The percentage of sports and leisure shoes sold worldwide is gradually increasing. However, consumers have little or no objective information on the mechanical properties of the shoes. A justified selection protocol of sports and leisure shoes based on static and dynamic shoe properties considering the …

This paper presents a study on (1) how children experience a pet robot, (2) how they play with it and (3) how children’s perceptions on and interaction with pet robots are interrelated. The study features different types of subjective and objective techniques to assess the degree of perceived social …

Doelstelling: Deze literatuurstudie wil meer inzicht geven in wat de effecten zijn van robotondersteunde loopbandtraining bij mensen met een incomplete dwarslaesie op loopafstand en loopsnelheid. Daarbij wordt de robottraining vergeleken met andere vormen van looptraining. Methode: Om de vraagstelling …

Scriptie Flexibel Robot Systeem t.b.v. de productie van composiet producten m.b.v. robottechniek.

It is generally recognized that non perceptual factors like age, gender, education and computer experience can have a moderating effect on how perception of a technology leads to acceptance of it. In our present research we are exploring the influence of these factors on the acceptance of assistive …

Older adults prefer an assistive technology that can be adaptive to their needs. However, as an assistive social robot that is autonomous has the possibility of being pro-actively adaptive this could cause feelings of anxiety. Analyzing the results of a study with video’s that feature an assistive social …

De afstudeerstage stond in het teken van het ontwikkelen van een vision system voor de RoboChallenge-robot van de NCIM Groep. Via een incrementele ontwikkelaanpak is inmiddels een eerste bijdrage geleverd aan dit vooralsnog ontbrekende vision system. Er is gekomen tot een ontwikkelstadium waarin: - …

Motivation - The use of a Home Care Robot combined with a sensor network could possibly improve or replace current home Tele-healthcare systems that monitor elderly people or other people with health problems. Using robot for this is a new and we want to find out what the advantages or disadvantages …

This paper presents a multi-layer scheme to control a formation of three mobile robots. Each layer works as an independent module, dealing with a specific part of the problem of formation control, thus giving to the system more flexibility. In order to reduce formation errors, the proposed architecture …

Described are the results of a study that was set up to get insight into the appreciation of students for distance learning, especially concerning online lab-experiments. We wanted to know whether an online lab-experiment is more or less effective than a regular one and how it can be used in IPD-projects. …