Home of Innovation A small taste of our cutting edge technology
Home of Innovation A small taste of our cutting edge technology
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Table of Contents
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Introduction by Paul Althuis
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Considering to collaborate
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Get in Touch
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Valorisation indicators 2019
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TRL & Icons
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Innovative projects
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Fieldlabs
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Index by research theme
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Colophon
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Sharing ideas for Collaborations Separating plastic waste: not only by color, but also by the different types of plastics. Making combustion processes more sustainable. Or a real moonshot: the lunar rover, a robot cart that can drive autonomously over the lunar surface. These are just a few of the promising innovation projects featured in this fourth edition of Home of Innovation. Our scientists perform pioneering research every day. It is equally important to ensure that these radical innovations also benefit society in the form of new products and services. To achieve that, collaboration is needed: with companies, with startups, with governments and other knowledge institutions. The TU Delft Valorisation Centre stimulates this process of technology transfer in various ways. For example, by setting up field labs on the TU Delft Campus where companies can test, validate and further develop new innovations together with scientists, researchers, start-ups and the public. By setting up partnerships with large companies and close cooperations with Erasmus University, Erasmus MC and Leiden University. Furthermore we initiate public-private research programmes and support start-ups All driven by the same mission impact for a better society. We have listed the best of these radical innovations that have recently been developed in this edition. It provides a nice overview of the variety of research at TU Delft on the basis of a large number of innovation projects. In this booklet you will find innovative projects of the different research institutes of TU Delft. The bundling of research capacity within these institutes shows clearly how we collaborate across different faculties on a number of appealing research themes. The innovations resulting from these crossover projects provide a good insight into why close cooperation is so important. The projects are captured in stimulating visualisations and labelled with a so-called technology readiness level that provides insight into the distance to the market. All information can be found online via a QR code. Home of Innovation is a guide for companies and institutions that want to collaborate. Do you share our ambition for a better society? Team up with us and let’s create the future together! Sincerely, Paul Althuis Director of the Valorisation Centre 5
Considering to collaborate? “Impact for a better society” is the central mission of Delft University of Technology. Building on an excellent scientific profile in science, engineering and design we offer knowledge-intensive, technology-driven solutions to societal challenges. These solutions are rooted in ground breaking research: research that makes us an attractive cooperation partner for other knowledge institutes, society and for businesses. With this approach we are at interplay with the changing drivers at European, national and regional level. Horizon Europe and national topsector policies will be driven by societal missions and key enabling technologies (KETs). Within these missions and KETs lie opportunities for universities and businesses to engage and to set the scene for future society and future economy. However, this can only be achieved by long term mutual commitment. For this reason the focus within Horizon Europe and national funding schemes (NWO) will be increasingly on long term public private partnerships. The aim of TU Delft is to grow TU Delft Campus as a public private innovation campus of great international importance. This can only be achieved by creating strong interactions with knowledge institutions, government organizations, larger businesses, SME’s, start-ups, scale-ups and investors. As a publicly funded university TU Delft attaches great importance to the general principles according to which our projects are carried out. There are important considerations for industry to reflect upon when contemplating to initiate research projects with us. First of all, TU Delft has an obligation to disseminate knowledge to society. Therefore all research results of TU Delft must be made available for publication. Therein we adhere to the standards of scientific integrity1 as established by the VSNU. Second, as an academic institution TU Delft may not be restricted in its freedom to pursue research. We also have a societal obligation to train the next generation of inventors and innovators. Therefore, patent-protected project results shall always be available to TU Delft itself for teaching and academic research projects. Finally, at TU Delft Open Science is seen as an important way to spread TU Delft’s mission to deliver Science to Society. With Open Science we wish to make scientific knowledge accessible online, free of charge to all users. This way new ideas are spread faster and wider, which in turn lead to new research. 7
Examples of this approach can be seen in the generation of publicly available open source software, open access papers and MOOCs. But also in the establishment of open and collaborative ecosystems such as SAM|XL2 or RoboValley 3. In all this we do understand the need for proper protection of intellectual property to secure the correct and viable introduction of our ideas, findings and software into society. After all, open source software is useless to society when an incorrect license is applied. And no start-up or spin-off will survive long enough to bring a product to the market if these innovations are not cradled and protected by patent rights. Alongside the aforementioned means, we also bring inventions and findings into society by transferring the intellectual property rights to industry. The speed of innovation has become essential for businesses to compete in a worldwide market. We believe that multi party collaborations are key in accelerating innovation. We invite businesses to join our community and collaborate on research and innovation with the TU Delft and parties in our TU Delft Campus ecosystem. Together we identify your research and innovation challenges and connect these challenges to our ecosystem of academics, students, corporates and entrepreneurs. We deeply value our collaborations with industry, many of whom we have long-standing relations with deeply rooted in joint history. We are always open to welcome new partners, to explore new domains and establish new joint ventures, either through bilateral agreements or within the framework of, amongst others, Horizon Europe, national top sector funding, NWO and regional funding. My final call to all of you is: Let’s cooperate to create future society and future markets and work in a joint effort on impact for a better society!
