APIS: Applications and Potentials of Intelligent Swarms for magnetospheric studies

Earth's magnetosphere is vital for today's technologically dependent society. The energy transferred from the solar wind to the magnetosphere triggers electromagnetic storms on Earth, knocking out power grids and infrastructure - e.g., communication and navigation systems. Despite occurring on our astrophysical doorstep, numerous physical...

A CE Indicator Scorecard and Circular Economy Business Model Canvas for the Food and Beverage Industry

A circular economy (CE) is seen as needed in all industry sectors to manage finite resources and to reduce the impact of production and consumption of goods on the planet. While the food and beverage industry has already many measurements in place to ensure cleaner production, a transition towards a CE requires a broader systems perspective....

Designing an innovative consumer product using structures from space

This report discusses the development of a foldable baby bed for the consumer market in the UK. It is executed for Oxford Space Structures Ltd. as a graduation project for Industrial Design Engineering at the Delft University of Technology. A folding mechanism extracted from an ESA patent serves as the starting point for this project. It is...