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Die Möglichkeit zur digitalen Verbindung geographischer Orte mit Aufgaben, Herausforderungen oder Lernmaterialien hat eine Vielzahl von Anwendungen auch außerhalb der Mathematikbildung inspiriert. Dieser Beitrag stellt eine exemplarische Auswahl solcher Applikationen vor und versucht, die technischen, organisatorischen und konzeptionellen Gestaltungselemente zu systematisieren. Die Ausführungen sollen als Anregung bei der Anlage von Mathematiktrails sowie bei der Weiterentwicklung technischer Lösungen für den Lehreinsatz dienen.
Energietechnik
(2019)
Kurz und prägant werden die Energieumwandlungsprozesse dargestellt. Die Schwerpunkte reichen von der kompletten Beschreibung der nachhaltigen, erneuerbaren Energietechniken, über Gas- und Dampfturbinen-Kraftwerke sowie Kraft-Wärme-Kälte-Kopplungsanlagen bis hin zur Energieverteilung und zum Kyoto-Protokoll. Zu allen Kapiteln gibt es Aufgaben mit vollständigen Lösungen im Anhang. In der aktuellen Auflage sind die Grundlagen der Energiewandlung deutlich um verfügbare Energiequellen, Energieträger und den globalen Energiebedarf erweitert. Das Kapitel 19 wurde von seinem neuen Autor grundlegend neu gefasst und heißt nun „Marktliberalisierung und Energiewende“. Alle Kapitel wurden aktualisiert und die Inhalte didaktisch noch verständlicher dargestellt.
Ausgehend von eindimensionalen reibungsfreien Strömungen wird die Bernoulli-Gleichung und die Energiebilanz hergeleitet. Mit der Eulerschen Betrachtungsweise wird der Unterschied zwischen stationären und zeitabhängigen Strömungen verdeutlicht und an zahlreichen Beispielen angewandt. Die zweidimensionalen reibungsfreien und inkompressiblen Strömungen werden mit der Potenzialtheorie behandelt. Die Lösungseigenschaften werden am Beispiel der Zylinderumströmung ohne und mit Zirkulation aufgezeigt.
Sweaty has already participated four times in RoboCup soccer competitions (Adult Size) and came second three times. While 2016 Sweaty needed a lot of luck to be finalist, 2017 Sweaty was a serious adversary in the preliminary rounds. In 2018 Sweaty showed up in the final with some lack of experience and room for improvements, but not without any chance. This paper describes the intended improvements of the humanoid adult size robot Sweaty in order to qualify for the RoboCup 2019 adult size competition.
Das vorliegende Buch richtet sich vorwiegend an Webentwickler und Webinteressierte. Zunächst wird ein Überblick über Digital Storytelling, seine Geschichte und die verschiedenen heutigen Ausprägungen gegeben. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf Digital Storytelling im Web auf Basis von Animation.
Besonders die Idee der scroll-activated animation als zeitgemäßes Konzept für das Storytelling wird in diesem Buch in den Mittelpunkt gestellt.
Als technische Möglichkeiten zur Umsetzung von Webanimationen werden CSS3, SVG und HTML5-Canvas vorgestellt und diese in der Folge detailliert beschrieben.
Im Rahmen eines umfangreich dokumentierten Demoprojekts wird intensiv auf die Konzeption einer scroll-actived animation basierten Website und deren technische Umsetzung mittels HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript/jQuery und ScrollMagic sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen eingegangen. Dies erlaubt dem Leser das detaillierte Nachvollziehen der Erstellung und die davon abgeleitete Entwicklung eigener Projekte.
Der Inhalt des Buches
- Definition, Entwicklung und psychologische Wirkungsweisen
- Medienformen
- Digital Storytelling
- Animationen im Web
- Technische Umsetzung
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Wireless sensor networks have found their way into a wide range of applications, among which environmental monitoring systems have attracted increasing interests of researchers. Main challenges for these applications are scalability of the network size and energy efficiency of the spatially distributed nodes. Nodes are mostly battery-powered and spend most of their energy budget on the radio transceiver module. In normal operation modes most energy is spent waiting for incoming frames. A so-called Wake-On-Radio (WOR) technology helps to optimize trade-offs between energy consumption, communication range, complexity of the implementation and response time. We already proposed a new protocol called SmartMAC that makes use of such WOR technology. Furthermore, it gives the possibility to balance the energy consumption between sender and receiver nodes depending on the use case. Based on several calculations and simulations, it was predicted that the SmartMAC protocol was significantly more efficient than other schemes being proposed in recent publications, while preserving a certain backward compatibility with standard IEEE802.15.4 transceivers. To verify this prediction, we implemented the SmartMAC protocol for a given hardware platform. This paper compares the realtime performance of the SmartMAC protocol against simulation results, and proves the measured values are very close to the estimated values. Thus we believe that the proposed MAC algorithms outperforms all other Wake-on-Radio MACs.
Die Navier-Stokes Gleichungen bilden mit der Energiegleichung die Basis zur Beschreibung reibungsbehafteter Strömungen. Kennzahlen bilden die Grundlage der Ähnlichkeitsbetrachtungen und Modellgesetze. Lösungen werden für laminare und turbulente Strömungen ermittelt. Der Impulssatz dient zur Berechnung von Kraftwirkungen. Druckverluste bei Durchströmungen und Strömungswiderstände bei Umströmungen werden an Beispielen ermittelt. Die Grenzschichttheorie findet bei hohen Reynoldszahlen Anwendung.
Die Eigenschaften von Fluiden sind zur Beschreibung von Strömungsvorgängen mit den Erhaltungssätzen für Masse, Impuls und Energie notwendig. Für inkompressible Fluide wird die Grenze der Dichteänderung in Abhängigkeit der Machzahl angegeben. Die Rheologie behandelt die Fließeigenschaften der Fluide bei Deformationen in Strömungen. Die Viskosität tritt beim newtonschen Schubspannungsansatz auf. Das Verhalten von Druck und Dichte in der Hydro- und Aerostatik wird beschrieben.
