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Sinck, Marc (author)A prototype lunar rover is in development by students of the TU Delft since 2017. It is a nanorover based on the terrestrial ZeBRo design, now named the Lunar Zebro. The Lunar Zebro is a prototype design as a proof of concept for nanorover capabilities. With a chassis of 200 by 140 by 60 millimeters, fitting on a sheet of A5 paper, the Lunar...master thesis 2023
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Gupta, Mayank (author)Metal additive manufacturing has enabled great diversity and design freedom in heat exchanger design. However, these benefits cannot be adequately realised without optimizing its ancillary components as well, specifically the inlet and outlet manifolds. Optimizing the manifolds can significantly improve the flow distribution inside the heat...master thesis 2023
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Ergez, Doruk (author)The pivotal sector of transportation has shown signs of a surge in demand. The European Union projects a 42% increase in passenger transport from 2019 until 2050. Policymakers and stakeholders must collaborate to address the increasing transportation demand while considering environmental, societal, and economic benefits Despite efforts to...master thesis 2023
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Maselli, Riccardo (author)The transition from a centralized to a decentralized energy infrastructure is one of the most discussed features of the future energy system. With the fast growth of renewable energy technologies, which can be integrated in the built environment and in contexts like small production centers, the development of distributed energy generation and...master thesis 2023
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de Keijzer, Mitchell (author)Baggage handling operations in airports have become substantially more challenging due to the surge in air transportation demand witnessed in the last three decades combined with an even higher pressure on the operations following the COVID-19 pandemic. The intricate nature of checked baggage requirements, impacting resource allocation and...master thesis 2023
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van Heugten, Lars (author)Engineering has become more and more optimisation and simulation based. This causes an increase in the use of optimisation methods for complex problems. This thesis focuses on the implementation of a surrogate-assisted optimisation method for propeller optimisation, to design a better propeller in a shorter timespan. Therewith reducing both:...master thesis 2023
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Schmidt, Malena (author)Facility location problems are an important set of problems within the field of optimisation. These problems consider which facilities to open out of a set of possible facilities and how to assign users to the open facilities. Most of the facility location problems studied have a linear objective. In this thesis, we consider a facility location...master thesis 2023
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de Ridder, Tim (author)Enhancing and expanding public transportation is becoming a crucial solution to the high costs of congestion and the escalating environmental impacts of car-centric transportation systems observed in numerous cities today. One approach to enhance the quality of public transportation, and thereby boosting its ridership, is through the intelligent...master thesis 2023
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IOANNIDIS, MENANDROS (author)Current research conducted at TU Delft focused on utilizing structural Topology Optimization (TO) for designing large monolithic cast glass structures with maximum stiffness and minimum mass. These structures demonstrated improved manufacturability in terms of time, energy, and cost efficiency due to their mass efficiency, which results in...master thesis 2023
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Ing, Leslie (author)The post-war neighbourhood Boerhaavewijk in Haarlem is an example of rational modernist urban planning following the design guidelines of air, light and space. Repeated typologies or ‘stamps’ of terraced housing and apartment buildings created by industrialised methods of construction were the answer to the population boom experienced in the 60s...master thesis 2023
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Cowan, Sean (author)While the space industry expands rapidly and space exploration becomes ever more relevant, this thesis aims to automate the design of Multiple Gravity-Assist (MGA) transfers using low-thrust propulsion. In particular, during the preliminary design phase of space missions, the combinatorial complexity of MGA sequencing is large and current...master thesis 2023
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Li, Erwin (author)Software testing is an important but time-consuming task, making automatic test case generation an appealing solution. The current state-of-the-art algorithm for test case generation is DynaMOSA, which is an improvement of NSGA-II that applies domain knowledge to make it more suitable for test case generation. Although these enhancements are...bachelor thesis 2023
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Vincenti, Jort (author)To validate the results of a medical trial, there must be an overlap between the treatment and control groups. This implies the crucial need for good evaluation methods. This study, therefore, aimed to evaluate the overlap between causal classes using the Nearest Neighbours’ methods. Firstly, a case study was built around the common failures of...bachelor thesis 2023
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Wenink, Robert (author)Surrogate modelling techniques such as Kriging are a popular means for cheaply emulating the response of expensive Computational Fluid Dynamics simulations. These surrogate models are often used for exploring a parameterised design space and identifying optimal designs. Multi-fidelity Kriging extends the methodology to incorporate data of...master thesis 2023
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van den Bos, Mim (author)Decision trees make decisions in a way interpretable to humans, this is important when machines are increasingly used to aid in making high-stakes and socially sensitive decisions. While heuristics have been used for a long time to find decision trees with reasonable accuracy, recent approaches find fully optimal trees. Due to the computational...bachelor thesis 2023
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Sahoo, Animesh (author)Industrial refrigeration systems are known to consume approximately 17% of electrical energy, a figure that is projected to rise in the future. This high energy consumption contributes to global warming and environmental degradation since conventional sources of energy are typically utilized for electricity generation. Moreover, the energy...master 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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Viero, Edoardo (author)The current project investigated the feasibility of aerocapture at Jupiter, and the benefits in terms of payload mass fraction that could be achieved compared to traditional orbital insertion burns. A numerical simulation model has been set up, as well as an analytical formulation of the problem. The numerical verification of the analytical...master thesis 2023
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Collot d'Escury, Frederik (author)Railway transportation is crucial to reducing greenhouse gas emissions and meeting increasing global demand for passenger and freight transport. To maintain a reliable, high-capacity railway infrastructure, regular and accurate maintenance is necessary. The recent development of a Rail-based Track<br/>Surveying System that can be mounted on any...master thesis 2023
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Sihlovec, Oliver (author)Scientific problems are often concerned with optimization of control variables of complex systems, for instance hyperparameters of machine learning models. A popular solution for such intractable environments is Bayesian optimization. However, many implementations disregard dynamic evaluation costs associated with the optimization procedure....bachelor thesis 2023