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Kofos, A. (author), Ubacht, J. (author), Rukanova, B.D. (author), Korevaar, G. (author), Kouwenhoven, Norbert (author), Tan, Y. (author)Sustainability is high on the agendas of public and private organizations. Governments are setting targets for reducing the use of virgin raw materials in products and to eliminate waste. To accelerate the transition towards a Circular Economy (CE) policymakers are launching instruments. However, policy instruments, such as financial incentives...journal article 2022
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Retike, Inga (author), Bikše, Jānis (author), Kalvāns, Andis (author), Dēliņa, Aija (author), Avotniece, Zanita (author), Zaadnoordijk, Willem (author), Jemeljanova, Marta (author), Popovs, Konrāds (author), Babre, Alise (author), Zelenkevičs, Artjoms (author), Baikovs, Artūrs (author)Groundwater level time series are of great value for a variety of groundwater studies, particularly for those dealing with the impacts of anthropogenic and climate change. Quality control of groundwater level observations is an essential step prior to any further application, e.g., trend analysis. Often the quality control of data is limited to...journal article 2022
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Reinders, K.J. (author), Giardina, Giorgia (author), Zurfluh, Florian (author), Ryser, Jurg (author), Hanssen, R.F. (author)In the planning stage of new infrastructure or when designing renovation of existing infrastructure, information about existing slope movements or settlements is essential to make informed design decisions. Interferometric<br/>Synthetic Aperture Radar (InSAR) techniques can be of value to identify these risks in an early stage of a project....journal article 2022
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Fu, J. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), De Schutter, B.H.K. (author)Natural disasters pose a tremendous risk to the reliability of distribution networks. In this paper, a novel real-time UAV routing strategy for coordination between monitoring and inspection for post-disaster restoration in distribution networks is proposed. With our proposed real-time UAV routing strategy, damages can be inspected by UAVs...journal article 2022
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Musumeci, Rosaria Ester (author), Foti, Enrico (author), Li Rosi, Davide (author), Sanfilippo, Mariano (author), Stancanelli, L.M. (author), Iuppa, Claudio (author), Sapienza, Vincenzo (author), Yang, William (author), Cantarero, Massimo (author), Patanè, Domenico (author)Archaeological sites are extremely vulnerable to the impacts of weather-related events, which may lead to irreparable damages to cultural heritage. Here an assessment of the debris-flow hazard for the UNESCO site of Roman Villa del Casale (Italy) is carried out, through a combination of historical analyses, field surveys, geomorphological and...journal article 2021
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Mulder, K.B. (author), Lubelli, B. (author), Dijkhuis, Edwin (author)Walls overgrown with plants can have a positive impact on urban comfort and contribute to biodiversity in the city. In particular, quay walls, thanks to their close contact with water, have the potential to be ecologically engineered to encourage the growth of herbaceous plants. Different factors can affect growth of vegetation on walls. This...journal article 2023
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Behdani, B. (author), Tajdinian, Mohsen (author), Allahbakhshi, Mehdi (author), Popov, M. (author), Shafie-khah, Miadreza (author), Catalao, Joao P. S. (author)Geomagnetically induced currents (GICs) are referred to the quasi-DC current flows in power networks, driven by complex space weather-related phenomena. Such currents are a potential threat to the power delivery capability of electrical grids. To mitigate the detrimental impacts of GICs on critical infrastructures, the GICs should be monitored...journal article 2022
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Raso, L. (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Timmermans, Jos (author), Panthou, Geremy (author)Adaptive policies have emerged as a valuable strategy for dealing with uncertainties by recognising the capacity of systems to adapt over time to new circumstances and surprises. The efficacy of adaptive policies hinges on detecting on-going change and ensuring that actions are indeed taken if and when necessary. This is operationalised by...journal article 2019
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Raju, Narayana (author), Arkatkar, Shriniwas (author), Easa, Said (author)This paper presents a framework for monitoring highway traffic-stream measures using quality trajectory data of mixed (heterogeneous) traffic. The framework includes a new measure that reflects the attentiveness of the follower driver, called receptiveness angle, in the vehicle-following process. This measure is integrated with the traditional...journal article 2023
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Rostampour, Vahab (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), Teixeira, Andre M.H. (author), Keviczky, T. (author)In this article two limitations in current distributed model based approaches for anomaly detection in large-scale uncertain nonlinear systems are addressed. The first limitation regards the high conservativeness of deterministic detection thresholds, against which a novel family of set-based thresholds is proposed. Such set-based thresholds...journal article 2020