The Future of FDI: Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 through Impact Investment
(2019)
Publicized as a global call for action in 2015, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution on the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 (SDGs). Before issuing the SDGs in 2015, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has already identified in 2014, as part of their World Investment Report, that especially developing countries are facing an estimated USD 2.5 trillion funding gap annually in the efforts to achieve the SDGs. Yet, the investment opportunities and challenges for investors, when contributing to the closure of this funding gap while benefiting from its economic potential have not been widely discussed. Despite that Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) are a key driver to sustainable economic growth and prosperity of a nation, policies and a holistic framework linking the 2030 Agenda to actionable investment opportunities for private investors are missing. Furthermore, a global platform capturing, channeling and promoting investment projects aiming to achieve the SDGs through impact investment has not been established. Utilizing global financial resources more effectively while developing new approaches and tools to promote impact investments, which demonstrate the benefits for investors to tap into the funding gap of the 2030 Agenda, will have the potential to significantly shape and influence the future of FDI.
Die Kombination von Reibung und Kompressibilität wird bei der Rohrströmung, der Kugelumströmung und der laminaren und turbulenten Plattengrenzschicht untersucht. Das Auftreten von Verdichtungsstößen führt zur Stoß-Grenzschicht-Interferenz und auf den Tsien-Parameter. Die Mach-Reynoldszahl Ähnlichkeit in der Gasdynamik führt zur Abgrenzung der verschiedenen Strömungsbereiche. Resultate von Windkanaluntersuchungen sowie analytischen und numerischen Berechnungen werden für das Rhombusprofil und das NACA 0012 Profil analysiert.
The Humboldt Portal has been designed and implemented as part of an ongoing research project to develop an information system on the Internet to share the documents and rare books of Alexander von Humboldt, a 19th century German scientist and explorer, who viewed the natural world holistically and described the harmony of nature among the diversity of the physical world. Even after more than two centuries he is admired for his ability to see the natural world and human nature in the context of a complex network of relationships. The design and implementation of the Humboldt Portal are also oriented to support further research on Humboldt’s intellectual perspective.
Although all of Humboldt's works can be found on the internet as digitized documents, the complexity and internal inter-connectivity of his vision of nature cannot be adequately represented only by digitized papers or scanned documents in digital libraries.
As a consequence a specific portal of the Humboldt's documents was developed, which extends the standards of digital libraries and offers a technical approach for the adequate presentation of highly interconnected data.
Due to the continuous scientific and literary research, new insights and requirements for the digital presentation of Humboldt documents are constantly emerging, so that this article only provides a summary of the concepts realized at now. Consequently, the design and implementation of the Humboldt Portal is both: a consequence of a continuing research project and oriented to support more research on Humboldt´s intellectual holistic perspective, which was an anticipation to the System Approach of the last Century.
In den letzten Jahren sind verstärkt große Batteriespeichersysteme in der Mittel- und Hochspannungsebene in Deutschland installiert worden. Neben dem Einsatz für lokale Anwendungszwecke wie Eigenverbrauchsmaximierung oder Lastspitzenkappung sind seit 2016 etwa 250 MW aus Batteriespeichern für die Teilnahme am Markt für Primärregelleistung (PRL) präqualifiziert worden. Damit können bereits 40 % des aktuellen Bedarfs der deutschen Übertragungsnetzbetreiber (ÜNB) gedeckt werden. Für einen zuverlässigen Betrieb von Batteriespeichern sind intelligente Betriebsstrategien erforderlich, die im Rahmen dieser Analyse vorgestellt werden.
In der Tiefengeothermie spielen – unter den jeweiligen geologischen Rahmenbedingungen – thermische, hydraulische, chemische und mechanische (THCM-) Prozesse eine grundlegende Rolle hinsichtlich Wirtschaftlichkeit, Sicherheit und Nachhaltigkeit einer geothermischen Nutzung. Die Etablierung einer neuen Technologie wird sich darüber hinaus ohne Akzeptanz in der Bevölkerung mittel- und langfristig nicht behaupten können. Deshalb bilden Transparenz (z.B. Überwachung der induzierten Seismizität) und ein Transfer von Ergebnissen der Geothermie-Forschung in die Öffentlichkeit wesentliche Grundlagen zur Schaffung einer hinreichenden Akzeptanz der Tiefengeothermie.
Das Verbundprojekt GEO.Cool von Partnern im Landesforschungszentrum Geothermie (LFZG) hat zum Ziel, Möglichkeiten sowie Grenzen der Kühlung mit oberflächennaher Geothermie in interdisziplinärer Arbeit zu erheben und daraus Impulse für Innovationen in diesem Bereich zu gewinnen.
Das Vorhaben ist in die folgenden sechs Arbeitspakete (AP) gegliedert:
AP 1: Bedarfe und Systemaspekte
AP 2: Systemtechnik und Planung von Anlagen zur Kühlung mit oberflächennaher Ge-othermie
AP 3: Analyse von Best-Practice-Beispielen
AP 4: Thermisches und hydrogeologisches Verhalten des Untergrunds
AP 5: Genehmigungspraxis und Grenzwerte
AP 6: Synopse, Innovationspotenzial und Transfer.
Das Projekt hat eine Laufzeit vom 23.01.2017 bis zum 30.09.2019 (Förderzeitraum für alle Arbeitspakete und Projektpartner).
Für Verkehrsunternehmen stellt die Erprobung neuer Technologien eine große Herausforderung dar.
