Delft University of Technology

Aerial tactile perching via an anthropomorphic hand with embodied soft tactile receptors

Abstract Aerial robots are widely employed for exploration, inspection, and environmental monitoring, where their agility and maneuverability are strong assets. However, their endurance remains limited, inhibiting their applicability in long-term missions. Perching, the ability t...

Cycling speed and weather: Roles of cyclist weather-sensitivity, spatial and infrastructural conditions

Weather significantly influences cycling speed, and this influence increases with climate change. It is related to cycling attractiveness, but little evidence exists. This study examines this influence, considering the self-selection bias that some people avoid cycling during bad...

Investigating and comparing user experiences at EV charging and petroleum fueling stations

Light duty electrification requires DC charging stations to take over the current role of petroleum stations. However, charging and fueling systems differ substantially in technology, user behavior, and business models. This study analyzes thousands of reviews for petroleum stati...

Decarbonizing construction: a multi-level perspective analysis of green concrete transition in the Netherlands

Purpose The Netherlands is one of the frontrunners in green concrete with innovative pilot projects and institutional settings (e.g. concrete agreement). However, mainstreaming green concrete needs to further overcome economic, institutional, technical and social barriers. Especi...

Persistence of entangled states and high-fidelity quantum gate operations in Si/SiGe spin qubits at high temperature

We characterize single- and two-qubit operations in a SiGe quantum dot array, from the perspective of its quantum information processing capabilities. The analysis includes rigorous randomized benchmarking of single- and two-qubit gates, state preparation and measurement characte...

Hybrid flax/carbon bonded composite patches for strengthening of steel plates: layup and adhesive effect

Adhesive bonding of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer (FRP) patches is increasingly used to strengthen steel structures. Considering that carbon FRP (CFRP) and epoxy adhesives are the primary materials in industrial applications, this study explores the feasibility of hybridizing CFRPs wi...

Economic and behavioural policy coupling has divergent effects on electric vehicle adoption at individual and system scales

Abstract Policy mixes are key to accelerating low-carbon transitions. Yet, how combined policies impact electric vehicle (EV) adoption decisions and scale up to system-level diffusion remains unclear. Here we combine individual-level and system-level analyses to investigate how a...

Impedance pneumography to explore bronchial obstruction in young infants born moderate-late preterm: a cohort study

Background Wheezing, a symptom reflecting bronchial obstruction, is frequently reported in preterm-born infants. No objective and reliable tool is available to assert this diagnosis with minimal patient cooperation. Nocturnal tidal breathing measurements by impedance pneumography...

Amplification of computational power by the multiplication of bacteria exploring microfluidic networks encoding mathematical problems

Computational resources required for solving NP-complete problems grow exponentially with a polynomial increase in problem size. This exponentially increasing computational resource is runtime for sequential electronic computers and space for massively parallel DNA computing. Her...

Beyond the main mode: the contribution of access and egress trips in door-to-door travel

Access and egress trips constitute a substantial part of a train trip in minds of travellers, often being the deciding factor whether to travel by train at all. Despite a host of studies analysing individual legs within a multimodal trip chain, the full chain within a multimodal...

Curating Visual Thinking: Virtual Exhibitions in Foundation Architecture Design Education

The early design courses engage and hone students’ visual, spatial, and communicative skills so that first-year design students begin to understand composition, abstraction, hierarchy, development of process, and representation through experimental, process-driven exercises. Exhi...

Interface engineering enables fast bainitic transformations with minimal alloying

Abstract Fine microstructures in steels are commonly produced by the low-temperature decomposition of austenite. Bainite is one such microstructure, combining high strength and excellent toughness, but its formation kinetics is sluggish. Here, we demonstrate a strategy to acceler...

From garden city planning to World Heritage property: the cultural significance of the nature–culture relations of Tel Aviv

Abstract This paper identifies how the cultural significance attributed to nature–culture relations evolves over time and among institutions, using the White City of Tel Aviv as a case study. It compares how nature–culture relations, conceptualised as valued attributes in Patrick...

Climate change may increase landslide frequency despite generally drier conditions in the Mediterranean area

Abstract. This study presents a methodological framework to investigate the impacts of climate change on rainfall-triggered landslides at the subregional scale. Focusing on a ∼170 km2 area in the Partenio Mountains in southern Italy, we employed regional rainfall projections (COR...

Multi-strategy wind farm control: alternating wake steering and helix wake mixing on a large-scale wind farm

Abstract. Wind farm flow control mitigates wake effects by adjusting turbine settings to improve overall farm performance rather than the output of each turbine. Wake steering is an established wind farm flow control approach, while the helix method has recently emerged as a prom...

A Multilaboratory Evaluation of Backwater Effects at Bridges Resulting from Diverse Floating Debris Compositions during the 2021 Flood Event in Europe

Abstract The flood event of July 2021 in Western Europe was characterized by water levels far above the 100-year design flood and by billions of euros in damages. During the flood, voluminous debris accumulations of up to <mml:math xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" a...

Discovery–driven capabilities in SMEs: A Kirznerian perspective on firm–level opportunity discovery and adaptation

Small and Medium–Sized Enterprises (SMEs) rarely engage in resource reconfiguration processes. Instead, constrained by their size and scope, they typically renew their existing resources through ongoing adaptive engagement with their environment. This process raises questions whe...

Scenario-based energy simulation of tree planting strategies to reduce the heating and cooling demand of buildings under 2050 climate conditions

Abstract. Urban areas account for a large share of global energy use and emissions and face increasing climate- and heat-related challenges. These conditions drive the development of district-scale strategies such as Positive Energy Districts. Urban Building Energy Modelling (UBE...

Counterfactual load forecasting with LLM-structured events and representation learning

News-reported social, environmental, and grid events can substantially reshape electricity demand, yet quantifying how such events perturb forecasted load trajectories remains largely unaddressed. Existing news-augmented forecasting studies use news as auxiliary features to reduc...

Influence of automated façades on the soundscape outside of buildings

As automation is progressively more present in buildings, it is important to understand its impact on people’s experience of urban environments. This case study investigated how one automated shading system with motorized venetian blinds affects sound perception of the acoustic e...