Autonomously exploring and mapping is one of the open challenges of robotics and artificial intelligence. Especially when the environments are unknown, choosing the optimal navigation directive is not straightforward. In this paper, we propose a reinforcement learning framework for navigating, exploring, …

Autonomous robots require high degrees of cognitive and motoric intelligence to come into our everyday life. In non-structured environments and in the presence of uncertainties, such degrees of intelligence are not easy to obtain. Reinforcement learning algorithms have proven to be capable of solving …

Urban planning for climate change is a complex topic for historical and large cities like Alexandria, which are also coping with economic and demographic pressures. In this project the design of water engineering is drawn into the horizon of the local population, by mapping several containment measures …

Circularity and recycling are gaining increased attention, yet the amount of recycled plastic applied in new products remains low. To accelerate uptake by businesses, it will be useful to empirically investigate the main barriers and enablers that organisations experience when using recycled plastic …

In a matter of weeks last year, discussions regarding tourism in cities changed from how to deal with overtourism to how to deal with ‘no tourism’. Shortly thereafter, a great number of posts on LinkedIn, websites, and blogs highlighted how the tourism crisis that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic …

Nederland heeft een lange traditie van stevig industriebeleid. Welke lessen leert de geschiedenis voor de vergroening van de basisindustrie?

Voorjaar 2020: ook Nederland wordt getroffen door COVID-19. Vooral ouderen lopen grote risico’s; een lockdown volgt. Fotograaf Otto Lussenburg trekt eropuit voor een ‘praatje en een plaatje’ op gepaste afstand. Hij blijft dichtbij huis en fotografeert in zijn woonplaats Assen. Aanvankelijk alleen mensen …

In dit onderzoeksrapport wordt bekeken wat de juridische en communicatieve risico's zijn van smart cities. Er wordt onder meer gekeken naar een smart city en haar problematiek in het algemeen, de juridische problemen en de communicatieve problemen van smart cities. Door deze risico's en de daarmee verbonden …

The Northern Netherlands is like many delta’s prone to a wide range of climate change effects. Given the region its long history with floods and adaptation, there are numerous initiatives to be found that tried to battle these effects. As part of the Climate Adaptation Week Groningen, an inventory was …