Sowohl Wasserstoff-Busse als auch Batterie-Busse können ihren Beitrag zur Umstellung des ÖPNV auf emissionsfreie Mobilität leisten. Je nach Anwendungsmuster können sich beide Technologien gut ergänzen und zu einem volkswirtschaftlichen Optimum führen. Es gilt, die Technologien im realen Umfeld zu erproben, um praxisnahe Erfahrung zu sammeln und dabei Mitarbeiter auszubilden, ohne die Qualität des Betriebes zu gefährden. Bei der aktuellen Kostenlage sehen beide Technologien ihre Einführung in den Betrieb mit Mehrkosten im Vergleich zu der aktuellen Diesel-Lösung verbunden.
Bei einer Batterie-basierten Lösung mit Pantograph-Schnellladung sind kürzere Linien gute Kandidaten für eine elektrische Umstellung ohne Auswirkungen auf die Größe der Busflotte. Auch Liniensysteme beliebiger Länge mit Knotenpunkten in regelmäßigen Abständen ermöglichen eine gemeinsame Nutzung der Ladeinfrastruktur und stellen somit reduzierte Aufbaukosten der Ladeinfrastruktur in Aussicht. In diesem Fall sind aber auch Fahrplanmanagement-Aspekte hinsichtlich der Ladezeit am Pantograph mit zu berücksichtigen, die nicht Bestandteil dieser Studie gewesen sind. Allgemein lassen die Kosten-Prognosen für Batterie und Batterie-elektrische Fahrzeuge eine signifikante Kostenreduzierung bis 2030 erkennen, die in manchen Konfigurationen zur Kostenparität und sogar geringeren Kosten als mit der Diesel-Variante führen würde.
Anders als für Batterie-Busse stellt die Linien-Konfiguration keinen wirtschaftlichen Einflussfaktor auf den Betrieb von Wasserstoff-Bussen dar. Die derzeitige Reichweite der H2-Busse reicht aus, um die zu erwartende tägliche Fahrleistung zu decken. Bei der Wasserstoffmobilität sind aber die Versorgungsinfrastruktur und die damit verbundenen Kraftstoffkosten von entscheidender Bedeutung. Ihr Aufbau ist mit hohen Investitionskosten und gesetzlichen Verpflichtungen verbunden (BImSchG, BetrSichV), die für eine erste Erprobung der Technologie im kleinen Maßstab eine Hürde für Verkehrsunternehmen darstellen könnte. Die H2 Mobility Deutschland bietet die Möglichkeit an, 700 bar Tankstellen mit einem 350 bar Modul zu erweitern, das die tägliche Versorgung von ca. 6 Bussen ermöglicht. Mit begrenzten Risiken für die Verkehrsunternehmen bietet es sich daher an, die H2 Mobilität auf eine limitierte Busflotte zu erproben. Da der Aufbau des H2-Mobility Deutschland Tankstellennetzes eine Lücke in Offenburg und Umgebung aufweist, wäre es vorstellbar, an der Errichtung einer solchen Tankstelle zu arbeiten, die die Betankung und Erprobung von Wasserstoff-Bussen ermöglicht. Auf längerer Sicht ist die Sicherstellung einer gut platzierten zuverlässigen und nachhaltigen Wasserstoffquelle von entscheidender Bedeutung. Derzeit liegen vorhandene Wasserstoffquellen in mehr als 100 km Entfernung. Eine Nutzung der Wasserkraft des naheliegenden Rheins erscheint durchaus sinnvoll, sowohl aus wirtschaftlichen als auch aus umwelttechnischen Gründen (erneuerbarer Strom, Stromkostenreduzierung durch Eigenversorgung, kürzere Transportwege, möglicher Nutzen für die Eurometropole Straßburg).
Es lässt sich festhalten, dass für die Region Offenburg zunächst die Erprobung beider Technologien, der Elektromobilität als auch der Wasserstoffmobilität, empfohlen wird. Es sollte zeitnah in den Erfahrungsaufbau in beide Technologien investiert werden. Zudem sollte bei der Elektromobilität das Flottenmanagement untersucht und evaluiert werden und bei der Wasserstoffmobilität die Möglichkeiten der Kooperation für den Aufbau der Wasserstofftankstelle. Im Rahmen der nächsten Ausschreibungsrunde für den öffentlichen Nahverkehr in Offenburg wird empfohlen, diesen emissionsfrei auszuschreiben. Es ist absehbar, dass aus Kostengründen (Kostenparität der Elektromobilität mit der Dieselvariante) als auch aus Gründen der Anforderung bzgl. der Emissionsgrenzwerte der ÖPNV emissionsfrei umgesetzt werden sollte.
Verfahren zur Bestimmung von Eigenschaften einer Rohrleitung, insbesondere der Position eines Abzweigs einer Abwasserrohrleitung,(a) bei dem ein Schallwellensendesignal (S, S') an einem vorgegebenen Einspeisepunkt in die Rohrleitung (1) eingespeist wird und sich in axialer Richtung der Rohrleitung (1) ausbreitet,(b) wobei das Frequenzspektrum des Schallwellensendesignals (S, S') eine Frequenzkomponente oder einen Spektralbereich aufweist, dessen maximale Frequenz kleiner ist als die untere Grenzfrequenz (f) für die erste Obermode,(c) bei dem innerhalb der Rohrleitung (1) reflektierte Anteile (S, S, S, S', S', S') des Schallwellensendesignals (S, S') als Schallwellenempfangssignal (E, E') detektiert werden, und(d) bei dem die Rohrleitung (1) durch eine Auswertung des Schallwellenempfangssignal (E, E') in Bezug auf das Schallwellensendesignal (S, S') hinsichtlich des Vorhandenseins von Schallwellenreflexionen (S, S, S, S', S', S') verursachenden Reflexionsorten entlang der Rohrleitung (1) untersucht wird,(e) wobei mittels der Auswertung des Schallwellenempfangssignals (E, E') zumindest jeweils der Abstand (I) eines Reflexionsortes von dem Einspeisepunkt bestimmt wird, dadurch gekennzeichnet,(f) dass die Schallgeschwindigkeit (c) der Grundmode bei der aktuellen Temperatur innerhalb der Rohrleitung (1) unter Verwendung eines Schallwellenmesssignals ermittelt wird, welches eine Frequenz oder ein Frequenzspektrum aufweist, bei dem das Schallwellenmesssignal innerhalb der Rohrleitung (1) mit ausreichender Genauigkeit als ebene Schallwelle behandelt werden kann, wobei hierzu die Laufzeiten des Schallwellenmesssignals über eine vorbekannte Strecke (L) in beiden Richtungen gemessen wird,(g) dass die so ermittelte Schallgeschwindigkeit (c) einer ebenen Schallwelle gleich der tatsächlichen Schallgeschwindigkeit der Grundmode bei der aktuellen Temperatur innerhalb der Rohrleitung (1) gesetzt wird, und(h) dass die so bestimmte Schallgeschwindigkeit zur Bestimmung des Abstand (I) eines Reflexionsortes von dem Einspeisepunkt verwendet wird.
