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RETIS – Real-Time Sensitive Wireless Communication Solution for Industrial Control Applications
(2020)
Ultra-Reliable Low Latency Communications (URLLC) has been always a vital component of many industrial applications. The paper proposes a new wireless URLLC solution called RETIS, which is suitable for factory automation and fast process control applications, where low latency, low jitter, and high data exchange rates are mandatory. In the paper, we describe the communication protocol as well as the hardware structure of the network nodes for implementing the required functionality. Many techniques enabling fast, reliable wireless transmissions are used – short Transmission Time Interval (TTI), Time-Division Multiple Access (TDMA), MIMO, optional duplicated data transfer, Forward Error Correction (FEC), ACK mechanism. Preliminary tests show that reliable end-to-end latency down to 350 μs and packet exchange rate up to 4 kHz can be reached (using quadruple MIMO and standard IEEE 802.15.4 PHY at 250 kbit/s).
Novel manufacturing technologies, such as printed electronics, may enable future applications for the Internet of Everything like large-area sensor devices, disposable security, and identification tags. Printed physically unclonable functions (PUFs) are promising candidates to be embedded as hardware security keys into lightweight identification devices. We investigate hybrid PUFs based on a printed PUF core. The statistics on the intra- and inter-hamming distance distributions indicate a performance suitable for identification purposes. Our evaluations are based on statistical simulations of the PUF core circuit and the thereof generated challenge-response pairs. The analysis shows that hardware-intrinsic security features can be realized with printed lightweight devices.
Für die Prognose von Zeitreihen sind bezüglich der Qualität der Vorhersagen heutzutage neuronale Netze und Deep Learning das Mittel der Wahl. LSTM-Netzwerke etablierten sich dazu als eine gut funktionierende Herangehensweise. 2017 wurde der auf Attention basierende Transformer für die Übersetzung von Sprache vorgestellt. Aufgrund seiner Fähigkeit mit sequenziellen Daten zu arbeiten, ist er auch für Zeitreihenprobleme interessant. Diese wissenschaftliche Arbeit befasst sich mit der Vorhersage von Zeitreihen mit einem Transformer. Es wird analysiert, inwiefern sich ein Transformer für Zeitreihenvorhersagen von einem Transformer für Sprachübersetzungen unterscheidet und wie gut die Vorhersagen im Vergleich zu denen eines LSTM-Netzwerkes abschneiden. Dazu werden ein LSTM- und ein Transformer-Netzwerk auf Luftqualitäts- und Wetterdaten in Berlin trainiert, um den Feinstaubgehalt (PM25) in der Luft vorherzusagen. Die Ergebnisse werden mit einem Benchmark-Modell anhand von Evaluationsmetriken verglichen. Anschließend wird evaluiert, wie die Fehler des Transformers reduziert werden können und wie gut der Transformer generalisiert.
The development of Internet of Things (IoT) embedded devices is proliferating, especially in the smart home automation system. However, the devices unfortunately are imposing overhead on the IoT network. Thus, the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) have introduced the IPv6 Low-Power Wireless Personal Area Network (6LoWPAN) to provide a solution to this constraint. 6LoWPAN is an Internet Protocol (IP) based communication where it allows each device to connect to the Internet directly. As a result, the power consumption is reduced. However, the limitation of data transmission frame size of the IPv6 Routing Protocol for Low-power and Lossy Network’s (RPL’s) had made it to be the running overhead, and thus consequently degrades the performance of the network in terms of Quality of Service (QoS), especially in a large network. Therefore, HRPL was developed to enhance the RPL protocol to minimize redundant retransmission that causes the routing overhead. We introduced the T-Cut Off Delay to set the limit of the delay and the H field to respond to actions taken within the T-Cut Off Delay. Thus, this paper presents the comparison performance assessment of HRPL between simulation and real-world scenarios (6LoWPAN Smart Home System (6LoSH) testbed) in validating the HRPL functionalities. Our results show that HRPL had successfully reduced the routing overhead when implemented in 6LoSH. The observed Control Traffic Overhead (CTO) packet difference between each experiment is 7.1%, and the convergence time is 9.3%. Further research is recommended to be conducted for these metrics: latency, Packet Delivery Ratio (PDR), and throughput.
The Internet of Things (IoT) application has becoming progressively in-demand, most notably for the embedded devices (ED). However, each device has its own difference in computational capabilities, memory usage, and energy resources in connecting to the Internet by using Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). In order for this to be achievable, the WSNs that form the bulk of the IoT implementation requires a new set of technologies and protocol that would have a defined area, in which it addresses. Thus, IPv6 Low Power Area Network (6LoWPAN) was designed by the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) as a standard network for ED. Nevertheless, the communication between ED and 6LoWPAN requires appropriate routing protocols for it to achieve the efficient Quality of Service (QoS). Among the protocols of 6LoWPAN network, RPL is considered to be the best protocol, however its Energy Consumption (EC) and Routing Overhead (RO) is considerably high when it is implemented in a large network. Therefore, this paper would propose the HRPL to enchance the RPL protocol in reducing the EC and RO. In this study, the researchers would present the performance of RPL and HRPL in terms of EC, Control traffic Overhead (CTO) and latency based on the simulation of the 6LoWPAN network in fixed environment using COOJA simulator. The results show HRPL protocol achieves better performance in all the tested topology in terms of EC and CTO. However, the latency of HRPL only improves in chain topology compared with RPL. We found that further research is required to study the relationship between the latency and the load of packet transmission in order to optimize the EC usage.
