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Khalili, Sodaba (author)Zaha Hadid’s architectural journey emerges from her early exposure to diverse cultures and her natural curiosity sparked at a young age. Born into a family of influence in Baghdad, Iraq, Hadid’s upbringing, characterized by travels and exposure to significant buildings, laid the foundation for her prestigious career. Despite facing gender biases...student report 2024
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Meijssen, Ries (author)The shift to sustainable energy sources has increased demand for Energy Transition Metals such as nickel, copper, cobalt, and manganese. To satisfy this need while reducing the negative social and environmental effects of conventional mining, Deep-sea Nodule Collection (DSNC) appears to be a feasible option. Despite its potential, DSNC...master thesis 2024
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de Vries, Rinto (author)Recent literature in real-time trajectory planning has proposed using Control Barrier Functions (CBFs) as collision constraints in Model Predictive Control (MPC) for efficient guidance, a concept referred to as MPC-CBF. This concept has been explored for both first and second-order CBFs. However, these approaches relied on an analytical...master thesis 2023
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Zaharia, Alexandru (author)This graduation project investigates the integration of green concrete in construction projects for sustainable development. Green concrete, characterized by the use of recycled materials, reduced cement content, and environment-friendly processes, is crucial in minimizing the construction industry's environmental impact. The study addresses the...master thesis 2023
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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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Gelling, Lars (author)The unique six-legged swarming rover Lunar Zebro is designed and produced by students from the Delft University of Technology. The objective of the rover is to accomplish an autonomous mission on the Lunar surface by 2024. This thesis evaluates a path planning algorithm that is designed for autonomous navigation in the Lunar environment. The...master thesis 2023
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Meester, Ruben (author)We present a computationally cheap 3D bug algorithm for drones, using stereo vision. Obstacle avoidance is important, but difficult for robots with limited resources, such as drones. Stereo vision requires less weight and power than active distance measurement sensors, but typically has a limited Field of View (FoV). In addition, the stereo...master thesis 2023
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Lupău, Cătălin (author)In this paper, we explore the creation of control algorithms for swarms of robots playing the role of either predator or prey in an environment filled with static obstacles. The paper devel- ops on a famous flock simulation model proposed by Craig Reynolds called boids. The paper analyzes a zero-sum game situation, in which one swarm of robots,...bachelor thesis 2022
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Budd, J.M. (author)A large number of modern learning problems involve working with highly interrelated and interconnected data. Graph-based learning is an emerging technique for approaching such problems, by representing this data as a graph (a.k.a. a network). That is, the points of data are represented by the vertices of the graph, and then the edges linking...doctoral thesis 2022
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Zhang, Liang (author), Chen, Pengfei (author), Li, M. (author), Chen, Linying (author), Mou, Junmin (author)The consequences caused by bridge failures owing to the ship-bridge collision are always severe in terms of loss of life, economy, and environmental consequences to individuals and societies. The previous studies focused on the ship-bridge collision mainly concentrated on passive anti-collision, such as strengthening the bridge structure or...journal article 2022
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Ribeiro, M.J. (author), Ellerbroek, Joost (author), Hoekstra, J.M. (author)Future operations involving drones are expected to result in traffic densities that are orders of magnitude higher than any observed in manned aviation. Current geometric conflict resolution (CR) methods have proven to be very efficient at relatively moderate densities. However, at higher densities, performance is hindered by the...journal article 2022
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Li, M. (author), Mou, Junmin (author), Chen, P. (author), Rong, Hao (author), Chen, Linying (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author)Collision between ships is one of the major contributors to ship accidents. To facilitate the development of the real-time collision risk analysis model for collision avoidance, in this research, an improved Rule-aware Time-varying Collision risk Model is proposed, which considers the estimation of target ship motion and the corresponding...journal article 2022
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Poppema, D.W. (author), Baas, Andreas C.W. (author), Hulscher, Suzanne J.M.H. (author), Wijnberg, Kathelijne M. (author)Buildings affect aeolian sediment transport and bedform development in sandy environments. Cellular automaton (CA) models have, however, only been used to simulate natural bedform dynamics. This study extends a well-known aeolian CA model to include sediment dynamics around buildings, and uses this model to explore the interaction of building...journal article 2022
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Garofano, V. (author), Hepworth, M. (author), Shahin, R. (author)The framework of an autonomous vessel is typically composed of three distinct and independent blocks known as the Guidance, Navigation and Control (GNC) system. This paper presents a combination of advanced complementary techniques in the different GNC subsystems to improve upon the current common practices/state of the art in obstacle...journal article 2022
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Zammit, C. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are being integrated into all spheres of life, for a wide range of application in civil, commercial and military applications in both indoor and outdoor environments. UAV onboard intelligence is a paramount requirement in the realisation of UAV Traffic Management System (UTM) and Air Traffic Management (ATM)...doctoral thesis 2021
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Petit, Alexa (author)Data has often been stated to be “the new oil”. This is said because both oil and data can be very valuable but only after they have been pre-processed. Among other things, a challenge for creating value from data lies in realizing data exchange. This is what data marketplaces aim to do. The number of shutdowns of data marketplaces during the...master thesis 2021
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Apra, Irène (author), Bachert, Carolin (author), Caceres Tocora, Camilo (author), TUFAN, ÖZGE (author), Veselý, Ondrej (author)Led in cooperation with the company Brink, who provides management and consultation services for construction and real estate sectors, this Synthesis Project aims at automatically deriving meaningful information about buildings. More precisely, the focus is to automatically detect roof obstacles - such as dormers, chimneys, and solar panels - to...student report 2021
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Rovers, Stijn (author)The Lunar Zebro is a small six-legged robot. It has the potential to be used in a swarm carrying out objectives like exploring planetary surfaces. A new step towards autonomous navigation is made with the newly developed Obstacle Processing ALgorithm (OPAL) using primarily open-source libraries. This study showed that the initial iteration of...master thesis 2021
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Dinaux, Raoul (author)Micro Air Vehicles (MAVs) are able to support humans in dangerous operations, such as search and rescue operations at night on unknown terrain. These scenes require a great amount of autonomy from the MAV, as they are often radio and GPS-denied. As MAVs have limited computational resources and energy storage, onboard navigation tasks have to be...master thesis 2021
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Hutters, C. (author), Mendel, M.B. (author)The dissipation obstacle refers to the problem that there is no general solution to shape the energy of dissipative port-Hamiltonian (pH) systems with the method of Casimir functions. This paper argues that it is caused by lack of a strictly symplectic structure of a dissipative port-Hamiltonian system. We develop a method of bicomplex pH...journal article 2021