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Heeringa, Willem (author)Introduction: This research aims to develop a gripper that is capable of handling deformable and delicate objects at high acceleration (≥10 G) using a contact-reactive grasping approach while moving. Commercial grippers are already suitable for handling various food products at high speed and acceleration when combined with a parallel...master thesis 2021
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Oosterwoud, Chloë (author)In recent years, overtourism has become a big problem for many European cities. In Amsterdam, tourism is changing the experience of place of its city centre, which negatively affects resident’s quality of life by causing feelings of alienation. As a result, more and more residents seem to retreat or move away from Amsterdam’s city centre,...master thesis 2021
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Ayoubi, Rashid (author)This project takes a critical look at the relationship between Willemstad’s quality<br/>of place and the socio-economic, socio-cultural and environmental well-being of its<br/>local population. As a reaction, a set of Urban Design Principles for US (the locals)<br/>are proposed.master thesis 2021
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van der Vegt, Niels (author)Over time, degradation processes might cause damage to pattern-placed revetments. Examples of such damages are missing elements, deformation, and the loss of joint filling. However, little is known about the exact consequences of those damages. Therefore, when damage is observed during an inspection, it is estimated based upon experience what...master thesis 2021
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Siblesz, Jan (author)Stations form the main bottle neck in a public transport journey. Efficient PT-systems depend on the optimal cooperation of modalities which makes transferring essential. For years the node place model has been the main paradigm of looking at stations in the Netherlands. This study aims to add a component to the model by developing a score for...master thesis 2021
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Hagemeijer, Thomas (author)In my opinion, the primary goal of a piece of architecture should always be to connect to the people of a certain place, by tapping into the history and specificities of that place. This necessity is put into words and understood tacitly because of the existence of the opposite. In this project is strived to find a method how to work towards...master thesis 2021
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van Lenteren, Bas (author)In western modern cities there are these spots that still possesses objects of events that where once before. These objects are alienated objects within the modern city, they can take the observer to a place former to them. The topic of the terrain vague got my interest as the leftover of the industrial, within most industrial areas certain...master thesis 2021
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Comănceanu, Alex (author)Relocation of the Honig Complex (the place) into the Molenpoort (the non-place and the given site of the studio).master thesis 2021
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van der Stigchel, Pim (author)In cable driven parallel robots (CDPRs), the end effector or moving platform is actuated by multiple cables in parallel that are wound on winches, which are located on a frame. Compared to classical parallel robots, such as the Delta robot, CDPRs have a lower inertia due to low cable masses. Therefore, they can perform high speed motions with a...master thesis 2021
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Jansen, Iris (author)This project explores the impact of Vroom & Dreesmann (V&D) on the city and city life of Leiden over time. The strategy to re-vitalize this building is two-folded. On the one hand, the collective memory of and associations with V&D are used in order to revitalize the building. For over hundred years, V&D has been an important...master thesis 2021
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van den Brink, Louisa (author)Territories in-between (TiB) have gained increased attention the past decades among researchers in the field of urban planning and design. These territories are identified as territories somewhere in-between the urban and rural. Typical land uses in the TiB are warehouses, sport complexes, allotment gardens and small-scale industrial activities....master thesis 2021
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van der Sar, martijn (author)Pick and place systems that operate in a warehouse setting have been studied a lot recently due to the high economic value for e-commerce companies. In this thesis, the focus is on the perception pipeline that performs object recognition given a certain input data stream (typically RGB-D images). Impressive results regarding object recognition...master thesis 2021
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Lüchau, Carlos (author)The lack of effective place-making strategies to transform industrial urban areas into mixed-use areas, and the limited knowledge of how manufacturers interact with other actors, have exposed the vulnerability to future challenges of these redevelopment processes. Therefore, this research aims to identify directions of place-making strategies to...master thesis 2021
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Bastiaans, Joep (author)The Netherlands faces the challenge of a rapidly ageing population, which demands more diverse housing concepts for seniors. Collaborative housing (CH) concepts are a promising solution to promote contact and mutual support, counteract loneliness, and reduce public health expenses. Professional-led CH concepts is an emerging phenomenon that...master thesis 2021
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Treffers, Nils (author)Traffic square and station Marconiplein, the project site, has become a cacophony of highly controlled and isolated traffic domains which one wants to passage and exit as quickly as possible. Like many other metrostation in Rotterdam the passage of time dominates the passage of place and the notion of the station as real-estate prevails over it...master thesis 2020
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Ravichandrakumar, Dhushyanth (author)Chennai, a city in the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu, India, has grown from a colonial outpost to a metropolitan city today through a process of rapid urbanisation causing a loss of open spaces in the city and a general lack of public spaces. Chennai, geographically divided by the Cooum river into the North and South, also has characteristic...master thesis 2020
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Di Nicola, C. (author)When we talk about Rome it is difficult not to think about its waters, from the Tiber to the beautiful fountains that adorn the cities. The original territory, where Rome was founded, was incredibly marshy, due to the continuous flooding of the Tiber, but the Romans, thanks to their ingenuity, were able to reclaim the area through sewers and...master thesis 2020
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Amarendra, Barsha (author)People continually shape the landscape. The landscape being a palimpset of their socio-economic and cultural ethos. Few landscapes become valued as heritage and a marker for regional identity. However, often times, landscapes deemed as heritage might not strike upan attachment with the lives of the people around and within it. A heritage...master thesis 2020
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van Schooten, Karin (author)As e-commerce continues to grow, warehouses face the challenge of keeping up with product flows. Vanderlande provides a pick-and-place robot (SIR) that helps in improving capacity. However, SIR's capacity is limited by its vacuum gripper and its inability to solve failures. The aim of this thesis is to improve SIR by adding a second gripper and...master thesis 2020
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Shadap, Alan (author)This thesis is an exploration of the cultural characteristics and urban identity of residential neighbourhoods of Shillong, a hilltown settlement in the north east region of India. The rapid pace of unplanned urbanization trends in the hill stations of India has resulted in the degradation of the quality of public space networks of hill stations...master thesis 2019