Das Messstellenbetriebsgesetz sieht bis 2032 einen Pflichteinbau von modernen Messeinrichtungen bzw. intelligenten Messsystemen bei allen Verbrauchern und Erzeugern vor. Des Weiteren ist die Anbindung von regenerativen Erzeugungsanlagen und steuerbaren Verbrauchern sowie die netzdienliche Steuerung dieser Einrichtungen über das Smart Meter Gateway durch das Messstellenbetriebsgesetz vorgeschrieben. Diese netzdienliche Steuerung wird unter dem Begriff CLS-Management zusammengefasst und muss von allen Netzbetreibern und Messstellenbetreibern künftig umgesetzt werden. Im Rahmen der Bachelorarbeit wurde ein Testaufbau mit einem intelligenten Messsystem inklusive entsprechender Steuereinrichtung aufgebaut, um das CLS-Management an einfachen Schalthandlungen zu erproben. Die daraus gewonnenen Erfahrungen sollen dem Messstellenbetreiber dabei helfen, das Thema in der Wirkumgebung platzieren zu können. Ziel dieses Aufbaus ist es, über die Kommunikationsart LTE eine Schalthandlung an einer Steuerbox in der Rolle des externen Marktteilnehmers vornehmen zu können. Für die Umsetzung wird eine entsprechende Software des Gateway Herstellers zur Verfügung gestellt, um die Versuche außerhalb des zertifizierten Bereiches durch-führen zu können.
Als konkreten Anwendungsfall wird im Rahmen der Thesis die Ablösung der Funkrundsteuertechnik durch das CLS-Management betrachtet. Mit dem Rollout der intelligenten Messsystemen müssen künftig die steuerbaren Verbrauchseinrichtungen und regenerativen Erzeugungsanlagen über das Smart Meter Gateway gesteuert werden können. Dies hat gegenüber der Funkrundsteuertechnik den entscheidenden Vorteil, dass die Informationen über eine gesicherte TLS-Verbindungen übertragen werden und durch einen Rückkanal auch Informationen über das korrekte Ausführung der Schalthandlung beim externen Marktteilnehmer ankommen.
Als weiteren Anwendungsfall wird untersucht, wie über ein Smart Meter Gateway außer Steuersignale auch Energiedaten und Sollwerte von externen Marktteilnehmer an Smart Grid Infrastrukturen übertragen werden können, um diese optimal betreiben zu können. Als Grundlage dient hierfür das Micro Grid am INES der Hochschule Offenburg
Neuromorphic computing systems have demonstrated many advantages for popular classification problems with significantly less computational resources. We present in this paper the design, fabrication and training of a programmable neuromorphic circuit, which is based on printed electrolytegated field-effect transistor (EGFET). Based on printable neuron architecture involving several resistors and one transistor, the proposed circuit can realize multiply-add and activation functions. The functionality of the circuit, i.e. the weights of the neural network, can be set during a post-fabrication step in form of printing resistors to the crossbar. Besides the fabrication of a programmable neuron, we also provide a learning algorithm, tailored to the requirements of the technology and the proposed programmable neuron design, which is verified through simulations. The proposed neuromorphic circuit operates at 5V and occupies 385mm 2 of area.
In many application domains, in particular automotives, guaranteeing a very low failure rate is crucial to meet functional and safety standards. Especially, reliable operation of memory components such as SRAM cells is of essential importance. Due to aggressive technology downscaling, process and runtime variations significantly impact manufacturing yield as well as functionality. For this reason, a thorough memory failure rate assessment is imperative for correct circuit operation and yield improvement. In this regard, Monte Carlo simulations have been used as the conventional method to estimate the variability induced failure rate of memory components. However, Monte Carlo methods become infeasible when estimating rare events such as high-sigma failure rates. To this end, Importance Sampling methods have been proposed which reduce the number of required simulations substantially. However, existing methods still suffer from inaccuracies and high computational efforts, in particular for high-sigma problems. In this paper, we fill this gap by presenting an efficient mixture Importance Sampling approach based on Bayesian optimization, which deploys a surface model of the objective function to find the most probable failure points. Its advantages include constant complexity independent of the dimensions of design space, the potential to find the global extrema, and higher trustworthiness of the estimated failure rate by accurately exploring the design space. The approach is evaluated on a 6T-SRAM cell as well as a master-slave latch based on a 28nm FDSOI process. The results show an improvement in accuracy, resulting in up to 63× better accuracy in estimating failure rates compared to the best state-of-the-art solutions on a 28nm technology node.
Printed electronics (PE) offers flexible, extremely low-cost, and on-demand hardware due to its additive manufacturing process, enabling emerging ultra-low-cost applications, including machine learning applications. However, large feature sizes in PE limit the complexity of a machine learning classifier (e.g., a neural network (NN)) in PE. Stochastic computing Neural Networks (SC-NNs) can reduce area in silicon technologies, but still require complex designs due to unique implementation tradeoffs in PE. In this paper, we propose a printed mixed-signal system, which substitutes complex and power-hungry conventional stochastic computing (SC) components by printed analog designs. The printed mixed-signal SC consumes only 35% of power consumption and requires only 25% of area compared to a conventional 4-bit NN implementation. We also show that the proposed mixed-signal SC-NN provides good accuracy for popular neural network classification problems. We consider this work as an important step towards the realization of printed SC-NN hardware for near-sensor-processing.
