@article{HeuermannErkens2007, author = {Heuermann, Holger and Erkens, H.}, title = {Mixed-Mode Chain Scattering Parameters: Theory and Verification}, series = {IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques}, volume = {55}, journal = {IEEE Transactions on Microwave Theory and Techniques}, number = {8}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, isbn = {0018-9480}, doi = {10.1109/TMTT.2007.902587}, pages = {1704 -- 1708}, year = {2007}, abstract = {Chain scattering parameters or T-parameters are a useful tool for calculating cascaded two-ports. With the increasing importance of mixed-mode S-parameters, a need for converting the T-parameters from their unbalanced form into a balanced form emerges for suiting both common and differential mode waves, as well as the mode conversion. This paper presents the derivation of the equations for transformations between mixed-mode S- and T-parameters for a mixed-mode two-port. Although derived in a way very similar to monomode T-parameters, no simplifications were necessary. Measurement results exemplify the quality of the T-parameter transformation under real-life conditions.}, language = {en} } @article{RensFerrein2013, author = {Rens, Gavin and Ferrein, Alexander}, title = {Belief-node condensation for online POMDP algorithms}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, pages = {1 -- 7}, year = {2013}, abstract = {Slightly extended version of the paper accepted at the Robotics and Artificial Intelligence Workshop, a special track of IEEE AFRICON-2013, held in Mauritius, 9-12 September 2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{FerreinNiemuellerSchifferetal.2013, author = {Ferrein, Alexander and Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Schiffer, Stefan and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {Lessons learnt from developing the embodied AI platform CAESAR for domestic service robotics}, series = {Designing intelligent robots : reintegrating AI II ; papers from the AAAI spring symposium ; [held March 25 - 27, 2013 in Palo Alto, California, USA, on the campus of Stanford University]. (Technical Report / Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ; 2013,4)}, booktitle = {Designing intelligent robots : reintegrating AI II ; papers from the AAAI spring symposium ; [held March 25 - 27, 2013 in Palo Alto, California, USA, on the campus of Stanford University]. (Technical Report / Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence ; 2013,4)}, editor = {Boots, Byron}, organization = {American Association for Artificial Intelligence}, isbn = {9781577356011}, pages = {21 -- 26}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LeingartnerMaurerSteinbaueretal.2013, author = {Leingartner, Max and Maurer, Johannes and Steinbauer, Gerald and Ferrein, Alexander}, title = {Evaluation of sensors and mapping approaches for disasters in tunnels}, series = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : SSRR : 21-26 Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden}, booktitle = {IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics : SSRR : 21-26 Oct. 2013, Linkoping, Sweden}, organization = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers}, isbn = {978-1-4799-0879-0}, pages = {1 -- 7}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{NiemuellerEwertReuteretal.2013, author = {Niem{\"u}ller, Tim and Ewert, Daniel and Reuter, Sebastian and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {The Carologistics RoboCup Logistics Team 2013}, series = {RoboCup 2013 : Eindhoven}, booktitle = {RoboCup 2013 : Eindhoven}, organization = {Robocup <2013, Eindhoven>}, pages = {1 -- 8}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{FerreinLakemeyerSchiffer2006, author = {Ferrein, Alexander and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Schiffer, Stefan}, title = {AllemaniACs@ home 2006 team description}, pages = {1 -- 6}, year = {2006}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HeuermannSadeghfamFinger2013, author = {Heuermann, Holger and Sadeghfam, Arash and Finger, Torsten}, title = {Alternative ignition system based on microwave plasma}, series = {Advanced ignition systems for gasoline engines : [Vortr{\"a}ge der 1st International Conference Advanced Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines - 1. Internationale Tagung Z{\"u}ndsysteme f{\"u}r Ottomotoren, 12.-13. November 2012, Berlin]}, booktitle = {Advanced ignition systems for gasoline engines : [Vortr{\"a}ge der 1st International Conference Advanced Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines - 1. Internationale Tagung Z{\"u}ndsysteme f{\"u}r Ottomotoren, 12.-13. November 2012, Berlin]}, publisher = {Expert-Verl.}, address = {Renningen}, organization = {International Conference Advanced Ignition Systems for Gasoline Engines <1, 2012, Berlin>}, isbn = {9783816931904}, pages = {95 -- 103}, year = {2013}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ElgamalHeuermann2020, author = {Elgamal, Abdelrahman and Heuermann, Holger}, title = {Design and Development of a Hot S-Parameter Measurement System for Plasma and Magnetron Applications}, series = {Proceedings of the 2020 German Microwave Conference}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2020 German Microwave Conference}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York, NY}, isbn = {978-3-9820397-1-8}, pages = {124 -- 127}, year = {2020}, abstract = {This paper presents the design, development and calibration procedures of a novel hot S-parameter measurement system for plasma and magnetron applications with power level up to 6 kW. Based on a vector network analyzer, a power amplifier and two directional couplers, the input matching hotS 11 and transmission hotS 21 of the device under test are measured at 2.45 GHz center frequency and 300MHz bandwidth, while the device is driven by the magnetron. This measurement system opens a new horizon to develop many new industrial applications such as microwave plasma jets, dryer systems, dryers and so forth. Furthermore, the developing, controlling and monitoring a 2kW 2.45GHz plasma jet and a dryer system using the measurement system are presented and explained.