A quarta revolução industrial, mais conhecida como Indústria 4.0, pretende transformar as uni-dades industriais em organizações mais eficientes e produtivas, através da implementação de várias tecnologias baseadas no digital e nos sistemas inteligentes. O impacto em toda a cadei…
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Given recent advancements in technology and recognizing the evolution of smart manufacturing, the implementation of digital twins for factories and processes is becoming more common and more useful. Additionally, expansion in connectivity, growth in data storage, and the impleme…
O presente Relatório Final de Estágio − desenvolvido no âmbito das unidades curriculares de Práticas do Ensino Supervisionada que incorpora em si o Mestrado em Ensino do 1.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico e de Português e História e Geografia de Portugal no 2.º Ciclo do Ensino Básico − …
Background According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the number of older adults (OAs) 65 years of age or older will reach 71 million in the U.S. by 2030. This rapid increase will cause an economic strain to the nation's Medicare system and aged-related service…
Society has an every increasing thirst for electrical energy; this is only set to increase as the 21st Century progresses. In order to sustain this increasing demand, the power industry needs to consider a number of factors; adding generation capacity and maintaining the transmi…
In the past few years there has been a lot of development in the field of tele-presence. These developments have caused tele-presence technologies to become easily accessible and also for the experience to be enhanced. Since tele-presence is not only used for tele-presence assis…
This thesis describes the use of a Real-Time Evolutionary Algorithm (RTEA) to optimise an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) on-line (in this context “on-line” means while it is in use). Traditionally, Evolutionary Algorithms (Genetic Algorithms, Evolutionary Strategies and Evoluti…
The development of micromachining technologies has provided wide applications in micro sensing and actuation. However, most of the demonstrated devices are selectively constructed by fabrication processes that are limited to complexity, configuration, dimension, and material var…
The goal of this research is to design and build a more life-like prosthesis with a higher degree of freedom than currently available prosthetic devices. Direct brain monitoring of the motor cortices was selected as a control mechanism that would provide more versatility than th…
The present work is part of the development of a semi-autonomously controlled robot. For our purposes an instance or example of a semi-autonomous robot is one that would be able to locate, identify and exterminate weeds in a lawn. The present system is controlled remotely with t…
Collaborative robots are a relatively new concept in robotics and industrial automation. Traditional industrial robots are relatively expensive, heavy, and dangerous devices for humans since they are enclosed in working cells with fences. Nowadays, in small and medium enterprise…
The study is on the designing a robot assisted endonasal endoscopic surgical system; NeuRoboScope, the pituitary tumor resection surgery system. This system comprises a passive and an active arm. The passive arm positions the active arm in the surgery zone while the active arm a…
Highly uncertain and complex structures of marine vehicles render the control problem a challenging task. Moreover, the problem becomes much more challenging when the system is exposed to environmental disturbances. This thesis tackles this control problem with an adaptive robus…
This thesis collects three essays which deal with the use of identities as a marketing device; investigating how capitalism informs and reduces identities, like race, gender, and sexuality to market products to individuals. The first essay looks at how scholarly perspectives on …
This dissertation will argue that granting qualified AI-driven robots with legal personhood will serve as a bulwark against the dehumanization of humans. Chapter 1 will introduce the reader to the anthropological problems that Robotic Futurism present for Evangelicals. Chapter 2…
This thesis proposes a weird, giant, and cycling memorial spectacle with the introduction of a new sort of labor in the format of a 100-day exhibition. The robotic machines replaced the enslaved persons to run a closed system of deconstruction and reconstruction: a constant disp…
Otonom araç geliştirme teknolojisinin ilerlemesiyle, araç içinde ve araç dışında kullanılmak üzere ek uygulamalara olan ihtiyacımız da artmaktadır. Literatürdeki, geliştirilen birçok uygulama araç üzerinden alınan verileri doğrudan araç içerisinde monitör, ekran üstü göstergeler…
Love Among the Robots offers a cultural overview of fantasies and anxieties about relations with robots between 1970 and the present. I look beyond the techno-pessimistic and techno-optimistic readings of robots and our relations with them to a set of human-machine relations tha…
In this Thesis, a Fuzzy proportional-integral-derivative (FPID) controller is presented to control the dynamics of a 3-DOF robot. A Differential Evolution (DE) optimization method was used to optimize the performance of the FPID controller. The results are compared and validated…