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www.vsnu.nl/files/documents/Netherlands Code of Conduct for Research Integrity 2018.pdf
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samxl.nl
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robovalley.com
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Get in touch The Valorisation Centre of the Delft University of Technology assists scientists and supporting staff in bringing innovations to the market and is a good place to start your collaboration with the Delft University of Technology. Industry collaboration These team members are well informed on the latest scientific research at TU Delft, and they know the needs from the private sector. This enables them to contribute to very effective market research, business development and matchmaking between small medium and large enterprises and researchers. To initiate and facilitate sustainable collaborations, the team continuously searches for key-partners in multidisciplinary settings, resulting in research frame agreements in a later phase. Research Theme
People
Business partnerships & collaboration with TU Delft
Zwanet van Lubek
Z.H.vanLubek@tudelft.nl
Campus Development & Fieldlabs
Ruth de Vries
Ruth.deVries@tudelft.nl
Aerospace Engineering
Femke Verdegaal
F.M.Verdegaal@tudelft.nl
AgTech
Liselotte de Vries
Liselotte.deVries@tudelft.nl
Artifical Intelligence & Digitalisation
Liesbeth Kempen
L.Kempen@tudelft.nl
Circulairity
Jan-Henk Welink
J.H.Welink@tudelft.nl
Climate Action
Marjan Kreijns
M.S.Kreijns@tudelft.nl
Composites & Robotics
Kjelt van Rijswijk
K.vanRijswijk@tudelft.nl
Energy Transition Offshore Renewables; Delta & Water Technology
Friso Lippmann
F.G.Lippmann@tudelft.nl
Energy Transition Hydrogen; Peter Lucas Circular economy; Energy systems and Industry
P.Lucas@tudelft.nl
Energy Transistion Urban Environment; Circular Economy Built Environment
Arnoud van der Zee
A.E.vanderZee@tudelft.nl
Energy Transition Offshore Windenergy
Maxim Segeren
M.L.A.Segeren@tudelft.nl
Health & Care
Puck van de Bovenkamp
P.A.vandeBovenkamp@tudelft.nl 11
Research Theme
People
Industrial Design Engineering
Geert van den Boogaard
G.A.vandenBoogaard@tudelft.nl
Internet of Things & 5G
Lenneke de Voogd-Claessen
H.deVoogd-Claessen@tudelft.nl
Maritime, Mechanical Engineering & Materials
John van Haare
J.A.E.H.vanHaare@tudelft.nl
Microelectronics; e-Refinery; Fintech; High Tech
Antal Baggerman
A.F.J.Baggerman@tudelft.nl
Mobility
Sascha Hoogendoorn-Lanser
S.Hoogendoorn-Lanser@tudelft.nl
Nuclear Science & Optics/Photonica
Anke Peters
A.Peters@tudelft.nl
Physics, Nanotech, Biotechnology & Chemical Engineering
Steven Lohle
S.R.M.Lohle@tudelft.nl
Quantum Technology
Kees Eijkel
C.J.M.Eijkel@tudelft.nl
Robotics, Smart Industry & Materials
Anouschka Versleijen
A.G.S.Versleijen@tudelft.nl
Safety & Security
Eveline Vreede
E.M.Vreede@tudelft.nl
Smart Cities
Stefan van Dijk
stephan.vandijk@ams-institute.org
Sport Engineering
Daan Bregman
D.J.J.Bregman@tudelft.nl
Strategic Business Partnerships The speed of innovation has become essential to compete in a worldwide market. We believe that multi party collaborations are key in accelerating innovation. We invite businesses to join our community and collaborate on research and innovation topics with the TU Delft and parties in our TU Delft Campus ecosystem. Together we identify your research and innovation challenges and connect these challenges to our ecosystem of academics, students, corporates and entrepreneurs. We offer strategic collaborations that accelerate innovation, inspire and spark entrepreneurship. This is your chance to innovate together. A growing and ageing population needs new answers to global challenges. From energy, climate and mobility to health, from food and natural resources to robotization and digitization. Solving them requires technological innovations that are complex, time consuming, capital intensive and potentially disruptive. From 12
the belief that we can create more impact together, we develop X! initiatives. We invite our business partners to participate in an X! initiative and collaborate on societal challenges to speed up innovation. Join our strong community of businesses partners and create the future together! Please contact Zwanet van Lubek for more information: z.h.vanlubek@tudelft.nl Patents & Licencing Patents, licence agreements and partnerships are an important part of the valorisation of inventions and technical know-how developed at the university. In close collaboration with our inventors, the Intellectual Property Team explores the various possibilities, protects the intellectual property of TU Delft and gives advice on the role of intellectual property in the commercialisation process to employees and students. They also advise on compliance with European and national regulations (such as the European regulations dealing with State-Aid) and compliance with intellectual property rules incorporated in national and international research programmes. Aside from patents, we also deal with all other forms of intellectual property rights, such as trade secrets, copyright protected software, trade marks and design rights. More information: https://www.tudelft.nl/en/technology-transfer/ patent@tudelft.nl Looking for a TU Delft patent? https://www.tudelft.nl/en/library/collections/tu-delft-patent-portfolio/ Need to report an invention? Fill in an Invention Disclosure Form at https://inventions.tudelft.nl/inventor
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Valorisation indicators 2019 The Dutch universities formulated their valorisation objectives in their performance agreements with the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science in 2012. Following on from this, each university has developed its own valorisation indicators to measure performance. The following valorisation indicators were established in 2015, along with the other Dutch universities of technology, and they have been published in the annual report since 2016. This set of indicators provides a quantitative overview of the valorisation activities TU Delft. Proportion of funding Government funding
546,2 M€
Indirect funding
72,6 M€
Contract funding
143,1 M€
Internships and graduation projects for non- university institutions Master
793
PDEng
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Co-publications with companies CWTS Leiden Ranking – University Industry Co-publications
#22
Proportion of publications with one or more companies as co-author
10,5%
Intellectual property Number of invention disclosures
105
Number of patent applications
66
Number of transfers
8
Number of licences
4
Business activities TU Delft spin-off with TU Delft IP
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Startups – TU Delft founded, without TU Delft IP
10
Startups – by third parties, with TU Delft IP
0
Ancillary activities Number of professors with non-academic ancillary activities
135
Entrepreneurship education Entrepreneurship minors (30 EC)
201 studenten / 6030 EC
Aditional Entrepreneurship courses (5-8 EC per vak)
482 studenten / 2561 EC
Total EC Entrepreneurship education
683 studenten / 8591 EC
Alumni careers Percentage of alumni employed by non-academic organisations
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TRL & Icons explained Research Themes In total eleven research themes have been used for a thematic categorisation of the innovative projects. Each research theme has been assigned its own colour. You can find the themes on top of each project page. Please also see index page 57 to search by research theme. From which faculty Delft University of Technology has eight faculties. For all projects we have indicated which faculties are involved using the following icons:
3mE
Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering
ABE
Architecture and the Built Environment
AE
Aerospace Engineering
AS
Applied Sciences
CEG
Civil Engineering and Geosciences
EEMCS
Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science
IDE
Industrustrial Design Engineering
TPM
Technology, Policy and Management
Technology Readiness Levels The University is full of interesting, innovative research within its own specific theme and stage of development. Finding a project that matches your interest can be complex without some guidance. We have listed the projects according to their TRL level. 16
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Basic principes observed
Basic technology research
TRL 2
Technology concept
TRL 1
TRL 3
Research to prove feasibility
Experimental proof of concept
Knowledge Development
TRL 4
Technology demonstration
Validation in lab
Validation in relevant environment
TRL 5
TRL 6
Technology development and prototypes
Demonstrated in relevant environment
Technology Development
TRL 9 System proven in operational environment
Prepared in accordance with Annex G of Horizon 2020
Market launch and commercialisation
System complete and qualified
TRL 8
Business Development
Pilot plan and scale uP
System prototype
TRL 7
Technology Readiness Level (TRL)
Innovation projects The science we practise and technologies we develop have different levels of maturity. Some of the projects are close to entering the market, making almost an immediate impact. Whilst the impact of other projects lies further in the future. This is a selection of our current cutting edge innovative ideas.
