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Integration of BACNET OPC UA-Devices Using a JAVA OPC UA SDK Server with BACNET Open Source Library
(2014)
Taschenbuch Digitaltechnik
(2014)
Das Taschenbuch Digitaltechnik wendet sich an Studierende und Schüler in der Ausbildung sowie an Wissenschaftler und Ingenieure in der Praxis. Es gibt einen Überblick über Grundlagen und Details der Digitaltechnik sowie ausgewählte Anwendungen und enthält aktuelles Faktenwissen in kompakter und strukturierter Form.
Das Taschenbuch Digitaltechnik dient zum schnellen Nachschlagen von Fachbegriffen und Abkürzungen bietet ein umfangreiches, fachlich gegliedertes Literaturverzeichnis für weiterführende Studien ist unentbehrlich bei Prüfungsvorbereitungen und Klausuren.
Die 3. Auflage zeichnet sich aus durch:
- eine vollständige Überarbeitung und Aktualisierung aller Kapitel
- Ausbau des Themenbereichs Analog/Digital-Umsetzer und Digital/Analog-Umsetzer
- zahlreiche verbesserte bzw. neue Abbildungen
Geschichte(n) der Medizin
(2015)
Renommierte Autoren erzählen lebendige und mitreißende Geschichte(n) der Medizin über Krankheiten, Ärzte und Forscher.
-Wie kam es zur Entdeckung des Blutkreislaufes, wo man doch lange Zeit glaubte, die Leber produziere täglich Tausende von Litern Blut?
-Warum sind Hirnschrittmacher erst viel später als Herzschrittmacher auf der medizinischen Bühne erschienen, wo doch das Gehirn schon in der Antike trepaniert und erforscht wurde?
-Die Antworten auf diese und andere Fragen werden nicht nur wissenschaftlich exakt, sondern auch überaus unterhaltsam gegeben.
-Beachtlich, dass Friedrich II. von Preußen auch begnadeter Hobby-Arzt war.
-Bemerkenswert, wie eine Frau zu einer Zeit zielstrebig Ärztin wurde, als nur Männer Medizin studieren durften.
-Bewegend die Erlebnisse eines Arztes an der Front.
-Faszinierend, wie ein „Wunderdoktor“ reihenweise Frauen in Ohnmacht versetzte, um sie zu heilen; er wurde damit zum Mitbegründer der Psychotherapie.
-Das Buch knüpft mit diesen und weiteren Erzählungen an den großen Erfolg des ersten Bandes an und bietet in populärwissenschaftlicher Weise neues Lese- und Bildungsvergnügen.
PET and SPECT in Neurology
(2014)
PET and SPECT in Neurology highlights the combined expertise of renowned authors whose dedication to the investigation of neurological disorders through nuclear medicine technology has achieved international recognition. Classical neurodegenerative disorders are discussed as well as cerebrovascular disorders, brain tumors, epilepsy, head trauma, coma, sleeping disorders, and inflammatory and infectious diseases of the CNS. The latest results in nuclear brain imaging are detailed. Most chapters are written jointly by a clinical neurologist and a nuclear medicine specialist to ensure a multidisciplinary approach. This state-of-the-art compendium will be valuable to anybody in the field of neuroscience, from the neurologist and the radiologist/nuclear medicine specialist to the interested general practitioner and geriatrician. It is the second volume of a trilogy on PET and SPECT imaging in the neurosciences, the other volumes covering PET and SPECT in psychiatry and in neurobiological systems.
Geschichte(n) der Medizin
(2014)
Seit Menschengedenken schreibt die Medizin ihre eigene(n) Geschichte(n). Bis heute faszinieren Berichte über Krankheiten oder Todesfolgen vergangener Zivilisationen, Herrscher und Persönlichkeiten. In diesem Band werden ausgewählte Vitae aus der Zeit zwischen dem zweiten Jahrhundert vor Christus und heute exemplarisch und kurzweilig vorgestellt.
Doch nicht nur die hier wiedergegebenen Krankheitsverläufe der prominenten Protagonisten faszinieren. Mindestens genauso bemerkenswert sind die dargestellten Veränderungen von Moral-Vorstellungen innerhalb der Geschichte(n): So verbietet beispielsweise der Eid des Hippokrates das Blasenstein¬-Schneiden – doch heute ist die Entfernung von Nephrolithen immanenter Bestandteil der Urologie. Und während die Deklaration des Weltärztebundes aus dem Jahr 1948 – das sogenannte Genfer Gelöbnis – den Schwangerschaftsabbruch noch ablehnt, ist dieser heutzutage (in engen Grenzen) erlaubt.
Den renommierten Autoren des vorliegenden Bandes gelingt es mühelos und mitreißend, Geschichte(n) der Medizin in Biografien und Erzählungen lebendig werden zu lassen. Ihre historischen Betrachtungen sind gleichermaßen unterhaltsam wie lehrreich.
Extended Performance Measurements of Scalable 6LoWPAN Networks in an Automated Physical Testbed
(2015)
IPv6 over Low power Wireless Personal Area Networks, also known as 6LoWPAN, is becoming more and more a de facto standard for such communications for the Internet of Things, be it in the field of home and building automation, of industrial and process automation, or of smart metering and environmental monitoring. For all of these applications, scalability is a major precondition, as the complexity of the networks continuously increase. To maintain this growing amount of connected nodes a various 6LoWPAN implementations are available. One of the mentioned was developed by the authors' team and was tested on an Automated Physical Testbed for Wireless Systems at the Laboratory Embedded Systems and Communication Electronics of Offenburg University of Applied Sciences, which allows the flexible setup and full control of arbitrary topologies. It also supports time-varying topologies and thus helps to measure performance of the RPL implementation. The results of the measurements prove an excellent stability and a very good short and long-term performance also under dynamic conditions. In all measurements, there is an advantage of minimum 10% with regard to the average times, like global repair time; but the advantage with reagr to average values can reach up to 30%. Moreover, it can be proven that the performance predictions from other papers are consistent with the executed real-life implementations.
The overview of public key infrastructure based security approaches for vehicular communications
(2015)
Modern transport infrastructure becomes a full member of globally connected network. Leading vehicle manufacturers have already triggered development process, output of which will open a new horizon of possibilities for consumers and developers by providing a new communication entity - a car, thus enabling Car2X communications. Nevertheless some of available systems already provide certain possibilities for vehicles to communicate, most of them are considered not sufficiently secured. During last 15 years a number of big research projects funded by European Union and USA governments were started and concluded after which a set of standards were published prescribing a common architecture for Car2X and vehicles onboard communications. This work concentrates on combining inner and outer vehicular communications together with a use of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI).
