Abstract The ever-increasing demand for custom products creates challenges for production companies. In cellular manufacturing systems like the U-shaped assembly cell (USAC), high product variety and fluctuations in demand have become harder to deal with. An increase in flexibility is required to continue …

We aim to set up a continuous low cost monitoring system for electromagnetic fields in the Netherlands, so that a trend in exposure to 5G signals can be observed. A number of options will be explored for this, such as software-defined radio and measurement nodes for specific 5G frequencies. We developed …

In two projects I have experimented with student designing their own assessment. One project was for a minor with only a few participants, so suitable for the experiment. The other was a regular course with approximately 50 students where the assessment form was partially free. I have done this project …

Summary: A novel Smart Charging strategy, based on low base allowances per charger combined with 1. clustering of chargers on the same part of the grid and 2. dynamic non guaranteed allowance, is presented in this paper. This manner of Smart Charging will allow more than 3 times the amount of chargers …

The two day festival at Campus Norrköping include presentations, activities, citizen science sessions, urban gardening, time to network, work-in-progress paper discussions and much more, all organized around sessions with our inspiring speakers.This festival marks the closing phase of a research project …

This paper presents the results of an experimental field study, in which the effects were studied of personalized travel feedback on car owners’ car habits, awareness of the environmental impact of their travel choices, and the intention to switch modes. For a period of six weeks, 349 car owners living …

Smart farming staat voor digitalisering in de agrarische sector wat in de Nederlandse fruitteelt sterk in ontwikkeling is. Met de nieuwste technieken zijn we in staat om plaats specifieke bewerkingen uit te voeren op plant- of op boomniveau. Hierdoor kan er beter voldaan worden aan de behoefte van het …

Dit is een onderzoek naar de impact van robotisering en het gebruik van Smart Farming technieken op de voedselvoorziening in Nederland. De vraag naar voedsel aan de ene kant en de noodzaak tot het reduceren van de impact op het klimaat aan de andere kant, duwt de agrarische sector steeds sneller de kant …

Presentatie gehouden tijdens het vab (vereniging agrarische bedrijfsadviseurs) Event Verduurzaming Bedrijfsoverdracht op 2 juni 2022 in Dronten, door docent-onderzoeker Gelein Biewenga van hogeschool Van Hall Larenstein.

Historian Yuval Harari writes in his 21 Lessons for the 21st Century that due to increasing automation and robotization, large groups of people will probably become completely redundant in the labour market in the near future. He proposes a basic income as a solution. In this article it is argued that …