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Jia, Lan (author)In an era marked by the demand for unprecedented levels of precision in engineering applications, the profound impact of friction forces on motion control systems cannot be underestimated. This thesis extensively investigates the frictional behavior of the Proton Motion Stage, an advanced high-precision motion control system developed by...master thesis 2023
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Mendoza Silva, Santiago (author)Bacterial identification is crucial for addressing infectious diseases and enabling effective treatment strategies. Conventional bacteria identification methods like MALDI-TOF, while efficient, lack the capability for screening the effectiveness of antibiotics. On the other hand, existing antimicrobial resistance (AMR) tests, despite being...master thesis 2023
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Lin, Chaufang (author)Whispering, characterized by its soft, breathy, and hushed qualities, serves as a distinct form of speech commonly employed for private communication and can also occur in cases of pathological speech. The acoustic characteristics of whispered speech differ substantially from normally phonated speech and the scarcity of adequate training data...master thesis 2023
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Li, Tianyi (author)In this work, we deal with the problem of reconstructing a complete bandlimited graph signal from partially sampled noisy measurements. For a known graph structure, some efficient centralized algorithms are proposed to partition the nodes of the graph into disjoint subsets such that sampling the graph signal from any of these subsets leads to a...master thesis 2023
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Liu, Chengen (author)The edge flow reconstruction task improves the integrity and accuracy of edge flow data by recovering corrupted or incomplete signals. This can be solved by a regularized optimization problem, and the corresponding regularizers are chosen based on prior knowledge. However, obtaining prior information is challenging in some fields. Thus, we...master thesis 2023
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Houben, Jort (author)A common problem in wireless communication is the existence of multipath propagation. This means that a transmitted signal is received multiple times because of reflections caused by the environment. We present two ways of modeling multipath propagation of an acoustic underwater signal. We discretise these models to solve them numerically....bachelor thesis 2023
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Dai, Anthony (author), van de Weg, Joris (author)In the context of designing a real-time brain-computer interface for playing a game using the OpenBCI Ultracortex "Mark IV" headset, this paper focuses on the work of the decoding subgroup. The primary responsibility is to analyse EEG data retrieved from the OpenBCI headset and classify the intention of the user. Our objective is to achieve a...bachelor thesis 2023
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Demir, Kaan (author)Existing sonar systems typically rely on a minimum signal strength of a single echo, which limits their performance in low signal-to-noise conditions. This thesis explores the concept of coherent integration for active sonar, with the aim of improving imaging and detection capabilities under low signal-to-noise conditions. The goal is to provide...master thesis 2023
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Rodewijk, Koen (author)Atrial fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly occurring arrhythmia in clinical practice and can have a significant impact on the current and future wellbeing of the patient. By placing an unipolar sensor array directly on the epicardium during an open-heart surgery to measure the electrical activity of the atrium, more insight about this disease...master thesis 2023
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Kumbul, U. (author)Autonomous driving is a new emerging technology that will enhance traffic safety. Automotive radars are essential to attaining autonomous driving since they can function in adverse weather conditions and are used for detection, tracking, and classification in traffic settings. However, the dramatic growth in the number of radar sensors used for...doctoral thesis 2023
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Ramamohan, Krishnaprasad Nambur (author), Chepuri, Sundeep Prabhakar (author), Comesana, Daniel Fernandez (author), Leus, G.J.T. (author)In this work, we consider the self-calibration problem of joint calibration and direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation using acoustic sensor arrays. Unlike many previous iterative approaches, we propose solvers that can be readily used for both linear and non-linear arrays for jointly estimating the sensor gain, phase errors, and the source...journal article 2023
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Patel, Kartik (author), Myers, N.J. (author), Heath, Robert W. (author)Millimeter wave (mmWave) technology can achieve high-speed communication due to the large available spectrum. Furthermore, the use of directional beams in mmWave system provides a natural defense against physical layer security attacks. In practice, however, the beams are imperfect due to mmWave hardware limitations such as the low-resolution...journal article 2023
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The phase-coded linear-frequency-modulated continuous-wave (PC-FMCW) waveform with a low sampling processing strategy is studied for coherent multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar. The PC-FMCW MIMO structure, which jointly uses both fast-time and slow-time coding, is proposed to reduce sidelobe levels while preserving high range resolution...journal article 2023
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Kontakis, A. (author), Verschuur, D.J. (author)In contrast to conventional acquisition practices, simultaneous source acquisition allows for overlapping wavefields to be recorded. Relaxing the shot schedule in this manner has certain advantages, such as allowing for faster acquisition and/or denser shot sampling. This flexibility usually comes at the cost of an extra step in the...journal article 2023
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Kumbul, U. (author), Petrov, N. (author), Silveira Vaucher, C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Phase-coded frequency modulated continuous wave (PC-FMCW) radars for joint sensing and communication are considered. The sensing and communication performance of the two signal processing methods, phase lag compensated group delay filter and filter bank receivers, are compared. It is demonstrated that the phase lag compensated group delay...conference paper 2023
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Song, Yiyang (author), Krasnov, O.A. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Starting from numerical simulation and comparative analysis of different polarimetric detector algorithms using the proposed Gain of Detectability measure, this paper has validated the feasibility and accuracy of polarimetric detectors in scenarios with homogeneous clutter. These algorithms’ application to real radar data with non-homogeneous...conference paper 2023
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Jin, J. (author), Li, Z. (author)Empirical mode decomposition (EMD) lacks a strong theoretical support although extensively applied. We propose a theoretical framework for a succinct EMD in this work, with the assumption of invariant extrema locations for one IMF extraction. We define the envelope mean filter (EMF) and prove that the filter matrix satisfies five properties....journal article 2023
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Fioranelli, F. (author), Guendel, Ronny (author), Kruse, N.C. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)Driven by its contactless sensing capabilities and the lack of optical images being recorded, radar technology has been recently investigated in the context of human healthcare. This includes a broad range of applications, such as human activity classification, fall detection, gait and mobility analysis, and monitoring of vital signs such as...conference paper 2023
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Li, C. (author), Martinez, Jorge (author), Hendriks, R.C. (author)Estimation of the acoustic-scene related parameters such as relative transfer functions (RTFs) from source to microphones, source power spectral densities (PSDs) and PSDs of the late reverberation is essential and also challenging. Existing maximum likelihood estimators typically consider only subsets of these parameters and use each time frame...journal article 2023
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Zhou, Y. (author)Robots navigating in social environments inevitably exhibit behavior perceived as inappropriate by people, which they will repeat unless they are aware of them; hindering their social acceptance. This highlights the importance of robots detecting and adapting to the perceived appropriateness of their behavior, in line with what we found in a...conference paper 2023