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SURYAVANSHI, KARTIK (author)In this work, we present the ADAPT, a novel reconfigurable force-balanced parallel manipulator with pantograph legs for spatial motions applied underneath a drone. The reconfigurable aspect allows different motion-based 3-DoF operation modes like translational, rotational, mixed, planar without disassembly. For the purpose of this study, the...master thesis 2022
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Du, Zhe (author)This thesis provides a set of cooperative control schemes for autonomous multi-vessel systems to manipulate a floating object through physical interconnections in onshore (inland waterways and ports) and offshore areas. Thanks to the maturity and popularity of the advancing technologies in information, communication, sensors, automatic control,...doctoral thesis 2022
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Roël, Felix (author)Our remarkable sense of touch provides us the feedback that is crucial for successfully manipulating a wide range of objects.<br/>The unconscious synergy between touch and the precision grip is particularly astonishing.<br/>During precision manipulation, humans constantly control their grip force to maintain a safety margin of approximately 25...master thesis 2022
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Mâachou, Mohammed (author)Achieving human-like action planning requires profound reasoning and context-awareness capabilities. It is especially true for autonomous robotic mobile manipulation in dynamic environments. In the case of component failure, the autonomous robotic system requires reliable adaptation capabilities combined with a consistent understanding of the...master thesis 2022
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Shcheglova, Alena (author)Data planes are responsible for forwarding packets in a network. The P4 language is used for programming programmable data planes. Such data planes give more flexibility to programmers by allowing them to define how the packets should be processed. However, these data planes might also be more vulnerable to malicious attacks than traditional ...bachelor thesis 2022
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Kapteijn, Stephan (author)Walking is an essential part of almost all activities of daily living. Depending on the situation, different gait patterns can be observed, e.g., moving around the house, performing different sports, or even in case of injury. Even though the gait has been analyzed thoroughly for many decades, there are still some unexplored aspects that require...master thesis 2022
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Kislaya, A. (author)The precise manipulation of particles and droplets is crucial to many microfluidic applications in engineering. The design of microfluidic devices is generally tailored to perform a specific task, with each specific application requiring a unique and fixed design. In this way, using a single device to perform multiple analyses of a wide range of...doctoral thesis 2022
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Zomerdijk, M.J.J. (author), van der Wijk, V. (author)Industrial robotic manipulators in pick-and-place applications require short settling times to achieve high productivity. The fluctuating reaction forces and moments on the base of a dynamically unbalanced manipulator, however, cause base vibrations, leading to increased settling times. These base vibrations can be eliminated with dynamic...journal article 2022
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Chen, Shibiao (author), Cheng, Gang (author), Pang, Y. (author)To overcome the bearing capacity deficiencies of traditional serial hip joint simulators, complex trajectory simulation, among others, as well as a parallel manipulator with two pairs of artificial hip joints and two moving platforms are proposed. The movements and driving forces of the parallel manipulator under the required motion and loading...journal article 2022
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de Vos, M.A. (author), Ishmaev, G. (author), Pouwelse, J.A. (author)The landscape of electronic marketplaces has been monopolized by a handful of market operators that have accumulated tremendous power during the last decades. This trend raises concerns about fairness and market manipulation by these operators acting as gatekeepers. These concerns have recently been outlined in the EU Digital Markets Act (DMA...journal article 2022
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Bredenbeck, A. (author), Della Santina, C. (author), Hamaza, S. (author)Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are widely used for environmental surveying and exploration thanks to their maneuverability and accessibility. Until recently, however, these platforms were mainly used as passive systems that observe their environments visually and do not interact physically. The capability of UAVs to physically interact with...conference paper 2022
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Afzal, Hafiz Malik Naqash (author), Stubbs, Emma (author), Khamis, Heba (author), Loutit, Alastair J. (author), Redmond, Stephen (author), Vickery, Richard Martin (author), Wiertlewski, M. (author), Birznieks, Ingvars (author)Human tactile perception and motor control rely on the frictional estimates that stem from the deformation of the skin and slip events. However, it is not clear how exactly these mechanical events relate to the perception of friction. This study aims to quantify how minor lateral displacement and speed enables subjects to feel frictional...journal article 2022
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Shao, X. (author), Yao, Weiran (author), Li, Xiaolei (author), Sun, Guanghui (author), Wu, Ligang (author)This letter investigates the direct trajectory optimization of the free-floating space manipulator (FFSM). The main purpose is to plan the joint space trajectories to reduce the spacecraft motion due to the joint rotation during the FFSM performing tasks. To improve the calculation efficiency, the adaptive Radau pseudospectral method (A-RPM)...journal article 2022
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Gil Andres, Álvaro (author)Human-robot interaction is a growing field that aims to research and develop communication channels between humans and robots to enhance comfort, safety, and productivity in healthcare, the household, and the industry. Researchers have considered ergonomy-related metrics to compose these channels for physical human-robot collaborative scenarios....master thesis 2021
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TSAI, CHIA-YU (author)Deformable objects manipulation (DOM) is largely considered an open problem in robotics. The complexity stems from the high degrees of freedom and nonlinear nature of the object configurations. In this thesis, we consider placing and flattening tasks for cloth-like objects. We propose a practical framework to place a cloth on a surface based on...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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Stella, Francesco (author)Many interesting designs of soft robots with variablestiffness capabilities have been presented in the literature. However, little attention has been given on the control of their embedded physical intelligence. In this work, we present an algorithm that exploits the variablejoint stiffness capabilities and the redundancy of a soft manipulator...master thesis 2021
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Heerkens, Evelien (author)Mobile manipulators will be deployed in supermarkets for a large variety of tasks, for instance, for restocking products. The operation time of mobile manipulators can be reduced by generating coupled trajectories for the base and the robot's arm. When planning for high Degree of Freedom (DOF) robots, such as a mobile manipulator, in an obstacle...master thesis 2021
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Tatabitovska, Ana (author)Front-running is the illegal practice of obtaining information unavailable to the general public with regards to upcoming transactions and performing actions based on this knowledge as to gain profit. This type of attack has been an issue since the introduction of the first stock market and it is not a surprise it has spread into blockchain...bachelor thesis 2021
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van Houtum, Paul (author)Modern retail stores are increasingly implementing automated systems with the aim of assisting both the customer and employee. Much research is conducted on robotic applications within such environments; one of these applications concerns deploying an autonomous mobile manipulator to assist humans in retail stores. Such a robot requires the...master thesis 2021