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VED, VRAJESH (author)Researchers in the past have shown that communication is integral to successful results in a project's design phase. This is said so as there are multiple professionals from diverse backgrounds who come together to prepare a project's design. Consequently, communication between these professionals becomes a key component as it is the way they...master thesis 2021
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van der Graaf, Thomas (author)The demand for faster production times and higher precisions in the industrial automation is ever-increasing. Resonance modes caused by flexural elements in these machines are limiting the maximum bandwidth. Because of this, high-precision motion systems in industrial machines are limited in the maximum operating speed and precision. To improve...master thesis 2021
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Sandhir, Preeti (author)There are approximately 285 million people worldwide living with a visual impairment and the rate of acquired blindness is expected to continue increasing. Assistive technology for them is progressively being developed in order to enable independent living. For the blind and visually impaired, the tactile sense is the primary source of...master thesis 2021
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Mohan, Mathew (author)As the age of digitization evolves rapidly, there is an ever-increasing demand for improving precision and decreasing production times for industrial automation in general, and semiconductor manufacturing in particular. As these complex machines incorporate flexure-based elements to overcome friction and backlash, structural vibrations pose a...master thesis 2021
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Eijssen, Dirk (author)Background: Automated vehicles are promoted as a safety improvement, but they may also bring a new problem of ‘out of the loop’ errors. Automation support in the form of gaze-contingent feedback might be the solution for these errors. Using the SEEV model, operator’s attention allocation can be predicted and using live gaze data, the driver’s...master thesis 2021
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Santoni Gomez, Hector (author)Peer assessment (PA) is a process that involves students assessing each other’s work and providing their peers with (elaborated) feedback. This thesis investigates how an elaborated form of formative PA can be implemented in the mathematics class to promote students’ achievement in mathematics. A mixed methods investigation at a third-grade...master thesis 2021
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Mastenbroek, Merel (author)Background Upper limb prostheses help people with an upper limb deficiency in performing activities of daily living. They can be divided into two categories; body-powered and externally powered prostheses. The advantage of body-powered prostheses is that they provide feedback to the user. The advantage of externally powered prostheses is the low...master thesis 2021
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Leseman, Gailey (author)Many patients with an upper-limb deficiency choose not to wear their prosthetic devices due to a multitude of reasons, including physical discomfort and unintuitive, cognitively demanding control methods. A new haptic interface was developed combining the desirable control characteristics of body-powered control prostheses with the comfort of an...master thesis 2021
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van der Linden, M.J. (author)The application of autonomous robotic vehicles to explore unknown environments is a growing field of interest in the research community. This thesis report studies the practical implementation of employing three autonomous vehicles to navigate towards a signal emitting source in an unknown environment. The group of autonomous vehicles is...master thesis 2021
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Kok, Emma (author)In the Waal bed degradation occurs, which is mainly induced by a large number of river regulations measures done in the past. Rijkswaterstaat develops possible measures and new techniques to stop riverbed erosion and/or mitigate the negative effects. One of the possible new techniques to reduce riverbed erosion locally is groyne field...master thesis 2020
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Kruik, Melvin (author)Damping vibrations of flexible structures is a subject of importance in several industries, as the aerospace and high-tech industry. Especially when the ratio of damping over weight needs to be high. In literature optimization of this ratio is achieved in several manners, through optimization of individual damping methods, ie. active and passive...master thesis 2020
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van den Berg, Alex (author)Haptic assistance (HA) has been shown to be useful in a wide variety of applications by providing the benefits of automation while keeping the human in the loop. In recent years, providing additional visual feedback has been found to provide benefits to HA interfaces by complementing their advantages and mitigating their weaknesses. However, the...master thesis 2020
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Muruganandam Mallur, Madhan (author)As systems become more lightweight, to satisfy inertia and size requirements, vibration becomes a prominent factor in their dynamics. This vibration is undesirable and various suppression methods exist such as passive, semi-active, and active. In this thesis, active control methods are explored for this purpose. The present technology utilizes...master thesis 2020
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GU, Shengfeng (author)<br/>Artificial intelligence (AI) is expected to play a transformational role in health and wellbeing. Search (i.e. information retrieval) technologies already play a significant role in healthcare research and practice. Relevance feedback in Search is vital for system evaluation and improvements. However, in small user scale contexts, the...master thesis 2020
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Thirani, Kushal (author)This study proposes the creation of a multi-modal feedback system to guide humans towards ergonomic poses. A number of studies have tried to come up with methods where subjects are alerted upon crossing biomechanical or ergonomic thresholds while doing a task but not many have tried to successfully and efficiently guide users to ergonomic...master thesis 2020
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Devetzoglou Toliou, STAVRINA (author)The central nervous system (CNS) exhibits remarkable plasticity throughout life. The physiological changes in the CNS that occur due to plasticity allow us to perform new skills and old ones more effectively and efficiently over time.<br/><br/>Recently, it has been demonstrated that plasticity can be used to help people recover motor function...master thesis 2020
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Baldi, Rebecca (author)The human brain integrates tactile sensory information from the fingertips to efficiently manipulate objects. Sensory impairments due to neurological disorders, e.g. stroke, largely reduce hand dexterity and the ability to perform daily living activities. Several feedback augmentation techniques have been investigated for rehabilitative purposes...master thesis 2020
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Mellema, Tessa (author)Aito has developed a technology that can be placedunderneath surfaces to give haptic feedback. They make use of piezoelectricdiscs to sense a pressure difference and actuate a pulse if this differencereaches a certain level. This system is possible because of the piezoelectriccrystals in the discs. These crystals create...master thesis 2020
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Mutters, Dirk (author)This report presents the results of the graduation thesis from the TU Delft, performed at TNO unit Defence, Safety and Security, expertise group Weapon Systems. The goal of this graduation project is to develop a controller for a projectile equipped with the Precision Guidance Kit (PGK). The PGK is a Course Correction Fuze which can be used to...master thesis 2020
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van Pampus, M.J. (author)Formation control of autonomous surface vessels (ASVs) is researched extensively in the last years, since it has promising applications. However very few designed strategies have been validated during real experiments. In this research, two<br/>control methods for distributed leader-follower formation control are proposed: A Nonlinear Model...master thesis 2020