Mastergradsoppgaver i datateknologi og beregningsorienterte ingeniørfag: Recent submissions
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Evaluation of the impact of recycled concrete aggregates on the durability of concrete
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-26)The building industry has one of the most significant contributions to global warming due to the production of building materials, transportation, building activities and demolition of structures. When the buildings and structures reach the end of their life-span, they are commonly demolished, and debrice is landfield or backfilled if it is evaluated as non-contaminated inert construction and ... -
Vision-based Robotic Grasping in Simulation using Deep Reinforcement Learning
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)This thesis will investigate different robotic manipulation and grasping approaches. It will present an overview of robotic simulation environments, and offer an evaluation of PyBullet, CoppeliaSim, and Gazebo, comparing various features. The thesis further presents a background for current approaches to robotic manipulation and grasping by describing how the robotic movement and grasping can be ... -
Drone Swarm Simulator
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)This thesis is about the research of available and development of drone swarm simulators. The simulator in this work, developed with the AirSim plugin for Unreal Engine 4, shows that there is a possibility of a real-time, accurate simulator with high graphical quality. -
Investigating representation of tablature data for NLP music prediction
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)In this thesis, the ability of CharRNN models learning to compose guitar music using varying representations of guitar tablature is explored. I utilize a well-versed sequential model of LSTM cells, and investigate the ability of said model to input, and predict both character to character, and sequence to sequence, following the principles of natural language processing and music information ... -
Learning social codes for self-interested agents
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2021-05-18)This thesis will explore interaction between non-supervised machinelearning agents, with a focus on traffic situations. We intend to showthat self-interested agents can arrive at mutually beneficial strategiesaccording to general game theory, achieving pure or mixed Nash equi-libria, and that this has practical applications for unmanned vehicles.We will start by verifying against simple one stage ... -
Meshless Animation Framework
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2020-06-07)This report details the implementation of a meshless animation framework for blending surfaces. The framework is meshless in the sense that only the control points are handled on the CPU, and the surface evaluation is delegated to the GPU using the tessellation shader steps. The framework handles regular grids and some forms of irregular grids. Different ways of handling the evaluation of ... -
Design of an expandable junk catcher
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-06-15)"This report describes phase I of the project ""Design of an expandable junk catcher"", which is carried out on behalf of Qinterra Technologies, Department of Plugs & Packers in Narvik, as a part of the subject SHO6263 Diploma thesis M-ID. The main purpose of the project is to develop a new type of well intervention equipment to solve the problem of unwanted residue from debris on temporary installed ... -
Optimized cardiac simulation as a tool to understand patient specific mechanical function
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)The muscular tissue of the heart is able to contract in the absence of external load. This behaviour is stimulated by a spontaneous electrical depolarization of cardiac cells in the sinoatrial node, which spreads electrical activation through the whole heart, that triggers the synchronized mechanical contraction of the heart muscle. This phenomenon, referred to as active contraction is commonly ... -
Wind turbine and ice breaking
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)The arctic climate imposes the challenge of ice accretion on the blades of the wind turbine created by the atmospheric ice. Over time, the ice build-up causes ice shedding which can do structural damage to the wind turbine. The process involving ice breaking and shedding is not well understood. This document explains the mechanical properties of ice such as density, coefficient of thermal expansion, ... -
Elevator model. Design of an elevator model for teaching in the field of automation
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)For the master of Engineering Design at UiT, the arctic university of Norway, campus Narvik, a master assignment is being executed as a conclusion to the study. In this case the department of industrial automation education had an elevator model design assignment that could be done by an Engineering Design student. This report describes a summary of the design process that has been executed and the ... -
Working Chair for Physically Disabled Children
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)A product development process was initiated with the purpose of designing a saddle seat working chair for physically disabled children on behalf of Fysionord AB. An objectives tree diagram was made using Mindomo.com. Sub-functions in existing solutions were listed, leading to the discovery of four modules, constituting the working chair: footrest, seat, backrest and undercarriage with wheels. The ... -
Detecting attacks on servers using machine learning models
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)With today's storage of information moving from paper to physical hard drives and the cloud, safety of these new information platforms are of great importance. Today an average server suffers several instances of abuse weekly, or even daily. The purpose of this project is to design a system for detecting abusive data traffic coming to or from a server by using machine learning algorithms. Also of ... -
Automatic verification of UI tests
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)The purpose of this thesis is to investigate whether or not it is possible to perform automatic verification of UI Tests using Neural Networks. The problem being looked at is variance tied to the operating system, graphics card, or other hardware. This can cause false positives during UI testing, and thus we wanted to find a solution that could learn to ignore this, while still verifying the result. ... -
Design Proposal for a Software Tool for Speech Therapy. Modern Application Structure of Visual Speech Therapy App for Children
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2019-06-28)This thesis describes results of study into development of a Visual Speech Therapy tool for therapy of speech impediments. It describes what Visual Speech Therapy tools are, their benefits, and what tools are available on the market. Main focus being therapy for children and teenagers with dysarthria, hearing problems, and functional speech impediments. After introducing the therapy tools it presents ... -
Study of area use and floor space occupation in office buildings using ML approach
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-08-16)This thesis presents a general model to estimate the number of people at office spaces in the given time step. This project represents the description of the several approaches for similar problems, general description of statistical and machine learning models and applying those models for specific building. This work is also cover some suggested dashboards to keep track of space usage. The flowing ... -
Distributed Management of Resources in a Smart City using Multi-Agent Systems (MAS)
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-08-17)This document describes study of distributed management of resources in the context of Smart City with support of multi-agent systems. The investigated points include theoretical concepts of Smart City and application of multi-agent systems, decentralized and centralized designs for agent-based solutions and aspects of interactions between different self-interested agents. The document explores ... -
Detection and prediction of falls among elderly people using walkers
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-08-17)Falls of elderly people are big health burden, especially for long-term consequence. Yet we already have research, describing how exactly elderly fall and reasons of falls. We aimed to develop means that could not only detect falls and send alerts to relatives and doctors to conquer one of the biggest fears of elderly to fall and do not have the ability to call for help, but also tried to implement ... -
Wire Gear for Small Rotary Actuator intended for Low Earth Orbit Applications.
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2018-08-16)In this master thesis, a small rotary actuator with wire driveline intendent for space solutions is developed and tested. The replication of the environment with focus on surface friction, surface roughness, and more dynamical related features are considered. Features like temperature, vibration, radiation and more are excluded to limit the size. This because the field of interest in this iteration ... -
Modelling and simulating a hybrid electric vehicle
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-06-12)This thesis presents an overview of the different types of hybrid electric vehicle structures and basic guidelines regarding choice of components. The simulation model of a hybrid electric vehicle was created for this thesis to investigate the impact on fuel efficiency in relation to rolling resistance coefficient and vehicle weight. Although the model is not designed for optimal engine operation, ... -
Transition to DC distribution grids
(Master thesis; Mastergradsoppgave, 2017-08-15)"The war between AC and DC has emerged once again due to the rapid development and advancement of electric power technologies. Nowadays, power electronics and DC/DC converters are able to change voltage levels, which could only be achieved by an AC transformer hundred years ago. Rising trend development of electric vehicle and renewable energy technology have led to an urgency for re-evaluation of ...