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Nandigam, Sai Pavan (author)
The transportation sector is a major contributor to global emissions, with road transportation responsible for a significant part of these emissions. Electric mobility, particularly Solar Electric Vehicles (SEVs), offers a solution to deal with the challenges encountered by traditional electric vehicles ultimately contributing to reducing...
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Peeters, Michiel (author)
In pursuit of cost-effective and sustainable space access, Dawn Aerospace is pioneering innovative launch systems. Their focus lies on a semi-reusable, two-stage-to-orbit launch vehicle, designed for horizontal take-off and landing. While current launch vehicles rely solely on rocket propulsion, the potential of airbreathing engines on the first...
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Shenvi Rege, Akshay (author)
The development of Fully Autonomous Vehicles would fundamentally change the nature of user interactions, behaviors, needs, and activities within vehicles. Passengers who are free from driving would expect to undertake diverse in-vehicle Non-Driving-Related Tasks (NDRTs) to keep themselves occupied and free from boredom. Conversational Artificial...
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Samboko, H.T. (author)
The unavailability of consistent accurate river flow data is a significant impediment to understanding water resources availability, and hydrological extremes. This is particularly true for remote, difficult to access, morphologically active and therefore rapidly changing rivers. The state of global river discharge monitoring with respect to...
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Xu, Y. (author)
Micro air vehicles (MAVs) have shown significant potential in modern society. The development in robotics and automation is changing the roles of MAVs from remotely controlled machines requiring human pilots to autonomous and intelligent robots. There is an increasing number of autonomous MAVs involved in outdoor operations. In contrast, the...
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van Geerenstein, Mathijs (author)
3D object detection models that exploit both LiDAR and camera sensor features are top performers in large-scale autonomous driving benchmarks. A transformer is a popular network architecture used for this task, in which so-called object queries act as candidate objects. Initializing these object queries based on current sensor inputs leads to...
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Oosterbaan, Robin (author)
Lely is developing a tethered manure applicator robot, designed to work on the fields of farms. This vehicle called the Jojo, is constrained in its movement due to the attached tether. It can not make tight turns and can only reverse by backtracking the driven path. This thesis explores the path planning issue and provides a novel solution. The...
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Hoek, Tobias (author)
A scenario-based testing approach can reduce the time required to obtain statistically significant evidence of the safety of Automated Driving Systems (ADS). Identifying these scenarios in an automated manner is a challenging task. Most methods on scenario classification do not work for complex scenarios with diverse environments (highways,...
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Voloshyn, Sviatoslav (author)
This work addresses visual localization of intelligent vehicles as an alternative to traditional GPS- of HD map-based localization options. Specifically, the problem of Cross-View Pose Estimation (CVPE) is explored, which involves estimating the vehicle pose within an encompassing aerial patch, given a ground image from the on-board camera feed....
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Li, Fanyuan (author)
Over development of the past three decades, control systems in automobiles have undergone a significant transformation, shifting from mechanical devices to a multitude of interconnected computers that oversee sensors, drivers, and passengers. In today's modern vehicles, 50-80 independent computers, commonly referred to as Electronic Control...
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Spruit, John (author)
With recent advancements in autonomous driving, the demand for precise and accurate perception systems has increased. Perception of the vehicle’s environment is a key element in ensuring safe operation. Due to their wide aperture angle and low cost, ultrasonic sensors are a viable option for achieving close-range 360° perception around the...
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van Dijk, Jolijn (author)
With the increasing transition to battery electric vehicles (EVs) and concerns about the capacity of the existing electrical infrastructure, the need for effective grid capacity management has become apparent. The V2X innovation, also known as bidirectional charging, has potential to enable EVs to interact with the electricity grid for various...
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Çavdar, Irmak (author)
The development of reusable launch vehicles in space exploration is a significant paradigm shift in the aerospace industry. Among numerous approaches to fully reusable launchers, a flyback booster, complemented by the emerging importance of spaceplanes, stands out as a viable solution. To outweigh the drawbacks associated with the cost, a...
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BHIDE, NEERAJA (author)
Due to the increase in traffic, road congestion has gone up. Vehicle platooning is a possible way to increase the capacity of a given road, by decreasing the distance between the vehicles in the platoon. At the moment, the control of vehicle platoons is commonly done using PID controllers. The advantage of this is that it requires little...
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Wu, Siyuan (author)
Recent progress in multiple micro aerial vehicle (MAV) systems has demonstrated autonomous navigation in static environments. Yet, there are limited works regarding the autonomous navigation of multiple MAVs in dynamic and unknown environments. The challenge arises from the complexity of the motion planning problem, which requires the MAVs to...
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Knorringa, Noa (author)
Recent technological advancements are revolutionizing last-mile package delivery, with autonomous delivery vehicles (ADVs) emerging as a sustainable alternative. These small ground vehicles autonomously navigate pavements, aiming to operate seamlessly in pedestrian-rich environments without any human intervention. The goal of this project is to...
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Zandstra, Joery (author)
Currently, the electricity grid in the Netherlands is reaching its capacity, resulting in congestion issues. One of the factors that causes the electricity grid to become overloaded is the increasing use of EVs (electric vehicles). A situation in which a large number of EV users in a certain area charge their EV at the same time can...
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Koshy Cherian, Jeswin (author)
Drifting, a specialized form of sideslip control, involves intentionally inducing and maintaining a state of oversteer for lateral sliding of the vehicle. While previous research has primarily focused on autonomous drift control, the integration of the driver in the control loop remains largely unexplored. This thesis aims to explore how a...
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Zhang, Qing (author)
Nowadays, accurate vehicle classification plays a critical role in Advanced Driver Assistant Systems (ADASs), autonomous driving systems, and traffic monitoring systems. The benefits of utilizing additional polarimetric information in road target classification have been revealed in the literature. This thesis investigates the polarimetric...
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Nithin Harish, Nithin (author)
Climate change stands as a monumental environmental challenge confronting the world today, with ongoing global manifestations. Within the transportation sector, the carbon-intense essence of petroleum-powered vehicles, finite fossil fuel reserves, and strides in technologies such as batteries, fuel cells, power electronics, and electric motors...
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