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Combette, Robin (author)
As the urge to decarbonise the energy field becomes increasingly important, a growing interest is shown in wind turbine technologies. In particular, the past few years have seen the development of floating offshore wind turbines for applications in deep waters.<br/><br/>In addition to the harsher environment they are facing, these wind turbines...
master thesis 2023
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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...
doctoral thesis 2023
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Schyck, S.N. (author)
Colloidal particles, essential building blocks known since the 1800s, continue to captivate researchers. This thesis delves into their significance by investigating anisotropic particle design, shape-driven self-assembly, and enhancing magnetic colloids' role as active swimmers. It also introduces innovative methods for crafting anisotropic...
doctoral thesis 2023
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ZHANG, Frankie (author)
Task and Motion Planning (TAMP) has progressed significantly in solving intricate manipulation tasks in recent years, but the robust execution of these plans remains less touched. Particularly, generalizing to diverse geometric scenarios is still challenging during execution. In this work, we propose a reactive TAMP method to deal with...
master thesis 2023
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Haarbosch, Steven (author)
In the Netherlands, the coastlands act as the principal protection against the sea. Without human interventions, the Dutch coast would be eroding due to an imbalance in the sediment budget of the coastal zone. The preferred coastal management strategy is sand nourishment, which have become larger in scale and more complex over the last 70 years....
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Veeravalli Hari, Akshath Ram (author)
In biomechanics, human movement studies are carried out to assess the subject’s kinematic and kinetic variables for a healthy gait. Currently, marker-based systems are the standardized method to extract the kinematic variables of subjects. The marker-based systems pose some serious challenges like cost and portability, and the calibration and...
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van der Bend, Marius (author)
During single-blade offshore wind turbine (OWT) installation, wind disturbance results in blade root motion. The sensitivity to this wind disturbance is more significant for larger blades, reducing the allowable installation weather limit. A potential solution is a Hook Mounted Compensator (HMC) between the crane and the load that can provide...
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Liu, Yixuan (author)
Linear time-invariant (LTI) controllers suffer from inherent limitations as the waterbed effect and Bode's gain-phase relationship. Reset control, a nonlinear strategy involving the reset of linear controllers, offers a potential solution to overcome these traditional LTI limitations. Based on the describing function analysis, the reset...
master thesis 2023
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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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Han, Shaohang (author)
Automated vehicles represent an exciting advancement in transportation, offering a range of benefits that have the potential to revolutionize how we travel. They can improve safety, efficiency, accessibility, and sustainability, holding promise for transforming our cities and communities. However, generating safe, comfortable, and efficient...
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Macabú Araújo Peres, Jadyr (author)
With the increasing water depths of the new offshore wind farms, the challenging soil conditions, the availability of assets, and other factors, jack-up installation vessels may no longer be suitable to complete the installation scope of work for the new wind farms. Therefore, installation methods and techniques using floating vessels must be...
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Iyer, Sowmya (author)
The thesis presents an analysis of unsteady vortex shedding and vortex induced vibrations (VIV) on wind turbine blades using a combination of Stereoscopic Particle Image Velocimetry (SPIV) and Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). A spanwise uniform blade with a symmetric NACA0021 airfoil section, 0.075 m chord, and 0.4 m span was tested...
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Tang, Xiaohan (author)
Inertial Measurement Units (IMUs) have become increasingly popular human motion estimation due to their portability, self-contained features, and cost-effectiveness compared to marker-based sensing systems which rely on external cameras to observe the position of the markers. Over the years, many studies have proposed various models and...
master thesis 2023
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Bracelly, Fernão (author)
Quadrupedal robots possess the ability to move freely in the world and perform a variety of actions that would be unsafe or impractical for humans to perform. In the SNOW project, a quadrupedal robot is tasked with aiding firefighters in rescue missions during house fires by locating humans and assessing their health. Pushing away obstacles that...
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KOTTISWARAN, JAYESH BALAJI (author)
This research work presents the observations of the updated quasi-steady aerodynamic model of the Atalanta project, a flapping wing Micro Air Vehicle (MAV) project, for additional velocity conditions. The main focus of this research work is to update the existing quasi-steady model of Q.Wang developed for hovering conditions since its...
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van der Drift, Victor (author)
This thesis presents a comprehensive approach to integrating a trajectory planner and follower for autonomous vehicles (AVs) using model predictive contouring control (MPCC). The planner generates collision-free trajectories with a kinematic bicycle model, while the follower tracks them using a dynamic bicycle model with a smaller integration...
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Farah, Youssef (author)
Event cameras are novel bio-inspired sensors that capture motion dynamics with much higher temporal resolution than traditional cameras, since pixels react asynchronously to brightness changes. They are therefore better suited for tasks involving motion such as motion segmentation. However, training event-based networks still represents a...
master thesis 2023
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LIU, Xinjie (author)
Many autonomous navigation tasks require mobile robots to operate in dynamic environments involving interactions between agents. Developing interaction-aware motion planning algorithms that enable safe and intelligent interactions remains challenging. Dynamic game theory renders a powerful mathematical framework to model these interactions...
master thesis 2023
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Fokker, Floris (author)
In this thesis, the hydrodynamic limit (HDL) for two trapping models is studied, the Random Waiting Time Model (RWTM) and the fractional kinetics process (FKP), on a discrete lattice Zd . The RWTM is studied for dimension d ≥ 1 and E[wi ],∞where wi denotes the waiting time at position i . On the other hand, the FKP is studied for d ≥ 3 and a...
bachelor thesis 2023
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van Loon, Joaquin (author)
Situational awareness within port areas is crucial to avoid collisions, navigate efficiently and reduce congestion. Maritime-traffic controllers constantly monitor the situation in the port and intervene when needed. This study proposes a deep learning model that predicts future vessel positions to assist in this process. The model employs a...
master thesis 2023
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