At Van Hall Larenstein University of Applied Sciences (HVHL) in Leeuwarden, the sea urchin Diadema antillarum has been cultivated to help restore the coral reefs around Saba and St. Eustatius (Caribbean Netherlands). The first young urchins bred in Leeuwarden were released on March 24th to the Rotterdam …

The number of applications in which industrial robots share their working environment with people is increasing. Robots appropriate for such applications are equipped with safety systems according to ISO/TS 15066:2016 and are often referred to as collaborative robots (cobots). Due to the nature of human-robot …

Workers do not always showcase adequate knowledge on potential long-term health effects and other properties of particulate matter (PM), which may lead to a decreased tendency to work safely in a high-PM environment. To empower workers to work more safely in environments with high PM exposure, we developed …

The Inverted Pendulum is one of the classical control problems of an inherently unstable system. The idea is that the pendulum, fixed on a cart, stays upright in its vertical position while the cart is moving, or disturbances are applied. The system is used to demonstrate the capability of the target …

SME production companies producing high variety/low volume discrete products face challenging customer demands. These result in complex planning issues due to the tension between optimizing a low volume flow and optimizing efficiency parameters. Current planning and control systems do not support this …

In practice, faults in building installations are seldom noticed because automated systems to diagnose such faults are not common use, despite many proposed methods: they are cumbersome to apply and not matching the way of thinking of HVAC engineers. Additionally, fault diagnosis and energy performance …

Webontwikkelaars geven aan dat secure coding of het verbeteren van codes een topprioriteit is. Door strakke deadlines en de eis van opdrachtgevers om in korte tijd snel software en uitvoerbare codes aan te leveren, is voor de beveiliging (secure coding) vaak onvoldoende tijd en aandacht. Dit maakt een …

This short paper describes the first prototyping of a self-evaluation process of Curriculum Agility at a Faculty of Technology in Sweden. The process comprises guided, semi-structured, individual interviews at different organisational levels within the faculty, a joint narrative based on those interviews, …

As I chose to do Lycar track 1, I have the opportunity to write my thesis for my internship company. I am currently working as Assistant to the CFO at Quantum Capital Partners (QCP), a private equity company, based in Munich, Germany, which is specialized in special case mergers & acquisitions. Due …