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van Assen, Jorrit (author)Recent developments in the capability and availability of small internet of things devices has meant that networked medical devices, like networked implants and wearable monitors, have become more widespread. This data is invaluable for solving pressing global healthcare concerns, like eectively monitoring and treating heart patients. The...master thesis 2023
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Lin, Longfei (author)Software testing, a critical phase in the software development lifecycle, is often hindered by the time-intensive and costly manual creation of test cases. While automating test case generation could mitigate these challenges, its adoption in the industry has been limited due to difficulties in comprehending the generated test cases. To address...master thesis 2023
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Yap, Li-Toong (author)Site analysis to determine the loads experienced by wind turbines based on site-specific environmental conditions is typically done using either coupled aero-servo-elastic simulations for onshore wind turbines or coupled aero-servo-hydroelastic simulations in the case of offshore wind turbines. These simulations become computationally expensive...master thesis 2023
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Hu, Willy (author)Flying characteristics of a multi-engined light general aviation (GA) aircraft during and after an engine failure is often a major safety consideration when both designing and operating the aircraft. In the meantime, the propellers, being large rotating masses, can exert considerable gyroscopic effect on the aircraft during flight, itself...master thesis 2023
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Jaber, Wissam (author)Behaviour trees (BTs) serve as a powerful hierarchical structure for task execution, simplifying complex tasks but posing challenges in their manual design. The automatic generation of BTs addresses this concern, yet often lacks robust failure recovery options. This study presents Failure Recovery with Ontologically Generated Behaviour Trees ...master thesis 2023
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van der Poel, Fabian (author)In the early project phase, decisions are made when considering a port basin berth layout that affects the outcome and the success of the project. In order to make a decision regarding the berth layout, port planners create a set of variants for comparison and assessment in order to pick the basin berth layout that suits the project goals the...master thesis 2023
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Boroni Grazioli, Andrea (author)With the ever-increasing need to reduce the use of fossil fuels, Tesla is accelerating the world's transition to sustainable energy. This means replacing all internal combustion vehicles with electric ones over time. The growing number of Tesla vehicles on the road poses interesting scaling challenges for all departments especially for the...master thesis 2023
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Deutman, Max (author)This thesis titled "Addressing voltage sag contribution of an optimally sized Industrial Hybrid Power System" introduces a framework for sizing an industrial Hybrid Power System (HPS) to minimise Cost and CO2 emissions relative to connecting the industrial site directly to the grid with the help of a genetic algorithm, specifically NSGA-II. The...master thesis 2023
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Song, Dongdong (author), Yang, Xiaobao (author), Ch. Anastasopoulos, Panagiotis (author), Zu, Xingshui (author), Yue, Xianfei (author), Yang, Y. (author)Traffic barrier crashes have been a major concern in many prior studies in traffic safety literature, especially in the crash-prone sections of mountainous regions. However, the effect of factors affecting the injury-severities resulting from crashes involving different types of traffic barriers may be different. This paper provides an...journal article 2023
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Chen, Ying (author)The emissions of the transport sector inside the EU-27 have risen by 33 % between 1990 and 2019. A modal shift from unsustainable transport towards more environmentally friendly transport modes can be taken as one solution to mitigate the overall emission of the transport sector. In this paper, multiple open-source models and databases are...master thesis 2023
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Sharma, Anirvin (author)Image data augmentation has been regarded as a reliable and effective way to increase the data available for training. With the advent and rise of Generative AI, generative data augmentation has been shown to realize even better gains in performance for downstream tasks. However, these performance gains are often the cause of "extra information"...master thesis 2023
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Patandin, Ayush (author)Colorectal cancer is a widespread disease that significantly impacts the health of individuals worldwide. Understanding the needs and concerns of those affected by this disease is crucial for improving patient outcomes and enhancing the quality of care. Patient web forums have emerged as valuable platforms for individuals to openly share their...master thesis 2023
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Visser, Titus (author)Generative AI has had a profound impact on various sectors since mid-2022. The rapid adoption by students poses challenges for student assessment and raises concerns about student development. This thesis delves into the subject and proposes a positive implementation in education through play-based learning. The project uses a human-centred...master thesis 2023
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Campos Montero, Fabian (author)This thesis introduces a novel Generative Adversarial Network application called SchemaGAN, which has been adapted from the Pix2Pix architecture to take Cone Penetration Test (CPT) data as a conditional input and generate subsoil schematizations. For training, validation and testing, a database of 24,000 synthetic schematizations of size 32x512...master thesis 2023
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Georgescu, Calin (author)Kotlin is a programming language best known for its interoperability with Java, as well as the measurable improvements it offers over it. Since it became Android’s go-to language in 2019, the popularity and impact of Kotlin have risen greatly. Amidst this surge in popularity, the Kotlin developer team is working on a new version of the compiler...master thesis 2023
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Ghazali, Ibrahim (author)Operating in real-world conditions, modern large capacity wind turbines often experience off-design situations, enduring dynamic loads characterized by complex unsteady aerodynamics. Key among the challenges in predicting these dynamic loads is understanding the effects of wind shear and turbulence, both individually and in their complex...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Zhengquan (author)Trust plays an important role in the implementation of chatbot technology. This study was also focusing on user trust in chatbots, particularly focusing on the role of response delay and explanation-driven driven subjective transparency. This research includes a pretest and a main test. In the pretest, we selected one explanation that was...master thesis 2023
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Offerman, Celine (author)Correctly processing accumulated information is beneficial for our survival. Berghman and Hekkert (2017) argue that this is why we humans derive pleasure from having a sense of aesthetics. These aesthetic experiences can be seen as our brain’s reward system for correctly perceiving and interpret- ing the world around us. While our senses have...master thesis 2023
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Zomerdijk, Koen (author)This thesis concerns modeling residential real estate selling prices in a hedonic price model framework on a small spatial-temporal granularity. The research addresses the challenge of sparse spatial-temporal real estate data, i.e. many combinations of location and time with few or no transactions, by employing spatial dynamic factor models ...master thesis 2023
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Xie, yukun (author)Research pertaining to end-use water analysis plays a pivotal role in enabling local communities to enhance their management of pipelines, water resources, and associated policies. Nowadays, various end-use models have been developed based on diverse databases and measurements. Nonetheless, a predominant drawback prevalent in most of these...master thesis 2023