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Borg Costanzi, C. (author)The cost associated with producing concrete elements has a direct link to its geometry. Further cost is incurred if panels have variable thicknesses throughout their cross-section. These variations can take the form of edge-returns in cladding elements (required for detailing), stiffening ribs (required for structure) or simply surface textures ...master thesis 2016
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Stavrou, I. (author)The Adaptive membrane envelope subject originates from the upcoming need for more lightweight structures in the building sector. Since high amounts of energy are wasted for construction and erection of buildings, the idea for lightness becomes essential especially in the case of office buildings, the glass facades of which can weight thousands...master thesis 2016
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Wang, X. (author)The master thesis is a parallel development of a Maritime Manufacturing Robotics project. The aim of the thesis is to find out how to make it easier and convenient for robotic welding in ship section production by improving ship structures. The objective is to design a work process and evaluation method to be followed to do structure...master thesis 2016
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Najafi, E. (author)Sequential composition is an effective supervisory control method for addressing control problems in nonlinear dynamical systems. It executes a set of controllers sequentially to achieve a control specification that cannot be realized by a single controller. Sequential composition focuses on the interaction between a collection of pre-designed...doctoral thesis 2016
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Hameeteman, D.M.J. (author)Robots are becoming more and more involved in our daily life. In order to increase the acceptance of modern robotics in society even further, quite some improvements in human-robot interaction have to be made. Non-verbal communication is one such way of conveying information between robots and humans. In spite of its great potential, the current...master thesis 2016
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Ciocca, M. (author)The goal of this thesis is to develop online model-based parameter estimation techniques for robotics towards extracting geometrical or physical properties of an unknown (or partially unknown) dynamic environment through a tactile interaction with it. The thesis focuses on a one-dimensional case of a rigid movable object, not yet studied in the...master thesis 2016
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Scheper, K.Y.W. (author), Tijmons, S. (author), de Visser, C.C. (author), de Croon, G.C.H.E. (author)Evolutionary Robotics allows robots with limited sensors and processing to tackle complex tasks by means of sensory-motor coordination. In this article we show the first application of the Behavior Tree framework on a real robotic platform using the evolutionary robotics methodology. This framework is used to improve the intelligibility of the...journal article 2016
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Mostafavi, Sina (author), Bier, H.H. (author)This paper presents and discusses the development of a materially informed Design-to-Robotic-Production (D2RP) process for additive manufacturing aiming to achieve performative porosity in architecture at various scales. An extended series of experiments on materiality employing robotic fabrication techniques were implemented in order to finally...book chapter 2016
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Kuppens, P.R. (author)Robots usually do a single job and would perform better when their mechanical structure is particularly designed for their designated task. However, manually designing robots with mechanical properties that implicitly compute and execute a specific task is very hard and time consuming. To assist designers, a platform that automatically designs...master thesis 2016
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Wiggers, R.W.J. (author)A design for a collection of towers, built out of reused and recycled bricks by robotic arms. The towers are the starting point for unorganized activities to take place in the Brettenzone in Amsterdam, it is part of a strategy that should make people discover this remarkable area.master thesis 2016
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Roodt, R.J. (author)The design-driven discourse in this graduation project investigates how architecture can be more intelligent by being able to adapt and transform to changing flow of knowledge. If architecture can be transformed according to this changing flow of knowledge buildings do not have to be destroyed as the building itself has become intelligent. The...master thesis 2016
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Peeters, Marieke (author), Motti, Vivian Genaro (author), Frijns, Helena (author), Mehrotra, S. (author), Akkoc, Tugce (author), Yengec, Sena Büşra (author), Calik, Oguz (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)Populations in developed societies show an increasingly higher life expectancy across the globe. To support older adults to live longer and healthier lives in the familiar surroundings of their homes, technological developments, such as robots and avatars, have a great potential. To investigate long-term interactions between older adults and a ...conference paper 2016
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Maggioni, S. (author), Melendez-Calderon, A. (author), van Asseldonk, E. (author), Klamroth-Marganska, V (author), Lünenburger, L. (author), Riener, R (author), van der Kooij, H. (author)The assessment of sensorimotor functions is extremely important to understand the health status of a patient and its change over time. Assessments are necessary to plan and adjust the therapy in order to maximize the chances of individual recovery. Nowadays, however, assessments are seldom used in clinical practice due to administrative...review 2016
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Berry, Andrew (author), Lemus Perez, D.S. (author), Babuska, R. (author), Vallery, H. (author)Gyroscopic actuation is appealing for wearable applications due to its ability to impart free moments on a body without exoskeletal structures on the joints.We recently proposed an unobtrusive balancing aid consisting of multiple parallelmounted control moment gyroscopes (CMGs) contained within a backpack-like orthopedic corset. Using...journal article 2016
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Feirstein (student), D.S. (author), Koryakovskiy, I. (author), Kober, J. (author), Vallery, H. (author)Reinforcement learning is a powerful tool to derive controllers for systems where no models are available. Particularly policy search algorithms are suitable for complex systems, to keep learning time manageable and account for continuous state and action spaces. However, these algorithms demand more insight into the system to choose a...conference paper 2016
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von Zitzewitz, J (author), Asboth, L (author), Fumeaux, N (author), Hasse, N (author), Baud, L (author), Vallery, H. (author), Courtine, G (author)Objectives. We aimed to develop a robotic interface capable of providing finely-tuned, multidirectional trunk assistance adjusted in real-time during unconstrained locomotion in rats and mice. Approach. We interfaced a large-scale robotic structure actuated in four degrees of freedom to exchangeable attachment modules exhibiting selective...journal article 2016
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de Bruin, T.D. (author), Kober, J. (author), Tuyls, K.P. (author), Babuska, R. (author)Recent years have seen a growing interest in the use of deep neural networks as function approximators in reinforcement learning. In this paper, an experience replay method is proposed that ensures that the distribution of the experiences used for training is between that of the policy and a uniform distribution. Through experiments on a...conference paper 2016
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Munk, J. (author), Kober, J. (author), Babuska, R. (author)Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) can be used as function approximators in Reinforcement Learning (RL). One advantage of DNNs is that they can cope with large input dimensions. Instead of relying on feature engineering to lower the input dimension, DNNs can extract the features from raw observations. The drawback of this end-to-end learning is that it...conference paper 2016
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Peeters, M.M.M. (author), Neerincx, M.A. (author)As intelligent technology steadily becomes a part of modern societies, people collaborate with agents more frequently, and so agents need to be socially intelligent, i.e. personalised and context-sensitive. This paper introduces a context-sen-sitive personalisation framework for social agents that fa-<br/>cilitates the establishment of human...conference paper 2016
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Lei, Q. (author), Wisse, M. (author)The current research trends of object grasping can be summarized as caging grasping and force closure grasping. The motivation of this paper is to combine the advantage of caging grasping and force closure grasping to enable under-actuated grippers like the Lacquey gripper and the parallel grippers like the PR2 gripper to quickly grasp the...conference paper 2016