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Game Mechanics as Thinking Mechanisms for Urban Development: Critical Making of a Serious Game Dubbed City Makers Universiteit Hasselt
We witness a growing interest from urban designers in technology to understand cities as complex systems. However, more than often, the use of such technologies is a one-way knowledge generation, meaning that the urban designer is the one benefiting the most. Serious games have the ability to create concepts that lead to a better understanding of the issues that arise in urban development, improving society's implication in the process. This ...
The mechanics and mechanisms of tourism brokering KU Leuven
Although most forms of tourism are, and have always been, highly mediated activities, surprisingly little scholarly attention has been given to the crucial role of human brokers in tourism.
Fictional mechanism explanations : clarifying explanatory holes in engineering science Universiteit Gent
Levosimendan : molecular mechanisms and clinical implications: consensus of experts on the mechanisms of action of levosimendan Universiteit Gent
Cylindrical cam mechanism for unlimited subsequent spring recruitment in Series-Parallel Elastic Actuators Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Series-Parallel Elastic Actuators (SPEA) enable variable recruitment of parallel springs and variable load cancellation. In previous work, we validated a MACCEPA-based SPEA prototype with a self-closing intermittent mechanism, to reduce motor load and improve energy efficiency. However, the mechanism only allowed for 4 parallel springs and a limited equilibrium angle range, which limits the variable load cancellation and operation range. ...
Series-Parallel Elastic Actuation (SPEA) with intermittent mechanism for reduced motor torque and increased efficiency Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Future robots will need to perform com-
plex and versatile tasks comparable to those of hu-
mans. Due to the unavailability of suitable actuators,
however, novel intelligent and agile robots are often
restricted in their performances and development.
The limited output torque range and low energy
efficiency of current robotic actuators are the main
bottlenecks. We have developed an SPEA with in- ...
plex and versatile tasks comparable to those of hu-
mans. Due to the unavailability of suitable actuators,
however, novel intelligent and agile robots are often
restricted in their performances and development.
The limited output torque range and low energy
efficiency of current robotic actuators are the main
bottlenecks. We have developed an SPEA with in- ...
Simulations of Advanced Combustion Modes Using Detailed Chemistry Combined with Tabulation and Mechanism Reduction Techniques Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Multi-dimensional models represent today consolidated tools to simulate the combustion process in HCCI and Diesel engines. Various approaches are available for this purpose, it is however widely accepted that detailed chemistry represents a fundamental prerequisite to obtain satisfactory results when the engine runs with complex injection strategies or advanced combustion modes. Yet, integrating such mechanisms generally results in prohibitive ...
Analysis of the dynamics of a slider-crank mechanism locally actuated with an act-and-wait controller Vrije Universiteit Brussel
Traditional use of slider-crank mechanisms result in high loads transmitted through the mechanical structure, inhibiting the design of a compact machine. Therefore, this paper proposes to step away from the conventional, i.e. rotative, actuation and to investigate local linear actuation of the slider-component directly, while maintaining the kinematic link. In this work the equation of motion and corresponding non-isochronous movement are ...
Descartes, corpuscles and reductionism : mechanism and systems in Descartes' physiology Universiteit Gent
I argue that Descartes explains physiology in terms of whole systems, and not in terms of the size, shape and motion of tiny corpuscles (corpuscular mechanics). It is a standard, entrenched view that Descartes’s proper means of explanation in the natural world is through strict reduction to corpuscular mechanics. This view is bolstered by a handful of corpuscular-mechanical explanations in Descartes’s physics, which have been taken to be ...