Construction industries in New Zealand and abroad have a low track record for successful sustainable innovations. This often has a negative impact on private and government spending, and on quality, society and the environment. This paper posits that the construction industry needs step-change (i.e. …

Twirre V2 is the evolution of an architecture for mini-UAV platforms which allows automated operation in both GPS-enabled and GPSdeprived applications. This second version separates mission logic, sensor data processing and high-level control, which results in reusable software components for multiple …

Traditionally construction industries in New Zealand and abroad have a low track record for successful sustainable innovations. This has a negative impact on private and government spending, and on quality, society and the environment. This conceptual paper posits that the construction industry needs …

A multilayer scheme is here proposed to implement coordinated control of a group of mobile robots. Specifically, a trajectory tracking controller is proposed to coordinately guide a platoon of robots, with an obstacle deviation subsystem based on virtual forces and mechanical impedance implemented in …

Traditionally, the construction industry in New Zealand and in other countries has seen a low productivity and a low track record for successful innovations (Fairweather, 2010). The industry also lags in sustainability (e.g. Nemry, 2008) when seen from a broader or lifecycle perspective. This has a negative …

Kademuren zijn niet alleen te vinden in de grote havens, maar ook in tal van binnensteden. Deze kademuren in stedelijk gebied vormen een steeds groter probleem. Veel stedelijke kademuren hebben hun levensduur bereikt en zijn aan vervanging toe. Het vervangen van een stedelijke kademuur brengt echter …

From the article: Manufacturing technology can improve the turnover of a company if it enables fast market introduction for volume production. Reconfigurable equipment is developed to meet the growing demand for more agile production. Modular reconfiguration, defined as changing the structure of the …

TU Delft has started working on its third satellite mission called DelFFi, which is planned for a launch in 2015. In this graduation project spanning 17 weeks, a faulttolerant storage system consisting of three SD cards was designed, implemented and tested for DelFFi that utilizes triple-modular redundancy …

Author supplied Combining Performance and Flexibility for RMS with a Hybrid Architecture Dani¨el Telgen 12? , Leo van Moergestel 1 , Erik Puik 1 , Pascal Muller 1 , Arjan Groenewegen 1 , Dick van der Steen 1 , Dennis Koole 1 , Patrick de Wit 1 , Arjen van Zanten 1 , and John-Jules Meyer 2 1 Department …

Axon Digital Design develops modular systems and equipment for audio and video signal processing and monitoring, mainly aimed at the broadcasting industry. The recent successes of 3D film productions have pushed the consumer TV market into a new era: 3D television in the living room. One fundamental …