Morphological transition of a rod-shaped phase into a string of spherical particles is commonly observed in the microstructures of alloys during solidification (Ratke and Mueller, 2006). This transition phenomenon can be explained by the classic Plateau-Rayleigh theory which was derived for fluid jets based on the surface area minimization principle. The quintessential work of Plateau-Rayleigh considers tiny perturbations (amplitude much less than the radius) to the continuous phase and for large amplitude perturbations, the breakup condition for the rod-shaped phase is still a knotty issue. Here, we present a concise thermodynamic model based on the surface area minimization principle as well as a non-linear stability analysis to generalize Plateau-Rayleigh’s criterion for finite amplitude perturbations. Our results demonstrate a breakup transition from a continuous phase via dispersed particles towards a uniform-radius cylinder, which has not been found previously, but is observed in our phase-field simulations. This new observation is attributed to a geometric constraint, which was overlooked in former studies. We anticipate that our results can provide further insights on microstructures with spherical particles and cylinder-shaped phases.
Die vorliegende Bachelorarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Evaluation einer Simulationssoftware anhand unterschiedlichen Roboterkinematiken sowie einer virtuellen Inbetriebnahme einer speicherprogrammierbaren Steuerung (SPS) mittels OPC-UA-Kommunikation.
Für die Evaluation der Simulationssoftware wurden drei Roboter verschiedener Hersteller, die die gleiche Aufgabe erfüllen, mit der Simulationssoftware Visual Components simuliert und anschließend in einer realen Umgebung getestet. Für die virtuelle Inbetriebnahme einer SPS mittels OPC-UA-Kommunikation wurde eine virtuelle SPS-gesteuerte Roboter-Fertigungslinie implementiert.
Ergebnis dieser Arbeit sind detaillierte Einarbeitung in die Simulationssoftware Visual Components, strukturierte Offline und Online Roboterprogrammierung und somit Auswertung der Simulationssoftware anhand unterschiedlicher Roboterkinematiken. Bewertung des Datenaustauschs (via OPC-UA) zwischen einer SPS und der Simulationssoftware Visual Components.
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.
Dementia is a clinical diagnosis reflecting many possible underlying pathologies, for example, vascular dementia and neurodegenerative disorders such as frontotemporal dementia, Lewy body-type disorder or Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The breakthrough of 99mtechnetium-labelled perfusion tracers in the 1990s resulted in many SPECT studies of flow changes in AD. In the first decade of 2000, the role of perfusion SPECT was shifted from diagnosis towards differential diagnosis, parallel to the growing attention for diagnosing early stages of dementia. Previously a diagnosis based largely on a process of exclusion, new guidelines have emerged increasingly employing positive criteria to establish the diagnosis, including neuroimaging biomarkers. Nowadays, FDG PET has largely limited the role of perfusion SPECT, although it is still considered a valuable and cost-effective alternative when PET is not available.
Amorphous In-Ga-Zn-O (IGZO) is a high-mobility semiconductor employed in modern thin-film transistors for displays and it is considered as a promising material for Schottky diode-based rectifiers. Properties of the electronic components based on IGZO strongly depend on the manufacturing parameters such as the oxygen partial pressure during IGZO sputtering and post-deposition thermal annealing. In this study, we investigate the combined effect of sputtering conditions of amorphous IGZO (In:Ga:Zn=1:1:1) and post-deposition thermal annealing on the properties of vertical thin-film Pt-IGZO-Cu Schottky diodes, and evaluated the applicability of the fabricated Schottky diodes for low-frequency half-wave rectifier circuits. The change of the oxygen content in the gas mixture from 1.64% to 6.25%, and post-deposition annealing is shown to increase the current rectification ratio from 10 5 to 10 7 at ±1 V, Schottky barrier height from 0.64 eV to 0.75 eV, and the ideality factor from 1.11 to 1.39. Half-wave rectifier circuits based on the fabricated Schottky diodes were simulated using parameters extracted from measured current-voltage and capacitance-voltage characteristics. The half-wave rectifier circuits were realized at 100 kHz and 300 kHz on as-fabricated Schottky diodes with active area of 200 μm × 200 μm, which is relevant for the near-field communication (125 kHz - 134 kHz), and provided the output voltage amplitude of 0.87 V for 2 V supply voltage. The simulation results matched with the measurement data, verifying the model accuracy for circuit level simulation.
Machine Learning als Schlüsseltechnologie für Digitalisierung: Wie funktioniert maschinelles Lernen?
(2019)
Diese Arbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Entwicklung einer E-Learning Anwendung zum Peer-to-Peer Algorithmus Content Addressable Network (CAN). Ein CAN ist eine verteilte Hashtabelle zur dezentralen Verwaltung von Daten in Form von Schlüssel-Wert Paaren. Zweck der Anwendung ist eine didaktisch sinnvolle Aufbereitung und Darstellung der grundlegenden Abläufe im CAN. Die Anwendung simuliert ein CAN und bietet ein grafisches Interface zur Interaktion. Die Anwendung soll unterstützend im Rahmen des Moduls Advanced Networking im Informatik Master an der Hochschule Offenburg eingesetzt werden.
The Go programming language is an increasingly popular language but some of its features lack a formal investigation. This article explains Go's resolution mechanism for overloaded methods and its support for structural subtyping by means of translation from Featherweight Go to a simple target language. The translation employs a form of dictionary passing known from type classes in Haskell and preserves the dynamic behavior of Featherweight Go programs.
