News and Agenda Open menu 07 June 2021 World Ocean Day: Autonomous robot system picks up litter from ocean floor TU Delft is working with seven other partners on an autonomous system for cleaning the ocean floor. This system consists of a surface vehicle with two underwater robots, which are going to identify and collect litter from the ocean floor. Now that the crucial gripper component of the system has been completed, the SeaClear system is almost ready for field testing. Read more 18 May 2021 TU Delft and Volvo collaborating on Prognostics for new generation of trucks Now it is time for trucks to join the transition to zero emission, and uptime is key to make this a success. In a new research project with the Volvo Group, Riccardo Ferrari of the Delft Centre for Systems and Control is looking to improve service life through predictive analytics. Read more 30 April 2021 TU Delft starts ‘Wind Farm Flow Control Project’ Together with CrossWindHKN Siemens Gamesa Eneco GROW offshore wind a group of researchers led by professor Jan-Willem Van Wingerden TU Delft have started the work on the "Dynamic Wind Farm Flow Control" project. This project focuses on reducing the wake effect by using real-time data that will contribute to a more constant electricity production. Read more 22 April 2021 ERC Advanced grants for TU Delft researchers Two TU Delft researchers have been awarded an ERC Advanced Grant. Read more 22 April 2021 ERC Advanced Grant for smarter control of energy and transportation networks In the future, we will see an increasing number of smart transportation and energy networks. However, online control of these large and complex networks is still far from optimal. Researcher Bart De Schutter has received a EUR 2.5 million ERC Advanced Grant from the European Union to tackle this problem over the next five years. Read more 23 March 2021 SeaClear project develops the first autonomous robots for underwater litter collection Today's oceans contain 26-66 million tons of waste, with approximately 94% located on the seafloor. So far, collection efforts have focused mostly on surface waste, with only a few local efforts to gather underwater waste, always using human divers. No solution exists that exploits autonomous robots for underwater litter collection; the SeaClear project will develop the first. Check this animation to explore how are we planning to achieve this ambitious goal! Read more 24 February 2021 TU Delft develops 'brains' for buildings A large consortium led by TU Delft is going to provide ‘brains’ to buildings. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy has allocated 6.9 million euro to the Brains 4 Buildings project. Read more 12 January 2021 World record on the single-channel data rate of a standard optical fiber The fiber-optic communication systems carry 99% of today’s internet traffic. These systems are under pressure due to an exponential rise in the bandwidth-hungry such as video conferencing, HD video streaming and online gaming. In order to increase data-carrying capacity of networks while keeping a lower labor and economic cost, researchers and industries around the world are working hard to achieve higher capacity per fiber. Read more 03 September 2020 ERC Starting Grant for Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, researcher at Delft Centre for Systems and Control. The grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work. Read more 31 July 2020 TU Delft research partner in innovative wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord As the research partner in the so-called Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) project, TU Delft is playing a significant role. Once the wind farm has been built, researchers, led by Professor Jan-Willem van Wingerden, will be able to test their findings regarding wind energy in practice, and the amount of energy generated by the wind farm will be maximised. Read more Page 1 Page 2 You are on page 3 Page 4 Page 5 Page 6 April 30 Final Colloquium Sjors van Veldhoven May 01 Lunch colloquium by Hubald Verzijl (LUMC) 01 Midterm Colloquium Abdulkayum Mukhamedov 03 Midterm colloquium Christian Vorage 15 Final Colloquium Thom Kusters 16 Midterm Colloquium Jeroen Mulder 21 Midterm colloquium Casper van Peijpe June 19 Final Colloquium Casper van Peijpe More events Share this page: Facebook Linkedin Twitter Email WhatsApp Share this page