On the Convergence of DEM’s Linear Parameter Estimator

The free energy principle from neuroscience provides an efficient data-driven framework called the Dynamic Expectation Maximization (DEM), to learn the generative model in the environment. DEM’s growing potential to be the brain-inspired learning algorithm for robots demands a mathematically rigorous analysis using the standard control system...

Towards Stochastic Fault-Tolerant Control Using Precision Learning and Active Inference

This work presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for sensory faults in robotic manipulators based on active inference. In the majority of existing schemes a binary decision of whether a sensor is healthy (functional) or faulty is made based on measured data. The decision boundary is called a threshold and it is usually deterministic....

Erfgoed van na 1965 in rijksbezit: De overheid als rentmeester en inspirerend ambassadeur

Met het vertrek van rijksbouwmeester Floris Alkemade komt een einde aan een aantal van zijn zogenoemde Ambassadeursprojecten. Deze voorbeeldprojecten van het Rijksvastgoedbedrijf hebben tijdens de zittingsperiode van Alkemade speciale aandacht gekregen. Ze houden verband met de ruimtelijke kwaliteit van gebouwen, stad en landschap, met...

Towards an open data research ecosystem in Croatia

Open data initiatives have resulted in greater availability of data, thereby realising ambitions such as improved efficiency and effectiveness of public services, increased transparency, accountability and citizen participation, and economic and social value creation. Open data research is a crucial component in creating and accelerating...

The data and services analysis of Chinese NSDI based on Backx model

The data and services analysis are indispensable for the refined development of SDI. This paper, taking Chinese NSDI as a study case, analyzed the data and services advantages and shortcomings of Chinese NSDI and developed a recommendable data and services framework which could improve the Chinese NSDI better services for public and private...

Dimension prediction models of ship system components based on first principles

In this paper we describe a generic way of sizing main dimensions of primary equipment for marine applications. Contrary to a straight fit through a database the method tries to develop expressions in which, apart from the main specifications in terms of power and speed, the selection of the main machine parameters has an influence on the...

Design of a New Ship Propulsion System Fundamentals course

In this paper I describe the design of a new course about ship resistance and ship propulsion system fundamentals. The occasion for designing a new course on this topic was the re-design of the Maritime Technology Bachelor of Science programme at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. Especially the alteration to another teaching...