Towards landing a deep-stalled flying-wing in a powered flat spin: a proof of concept

Flying-wings show great potential for a vast number of applications, in both commercial and military sectors, thanks to their long range and fast forward flight, but suffer due to their lack of vertical take-off and landing capabilities. This paper presents a proof of concept for a novel landing method for a conventional flying wing that does...

Machine-learning pipelines for classification of pathological tremor patients: A proof-of-concept

Parkinson’s Disease (PD), Essential tremor (ET), and dystonia are movement disorders often misdiagnosed as one another and commonly present tremor as one of their motor symptoms. Rates of misdiagnosis between 30 and 50% of ET patients have been reported, where dystonia and PD are the most common missed diagnoses. Additionally, up to 50% of...

Safe Blues: The case for virtual safe virus spread in the long-term fight against epidemics

Viral spread is a complicated function of biological properties, the environment, preventative measures such as sanitation and masks, and the rate at which individuals come within physical proximity. It is these last two elements that governments can control through social-distancing directives. However, infection measurements are almost...

Proof of concept study for fuselage boundary layer ingesting propulsion

Key results from the EU H2020 project CENTRELINE are presented. The research activities undertaken to demonstrate the proof of concept (technology readiness level-TRL 3) for the so-called propulsive fuselage concept (PFC) for fuselage wake-filling propulsion integration are discussed. The technology application case in the wide-body market...

Double face: Adjustable translucent system to improve thermal comfort

The DoubleFace project aims at developing a new product that passively improves thermal comfort of indoor and semi-indoor spaces by means of lightweight materials for latent heat storage, while simultaneously allowing daylight to pass through as much as possible. Specifically, the project aims at designing and prototyping an adjustable...

Design of a position determination system for a ship’s hull maintenance robot

Positioning and localization are key topics associated with the control and operation of robotic vehicles. This holds in particular for robots functioning in a challenging environment, such as the ship’s hull maintenance robot developed by Fleet Cleaner. As the industry standard techniques are limited due to constraints imposed by the harbor and...

All roads lead to ROMA: Design and evaluation of a Robust Online Map-generation Algorithm based on position traces

Keeping maps up to date is quite costly because road geometry changes over time and mapping by professional surveyors is an expensive operation. With the presence of GPS sensors on mobile phones and in most cars today it becomes possible to measure the location of roads with many measurements from sensors of lower accuracy. In this thesis we...

MijnID - Security for an Android Application

This document reports the development of a proof of concept for the MijnID Android mobile application. Identity theft and identity fraud are serious problems, leaving thousands of Dutch citizens with debts and damages each year. MijnID aims to improve detection by providing users with insight on what is happening to their personal details as...

Mapper: High troughput maskless lithography

MAPPER Lithography is developing a maskless lithography technology. The technology combines massively-parallel electron-beam writing with high speed optical data transport used in the telecommunication industry. The electron optics generates 13,000 electron beams that are focused on the wafer by electrostatic lens arrays which are manufactured...