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de Graaf, G. (author), Vriesendorp, Maurits Frans (author), Amin Hassan, H.M. (author), French, P.J. (author)In this research fluorescent optochemical pH probes for the detection of ischaemia have been investigated. Myocardial ischaemia is the most prominent risk during heart surgery. During open heart surgery the heart is temporarily arrested and, since there no blood flowing, oxygen supply and removal of waste products is stopped and heart cells...journal article 2022
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Yuan, S. (author), Aubry, P.J. (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Yarovoy, Alexander (author)The ambiguity problem of targets in Doppler beam sharpening (DBS) with forward-looking radar is considered. While DBS is proposed earlier to improve the angular resolution of the radar while keeping the antenna aperture size limited, such a solution suffers from ambiguities in the case of targets positioned symmetrically with respect to the...journal article 2022
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Ha, Xuan Thao (author), Wu, D. (author), Lai, C. (author), Ourak, Mouloud (author), Borghesan, Gianni (author), Menciassi, Arianna (author), Vander Poorten, Emmanuel (author)Continuum robots such as robotic catheters are increasingly being used in minimally invasive surgery. Compliance contributes to enhanced safety during e.g. catheter insertion, however, estimation of contact force and location may help clinicians avoiding exerting excessive force. Ultimately this could lead to faster and safer interventions....journal article 2022
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Xu, Weitao (author), Xue, Wanli (author), Lin, Qi (author), Lan, G. (author), Feng, Xingyu (author), Wei, Bo (author), Luo, Chengwen (author), Li, Wei (author), Zomaya, Albert Y. (author)Smart space has emerged as a new paradigm that combines sensing, communication, and artificial intelligence technologies to offer various customized services. A fundamental requirement of these services is person identification. Although a variety of person-identification approaches has been proposed, they suffer from several limitations in...journal article 2022
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Zhu, J. (author), Cherubini, Andrea (author), Dune, Claire (author), Navarro-Alarcon, David (author), Alambeigi, Farshid (author), Berenson, Dmitry (author), Ficuciello, Fanny (author), Harada, Kensuke (author), Kober, J. (author), Yuan, Wenzhen (author)Deformable object manipulation (DOM) is an emerging research problem in robotics. The ability to manipulate deformable objects endows robots with higher autonomy and promises new applications in the industrial, services, and health-care sectors. However, compared to rigid object manipulation, the manipulation of deformable objects is...journal article 2022
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Fazzi, L. (author), Struzziero, G. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Groves, R.M. (author)The unique sensing features of the tilted Fibre Bragg Grating (TFBG) as a single three-parameter optical sensor are demonstrated in this work, to monitor the manufacturing process of composite materials produced using Vacuum Assisted Resin Transfer Moulding (VARTM) process. Each TFBG sensor can measure simultaneously and separately strain,...journal article 2022
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Stölzle, Maximilian (author), Miki, Takahiro (author), Gerdes, Levin (author), Azkarate, Martin (author), Hutter, Marco (author)Accurate and complete terrain maps enhance the awareness of autonomous robots and enable safe and optimal path planning. Rocks and topography often create occlusions and lead to missing elevation information in the Digital Elevation Map (DEM). Currently, these occluded areas are either fully avoided during motion planning or the missing...journal article 2022
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de Roda Husman, S. (author), Hu, Zhongyang (author), Wouters, B. (author), Munneke, Peter Kuipers (author), Veldhuijsen, Sanne (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author)Surface melt is an important driver of ice shelf disintegration and its consequent mass loss over the Antarctic Ice Sheet. Monitoring surface melt using satellite remote sensing can enhance our understanding of ice shelf stability. However, the sensors do not measure the actual physical process of surface melt, but rather observe the presence...journal article 2022
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Mkhoyan, T. (author), Ruland, O.L. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Wang, Xuerui (author)Inspired by nature, smart morphing technologies enable the aircraft of tomorrow to sense their environment and adapt the shape of their wings in flight to minimize fuel consumption and emissions. A primary challenge on the road to this feature is how to use the knowledge gathered from sensory data to establish an optimal shape adaptively and...journal article 2022
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Fioranelli, F. (author), Zhu, S. (author), Roldan Montero, I. (author)Linked to the increasing availability of datasets for radar-based human activity recognition (HAR), in this Student Highlights contribution, we report on a classification project that a group of 23 graduate students performed at TU Delft. The students were asked to work in groups of 2-3 members and to use the publicly available University of...journal article 2022
