Browsing Institutt for realfag og industrisystemer by Document Types "Chapter"
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A comparison between a two feedback control loop and a reinforcement learning algorithm for compliant low-cost series elastic actuators
(Chapter, 2020)Highly-compliant elastic actuators have become progressively prominent over the last years for a variety of robotic applications. With remarkable shock tolerance, elastic actuators are appropriate for robots operating in ... -
Analysis of ZIKA Virus Tweets: Could Hadoop Platform Help in Global Health Management?
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper investigates possibilities of enhancing everyday decision making in global health management, by looking at the power of twitter data and the use of big data platforms in order to collect and interpret excessive ... -
Application of system thinking to frame the problem in a subsea development projects with high-level business requirements
(Chapter, 2019)—The oil and gas industry are continuously performing development projects to improve their offerings. In this industry the typical input to the development project is high-level business requirement mixed with specific ... -
Applying Systems Thinking for Early Validation of a Case Study Definition: An Automated Parking System
(Chapter, 2022)Case study research and industry-as-laboratory research are well-known research methods in industry–academia collaboration research projects. Defining a case study well in the early phase of an industry–academia complex ... -
Architectural reasoning in the conceptual phase - a case study in the oil and gas industry
(Chapter, 2019)This paper evaluates the use of architectural reasoning to explore the problem space in a system development project in the oil and gas industry. The suppliers in this industry have traditionally been tailor-making their ... -
Bridging the Gap Between Bio-inspired Steering and Locomotion: a Braitenberg Snake Robot
(Chapter, 2018)Braitenberg vehicles are simple models of animal motion towards, or away from, a stimulus (light, sound, chemicals, etc). They have been widely used in robotics to implement target reaching and avoidance behaviors based ... -
Conceptual modeling for Human Systems Integration in Manned-Unmanned Teaming
(Chapter, 2023)Future systems are becoming increasingly complex as autonomous systems work closely with human operators. Transdisciplinary development is needed to create systems functioning in dynamic Manned-Unmanned Teaming (MUM-T) ... -
Experiences from Teaching Master level Course in Research Methods in Systems of Systems Engineering
(Chapter, 2020)The paper summarizes the challenges and experiences from a course in research methods for systems engineering master's students. This course is a preparatory course for the final master's project. Each student selects a ... -
Managing Risk and Opportunities in Complex Projects
(Chapter, 2019)Projects is the preferred model for one-of-a-kind production. Projects may be difficult to manage due to complexity and many involved stakeholders. Stakeholders are a major source of uncertainty. Uncertainty may be both ... -
Performance of Deep Learning LDPC Coded Communications in Large Scale MIMO Channels
(Chapter, 2019)In this paper, we investigate the performance of a large-scale multiple-input multiple-output (LS-MIMO) receiver, which deploys a deep neural network and a low-density paritycheck (LDPC) code for detecting and decoding ... -
Personalizing Drug Administration to Patients with Parkinson’s Disease: Manipulating Sensor Generated Data in Android Environments
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper illustrates the application of mobile and wireless technologies for estimating the severity of Parkinson Disease symptoms, and performing a personalized drug administration to PD patients. The measurements of ... -
Protograph LPDC Coded Large-Scale MIMO Communications With Low-Resolution ADCs
(Chapter, 2019)In this paper, we develop a new algorithm of joint detection and decoding receiver for the large-scale multiple-input multiple-out (LS-MIMO) coded communication systems with low-resolution ADCs. The new algorithm enables ... -
Reliability of Training Data Sets for ML Classifiers: A Lesson Learned from Mechanical Engineering
(Chapter, 2020)The popularity of learning and predictive technologies, across many problem domains, is unprecedented and it is often underpinned with the fact that we efficiently compute with vast amounts of data and data types, and thus ... -
A Roadmap for Sustainability for a Community in The Netherlands
(Chapter, 2020)The sustainability transition is a systems of systems challenge to the power `n'. The amount of systems and organizations that is involved is inconceivable for most humans. A roadmap is a means to structure much information ... -
Semantic Management of Urban Traffic Congestion
(Chapter, 2020)Urban traffic congestion is a problem which affects the world and is related to the massive urbanization and excessive number of cars on our streets. This causes a variety of problems, from economical/financial and ... -
Serpens, a Low- Cost Snake Robot with Series Elastic Torque-Controlled Actuators and a Screw-Less Assembly Mechanism
(Chapter, 2019)Even though a few examples of elastic snake robots exist, they are generally expensive and tailored to custom-made hardware/software components that are not openly available. In this work, Serpens, a newly-designed low-cost, ... -
Software Tool for Semantic Resources Allocation in Humanitarian Crises
(Chapter; Peer reviewed, 2017)Resource Allocation (RAlloc) is one of the most important tasks in organizing humanitarian response to humanitarian crises. It is not only that adequate and efficient RAlloc save lives and reduce damages caused by humanitarian ... -
State of Affair in Terms of Big Data Utilization in Complex System Engineering Organizations
(Chapter, 2022)The primary goal of this ongoing questionnaire is understanding the state of affairs in terms of big data utilization in Norwegian high-tech enterprises. By asking 24 questions to employees at partner organizations comprising ... -
Systems Thinking for Early Validation of User Needs in the Front End of Innovation; a Case Study in an Offshore SoS
(Chapter, 2019)This paper focuses on applying Systems Thinking for early validation of user needs in the front end of innovation for extending an offshore SoS with renewable energy. A high degree of uncertainty and ambiguity characterizes ... -
uMemristorToolbox: Open source framework to control memristors in Unity for ternary applications
(Chapter, 2020)This paper presents uMemristorToolbox, a novel open source framework that reads and writes non-volatile ternary states to memristors. The Unity (C#) framework is a port of the open source Java project Memristor-Discovery ...