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Social Impact ABE
TRL
Teaching design for Values dr. Amy Thomas & dr. Roberto Rocco
Maria Novas Ferradas MSc, Delft design for Values Institute
Summary
While we are moving forward with engineering education @ TU Delft, it is important for designers, planners and engineers to understand that their designs are not, and should not be ‘neutral’: It is important to recognize first, that we are all influenced by our own value systems, and second that we have a responsibility to take into account the values of clients and users, and, preferably, to co-design with them. Although there is already some theory and applications of designing for values, this project aims to develop and discover methods to foreground the discussion of values in design and engineering education, and to find innovative ways to include the voices of students and stakeholders who are underrepresented. Although many teachers already might think they (teach) design for values, it is important to be able to articulate and spell out values explicitly, so students can have clarity about how to discuss values in their education and practice. Sometimes, important values such as inclusiveness, wellbeing or fairness are implicit, but we need to speak about them clearly. The researchers aimed to learn and gather from other teachers the range of creative and innovative ways that they experiment with teaching design for values. The process of identifying, interpreting, and implementing values in university education is an essential part of responsible innovation and designing for equitable, inclusive and sustainable cities and communities.
What’s next
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The next step for this project is to produce a textbook with contributions from teachers and researchers from across TU Delft and beyond on how they teach students to discuss, explain, negotiate, and incorporate values in their practice. The book is intended to be a resource for teachers and an aid for students who want to know more about this methodology. They are currently looking for a publisher for this book.
Life science & Health
Chem, bio & process tech AS
FANCY: Flow and Deformation of Cancer tumours near Yielding
TRL
dr. Pouyan Boukany
Funded by ERC; LUMC; Erasmus MC; TU Process Technology Institute
Summary
Through biology research we already know a lot about the molecular characterisation of cancer cells. Often it is the secondary tumour that has spread to elsewhere in the body (metastasis) that is fatal to the patient. However, few people have looked at these tumours as a soft material. There is a knowledge gap in the mechanical characterization of cancer tumours which the researcher and his interdisciplinary team try to unravel. They aim to increase our understanding of the physical properties of cancer cells and the mechanical pathways and mechanisms that cause a tumor cell to move through the human body aiding treatment of cancer in the future. Current platforms for studying cancer cells are growth flasks or petri-dishes in which a single layer of cells can be grown. However, in a tissue cells are often packed together which more or less locks them into place. Through forces such as pushing or deforming cells the tissue can become more fluid, releasing cells. To understand the relation of force to the release of cells – allowing them to move - the team is developing a new platform to grow cells in a 3D setting just as they would grow inside a body.
What’s next
With more understanding of how tumours can move within the body the next step is to finding ways to stop cells from migrating through the body. Besides, with the understanding how cells move through the body the researcher can also model where the released tumor cells want to go; so which type of cancer cell invades which organs.
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Software tech & Intelligent Systems EEMCS
TRL
AI and cultivating Strawberries dr. Mathijs de Weerdt & dr. ir. Thomas Abeel AgTech Institute, Delphy BV, Birds.ai
Summary
Cultivating strawberries is not straightforward since they have to be picked when the fruit is just ripe. Strawberry growers are very good to determine in the moment if a strawberry is ripe and needs to be picked. However, because of the many factors that influence the right moment for picking it is more difficult for the growers to predict when this moment will be. On the other hand there are the retailers who prefer to have a steady supply of high quality strawberries. They can steer the demand for strawberries with discount offers. However, they try to manage the supply by purchasing strawberries from multiple growers and asking each of them how much they can supply and when. Here there is a mismatch in information as this is difficult to say for growers. To tackle this problem the researchers are working on two different AI techniques and in the end hope to be able to link the two to offer a solution for the problem described above. The beauty of this innovative idea is that it combines fundamental research into algorithms with an application in daily life.
What’s next
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If the researchers manage to create a model that can predict which moment in time will be best for harvesting strawberries they foresee that it is just a small step to creating a model which can give information about each individual strawberry and its harvesting moment. For the algorithm the next step would be to see if it can be applied in other cases or situations which have a harvest vs distribution challenge.
Life science & Health IDE
EEMCS
Pride & Prejudice – design for physical activity interventions
TRL
dr. Jos Kraal
dr. ir. Rick Schifferstein, Boudewijn Boon MSc , Mailin Lemke, dr. Merijn Bruijnes, dr. Marina Bos-de Vos, dr. Willem-Paul Brinkman, Health Initiative
Summary
Physical activity and nutrition are two key factors for a healthy lifestyle. Both are not only difficult to modify for people on the long-term, they are also difficult to measure accurately. The researcher focusses on the improvement of physical activity behaviour. He is looking into how these activities can be measures in a correct way with existing devises and how this can be integrated with other aspects that influence physical activity such as your location, the amount of sleep, mood or stress levels. Through the combination of these factors the researcher hopes to get a better understanding of the behaviour of a person. Subsequently, based on this combined data the researcher aims to design novel interventions to change the behaviour in a positive way. Conventional physical activity interventions come in the form of a training schedule that tells you what to do. Novel interventions should be smarter, dynamic and context dependent: tailored on you daily schedule, combined with other data such as the weather conditions and how you feel today.
What’s next
The next step for the researcher’s part of the project is to enhance and increase the collaboration with hospitals, municipalities, community centres, people with different social status or schools and scientists to see how the most impact can be created with various interventions for different social groups. From a technological point of view another next step is to combine data from different sensors and measurements to increase the insight in people’s physical activity related behaviour.