We present a novel approach that utilizes BLE packets sent from generic BLE capable radios to synthesize an FSK-(like) addressable wake-up packet. A wake-up receiver system was developed from off-the-shelf components to detect these packets. It makes use of two differential signal paths separated by passive band-pass filters. After the rectification of each channel a differential amplifier compares the signals and the resulting wake-up signal is evaluated by an AS3933 wake-up receiver IC. Overall, the combination of these techniques contributes to a BLE compatible wake-up system which is more robust than traditional OOK wake-up systems. Thus, increasing wake-up range, while still maintaining a low energy budget. The proof-of-concept setup achieved a sensitivity of -47.8 dBm at a power consumption of 18.5 uW during passive listening. The system has a latency of 31.8 ms with a symbol rate of 1437 Baud.
Thomas Breyer-Mayländer zeigt in diesem essential, wie Probleme sowohl bei der Rekrutierung von Kandidatinnen und Kandidaten für unterschiedliche Ämter als auch bei der Akquisition von Nachwuchskräften in Kommunalverwaltungen mithilfe einer klaren inhaltlichen Botschaft in Verbindung mit gezielten Kommunikations- und Partizipationsmaßnahmen reduziert werden können. Dabei kommt es neben einer gezielten Planung von PR- und Werbemaßnahmen auch auf die kreative Erschließung und Nutzung eigener, kommunaler Kommunikationskanäle an. Der Autor verdeutlicht, dass neben den Kommunikationsmaßnahmen auch aktivierende Formate der Beteiligung die gegenseitige Wahrnehmung von Bürgerinnen und Bürgern sowie Kommune/Kommunalpolitik verändern. Neben Partizipation geht es um Involvement, Identifikation und Commitment im Sinne einer selbstlosen Aktivität für das kommunale Gemeinwohl.
Economic growth and ecological problems motivate industries to apply eco-friendly technologies and equipment. However, environmental impact, followed by energy and material consumption still remain the main negative implications of the technological progress in process engineering. Based on extensive patent analysis, this paper assigns more than 250 identified eco-innovation problems and requirements to 14 general eco-categories with energy consumption and losses, air pollution, and acidification as top issues. It defines primary eco-engineering contradictions, in case eco-problems appear as negative side effects of the new technologies, and secondary eco-engineering contradictions, if eco-friendly solutions have new environmental drawbacks. The study conceptualizes a correlation matrix between the eco-requirements for prediction of typical eco-contradictions on example of processes involving solids handling. Finally, it summarizes major eco-innovation approaches including Process Intensification in process engineering, and chronologically reviews 66 papers on eco-innovation adapting TRIZ methodology. Based on analysis of 100 eco-patents, 58 process intensification technologies, and literature, the study identifies 20 universal TRIZ inventive principles and sub-principles that have a higher value for environmental innovation.
Amongst all the major hazard aspects for the health of people in big conglomerates is the increase of the particulate matter concentration. Traditional systems for particulate matter (PM) monitoring have a great number of drawbacks but the main issues are economical and are related to the installation costs and never ending periodical maintenance expenses. After all there are installations of such systems but their number is limited and having in mind the growth of population, cities and industry areas, there is even a bigger need for more information on air quality because PM changes non-linearly, has a wide range and different sources. In this paper, we propose an approach, based on low-cost sensor nodes, for real-time measuring and obtaining information about the PM concentration. The adoption of that approach allows for a detailed study of the intensities of pollution and its sources. The system power supply is powered by a PV module. The power supply unit is designed using a model-based design that is a new approach to prototyping power-operated electronic devices with guaranteed performance.
This paper presents an approach for implementing an automated hit detection and score calculation system for a steel dartboard using a standard webcam. First, the rectilinear field separations of the dartboard are described mathematically by means of line slopes and are than stored. These slopes serve as a basis for later score calculation. In addition, thrown darts have to be detected and the pixel at which the dart cuts the dartboard has to be determined. When this information is known, a comparison is made using the line slopes, allowing the field number of the hit to be detected. The decision for single, double or triple hit is made by evaluating the defined colors on the dartboard. All these functions are then packaged in a Matlab GUI.
The paper describes a systematic approach for a precise short-time cloud coverage prediction based on an optical system. We present a distinct pre-processing stage that uses a model based clear sky simulation to enhance the cloud segmentation in the images. The images are based on a sky imager system with fish-eye lens optic to cover a maximum area. After a calibration step, the image is rectified to enable linear prediction of cloud movement. In a subsequent step, the clear sky model is estimated on actual high dynamic range images and combined with a threshold based approach to segment clouds from sky. In the final stage, a multi hypothesis linear tracking framework estimates cloud movement, velocity and possible coverage of a given photovoltaic power station. We employ a Kalman filter framework that efficiently operates on the rectified images. The evaluation on real world data suggests high coverage prediction accuracy above 75%.
