Today, there are industries that utilize AGVs to transport goods and materials from one location to another. For smaller scale industries it is costly to have a custom made AGV for their manufacturing unit, so they modify the shape of an AGV to accommodate the necessity of carrying and transporting goods. When the shape of an AGV is modified the built-in sensors will not detect the change in shape of the AGV. Hence, there is a risk that the AGV may collide with objects. Also in some AGVs floor sensors are missing to detect the presence of floor/no floor in front of the AGV, which can be a hazardous situation as there are chances of the AGV falling off from the surface. An example of such an AGV is the Patrolbot which can travel around in an industrial premise wirelessly, but needs addition of such sensors to avoid collisions with the modified structure. A Patrolbot has been used in this thesis work and ultrasonic sensors are utilised for obstacle detection with a modified structure and a built-in laser scanner is studied for mapping purpose. The results of this master thesis was that the ultrasonic sensors were tested under various conditions and results were derived. To obtain the same level of results every time it is required to maintain the conditions on which the ultrasonic sensors rely.

Unlike in the so-called “Refugee crisis” 2015, the EU has so far reacted to Refugees from Ukraine collectively with unprecedented solidarity and activated the Temporary Protection Directive 2001/55/EC for the first time ever. TPD was adopted in 2001 as a response to the refugees fleeing the 1990s Yugoslavian wars into Central and Western Europe. TPD establishes minimum stand-ards in the event of a “mass influx” and grants refugees, if activated, temporary protection. This, however, has neither happened then nor in 2015. When compared to 2015, the discourse and pol-icy responses to refugees fleeing from Ukraine mark a puzzling change in the EU’s reaction to refugee movements. To better understand the unexpected change in the EU’s discourse and poli-cy responses to mass influxes, this thesis compares the EU’s justification discourse to mass in-fluxes in 2015 and 2022 and examines explanations of the different reactions of EU actors (Coun-cil and Member States, Commission, Parliament). To do so, it draws on scholarship from critical migration studies and critical humanitarianism as well as scholarship on EU migration govern-ance. To analyse the discourse and justification of policy responses, I deploy an innovative Dis-course Network Analysis. This method is well suited as it enables me to analyse the EU’s policy framing around mass influxes and policy responses systematically.:Einführung Forschungsfrage Forschungsansatz Analyse Ergebnisse

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The purpose of this study was to describe how mirrors affect contemporary dance pedagogy students’experiences of themselves. Empirical material was collected through semi-structured interviews with four dance pedagogy students at the School of Dance and Circus, and analyzed with the help of post-humanistic perspective and Lacanian mirror stage theory. The results suggest that mirrors are active agents that participate in several things, for example they create an evaluating gaze, objectification, alienation from the subject as a unity, experience of two-dimensional bodies and distraction. The results also suggest that the mirrors actively create afront and direction, and therefore they shield dancers from sensing their ‘inner selves’ as well as others in theroom, time and space. The feeling of success and mood affect the way dancers feel about their mirror images and themselves. In summary, this study stresses that the mirror, an object, is active and agentic, instead of thinking that the dancer is the only active part in the dancer-mirror relationship.

Made available in DSpace on 2014-12-17T15:37:17Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 AlenuskaNRQS_DISSERT.pdf: 781275 bytes, checksum: d75de5ab7f88cdf7e4e64acfc12884c5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-12-14 / This paper is a case study that aims to discuss the effects of drug abuse by a person with psychotic structure from a psychoanalytical perspective. The interest in this subject was born from an internship experience in the Mental Health area in which a psychotic patient had a drug abuse problem and the service treating him had difficulties dealing with this. In order to accomplish the objective of this work four theoretical chapters were written and the case is discussed throughout them articulating the theoretical issues with clinical practice. A literature review revealed that Freud and Lacan did not dedicate themselves to the study of the effect of drug use by psychotic patients but they made important contributions unfolding the theoretical and clinical psychoanalytical practice. Contemporary psychoanalytic authors suggest that the drug use made by psychotics differs from the use by neurotics, because of the particularity of the psychotic structure. It was found that drug use in psychosis can operate in three different ways: the first refers to drug use as substitute of a missing signifier helping the psychotic patient building a social bond. The second function is to intensify psychotic phenomena and the third function is to operate as an attempt to diminish those same phenomena. We conclude that, while the use of drugs in neurosis provides an individualist way of satisfaction, that excludes social aspects. For psychosis such use may operate differently and may play a role in social integration, among others effects. Such discussion can help move forward the direction of treatment of psychosis when the case involves drug use / O presente trabalho tem o objetivo de discutir, a partir de um caso cl?nico e ? luz da psican?lise, quais os diferentes modos de opera??o do uso de drogas sobre a estrutura psic?tica e quais seriam os efeitos e as particularidades dessa articula??o. O interesse pelo tema nasceu a partir de uma experi?ncia de est?gio na ?rea de Sa?de Mental, na qual havia um paciente psic?tico que fazia uso de drogas, assim como existia uma dificuldade do servi?o em como e onde tratar esse usu?rio. Para atingirmos nosso objetivo, constru?mos quatro cap?tulos te?ricos nos quais o caso cl?nico ? retomado algumas vezes em articula??o com as discuss?es levantadas, a fim de aproximarmos a pesquisa te?rica com a pr?tica cl?nica, o que caracteriza o m?todo deste trabalho como te?rico-cl?nico. A revis?o de literatura revelou que Freud e Lacan n?o se dedicaram ao estudo dessa tem?tica, mas deram contribui??es importantes que se desdobram atualmente no campo te?rico e na pr?tica cl?nica. Autores psicanal?ticos contempor?neos apontam que o uso feito por psic?ticos ? diferente do uso feito por neur?ticos, pois o psic?tico possui particularidades que s?o de estrutura. Constatou-se que o uso de drogas na psicose pode operar de tr?s modos distintos: o primeiro refere-se ao uso de droga enquanto supl?ncia ? aus?ncia do significante que insere o psic?tico no la?o social; O segundo tem a fun??o de intensifica??o dos fen?menos psic?ticos e o terceiro opera como tentativa de apaziguamento desses mesmos fen?menos. Conclui-se que, enquanto o uso de drogas na neurose pode oferecer um modo de satisfa??o individualista que prescinde do social, na psicose esse uso pode operar de maneira diversa, podendo ter uma fun??o de desencadeamento, de estabiliza??o, de inser??o social, dentre outras. Tal discuss?o permite avan?armos na dire??o do tratamento da psicose, quando o caso inclui o uso de drogas, bem como na dire??o do tratamento das toxicomanias