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Life science & Health
Software tech & IS AS
TRL
Biomolecular Ultrasound Imaging dr. David Maresca
dr. Carlas Smith, dr. Arjen Jakobi, Health Initiative
Summary
Unlike light, sound waves are able to travel much deeper into opaque biological tissues and can inspect virtually any organ of the human body such as the heart. Inspired by optical microscopy and exploiting the penetrating quality of sound, the researcher aims to develop a new form of in vivo microscopy. On the one hand this research brings together new techniques of using ultrasound to image nanoparticles in 4 dimensions (space and time). On the other hand, the research aims to develop genetically encoded acoustic biomolecules that can be engineered as biosensors to respond to changes in their environment. Using sound waves, Dr. Maresca wants to be able to ”spy” on biological processes occurring within organs at the moleculair level. One of the main challenges for this project is to engineer biomolecular contrast agents that react to sound waves conditionally, similar to what GFP based reporters are enabling for optical imaging.
What’s next
The research wants to push the boundary of ultrasound imagery!
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Social Impact IDE
TPM
Framework for discussing and reconciling TRL divergent values in multi-disciplinary settings dr. Marina Bos-de Vos
dr. Steffen Steinert & Delft Design for Values Institute
Summary
Discussing her research on value creation by architects with people from other disciplines, the researcher noticed she had to explain a lot on values. She realised that although the same word was used – values – it had different meanings and implications in different contexts. Values can refer to ideals of people, and as guiding principles influence their choices; but also as qualities that can be co-created and that represent a certain amount of worth. When actors from diverse disciplines collaborate, an awareness of these different perspectives towards values can help to find common ground and avoid miscommunication or confusion in the co-creation process. By integrating theories from multiple scholarly domains and complementing this with information on how values are being used in practice, the researcher is therefore building a framework that maps out different types of values for various perspectives. Testing the framework in an interdisciplinary project meeting showed that the focus on values created insight and understanding for the positions and actions of the team members. Leading the team to conclude they should have discussed values more explicit and earlier in the collaboration process.
What’s next
To move this innovative idea forward the researcher would like to perform an extensive literature review to bring together knowledge on value research from different disciplines. Subsequently, the researcher would like to work on developing a method for how the framework can be used for education and in design processes so the different perspectives on values can be taken into account.
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Materials
High Tech AS
TRL
MemoMOFEnergy; designing ferroelectrics dr. ir. Monique van der Veen
dr. F.X.-Coudert, dr. B. Civallieri, Prof. dr. ir. P. Groen (†), Process Technology Institute
Summary
The researcher aims to develop new ferro- and piezoelectric materials based on metal-organic frameworks. Metal-organic frameworks are crystalline materials that constitute a huge playing ground for materials’ scientists as there is almost unlimited choice in the organic and metal-containing building blocks that build up the nanoporous 3-D framework in a Lego-like fashion. A very large variability in chemical functionalities can hence be achieved. We specifically build in polar units into the frameworks, that can “turned around” by use of an electric field. Via the electrical field we can hence change the polarity of the material, and as we can assign a (1) bit and a (0) bit to either polar state, they can be used as memories. More specifically they would be called ferroelectric memories. The electric field then acts as a door handle controlling the framework. These polar materials, can moreover convert vibrational energy (caused by mechanical movement) into electrical energy. Hence, they can be used as an energy source for all kind of devices, making the use of batteries unnecessary. Such materials would be relevant as memories and energy sources for wireless devices in the Internet of Things. With regard to energy, this is very relevant for devices who are placed in dark environments, (otherwise a miniature solar cell could be used).
What’s next
When the researcher has been able to design and alter the ferroelectrics the next step is to apply these in a device. That would require a very small flexible electrode and a small vibrating element determining the amount of electricity it can generate. As with regard to the memories to make a 3x3 memory device in which 9 bits can be stored.
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Robotics
High Tech AE
Aerospace
EEMCS
Lunar Zebro
TRL
ir. dr. Chris Verhoeven, Savier Atya, Zebro.space/team Space Institute
Summary
A student team of 50 to 60 engineers and researchers with different back grounds are working together to develop to build the smallest and lightest rover that can explore the surface of the moon autonomously. The maximum mass of 1,5 kg and its survivor skills in harsh environments are the most challenging constrains the team has to work with. A Zebro is a six legged swarm robot. The swarm can perform all sorts of complex search and reconnaissance tasks. The idea is that a space mission becomes more effective if an Internet-of (Swarm)Robots support bigger rovers and astronauts. A many fold of innovations are being worked on in order for the Zebro to be Lunar-ready. Challenges the teams are solving are: how to program the Zebro in such a way that it will not harm itself or others when the software is affected by radiation; how the Zebro’s can operate autonomously within a specific area on a specific task and how they communicate this amongst themselves; how the structure of the Zebro can withstand the razor sharp moon dust; how the Zebro can interact with humans on a basis of remote command; the flexibility of the sensors or extra batteries that a Zebro can carry and change when necessary.
What’s next
Many of the innovations for the Lunar Zebro are being tested and validated on various harsh locations on earth. The next step for the Lunar Zebro is to find a ride to the moon so the autonomous exploration of the moon can start!
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Life science & Health
Software tech & IS AS
TRL
Unlocking the potential of computational methods in the fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications dr. Zoltán Perkό, dr. Danny Lathouwers, Oscar Pastor Serrano (MSc), Daniel Pols (MSc), Tiberiu Burlacu (MSc)
Erasmus MC, HollandPTC, NKI, Massachusetts General Hospital, Bio engineering institute
Summary
The researcher is a computational physicist working in the fields of nuclear energy and radiation applications. His overarching goal is to improve cancer treatment and oncological care and to enhance the safety of present and future reactors by developing novel modelling tools and numerical methods. The researcher’s main focus is on how to best utilize the vast amounts of available data and how to model the associated uncertainties, such that systems can be optimized for best performance even under uncertain conditions in a computationally feasible manner. To achieve this, he relies on a long list of computational methods. A specific example of the impact of this research is in radio- and proton therapy, where the goal is to irradiate cancerous tumors in a patient as much as possible, while minimizing the dose in the surrounding healthy tissues. Since uncertainties are unavoidable during treatment and heavily affect how the body absorbs dose, we need to ensure that irradiation plans are sufficiently insensitive to them. The algorithms the researcher has developed enable the fast and accurate evaluation of the effects of such uncertainties, such that treatments can be made robust, safe and effective.
What’s next
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In radiotherapy specifically, the ultimate goal is to take a more holistic approach towards making radiation treatments as personalised as possible. Thus, we not only want to model the physics of radiation, but also its biological effects, as well as the best use of all available patient data. This requires both a wide range of biological datasets as well as the development of sophisticated computational models using them for treatment optimization and decision support.