Implementierung und Automatisierung von Performance-Tests aus den Erkenntnissen von Last-Tests
(2021)
Die Website des bayerischen Fußball-Verbandes hatte anfangs Performance Probleme, weshalb es zu Abstürzen der Seite kam. Um das Problem zu lösen wurden Last-Tests eingeführt. Diese können allerdings nicht immer ausgeführt werden, weshalb ein Performance-Test erstellt werden soll. In dieser Arbeit wird das Verhalten von Webservern unter Last analysiert, um einen Performance-Test zu entwickeln.
Um das Verhalten beurteilen zu können, wurden auf einem lokalen Computer Last-Tests ausgeführt und analysiert. Dabei fiel auf, dass die Steigung der Response Time nicht linear ansteigt im Vergleich zu den virtuellen Usern. Die Funktion steigt ab einem gewissen Punkt stark und nähert sich einer Asymptote an. Dieser Punkt ist durch eine Formel berechenbar.
Aus diesen Ergebnissen wurde eine Berechnungsformel entwickelt, die anhand von Messungen die Performance einer Website berechnen kann. Die Formel wurde in ein Testskript integriert, das die Website Ressourcen automatisch scannt und die Messungen ausführt. Der erstellte Test wird zum Schluss ausgeführt und teilweise automatisiert.
Das hier vorgestellte System verbindet das neue Konzept der Peer-to-Peer-Navigation mit dem Einsatz von Augmented Reality zur Unterstützung von bettseitig durchgeführten externen Ventrikeldrainagen. Das sehr kompakte und genaue Gesamtsystem beinhaltet einen Patiententracker mit integrierter Kamera, eine Augmented-Reality-Brille mit Kamera und eine Punktionsnadel bzw. einen Pointer mit zwei Trackern, mit dessen Hilfe die Anatomie des Patienten aufgenommen wird. Die exakte Position und Richtung der Punktionsnadel wird unter Zuhilfenahme der aufgenommenen Landmarken berechnet und über die Augmented-Reality-Brille für den Chirurgen sichtbar auf dem Patienten dargestellt. Die Methode zur Kalibrierung der statischen Transformationen zwischen Patiententracker und daran befestigter Kamera beziehungsweise zwischen den Trackern der Punktionsnadel sind für die Genauigkeit sehr wichtig und werden hier vorgestellt. Das Gesamtsystem konnte in vitro erfolgreich getestet werden und bestätigt den Nutzen eines Peer-to-Peer-Navigationssystems.
Formal Description of Use Cases for Industry 4.0 Maintenance Processes Using Blockchain Technology
(2019)
Maintenance processes in Industry 4.0 applications try to achieve a high degree of quality to reduce the downtime of machinery. The monitoring of executed maintenance activities is challenging as in complex production setups, multiple stakeholders are involved. So, full transparency of the different activities and of the state of the machine can only be supported, if these stakeholders trust each other. Therefore, distributed ledger technologies, like Blockchain, can be promising candidates for supporting such applications. The goal of this paper is a formal description of business and technical interactions between non-trustful stakeholders in the context of Industry 4.0 maintenance processes using distributed ledger technologies. It also covers the integration of smart contracts for automated triggering of activities.
Ziel der vorliegenden Bachelorarbeit ist es, eine automatisierte Bildausschnittkontrolle für die Low Code Plattform Intrexx zu implementieren. Diese soll mit Hilfe eines geeigneten Künstliche Intelligenz Frameworks Gesichter in Bildern erkennen und diese anschließend ausschneiden. Die Benutzer*innen sollen die Ausschnitte außerdem noch manuell anpassen können. Die Implementierung erfolgt mittels Typescript innerhalb einer Webkomponente, um eine Verwendung innerhalb von Intrexx zu ermöglichen. Nach einem Vergleich verschiedener technologischer Ansätze hat sich Tensorflow als geeignetes KI-Framework herausgestellt. Im Rahmen einer Performance-Analyse wurden außerdem verschiedene Tensorflow-Modelle miteinander verglichen.
It seems to be a widespread impression that the use of strong cryptography inevitably imposes a prohibitive burden on industrial communication systems, at least inasmuch as real-time requirements in cyclic fieldbus communications are concerned. AES-GCM is a leading cryptographic algorithm for authenticated encryption, which protects data against disclosure and manipulations. We study the use of both hardware and software-based implementations of AES-GCM. By simulations as well as measurements on an FPGA-based prototype setup we gain and substantiate an important insight: for devices with a 100 Mbps full-duplex link, a single low-footprint AES-GCM hardware engine can deterministically cope with the worst-case computational load, i.e., even if the device maintains a maximum number of cyclic communication relations with individual cryptographic keys. Our results show that hardware support for AES-GCM in industrial fieldbus components may actually be very lightweight.
Development of Fully Printed Oxide Field-Effect Transistors using Graphene Passive Structures
(2019)
During the past decade to the present time, the topic of printed electronics has gained a lot of attention for their potential use in a number of practical applications, including biosensors, photovoltaic devices, RFIDs, flexible displays, large-area circuits, and so on. To fully realize printed electronic components and devices, effective techniques for the printing of passive structures and electrically and chemically compatible materials in the printed devices need to be developed first. The opportunity of using electrically conducting graphene inks will enable the integration of passive structures into active devices, as for example, printed electrolyte-gated transistors (EGTs). Accordingly, in this study, we present the parametric results obtained on fully printed electrolyte-gated transistors having graphene as the passive electrodes, an inorganic oxide semiconductor as the active channel, and a composite solid polymer electrolyte (CSPE) as the gate insulating material. This configuration offers high chemical and electrical stability while at the same time allowing EGT operation at low potentials, implying the distinct advantage of operation at low input voltages. The printed in-plane EGTs we developed exhibit excellent performance with device mobility up to 16 cm2 V–1 s–1, an ION/IOFF ratio of 105, and a subthreshold slope of 120 mV dec–1.
