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Vogel, Ricardo (author)
Several useful technologies to help people with dementia already exist. Robotic pets, for example, have been shown to alleviate negative symptoms associated with dementia. Most robotic pets, however, only have pet-like functionality. This is useful on its own, but adding additional care functionality would be helpful. A different useful tool for...
master thesis 2024
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van der Linden, Jesse (author)
The increasing presence of robots calls for a more seamless and information-rich communication method between humans and robots. This paper explores how natural user interface (NUI) modalities, particularly speech and gesture controls, can be used through augmented reality (AR) to operate robots. The increasing presence of robots calls for...
master thesis 2024
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Lee, Hyunmin (author)
The hospitality industry, struggling with significant staff shortages, has increasingly turned to service robots as a solution. However, the prevalent service robot’s design with anthropomorphic appearance is considered inharmonious with the fine-dining restaurant ambiance and may harm the guests’ perception of the service. An alternative...
master thesis 2024
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Ravenberg, Jevon (author)
In this work, we propose a method of processing patient input on discomfort level during robot shoulder physiotherapy into discomfort maps. These maps represent the patient's discomfort distribution throughout the range of motion of the shoulder, interpretable by both physiotherapists and robots. This method consists of three parts: the patient...
master thesis 2024
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Ahmed, Akmal (author)
As robots become increasingly popular and co-inhabit spaces with people, there is a need for designing robots that people are comfortable interacting with. For robots to successfully integrate into human society, it is important to design robots in a way that enhances the quality of the human-robot interaction. While the human-robot relationship...
master thesis 2023
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Rots, Astrid (author)
We propose a novel shared control interface that enables teleoperated teaching of both high-level decision-making skills and low-level impedance modulation skills using a single haptic device. In the proposed method, high-level teaching is achieved by repurposing the haptic device to remotely modify Behaviour Trees (BTs), allowing human...
master thesis 2023
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Martinez, Lenny (author)
This project focuses on developing design guidelines for Human-Agent Collaboration around Authority, Autonomy, and Control in the outdoor painting context. While painting as an activity is something most of us have done and understand, working professionals have a sense of pride and skill in their motions that would be difficult to replace with...
master thesis 2023
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Loopik, Hugo (author)
This paper addresses the research question: “How can a human-robot team achieve co-learning, and interdependence in physically embodied tasks?”<br/>A method has been developed that enables a human-robot team to co-learn the handover of an object from the robot to the human. Five design requirements were composed to address the challenges of...
master thesis 2023
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Xu, Ke (author)
The problem of assisting users in comprehending the robotic scenario information in a retail setting has been studied. To design the system, an integrated ontology composed of several IEEE standard ontologies and a labelled property graph (LPG)-based ontology modified from the Web Ontology Language (OWL)-based ontology was proposed to symbolize...
master thesis 2023
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Halman, Susanna (author)
This thesis presents the research to design a successful high-accuracy, sub-millimetric registration method for an autonomous robot equipped to drill bone for cochlear implant (CI) surgery. Its performance, and thus success, is measured in accuracy, workload, usability and trust. While state-of-the-art (STOTA) research lacks the inclusion of...
master thesis 2023
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Stefan, David (author)
Different types of sensors that monitor the driver, the vehicle, and the surroundings are increasingly being implemented in vehicles. These developments are relevant to formal driving test organizations for the use of sensors in the assessment of driving behaviour. However, no guidelines exist about the exact use of sensor-generated data for...
master thesis 2022
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van Beem, Marnix (author)
State-of-the-art object grasping with 7-DOF robotic manipulators requires joint configuration planning methods in order to provide position control of the end-effector. These motion planners are able to calculate a motion plan to execute a safe grasp, while taking environmental constraints into account. In human-robot...
master thesis 2022
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van Dam, Jessie (author)
To safely deploy legged robots in the real world, it is necessary to provide them with the ability to reliably detect unexpected contacts and accurately estimate the corresponding contact force. Therefore, a collision detection, isolation, and identification pipeline is proposed for a quadrupedal manipulator. An approach based on band-pass...
master thesis 2022
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Gonzalez Gonzalez, Irene (author)
Robot systems are essentially a new species spreading around us, one that we willingly designed and introduced. Neither a natural species nor a mere human artefact. We have limited information about these smart agents. What do they want, what do you need from us, and how can we find a common ground of understanding to enhance each other through...
master thesis 2022
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Andrade Borges, Elvis (author)
Designing the future of work is a goal that is currently being tackled by both industry and academia. In a scenario where we have Human-Robot hybrid teams, it will be necessary for both human and robots to be aware of each other in their respective tasks. This thesis explores how specific robots (cobots - collaborative robots) can use Computer...
master thesis 2021
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Moorlag, Fleur (author)
In recent years there has been an increasing interest in the development of social robots for educational purposes. A presumed advantage is their physical presence in the learner’s referential world. However, it remains an open question whether this embodied presence of a robot can be utilized to support learning with robots’ gestures. The aim...
master thesis 2021
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Meccanici, Floris (author)
The general approach to generate collision free motion in a constraint environment is to use path planners, which demand a known environment and potentially fail otherwise. Learning from Demonstration (LfD) can be used instead to teach the robot unknown parts of the environment, such as a goal deviation or an unforeseen obstacle. The general...
master thesis 2021
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Schol, Jasper (author)
Teleoperated semi-autonomous care robots aim to alleviate work pressure from care workers. Unlike many traditional stiff position-controlled robots, the care robot is operating in a shared environment with humans that is often unpredictable and unknown. Especially when dealing with tasks that involve contact with the environment, modulation of...
master thesis 2020
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Hoogerwerf, Eert (author)
Human-robot collaboration can be improved if the motions of the robot are more legible and predictable. This can be achieved by making the motions more human-like. It is assumed that humans move optimal with respect to a certain objective or cost function. To find this function an inverse optimal control approach is developed. It uses a bilevel...
master thesis 2018
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Emirdağ, D. (author)
This graduation report describes the research and development of a novel product, a weatherproof fabric based robot protection cover augmented with flexible LED displays. The product has a built-in power and data distribution system and is capable of being mounted onto an existing lightweight robot arm (LWA). The project was done with the...
master thesis 2016
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