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Stuber, V.L. (author)This thesis describes the development, validation and implementation of piezoelectric flow sensors. These sensors are meant to measure flow phenomena such as transition and separation in the boundary layer of an aircraft wing. Such information can be used<br/>as input variables to a control loop to push laminar-to-turbulent transition towards...doctoral thesis 2021
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Schenato, Luca (author), Aguilar Lopez, J.P. (author), Galtarossa, Andrea (author), Pasuto, Alessandro (author), Bogaard, T.A. (author), Palmieri, Luca (author)This paper describes the implementation of an FBG sensor to measure water levels in a dike. The sensor is based on a 3D-printed mechanical transducer through which the external pressure is converted into longitudinal strain exerted on the fiber. An additional FBG integrated within the sensor measures temperature and is used to compensate for...journal article 2021
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El Serafy, G.Y.H. (author), Schaeffer, Blake A. (author), Neely, Merrie-Beth (author), Spinosa, A. (author), Odermatt, Daniel (author), Weathers, Kathleen C. (author), Baracchini, Theo (author), Bouffard, Damien (author), Carvalho, Laurence (author)Water quality measures for inland and coastal waters are available as discrete samples from professional and volunteer water quality monitoring programs and higher-frequency, near-continuous data from automated in situ sensors. Water quality parameters also are estimated from model outputs and remote sensing. The integration of these data,...review 2021
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Mondal, Md Ashifuddin (author), Rehena, Zeenat (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author)Smart parking is becoming more and more an integral part of smart city initiatives. Utilizing and managing parking areas is a challenging task as space is often limited, finding empty spaces are hard and citizens want to park their vehicles close to their preferred places. This becomes worse in important/posh areas of major metropolitan cities...journal article 2021
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Sanusi, Khaleel Asyraaf Mat (author), Di Mitri, Daniele (author), Limbu, B.H. (author), Klemke, Roland (author)Beginner table-tennis players require constant real-time feedback while learning the funda-mental techniques. However, due to various constraints such as the mentor’s inability to be around all the time, expensive sensors and equipment for sports training, beginners are unable to get the immediate real-time feedback they need during training....journal article 2021
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Huloux, Nicolas (author), Willemet, L. (author), Wiertlewski, M. (author)The contact between the fingertip and an object is formed by a collection of micro-scale junctions, which collectively constitute the real contact area. This real area of contact is only a fraction of the apparent area of contact and is directly linked to the frictional strength of the contact (i.e., the lateral force at which the finger...journal article 2021
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Wu, Di (author), Zhang, Yao (author), Ourak, Mouloud (author), Niu, Kenan (author), Dankelman, J. (author), Vander Poorten, Emmanuel B. (author)Catheters are increasingly being used to tackle problems in the cardiovascular system. However, positioning precision of the catheter tip is negatively affected by hysteresis. To ensure tissue damage due to imprecise positioning is avoided, hysteresis is to be understood and compensated for. This work investigates the feasibility to model...journal article 2021
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Qu, Dingran (author), Qiao, Tiezhu (author), Pang, Y. (author), Yang, Yi (author), Zhang, Haitao (author)Belt conveyor is considered as a momentous component of modern coal mining transportation system, and thus it is an essential task to diagnose and monitor the damage of belt in real time and accurately. Based on the deep learning algorithm, this present study proposes a method of conveyor belt damage detection based on ADCN (Adaptive Deep...journal article 2021
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Peng, Tian (author), Nogal Macho, M. (author), Casas, Joan R. (author), Turmo, Jose (author)The inverse problem of structural system identification is prone to ill‐conditioning issues; thus, uniqueness and stability cannot be guaranteed. This issue tends to amplify the error propagation of both the epistemic and aleatory uncertainties, where aleatory uncertainty is related to the accuracy and the quality of sensors. The analysis of...journal article 2021
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Domhof, J.F.M. (author), Kooij, J.F.P. (author), Gavrila, D. (author)We address joint extrinsic calibration of lidar, camera and radar sensors. To simplify calibration, we propose a single calibration target design for all three modalities, and implement our approach in an open-source tool with bindings to Robot Operating System (ROS). Our tool features three optimization configurations, namely using error...journal article 2021