In dieser Arbeit soll ein digitaler Zwilling für ein Transportband und Anlagenteil der im Labor für Automatisierungssysteme eingesetzten Fischertechnik-Fabrik mit der Industrie 4.0 Software von Siemens NX Mechatronics Component Designer entwickelt und die Anlage virtuell und daraufhin in der Realität in Betrieb genommen werden.
Die industrielle Kommunikation war früher von relativ eingeschränkten, geschlossenen Feldbussystemen geprägt. Mit der zunehmenden Öffnung von Automatisierungsnetzen durch die horizontale und vertikale Integration in Produktionsanlagen entstehen gefährliche Angriffsflächen, die zum Diebstahl von Produktionsgeheimnissen, der Manipulation oder dem kompletten Lahmlegen der Produktionsprozesse führen können. Hieraus ergeben sich grundlegend neue Anforderung an die Datensicherheit, denen mit innovativen Lösungsansätzen begegnet werden muss.
Ziel des Forschungsvorhabens „SecureField“ war es, die Umsetzbarkeit und Anwendbarkeit des Ansatzes „(D)TLS-over-Anything“ zu untersuchen und nachzuweisen, sowie einen Werkzeugkasten zur Definition und Implementierung entsprechender Sicherheitslösungen vorzubereiten. Als langjährig etablierter Standard im IT-Umfeld stellte sich das (Datagram) Transport Layer Security ((D)TLS) Protokoll in Kombination mit einer industrie- bzw. automatisierungskompatiblen Public-Key-Infrastruktur (PKI) als äußerst vielversprechende Möglichkeit dar, Datensicherheit auch im OT-Umfeld zu erzielen. Hierbei sollten insbesondere KMU adressiert werden, für welche eigene Entwicklungsarbeiten in diesem Umfeld häufig zu aufwändig und technisch sowie wirtschaftlich zu riskant sind.
Mit „SecureField“ konnten Ergebnisse auf mehreren Ebenen erzielt werden. Zunächst konnte im Projektverlauf ein umfassendes und generisches Konzept zur Ende-zu-Ende-Absicherung von Kommunikationspfaden und -protokollen im industriellen Umfeld erarbeitet werden. Dieses Konzept besteht aus einem generischen Kommunikationsmodell sowie aus einem generischen Authentifikationsmodell.
With the increasing degree of interconnectivity in industrial factories, security becomes more and more the most important stepping-stone towards wide adoption of the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT). This paper summarizes the most important aspects of one keynote of DESSERT2020 conference. It highlights the ongoing and open research activities on the different levels, from novel cryptographic algorithms over security protocol integration and testing to security architectures for the full lifetime of devices and systems. It includes an overview of the research activities at the authors' institute.
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.
Das Monitoring von Industrieanlagen stellt in der Wirtschaft sicher, dass hoch-automatisierte Prozesse reibungslos ablaufen können. Meistens steht hier das Monitoring der Anlagen selbst im Mittelpunkt, die Kommunikationsleitungen für den Datenaustausch auf Ethernet-Basis (z.B. Profinet) sind gegenwärtig noch nicht Teil einer kontinuierlichen Überwachung. Zwar werden auch hier die physischen Verbindungen überprüft, jedoch geschieht häufig dies nur zum Zeitpunkt der Inbetriebnahme, wenn die Anlage noch nicht in das Gesamtsystem integriert ist oder während eines Wartungszyklus, wenn die Maschine für die Dauer der Wartung aus dem Betriebsablauf genommen wird. Dies führt dazu, dass insbesondere heute, wo vor allem Ethernet zunehmend als Basis für die industrielle Kommunikation herangezogen wird, Maschinenausfälle aufgrund fehlender Kabelüberwachung immer wahrscheinlicher werden. Um dem entgegenwirken zu können, wurde im Projekt Ko2SiBus ein neues Messverfahren konzipiert, implementiert und validiert, das kostengünstig in neue oder bestehende Systeme integriert werden kann. Um die Tauglichkeit zu zeigen, wurden die Projektergebnisse in Prototypen und Demonstratoren implementiert, die sowohl als Stand-Alone aber auch als Integrationslösungen dienen können.
The authentication method of electronic devices, based on individual forms of correlograms of their internal electric noises, is well-known. Specific physical differences in the components – for example, caused by variations in production quality – cause specific electrical signals, i.e. electric noise, in the electronic device. It is possible to obtain this information and to identify the specific differences of the individual devices using an embedded analog-to-digital converter (ADC). These investigations confirm the possibility to identify and authenticate electronic devices using bit templates, calculated from the sequence of values of the normalized autocorrelation function of noise. Experiments have been performed using personal computers. The probability of correct identification and authentication increases with increasing noise recording duration. As a result of these experiments, an accuracy of 98.1% was achieved for a 1 second-long registration of EM for a set of investigated computers.
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In the last decade, deep learning models for condition monitoring of mechanical systems increasingly gained importance. Most of the previous works use data of the same domain (e.g., bearing type) or of a large amount of (labeled) samples. This approach is not valid for many real-world scenarios from industrial use-cases where only a small amount of data, often unlabeled, is available.