Software tech & IS
Social Impact EEMCS
Visual analytics for sailing
TRL
ir. Marcos Pieras Sagardoy, dr. ir. Anna Vilanova, dr. ir. Ricardo Marroquim & Prof. dr. ir. Elmar Eisemann Douwe Broekens - Sailing Innovation Center, Sports Engineering Institute, European Regional Development Fund
Summary
The research field of visual analytics brings together techniques and methodologies from computer science, data analysis, visual perception, interactive and graphic design. The researchers are building a dashboard, applying visual analytics strategies, which can assist coaches to improve the performance of sailors. Often, feedback to the sailor is given based on simple data such as observations with the naked eye and measures by stopwatch which can make it difficult to understand why one performance was better than the other. With more sophisticated sensors available more data can be gathered during sailing practise runs. The complexity of the data makes it difficult to analyse directly looking at its raw numerical form. Through visual analytics solutions the coach can interactively explore complex data and get insight into multiple questions like why one run was more successful than the other and give instructions to the sailors accordingly. An initial VA system, ComVis-Sail, has been created to analyse and compare specific sailing exercise based on sensors on the boat. With a dashboard, a comparison of the temporal data produced for multiple sensors attached to boats is carried out so coaches can generate hypothesis on what causes one boat perform better than the other.
What’s next
The next step for this innovative idea is to extend current visual analytics developments by including more complex data like weather or video information. On the other hand the researchers want to increase the complexity of the tackled problems with visual analytics techniques by adding more sources of information.
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High Tech
Social impact 3ME
TRL
Plantenna – Listening to plants
dr. Satadal Dutta, dr. Gerard Verbiest and prof. dr. Peter Steeneken & AgriFood Institute dr. Elias Kaiser (WUR)
Summary
One of the innovative ideas of the Plantenna project is that researchers are able to extract physical plant-parameters by listening to plants in a novel way. Plants have been found to ‘talk’ to us: when they are very dry they will emit ultrasound and this gives us information about the condition of the plant, whether it needs water or not. The source of the sound is the nucleation or seeding of tiny air bubbles trapped in the plant’s water-carrying vessels similar to the arteries in our own body. The researchers have realized that listening to these frequencies with a special microphone tells us about the size and stiffness of these Xylem vessels. Based on this insight, they have developed a new methodology to measure the dimension of the Xylem vessels, that are essential for the plant’s transport of water and nutrients from their roots to the leaves. This provides a useful new pathway to study and control the internal development of living plants, that can improve growth and breeding of crops, flowers and fruit.
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With promising proof-of-concept results, the next step for this innovative idea is to test the method of different plant species. Further, the researchers are interested to develop cheaper and more sensitive microphones and to improve the accuracy and speed of analysing the sound from plants, across a wide range of ultrasound frequencies. Currently the researchers are looking into the possibility of using graphene, as a more sensitive material for ultrasound, high-frequency microphones.
Chem, bio & process tech AS
Social impact TPM
TRL
Safe-by-Design for Industrial Biotechnology dr. Lotte Asveld
ir. Britte Bouchaut, dr. Maria Freese and ir. Simon Tiemersma, Safety & Security Institute
Summary
The researchers are working on the innovative concept of safe-by-design for industrial biotechnology and how this can be put into researchers daily practice. In contrast to often applied add-on measures and protocols aiming for inherent safety once a product has been designed, the safe by design approach stimulates inclusion of safety at the start of each experimental design. For experimental designs that are ‘safe-by-design’ you would want to include various stakeholder perspectives as early in the design process as possible, varying from initial (experimental) designs to coming up with ideas for a product; its use, purpose, the risks etc. This is, however, a daunting task as at that moment of the research there are still so many uncertainties and unknown risks to consider. How to design for safety if the use is still unknown let alone who to engage? Hence, the researchers are developing means to stimulate responsible learning for possible stakeholders. A protocol for inherent safe design and a serious game for biosafety and biosecurity are being developed.
What’s next
Since safety is an emergent issue for policymaking, the next step for this research is to research how regulatory constrains can move or be altered with the pace of biotechnological developments. Addressing questions such as how new knowledge can be generated whilst safety is also taken into account. How can the frontier of science be pushed without taking unnecessary risks? Besides, there is little incentives for researchers to research the risk of their work. This would also be a next step.
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Robotics
Software tech & IS CEG
TRL
EEMCS
Preventing fruit from frost damage prof. dr. ir. Bas van de Wiel
dr. ir. Marie-Claire ten Veldhuis, prof. dr. Kofi Makinwa, dr. Qinwen Fan and Vincent Heusinkveld MSc & Climate Institute
Summary
When it freezes in spring, sprinkling water over fruit trees is a commonly used method for protecting the fragile flower buds in most of the Netherlands. In some case, this method is successful. Unfortunately, it is costly and has an impact on farmers families, which have to stay awake all night. Besides, this method is limited by the ground water level and quality (not to salt) and cannot be applied everywhere. However, little is known about the effectiveness of such of these methods. By linking numeric modelling with field experiments the researcher aims to assess the effectiveness of the various known frost preventing measures. Field experiments with huge ventilators in an orchard have shown that they are very efficient in mixing colder and warmer air layers. Through a spider web of glass fibers in the field they could map the temperature response due to ventilator operation. The numerical models allowed the researcher to determine which interventions – rotation speed or location - increased the effectiveness of the ventilator. Subsequently, the researchers are also developing an app which could map the temperature field, real time, based on tiny autonomous sensors that are located in the field. Such an app is suggested to support farmers in making decisions on when and where to initiate frost prevention measures.
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The next step is to create an Internet of Plants. Through small sensors in the field the microclimate for each plant can be determined. Based on this data farmers can be equipped with a tool which can image the temperature of the field, for both extreme cold or warm weather making the traditional weather station redundant. For the design of the ventilators taking environmental factors into account would be next. The ventilators could become smaller and producing less noise so a construction permit is no longer required.
