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Wen, Minzhen (author), Ibrahim, Mesfin Seid (author), Meda, Abdulmelik Husen (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)High-power white light-emitting diodes (LEDs) have demonstrated superior efficiency and reliability compared to traditional white light sources. However, ensuring maximum performance for a prolonged lifetime use presents a significant challenge for manufacturers and end users, especially in safety–critical applications. Thus, identifying...journal article 2024
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Rocchetta, Roberto (author), Zhan, Zhouzhao (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Di Bucchianico, Alessandro (author)Lifetime analyses are crucial for ensuring the durability of new Light-emitting Diodes (LEDs) and uncertainty quantification (UQ) is necessary to quantify a lack of usable failure and degradation data. This work presents a new framework for predicting the lifetime of LEDs in terms of lumen maintenance, effectively quantifying the natural...journal article 2024
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Lin, Yi (author), Guo, Dongyue (author), Wu, Yuankai (author), Li, L. (author), Wu, Edmond Q. (author), Ge, Wenyi (author)Improper fuel loading decision results in carrying excessive dead weight during flight operation, which will burden the airline operation cost and cause extra waste emission. Existing works mainly focused on the post-event fuel consumption based on flight trajectory. In this work, a novel deep learning model, called FCPNet, is proposed to...journal article 2024
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Roth, M. (author)This thesis addresses the sensor-based perception of driver and pedestrian to improve joint path prediction of ego-vehicle and pedestrian based on mutual awareness in the domain of intelligent vehicles.<br/><br/>According to the World Health Organization (WHO), more than half of global traffic deaths are among Vulnerable Road Users (VRUs), such...doctoral thesis 2023
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Lafuente Arjona, Oscar (author)Military ground vehicles require protection against ballistic threats encountered in the battlefield. Traditionally used armour steel dramatically increases the weight of a vehicle, decreasing its mobility and hampering its capability of carrying payload. The development of new material and protection concepts, namely non-metallic armours, that...master thesis 2023
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Ortiz Moya, Álvaro (author)The identification of time-varying, adaptive behaviour of a human operator in basic manual control tasks is undoubtedly under development since most methodologies only account for time-invariant systems. Previous authors have proved that estimation techniques based on ARX structures can generally identify the HO model parameters. Nonetheless,...master thesis 2023
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van Wissen, Alexis (author)Capable of both vertical take-off and landing and forward flight, tail-sitters are a versatile class of UAVs with a large range of potential applications. A variant of tailsitters using tilt-rotors instead of ailerons for pitch and roll control has been proposed to mitigate the reduced control authority at low to zero velocities. The control of...master thesis 2023
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Zou, Jinyi (author)This thesis aims to assess robustness of networks by evaluating the performance of node attack strategies, the applicability and accuracy of different approaches, and to increase robustness of networks through analysing protecting methods, including link addition and node protection strategies. To be specific, the relative size of the Largest...master thesis 2023
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Băbălău, Ion (author)In an era where cyber threats evolve with alarming speed and sophistication, the role of Security Operation Centers (SOCs) has become increasingly pivotal in safeguarding digital infrastructures. SOCs serve as the frontline defence against malicious entities, where they continuously monitor and analyze network traffic, as well as the activity of...master thesis 2023
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Guo, Jiayi (author)With the steadily increasing road traffic demand, congestion on freeways has become a major problem. With the development of communication technology and automated vehicles, there are more opportunities for DTMs to be studied extensively at the coordination level and cooperation level. In the existing literature, the coordination of RM (ramp...master thesis 2023
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Vos, Reinier (author)Air traffic sector demand and capacity balancing is an important process to enable safe and efficient flight execution. In current operations, demand and capacity are determined based on schedules and flight plans. In reality, disruptions to flights create a different situation that may not have been anticipated by the Air Navigation Service...master 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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Zöllner, András (author)The renewable generation capacity, particularly solar and wind power installations, has increased steadily in the Netherlands over the course of recent years. Due to the local, small-scale nature of these power plants (compared to conventional power plants), a large share of this generation capacity is installed into the medium- and low-voltage...master thesis 2023
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Bani, Klait (author)This thesis introduces a novel model predictive controller (MPC) that integrates both torque vectoring and path following into one controller. Due to a need to improve vehicle safety, systems are being developed in order to improve vehicle handling. One system that is able to improve the vehicle handling is torque vectoring (TV). With torque...master thesis 2023
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Zhang, Ting (author)Underactuated mechanical systems (UMS) feature prominently in robotics and aerospace, with aircraft, unmanned air vehicles, and aeroelastic wings as prime examples. These systems present multifaceted control challenges, ranging from inherent underactuation and stability concerns to state and control saturation and an overarching need for...master thesis 2023
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Wang, Haobo (author)The evolution of aerial vehicle technology necessitates robust trajectory prediction models. These models are crucial for maintaining safe airspace and enabling autonomous operations. Automatic dependent surveillance–broadcast (ADS-B) is a surveillance system that enables aircraft to receive data from navigation satellites and periodically...master thesis 2023
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van Tunen, Rick (author)Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects almost 1% of newborns. Right ventricular outflow tract (RVOT) CHD affects 20% of newborns and includes anomalies such as tetralogy of Fallot (TOF) with or without pulmonary atresia, transposition of the great vessels, and truncus arteriosus. All these anomalies require RVOT reconstruction. Prosthetic heart...master thesis 2023
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Stoelinga, Bouke (author)This thesis extensively examines the influential factors affecting the performance of approximations of Model Predictive Control (MPC) control laws using neural networks. MPC is a control strategy that solves an optimization problem at each timestep. This problem can be computationally complex and could be too slow to compute for online control....master thesis 2023
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Baars, T.F. (author)Alluvial deposits in the subsurface are essential for geo-energy production and storage in many regions worldwide. Accurate correlation and characterisation of alluvial stratigraphy requires an understanding of how river channels were spatially deposited, and which geomorphological processes acted upon them. This doctoral dissertation the...doctoral thesis 2023
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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