Archive
12 October 2020
Tim Horeman in various media
John van den Dobbelsteen and Tim Horeman, together with lab manager Rob Luttjeboer, have a successful way to test recycled sterilized masks and masks made from new materials
08 October 2020
Bart van Trigt at TU Delft TV: Prevention versus performance
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How to get the most realistic data from an athlete in action? Take it to the field!
05 October 2020
John van den Dobbelsteen in various media
TU Delft and Van Straten Medical have developed and tested a process to reuse masks safely up to five times. The process can be applied directly and by all hospitals.
01 October 2020
Sarvesh Kolekar in various media
Self-driving cars can already do quite a bit, but driving as a human being requires something that algorithms cannot do very well: being insecure and careless. A new model that maps the mechanism behind human driving should change this.
29 September 2020
Driving behaviour less ‘robotic’ thanks to new Delft model
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Researchers from TU Delft have now developed a new model that describes driving behaviour on the basis of one underlying ‘human’ principle: managing the risk below a threshold level.
24 September 2020
Ajay Seth receives Chan Zuckerberg grant for Open Source Software
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Ajay Seth, assistant professor at the Department of BioMechanical Engineering, has received a grant of US$190,000 from the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative DAF for his research on the development of Essential Open Source Software for Science. Ajay Seth is receiving the grant specifically for his ‘OpenSIM’ project, an open source biomechanics simulator to study movement to improve the usability, computational performance, maintenance and outreach of the OpenSim open source software and to support the education and training of its users around the world.
24 September 2020
Beach robot on the move during World Cleanup Day
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During World Cleanup Day on September 19, citizens were encouraged to clean up waste in their street and surroundings. In The Hague, participants on the beach received help from BeachBot, a robot that can recognize and clean up small waste.
18 September 2020
Erik Offerman in various media
Answer to the question of why disposable razors become dull so quickly. And what does a durable Iron Age look like?
14 September 2020
Joost de Winter in various media
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Joost de Winter: "The industry is increasingly seeing the importance of research in the field of robotics. Delft engineers lead robotics solutions that enable a company to innovate its technologies."
08 September 2020
TU Delft starts programme for robot engineer of the future
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How can robots function within various processes in a factory? What is a good robot engineer according to the industry? These two questions were central in setting up the new Master's degree programme in Robotics at TU Delft.
03 September 2020
Burak Eral in various media
Burak Eral and his colleagues are developing a method that allows microparticles to be separated based on their shape.
03 September 2020
Lode Huijgens in Marine Professional
Exciting research by Lode Huijgens is helping to pave the way for the next generation of ship propulsion systems. Marine Professional finds out more.
03 September 2020
ERC Starting Grant for TU Delft researchers
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ERC has awarded its 2020 Starting Grants to early-career researchers. Two of them are scientists from TU Delft. This European funding will help individual scientists and scholars to build their own teams and conduct pioneering research.
03 September 2020
ERC Starting Grant for Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani
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The European Research Council has awarded an ERC Starting Grant to Peyman Mohajerin Esfahani, researcher at Delft Centre for Systems and Control. The grants (1,5 million euros for a five-year programme) are intended to support scientists who are in the early stages of their career and have already produced excellent supervised work.
03 September 2020
Rudy Negenborn in various media
How can transport on the Rhine between Rotterdam / Antwerp and Basel be improved? That is the central question in the Novimove research program: Novel inland waterway transport concepts for moving freight effectively. The European Commission has allocated nearly € 9 million to this four-year program from Horizon 2020, the Framework Program for Research and Innovation.
03 September 2020
First Clinical Technology Master's students graduate in the LDE context
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To bridge the ever-widening gap between technological innovation and medicine, the new Clinical Technology programme within the LDE alliance was launched six years ago.
03 September 2020
A protocol for flexible social distancing strategies
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Full and prolonged levels of lockdown are unsustainable in the long run. More flexible social distancing approaches are already being applied in many countries and regions, while the tools for decision-making are still ‘work in progress’. TU Delft researchers are using applied mathematics to propose a tool for local authorities that enables them to apply a faster and more flexible approach to social distancing.
31 August 2020
Leo Kestens in NRC
Answer to the question of why disposable razors become dull so quickly.
25 August 2020
Joost Lötters appointed part-time professor at PME
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We are pleased to announce that Joost Lötters has been appointed as a part-time professor within the Department of Precision and Microsystems Engineering (PME) of the Faculty of Mechanical, Maritime and Materials Engineering (3mE).
25 August 2020
TU Delft researchers separate microparticles on the basis of their shape
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Scientists in Delft have developed a technique for selectively separating microparticles in a liquid on the basis of their shape. The technique calculates precisely the path that a specifically shaped microparticle will follow in a flow through a narrow tube. This makes it possible to set up a sorting channel, in which the differently shaped particles each find their own way. The new technique, which was published today in the journal PNAS, can be used in a range of sectors, for example in the manufacture of medicines or removing microplastics from water.