Energy
Software tech & IS EEMCS
Orchestrating Smart Charging Electric Vehicles in mass deployment
TRL
ir. Yunhe Yu
dr. ir. Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli, dr.ir. Aditya Shekhar & Prof. dr. Pavol Bauer, Powerweb Institute
Summary
With Electric Vehicles (EV) becoming more common on the road there is also an increase of charging demand to the current power grid. The most convenient way of charging your vehicle is uncontrolled charging, which is to have it start charging once it is connected to a charger so the battery is full when you need the car again. However, the current low voltage distribution grid is not designed to have so many EV’s charging at the same time next to the existing power demand e.g. households or offices. The aim is to build a hierarchical multi-functional algorithm whose job is to schedule the EV charging smartly. The algorithm is to fulfill the charging request process of a large amount of EV’s while preventing congestion of the grid, reducing the charging cost, increasing the local renewable energy utilization as well as providing grid regulation service. The algorithm will work on two levels. On the local level it will optimize the EV charging process based on the electricity price and the local information, the base load demand and the EV requirements. On the central level the algorithm will coordinate with the local level to match the total demand with the capacity of the whole grid. Many practical limitations such as the communication protocol restriction and the data availability are not considered in the existing charging scheduling algorithms.
What’s next
The next step for the research is to improve the functionality of the algorithm and to verify the algorithm through hardware in the loop testing. In the end, an intelligent algorithm will be developed.
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Software tech & IS 3ME
TRL
Robots among humans: safe and socially intuitive navigation dr. Javier Alonso-Mora
Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions, Robotics Institute
Summary
In environments that become smarter every day, robots will increasingly share this space with humans and other robots while executing their tasks autonomously. For example, intelligent vehicles will provide mobility on-demand and autonomous boats and drones will perform environmental monitoring. These tasks require them to move in a complex, uncertain and changing environments. The challenge for these robots is to behave in such a way that it is safe and socially intuitive. The researcher aims to develop novel control and coordination methods that grant high performance and demonstrate safe motion through changing, dynamic and crowded environments. The researcher is looking at two scenarios. The first one is when robots and humans can explicitly communicate and coordination is achieved via distributed constrained optimization. Since not all agents will explicitly communicate with the robot, think of a biker or a pedestrian, the researcher is also focusing on methods for communication-less implicit coordination based on intentions and movement. Here the researcher employs machine learning to model the interaction and provide guidance for a motion planner, which then computes a trajectory for the robot that is safe, satisfies the task and respect its dynamics.
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To bring the interaction of these robots to a next level further improvements in the underlying models are required. For this we need understanding of the trade-offs of trajectory optimization, machine learning and cognitive sciences. For the latter, the researcher is discussing collaborations with social science researchers. Human behaviour is incredibly complex and predicting behaviour is full of uncertainties, how can such behaviour be incorporated in the model and in autonomous navigation methods?
Aerospace EEMCS
AE
Orbiting low frequency array (OLFAR)
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dr. ir. Raj Thilak Rajan
dr.ir. Chris Verhoeven, Prof. dr. ir. Eberhard Gill, dr. Jian Guo, Prof. dr. ir. Alle-Jan van der Veen, Space Institute
Summary
One of the last unexplored frequency ranges in radio astronomy is the frequency band below 30 MHz. Because of the ionospheric scintillation below ~30 MHz and the opaqueness of the ionosphere below ~15 MHz, earth-bound radio astronomy observations would be severely limited in sensitivity and spatial resolution, or would be entirely impossible. A radio telescope in space would not be hampered by the earth’s ionosphere, but up till now such a telescope was technologically not feasible. However, extrapolation of current technological advancements in signal processing and small satellite systems imply that distributed low frequency radio telescopes in space could become feasible. Only a distributed aperture synthesis telescope-array would be a practical solution. In addition, there are great reliability and scalability advantages by distributing the control and signal processing over the entire telescope array. The researchers aim to build a distributed autonomous system of small satellites for space-based radio astronomy, with on-board antennas for very low radio frequencies. The satellite swarm will collect valuable science data on the quiet far-side of the Moon, and transmit the data down to Earth while in the near-side.
What’s next
An extension of the OLFAR proposal, namely the NSO-NWO funded PIPP-OLFAR consortium is currently active (2018- present). This consortium comprises of over 15 research organizations and industries across The Netherlands, and is working on fundamental technological challenges in spacebased interferometry at ultra-long wavelengths e.g., antenna design, radio systems, on-board science data processing, navigation, communication and orbital dynamics of satellite swarms.
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Energy
Chem, bio & process tech 3ME
TRL
Electrocatalysis for Energy Storage & Conversion dr. Ruud Kortlever e-refinery Initiative
Summary
The researcher focusses on electrochemical conversions that are relevant for renewable fuel production and the electrification of the chemical industry, for instance the conversion of CO2 into valuable chemicals. More specifically, his research focusses on the electrocatalysts that are involved in these conversions. Current catalysts exhibit high overpotentials; meaning you have to invest more energy for the reaction to take place than theoretically needed. He tries to get a better understanding of how electrocatalyst work in order to develop novel catalysts that can more efficiently speed up electrochemical conversions. He aims to develop novel stable, more selective and cheaper catalysers by manipulating the position of the various atoms in catalytic particles so we no longer have to use scarce earth materials in their design. Besides designing catalysts for electrochemical processes he aims to develop sequential catalytic processes to produce chemicals for which we currently don’t have such an process. The major advantage of turning thermochemical conversions into electrochemical ones is that you would only need electricity to run the process at an ambient pressure and temperature, leading to possibly smaller, more energy efficient and safer factories.
What’s next
The next step for this research is to find the optimal process conditions for the developed catalysts and to subsequently integrate them into an (industrial) reactor for it. For a further scale-up of these reactors the research would benefit from more contacts with industry so they can be applied in a relevant environment.
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Social impact
Energy
TPM
Unravelling the impact of using TRL alternative raw materials in industrial clusters Prof. dr. Andrea Ramirez Ramirez e-refinery Initiative
Summary
The researcher works on system analysis of mainly industrial related systems. By assessing technologies in large scale scenario’s the researcher can identify potential bottlenecks early on and bring back these insights to the people working in the lab, contributing to shape how technologies develop. This analysis becomes more complex when you also take into account that the processes do not stand alone but are part intertwined industrial clusters. Because of these interconnections, any change in the quality, amount or type of (by)products will have repercussion beyond individual plants. Understanding these “domino” impacts requires assessing technologies in the larger context. The researcher is developing a methodology to analyse the impact of replacing fossil fuels with alternative raw materials in petrochemical industrial clusters. The novel approach is adapting concepts from invasion ecology to assess the impact on resources, energy and costs at the plant and the cluster level. The work integrates knowledge generated in different disciplines, from chemical engineering where work is carried out to develop process models of technologies and assess their techno-economic performance, and from industrial ecology where research is conducted to understand the development of industrial systems.
