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Elisabeth Fassbender, Josef Rott and Claudia Hemmerle
Cities face the consequences of climate change, specifically the urban heat island (UHI) effect, which detrimentally affects human health. In this regard, deploying PV modules in urban locales prompts inquiry into the impact of energy-active building com...
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Sevda Aliparast and Sermin Onaygil
In this field study, we examined the impact of human-centered lighting on an open-plan office environment, involving the participation of sixty office workers. The objective was to investigate the effects of the Circadian Stimulus (CS) and Equivalent Mel...
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Ping Chen, Lufeng Nie, Jinrun Kang and Heng Liu
With urban development and renewal, underground space is becoming more utilized. The design and use of open underground public space entrances and exits have become more and more frequent. As a pedestrian passage connecting indoors and outdoors, the wind...
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Jinghang Xiao, Bo Liang, Jia?an Niu and Can Qin
In response to the special feature of the east?west oriented road tunnel entrance being easily exposed to direct sunlight, a study was conducted on the glare phenomenon at the access zone for this type of tunnel and on the time-varying characteristics of...
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Hongguo Ren, Yujun Wang, Jing Zhang, Ziming Zheng and Qingqin Wang
As the quality of life and the spiritual and cultural well-being of the inhabitants progress, the current rural infrastructure has challenges in adequately addressing the physical and psychological requirements of individuals. This work presents a method...
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Romina Rissetto and Marcel Schweiker
Rising global temperatures have increased the need for research into human adaptability and comfort in buildings. To reduce comfort-related energy demands, low-energy-consumption alternatives for space cooling, such as personal environmental control syst...
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Byoung-Gyu Song, Jong-Jin Bae and Namcheol Kang
We investigated the stochastic response of a person sitting in a driving vehicle to quantify the impact of an uncertain parameter important in controlling defect reduction in terms of ride comfort. Using CarSim software and MATLAB/Simulink, we developed ...
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Nikolaos Kladovasilakis, Ioannis Kostavelis, Paschalis Sideridis, Eleni Koltzi, Konstantinos Piliounis, Dimitrios Tzetzis and Dimitrios Tzovaras
During the last decade, soft robotic systems, such as actuators and grippers, have been employed in various commercial applications. Due to the need to integrate robotic mechanisms into devices operating alongside humans, soft robotic systems concentrate...
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Chien-Yu Su and Kuu-Young Young
In facing the outbreak of the pandemic, robots are highly appealing for their non-contact nature. Among them, we have selected the mobile robot manipulator to develop an autonomous system for pandemic prevention, as it possesses both mobility and manipul...
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Fei Yu, Bang Liang, Bo Tang and Hongrun Wu
The Interior layout model is to optimize the arrangement position of each room to maximize the comfort and quality of life of residents. Due to the complexity of the Interior layout problem, the computation of fitness function costs lots of time. To redu...
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