In this paper, we propose, evaluate, and compare a novel technique based on an intermediate domain, which creates a new representation of the features in the data and abstracts the defects of rotating elements such as bearings. The results based on an intermediate domain related to characteristic frequencies show an improved accuracy of up to 32 % on small labeled datasets compared to the current state-of-the-art in the time-frequency domain.
Furthermore, a Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) architecture is proposed for transfer learning. We also propose and evaluate a new approach for transfer learning, which we call Layered Maximum Mean Discrepancy (LMMD). This approach is based on the Maximum Mean Discrepancy (MMD) but extends it by considering the special characteristics of the proposed intermediate domain. The presented approach outperforms the traditional combination of Hilbert–Huang Transform (HHT) and S-Transform with MMD on all datasets for unsupervised as well as for semi-supervised learning. In most of our test cases, it also outperforms other state-of-the-art techniques.
This approach is capable of using different types of bearings in the source and target domain under a wide variation of the rotation speed.
It is important to minimize the unscheduled downtime of machines caused by outages of machine components in highly automated production lines. Considering machine tools such as, grinding machines, the bearing inside of spindles is one of the most critical components. In the last decade, research has increasingly focused on fault detection of bearings. In addition, the rise of machine learning concepts has also intensified interest in this area. However, up to date, there is no single one-fits-all solution for predictive maintenance of bearings. Most research so far has only looked at individual bearing types at a time.
This paper gives an overview of the most important approaches for bearing-fault analysis in grinding machines. There are two main parts of the analysis presented in this paper. The first part presents the classification of bearing faults, which includes the detection of unhealthy conditions, the position of the error (e.g. at the inner or at the outer ring of the bearing) and the severity, which detects the size of the fault. The second part presents the prediction of remaining useful life, which is important for estimating the productive use of a component before a potential failure, optimizing the replacement costs and minimizing downtime.
Diese Arbeit befasst sich mit agilen Methodiken zur Konzeption einer Softwarearchitektur. Es wurden Vorgehensweisen der Anforderungserhebung basierend auf themenspezifischer Literatur recherchiert und angewandt. Passend zu den Anforderungen wurden Architektur- und Dokumentationsmittel gewählt, welche die Konzeption der Architektur sowie die Implementierung der geforderten Software zum Erstellen und Ausführen von Lasttests auf softwarebasierten Langzeitarchivsystemen erleichtern sollen. Ein bestehendes Softwaresystem, welches bisher diese Aufgabe übernommen hat, wurde als Grundlage einer Neuentwicklung in Betracht gezogen. Es wurde dahingehend analysiert, aber begründet verworfen. In der Konzeptionsphase wurde eine Lösungsstrategie ermittelt sowie die Struktur der Architektur geplant und dokumentiert. Anhand eines beispielhaften Datenflusses wurde die Realisierbarkeit des Modells nachgewiesen. Auf Basis einer frei zugänglichen Architekturdokumentationsvorlage wurde eine Dokumentation des Konzeptes erstellt, welche einen schnellen Start in die agile Entwicklungsphase ermöglichen soll.
Thema der Bachelorarbeit ist die OTA-Technologie, welche es ermöglicht, die Firmware eines Embedded Systems zu aktualisieren. Es wird die Funktionsweise eines OTA-Updates an einer reellen Implementierung gezeigt. Anschließend wird eine Komplettlösung für OTA-Updates, die Amazon IoT Core Platform, aufgezeigt. Die Nachteile dieser Komplettlösung sollen in die Konzeption und Implementierung einer Alternative mittels eines Mesh-Netzwerks einfließen.
Physically Unclonable Functions (PUFs) are hardware-based security primitives, which allow for inherent device fingerprinting. Therefore, intrinsic variation of imperfect manufactured systems is exploited to generate device-specific, unique identifiers. With printed electronics (PE) joining the internet of things (IoT), hardware-based security for novel PE-based systems is of increasing importance. Furthermore, PE offers the possibility for split-manufacturing, which mitigates the risk of PUF response readout by third parties, before commissioning. In this paper, we investigate a printed PUF core as intrinsic variation source for the generation of unique identifiers from a crossbar architecture. The printed crossbar PUF is verified by simulation of a 8×8-cells crossbar, which can be utilized to generate 32-bit wide identifiers. Further focus is on limiting factors regarding printed devices, such as increased parasitics, due to novel materials and required control logic specifications. The simulation results highlight, that the printed crossbar PUF is capable to generate close-to-ideal unique identifiers at the investigated feature size. As proof of concept a 2×2-cells printed crossbar PUF core is fabricated and electrically characterized.
For the past few years Low Power Wide Area Networks (LPWAN) have emerged as key technologies for the connectivity of many applications in the Internet of Things (IoT) combining low-data rates with strict cost and energy restrictions. Especially LoRa/LoRaWAN enjoys a high visibility on today’s markets, because of its good performance and its open community. Originally LoRa was designed for operation within the Sub-GHz ISM bands for Industrial, Scientific and Medical applications. However, at the end of 2018, a LoRa-based solution in the 2.4GHz ISM-band was presented promising higher bandwidths and higher data rates. Furthermore, it overcomes the limited duty-cycle prescribed by the regulations in the ISM-bands and therefore also opens doors to many novel application fields. Also, due to higher bandwidths and shorter transmission times, the use of alternative MAC layer protocols becomes very interesting, i.e. for TDMA based-approaches. Within this paper, we propose a system architecture with 2.4GHz LoRa components combining two aspects. On the one hand, we present a design and an implementation of a 2.4GHz based LoRaWAN solution that can be seamlessly integrated into existing LoRaWAN back-hauls. On the other hand, we describe deterministic setup using a Time Slotted Channel Hopping (TSCH) approach as defined in the IEEE802.15.4-2015 standard for industrial applications. Finally, measurements show the performance of the system.
