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Pennings, Casper (author)A flexible manufacturing system (FMS) has advantages over traditional manufacturing systems due to its ability to deal with unpredicted circumstances such as changes in demand or component breakdowns by re-routing. However, this flexibility increases the complexity of controlling such a system. Traditionally, the system model is simplified to...master thesis 2023
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van Winkel, Caroline (author)Amsterdam Airport Schiphol aims to have a fully autonomous taxibot fleet that can taxi all incoming and outgoing flights by 2050. To support the transition towards this future state, wherein the demand for taxibots will initially be higher than the supply and operational concepts will continuously evolve, a flexible taxibot allocation model is...master thesis 2023
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Vermin, Berry (author)The increase in online retail demand has stimulated automation in order picking systems, leading to new challenges and opportunities in task assignment and scheduling. In partially automated order picking systems, such challenges and opportunities exist regarding human factors implementation in the job-shop scheduling problem, an optimisation...master thesis 2023
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Weenk, Thomas (author)Battery energy storage systems (BESS) that are integrated with the electricity grid have proven to be a suitable solution for reducing costs by providing flexible demand, but are often uneconomical when used solely for this purpose. Despite the research efforts showing the benefits of an energy-integrated harbor-area smart grid (HASG), the...master thesis 2023
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Helsdingen, Timothy (author)This study investigates the problem of prioritising trucks at the export area of the KLM Cargo ground handler terminal while maintaining a continuous operation in the unloading area. Due to the uncoordinated nature of truck arrivals and space limitations at the ground handler, substantial waiting times may arise when<br/>trucks arrive...master thesis 2023
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Liu, X. (author), Dabiri, A. (author), Wang, Yihui (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Real-time timetable scheduling is an effective way to improve passenger satisfaction and to reduce operational costs in urban rail transit networks. In this paper, a novel passenger-oriented network model is developed for real-time timetable scheduling that can model time-dependent passenger origin-destination demands with consideration of a...journal article 2023
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Fazi, S. (author), Choudhary, Sourabh Kumar (author), Dong, Jing Xin (author)We study a typical daily drayage problem concerning the last-mile logistics at seaports for inland container supply chains. A set of trucks available at an inland container terminal must fulfil shippers’ requests of transporting containers within time windows and, to do so, can perform multiple daily trips. A request may entail picking up or...journal article 2023
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de Bekker, Philippe (author), Cremers, S.A. (author), Norbu, Sonam (author), Flynn, David (author), Robu, Valentin (author)Given the fundamental role of renewable energy assets in achieving global temperature control targets, new energy management methods are required to efficiently match intermittent renewable generation and demand. Based on analysing various designed cases, this paper explores a number of heuristics for a smart battery scheduling algorithm that...journal article 2023
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Mitici, M.A. (author), de Pater, I.I. (author), Barros, Anne (author), Zeng, Zhiguo (author)The increasing availability of condition-monitoring data for components/systems has incentivized the development of data-driven Remaining Useful Life (RUL) prognostics in the past years. However, most studies focus on point RUL prognostics, with limited insights into the uncertainty associated with these estimates. This limits the...journal article 2023
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Halder, Subir (author), Ghosal, Amrita (author), Conti, M. (author)Networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are emerging in many application domains, e.g., military surveillance. To perform collaborative tasks, the involved UAVs exchange several types of information, e.g., sensor data and commands. The major question here is how to schedule the tasks under dynamic traffic flows to provide network services...journal article 2023
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Du, Z. (author), van den Berg, J.L. (author), Dimitrovski, T. (author), Litjens, R. (author)Social VR aims at enabling people located at different places to communicate and interact with each other in a natural way. It poses extremely strong throughput and latency requirements on the underlying communication networks. This paper investigates the potential of using cross-layer design approaches for radio access scheduling in order to...conference paper 2023
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Jiang, Xinzhi (author)Construction schedule optimisation problems have been explored extensively, including activity sequencing rules and work packaging. Yet knowledge is still lacking in the sequencing of mechanical, electrical and plumbing (MEP) components with geometric complexity, and how to handle conflicting precedence between MEP work packages arising from the...master thesis 2022
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van Teeffelen, Jop (author)The demand for online shopping has grown tremendously in the last couple of years. Picnic, a major player in the online grocery industry, is struggling to achieve long-term growth within its current operations. Scheduling and planning are key drivers for maintaining operational efficiency. The Fulfilment Centre (FC) and...master thesis 2022
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Hoogendoorn, Rik (author)During arrival waves at hub airports the surrounding airspaces can be congested, resulting in flight delays. To solve this congestion problem one of the current solutions is to sequence flights whilst they are still en-route by using an Extended Arrival Manager (E-AMAN). This paper aims at improving this E-AMAN concept by tackling two of its...master thesis 2022
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Lee, J. (author)Current aircraft maintenance ensures safe and reliable flight operations based on inspections repeated at fixed time intervals. The time interval between inspections is often much shorter than the average life of aircraft components, in an effort to timely detect potential failures. While this approach successfully prevents most potential...doctoral thesis 2022
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Veldkamp, Susan (author)ILP-based solvers that intake a line planning, an infrastructure and a set of constraints and then output a cyclic train timetable have been researched extensively in the world of trains. However, these types of solvers are not able to automatically output a timetable when the problem gets overconstrained and no feasible solution exists.<br/><br...master thesis 2022
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Dann Ruiz, Nicolas (author)Healthcare systems worldwide rely heavily on the efficient allocation of caregivers in home- based care. Despite this, to this day, the majority of home healthcare (HHC) organisations plan their operations manually, an extremely time-consuming and labour-intensive task yielding sub-optimal solutions. Research efforts in the operations research ...master thesis 2022
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van Lonkhuyzen, Joost (author)Ambitious decarbonization targets are introduced to combat climate change. According to the European Commission, sector coupling is required to achieve these targets. This includes the inclusion of renewables into sectors that are difficult to decarbonize, but also using resources more efficient, and introducing new clean fuels. Recent research...master thesis 2022
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Gambetta, Luis (author)In the airline industry revenue and inventory is managed tightly, with the intent to sell each seat at the right price to the right customer at the right time. This does not always go to plan and seats remain unsold, or demand can be greater than what is available. The question then becomes how can capacity and revenue be managed more...master thesis 2022
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Wu, Shixun (author)With the strong demand for computing capacity in industrial applications and the rapid development of the hardware industry in recent years, multiprocessor platforms have been widely used in real-time embedded systems. The quest for performance has led to existing multiprocessor platforms often featuring complex interconnected hardware...master thesis 2022