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Correia, Pedro (author)Ship-to-Ship (STS) cargo transfers can significantly improve the efficiency of offshore installations while reducing their associated costs. However, the added complexity of cargo transfers involving ship-mounted cranes at sea poses significant challenges. To address this, crane manufacturers have introduced Relative Heave Compensation (RHC)...master thesis 2023
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Ghiridharan, Vijay Sathya (author)In the 21st century, maritime landscape is confronted with issues such as congestion and delays due to the ever increasing maritime trade volumes.<br/>This thesis explores the possibility of utilizing the concept of amphibious vehicles as a potential solution to address the issue of congestion and enabling the autonomous container terminal...master thesis 2023
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Gao, Z. (author)Reducing power consumption is becoming increasingly important for the sustainability of the communication industry because it is expected to consume a significant portion of the global electricity in the face of the exponentially increasing demands on the volume and rate of data transmission. As the scope narrows to the individual wireless...doctoral thesis 2023
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Kazmi, Syed Baqir Ali (author)This dissertation endeavors to introduce a novel supervised Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) methodology for the detection of damage and the prediction of fatigue life in asphalt concrete materials. Grounded in the principles of S-N (strain-number of cycles until failure) curves, this research addresses the intricate task of proficiently...master thesis 2023
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Bagchi, Madhubanti (author)Recently non-image-based data capturing methods such as sensors like RF, ultrasonic or radars, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, etc for People Counting (PC) applications have gained momentum as an alternative to camera-based systems due to the preference for privacy preservation. Among them mm-wave radars are a strong choice for data capture since they consume...master thesis 2023
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Ban, Hanyuan (author)Gaussian process regression (GPR), a potent non-parametric data modeling tool, has gained attention but is hindered by its high com- putational load. State-of-the-art low-rank approximations like struc- tured kernel interpolation (SKI)-based methods offer efficiency, yet lack a strategy for determining the number of grid points, a pivotal factor...master thesis 2023
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van Dokkum, J.S. (author)Inelastic deformation is a common but often neglected phenomenon in experimental analysis of metal deformation and in contacts. This neglect leads to degraded measurement accuracy of material properties. Therefore a need arises for material models that a priori incorporate inelasticity. These material models must be simple and comprehensive to...doctoral thesis 2023
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Allemekinders, Emma (author)In this study, we perform human identification using accumulated radar point clouds in an outdoor scene. We employ PointNet as classification network and explore the impact of adding radars' non-spatial features as input, namely doppler velocity and radar cross section (RCS). Furthermore, we encode time as an additional time identity dimension...master thesis 2023
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van der Hucht, Laura (author)This thesis examines the role of the concepts of “Build Back Better”, “Disaster Cycle”, and “Sustainability” in water management and the possibility of the interactions between these concepts when designing water management infrastructure. Especially in cases where the disaster cycle is relatively short: 10 to 15 years between disasters.<br/>...master thesis 2023
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Lohar, Nivedita (author)In 2022, there were over 26 million electric automobiles on the road, a 60% increase with regard to 2021 and more than 5 times the stock in 2018. As automobiles become more electric and systems get increasingly complex, the safety requirements get more stringent. In 2011, the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) established...master thesis 2023
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Remmerswaal, G. (author)Flood protection infrastructure requires constant investments to cover the increasing flood risk. However, due to over-conservatism in (dyke) safety assessments, poorly targeted investments can be made. Over-conservatism can be avoided by understanding the entire failure process, from the initiation of failure until flooding. Dyke slope...doctoral thesis 2023
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Gong, Haoran (author)With the great application potential of the Internet of Things (IoT), a reliable power supply solution for IoT plays an important role during the development of IoT and other advanced applications. Among all the options including the electricity grid, batteries, and energy harvesting systems, the energy harvesting systems are considered with...master thesis 2023
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Bezsilla, Janos (author)Nowadays, many space missions require highly accurate pointing for Earth observation or cosmic vision purposes. However, the vibration environment from a spacecraft's structure and reaction wheels can cause disturbances in its line-of-sight stability and severely impact image quality. Additionally, these effects are not known precisely due to...master thesis 2023
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Onen, Cagan (author)Occupancy grid maps are fundamental to autonomous driving algorithms, offering insights into obstacle distribution and free space within an environment. These maps are used for safe navigation and decision-making in self-driving applications, forming a crucial component of the automotive perception framework. An occupancy map is a discretized...master thesis 2023
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Doornbos, Quinten (author)Renewable energy resources like wind and solar have the potential to revolutionize our energy infrastructure and enable a decarbonized society. The intermittent nature of renewables poses a challenge to ensuring a consistent and reliable electricity supply. Hydrogen technology is emerging as a promising solution for stabilizing renewable energy...master thesis 2023
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van Linn, Joseph (author)Snow is a natural hazard to human life and infrastructure. This motivates current research efforts to understand the granular material. The material point method models snow as a continuum. Application length scales range from the microstructural level to full scale avalanches. This conventional numerical method relies on solely spatially local...master thesis 2023
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Pegels, Sven (author)The current state of teleoperation in Tactile Internet faces the problem of limited operating distance. To circumvent this limitation, a setup has been proposed which provides Ultra-Low Latency feedback to the operator from a local simulation of the remote environment. To be able to accurately simulate the remote environment and the objects...bachelor thesis 2023
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Craenen, Marijn (author)The Tactile Internet (TI) is a new paradigm for remote interactions, enabling the transmission of touch and physical sensations. One of the major challenges in achieving seamless remote interactions is latency. To circumvent strict latency requirements, the paper briefly introduces the approach of a Model Mediated Teleoperation scheme utilizing...bachelor thesis 2023
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Bos, Kirsten (author)Unequal deformation of the soil can cause deformation or damage to buildings, like tilted facades or cracks in walls. This research investigates how deformation of a building can be analyzed using Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. Cyclomedia captures LiDAR data yearly in the Netherlands making it possible to analyze either one or...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Fengyan (author)Geometric algorithms are usually designed based on the assumption of using arbitraryprecision representations. However, in modern computer systems floating-point arithmetic and finite-precision approximation are often used as implementing exact computations would require large computational resources and would be rather slow in the applications....master thesis 2023