The aim of this research work was to develop a boiler model with few parameters required for energy planning. The showcase considered for this work was the boiler system of the energy center at Offenburg University of Applied Sciences. A grey box model of the boiler was developed systematically starting from model abstraction, simplification, model break-down and to the use of empirical correlations wherever necessary to describe the intermediate effects along with the use of information from manufacturer’s specification in order to reduce parameters. This strategy had resulted in a boiler model with only 6 parameters, namely, nominal burner capacity, water gallery capacity, air ratio, heat capacity of wall, thermal conductance on flue gas and hot water side. Most of these parameters can be obtained through the information available in the spec sheets and thus an energy planner will be able to parameterize the model with low effort. The model was validated with the monitored data of the showcase. It was tested for the start-up, shut-down behavior and the effect of storage.
Der Studienbeginn wird an der Hochschule Offenburg durch Vorbereitungskurse, sogenannte Brückenkurse, unterstützt. Wir stellen vorläufige Ergebnisse beim Einsatz von Smartphones und Tablets im Rahmen des Physik-Brückenkurses vor, bei dem die Studenten Hilfen zum selbständigen Üben durch eine App erhalten. Durch die Überarbeitung des Kurses und den Einsatz der App konnte der Teilnehmerschwund verringert werden. Die Evaluationsergebnisse bestätigen eine hohe Akzeptanz der Neuerungen seitens der Studierenden. Erste Auswertungen von Ein- und Ausgangstests deuten darauf hin, dass durch den Brückenkurs eine Angleichung der Vorkenntnisse der Studienanfänger erreicht wird, da Teilnehmer mit geringeren Vorkenntnissen tendenziell einen größeren Lernfortschritt erreichen. Durch unterschiedliche Schwierigkeitsstufen und selbstregulierte Übungsphasen in individuellem Tempo können aber auch die Erfordernisse der stärkeren Teilnehmer angemessen berücksichtigt werden.
We propose secure multi-party computation techniques for the distributed computation of the average using a privacy-preserving extension of gossip algorithms. While recently there has been mainly research on the side of gossip algorithms (GA) for data aggregation itself, to the best of our knowledge, the aforementioned research line does not take into consideration the privacy of the entities involved. More concretely, it is our objective to not reveal a node's private input value to any other node in the network, while still computing the average in a fully-decentralized fashion. Not revealing in our setting means that an attacker gains only minor advantage when guessing a node's private input value. We precisely quantify an attacker's advantage when guessing - as a mean for the level of data privacy leakage of a node's contribution. Our results show that by perturbing the input values of each participating node with pseudo-random noise with appropriate statistical properties (i) only a minor and configurable leakage of private information is revealed, by at the same time (ii) providing a good average approximation at each node. Our approach can be applied to a decentralized prosumer market, in which participants act as energy consumers or producers or both, referred to as prosumers.
In this paper an RFID/NFC (ISO 15693 standard) based inductively powered passive SoC (system on chip) for biomedical applications is presented. A brief overview of the system design, layout techniques and verification method is dis-cussed here. The SoC includes an integrated 32 bit microcontroller, sensor interface circuit, analog to digital converter, integrated RAM, ROM and some other peripherals required for the complete passive operation. The entire chip is realized in CMOS 0.18 μm technology with a chip area of 1.52mm x 3.24 mm.
This work describes a camera-based method for the calibration of optical See-Through Glasses (STGs). A new calibration technique is introduced for calibrating every single display pixel of the STGs in order to overcome the disadvantages of a parametric model. A non-parametric model compared to the parametric one has the advantage that it can also map arbitrary distortions. The new generation of STGs using waveguide-based displays [5] will have higher arbitrary distortions due to the characteristics of their optics. First tests show better accuracies than in previous works. By using cameras which are placed behind the displays of the STGs, no error prone user interaction is necessary. It is shown that a high accuracy tracking device is not necessary for a good calibration. A camera mounted rigidly on the STGs is used to find the relations between the system components. Furthermore, this work elaborates on the necessity of a second subsequent calibration step which adapts the STGs to a specific user. First tests prove the theory that this subsequent step is necessary.
Autonomous humanoid robots need high torque actuators to be able to walk and run. One problem in this context is the heat generated. In this paper we propose to use water evaporation to improve cooling of the motors. Simulations based on thermodynamic calculations as well as measurements on real actuators show that, under the assumption of the load of a soccer game, cooling can be considerably improved with relatively small amounts of water.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established biventricular pacing therapy in heart failure patients with left bundle branch block and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, but not all patients improved clinically as CRT responder. Purpose of the study was to evaluate electrical left atrial conduction delay (LACD) with focused transesophageal electrocardiography in CRT responder and CRT non-responder.
Methods: Twenty heart failure patients (age 66.6±8.2 years; 2 females, 18 males) with New York Heart Association functional class 3.0±0.3 and 174.2±40.2ms QRS duration were analysed using posterior left atrial transesophageal electrocardiography with hemispherical electrodes. Electrical LACD was measured between onset and offset of transesophageal left atrial signal before implantation of CRT devices.
Results: Electrical LACD could be evaluated by bipolar transesophageal left atrial electrocardiography using TO Osypka electrode in all heart failure patients with negative correlation between 54.7±18.1ms LACD and 24.9±6.4% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.65, P=0.002). There were 16 CRT responders with reduction of New York Heart Association functional class from 3.0±0.29 to 2.1±0.2 (r=0.522, P=0.038) during 9.41±10.96 month biventricular pacing and negative correlation between 49.6±14.2ms LACD and 26.0±6.2% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.533, P=0.034). There were 4 CRT non-responders with no reduction of New York Heart Association functional class from 3.0±0.4 to 2.8±0.5 (r=0.816, P=0.184) during with 13.88±16.39 month biventricular pacing and no correlation between 75.25±19.17ms LACD and 20.75±6.4% left ventricular ejection fraction (r=-0.831, P=0.169).
Conclusions: Focused transesophageal left atrial electrocardiography can be utilized to analyse electrical LACD in heart failure patients. LACD correlated negative with left ventricular ejection fraction in CRT responders. LACD may be a useful parameter to evaluate electrical left atrial desynchronization in heart failure patients.
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) is an established class I level A biventricular pacing therapy in chronic heart failure patients with left bundle branch block and reduced left ventricular ejection fraction, but not all patients improved clinically. Purpose of the study was to evaluate electrical interatrial conduction delay (IACD) to interventricular conduction delay (IVCD) ratio with focused transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography.
