bachelor thesis

Automatization in the agro- and food industry requires more intricate robotic grippers, which is currently quite a hassle due to how hard grasping (fragile) food products is for machines without intuition. What seems as an easy task for us due to our years of experience, is actually a daunting task for unconscious robots.

We live in a digital age in which more and more data is being stored every day. One popular way to store data digitally is through ‘solid-state devices’ such as SSDs, USB drives and SD cards. These devices have an advantage over traditional hard disk drives in that they have higher read and write capabilities. However as these devices get smaller and smaller to store more data, they come with a downside; they become less reliable over time as their size decreases. ...

Every time we open our favorite photo app on our smartphone we are amazed by the fact that Google and Apple are able to accurately identify the people in our photographs. This shows the incredible accuracy that facial recognition of these days has to offer. Recent advances in deep learning, and specifically within the field of convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have significantly improved image recognition and object detection capabilities. Nevertheless, each system has its Achilles heel, and in the case of facial recognition software, a weak spot is one that we may all have encountered at some point ourselves; the difficulty to distinguish between twins. ...

Hey there! Are you curious to know what module 12 - the Bachelor thesis - entails? Keep on reading! My name is Maarten and I will tell you all about how I battled my way through the last eleven weeks of my Bachelor. If you do not yet know me, you can flip back to the start of this Vonk and read all about me and my fellow board members! I have worked on my thesis called “Analysis and Electrical Characterisation of Vertical Nanowire Trench Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor Barrier Schottky Rectifiers” at Integrated Devices and Systems (IDS). ...

One of the easiest pressure sensors to design is a resistive pressure sensor. A structure under pressure changes in geometry which causes the resistance of the structure to change. This change in resistance can be measured with an electronic readout circuit. But, how does this sensor precisely work? In my bachelor assignment I made a theoretical model of the working principal of a resistive pressure sensor. It all starts with taking a trip into the domain of a mechanical engineer. ...