Ein Testsystem zum Prüfen neuer Komponenten elektromagnetischer Positionsmesssysteme soll durch eine Eigenkalibrierung des gesamten Systems stetig auf seine Genauigkeit geprüft werden, sodass nur noch eine periodische Rekalibrierung des Referenzgerätes erforderlich ist. Mittels Signal-Routing Software soll über die nationale Instrumentenkarte PCIe-6509 des Computers Spannungssignale an eine Hardware Under Test geleitet werden. Über diese Signale können Transistoren auf der Hardware angesteuert werden, die jeweils einem Relais Spannung übergeben können. Je nachdem welches Relais durchgeschalten werden soll, kann der Messwiderstand des gesamten Testsystems oder das Testsystems kalibriert werden. Um tatsächlich Kalibrierungen durchzuführen, wird eine Software erstellt. Mit der Software können die zu benutzenden Gerätschaften eingelesen und über eine Benutzeroberfläche eine Toleranzprüfung der Komponenten vollzogen werden. Hier gilt es eine Toleranzprüfung für den Messwiderstand zu erstellen und den Code dann auf Komponenten des Testsystems zu erweitern. Dafür wird ein kalibriertes Referenzmessgerät benötigt. Dabei wird ein Digitalmultimeter DAQ6510 verwendet, das über ein Multiplex Modul 7708 mit der Hardware verbunden wird. Um später Komponenten des Testsystems wie Frequenz kalibrieren zu können, wird ebenfalls ein Funktionsgenerator integriert und die Software-Codes darauf erweitert. Besteht das Grundkonzept, werden Funktionstests mit einer Messsystemanalyse erbracht und die Leistungsfähigkeit des Konstruktes beurteilt. Anschließend können neue Entwicklungsansätze und Optimierungskonzepte für weitere Abschlussarbeiten erstellt werden.
Die vorliegende Bachelorthesis befasst sich mit der Reproduktion der ersten „eisernen Hand“ des Götz von Berlichingen. Die Aufgabenstellung ist es, einen Öffnungsmechanismus zu entwickeln, welcher die zwei Fingerblöcke in die geöffnete Grundstreckstellung zurückführt, wenn die Finger zur Handinnenfläche eingefahren sind. Außerdem sollen die Fingerblöcke in drei verschiedenen Positionen einrasten können, wenn sie nach innen gedrückt werden. Insgesamt soll die Mechanik der Fingerblöcke durch 3D-unterstützte Optimierung von Bauteilen verbessert und unterstützt werden.
Der neukonstruierte Öffnungsmechanismus beinhaltet eine Drehfeder pro Fingerblock. Zudem begünstigt die CAD-Optimierung des Daumensystems und des Fingersystems die Mechanik der Fingerblöcke.
This paper presents a novel low-jitter interface between a low-cost integrated IEEE802.11 chip and a FPGA. It is designed to be part of system hardware for ultra-precise synchronization between wireless stations. On physical level, it uses Wi-Fi chip coexistence signal lines and UART frame encoding. On its basis, we propose an efficient communication protocol providing precise timestamping of incoming frames and internal diagnostic mechanisms for detecting communication faults. Meanwhile it is simple enough to be implemented both in low-cost FPGA and commodity IEEE802.11 chip firmware. The results of computer simulation shows that developed FPGA implementation of the proposed protocol can precisely timestamp incoming frames as well as detect most of communication errors even in conditions of high interference. The probability of undetected errors was investigated. The results of this analysis are significant for the development of novel wireless synchronization hardware.
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is the most promising time-deterministic wired communication approach for industrial applications. To extend TSN to "IEEE 802.11" wireless networks two challenging problems must be solved: synchronization and scheduling. This paper is focused on the first one. Even though a few solutions already meet the required synchronization accuracies, they are built on expensive hardware that is not suited for mass market products. While next Wi-Fi generation might support the required functionalities, this paper proposes a novel method that makes possible high-precision wireless synchronization using commercial low-cost components. With the proposed solution, a standard deviation of synchronization error of less than 500 ns can be achieved for many use cases and system loads on both CPU and network. This performance is comparable to modern wired real-time field busses, which makes the developed method a significant contribution for the extension of the TSN protocol to the wireless domain.
Wireless synchronization of industrial controllers is a challenging task in environments where wired solutions are not practical. The best solutions proposed so far to solve this problem require pretty expensive and highly specialized FPGA-based devices. With this work we counter the trend by introducing a straightforward approach to synchronize a fairly cheap IEEE 802.11 integrated wireless chip (IWC) with external devices. More specifically we demonstrate how we can reprogram the software running in the 802.11 IWC of the Raspberry Pi 3B and transform the receiver input potential of the wireless transceiver into a triggering signal for an external inexpensive FPGA. Experimental results show a mean-square synchronization error of less than 496 ns, while the absolute synchronization error does not exceed 6 μs. The jitter of the output signal that we obtain after synchronizing the clock of the external device did not exceed 5.2 μs throughout the whole measurement campaign. Even though we do not score new records in term of accuracy, we do in terms of complexity, cost, and availability of the required components: all these factors make the proposed technique a very promising of the deployment of large-scale low-cost automation solutions.
