325 research outputs found
Comparing performance and situation awareness in USAR unit tasks in a virtual and real environment
No full textA convenient way to test Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) robots would be in virtual environments (VEs). Evaluations in VEs are generally accepted as alternative for real scenarios. There are obvious differences between operation in a real and virtual environment. Nonetheless, the current experiment showed no significant differences in situation awareness (SA) and performance during several elementary tasks (e.g. slalom) between a virtual world and a previous experiment in reality (Mioch, Smets, & Neerincx, 2012). Only small dependencies between the unit tasks were found. The effect of individual differences (like gender, km driven per year, and gaming experience), were significant for certain elementary tasks. Testing robots in virtual environments could still be useful even if differences between VE and reality exist, since comparisons of different conditions in VE seems to have the same results as the same comparison in the field (Bishop & Rohrmann, 2003; Van Diggelen, Looije, Mioch, Neerincx, & Smets, 2012).Intelligent SystemsElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Farewell; Pamphlet marking the retirment of Prof. dr. Gerda J.F. Smets from the Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology
No full textRegarding: Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors α7 and α9 modify tobacco smoke risk for multiple sclerosis.
No full textThis is a author manuscript of an article accepted for publication in Multiple Sclerosis Journal. Version of record is available online at
Jacobs BM, Smets I, Giovannoni G, Noyce A, Jokubaitis V, Dobson R. Regarding: Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors α7 and α9 modify tobacco smoke risk for multiple sclerosis. Multiple Sclerosis Journal. December 2020. doi:10.1177/1352458520969941. Copyright (c) 2020. The Authors. doi:10.1177/135245852096994
The role of oxide interlayers in back reflector configurations for amorphous silicon solar cells
No full textThin oxide interlayers are commonly added to the back reflector of thin-film silicon solar cells to increase their current. To gain more insight in the enhancement mechanism, we tested different back reflector designs consisting of aluminium-doped zinc oxide (ZnO:Al) and/or hydrogenated silicon oxide (SiOx:H) interlayers with different metals (silver, aluminium, and chromium) in standard p-i-n a-Si:H solar cells. We use a unique inverse modeling approach to show that in most back reflectors the internal metal reflectance is lower than expected theoretically. However, the metal reflectance is increased by the addition of an oxide interlayer. Our experiments demonstrate that SiOx:H forms an interesting alternative interlayer because unlike the more commonly used ZnO:Al it can be deposited by plasma-enhanced chemical vapour deposition and it does not reduce the fill factor. The largest efficiency enhancement is obtained with a double interlayer of SiOx:H and ZnO:Al.Electrical Sustainable EnergyElectrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Scienc
Space through movement: A method for three-dimensional image presentation
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An encoding framework for binarized images using hyperdimensional computing
No full textThe author(s) declare financial support was received for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article. This work was supported by the Flemish Government under the "Onderzoeksprogramma Artificiele Intelligentie (AI) Vlaanderen" program
Scaling the visual consequences of active head movements: A study of active perceivers and spatial technology
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Cubby: What you see is where you act. Interlacing the display and manipulation spaces.
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Enhancing x-ray baggage inspection by interactive viewpoint selection
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Artful Judgements: A psychological inquiry into aesthetic preference for visual patterns
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