Methods: Thirty eight chronic heart failure patients (age 63.4±10.2 years; 3 females, 35 males) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class 3.0±0.2 and 171.71±36.17ms QRS duration were analysed using posterior left atrial and left ventricular transesophageal electrocardiography with hemispherical electrodes before CRT. Electrical IACD was measured between onset of P-wave in the surface ECG and onset of left atrial signal. Electrical IVCD was measured between onset of QRS complex in the surface ECG and onset of left ventricular signal.
Results: Electrical IACD and IVCD could be evaluated by transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography in all heart failure patients with correlation to 1.18±0.92 IACD-IVCD-ratio (r=-0.57, P<0.001; r=0.66, P<0.001). There were 32 CRT responder with reduction of NYHA class from 3.0±0.22 to 1.97±0.31 (P<0.001) during 16.5±18.9 month CRT with 75.19±33.49ms IACD, 78.91±24.73ms IVCD, 1.04±0.66 IACD-IVCD-ratio and correlation between IACD and IACDIVCD- ratio (r=0.84, P<0.001). There were 6 CRT nonresponder with no reduction of NYHA class from 3.0±0.3 to 2.9±0.5 during 14.3±13.7 month biventricular pacing, 50.0±28.26ms IVCD (P=0.014), 1.92±1.65 IACD-IVCD-ratio (P=0,029) and correlation between 67.0±24.9ms IACD and IACD-IVCD-ratio (r=0.85, P=0.031).
Conclusions: Focused transesophageal left atrial and left ventricular electrocardiography can be utilized to analyse electrical IACD and IVCD in heart failure patients. IACDIVDC- ratio may be a useful parameter to evaluate electrical left cardiac desynchronization in heart failure patients.
Hintergrund: Das elektrische interventrikuläre Delay (IVD) und die Lage der linksventrikulären (LV) Elektrode zum Ort der spätesten LV Erregung sind bei Patienten (P) mit Herzinsuffizienz (HF), reduzierter LV Funktion und breiter QRS Dauer (QRSD) von Bedeutung für den Erfolg der kardialen Resynchronisationstherapie (CRT). Die LV Elektrokardiographie ermöglicht eine Abschätzung des elektrischen IVD. Ziel der Studie besteht in der nicht-invasiven Evaluierung des elektrischen IVD bei Patienten (P) mit Vorhofflimmern (AFib) mit und ohne CRT mit biventrikulärer (BV) Stimulation.
Methoden: Bei 49 HF P mit AFib (Alter 63,9 ± 10,8 Jahre; 43 Männer und 6 Frauen) mit New York Heart Association (NYHA) Klasse 2,9 ± 0,4, LV Ejektionsfraktion 26,03 ± 7,99 % und QRS-Dauer (QRSD) 143,69 ± 35,62 ms wurde das elektrische IVD als Intervall zwischen Beginn des QRS-Komplexes im Oberflächen EKG und Beginn des LV Signals im transösophagealen LV EKG bei 31 HF P mit AFib und bei 18 HF P mit AFib und CRT präoperativ bestimmt. Das fokussierte bipolare LV EKG wurde mittels Osypka TO Sonde mit halbkugelförmigen Elektroden in Höhe des maximalen LV Signals registriert.
Ergebnisse: Bei 31 HF P mit AFib betrugen QRSD 135,48 ± 38,78 ms, IVD 49,55 ± 26,38 ms, QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis 3,12 ± 1,11 und das IVD korrelierte mit der QRSD (r=0,75, P<0,001) und dem QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis (r=-0,67, P<0,001) (Fig.). Bei 18 HF P mit AFib und CRT Defibrillator betrugen QRSD 157,83 ± 24,38 ms, IVD 61,94 ± 26,88 ms, QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis 3,12 ± 1,89 und das IVD korrelierte mit der QRSD (r=0,47, P=0,049) und dem QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis (r=-0,73, P<0,001). Bei 72,2 % CRT Responder (R) (n=13) betrugen QRSD 158,15 ± 22,4 ms, IVD 64,23 ± 24,62 ms, QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis 2,82 ± 1,32 und das IVD korrelierte mit der QRSD (r=0,57, P=0,043) und dem QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis (r=-0,76, P=0,0024). Bei 27,8 % CRT Non-Responder (NR) (n=5) betrugen QRSD 157 ± 31,94 ms, IVD 56 ± 34,52 ms, QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis 3,88 ± 2,98 und das IVD korrelierte nicht mit der QRSD (r=0,33, P=0,591) und dem QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis (r=-0,732, P=0,159). Die CRT R verbesserten sich in der NYHA Klasse von 3 ± 0,2 auf 2,2 ± 0,3 (P<0,001) während 15,3 ± 13,1 Monaten BV Stimulation. Bei 15 CRT NR kam es zu keiner Verbesserung der NYHA Klasse von 3 auf 3,3 ± 0,97 (P=0,529) während 18,8 ± 20,7 Monaten BV Stimulation.
Schlussfolgerungen: Das transösophageale LV EKG ermöglicht bei HF-P mit AFib die nichtinvasive Messung des elektrischen IVD präoperativ vor CRT. IVD und QRSD-IVD-Verhältnis sind möglicherweise einfach anwendbare Parameter zur Vorhersage von CRT R und CRT NR bei P mit AFib.
Android is an operating system which was developed for use in smart mobile phones and is the current leader in this market. A lot of efforts are being spent to make Android available to the embedded world, as well. Many embedded systems do not have a local GUI and are therefore called headless devices. This paper presents the results of an analysis of the general suitability of Anroid in headless embedded systems and ponders the advantages and disadvantages. It focuses on the hardware related issues, i.e. to what extent Android supports hardware peripherals normally used in embedded systems.
Pressure dynamics in metal-oxygen (metal-air) batteries: a case study on sodium superoxide cells
(2014)
Electrochemical reactions in metal–oxygen batteries come along with the consumption or release of gaseous oxygen. We present a novel methodology for investigating electrode reactions and transport phenomena in metal–oxygen batteries by measuring the pressure dynamics in an enclosed gas reservoir above the oxygen electrode. The methodology is exemplified by a room-temperature sodium–oxygen battery forming sodium superoxide (NaO2) in an electrolyte of diethylene glycol dimethyl ether (diglyme) and sodium trifluoromethanesulfonate (NaOSO2CF3, NaOTf). The experiments are supported by microkinetic simulations with a one-dimensional multiphysics continuum model. During galvanostatic cycling over 30 cycles, a constant oxygen consumption/release rate is observed upon discharge/charge. The number of transferred electrons per oxygen molecule is calculated to 1.01 ± 0.02 and 1.03 ± 0.02 for discharge and charge, respectively, confirming the nature of the oxygen reaction product as superoxide O2–. The same ratio is observed in cyclic voltammetry experiments with low scan rate (<1 mV/s). However, at higher scan rates, the ratio increases as a result of oxygen transport limitations in the electrolyte. We introduce electrochemical pressure impedance spectroscopy (EPIS) for simultaneously analyzing current, voltage, and pressure of electrochemical cells. Pressure recording significantly increases the sensitivity of impedance toward oxygen transport properties of the porous electrode systems. In addition, we report experimental data on the diffusion coefficient and solubility of oxygen in electrolyte solutions as important parameters for the microkinetic models.