Konzeption und Realisierung eines Ansatzes zur Systemintegration eines Fahrerlosen Transportsystems
(2021)
Bei dem flexiblen interaktiven Transportroboter zur mobilen Produktionsunterstützung (FLITZMO) handelt es sich um ein Transportsystem, welches zum autonomen Fahren vorbereitet werden soll. In dieser Bachelorarbeit wird die Integration von Systemkomponenten, welche das autonome Fahren ermöglichen, beschrieben.
Das Ergebnis dieser Bachelorarbeit umfasst einen Schaltplan welcher für zukünftige Teilprojekte genutzt sowie sukzessive erweitert werden kann. Zudem wird die Montage und Integration neuer Komponenten beschrieben. Durch das neue Kabelmanagement ist es möglich, die Sicherheitsrelais zu verdrahten und in Betrieb zu nehmen.
Printed Electronics technology is a key-enabler for smart sensors, soft robotics, and wearables. The inkjet printed electrolyte-gated field effect transistor (EGFET) technology is a promising candidate for such applications due to its low-power operation, high field-effect mobility, and on-demand fabrication. Unlike conventional silicon-based technologies, inkjet printed electronics technology is an additive manufacturing process where multiple layers are printed on top of each other to realize functional devices such as transistors and their interconnections. Due to the additive manufacturing process, the technology has limited routing layers. For routing of complex circuits, insulating crossovers are printed at the intersection of routing paths to isolate them. The crossover can alter the electrical properties of a circuit based on specific location on a routing path. In this work, we propose a crossover-aware placement and routing (COPnR) methodology for inkjet-printed circuits by integrating the crossover constraints in our design framework. Our proposed placement methodology is based on a state-of-the-art evolutionary algorithm while the routing optimization is done using a genetic algorithm. The proposed methodology is compared with the industrial standard placement and routing (PnR) tools. On average, the proposed methodology has 38% fewer crossovers and 94% fewer failing paths compared to the industrial PnR tools applied to printed circuit designs.
Printed Electronics is perceived to have a major impact in the fields of smart sensors, Internet of Things and wearables. Especially low power printed technologies such as electrolyte gated field effect transistors (EGFETs) using solution-processed inorganic materials and inkjet printing are very promising in such application domains. In this paper, we discuss a modeling approach to describe the variations of printed devices. Incorporating these models and design flows into our previously developed printed design system allows for robust circuit design. Additionally, we propose a reliability-aware routing solution for printed electronics technology based on the technology constraints in printing crossovers. The proposed methodology was validated on multiple benchmark circuits and can be easily integrated with the design automation tools-set.
Most machine learning methods require careful selection of hyper-parameters in order to train a high performing model with good generalization abilities. Hence, several automatic selection algorithms have been introduced to overcome tedious manual (try and error) tuning of these parameters. Due to its very high sample efficiency, Bayesian Optimization over a Gaussian Processes modeling of the parameter space has become the method of choice. Unfortunately, this approach suffers from a cubic compute complexity due to underlying Cholesky factorization, which makes it very hard to be scaled beyond a small number of sampling steps. In this paper, we present a novel, highly accurate approximation of the underlying Gaussian Process. Reducing its computational complexity from cubic to quadratic allows an efficient strong scaling of Bayesian Optimization while outperforming the previous approach regarding optimization accuracy. First experiments show speedups of a factor of 162 in single node and further speed up by a factor of 5 in a parallel environment.
We describe a prototype for power line communi- cation for grid monitoring. The PLC receiver is used to gain information about the PLC channel and the current state of the power grid. The PLC receiver uses the communication signal to obtain an accurate estimate of the current channel and provides information which can be used as a basis for further processing with the aim to detect partial discharges and other anomalies in the grid. This monitoring of the power grid takes advantage of existing PLC infrastructure and uses the data signals, which are transmitted anyway to obtain a real-time measurement of the channel transfer function and the received noise signal. Since this signal is sampled at a high sampling rate compared to simpler measurement sensors, it contains valuable information about possible degradations in the grid which need to be addressed. While channel measurements are based on a received PLC signal, information about partial discharges or other sources of interference can be gathered by a PLC receiver in the absence of a transmit signal. A prototype based on Software Defined Radio has been developed, which implements the simultaneous communication and sensing for a power grid.
The high peak power in comparison to the average transmit power is one of the major long-standing problems in multicarrier modulation and is known as the PAPR (peak to average power ratio) problem. Many PAPR reduction methods have been devised and their comparison is usually based on the complementary cumulative distribution function (CCDF) of the PAPR. While this comparison is straightforward and easy to compute, its relationship with system performance metrics like the (uncoded) BER or the word error rate (WER) for coded systems is considerably more involved. We evaluate the impact of the PAPR on performance metrics like uncoded BER, EVM (error vector magnitude), mutual information and the WER for soft decoding. In this context, we find that system performance is not necessarily degraded by an increasing PAPR. We show that a high number of subcarriers, despite the corresponding high PAPR, is actually not a problem for the system performance and provide a simple explanation for this seemingly counter-intuitive fact.
Im Archiv für Kriminologie wurden bislang drei Arbeiten zur 3-D-CAD-Rekonstruktion der ersten "Eisernen Hand" des berühmten Reichsritters Gottfried ("Götz") von Berlichingen (1480-1562) vorgestellt. Mittlerweile sind einige neue Gesichtspunkte herausgearbeitet worden, die hier kurz als Ergänzung mitgeteilt werden sollen.