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Lázaro Bilbao, Alejandro (author)Providing a bodily injury-free experience might be a promising opportunity for the adoption of VR and force feedback-based equipment in a gym context. Nevertheless, it is still uncertain how these systems could compromise the users’ physical state and how they should react a posteriori.<br/><br/>This Graduation project begins with the...master thesis 2022
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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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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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Mâachou, Mohammed (author)Achieving human-like action planning requires profound reasoning and context-awareness capabilities. It is especially true for autonomous robotic mobile manipulation in dynamic environments. In the case of component failure, the autonomous robotic system requires reliable adaptation capabilities combined with a consistent understanding of the...master thesis 2022
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de Haan, Mischa (author)Royal Delft is the oldest manufacturer of delftware that is still producing Delft Blue using traditional techniques up to this day. At the core of their company lies the craftsmanship of producing delftware by hand, from creating the moulds to hand-painting each piece of Delft Blue. With a fast moving industry, Royal Delft needs to innovate...master thesis 2022
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Saaybi, Serge (author)Robotic agents can continuously provide feedback to people based on their behaviors. For instance, a robot swarm can remind a group of people to respect social distancing guidelines during a pandemic or discourage unwanted behavior such as littering. However, developing a swarm robot to operate in realistic situations is challenging: a robot...master thesis 2022
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Lopez Bosque, Irene (author)Interactive imitation learning refers to learning methods where a human teacher interacts with an agent during the learning process providing feedback to improve its behaviour. This type of learning may be preferable with respect to reinforcement learning techniques when dealing with real-world problems. This fact is especially true in the case...master thesis 2021
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Akan, Melek (author)Robotic delivery services can provide contactless delivery, a highly sought-after service under mandates of social distancing since the coronavirus pandemic has arisen. With the rise of autonomous delivery robots, humans' and robots' collaborative existence has become a crucial topic to be discussed. This graduation project aimed to explore the...master thesis 2021
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meo, cristian (author)Active inference, a theoretical construct inspired by brain processing, is a promising approach to control artificial agents. Here we present a novel multimodal active inference torque controller for industrial arms that improves the adaptive characteristics of previous active inference approaches but also enables multimodal integration with any...master thesis 2021
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Inna Kedege, Vibhav (author)Distributed cooperative robots can be highly beneficial in mapping disaster environments and assisting with search and rescue operations. In most situations such environments only allow for only limited communication between robots. This thesis reports on simulation experiments conducted to test the impact of having only partial communication...master thesis 2021
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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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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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Hofman, Julius (author)By combining the recent innovations of 4D Printing and Printed Electronics, the Emerging Materials group at the Delft University of Technology has developed a new, printable, self-actuatable material that can continuously change shape in a programmable manner. A specifically designed strip of conductive and non-conductive materials exhibits...master thesis 2021
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van Vucht, Victor (author)Active inference is a method for state estimation and control actions that is based on the Free Energy principle, which explains how biological agents infer the state of their environment and act upon it by maintaining a model of that environment and evaluating predictions. This method merges both action and sensory processing and is therefore a...master thesis 2021
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Benders, Dennis (author)Recent developments in neuroscience research, mainly introduced by neuroscientist Karl J. Friston, have resulted in a concept called the Free Energy Principle (FEP). The FEP is a brain theory unifying action, perception and learning. An important observation is that autonomous robots have to perform similar tasks to the human brain. Therefore,...master thesis 2020
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van der Sluis, Joram (author)This master thesis presents an experimental study on 3D person localization (i.e., pedestrians, cyclists)in traffic scenes, using monocular vision and Light Detection And Ranging (LiDAR) data. The performance of two top-ranking methods is analyzed on the 3D object detection KITTI dataset. In this evaluation, the effect of the Intersection over...master thesis 2020
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Kelbling, Jelle (author)The DelFly Nimble is a type of tailless flapping-wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs) that has received an increasing amount of attention. FWMAVs show efficient and agile flight possibilities at small scale. The aerodynamics and dynamics of these flapping vehicles are challenging and not fully understood. In this work, a strategy to implement a 3D...master thesis 2020
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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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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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Aerts, C.J. (author)This master graduation project presents an exciting vision of a better built environment for affordable housing in The Netherlands and abroad for many generations to come. <br/><br/>Established industrial manufacturing methods combined with parametric design have the potential to disrupt the conventional design-to-manufacturing processes in the...master thesis 2020