Carbon footprint of drinking water softening as determined by life cycle assessment

In the Netherlands, central softening of drinking water is widely applied for reasons of public health, client comfort, economic and environmental benefits. Currently, the detrimental contributions of softening, in particular the use of chemicals and energy, are taken into account in the carbon footprint of the Dutch drinking water companies....

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...