Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Vrije Universiteit Brussel

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The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) in Belgium was founded in 1970 and has since grown to the largest Dutch speaking university of Brussels with over 12,000 students. With a strong focus on sustainable development, the research group of Industrial Engineering Sciences in the Faculty of Engineering commenced research on energy harvesting and renewable energy to complement its existing research tracks on embedded electronic applications, parallel computing and wireless communication.
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2020
1 Dec 2020

Retinal Imaging Breakthrough to Swiftly Detect Eye Diseases

Glaucoma, cataracts or macular degeneration will be quicker and easier to diagnose thanks to a new scanner being developed to capture real-time and artefact-free eye images.
1 Jun 2020

Hydropower Plants to Support Solar and Wind Energy in West Africa

Hydropower plants can support solar and wind power, rather unpredictable by nature, in a climate-friendly manner. A new study in the scientific journal Nature Sustainability has now mapped the potential for such "solar-wind-water" strategies for West Africa: an important region where the power sector is still under development, and where generation capacity and power grids will be greatly expanded in the coming years.
2019
19 Aug 2019

Machine learning to help develop self-healing robots that 'feel pain'

Researchers will use self-healing materials and machine learning to develop soft robotics as part of a new collaborative project.
2017
29 Jun 2017

Robots to help children with autism

The Development of Robot-Enhanced therapy for children with AutisM spectrum disorders (DREAM) project will design robots that can operate autonomously and help the therapist to improve the child's social interaction skills, such as turn-taking, imitation and joint attention.
10 May 2017

Scalable Energy Harvesting For Decentralized, Smart, Autonomous Embedded Electronic Applications

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
5 Apr 2017

New insights and technologies to improve human-robot collaboration

Introducing new adaptive control software and using gestures to improve human-machine communication, Walt, a collaborative robot (cobot) has been developed that works alongside its human co-workers in a safe and flexible way.
2016
28 Apr 2016

Performance Analysis Of Photovoltaics Under Mixed Spectrum Indoor Artificial Lighting Conditions

Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
15 Feb 2016

Is the 45 km/h electric bike a real alternative for the car?

The Belgian Green politician Björn Rzoska has recently entered quite a remarkable commuting experiment. In the next three months, he will travel from his home to the Flemish Parliament in Brussels on a 45 km/h electric bike. As a result, he will be riding around 100 km a day.
2015
20 Oct 2015

First wirelessly charged, fully electric buses in Belgium

The first wirelessly charged, fully electric buses in Belgium started operation in Bruges on Saturday October 17.