A New Methodology for the Development of Simulation Workflows: Moving Beyond MOKA

One of the main challenges in Multi-disciplinary Design Optimisation (MDO) is the interoperability of heterogeneous simulation tools. Some researches have reported that, due to these interoperability issues, only around 20% of the product development time is spent on analyses and creative design tasks. Clearly, there is a lot to gain, when it...

Specifying requirements for Automatic Generalisation of Electronic Navigational Charts

This short summary helps to grasp the motive behind the research, its objectives and to find out what is presented on the following pages of the report. It offers a condensed, one page recapitulation of its contents and intentions and suggests who might be interested to read it. CONTEXT Map generalisation is a tedious task, requiring skilled...

LabBack: An extendible platform for secure and robust in-the-cloud automatic assessment of student programs

In software engineering education manual assessment of students’ programs is a time consuming endeavour that does not scale to high numbers of pupils or to large amounts of practice material. Numerous automatic grading programs, aim- ing to alleviate this problem, have been developed since 1960. These, however, only support fixed programming...

Automatic detection of benthos & birds: Microphytobenthos cover and bird number detection on the Galgeplaat mudflat using terrestrial imagery

Ecological monitoring, i.e. the process of assessing the quality and health of natural habitats, is required to assess the impact of anthropogenic influence. This process is often inhibited by the expenses involved and a limited accessibility to the study site. The use of remotely sensed data then logically comes to mind as a potential solution....

Validation and Automatic Repair of Planar Partitions using a Constrained Triangulation

Planar partitions (subdivisions of the plane into polygonal areas) constitute one of the most important data representations in GIS. They are used to model concepts as varied as land use, administrative units, natural features and cadastral parcels, among many others. However, since polygons are often stored separately, different errors and...

A New type of body-powered prosthesis: Using wrist flexion instead of shoulder movement

Body powered prostheses have many advantages: They are reliable, lightweight and relatively cheap. The disadvantage is the need of a shoulder harness, which causes discomfort, pain and trouble donning and doffing the prosthesis. The goal of this thesis is to develop a body-powered prosthesis without the need for a shoulder harness. This is...

Building a visual speech recognizer

This thesis describes how an automatic lip reader was realized. Visual speech recognition is a precondition for more robust speech recognition in general. The development of the software comprised the following steps: gathering of training data, extracting meaningful features from the obtained video material, training the speech recognizer and...

Automatic speech recognition using dynamic Bayesian networks

New ideas to improve automatic speech recognition have been proposed that make use of context user information such as gender, age and dialect. To incorporate this information into a speech recognition system a new framework is being developed at the MMI department of the EWI faculty at the Delft University of Technology. This toolkit is called...

Automatic Registration of laser scanning data and colour images

Laser scanning is a new technique for three dimensional point measurements. Over the last decades the number of applications in which these measurements take place, has grown significantly. In every application the surveyors are looking for the same result, namely a three dimensional point cloud of the object of interest. The purpose of this...

Research, design, simulation and implementation of an automatic flight control system for a real-time flight simulator

Vertigo Flight Simulation is a company located in The Netherlands with its mission being to design, produce and sell low cost flight simulation devices to all levels of the flight training market. One of the products which is developed by Vertigo Flight Simulation is the Vertigo P-2 Trainer. The P-2 Trainer is a fixed-base flight simulator...