Responding to Micro-Emotions: Towards neutral interactions between pedestrians and autonomous delivery vehicles

The way an autonomous delivery vehicle behaves during an encounter with a pedestrian evokes an experience comprised of many short-term emotions, influences which behaviour that person will use in reaction to the robot. In many cases, for both the negative and positive experiences, behaviour emerges that results in time-consuming encounters. This...

Designing socially adaptive behavior for mobile robots

An autonomous guided vehicle can be used for the delivery of goods. To deliver these goods to your home, the mobile robot will be driving in pedestrian rich environments. In these environments the robot will need to socially navigate itself in a way which is both pleasant for the pedestrians and progressive for the robot. During its drive, the...

Pedestrian Acceptance of Delivery Robots: Appearance, interaction and intelligence design

Technology developments are making it possible to start automating the last-mile of parcel logistics. This raises the question of how these autonomous technologies will interact with humans. The goal of this project is to design a concept of a delivery robot for DHL, that maximizes acceptance by pedestrians. <br/><br/>Literature research and...

Design of a high speed soft robotic fish

We present a novel DC motor driven soft robotic fish and optimization based on experimental, numerical and theoretical investigation into oscillating propulsion for primarily speed and secondarily efficiency. Our system outperforms the previously fastest soft robotic fish Zhong et al. 2017 by a significant margin of 27%, with speeds up to 0.85m...

Noise fatigue in the ICU: platform for sound data collection and visualization: Cacophony Mapper

The starting point of this graduation project is noises that nurses experience in the ICU (Intensive Care Unit). There is a defined medical symptom which is called “alarm fatigue” that refers to numb auditory senses, stress, low job satisfaction as a result of being exposed to excessive noise for the extended period, and it often leads to low...

Intent-Based Material Extrusion 3D Printing: Moving from process-driven to intent-driven 3D printing

The graduation project is carried out as a collaboration between the Delft University of Technology and Ultimaker. Ultimaker B.V. is a 3D printer company located in Geldermalsen, The Netherlands. Users of 3D printers are presented with a multitude of action possibilities. However, these action possibilities are not yet translated into easy to...

Design of an assistive cycling ankle-foot orthosis for Charcot-Marie-Tooth patients

This master thesis elaborates on the development of a assistive cycling ankle-foot orthosis for Charcot-Marie-Tooth patients. Study the influence of assistive torque on the kinematic analysis of the knee and ankle joints of a CMT patient on an ergometer bike.

Interface design for tele-remote control of heavy road vehicles

This thesis describes what is relevant for interface design for tele-remote driving of heavy road vehicles. A design framework was created to describe what these relevant aspects are. With this design framework a design process is done.

Interpretzel - redesigning the web analytics workflow

This thesis concerns a research process followed by a design project, conducted at the Industrial Design Engineering department for the Design for Interaction master program. The project concerns the reframing of a work ow for web analytics users, in the form of a new system design for web analytics. The project is founded on four studies of the...