Special implant connection module was developed to combine full features of two commercial heart rhythm simulators, ARSI-4 and Intersim II, into a master-slave teaching system. Seven workstations were equipped with the Carelink and Homemonitoring remote patient monitoring systems. This combination enables in-vitro training of physicians, nurses and students in pace-maker and defibrillator measurements during implantation and individual programming in the follow-up. Thus, extended sets of arrhythmias and electrode problems can be used to simulate problems and their solutions in a wide range of the clinical routine.
Soccer simulation league is one of the founding leagues of RoboCup. In this paper we discuss the past, present and planned future achievements and changes. Also we summarize the connections and inter-league achievements of this league and provide an overview of the community contributions that made this league successful.
This paper investigates the maximum torque capability and torque ripple reduction using the asymmetric stator teeth for interior permanence magnet (IPM) synchronous machines. Traditional electric machines have the identical width for all stator teeth and the winding function is fixed. Using different widths for different stator teeth changes the winding function, therefore, the torque ripple components. The mathematical modeling of interior permanent magnet (IPM) synchronous machine torque ripple and finite element analysis simulation results for the characteristic properties of electric machines are presented. Compared with a similar rating IPM machine, certain combinations of the teeth widths can reduce the torque ripple by 80% with less than 4% average torque decline.
In this paper we propose a motion framework forbipedal robots that decouples motion definitions from stabilizingthe robot. This simplifies motion definitions yet allows dynamicmotion adaptations. Two applications, walking and stopping onone leg, demonstrate the power of the framework. We show thatour framework is able to perform walking and stopping on one legeven under extreme conditions and improves walking benchmarkssignificantly in the RoboCup 3D soccer simulation domain.
Der Übergang Schule-Studium wird an der Hochschule Offenburg im Vorbereitungskurs Mathematik per Smartphone bzw. Tablet unterstützt. Eine Mathe-App gibt zu den Trainingsaufgaben bei Bedarf Tipps, Teilschritte und ausführliche Erklärungen und hilft so den Studierenden, die Lösungen in ihrer individuellen Lerngeschwindigkeit zu entwickeln. Der mobile Ansatz erlaubt, die ca. 400 Teilnehmer des Präsenz-Kurses in normalen Klassenräumen ohne PC-Ausstattung mit E-Learning vertraut zu machen und unterstützt die Flexibilisierung von Übungszeit und -ort über die Präsenzzeit hinaus. Durch die inhaltliche Orientierung am hochschulübergreifenden COSH (Cooperation Schule Hochschule) Mindestanforderungskatalog Mathematik entstand eine Lösung, die jedem Studienanfänger zur Vorbereitung auf das Studium nutzen kann, die zu den Brückenkurs-Inhalten vieler Hochschulen passt und für die aktuell schon Kooperationsprojekte mit Schulen starten.
Der Übergang Schule-Studium wird an der Hochschule Offenburg im Vorbereitungskurs Mathematik per Smartphone bzw. Tablet unterstützt. Eine Mathe-App gibt zu den Trainingsaufgaben bei Bedarf Tipps und Teilschritte und hilft so den Studierenden, gemäß individuellem Tempo und Vorkenntnisstand zu arbeiten. Dies fördert eine Aktivierung der Kursteilnehmer auch bei großer Heterogenität. Der mobile Ansatz erlaubt, die ca. 400 Teilnehmer des Präsenz-Kurses in normalen Klassenräumen ohne PC-Ausstattung mit einem eCoach zu unterstützen und ermöglicht die Flexibilisierung von Übungszeit und –Ort über die Präsenzzeit hinaus.
Dieser für die heutige junge Generation attraktive Lernzugang entstand als Kooperationsprojekt zwischen der MassMatics UG und der Hochschule Offenburg. Durch die inhaltliche Orientierung am hochschulübergreifenden Mindestanforderungskatlog Mathematik des cosh-Arbeitskreises entstand eine Lösung, die jedem Studienanfänger zur Vorbereitung auf das Studium nutzen kann (auch ohne Präsenzkurs), die zu den Brückenkurs-Inhalten vieler Hochschulen passt und für die aktuell schon Kooperationsprojekte mit Schulen starten.
Das Projekt MINT-College TIEFE (Talente Individuell, Erfolgreich Fördern und Entwickeln) der Hochschule Offenburg wird im Rahmen des Bund-Länder-Programms Qualitätspakt Lehre aus Mitteln des Bundesministeriums für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) unter dem Förderkennzeichen 01PL11016 gefördert. Unterstützt wird das Projekt vom Informationszentrum der Hochschule Offenburg.
The communication system of a large-scale concentrator photovoltaic power plant is very challenging. Manufacturers are building power plants having thousands of sun tracking systems equipped with communication and distributed over a wide area. Research is necessary to build a scalable communication system enabling modern control strategies. This poster abstract describes the ongoing work on the development of a simulation model of such power plants in OMNeT++. The model uses the INET Framework to build a communication network based on Ethernet. First results and problems of timing and data transmission experiments are outlined. The model enables research on new communication and control approaches to improve functionality and efficiency of power plants based on concentrator photovoltaic technology.
The design of control systems of concentrator photovoltaic power plants will be more challenging in the future. Reasons are cost pressure, the increasing size of power plants, and new applications for operation, monitoring and maintenance required by grid operators, manufacturers and plant operators. Concepts and products for fixed-mounted photovoltaic can only partly be adapted since control systems for concentrator photovoltaic are considerable more complex due to the required high accurate sun-tracking. In order to assure reliable operation during a lifetime of more than 20 years, robustness of the control system is one crucial design criteria. This work considers common engineering technics for robustness, safety and security. Potential failures of the control system are identified and their effects are analyzed. Different attack scenarios are investigated. Outcomes are design criteria that encounter both: failures of system components and malicious attacks on the control system of future concentrator photovoltaic power plants. Such design criteria are a transparent state management through all system layers, self-tests and update capabilities for security concerns. The findings enable future research to develop a more robust and secure control system for concentrator photovoltaics when implementing new functionalities in the next generation.
