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Buis, Jan Maarten (author), De Herdt, Lode (author)This is a bachelor thesis about the design and development of an observation and sensing module for the Deci Zebro robot that is being developed at the EEMCS faculty of Delft University of Technology.<br/>This part of the thesis is about the development of a cliff- and obstacle detection system, as well as the...bachelor thesis 2017
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Koning, Gijs (author), Langendam, Thijmen (author), Mouwen, Dennis (author), Raat, Jochem (author)Our challenge was to define a format for a mission plan, and develop an application which allows the users of the robot to create a mission plan effectively. This application should assist the user in the process of creating a mission plan as much as possible. Our client was Allseas who was already the sponsor of the LOBSTER project. During the...bachelor thesis 2019
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Haas, Joey (author), Klazinga, Rembrandt (author), van Stijn, Nick (author), Teunissen, Jasper (author), Zhang, Peter (author)The core challenge of the BedBasedEcho BEP project is to create an algorithm to find the heart, and apply it on a robotic echocardiography solution. The team has found multiple complex solutions that are related to this problem, and has extracted useful information from these solutions to apply to this problem. However, some of these complex...bachelor thesis 2020
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Zirkzee, Wouter (author), de Graaff, Arend Jan (author)Every development roll-out, there needs to be certainty everything works. Especially when it comes to the banking domain. People care about their money and want it to be handled with care. Currently this means some tests, including making a payment using a Maestro debit card, need to be performed manually. In order to further testing, this...bachelor thesis 2017
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Ramírez Montero, Mariano (author)Recent research has shown that a Learning from Demonstration (LfD) approach is useful for teaching robots flexible skills efficiently, and it opens the possibility for non-expert users to program these skills. When learning from demonstration data, learning frameworks should learn representations that are flexible and can generalize to unseen...master thesis 2023
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Moonen, Sander (author)With the imminent rise of vehicle automation the human driver will have increasingly less responsibility for driving. At one point this will even mean that cars will be able to fully drive themselves, so that the driver is relieved of all driving related tasks. In this situation the car effectively becomes a robot, resulting in a novel...master thesis 2023
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Ye, Lisa (author)This study develops a roadmap to guide the integration of robotic technologies into Dutch agriculture in a responsible manner that benefits farmers and the environment.<br/>The Dutch agricultural sector faces challenges from climate change, labor shortages, and sustainability pressures. Robotics shows promise in addressing these issues through...master thesis 2023
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LIU, Xinjie (author)Many autonomous navigation tasks require mobile robots to operate in dynamic environments involving interactions between agents. Developing interaction-aware motion planning algorithms that enable safe and intelligent interactions remains challenging. Dynamic game theory renders a powerful mathematical framework to model these interactions...master thesis 2023
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Naber, Rutger (author)Going beyond naturally occurring materials, Metamaterials exploit a design at the microscale resulting in macroscopic behaviour, to achieve different or even new properties that can have a wide range of applications. By incorporating sensors, actuators and control, Robotic Metamaterials can achieve even more extremely different behaviour such as...master thesis 2022
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de Goede, Nick (author)Commercially available laparoscopic surgical robots are not currently equipped with force feedback. This may lead to unnecessary tissue damage when gripping tissue in a laparascopic procedure, as shown in a prior literature study. The goal of this MSc thesis project is the implementation of haptic feedback in a prototype of a master-slave...master thesis 2017
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van Houtum, Paul (author)Modern retail stores are increasingly implementing automated systems with the aim of assisting both the customer and employee. Much research is conducted on robotic applications within such environments; one of these applications concerns deploying an autonomous mobile manipulator to assist humans in retail stores. Such a robot requires the...master thesis 2021
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Geerlings, Nathalie (author)Automation of pipe inspections by using robots has many advantages over manual pipe inspection, such as faster, more consistent and more accurate inspection. For this reason the pipe inspection robot PIRATE is being developped by the University of Twente.<br/><br/>In this project the first goal is to design a high-level control layer, which...master thesis 2018
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Leest, Steven (author)Robotic behavior policies learned in simulation suffer from a performance degradation once transferred to a real-world robotic platform. This performance degradation originates from discrepancies between the real-world and simulation environment, referred to as the reality gap. To cross the reality gap, this papers presents a simple...master thesis 2017
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van der Meijs, Emiel (author)Labour in the agricultural sector is in short supply, while a large portion of the work is still being done manually. To speed up the work and guarantee the food supply of the future, Lely has started a project on agricultural automation. The aim of the project is to create a robot that can perform multiple repetitive tasks simultaneously, to...master thesis 2022
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Hijne, Iris (author)This thesis is a contribution to the research on Active Inference for Robotics. Active Inference is an intricate, intriguing theory from neuroscience, a field in which it has already gained a greater following and popularity. This theory, based on the underlying Free Energy Principle, provides a unified account of perception, action and learning...master thesis 2020
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Otten, Mattijs (author)Within this report is described the process of designing a new Zebro robot for the TU Delft Robotics Institute. Zebro is a six-legged robot specifically intended to become one of the first truly autonomous swarming robots on earth. The specific aim of this project was to design Zebro to become ready for series production, and to become a robotic...master thesis 2017
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van der Horst, Joren (author)At this moment, industrial robot arms are increasingly used to automate manufacturing processes in the aerospace industry. However, these robot arms lack position accuracy to effectively mill parts or assemble products. In this work, this gap is investigated following two approaches; on one hand existing calibration methods of robot arms are...master thesis 2019
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Schonebaum, Johan (author)Running robots at insect scale are an upcoming research field, because of their numerous potential applications like exploration of hazardous environments such as collapsed buildings, natural disaster sites and debris. To date no report exists on such a robot that either exploits its resonance, or that is monolithic. These properties, however,...master thesis 2019
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Geitenbeek, Romy (author)Last mile delivery is often seen as bottleneck for delivery service growth: it is the most costly and highest polluting segment of the delivery supply chain. By integrating delivery robots in society, last mile delivery can be automatize to create a more cost and time efficient and sustainable delivery service. This also applies to the grocery...master thesis 2021
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de Boer, Wouter (author)Autonomous robots are often successfully deployed in controlled environments. Operation in uncontrolled situations remains challenging; it is hypothesized that the detection of abstract discrete states (ADS) can improve operation in these circumstances. ADS are high-level system states that are not directly detectable and influence system...master thesis 2023