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Moens, Tieme (author)Flying drones have been a well-established field of engineering for many years now. With the wave of bio-inspired design came the idea of flapping wing micro air vehicles (FWMAVs). These drones use flapping wings instead of fixed or rotary wings to generate their lift, giving them the potential for agile movement and application in confined...master thesis 2023
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Aydin, Güven (author)Treatment of prostate cancer can be done by performing brachytherapy, where radioactive seeds are transperineally implanted in the prostate via needles. A known problem during treatments with needles is the risk of targeting errors caused by the deviation of the needle from the planned path in the prostate. One of the main sources of this error...master thesis 2023
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Hoppener, Bruce (author)Focal laser ablation is a new, promising method to treat tumors. The current focal laser ablation approach is to insert an optical fiber into the patient using rigid needles. A side effect of this approach is that during the needle insertion, tissue damage occurs. The larger the diameter of the needle, the more tissue damage. If the diameter of...master thesis 2023
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King, Andrew J. (author), Portugal, Steven J. (author), Strömbom, Daniel (author), Mann, Richard P. (author), Carrillo, José A. (author), Kalise, Dante (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author), Barnett, Heather (author), Scerri, Paul (author)A single sheepdog can bring together and manoeuvre hundreds of sheep from one location to another. Engineers and ecologists are fascinated by this sheepdog herding because of the potential it provides for ‘bio-herding’: a biologically inspired herding of animal groups by robots. Although many herding algorithms have been proposed, most are...journal article 2023
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Mehravar, Soroosh (author), Razavi-Termeh, Seyed Vahid (author), Moghimi, Armin (author), Ranjgar, Babak (author), Foroughnia, Fatemeh (author), Amani, Meisam (author)Flood has long been known as one of the most catastrophic natural hazards worldwide. Mapping flood-prone areas is an important part of flood disaster management. In this study, a flood susceptibility mapping framework was developed based on a novel integration of nature-inspired algorithms into support vector regression (SVR). To this end,...journal article 2023
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Pezzato, C. (author), Hernández, Carlos (author), Bonhof, S.D. (author), Wisse, M. (author)In this article, we propose a hybrid combination of active inference and behavior trees (BTs) for reactive action planning and execution in dynamic environments, showing how robotic tasks can be formulated as a free-energy minimization problem. The proposed approach allows handling partially observable initial states and improves the...journal article 2023
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Harvey, Christina (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author), Taylor, Graham K. (author), Bomphrey, Richard J. (author)Powered flight was once a capability limited only to animals, but by identifying useful attributes of animal flight and building on these with technological advances, engineers have pushed the frontiers of flight beyond our predecessors’ wildest imaginations. Yet, there remain many key characteristics of biological flight that elude current...journal article 2023
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Kortman, V.G. (author), Sakes, A. (author), Endo, Gen (author), Breedveld, P. (author)Gripping slippery and flexible tissues during minimal invasive surgery (MIS) is often challenging using a conventional tissue gripper. A force grip has to compensate for the low friction coefficient between the gripper’s jaws and the tissue surface. This study focuses on the development of a suction gripper. This device applies a pressure...journal article 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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Wang, Chenyao (author)Flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) are known for their flight agility and maneuverability. However, their in-gust flight performance and stability is still inferior to their biological counterparts. To this end, a simplified in-gust dynamic model, which could capture the main gust effects on FWMAVs, has been identified with real in...master thesis 2022
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Tang, Shunqi (author)Art is the universal language of humanity. Art viewing not only evokes aesthetic pleasure but also inspires people to create their own art. In this digital age, more and more museums democratize their art by making their digital collections freely available online. However, these online sources are mainly targeted at researchers and visit...master thesis 2022
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Glaser, Niels (author)Dry adhesives can reattach to surfaces due to the reversible bond made by Van der Waals forces. These adhesives can therefore be used as gripping surface that has a high frictional load capacity, independent of the grasping force. In many grippers, the adhesive surface is often pressed into contact with another surface (’substrate’) in an open...master thesis 2022
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Da Costa Gomez, Alex (author)As freshwater scarcity has become one of the most important environmental and social issues of the 21st century, the way the built environment interacts with water must be reconsidered. Today’s urban water cycle in Curaçao is characterized by linear, centralized, polluting, costly, time and energy consuming and does not contribute to cultural...master thesis 2022
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Nilsen, Lars (author)Morphogenesis of living organisms could be used as inspiration to digitally augment the reinforcement of structures. The design space in terms of fiber orientation was enlarged to facilitate more complex patches with improved performance that can be 3D printed using a ghost ply optimisation. Simulations performed on optimized open-hole tensile...master thesis 2022
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Müller, Rob (author)Abstract—Spinal fusion surgery is an operation in which two or more adjacent vertebrae are rigidly connected, with the goal to remedy spinal instability, deformation of the vertebrae, or a herniated intervertebral disc. Vertebrae are conventionally fixated by means of pedicle screws, the downsides of which are accidental cortical wall breaches...master thesis 2022
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Colucci, Elisabetta (author), Matrone, Francesca (author), Noardo, F. (author), Assumma, Vanessa (author), Datola, Giulia (author), Appiotti, Federica (author), Bottero, Marta (author), Migliorini, Massimo (author), Rinaldi, Enrico (author)Purpose: The study, within the Increasing Resilience of Cultural Heritage (ResCult) project, aims to support civil protection to prevent, lessen and mitigate disasters impacts on cultural heritage using a unique standardised-3D geographical information system (GIS), including both heritage and risk and hazard information. Design/methodology...journal article 2022
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Bogdan, Paul (author), Ivanov, Plamen Ch (author), Gonçalves Melo Pequito, S.D. (author)Editorial on the Research Topic - Inference, Causality and Control in Networks of Dynamical Systems: Data Science and Modeling Perspectives to Network Physiology With Implications for Artificial Intelligencecontribution to periodical 2022
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Anil Meera, A. (author), Novicky, Filip (author), Parr, Thomas (author), Friston, Karl (author), Lanillos, Pablo (author), Sajid, Noor (author)Computational models of visual attention in artificial intelligence and robotics have been inspired by the concept of a saliency map. These models account for the mutual information between the (current) visual information and its estimated causes. However, they fail to consider the circular causality between perception and action. In other...journal article 2022
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Mkhoyan, T. (author), Thakrar, Nisarg R. (author), De Breuker, R. (author), Sodja, J. (author)The presented study investigates the design and development of an autonomous morphing wing concept developed in the scope of the SmartX project, which aims to demonstrate in-flight performance optimisation with active morphing. To progress this goal, a novel distributed morphing concept with six translation induced camber morphing trailing...journal article 2022
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Wang, C. (author), Wang, S. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author), Hamaza, S. (author)Flapping wing micro aerial vehicles (FWMAVs) are known for their flight agility and maneuverability. These bio-inspired and lightweight flying robots still present limitations in their ability to fly in direct wind and gusts, as their stability is severely compromised in contrast with their biological counterparts. To this end, this work aims at...journal article 2022