Die “Selbstbetrachtungen” des Marc Aurel – medizinisch-ethische Betrachtungen des Menschseins
(2013)
The research project Ko-TAG [2], as part of the research initiative Ko-FAS [1], funded by the German Ministry of Economics and Technologies (BMWi), deals with the development of a wireless cooperative sensor system that shall pro-vide a benefit to current driver assistance systems (DAS) and traffic safety applications (TSA). The system’s primary function is the localization of vulnerable road users (VRU) e.g. pedestrians and powered two-wheelers, using communication signals, but can also serve as pre-crash (surround) safety system among vehicles. The main difference of this project, compared to previous ones that dealt with this topic, e.g. the AMULETT project, is an underlying FPGA based Hardware-Software co-design. The platform drives a real-time capable communication protocol that enables highly scalable network topologies fulfilling the hard real-time requirements of the single localization processes. Additionally it allows the exchange of further data (e.g. sensor data) to support the accident pre-diction process and the channel arbitration, and thus supports true cooperative sensing. This paper gives an overview of the project’s current system design as well as of the implementations of the key HDL entities supporting the software parts of the communication protocol. Furthermore, an approach for the dynamic reconfiguration of the devices is described, which provides several topology setups using a single PCB design.
Home Care Applications and Ambient Assisted Living become increasingly attractive. This is caused as well by market pull, as the number of elderly people grows monotonously, as well as by technology push, as technological advances and attractive products pave the way to economically advantageous offerings. However, in real-life applications, a significant number of challenges remain. Those include seamless communication between products from different supplier, due to the lack of sufficiently standardized solutions, energy budgets, and scalability of solutions. This paper presents the experience from the InCASA project (Integrated Network for Completely Assisted Senior Citizen's Autonomy), where architectures for heterogeneous physical and logical communication flows are examined.
Currently, QRS width and bundle branch block morphology are used as electrocardiographic guideline criterias to selectheart failure (HF) patients with interventricular desynchronization in sinus rhythm (SR) for cardiac resynchronisationtherapy (CRT). Nevertheless, up to 30% of these patients do not benefit from implantation of CRT systems. Esophagealleft ventricular electrogram (LVE) enables semi-invasive measurement of interventricular conduction delays (IVCD)even in patients with atrial fibrillation (AF). To routinely apply this method, a programmer based semi-invasiveautomatic quantification of IVCD should to be developed. Our aims were todefine interventricular conduction delaysby analyzing fractionated left ventricular (LV) deflections in the esophageal left ventricular electrogram of HF patientsin SR or AF.
In 66 HF patients (49 male,17 female, age 65 ± 10 years) a 5F TOslim electrode (Osypka AG, Germany) was perorallyapplied. Using BARD EP Lab, cardiac desynchronization was quantified as interval IVCD between onset of QRS insurface ECG and the investigator-determined onset of the left ventricular deflection in LVE. IVCD was compared withthe intervals between QRS onset and the first maximum (IVCDm1) and between QRS onset and the second maximum(IVCDm2) of the LV complex.
QRS of 173 ± 26 ms was linked with empirical IVCD of 75 ± 25 ms, at mean. First and second LV maximum could beascertained beyond doubt in all patients. Significant correlations of the p<0,01 level were found between IVCD and theIVCDm1 of 96 ± 28 ms as well as between IVCD and the IVCDm2 of 147 ± 31 ms, at mean. To standardize automatic measurement of interventricular conduction delays with respect to patients with fractionatedLV complexes, the first maximum of the LV deflection should be utilized to qualify the IVCD of HF patients with sinusrhythm and atrial fibrillation.
The efficient support of Hardwae-In-theLoop (HIL) in the design process of hardwaresoftware-co-designed systems is an ongoing challenge. This paper presents a network-based integration of hardware elements into the softwarebased image processing tool „ADTF“, based on a high-performance Gigabit Ethernet MAC and a highly-efficient TCP/IP-stack. The MAC has been designed in VHDL. It was verified in a SystemCsimulation environment and tested on several Altera FPGAs.
Geleitwort
(2012)
Das fortwährende Streben nach Steigerung der Genauigkeit und Effizienz von industriellen Bearbeitungs- und Prüfprozessen führt bei elektrischen Antrieben zu immer höheren Forderungen an ihre dynamischen Eigenschaften. Hierbei kommt dem Stromregelkreis als dem am weitesten unterlagerten Regelkreis eines elektrischen Antriebs eine entscheidende Bedeutung zu. Mit zunehmender Dynamikerhöhung des Stromregelkreises treten jedoch aufgrund von Parameterunsicherheiten und von Messfehlem immer deutlicher Probleme der Regelkreisrobustheit und der Geräuschemission in den Vordergrund, die es oft nicht gestatten, die theoretisch erhaltenen Lösungen in vollem Umfang zu realisieren. Gegenüber der optimalen Lösung müssen dann Abstriche hinsichtlich der erreichbaren Dynamik gemacht werden. Wie diese Abstriche durch das Ausschöpfen verborgener Freiheitsgrade reduziert werden können, wird im vorliegenden Beitrag gezeigt. Als Lösungsansatz wird hierfür ein achsenunsymmetrischer Statorstromzustandsregler gewählt, der es erlaubt, in der d- und q-Achse eine unterschiedliche Dynamik einzustellen. Hierbei wird zunächst im Kapitel 2 ein kurzer Überblick über die Entwicklungsgeschichte und den Stand der Technik von pulsweitenmodulierten Stromregelverfahren für Drehstromantriebe in den zurückliegenden Jahrzehnten gegeben. Anschließend wird am Beispiel einer frequenzumrichtergespeisten Asynchronmaschine das zeitdiskrete Modell der Statorstromregelstrecke vorgestellt, das dem hier erläuterten Verfahren zugrunde liegt. Wegen des Zusammenhangs zwischen Dynamikerhöhung und Empfindlichkeitszunahme ist es naheliegend, die Dynamik des Statorstromregelkreises nur so weit zu steigern, wie es erforderlich ist. Diesbezüglich ist insbesondere zu gewährleisten, dass ein angefordertes Drehmoment möglichst schnellst eingeprägt wird. Die Änderungsgeschwindigkeit des Flusses spielt hingegen eine untergeordnetere Rolle. Demzufolge sollte die drehmomentbildende Statorstrom-q-Komponente in der Praxis eine höhere Dynamik aufweisen als die flussbildende Statorstrom-d-Komponente. Um hierbei die aufwändige reelle Rechnung so weit wie möglich zu vermeiden, wird der Reglerentwurf in zwei Schritten durchgeführt. Im ersten Schritt wird ein schiefsymmetrisches, komplex beschreibbares Regelgesetz entworfen, das zwar zu einer möglichst einfachen Darstellbarkeit des geschlossenen Statorstromregelkreises führt, das jedoch noch nicht die endgültige Dynamik zur Folge haben muss. Insbesondere muss nach Abschluss dieses ZwischenSchritts bereits eine vollständige Entkopplung der d- und der q-Komponente des Statorstromraumzeigers vollzogen sein. Im zweiten Schritt wird dann ein weiterer Regler entworfen, der auf der Grundlage des im ersten Schritt erhaltenen entkoppelten Systems jeder Stromkomponente eine separate Dynamik zuweisen kann. Die Verkettung beider Teilregler führt schließlich zum gesuchten Statorstromregler, der zum einen relativ einfach berechenbar ist und der zum anderen alle an ihn gestellten Dynamikanforderungen erfüllt. Im vierten Kapitel wird schließlich der Entwurf des achsenunsymmetrischen Statorstromzustandsreglers skizziert und die daraus hervorgehenden Regelalgorithmen vorgestellt. Die Leistungsfähigkeit des beschriebenen Zustandsreglers wird anhand von aufgenommenen Zeitverläufen eines Laborantriebs demonstriert, mit dem der Drehmomentverlauf von Verbrennungsmotoren nachgebildet wird.