Fusion 360 – kurz und bündig
(2019)
Dieses Lehrbuch ermöglicht dem Anfänger in der 3D-Modellierung einen schnellen Einstieg in die Arbeit mit dem cloudbasierten CAD-System Autodesk® Fusion 360™. Der Schwerpunkt liegt dabei auf den grundlegenden Funktionen zur Modellierung von Einzelteilen und Produkten, sowie in der Erstellung von einfachen technischen Zeichnungen. Dabei werden bei jedem Schritt die besonderen Anforderungen an eine 3D-Druck-gerechte Gestaltung erläutert und umgesetzt. Somit ist das Ergebnis dieser "Schritt für Schritt"-Anleitung die vollständige Modellierung eines Miniatur-Automobils, das am 3D-Drucker in ein reales Modell umgesetzt werden kann. Das didaktische Konzept ist so ausgelegt, dass alle Schritte für ein Selbststudium geeignet sind.
The additive manufacturing processes have developed significantly in recent years. Currently, new generative processes are coming onto the market. Likewise, the number of available materials that can be processed using additive processes is steadily increasing. Therefore, an important task is to integrate these new processes and materials into the university education of engineers. Due to the rapid change and the constant development in the field of additive manufacturing, a pure transfer of knowledge is not expedient, because this obsolete very quickly. Rather, the students should be enabled to use their skills in such a way that they can always handle new technologies and materials independently and meaningfully.
In this paper, therefore, a new course is developed in which the students largely independently work with additive manufacturing processes. For this purpose, teams of four to five students from different technical programs are formed. The teams have the task of developing and manufacturing a product using additive processes. The goal is to create a powerful product by taking into account the optimization of costs and use of resources.
As an example, the development and additive manufacturing of an ornithopter (aircraft that flies by flapping its wings) will be presented in this contribution. The students have to analyze and optimize the mechanics and aerodynamics of the aircraft. In addition, the rules for production-oriented design must be determined and applied. Further more, they should assess the costs and material consumption during development and production.
This contribution shows how the students have achieved the different learning outcomes. In addition, it becomes clear how the students independently acquired and applied their knowledge in development, design and additive manufacturing. Also, it will be demonstrated how much time the students spent on learning the different technologies.
The development of new processes and materials for additive manufacturing is currently progressing rapidly. In order to use the advantages of additive manufacturing, however, product development and design must also be adapted to these new processes. Therefore it is suitable to use structural optimization. To achieve the best results in lightweight design, it is important to have an approach that reduces the volume in the unloaded regions and considers the restrictions and characteristics of the additive manufacturing process. In this contribution, a case study using a humanoid robot is presented. Thus, the pelvis module of a humanoid robot is optimized regarding its weight and stiffness. Furthermore, an integrated design is implemented in order to reduce the number of parts and the screw connections. The manufacturing uses a new aluminum-based material that has been specially developed for use in additive manufacturing and lightweight construction. For the additive manufacturing by means of the Selective Laser Melting (SLM) process, different restrictions and the assembly concepts of the humanoid robot have to be taken into account. These restrictions have to be considered in the setting of the individual parameters and target functions of the structural optimization. As a result, a framework is presented that shows the steps of the redesign and the optimization of the pelvis module. In order to achieve high accuracy with the product, the redesign of the pelvis module is demonstrated with regard to mechanical and thermal postprocessing. Finally, the redesigned part and the different assembly concepts are compared to analyze the economic and technical effects of the optimization.
Besides of conventional CAD systems, new, cloud-based CAD systems have also been available for some years. These CAD systems designed according to the principle of software as a service (SaaS) differ in some important features from the conventional CAD systems. Thus, these CAD systems are operated via a browser and it is not necessary to install the software on a computer. The CAD-data is stored in the cloud and not on a local computer or central server. This new approach should also facilitate the sharing and management of data. Finally, many of these new CAD systems are available as freeware for education purposes, so the universities can save license costs. This contribution examines newly developed, cloud-based CAD systems. In the context of a case study, the application of these new CAD systems are investigated in the training of engineers in design education. Thus, the students compare a conventional and a cloud-based CAD system as part of an exercise of designing and 3D modelling of a pinion shaft. Subsequently, the students manufacture a drawing with different views of the pinion shaft. This assessment evaluates different criteria such as user-friendliness, tutorial support and installation effort.
Tryptamines can occur naturally in plants, mushrooms, microbes, and amphibians. Synthetic tryptamines are sold as new psychoactive substances (NPS) because of their hallucinogenic effects. When it comes to NPS, metabolism studies are of crucial importance, due to the lack of pharmacological and toxicological data. Different approaches can be taken to study in vitro and in vivo metabolism of xenobiotica. The zygomycete fungus Cunninghamella elegans (C. elegans) can be used as a microbial model for the study of drug metabolism. The current study investigated the biotransformation of four naturally occurring and synthetic tryptamines [N,N‐Dimethyltryptamine (DMT), 4‐hydroxy‐N‐methyl‐N‐ethyltryptamine (4‐HO‐MET), N,N‐di allyl‐5‐methoxy tryptamine (5‐MeO‐DALT) and 5‐methoxy‐N‐methyl‐N‐isoporpoyltryptamine (5‐MeO‐MiPT)] in C. elegans after incubation for 72 hours. Metabolites were identified using liquid chromatography–high resolution–tandem mass spectrometry (LC–HR–MS/MS) with a quadrupole time‐of‐flight (QqTOF) instrument. Results were compared to already published data on these substances. C. elegans was capable of producing all major biotransformation steps: hydroxylation, N‐oxide formation, carboxylation, deamination, and demethylation. On average 63% of phase I metabolites found in the literature could also be detected in C. elegans. Additionally, metabolites specific for C. elegans were identified. Therefore, C. elegans is a suitable complementary model to other in vitro or in vivo methods to study the metabolism of naturally occurring or synthetic tryptamines.
