-shop scheduling problem, an optimisation...master thesis 2023
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Weenk, Thomas (author)Battery energy storage systems (BESS) that are integrated with the electricity grid have proven to be a suitable solution for reducing costs by providing flexible demand, but are often uneconomical when used solely for this purpose. Despite the research efforts showing the benefits of an energy-integrated harbor-area smart grid (HASG), the...master thesis 2023
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Helsdingen, Timothy (author)This study investigates the problem of prioritising trucks at the export area of the KLM Cargo ground handler terminal while maintaining a continuous operation in the unloading area. Due to the uncoordinated nature of truck arrivals and space limitations at the ground handler, substantial waiting times may arise when<br/>trucks arrive...master thesis 2023
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de Bekker, Philippe (author), Cremers, S.A. (author), Norbu, Sonam (author), Flynn, David (author), Robu, Valentin (author)Given the fundamental role of renewable energy assets in achieving global temperature control targets, new energy management methods are required to efficiently match intermittent renewable generation and demand. Based on analysing various designed cases, this paper explores a number of heuristics for a smart battery scheduling algorithm that...journal article 2023
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Tao, W. (author), Zhu, Man (author), Chen, Shengyong (author), Cheng, Xu (author), Wen, Yuanqiao (author), Zhang, Weidong (author), Negenborn, R.R. (author), Pang, Y. (author)Vessels sailing in a single platoon could reduce resistance from the perspective of the whole platoon and the individual vessel, and contribute to improving energy benefits. Moreover, transportation energy costs and traffic efficiency are essential indicators for measuring waterborne transportation systems. We attempt to minimize...journal article 2023
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An investigation of operational management solutions and challenges for electric taxiing of aircraftZoutendijk, M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Taxiing aircraft using electric towing vehicles (ETVs) is expected to significantly contribute to the objective of climate-neutral aviation by 2050. This study reviews existing work on operational aspects of electric towing of aircraft, and discusses management solutions. We first discuss the varying electric taxi systems currently under...journal article 2023
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Eigbe, E. (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author), Nasri, Mitra (author), Yorke-Smith, N. (author)Industrial and academic interest converge on scheduling flow shops with sequence- and time-dependent maintenance. We posit that anticipatory, integrated scheduling of operational and maintenance tasks leads to superior performance to purely 'wait-then-fix' handling of the maintenance tasks. Motivated by an industrial problem with (sequence...journal article 2023
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Wu, Chengwei (author), Yao, Weiran (author), Luo, Wensheng (author), Pan, W. (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Xie, Hui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)The problem of learning-based control for robots has been extensively studied, whereas the security issue under malicious adversaries has not been paid much attention to. Malicious adversaries can invade intelligent devices and communication networks used in robots, causing incidents, achieving illegal objectives, and even injuring people....journal article 2023
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Feng, Cheng (author), Zheng, Kedi (author), Zhou, Yangze (author), Palensky, P. (author), Chen, Qixin (author)With the proliferation of distributed energy resources (DERs), electricity consumers in virtual power plants (VPPs) are transitioning into prosumers and are encouraged to share surplus energy with peers. Nevertheless, large-scale energy sharing among thousands of prosumers may encounter communication-related challenges. Communication network...journal article 2023
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Liu, X. (author), Dabiri, A. (author), Wang, Yihui (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Real-time timetable scheduling is an effective way to improve passenger satisfaction and to reduce operational costs in urban rail transit networks. In this paper, a novel passenger-oriented network model is developed for real-time timetable scheduling that can model time-dependent passenger origin-destination demands with consideration of a...journal article 2023
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Mitici, M.A. (author), de Pater, I.I. (author), Barros, Anne (author), Zeng, Zhiguo (author)The increasing availability of condition-monitoring data for components/systems has incentivized the development of data-driven Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics in the past years. However, most studies focus on point RUL prognostics, with limited insights into the uncertainty associated with these estimates. This limits the...journal article 2023
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Du, Z. (author), van den Berg, J.L. (author), Dimitrovski, T. (author), Litjens, R. (author)Social VR aims at enabling people located at different places to communicate and interact with each other in a natural way. It poses extremely strong throughput and latency requirements on the underlying communication networks. This paper investigates the potential of using cross-layer design approaches for radio access scheduling in order to...conference paper 2023
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Fazi, S. (author), Choudhary, Sourabh Kumar (author), Dong, Jing Xin (author)We study a typical daily drayage problem concerning the last-mile logistics at seaports for inland container supply chains. A set of trucks available at an inland container terminal must fulfil shippers’ requests of transporting containers within time windows and, to do so, can perform multiple daily trips. A request may entail picking up or...journal article 2023
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Botros, Alexander (author), Gilhuly, Barry (author), Wilde, N. (author), Sadeghi, Armin (author), Alonso-Mora, J. (author), Smith, Stephen L. (author)We study the problem of deploying a fleet of mobile robots to service tasks that arrive stochastically over time and at random locations in an environment. This is known as the Dynamic Vehicle Routing Problem (DVRP) and requires robots to allocate incoming tasks among themselves and find an optimal sequence for each robot. State-of-the-art...journal article 2023
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Nazari, Amin (author), Kordabadi, Mojtaba (author), Mohammadi, R. (author), Lal, C. (author)Internet of Medical Thing (IoMT) is an emerging technology in healthcare that can be used to realize a wide variety of medical applications. It improves people’s quality of life and makes it easier to care for the sick individuals in an efficient and safe manner. To do this, IoMT leverages the capabilities of some new technologies including...journal article 2023
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van Oosterom, S.J.M. (author), Mitici, M.A. (author)Recent advances in battery technology have opened the possibility for short-haul electric flight. This is particularly attractive for commuter airlines that operate in remote regions such as archipelagos or Nordic fjords where the geography impedes other means of transportation. In this paper we address the question of how to optimize the...journal article 2023
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Liu, Zhengke (author), Correia, Gonçalo (author), Ma, Zhenliang (author), Li, Shen (author), Ma, Xiaolei (author)This paper presents a joint optimization of the timetable, bus formation, and vehicle scheduling in a flexible public transport (PT) system that utilizes autonomous modular vehicles (AMVs). In this system, AMVs have the capability to detach or join with each other at intermediate stops along the route to dynamically adjust the bus formation ...journal article 2023