Smartbot is een majeur INTERREG IVa EDR project dat is geïnitieerd door Kiemkracht, de innovatie alliantie van de Nederlandse Akkerbouw. Smartbot, AgroBot, is de ontwikkeling van een nieuwe generatie precisielandbouw autonome robots die door gebruik van slimme sensortechnologie complexe opgaven zelfstandig …

Robots need sensors to operate properly. Using a single image sensor, various aspects of a robot operating in its environment can be measured or monitored. Over the past few years, image sensors have improved a lot: frame rate and resolution have increased, while prices have fallen. As a result, data …

In dit hanteerbaarheids onderzoek werd nagegaan wat patiënten in de leeftijdscategorie van 65 jaar en ouder vonden van het aangeboden programma waarbij er door middel van een kleine, op afstand bestuurbare robot genaamd de “Tri-bot” getraind werd. De twee belangrijkste doelstellingen waren het onderzoeken …

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 …

Boekbespeking van Sherrie Turkle, 2011, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other. New York: Basic Books. Mails, sms’jes, instant messages, tweets, Skype, voicemails, Facebookberichten – via smartphones en andere apparaten zijn we vrijwel non-stop in contact met …

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 …

Interview met Ben Kröse, bijzonder hoogleraar ambient robotics aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam over de toepassing van intelligente systemen zoals robots, observatiesystemen en interactieve apparaten in de gezondheidszorg.

This study investigates what pupils aged 10-12 can learn from working with robots, assuming that understanding robotics is a sign of technological literacy. We conducted cognitive and conceptual analysis to develop a frame of reference for determining pupils' understanding of robotics. Four perspectives …

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 …