In numerical calculations, guided acoustic waves, localized in two spatial dimensions, have been shown to exist and their properties have been investigated in three different geometries, (i) a half-space consisting of two elastic media with a planar interface inclined to the common surface, (ii) a wedge made of two elastic media with a planar interface, and (iii) the free edge of an elastic layer between two quarter-spaces or two wedge-shaped pieces of a material with elastic properties and density differing from those of the intermediate layer.
For the special case of Poisson media forming systems (i) and (ii), the existence ranges of these 1D guided waves in parameter space have been determined and found to strongly depend on the inclination angle between surface and interface in case (i) and the wedge angle in case (ii). In a system of type (ii) made of two materials with strong acoustic mismatch and in systems of type (iii), leaky waves have been found with a high degree of spatial localization of the associated displacements, although the two materials constituting these structures are isotropic.
Both the fully guided and the leaky waves analyzed in this work could find applications in non-destructive evaluation of composite structures and should be accounted for in geophysical prospecting, for example.
A critical comparison is presented of the two computational approaches employed, namely a semi-analytical finite element scheme and a method based on an expansion of the displacement field in a double series of special functions.
This work discusses several use cases of post-mortem mobile device tracking in which privacy is required e.g. due to client-confidentiality agreements and sensibility of data from government agencies as well as mobile telecommunication providers. We argue that our proposed Bloomfilter based privacy approach is a valuable technical building block for the arising General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requirements in this area. In short, we apply a solution based on the Bloom filters data structure that allows a 3rd party to performsome privacy saving setrelations on a mobiletelco’s access logfile or other mobile access logfile from harvesting parties without revealing any other mobile users in the proximity of a mobile base station but still allowing to track perpetrators.
Modeling and simulation play a key role in analyzing the complex electrochemical behavior of lithium-ion batteries. We present the development of a thermodynamic and kinetic modeling framework for intercalation electrochemistry within the open-source software Cantera. Instead of using equilibrium potentials and single-step Butler-Volmer kinetics, Cantera is based on molar thermodynamic data and mass-action kinetics, providing a physically-based and flexible means for complex reaction pathways. Herein, we introduce a new thermodynamic class for intercalation materials into the open-source software. We discuss the derivation of molar thermodynamic data from experimental half-cell potentials, and provide practical guidelines. We then demonstrate the new class using a single-particle model of a lithium cobalt oxide/graphite lithium-ion cell, implemented in MATLAB. With the present extensions, Cantera provides a platform for the lithium-ion battery modeling community both for consistent thermodynamic and kinetic models and for exchanging the required thermodynamic and kinetic parameters. We provide the full MATLAB code and parameter files as supplementary material to this article.
Oxidation of the nickel electrode is a severe aging mechanism of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC) and solid oxide electrolyzer cells (SOEC). This work presents a modeling study of safe operating conditions with respect to nickel oxide formation. Microkinetic reaction mechanisms for thermochemical and electrochemical nickel oxidation are integrated into a 2D multiphase model of an anode‐supported solid oxide cell. Local oxidation propensity can be separated into four regimes. Simulations show that the thermochemical pathway generally dominates the electrochemical pathway. As a consequence, as long as fuel utilization is low, cell operation considerably below electrochemical oxidation limit of 0.704 V is possible without the risk of reoxidation.
In this article the high-temperature behavior of a cylindrical lithium iron phosphate/graphite lithium-ion cell is investigated numerically and experimentally by means of differential scanning calorimetry (DSC), accelerating rate calorimetry (ARC), and external short circuit test (ESC). For the simulations a multi-physics multi-scale (1D+1D+1D) model is used. Assuming a two-step electro-/thermochemical SEI formation mechanism, the model is able to qualitatively reproduce experimental data at temperatures up to approx. 200 °C. Model assumptions and parameters could be evaluated via comparison to experimental results, where the three types of experiments (DSC, ARC, ESC) show complementary sensitivities towards model parameters. The results underline that elevated-temperature experiments can be used to identify parameters of the multi-physics model, which then can be used to understand and interpret high-temperature behavior. The resulting model is able to describe nominal charge/discharge operation behavior, long-term calendaric aging behavior, and short-term high-temperature behavior during extreme events, demonstrating the descriptive and predictive capabilities of physicochemical models.
Model-based analysis of Electrochemical Pressure Impedance Spectroscopy (EPIS) for PEM Fuel Cells
(2019)
Electrochemical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) is a widely-used diagnostic technique to characterize electrochemical processes. It is based on the dynamic analysis of two electrical observables, that is, current and voltage. Electrochemical cells with gaseous reactants or products, in particular fuel cells, offer an additional observable, that is, the gas pressure. The dynamic coupling of current or voltage with gas pressure gives rise to a number of additional impedance definitions, for which we have previously introduced the term electrochemical pressure impedance spectroscopy (EPIS) [1,2]. EPIS shows a particular sensitivity towards transport processes of gas-phase or dissolved species, in particular, diffusion coefficients and transport pathway lengths. It is as such complementary to standard EIS, which is mainly sensitive towards electrochemical processes. First EPIS experiments on PEM fuel cells have recently been shown [3].
We present a detailed modeling and simulation analysis of EPIS of a PEM fuel cell. We use a 1D+1D continuum model of a fuel/air channel pair with GDL and MEA. Backpressure is dynamically varied, and the resulting simulated oscillation in cell voltage is evaluated to yield the ▁Z_( V⁄p_ca ) EPIS signal. Results are obtained for different transport situations of the fuel cell, giving rise to very complex EPIS shapes in the Nyquist plot. This complexity shows the necessity of model-based interpretation of the complex EPIS shapes. Based on the simulation results, specific features in the EPIS spectra can be assigned to different transport domains (gas channel, GDL, membrane water transport).