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Reinders, K.J. (author), Hanssen, R.F. (author), van Leijen, F.J. (author), Korff, M. (author)In this work, we investigate if, when, and how satellite InSAR can be used for evaluating surface settlements that occur during shield tunnelling in soft soil areas. We evaluate the applicability of InSAR prior, during, and after tunnel construction. Special emphasis is placed on the influence of the InSAR phase ambiguities in relation to short...journal article 2021
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Guatame-Garcia, Adriana (author), Buxton, M.W.N. (author)In response to the growing demand for sustainable products and services, the kaolin calcination industry is developing practices that optimise the use of resources. The main challenges include more efficient use of raw materials and a reduction in the energy consumed by the calcination furnace. An opportunity to achieve this lies in the...journal article 2020
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Barros Cândido, J. (author), Aniche, Maurício (author), van Deursen, A. (author)Modern software development and operations rely on monitoring to understand how systems behave in production. The data provided by application logs and runtime environment are essential to detect and diagnose undesired behavior and improve system reliability. However, despite the rich ecosystem around industry- ready log solutions, monitoring...journal article 2021
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Weaver, P. P.E. (author), Aguzzi, J. (author), Boschen-Rose, R. E. (author), Colaço, A. (author), de Stigter, H. (author), Gollner, S. (author), Haeckel, M. (author), Helmons, R.L.J. (author), Thomsen, L. (author)Deep-sea mining may be just a few years away and yet society is struggling to assess the positive aspects, such as increasing the supply of metals for battery production to fuel the green revolution, versus the potentially large environmental impacts. Mining of polymetallic (manganese) nodules from the deep ocean is likely to be the first...journal article 2022
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Pek, Christian (author), Schuppe, Georg Friedrich (author), Esposito, Francesco (author), Tumova, Jana (author), Kragic, Danica (author)Many tasks require robots to manipulate objects while satisfying a complex interplay of spatial and temporal constraints. For instance, a table setting robot first needs to place a mug and then fill it with coffee, while satisfying spatial relations such as forks need to placed left of plates. We propose the spatio-temporal framework SpaTiaL...journal article 2023
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Kortenbout, A.J. (author), Costerus, Sophie (author), Dudink, Jeroen (author), de Jong, N. (author), de Graaff, Jurgen C. (author), Vos, H.J. (author), Bosch, Johan G. (author)Objective: Post-operative brain injury in neonates may result from disturbed cerebral perfusion, but accurate peri-operative monitoring is lacking. High-frame-rate (HFR) cerebral ultrasound could visualize and quantify flow in all detectable vessels using spectral Doppler; however, automated quantification in small vessels is challenging...journal article 2024
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Grosfeld, J. J. (author), Schoor, M. M. (author), Taormina, R. (author), Luxemburg, W.M.J. (author), Collas, F. P.L. (author)Current research on riverine macrolitter does not yet provide a theoretic framework on the dynamics behind its accumulation and distribution along riverbanks. In an attempt to better understand these dynamics a detailed field survey of three months was conducted in which location of macrolitter items within a single groyne field along the...journal article 2024
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Angelini, Franco (author), Angelini, Pierangela (author), Angiolini, Claudia (author), Bagella, Simonetta (author), Caccianiga, Marco (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Gigante, Daniela (author), Hutter, Marco (author), Nanayakkara, Thrishantha (author)In this paper, we first discuss the challenges related to habitat monitoring and review possible robotic solutions. Then, we propose a framework to perform terrestrial habitat monitoring exploiting the mobility of legged robotic systems. The idea is to provide the robot with the Natural Intelligence introduced as the combination of the...journal article 2023
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Kueffner, Konstantin (author), Lukina, A. (author), Schilling, Christian (author), Henzinger, Thomas A. (author)Neural-network classifiers achieve high accuracy when predicting the class of an input that they were trained to identify. Maintaining this accuracy in dynamic environments, where inputs frequently fall outside the fixed set of initially known classes, remains a challenge. We consider the problem of monitoring the classification decisions of...journal article 2023
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IJtsma, Martijn (author), Borst, C. (author), van Paassen, M.M. (author), Mulder, Max (author)Air traffic controller workload is a limiting factor in the current air traffic management system. Adaptive support systems have the potential to balance controller workload and gain acceptance as they provide support during times of need. Challenges in the design of adaptive support systems are to decide when and how to trigger support. The...journal article 2022