Effective radiofrequency ablation for patients affected by cardiac arrhythmias corresponds to significant and long-term improvements in their quality of life and a significant reduction in the risk of sudden cardiac death. These procedures do not always succeed, primarily due to the inability to precisely and accurately navigate a catheter inside the heart. By enabling the precise control of a flexible catheter using external magnetic ...

In order to enable future generations to lead a decent life, human consumption of natural resources and impacts on the environment must urgently be reduced. A cornerstone among all human activities is food consumption, which is responsible for roughly one third of all environmental impacts of consumption. The food supply chain is inefficient, as present studies estimate roughly one third of the edible food to be wasted globally. There are ...

The aim of the thesis is to introduce and develop a part-to-part control algorithm which only uses the settings of the press as control variables. As a state variable, the draw-in is evaluated based on simulations. In addition, the simulations of a kitchen sink are chosen as a baseline model for the design of a possible control algorithm. For the baseline model, variant simulations are carried out in AutoForm and LS-Dyna to evaluate ...