What’s next
The current research looks at what is technically feasible when replacing fossil fuels as raw material in petrochemical clusters and assesses the costs and environmental impacts. The next step will be to look into the kind of institutions, policies and regulations that need to be in place to make a full transition to a fossil free chemical industry happen.
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Energy
Social impact EEMCS
TRL
Integrated Smart power hub for solar, electric vehicle, battery and heat pump
ir. Wiljan Vermeer, dr. ir. Gautham Ram Chandra Mouli, prof. dr. Pavol Bauer Power Research Electronics, Stedin, Alfen, Powerweb Institute
Summary
The ongoing electrification of how we heat our homes and how we fuel our cars will cause a massive increase in electric energy demand. At the same time more energy is generated by renewable resources such as solar panels. Our current grid is unable to deal with the higher demand on the on hand and the unpredictability of the availability of renewable energy on the other. The researcher aims to utilize the flexibility within the building’s energy management system to optimally use the electric energy from the solar panels, the electric vehicle, the batteries and the heat pump. One of the key points in the project is that all converters are integrated into one single multi-port power converter as part of the energy management system. This multi-port converter is controlled by an optimization algorithm which will constantly monitor data such as sunlight forecasts, the amount of electricity is required and the price of energy. The aim is to reduce the total cost of energy in order to incentivize prosumers, taking into account li-ion battery degradation and ancillary services such as frequency or voltage regulation.
What’s next
For this innovation to become truly attractive to be used by prosumers there is a need for changing how energy is priced. Currently consumers only pay for the amount of energy they use and not for how much power they draw from the grid. Another next step is for construction companies to adapt the technology and start installing it in newly build homes.
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Materials
Social impact CEG
Return plastic back to the same manufacturer
TRL
dr. Pingping Wen & dr. Benjamin Megevand Prof. dr. Peter Rem, Circularity Institute
Summary
Plastic recycling can only become circular when it is possible to separate plastic flakes based on their chemical composition. If the flakes don’t have the exact same properties re-melting them into new plastics will result in the loss of the good properties of the plastic and in value. The researchers aim to develop a cheap and efficient solution, that can be massively used solution through which plastic can be recycled on such a specific recipe basis using available ‘low’ technologies for measurement. To be able to recognize the recipe of a plastic flake the researcher is using infra-red spectroscopy scanning the various flakes. By comparing the properties with the IR spectra the researcher aims to build a fingerprint library for each type of plastic. For sorting on this small scale we need to deal with a huge amount of flakes at the same time which asks for high resolution, accuracy and efficiency of the extracting process. Using a technology which is similar to our ink jet printer the researcher is able to target the desired flakes because it is precisely controlled, separating wanted flakes from the rest. He is building a giant water droplet printer which can be controlled as a normal printer.
What’s next
The next step is to integrate the two technologies; so a sensor which can read the fingerprints will precisely steer the droplet printer to remove the wanted flakes from the mixture. And once that is done we need to build a fast sorting plant for plastic.
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Life science & Health
Software tech & IS 3ME
Preventing Injuries by baseball and tennis players
TRL
Prof. dr. DirkJan Veeger, ir. Bart van Trigt, Ton Leenen MSc
Prof. dr. Frans van der Helm, dr. Marco Hoozemans & Sports Engineering Institute
Summary
An increasing number of people play sports such as tennis or baseball. Where more training can help to increase a player’s overall performance, it also increases the risk for injury. Currently, movement can be captured by marking the bony landmarks of a player and subsequently capturing the player’s movement with cameras from different kinds of angles. Although these measurements are very accurate, the set-up has to be very precise and is very time consuming. Hence, not ideal in a sports training setting. The researchers aim to develop a special shirt or sleeve that can measure the performance of tennis and baseball players. By equipping a shirt with special sensors that can measure the acceleration and angular velocity of a pitcher they develop a new method for capturing body motion. By combining the motion data of players with questionnaires over time in which users report their physical condition and injuries the researchers want to develop a feedback mechanism that can help both player and trainer to find the balance between enhancing performance and reducing injury risk.
What’s next
The next step is to make a shirt with a feedback module that is easy to use for players who want to improve and monitor their performance whilst reducing injuries.
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Aerospace
Energy AE
Multidimensional non-linear optical spectroscopy in reactive flows
TRL
dr. Alexis Bohlin
Bio Engineering Institute
Summary
The researcher is engaged in investigating chemically reactive flows that can help to make propulsion systems or other combustion processes more “green” and sustainable. The researcher develops innovative and powerful non-linear optical spectroscopy techniques to be applied in harsh measurement environments such as turbulent flows, flames, and plasmas. His expertise lies in diagnostics development for chemically reactive flows to quantify scalars such as temperature, pressure, and species concentrations. One technique which he uses frequently is Coherent Anti-Stokes Raman Spectroscopy (abbreviated CARS). With this technique he is able to measure non-intrusively, without perturbing what needs to be measured. His innovative idea has allowed him to measure in a plane instead of a single point. The beauty of this type of imaging is that it allows for more rich information to be obtained, as most all thermo-chemical processes (diffusion, mixing, and energy transfer) depend on the context in which it takes place.
What’s next
The next step for this innovative idea is to expand the CARS measurement capability into more dimensions (up to 5D!) and specialize it for quantification of hydrogen and carbon dioxide. This would allow to gain unique insight at those thermochemical processes involved for generating heat release with non-conventional fuels which is of outmost importance in the current energy transition.
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Social impact
Structural engineering AE
TRL
CEG
3ME
Learning from Failures ir. Michiel Schuurman
dr. Calvin Rans, dr. ir. Karel Terwel & dr. ir. Arjo Loeve & Safety & Security Institute
Summary
The aim of this research is to develop methods through which researchers and engineers are enticed to learn from failures of their design and if needed make changes accordingly. Because when you understand what caused the failure, a similar event can be prevented. As an accident investigation researcher he tries to combine theoretical knowledge with more practical or hands-on experience. Using forensic engineering techniques, which are the corner stone of learning from failure, knowledge and understanding is gained for the future. Through a novel approach, by combining these two aspects the researcher wants to provide the necessary tools to trigger a more critical reflection on the design, the choices made and potential (unforeseen) consequences in practice by unravelling the details of why an accident occurred. As an example, TU Delft Dream teams who develop and test future investigation techniques. With DREAM team’s taking on challenges and developing future technologies things can go wrong. So when an accident by one of the Dream team’s occurs – which can be big or small – it is a learning opportunity to prevent future failures. By assisting the teams in learning from failure, this will help in getting knowledge in making designs safer for the future.