Experiences with a telecare platform integration of ZigBee sensors into a middleware platform
(2012)
Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with biventricular (BV) pacing is an established therapy in approximately two-thirds of symptomatic heart failure (HF) patients (P) with left bundle branch block (LBBB). The aim of this study was to evaluate left atrial (LA) conduction delay (LACD) and left ventricular (LV) conduction delay (LVCD) using pre-implantational transesophageal electrocardiography (ECG) in sinus rhythm (SR) CRT responder (R) and non-responder (NR).
Methods: SR HF P (n=52, age 63.6±10.4 years; 6 females, 46 males) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3.0±0.2, 24.4±7.1 % LV ejection fraction and 171.2±37.6 ms QRS duration (QRSD) were measured by bipolar filtered transesophageal LA and LV ECG recording with hemispherical electrodes (HE) TO catheter (Osypka AG, Rheinfelden, Germany). LACD was measured between onset of P-wave in the surface ECG and onset of LA deflection in the LA ECG. LVCD was measured between onset of QRS in the surface ECG and onset of LV deflection in the LV ECG.
Results: There were 78.8 % SR CRT R (n=41) with 171.2±36.9 ms QRSD, 73.3±25.7 ms LACD, 80.0±24.0 ms LVCD and 2.3±0.5 QRSD-LVCD-ratio. SR CRT R QRSD correlated with LACD (r=0.688, P<0.001) and LVCD (r=0.699, P<0.001). There were 21.2 % SR CRT NR (n=11) with 153.4±22.4 ms QRSD (P=0.133), 69.8±24.8 ms LACD (n=6, P=0.767), 54.2±31.0 ms LVCD (P<0.0046) and 3.9±2.5 QRSD-LVCD-ratio (P<0.001). SR CRT NR QRSD not corre-lated with IACD (r=-0.218, P=0.678) and IVCD (r=0.042, P=0.903). During a 22.8±21.3 month CRT follow-up, the CRT R NYHA class improved from 3.1±0.3 to 1.9±0.3 (P<0.001). In CRT NR, NYHA class not improved (2.9±0.4 to 2.9±0.2, P=1) during 11.2±9.8 months BV pacing.
Conclusions: Transesophageal LA and LV ECG with HE can be utilized to analyse LACD and LVCD in HF P. Pre-implantational LVCD and QRSD-LVCD-ratio may be additional useful parameters to improve P selection for SR CRT.
Capture threshold (CT) for transesophageal left atrial (LA) pacing (TLAP) and transesophageal left ventricular (LV) pacing (TLVP) with conventional cylindrical electrodes (CE) are higher than TLAP feeling threshold (FT). Purpose of the study was to evaluate focused TLAP CT and FT for supraventricular tachycardia (SVT) initiation and focused TLVP CT for cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) simulation.
Methods: SVT initiation in patients (P) with palpitations (n=49, age 47 ± 17 years) was analysed during spontaneous rhythm and during focused bipolar TLAP with atrial constant current stimulus output, distal CE and three or seven 6 mm hemispherical electrodes (HE) (TO, Osypka AG, Rheinfelden, Germany). CRT simulation in heart failure P (n=75, age 62 ± 11 years) was evaluated by focused bipolar TLAP and/or TLVP with ventricular constant voltage stimulus output and different pacing mode.
Results: Focused electrical pacing field between CE and HE (n=28) allowed low threshold TLAP with 8.0 ± 2.6 mA CT at 9.9 ms stimulus duration (SD) which was lower than 9.2 ± 4.5 mA FT at 9.9 ms SD. Focused electrical pacing field between HE and HE (n=21) allowed low threshold TLAP with 8.1 ± 2.2 mA CT at 9.9 ms SD which was lower than 9.8 ± 5.0 mA FT at 9.9 ms SD. SVT initiation by programmed AAI TLAP was possible in 23 P and not possible in 26 P. CRT simulation was evaluated with TLAP and TLVP with VAT, D00 and V00 pacing mode and 95.5 ± 10.9 V TLVP CT at 4.0 ms SD.
Conclusions: Programmed focused AAI TLAP allowed initiation of SVT with very low CT and high FT and focused electrical pacing field between CE-HE and HE-HE.CRT simulation with focused TLAP and/or TLVP with VAT, D00 and V00 pacing mode may be a useful technique to detect responders to CRT.
Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) with biventricular pacing (BV) is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients with interventricular conduction delay (IVCD). The aim of the study was to evaluate transesophageal IVCD and left ventricular (LV) pacing with directed electrical pacing field (EPF) in HF patients.
Methods: HF patients were analysed with bipolar transesophageal LV electrocardiogram recording and LV pacing with constant voltage stimulus output, 4 ms stimulus duration, distal cylindrical electrode (CE) and seven 6 mm hemispherical electrodes (HE) with 15 mm electrode distance (TO, Dr. Osypka, Rheinfelden, Germany).
Results: LV electrocardiogram recording with HE-HE and CE-HE evaluated a mean IVCD of 79.9 ± 36.7 ms. Directed EPF with CE-HE and HE-HE allowed LV VAT (n=12) and LV D00 pacing (n=5) with a mean effective capture output of 97.35 ± 6.64 V. In 15 responders with IVCD of 87 ± 33 ms arterial pulse pressure (PP) increased from 65 ± 24 mmHg to 79 ± 27 mmHg (p < 0.001). EPF was simulated with finite element method.
Conclusions: Transesophageal LV electrocardiography and directed EPF pacing with CE and HE allowed the evaluation of IVCD and PP to select patients for BV pacing.
