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Owen, C.C. (author)The imminence of anthropogenic climate change has motivated a global energy transition towards sustainable power generation. Offshore wind—an important contributor to the energy transition—is expanding, not only in turbine size and number of installations, but also into regions with harsher environmental conditions. One of those conditions in...doctoral thesis 2024
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Diab Montero, H.A. (author)In this dissertation, I explore ensemble data assimilation methods to enhance our capability to forecast earthquakes and slow slip events, focusing on the critical challenge posed by limited information on the current stress state of faults. <br/>At the outset, the research acknowledges the inherent limitations in our current understanding of...doctoral thesis 2024
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Coggins, T.N. (author)In the introduction of this thesis, I contend that robot ethics, as a research field, generally treats privacy as the appropriate distribution of information, and therefore overlooks privacy concerns raised by robots beyond this conceptualization’s purview. I illustrate this contention by evaluating a hypothetical case involving a household...doctoral thesis 2024
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Tabone, W. (author)This thesis explores how automated vehicles will interact with pedestrians in the urban environment through augmented reality technology. Nine distinct AR interfaces were designed, developed, and evaluated to assess how different design elements (symbols, text, colour) and distinct mappings of the AR (on the road, on the vehicle, or head-locked)...doctoral thesis 2024
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Shajahan, M.T. (author)Dense suspension flows, both in the natural environment and industrial settings, are complex phenomena with significant implications. From rivers shaping landscapes to industrial processes involving slurry transport, these flows hold a prominent position in numerous sectors. This thesis delves into a specific facet of these intricate flows:...doctoral thesis 2024
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Lee, Y. (author)E-learning has shifted the traditional learning paradigms in higher education, offering more flexible, ubiquitous, and personalized learning experiences. The previous years COVID-19 pandemic required a re-calibration of education to accommodate virtual learning environments from the traditional classroom-based education. Widespread learning...doctoral thesis 2024
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van der Spaa, L.F. (author)Physical human-robot cooperation (pHRC) has the potential to combine human and robot strengths in a team that can achieve more than a human and a robot working on the task separately. However, how much of the potential can be realized depends on the quality of cooperation, in which awarenes of the partner’s intention and preferences plays an...doctoral thesis 2024
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Liu Cheng, Alexander (author)Discussions of intelligence in the built-environment began in the late 1960s and early 1970s [1]–[7]. They belonged to a broader technical and technological discourse, engaged across a variety of domains and disciplines, to explore potential opportunities entailed by the Information Age. During this nascent period, and partly due to the novelty...doctoral thesis 2023
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Gonzalez Saiz, G. (author)Experimental aeroelasticity has been hindered by the intrusivity of measurement equipment and complexity of the experimental setups. Advancements in hardware development have been encouraging optical tracking techniques to replace cross correlation approaches in experimental aerodynamics. However, digital image correlation (DIC) is still the...doctoral thesis 2023
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Ma, H. (author)This thesis conducts a series of interrelated research studies on reach probability estimation of rare events for stochastic hybrid systems. Chapter 1 explains that the motivation for these studies stems from the need to assess safety and capacity of a design for a future Air Traffic Management (ATM) concept of operations (ConOps). The safety...doctoral thesis 2023
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Moreno León, C. (author)Radar-tracking of low-observable targets such as drones suffers from low detection performance. In these type of applications, it is desirable to avoid data thresholding in order to preserve the weak target signal in the raw sensor data. This thesis considers the Multiple Object Tracking (MOT) problem in the context of radar Track-before-Detect ...doctoral thesis 2023
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Poinelli, M. (author)Ice, a pervasive element across the Solar System, holds immense importance in understanding the response of the Earth to ongoing climate change as well as the dynamics of planetary bodies. This dissertation investigates ice fractures on terrestrial and planetary ice bodies, focusing on their impact on the melting of ice shelves in Antarctica and...doctoral thesis 2023
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Huisman, K.H. (author)In this thesis we perform a theoretical study on the Chirality Induced Spin Selectivity effect in the context of two-terminal measurements for realistic parameters. In twoterminal measurements on chiral molecules one of the leads is magnetized and the current is measured for opposite magnetizations. In experiment it is found that the currents...doctoral thesis 2023
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Lancel, K.A. (author)Experience of touching and feeling touched is fundamental to human well-being, of safety and trust. Being in touch with others can be emotional and spiritual, it enables space for movement and transformation: to touch, kiss, play, dance, make love, tune and breath together.<br/><br/>Until recently, research into Human Computer Interaction has...doctoral thesis 2023
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Noordam, M.L. (author)In this thesis, we explore the interaction between multiple optical light fields. Although these light fields can interfere with each other in a vacuum, actual interaction can only occur in a medium. This interaction can be amplified in materials with nanoscale dimensions such as a monolayer of WS2 and metallic nanostructures. The shapes of...doctoral thesis 2023
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Huang, M. (author)The development of offshore wind energy, especially the steps towards deep water and/or higher density wind farms, revives the prospects of vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs). Because VAWTs may reduce the cost of floating structures, there is a potential to lower energy costs. However, VAWTs are often assumed to be less efficient and less...doctoral thesis 2023
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Pol, J.C. (author)Structural flood protection systems such as levees are an important component in flood risk reduction strategies. Levees can fail through various failure mechanisms; this thesis focuses on the mechanism Backward Erosion Piping (BEP) which occurs when a sandy levee foundation is eroded by groundwater flow. To assess whether a levee's reliability...doctoral thesis 2022
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Maddalena, L. (author)Optogenetics is a powerful addition to the spectrum of techniques available in neuroscience to investigate neurophysiology and unravel how neural circuit structure is related to circuit function. This technique relies on introducing lightsensitive proteins or molecules as actuators to transduce an optical signal into a physiological perturbation...doctoral thesis 2022
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Floreani, S. (author)Interacting particle systems (IPS) is a subfield of probability theory that provided a fruitful framework in which several questions of physical interests have been answered with mathematical rigor. An interacting particle system is a stochastic system consisting of a very large number of particles interacting with each other. The class of IPS...doctoral thesis 2022
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Ferreira de Brito, B.F. (author)Autonomous robots will profoundly impact our society, making our roads safer, reducing labor costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, and improving our life quality. However, to make that happen, robots need to navigate among humans, which is extremely difficult. Firstly, humans do not explicitly communicate their intentions and use intuition...doctoral thesis 2022