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Corvi, Giovanni (author)
The rapidly growing volume of parcel shipments is straining transportation and logistics sectors, highlighting the need for innovative solutions to optimize packing and loading processes. The online bin packing problem (BPP), an NP-hard computational problem, finds practical applications in numerous sectors, including modern packaging and...
master thesis 2024
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Buriani, Gioele (author)
This work introduces a novel methodology for the development of interpretable reduced-order dynamic models specifically tailored for jumping quadruped robots. Leveraging Symbolic Regression combined with autoencoder neural networks, the framework autonomously derives symbolic equations from data and fundamental physics principles capturing the...
master thesis 2024
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Wiers, Christiaan (author)
With the current transition towards renewable and high-tech solutions, the world is becoming increasingly complex. Consequently, the challenges faced by firefighters also intensify. For that reason, firefighting robots are rising in popularity despite being far from perfect. An important area of improvement is the perception capabilities of...
master thesis 2024
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Bekkers, Sam (author)
The generation of a 3D map of an unseen environment, obtained through solving the SLAM problem, is a popular topic currently in the robotics domain. The Lunar Rover Mini (LRM) at the German Aerospace Center solves this problem using a RGB-D camera system, which is favourable in space applications due to its lightweight characteristics and energy...
master thesis 2024
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Bhatti, Ghanishtha (author)
Soft robots are characterized by compliant elements that introduce heightened kinematic complexity compared to their rigid counterparts. Such systems, with infinite degrees of freedom, are inherently underactuated, making precise real-time shape regulation a challenging task. Model-based controllers, utilizing tractable reduced-order modelling...
master thesis 2024
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Tiburzio, Seb (author)
In robotic manipulation of deformable objects, the continuum nature of the object state leads to prohibitively high degrees of freedom when traditional modelling techniques are applied, leading to much research focusing on approaches that avoid an explicit object model. However, without such a model the opportunities for long horizon planning...
master thesis 2023
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van den Berg, Jasper (author)
The traumatic loss of a hand is a horrific experience usually followed by significant psychological, functional and rehabilitation challenges. Even though much progress has been made in the past decades, the prosthetic challenge of restoring the human hand functionality is still far from being achieved. Autonomous prosthetic hands showed...
master thesis 2023
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Verburg, Tim (author)
A substantial portion of workplace-related injuries stem from sprains, strains, and muscle tears, with a significant proportion occurring in the upper body, particularly the<br/>shoulder. To address these issues, there is a growing interest in utilizing supportive devices like exoskeletons that often face challenges such as bulkiness, high costs...
master thesis 2023
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Bracelly, Fernão (author)
Quadrupedal robots possess the ability to move freely in the world and perform a variety of actions that would be unsafe or impractical for humans to perform. In the SNOW project, a quadrupedal robot is tasked with aiding firefighters in rescue missions during house fires by locating humans and assessing their health. Pushing away obstacles that...
master thesis 2023
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Tavio Y Cabrera, Emilio (author)
Soft robots have the potential to accelerate robotiza- tion in areas that are complex and impractical for hard robots. The use of soft materials results in a safe and flexible design that is unattainable for hard robots. However, this attribute results in the need for new control approaches and strategies. Hybrid controllers are a relative...
master thesis 2023
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Drijver, Eveline (author)
Intelligent manufacturing has become increasingly important in the food packaging industry due to the growing demand for enhanced productivity and flexibility while minimizing waste and lead times. This work explores the integration of such manufacturing in automated secondary robotic food packaging solutions that transfer food products into...
master thesis 2023
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van Löben Sels, Mees (author)
Effectively controlling and exploiting the natural dynamics of Articulated Soft Robots for energy-efficient motions remains challenging. In literature, the problem is often split in two; in energy-efficient motion planning and structure-preserving control, where the focus is on one, and the other is largely disregarded. This work aims to unify...
master thesis 2023
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Croft, Maxime (author)
This paper presents a novel approach to regional forecasting of SARS-Cov-2 infections one week ahead, which involves developing a municipality level COVID-19 dataset of the Netherlands and using a spatio-temporal graph neural network (GNN) to predict the number of infections. The developed model captures the spread of infectious diseases within...
master thesis 2023
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Liu, Jingyue (author)
Soft robots are made of compliant materials, which increase their flexibility but also presents modeling challenges. The difficulty mainly comes from material nonlinearity, infinite degrees of freedom, uncertain parameters, and complex calculations. This project uses physics-inspired neural networks to solve the last two problems. Based on the...
master thesis 2022
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Konijnenberg, Thom (author)
During the transfer of calli in plant regeneration, the repetitive work of pick and placement of calli in new agar is still done by human operators. This process can be automated to eliminate labour-intensive work. The thesis focuses on the development of a robotic gripper to automate the transfer of calli. To be able to grip calli, first its...
master thesis 2022
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Elfferich, Rick (author)
Fruit and vegetable production is increasing worldwide, and farmers currently face a tough challenge in finding enough agricultural workers. Automation of the labour-intensive task of crop harvesting could help fill in this gap between supply and demand. However, picking soft fruits is challenging, as they can be easily damaged if not carefully...
master thesis 2022
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Drost, Sjoerd (author)
Advantages of lightweight design robot links include cost savings and reduced energy consumption. The flexibility introduced by the lightweight design can cause structural vibrations decreasing precision. To mitigate this, an advanced controller is proposed, consisting of Iterative Learning Control combined with Full State Feedback control. To...
master thesis 2022
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Lee, Chia-Fu (author)
Hand pose tracking in 3D configuration is one of the popular components of human-computer interaction research, which can be seen applying in virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR). Although the research field has been thoroughly studied in the past few decades, most methods emphasized recognizing hand gestures or joint locations....
master thesis 2021
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Heeringa, Willem (author)
Introduction: This research aims to develop a gripper that is capable of handling deformable and delicate objects at high acceleration (≥10 G) using a contact-reactive grasping approach while moving. Commercial grippers are already suitable for handling various food products at high speed and acceleration when combined with a parallel...
master thesis 2021
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Besselaar, Lars (author)
With robotics rapidly expanding towards new user-oriented applications, such as agriculture, households, and classrooms, new tasks and new requirements arise. One of the ongoing and unsolved problems that comes with the unpredictable new environments robots find themselves in, is soft object manipulation. Without assuming the handled object to...
master thesis 2021
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