06 August 2020
Heike Vallery in various media
As healthcare becomes increasingly complex, Professor Heike Vallery strives for simpler and lighter systems for learning to walk again.
31 July 2020
TU Delft research partner in innovative wind farm Hollandse Kust Noord
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As the research partner in the so-called Hollandse Kust Noord (HKN) project, TU Delft is playing a significant role. Once the wind farm has been built, researchers, led by Professor Jan-Willem van Wingerden, will be able to test their findings regarding wind energy in practice, and the amount of energy generated by the wind farm will be maximised.
30 July 2020
Joris Dik in various media
A group of TU Delft bachelor students, led by professor Joris Dik, understood the secret of a special piece of wall, without affecting it. Their graduation thesis was published this week in the scientific journal Heritage Science.
29 July 2020
TU Delft students reveal hidden inscriptions from NSB leader
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Led by Professor Joris Dik, a group of TU Delft bachelor's students was able to discover the secrets of this part of the wall without damaging it. The students’ graduation thesis was published this week in academic journal Heritage Science.
14 July 2020
Andrew Berry in various media
Researchers developed a backpack-like wearable robot to provide balance support during rehabilitation; the GyBAR.
14 July 2020
Daniel Lemus in various media
Researchers developed a backpack-like wearable robot to provide balance support during rehabilitation; the GyBAR.
14 July 2020
Saher Jabeen in various media
Researchers developed a backpack-like wearable robot to provide balance support during rehabilitation; the GyBAR.
14 July 2020
Recycling ammonia from animal manure is a good idea
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Mahinder Ramdin has been granted 50,000 euros from NWO’s ‘Idea Generator’ programme for his out-of-the-box research idea ‘Recycling of ammonia from animal manure’.
13 July 2020
Never fall again thanks to backpack-like wearable robot
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Balance aids currently used in daily life and rehabilitation clinics are helpful but far from perfect. Canes, walkers, crutches, and handrails modify posture and prevent the hands from being used during activities like opening doors, carrying shopping, or answering the telephone. Also more sophisticated tools like mobile bodyweight support systems or robotic gait trainers are bulky or can only be used in specific environments. Andrew Berry, Daniel Lemus and Saher Jabeen, researchers BioMechanical Engineering at TU Delft, led by Professor Heike Vallery, developed a backpack-like wearable robot to provide balance support during rehabilitation; the GyBAR. Fully contained within the backpack is a gyroscopic actuator – a spinning disc repositionable with electric motors – to provide hands-free balance support in multiple activities and environments. The results of the first experiments with human subjects and potential end-users have been published in Nature Scientific Reports.
13 July 2020
Jan-Henk Welink in Trouw
The global mountain of electronic waste is growing alarmingly fast.
13 July 2020
Open Science Awards for Joost de Winter and Pavlo Bazilinskyy
The Open Science Awards recognize researchers or research students who have used Open Science to make their research more accessible, transparent or reproducible.
08 July 2020
Year of the Lecturer 2020: A unique way of saying 'Thank you!'
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Changing 'the Lecturer of the Year elections' to 'The year of the Lecturer' and sending a nice thank you gift. What could it be?
06 July 2020
Arend Schwab in BNR
02 July 2020
Mechanical engineering students design inventive pack dog
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Parcel deliverers are faced with a challenge - partly due to the corona crisis - to deliver more and heavier parcels to people's homes. Our first-year students have a solution for this.
01 July 2020
Delft Technology Fellowship for Eline van der Kruk and Sabina Caneva
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More outstanding female academics with a tenure track position – that is one of TU Delft’s most important pillars. The Delft Technology Fellowship (DTF) was introduced to help achieve this aim. Eline van der Kruk and Sabina Caneva are two top-level scientists who have been given positions at the 3mE faculty. This year, eleven fellowships were granted.
01 July 2020
Gerwin Smit in various media
A team of researchers and students is launching a new type of ventilator that is purely mechanical and that you could easily build and repair yourself.
29 June 2020
Gerjo van Osch in various media
28 June 2020
Jaap Harlaar in various media
TU Delft Master's students of Technical Medicine, under the supervision of Prof. Jaap Harlaar, want to develop a simple and relatively inexpensive ventilator as soon as possible.
25 June 2020
Clinical technologists officially registered healthcare professionals
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Good news for the technical physicians who will be first to graduate from the joint programme at TU Delft, Erasmus MC and LUMC. They can use the legally protected title of clinical technologist and register in the BIG register. This makes them officially registered healthcare professionals allowed to carry out reserved procedures independently. Clinical technologists will be given first-line status and therefore have the authorisation to register and declare healthcare activities. This is a milestone in the positioning of this still recent professional field, according to programme directors Jaap Harlaar and Pleun Hermsen.
18 June 2020
e-Refinery in Delftse Post
Plants and trees are formed from CO2, sunlight and water. They created petroleum in the sea millions of years ago. When the products that we make from petroleum are burned, the CO2 in the air that took millions of years to form petroleum is released in a very short time. This CO2 contributes to the greenhouse effect and thus to global warming.