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Botman, Willemijn (author)The development of renewable energy applications has become increasingly important in the past couple of years due to a growing global energy demand and increasing consciousness of global warming. A recent development in renewable energy is the application of offshore floating solar systems. A prototype design for this application, as developed...master thesis 2019
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Blankert, Olivier (author)Liquid fuels are projected to account for 88% of total energy use in the transportation sector in 2040. Low cost of renewable energy poses a new opportunity for decarbonisation of the transport sector. As a liquid en- ergy carrier, methanol offers a promising solution for alternative fuels in aviation, shipping and long-distance trucking. Zero...master thesis 2019
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Kounaki, Stamatia (author)The refurbishment of the Dutch post- war residential building stock provides a great potential for energy and CO2 emissions savings, since a large number of buildings were built before 1975 and under low or no energy standards. However, their refurbishment and especially zero-on-the-meter, is too expensive and it is not possible to find the...master thesis 2019
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Hoogvliet, Jonathan (author)Reinforcement learning (RL) is a model-free adaptive approach to learn a non-linear control law for flight control. However, for flat-RL (FRL) the size of the search space grows exponentially with the number of states, resulting in low sample efficiency. This research aims to improve the efficiency with Hierarchical Reinforcement Learning (HRL)....master thesis 2019
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Marigi Rajanarayana, Shashanka (author)Convolution Neural Networks (CNN) are used in many applications ranging from real-time object detection to robot-motion planning. CNNs are implemented on high-performance systems like multi-core CPU and GPU, these are of high power in nature and thus cannot be deployed in edge devices due to their limited battery power. The edge device has to...master thesis 2019
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Vaalburg, Léon (author)The fatigue strength of the pin connection is assessed in the research project presented in this thesis. The fatigue strength is quantied by an estimated fatigue lifetime, which is the expected time to failure of the most critical point in the connection. The lifetime is estimated based on the yearly accumulated fatigue damage. A computer model...master thesis 2019
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Jeukens, Floor (author)Stroke is a cerebrovascular disorder with 15 million cases every year worldwide. The most common symptom is motor deficits. In order to overcome such symptoms, the motor brain either repairs the damaged tissue or reorganises to compensate for the injured brain region. To stimulate this reorganisation transcranial Direct Current Stimulation (tDCS...master thesis 2019
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PAPADAKIS, Stelios (author)During the last years, electric power generation was based mainly on large centralized fossil fuelled power plants. However, nowadays and in the future, efforts are made to increase the share from renewable sources, as a result of increasing environmental concern. Indeed, in some networks areas, wind generators gradually start to replace...master thesis 2019
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Ramesh, Rahul (author)The Sit-to-Stand (SiSt) task is one of the most crucial yet mechanically demanding daily tasks. A transfemoral amputee develops high torques on the intact leg to complete the SiSt task. Such high torques are a consequence of limited torques produced by a prosthesis. The main interest of this project is on the sit-to-stand task of a transfemoral...master thesis 2019
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van Hoek, Bob (author)Background: For both hospitals and patients it would be beneficial if the scan time of MR images could be reduced. At the moment, Compressed Sensing (CS) is introduced to reduce the scan time, however, new methods are developed such as a deep learning method, called the Recurrent Inference Machine (RIM). In this study the effect of...master thesis 2019
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Detached Eddy Simulation applied to three-dimensional aerodynamic full car simulations in motorsportde Jong, Daniëlle (author)Detached Eddy Simulation is investigated as a potential method to improve the design process in the Aerodynamic Prototype Development Department of Porsche Motorsport. Detached Eddy Simulation is a CFD method that combines the scale resolving capabilities of Large Eddy Simulation with the low cost modelling of the Reynolds-Averaged Navier-Stokes...master thesis 2019
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Vitiello, Pasquale (author)The modern era is witnessing a crucial revolution regarding the driving concept, towards a more assisted and automated way of driving. Despite the advantages such conception have been extensively predicted and supported in literature, a direct transition from manual to fully automated operation is at the current moment not feasible, both for...master thesis 2019
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Damian, Mircea (author)Over the past decades, the technological improvements in computing power, software and projection systems enabled driving simulators to become a cost-effective tool to perform research activities and train novel drivers. Today, driving simulators are widely used for studying the interaction of driver and vehicle system, developing new vehicles...master thesis 2019
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Morshuis, Niek (author)Geological storage of COኼ is a crucial and upcoming technology to reduce anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions. Due to the buoyant characteristic of injected gas, the security of underground storage is a major concern. To asses the security of COኼ storage, an accurate prediction of the gas plume behaviour is essential. In this study, a fully...master thesis 2019
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Wapperom, Michiel (author)Natural gas hydrates are often considered as a hazard in hydrocarbon production and pipeline transport, but are also recognized as a potential energy resource. Naturally occurring hydrate deposits exist under suitable conditions of low temperature and high pressure, typically in shallow marine sediments and in and below the permafrost, and may...master thesis 2019
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van Es, Tom (author)Global containerised cargo volumes are increasing at a high rate, requiring ports to increase their throughput. Containers are transported to the hinterland by truck, train, or barge. In the ports of Rotterdam and Antwerp, container barges have high in-port times, of which they spend a lot of time ineffectively. This affects these ports’...master thesis 2019
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de Wit, Maaike (author)In the field of combustion systems, methods and tools are under development to fulfill the need for fast and accurate prediction of emissions such as NO and CO. CFD-CRN is a hybrid approach that utilizes a combination of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and a chemical reactor network (CRN) to simulate the flow field and chemical kinetics of a...master thesis 2019
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Hogerbrug, Marc (author)A necessity in driving simulation testing is to understand and attenuate simulator sickness in urban environments to reduce the number of undesired drop-outs. This final thesis explains a 6 degree-of-freedom simulator sickness prediction model based on observer theory including the visual system. The model incorporates state-of-the-art knowledge...master thesis 2019
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Feng, Kesong (author)Salt intrusion through sea locks causes the mixing of fresh and salt water due to a gravity current. This process may occur gradually over tens of kilometers and affects the required quality of the inland water. A bubble screen alongside the locks is one of the available mitigating measures for this undesired phenomenon. However, current...master thesis 2019
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Vos, Daniël (author)A switching max-plus linear model is a framework to describe the discrete dynamics of the timing of events. To influence these systems one can choose the routes of jobs and the orderings of operations as input for the system. In this thesis the techniques of model predictive control are used to find good input values. The problem of finding the...master thesis 2019