Framing a Guideline for Balancing Task Delegation of Human-Robot Collaboration in Automation processes: A Case Study on Automatic Passenger Boarding Bridge in Amsterdam-based Airport Autonomous Airside Operation

As automation technology continues to transform various industries, achieving both high operational reliability and high efficiency emerges as a critical challenge in task delegation between humans and Automated Systems (ASs). This project, conducted in collaboration with the Royal Schiphol Group (RSG), investigates the intricate dynamics of...

Complementing Automotive Haptic Shared Control with Visual Feedback for Obstacle Avoidance

The technological advancements in the automotive industry have enabled the automation of numerous routine driving tasks. As a result, the art of driving has become a control task with a strong supervisory character, including the common human factor issues. Haptic Shared Control has been shown to be useful in keeping the driver in-the-loop by...

Question answering with the RoboTutor Nao

This thesis project worked towards extending the interactive capabilities of the RoboTutor Nao, by enabling it to answers natural language questions about topics such as computers, robots and the Nao itself. The main questions we focused on were 1) what a system for answering questions in Dutch and intended for elementary school age children...

Design of Criticality-Based Haptic Steering Guidance for Human Like Adaptation to Different Lane Keeping Tasks

Haptic steering guidance is an advanced driving assistance system which provides guidance torques on the steering wheel to assist a human driver. Improvements in performance, safety margins and workload have been reported for lane-keeping and curve negotiation tasks. On the other hand, the guidance system instigates increased driver torques,...

Does haptic steering guidance instigate speeding?: A driving simulator study into causes and remedies

An important issue in road traffic safety is that drivers show adverse behavioral adaptation (BA) to driver assistance systems. Haptic steering guidance is an upcoming assistance system which facilitates lane-keeping performance while keeping drivers in the loop, and which may be particularly prone to BA. Thus far, most experiments on haptic...