Termination of atrial flutter (AFL) is not possible in all AFL patients (P) with transesophageal left atrial pacing (TLAP) with undirected electrical pacing field (EPF) and high atrial pacing threshold. Purpose of the study was to evaluate bipo-lar transesophageal left atrial electrocardiography (TLAE) and TLAP with directed EPF for evaluation and termination of AFL with and without simultaneous transesophageal echocardiography (TEE).
Methods: AFL P were analysed using either a TO electrode with one cylindrical (CE) and three or seven hemispherical electrodes (HE) or TEE electrode with four HE (Osypka, Rheinfelden, Germany). Burst TLAP cycle length was between 200msand 50ms.
Results: AFL cycle length was 233±30 ms with mean ventricular cycle length of 540±149 ms. AFL could be terminated by rapid bipolar TLAP with directed EPF using HE-HE and CE-HE with induction of atrial fibrillation (AF), induction of AF and spontaneous conversion to sinus rhythm and direct conversion to sinus rhythm. Directed EPF was simulated with finite element method.
Conclusions: AFL can be evaluated by bipolar TLAE. AFL can be terminated with rapid TLAP with directed EPF with and without simultaneous TEE. Bipolar TLAE with rapid TLAP is a safe, simple and useful method for evaluation and termination of AFL.
Introduction: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with left ventricular (LV) pacing is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients (P) with ventricular desynchronisation and reduced LV ejection fraction (EF). The aim of this study was to test the utilization of the transesophageal approach to measure arterial pulse pressure (PP) during LV pacing and electrical interventricular conduction delay (IVCD), to better select patients for CRT.
Methods: 32 HF patients (age 64 ± 10 years; 5 females, 27 males) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 2.8 ± 0.6, 27 ± 11 % LV EF and 155 ± 35 ms QRS duration were analysed with semi-invasive left cardiac pacing and electrocardiography. Esophageal TO8 Osypka catheter of 10.5 F diameter was perorally applied to the esophagus and placed in the position of maximum left atrial (LA) deflection and maximum LV deflection to measure PP with VAT or D00 pacing modes.
Results: Temporary transesophageal LV pacing was possible with VAT mode (n=16) and D00 mode (n=16) in all patients. In 15 Δ-PP-responders, PP was higher during LV pacing on than LV pacing off (78.3 ± 26.6 versus 65.9 ± 23.7 mmHg, P < 0.001) and NYHA class improved from 3.1 ± 0.35 to 2.1 ± 0.35 (P < 0.001) during 29 ± 26 month biventricular (BV) pacing follow-up (6 Medtronic and 9 Boston BV pacing devices). In 17 Δ-PP-non-responders, PP was not higher during LV pacing on than LV pacing off (61.5 ± 23.9 versus 60.9 ± 23.5 mmHg, P = 0.066). IVCD was significant longer in Δ-PP-responders than in Δ-PP-non-responders (87 ± 33 ms versus 37± 29 ms, P < 0.001).
Conclusion: Semi-invasive transesophageale LA and LV pacing with D00 and VAT mode and LV electrogram recording may be useful techniques to predict CRT improvement.
Introduction: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) with atrioventricular (AV) and interventricular (VV) optimized biventricular pacing (BV) is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients with electrical interventricular conduction delay (IVCD). The aim of the study was to compare AV and VV delay optimization with cardiac output (CO) and acceleration index (ACI) impedance cardiographic (ICG) methods.
Methods: HF patients with IVCD 86.8 ± 33 ms (n=15, age 66 ± 10 years; 2 females, 13 males), New York Heart Association (NYHA) functional class 3.1 ± 0.4, left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction 21.3 ± 7.8 % and QRS duration 176.1 ± 31.7 ms underwent AV and VV delay optimization with CO and ACI methods (Cardioscreen, Medis GmbH, Ilmenau, Germany). After evaluation of optimal AV delay, we evaluated optimal VV delay during simultaneous LV and right ventricular (RV) pacing (LV=RV), LV before RV pacing (LV-RV) and RV before LV pacing (RV-LV).
Results: Optimal VV delay was -12.3 ± 25.9 ms LV-RV pacing with VV delay range from -80 ms LV-RV pacing to +20 ms RV-LV pacing and RV=LV pacing. Optimal AV delay after atrial sensing was 108.6 ± 20.3 ms (n=14) and optimal AV delay after atrial pacing 190 ± 14.1 ms (n=2) with AV delay range from 80 ms to 200 ms. RV versus BV pacing mode resulted in improvement of CO from 3.4 ± 1.2 l/min to 4.4 ± 1.4 l/min (p<0.001) and ACI from 0.667 ± 0.227 1/s² to 0.834 ± 0.282 1/s² (p<0.002). During 34 ± 26 month BV pacing, the NYHA class improved from 3.1 ± 0.4 to 2.1 ± 0.4 (p<0.001).
Conclusion: AV and VV delay optimized BV pacing acutely improve ICG CO and ACI and their NYHA class during long-term follow-up. ICG may be a simple and useful technique to optimize AV and VV delay in CRT.
Introduction: Cardiac resynchronisation therapy (CRT) with atrioventricular (AV) and interventricular (VV) optimized biventricular pacing (BV) is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients. The aim of the study was to compare AV and VV delay optimization with cardiac output (CO), cardiac index (CI), contractility index (IC) and acceleration index (ACI) impedance cardiographic (ICG) methods in CRT.
Methods: 15 HF patients (age 66 ± 10 years; 2 females, 13 males) in New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 3.1 ± 0.4, left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction 21.3 ± 7.8 % and QRS duration 176.1 ± 31.7 ms underwent AV and VV delay optimization with CO, CI, IC and ACI (Cardioscreen ®, Medis GmbH, Ilmenau, Germany) at different AV and VV delay BV pacing settings versus right ventricular (RV) pacing one day after implantation of a CRT device.
Results: Optimal AV delay after atrial sensing was 108.6 ± 20.3 ms (n=14) and optimal AV delay after atrial pacing 190 ± 14.1 ms (n=2) with AV delay range from 80 ms to 200 ms. Optimal VV delay was -12.3 ± 25.9 ms left ventricular before RV pacing. RV versus BV pacing mode resulted in improvement of CO from 3.4 ± 1.2 l/min to 4.4 ± 1.4 l/min (p<0.001), CI from 1.8 ± 0.64 l/min/m² to 2.4 ± 0.78 l/min/m² (p<0.001), IC from 0.028 ± 0.011 1/s to 0.036 ± 0.013 1/s (p<0.001) and ACI from 0.667 ± 0.227 1/s² to 0.834 ± 0.282 1/s² (p<0.002). During 34 ± 26 month BV pacing, the NYHA class improved from 3.1 ± 0.4 to 2.1 ± 0.4 (p<0.001).