The fast and cost-effective manufacturing of tools for thermoforming is an essential requirement to shorten the development time of products. Thus, additive processes are used increasingly in tooling for thermoforming of plastic sheets. However, a disadvantage of many additive methods is that they are highly cost-intensive, since complex systems based on laser technology and expensive metal powders are needed. Therefore, this paper examines how to work with favorable additive methods, e.g. Binder Jetting, to manufacture tools, which provide sufficient strength for thermoforming. The use of comparatively low-priced inkjet technology for the layer construction and a polymer plaster as material can be expected to result in significant cost reductions. Based on a case study using a cowling (engine bonnet) for an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV), the development of a complex tool for thermoforming is demonstrated. The object in this study is to produce a tool for a complex-shaped component in small numbers and high quality in a short time and at reasonable costs. Within the tooling process, integrated vacuum channels are implemented in additive tooling without the need for additional post-processing (for example, drilling). In addition, special technical challenges, such as the demolding of undercuts or the parting of the tool are explained. All process steps from tool design to the use of the additively manufactured tool are analyzed. Based on the manufacturing of a small series of cowlings for a UAV made of plastic sheets (ABS), it is shown, that the Binder Jetting offers sufficient mechanical and thermal strength for additive tooling. In addition, an economic evaluation of the tool manufacturing and a detailed consideration of the required manufacturing times for the different process steps are carried out. Finally, a comparison is made with conventional and alternative additive methods of tooling.
When designing and installing Indoor Positioning Systems, several interrelated tasks have to be solved to find an optimum placement of the Access Points. For this purpose, a mathematical model for a predefined number of access points indoors is presented. Two iterative algorithms for the minimization of localization error of a mobile object are described. Both algorithms use local search technique and signal level probabilities. Previously registered signal strengths maps were used in computer simulation.
Narrowband IoT (NB-IoT) as a radio access technology for the cellular Internet of Things (cIoT) is getting more traction due to attractive system parameters, new proposals in the 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 14 for reduced power consumption and ongoing world-wide deployment. As per 3GPP, the low-power and wide-area use cases in 5G specification will be addressed by the early NB-IoT and Long-Term Evolution for Machines (LTE-M) based technologies. Since these cIoT networks will operate in a spatially distributed environment, there are various challenges to be addressed for tests and measurements of these networks. To meet these requirements, unified emulated and field testbeds for NB-IoT-networks were developed and used for extensive performance measurements. This paper analyses the results of these measurements with regard to RF coverage, signal quality, latency, and protocol consistency.
The monitoring of industrial environments ensures that highly automated processes run without interruption. However, even if the industrial machines themselves are monitored, the communication lines are currently not continuously monitored in todays installations. They are checked usually only during maintenance intervals or in case of error. In addition, the cables or connected machines usually have to be removed from the system for the duration of the test. To overcome these drawbacks, we have developed and implemented a cost-efficient and continuous signal monitoring of Ethernet-based industrial bus systems. Several methods have been developed to assess the quality of the cable. These methods can be classified to either passive or active. Active methods are not suitable if interruption of the communication is undesired. Passive methods, on the other hand, require oversampling, which calls for expensive hardware. In this paper, a novel passive method combined with undersampling targeting cost-efficient hardware is proposed.
Enabling ultra-low latency is one of the major drivers for the development of future cellular networks to support delay sensitive applications including factory automation, autonomous vehicles and tactile internet. Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) is a 3 rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Release 13 standardized cellular network currently optimized for massive Machine Type Communication (mMTC). To reduce the latency in cellular networks, 3GPP has proposed some latency reduction techniques that include Semi Persistent Scheduling (SPS) and short Transmission Time Interval (sTTI). In this paper, we investigate the potential of adopting both techniques in NB-IoT networks and provide a comprehensive performance evaluation. We firstly analyze these techniques and then implement them in an open-source network simulator (NS3). Simulations are performed with a focus on Cat-NB1 User Equipment (UE) category to evaluate the uplink user-plane latency. Our results show that SPS and sTTI have the potential to greatly reduce the latency in NB-IoT systems. We believe that both techniques can be integrated into NB-IoT systems to position NB-IoT as a preferred technology for low data rate Ultra-Reliable Low-Latency Communication (URLLC) applications before 5G has been fully rolled out.
With the surge in global data consumption with proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT), remote monitoring and control is increasingly becoming popular with a wide range of applications from emergency response in remote regions to monitoring of environmental parameters. Mesh networks are being employed to alleviate a number of issues associated with single-hop communication such as low area coverage, reliability, range and high energy consumption. Low-power Wireless Personal Area Networks (LoWPANs) are being used to help realize and permeate the applicability of IoT. In this paper, we present the design and test of IEEE 802.15.4-compliant smart IoT nodes with multi-hop routing. We first discuss the features of the software stack and design choices in hardware that resulted in high RF output power and then present field test results of different baseline network topologies in both rural and urban settings to demonstrate the deployability and scalability of our solution.
A physical unclonable function (PUF) is a hardware circuit that produces a random sequence based on its manufacturing-induced intrinsic characteristics. In the past decade, silicon-based PUFs have been extensively studied as a security primitive for identification and authentication. The emerging field of printed electronics (PE) enables novel application fields in the scope of the Internet of Things (IoT) and smart sensors. In this paper, we design and evaluate a printed differential circuit PUF (DiffC-PUF). The simulation data are verified by Monte Carlo analysis. Our design is highly scalable while consisting of a low number of printed transistors. Furthermore, we investigate the best operating point by varying the PUF challenge configuration and analyzing the PUF security metrics in order to achieve high robustness. At the best operating point, the results show areliability of 98.37% and a uniqueness of 50.02%, respectively. This analysis also provides useful and comprehensive insights into the design of hybrid or fully printed PUF circuits. In addition, the proposed printed DiffC-PUF core has been fabricated with electrolyte-gated field-effect transistor technology to verify our design in hardware.
