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Quantitative Analysis of Football Goalkeeper Positioning
(2023)With football clubs facing challenges related to quantitatively analysing goalkeepers’ perfor- mances, the niche of goalkeeper analytics literature emerged. While previous research touched upon goalkeepers’ positioning, no exhaustive, quantitative analysis of optimal goalkeeper posi- tioning has been conducted yet. This thesis aims to fill this knowledge gap by finding ways to determine a presumably optimal goalkeeper position based on ...Master Thesis -
Evaluating the potential Extended Producer Responsibility returns for plastic-packaging riverine waste in Durban, South Africa
(2023)The right to a healthy and non-harmful environment is deeply anchored in the South African Bill of Rights. The Environmental Right on Section 24 states that: “Everyone has the right a) to an environment that is not harmful to their health or well-being; and b) to have the environment protected, for the benefit of present and future generation through reasonable legislative and other measures that...” This specifically imposes the ...Master Thesis -
Vergleichende Analytik von Spurenelementen und toxischen Metallen in humanem Probenmaterial
(2022)Nach Genehmigung durch die Ethikkommission der ETH Zürich erfolgte im Rahmen dieser Studie die Rekrutierung von insgesamt 83 Teilnehmenden, heterogen bezüglich Alter, Geschlecht, Rauchgewohnheiten und der Einnahme von Spurenelementen. Das Probenmaterial in Form von Venösem Blut (Vollblut, Erythrozyten, Serum) und Kopfhaar wird auf acht (Ultra-)Spurenelemente analysiert, und zwar jeweils auf vier toxische (--> As, Pb, Cd, Hg) sowie vier ...Master Thesis -
Optimal Stock Option Trading Strategies
(2022)Over the past decades, interest in finance, and more particularly interest in the evolution as well as the prediction of the markets, exploded. One aim that the automatic control laboratory at ETH Zürich would want to achieve is to use some of the robotic optimization models and to apply them to finance. During this internship, I only worked on the financial part of the problem. The main goal of my internship was to create some predictions ...Master Thesis -
Sizing, Cost, and Emissions of Vehicle to Grid Coupled PV at District Scale
(2022)This thesis investigates the potential of PV and V2G coupling for the city of Singapore. Using Singapore’s 55 planning areas as spatial unit an optimization model is developed to determine economically optimal PV scaling and charge/discharge strategies. Mobility flows between planning areas are assessed using a large set of mobile phone records, and local electricity demand and solar potentials are modeled using a bottomup approach based ...Master Thesis -
Improving Local Ocean Currents Forecasts with Data Assimilation and Deep Learning Techniques
(2022)Farming fast-growing seaweed on the ocean and sinking the biomass to the ocean floor is a promising approach for carbon removal to stabilize our climate. To make this economically viable, these seaweed farms must be floating and operating autonomously with very low propulsion, mainly leveraging the ocean currents for low energy propulsion. To achieve their control objective, i.e., maximizing seaweed growth, such farms need to plan how ...Master Thesis -
Texture Optimization for 6 DoF Pose Estimation
(2022)6 DoF pose estimation from monocular RGB images is one of the fundamental tasks in computer vision. However, its accuracy is often limited due to the lack of textures on the objects. In this thesis, we present a novel method to optimize the textures of the objects for pose estimation tasks. Our method is based on deep learning, and we use an end-to-end pipeline to optimize the object’s texture and the pose estimator simultaneously. The ...Master Thesis -
Scalable adaptive model predictive control with parameterized tubes
(2022)This work considers linear systems with uncertain parameters and additive disturbance. Two frameworks for the adaptive model predictive controller (MPC) with different tube parameterizations are introduced to guarantee robustness for uncertain parameters and disturbances. The set membership identification approach, which uses a membership set to bound the uncertain parameter set, is applied to reduce the uncertainty. Moreover, a method ...Master Thesis -
Fusing Query Compilation and Code Generation through Multi-level Rewrite Strategies
(2022)Generating platform-specific machine code for query compilation is commonly applied in database management systems in two stages: First, the query compiler optimizes a given query plan on the relational level, then it hands it off to a general-purpose compiler that generates optimized machine code. In such a compilation stack, many optimizations such as dead code elimination are implemented twice: both in the query compiler and in the ...Master Thesis -