Conclusion: AV and VV delay optimized BV pacing acutely improve hemodynamic parameters of transthoracic ICG and their NYHA class during long-term follow-up. ICG may be a simple and useful technique to optimize AV and VV delay in CRT.
In sicherheitskritschen Systemen darf kein Stück Code im Produktionsbetrieb ablaufen, ohne vorher intensive Tests durchlaufen zu haben. Aber auch zur Qualitätssicherung muss Software getestet werden. Um die Codeüberdeckung zu prüfen, sind zusätzliche Prüf-Instruktionen im Quellcode erforderlich. Auf kleinen Systemen mit wenig RAM kann sich der Entwickler dann etwas einfallen lassen, damit das funktioniert.
Im Rahmen dieses Projekts wurde im Labor Telekommunikationstechnik der Hochschule Offenburg ein flexibel konfigurierbares Funknetz nach dem ZigBee-Standard aufgebaut. Mit Hilfe diverser Messgeräte und Analyse-Tools wurden die wesentlichen Performance Parameter dieses Funknetzes unter realen Betriebsbedingungen evaluiert. So wurden z.B. Erkenntnisse über die Empfängerempfindlichkeit, die effektiv erreichbare Datenrate sowie das Interferenzpotential gewonnen, die Voraussetzungen für die optimale Nutzung dieser neuen Funktechnologie sind.
Introduction: Cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) with biventricular (BV) pacing is an established therapy for heart failure (HF) patients with ventricular desynchronization and reduced left ventricular (LV) ejection fraction. The aim of this study was to evaluate electrical ventricular desynchronization with transthoracic and transesophageal signal averaging electrocardiography in HF, to better select patients for CRT.
Methods: 13 HF patients (age 68 ± 10 years; 2 females, 11 males) with New York Heart Association (NYHA) class 2.8 ± 0.5, 28.6 ± 12.6 % LV ejection fraction and 155 ± 24 ms QRS duration (QRSD) were analysed with transthoracic and transesophageal electrocardiogram recording and novel National Intruments LabView 2009 signal averaging software. Esophageal TO Osypka catheter was perorally applied to the esophagus and placed in the position of maximum LV de-flection. The 0.05-Hz high-pass filtered surface electrocardiogram and the 10-Hz high-pass filtered bipolar transesophageal electrocardiogram were recorded with Bard EP-System and 1000-Hz sampling rate.
Results: Transesophageal LV electrogram recording was possible in all HF patients (n=13). Transesophageal interventricular conduction delay (IVCD) was 51 ± 19 ms and measured between the earliest onset of QRS in the 12-channel surface electrocardiogram and the onset of the LV deflection in the transesophageal electrocardiogram. Transesophageal intra-left ventricular delay (LVCD) was 90 ± 16 ms and measured between the onset and offset of the LV deflection in the transesophageal electrocardiogram. QRSD to transesophageal IVCD ratio was 3.43 ± 1.31 ms, QRSD to transesophageal LVCD ratio was 1.75 ± 0.28 ms and QRSD was evaluated between onset and offset of QRS signal in the 12-channel surface electrocardiogram.
Conclusion: Determination of IVCD, LVCD, QRSD-to-IVCD-ratio and QRSD-to-LVCD-ratio by transesophageal LV electrogram recording with LabView 2009 signal averaging technique may be useful parameters of ventricular desynchronisation to improve patient selection for CRT.
Using guideline parameters for indication of cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT), only about two thirds of the patients improve clinically. Unfortunately both, surface ECG and echo are uncertain to predict CRT response. To better characterize cardiac desynchronization in heart failure, interventricular (IVCD) and intra-leftventricular conduction delays (ILVCD) were measured by esophageal left ventricular electrogram (LVE). Recordings in 43 CRT patients (34m, 9f, age: 64.7 ± 9.5yrs) evidenced only weak correlation between IVCD and QRS of 0.53 and between ILVCD and QRS of 0.33. This demonstrated that QRS duration is not a reliable indicator of desynchronization. Therefore, the study resulted into development of LVE feature for a programmer with implant support device. It can be used interoperatively to guide the left ventricular electrode location in order to increase responder rate in CRT.
In this paper we integrate the ideas of network coding and relays into an existing practical network architecture used in a wireless network scenario. Specifically, we use the COPE architecture to test our ideas. Since previous works have focused on the communication aspect at the physical layer level, we attempt to take it one step further by including the MAC layer. Our idea is based on information theoretic concepts developed by Shannon in order to reliably apply network coding to increase the net throughput.
Der Cache-Speicher für den Softprozessor SIRIUS ist ein 4-fach assoziativer Cache-Speicher, der mit einem DDR-Interface auf einen externen Speicher zugreifen kann. Er verwaltet und beschleunigt Zugriffe vom Prozessor auf diesen Speicher. Der Cache-Speicher arbeitet intern mit 32 Bit und der doppelten Prozessortaktfrequenz und ermöglicht Systeme mit größeren Speicheranforderungen ohne signifikante Performanceverluste. Der Cache-Speicher wurde mit der Hardwarebeschreibungssprache VHDL erstellt und mit dem bestehenden Mikrocontrollersystem verbunden.
Das Gesamtsystem wurde zunächst simuliert und anschließend mit dem Cyclone III FPGA Starter Kit von Altera, welches ein 32 MB DDR-RAM-Modul zur Verfügung stellt, durch Ausführen eines Testprogramms erfolgreich verifiziert. Für den kompletten Cache-Speicher werden inklusive der Pins für den externen Oszillator und des Reset-Tasters 3805 Logik-Zellen, 27 M9K-Blöcke, 44 Pins und eine PLL benötigt.
Den Hauptbestandteil des Operationssystems stellt der Zugriff auf SD-Karten mit dem Dateisystem FAT16 von Microsoft dar. Für die Bedienung wurde ein Kommandozeileninterpreter implementiert. Als Ein- und Ausgabegerät dient ein PC mit einem speziellen Terminalprogramm, welcher über USB mit dem Emulationsboard des SIRIUS Softcores verbunden ist. Das System wird über die Eingabe von Befehlen am Terminal gesteuert.
Der SIRIUS Softcore kann nur vom Flash des Emulationsboards booten. Da das Betriebssystem selbst jedoch auf der SD-Karte gespeichert werden soll, ist ein Basis-Betriebssystem erforderlich, welches im Flash abgelegt ist. Das Basis-Betriebssystem lädt gleich nach dem Start das eigentliche Betriebssystem von der SD-Karte. Falls jedoch keine SD-Karte gesteckt ist, ermöglicht das Basis-Betriebssystem mit einem Kommandozeileninterpreter einige Grundfunktionen.
RFID- Frontend ISO 15693
(2008)