This article deals with the problem of wireless synchronization between onboard computing devices of small-sized unmanned aerial vehicles (SUAV) equipped with integrated wireless chips (IWC). Accurate synchronization between several devices requires the precise timestamping of batches transmitting and receiving on each of them. The best precision is demonstrated by those solutions where timestamping is performed on the PHY level, right after modulation/demodulation of the batch. Nowadays, most of the currently produced IWC are Systems-on-a-Chip (SoC) that include both PHY and MAC, implemented with one or several processor cores application. SoC allows create more cost and energy efficient wireless devices. At the same time, it limits the developers direct access to the internal signals and significantly complicates precise timestamping for sent and received batches, required for mutual synchronization of industrial devices. Some modern IEEE 802.11 IWCs have inbuilt functions that use internal chip clock to register timestamps. However, high jitter of the interfaces between the external device and IWC degrades the comparison of the timestamps from the internal clock to those registered by external devices. To solve this problem, the article proposes a novel approach to the synchronization, based on the analysis of IWC receiver input potential. The benefit of this approach is that there is no need to demodulate and decode the received batches, thus allowing it implementation with low-cost IWCs. In this araticle, Cypress CYW43438 was taken as an example for designing hardware and software solutions for synchronization between two SUAV onboard computing devices, equipped with IWC. The results of the performed experimental studies reveal that mutual synchronization error of the proposed method does not exceed 10 μs.
Massive Umwälzungen im Marktumfeld, verstärkt durch disruptive Technologien, stellen viele Unternehmen vor die existenzielle Frage, wie sie ihr etabliertes Geschäftsmodell zukunftsfähig weiterentwickeln können beziehungsweise wie sie sich unter Umständen grundlegend neu aufstellen müssen. Volatilität, Unsicherheit, Komplexität und Ambiguität (kurz VUKA) sind in diesem Kontext jene ungünstigen Begleiterscheinungen, die auch genossenschaftliche Unternehmen beeinflussen. Die vielfältigen Herausforderungen im Unternehmensumfeld, wie beispielsweise ungünstige demografische Entwicklungen, eine zunehmende Urbanisierung bei steigendem Bedarf an regionaler Daseinsvorsorge, Wettbewerbsdruck durch neue Geschäftsmodelle und Konkurrenten infolge der Künstlichen Intelligenz beziehungsweise Digitalisierung – zum Beispiel durch FinTechs – bedingen die Suche nach Orientierung, nach einem strategischen Kompass sowohl für Politik, Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft.
Am Beispiel der kanadischen Metropole Vancouver zeigt sich, dass auch in Zeiten einer immer komplexer werdenden Welt Wirtschaftswachstum, Nachhaltigkeit und Lebenswert positiv korrelieren können und innerhalb weniger Jahrzehnte regional umsetzbar sind. Die Stadt setzt dabei überwiegend auf zentral gesteuerte Aktivitäten der „Vancouver Economic Comission“, die alle gesellschaftlichen und unternehmerischen Anspruchsgruppen auf der Basis werteorientierten Handelns konsequent das Ziel verfolgen lässt, Vancouver zu einer global anerkannten Stadt für innovatives, kreatives und nachhaltiges Business zu entwickeln. Das Streben Vancouvers weist dabei Parallelen zu genossenschaftlichen Wesensprinzipien sowie zu im deutschsprachigen Raum bereits existierenden Ansätzen genossenschaftlicher Innovationsökosysteme auf. Letztere haben bereits an verschiedenen Stellen bewiesen, dass sie das Potenzial haben in Zeiten komplexer Herausforderungen zukunftsfähige Lösungen für die Menschen in der Region gemeinschaftlich zu entwickeln. Gleichzeitig lassen sich mittels innovativer Produkte, Dienstleistungen und Geschäftsmodelle neue Ertragsquellen erschließen.
Strategen genossenschaftlicher oder kooperativer Banken und Unternehmen sollten nachfolgende Fragen bewegen:
• Was können deutsche Städte, Gemeinden und Regionen von Vancouver hinsichtlich des Aufbaus und der Gestaltung dynamischer Innovationsökosysteme lernen?
• Welche Rolle können Genossenschaften in Innovationsökosystemen spielen?
• Wie könnten die Innovationsprinzipien, -methoden und -formate in der jeweiligen Region erfolgversprechend eingesetzt werden?
We present our twenty years of experience in the live broadcasting of astronomical events, with the main focus on total lunar eclipses. Our efforts were motivated by the great impact and high number of viewers of these events. Visitors from over a hundred countries watched our live broadcasts. Our viewer record was set on July 27, 2018, with the live transmission of the total lunar eclipse from the Feldberg, the highest mountain in the Black Forest, attracting nearly half a million viewers in five hours.
An especially challenging activity was the live observing of the Mercury transit on 9 May 2016, which we presented as ‘live astronomy’ with hands-on telescope. The main goal of this event was to awake our students enthusiasm for optics and astronomy.
Furthermore, we report on our experiences with the photography of optical phenomena such as polar lights and green flash.
The ability to change aerodynamic parameters of airfoils during flying can potentially save energy as well as reducing the noise made by the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) because of sharp edges of the airfoil and its rudders. In this paper, an approach for the design of an adaptive wing using a multi-material 3D printer is shown. In multi-material 3D printing, up to six different materials can be combined in one component. Thus, the user can determine the mixture and the spatial arrangement of this “digital material” in advance in the pre-processing software. First, the theoretical benefits of adaptive wings are shown, and already existing adaptive wings and concepts are explicated within a literature review. Then the additive manufacturing process using photopolymer jetting and its capabilities to print multiple materials in one part are demonstrated. Within the scope of a case study, an adaptive wing is developed and the necessary steps for the product development and their implementation in CAD are presented. This contribution covers the requirements for different components and sections of an adaptive wing designed for additive manufacturing using multiple materials as well as the single steps of development with its different approaches until the final design of the adaptive wing. The developed wing section is simulated, and qualitative tests in a wind tunnel are carried out with the wing segment. Finally, the additively manufactured wing segment is evaluated under technical and economic aspects.