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Van Santvliet, Pieter (author), Rozendaal, Aart (author)This thesis shows the detailed design of the control and software of a DC microgrid of a tiny house community on the roof of a high-rise building in the city of Rotterdam in the Netherlands, consisting of twelve tiny houses powered by solar and wind energy. This thesis is part of a project with two other subgroups, focusing on the microgrid...bachelor thesis 2021
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Douma, Gijs (author), Lim, Tom (author), van Rijen, Gijs (author), Vorage, Christian (author), van Wering, Nino (author)This research paper describes the design and implementation of a Model Predictive Controller, using economic engineering principles, on a model of the US economy. The purpose of the Model Predictive Controller is to mimic the US<br/>government policy by maximizing the Net Domestic Product. The Model Predictive Controller is integrated with a...bachelor thesis 2021
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Lenssen, Daan (author)This thesis presents a new MPC controller which integrates path tracking and stability control into one controller. Previously these tasks were done by separate controllers, where one controller handled the path tracking while another controller ensured the vehicle was kept in the stable operating region. A drawback of this method is that the...master thesis 2022
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Lubbers, Seymour (author)Greenhouses allow production of crops that would otherwise be impossible. Permitting more local, fresher and nutrient richer crop production. Eorts are taken to minimize societal harm due to energy and resource consumption by greenhouse production systems. One way to control such systems is by using model predictive control. Optimal crop yield...master thesis 2023
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de Jong, Joost (author)This thesis reports on the research and design of a real-time Time-Varying Model Predictive Control (TVMPC) scheme to stabilize a tilt-rotor aircraft with four independently tilting rotors. The aircraft design stems from a prototype system constructed by the drone technology start-up Avy.<br/>First, a motivation is presented for implementation...master thesis 2019
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Jürisson, Andres (author)Aircraft lifespan can be extended by upgrading and modernizing the electrical subsystems and instruments. However, this often introduces increased power demands and heat generation that the aircraft was not originally designed for and can result in a reduced flight performance and increased wear. Netherlands Aerospace Centre (NLR) and the...master thesis 2018
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Rado, Karlo (author)A key challenge for SaR robotics is to avoid dynamic obstacles in cluttered environments, with limited and noisy information. In this research, a controller for SaR robots is developed by coupling a local heuristic motion planner with a model predictive control (MPC) based trajectory tracker. Constraint tightening and tube-based control are used...master thesis 2023
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Khusro, Yash Raj (author)Driving simulators are widely used for understanding Human-Machine Interaction, driver behavior and driver training. The effectiveness of such simulators in this process depends largely on their ability to generate realistic motion cues. Though the conventional filter-based motion cueing strategies have provided reasonable results, these methods...master thesis 2020
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Tetteroo, Rogier (author)Virtual Power Plants can aggregate and dispatch distributed energy sources (DER) to gain revenue in the Day-Ahead market, however as a Balancing Responsible Party they can risk imbalance cost due to deviations between the Day-Ahead forecast and actual production of their renewable energy portfolio. This study analyses the ability of industrial...master thesis 2021
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Remmerswaal, Willemijn (author)Both model predictive control (MPC) and reinforcement learning (RL) have shown promising results in the control of traffic signals in urban traffic networks. There are, however, a few drawbacks. MPC controllers are not adaptive and therefore perform suboptimal in the presence of the uncertainties that always occur in urban traffic systems....master thesis 2022
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De Gier, M.R. (author)3D-printing, also called Additive Manufacturing, is a rapidly developing technique in manufacturing. Nowadays 20% of the printed products is a ?nal product, the rest is used in Rapid Prototyping. It is claimed that in 2020, 50% of the printed output is a ?nal product. The overall goal of this research is to print 3D-structures on curved surfaces...master thesis 2015
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van Enckevort, Tijmen (author)Quay walls are important structures that keep the water in harbours and canals within their bounds, and accommodate large infrastructure like roads or ship-handling structures on top of them. Due to their importance it is critical that they do not fail or collapse. Inspections are done to prevent this, as a better knowledge of the state of quay...master thesis 2022
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Krabbenborg, Britt (author)Banks such as Rabobank depend on multi-year mortgage prepayment forecasts in order to make provisions for the associated prepayment risks. The econometric models they use are fitted to historical data, and as a consequence their models are fitted to a decreasing interest rate regime. Given the current economic climate of increasing interest...master thesis 2022
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ten Klooster, Fons (author)Research in passive Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) systems has gained traction over the last few years. Although passive HVAC is not a new concept, advances in environment sensing, control methods, and hardware have made it a more viable method. Some difficulties still exist, such as optimal sensor placement and optimal...master thesis 2022
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Jain, R.P.K. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) have received an increasing amount of attention recently with many applications being actively investigated across the globe, and several related open research questions being actively pursued. Possible applications include search and rescue, disaster relief, environmental monitoring and surveillance,...master thesis 2015
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Govers, Jurriaan (author)This thesis is focused on protecting sensitive data in optimization-based control methods. We propose a novel Privacy-preserving Model Predictive Controller (PMPC) where multiple agents are controlled by an untrusted external coordinator. By using the Paillier additively Homomorphic Encryption (HE) scheme, our PMPC allows the coordinator to...master thesis 2020
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van Senden, JanCees (author)Traffic congestion at signalized intersections is a big economical and ecological problem. Handcrafted traffic light controllers (TLCs) are currently used to minimize the impact, but they are expensive to design and maintain and their performance degrades over time. Predictive TLCs and advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) form a potential...master thesis 2018
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Blenkers, L.L. (author)Railway networks are susceptible to disturbances and disruptions caused by failures in the infrastructure and rolling stock which lead to delays and inconvenience for passengers. Disruption management is currently performed manually by dispatchers and can be improved by using dispatching support systems that can calculate optimal solutions using...master thesis 2015
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van Pampus, M.J. (author)Formation control of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) is researched extensively in the last years, since it has promising applications. However very few designed strategies have been validated during real experiments. In this research, two<br/>control methods for distributed leader-follower formation control are proposed: A Nonlinear Model...master thesis 2020