What’s next
With an increased demand for safety in design the researcher hopes to one the hand educate as many engineers as possible who will use this critical thinking approach from learning from previous failures towards future designs and on the other hand to develop a Delft Safety Board in which accident research can be formalised with TU Delft.
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Materials
Structural engineering CEG
Tagging concrete aggregates for circularity
TRL
dr. Francesco Di Maio
Bio Engineering Institute dr. Abraham Gebremariam, Ali Vahidi MSc, Prof. dr. Peter Rem; Circularity Institute
Summary
The main target of the researchers is to make the use of concrete circular. In order to do this, you need to develop not only innovative technologies that can break down and separate concrete waste into its various components but also make sure that the product satisfies consumer needs by explicitly displaying the quality of the product. To achieve circularity, it is essential to provide the customer with the guarantee that what they buy is what they get. Therefore, the researchers developed a process through which the quality of the aggregate can be traced throughout the value chain. The innovative idea is that each ton of recycled aggregate is tagged by mixing in a small information carrier tags that stores the same information as the platform. By checking the tags, the customers can review if what was delivered is what they wanted. The tags do not affect the properties of the newly produced concrete and, in the end, can also be traced in the new construction. Furthermore, with the available information on the quality of the aggregate, it is possible to match the needed quality requirement for your construction with the matching quality of the aggregates. This extends the choice of how the materials are being used to diversifying resource flows.
What’s next
Currently, this new technology is being validated in a large EU project. The next step for the tracing and tagging of aggregates is for the construction sector to implement this technology in their way of working so it can become standard practice to buy and use certified recycled materials. Another additional next step could also be to provide customers with advice on how to optimize the use of the recycled aggregate based on its quality properties.
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High Tech
Social impact AS
TRL
CARLA dr. Aurèle Adam
Coordinator ICFO (Spain) and 9 others EU Partners, Dutch Optics Centre
Summary
Photonics has been coined as a key enabling technology for the future. It is the physical science that focusses on all aspects of light – not only the visible light - and its technical applications. Think about the barcode scanner which is used to scan your groceries at the cashier, LiDAR sensors for your autonomous driving car, laser surgery or glass fiber internet. This technology affects many different aspects of our daily life. Hence, there is a need for a lot of people with knowledge or interest in this area. Not only to do research but also to design, build, repair or operate systems that have photonic components and to consider photonics as an option for solving problems. CARLA is an innovative Career hub for photonics. Through an iterative process of a series of meetings it aims to bring together people from all sorts of different backgrounds in 11 European countries. By bring together people from industry, start-ups, knowledge institutes and government it aims to attract students – not only university level – PhD’s and postdocs to consider to invest some time in learning about photonics as an advancement to their career.
What’s next
Once an attractive formula for bringing together people around Photonics has been unravelled per country the aim is to continue with bringing people together and creating a community more visible.
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Fieldlabs Fieldlabs are interesting innovation instruments. They are real life testing sites where various parties collaborate to develop, test, learn to implement and scale-up new ttechnologies for commercial applications. These labs bring researchers, students, entrepreneurs and companies together. Check out in which ones the TU Delft participates.
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SAM|XL (Smart Advanced Manufacturing XL) is a collaborative research centre where technology is being developed, demonstrated, and de-risked for automated manufacture of large-size lightweight composite parts for aircraft, wind turbine blades, spacecraft and maritime applications.
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19. Digital Factory for Composites
The Digital Composite Factory (DFC) is a facility for open and cross-sectoral innovation in the business of Digital Manufacturing and composites. In the DFC, new technology for automation and digital production for composites is being developed and demonstrated.
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20. Amsterdam Institute for Metropolitan Solutions
AMS Institute is an internationally leading institute where talent is educated and engineers, designers, and both natural and social scientists jointly develop and valorize integrated metropolitan solutions.
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A fieldlab where various innovations that can temper the effects of extreme heat and drought can be tested and demonstrated.
23. Digicampus
The place where government, market, scientist and citizens design and create tomorrows public services.
24. Aerospace Innovation Hub
A pre-incubator facility within the Aerospace Engineering faculty @TU Delft where student entrepreneurs, researchers and industry work together to innovate aerospace.
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Index Index by TRL TRL 1: pages 20, 21 TRL 2: pages 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28 TRL 3: pages 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 TRL 4: pages 26, 27, 28, 29, 35, 36, 38, 39 TRL 5: pages 27, 28, 29, 35, 36, 38 TRL 6: pages 27, 28, 29, 42, 43
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Index by Theme Aerospace Page: 27, 35, 41
Life Science & Health Page: 21, 23, 24, 28, 40
Chemistry, bio- & process technology Page: 21, 31, 36, 37
Materials Page: 26, 39, 43
Energy Page: 33, 36, 37, 38, 41
Robotics Page: 27, 32, 34
High Tech Page: 26, 27, 30, 44
Social Impact Page: 2 0, 25, 29, 30, 31, 37, 38, 39, 42, 44 Software Technology & Intelligent Systems Page: 22, 24, 28, 29, 32 Structural Engineering Page: 42, 43
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Colophon December 2020 Production: TU Delft | Valorisation Centre Text & Editing: Susanne Sleenhoff Jurjen Slump Ruth de Vries Cartoons: CVIII Ontwerpers – Erwin Suvaal Illustration fieldlabs: Kia/Shop Around Photo, page 9: Marc Blommaert Design: Erik Huijing Carretero Layout & Print: lizzil creative
About the cover: The cartoon on the cover depicts an updated version of the Myth of Prometheus in which he brought a flame from the Mount Olympus to the people enabling progress and civilisation. Because of this, Prometheus is sometimes considered as the first engineer, and is an important symbol for the university.
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Research at the Delft University of Technology is characterised by its inter- and multidisciplinary thinking spread across science, engineering and sesign disciplines. With ground breaking research we intent to make significant contributions to a sustainable society. Aiming to enhance collaboration with external partners this booklet presents a small selection of ideas that are being developed in Delft.
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