The redesign of CPAP supplies for the Circular Economy: A product service system as a modular solution

The business wide objective of Philips regarding the transition to the circular economy is among others, that 15% of the total revenue should be from circular revenue from products and services by 2020.Patients with Obstructive Sleep Apnea Syndrome use a CPAP machine at home to keep their airways open during sleep. The Sleep & Respiratory...

Learning kinematic models using a single tele-demonstration

To successfully perform manipulation tasks in an unknown environment, a robot must be able to learn the kinematic constraints of the objects within this environment. Over the years, many studies have investigated the possibility to learn the kinematic models of articulated objects using a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approach. In the...

Increasing Task-Sharing Performance by Haptically Assisting a Tunnel-in-the-Sky Approach

To investigate the effects of haptic feedback on the task-sharing performance during approach when using a Tunnel-in- the-Sky display, a within-subject simulated experiment with 12 participants was conducted in the SIMONA Research Simulator at Delft University of Technology. The experiment consisted of a primary Tunnel-in-the-Sky tracking task,...

A new Madiba: Redesign of a posture support wheelchair in less resourced settings

This report is the result of a graduation project executed at the Delft University of Technology for the company Shonaquip, situated in Cape Town. The most important parties that are involved in this project are the University, Shonaquip, Sander Projects and me. The context of the new wheelchair is South Africa, where also a part of the design...