}, language = {en} } @article{HeuermannSadeghfam2008, author = {Heuermann, Holger and Sadeghfam, Arash}, title = {Electrically tunable bandpass filter with integrated carrier suppression for UHF RFID systems / Sadeghfam, Arash ; Heuermann, Holger}, series = {European Microwave Conference, 2008, EuMC 2008, 38th}, journal = {European Microwave Conference, 2008, EuMC 2008, 38th}, isbn = {978-2-87487-006-4}, pages = {1727 -- 1730}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{Ritz2002, author = {Ritz, Thomas}, title = {Modelling mass customization of digital news services}, series = {International journal of e-business strategy management}, volume = {3}, journal = {International journal of e-business strategy management}, number = {3}, year = {2002}, language = {en} } @article{HeuermannHillebrandSadeghfam2008, author = {Heuermann, Holger and Hillebrand, J{\"u}rgen and Sadeghfam, Arash}, title = {Novel Concept of a Digital SigmaDelta-PLL-Phase-Shift-Modulator / Hillebrand, J{\"u}rgen ; Sadeghfam, Arash ; Heuermann, Holger}, isbn = {978-3-8007-3086-5}, pages = {123 -- 126}, year = {2008}, language = {en} } @article{FerreinSteinbauerMcPhillipsetal.2007, author = {Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald and McPhillips, Graeme and Potgieter, Anet}, title = {Establishing the RoboCup Standard League in Africa - applying for the RoboCup Standard League with a German-Austrian-South African Research Project}, pages = {1 -- 5}, year = {2007}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{Ritz2001, author = {Ritz, Thomas}, title = {Personalized information services : an electronic information commodity and its production}, series = {Electronic publishing '01 : 2001 in the digital publishing odyssey ; proceedings of an ICCC/IFIP conference held at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, 5 - 7 July, 2001 ; [proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Electronic Publishing]}, booktitle = {Electronic publishing '01 : 2001 in the digital publishing odyssey ; proceedings of an ICCC/IFIP conference held at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, 5 - 7 July, 2001 ; [proceedings of the Fifth Conference on Electronic Publishing]}, publisher = {IOS Press [u.a.]}, address = {Amsterdam}, isbn = {1-58603-191-0}, pages = {48 -- 58}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @article{HeuermannSchiek1992, author = {Heuermann, Holger and Schiek, Burkhard}, title = {LNN (Line-Network-Network): Verfahren zur Kalibrierung von Netzwerkanalysatoren}, series = {Kleinheubacher Berichte : Vortr{\"a}ge und Berichte der gemeinsamen Tagung des U.R.S.I.-Landesausschusses in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Hrsg.: Deutsche Telekom AG. 36. 1992 (1992)}, journal = {Kleinheubacher Berichte : Vortr{\"a}ge und Berichte der gemeinsamen Tagung des U.R.S.I.-Landesausschusses in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland / Hrsg.: Deutsche Telekom AG. 36. 1992 (1992)}, pages = {327 -- 335}, year = {1992}, language = {en} } @article{FerreinFritzLakemeyer2005, author = {Ferrein, Alexander and Fritz, Christian and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {Using Golog for Deliberation and Team Coordination in Robotic Soccer / Ferrein, Alexander ; Fritz, Christian ; Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, series = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 19 (2005), H. 1}, journal = {K{\"u}nstliche Intelligenz : KI. 19 (2005), H. 1}, isbn = {0933-1875}, pages = {24 -- 30}, year = {2005}, language = {en} } @article{SchifferFerrein2018, author = {Schiffer, Stefan and Ferrein, Alexander}, title = {ERIKA—Early Robotics Introduction at Kindergarten Age}, series = {Multimodal Technologies Interact}, volume = {2}, journal = {Multimodal Technologies Interact}, number = {4}, publisher = {MDPI}, address = {Basel}, issn = {2414-4088}, doi = {10.3390/mti2040064}, pages = {15}, year = {2018}, abstract = {In this work, we report on our attempt to design and implement an early introduction to basic robotics principles for children at kindergarten age. One of the main challenges of this effort is to explain complex robotics contents in a way that pre-school children could follow the basic principles and ideas using examples from their world of experience. What sets apart our effort from other work is that part of the lecturing is actually done by a robot itself and that a quiz at the end of the lesson is done using robots as well. The humanoid robot Pepper from Softbank, which is a great platform for human-robot interaction experiments, was used to present a lecture on robotics by reading out the contents to the children making use of its speech synthesis capability. A quiz in a Runaround-game-show style after the lecture activated the children to recap the contents they acquired about how mobile robots work in principle. In this quiz, two LEGO Mindstorm EV3 robots were used to implement a strongly interactive scenario. Besides the thrill of being exposed to a mobile robot that would also react to the children, they were very excited and at the same time very concentrated. We got very positive feedback from the children as well as from their educators. To the best of our knowledge, this is one of only few attempts to use a robot like Pepper not as a tele-teaching tool, but as the teacher itself in order to engage pre-school children with complex robotics contents.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HofmannMatareNeumannetal.2018, author = {Hofmann, Till and Matar{\´e}, Victor and Neumann, Tobias and Sch{\"o}nitz, Sebastian and Henke, Christoph and Limpert, Nicolas and Niemueller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {Enhancing Software and Hardware Reliability for a Successful Participation in the RoboCup Logistics League 2017}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-030-00308-1}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-00308-1_40}, pages = {486 -- 497}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @article{HoltrupSadeghfamHeuermannetal.2014, author = {Holtrup, S. and Sadeghfam, Arash and Heuermann, Holger and Awakowicz, P.}, title = {Characterization and optimization technique for microwave-driven high-intensity discharge lamps using hot S-parameters}, series = {IEEE transactions on microwave theories and techniques}, volume = {62}, journal = {IEEE transactions on microwave theories and techniques}, number = {10}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {New York}, issn = {0018-9480}, doi = {10.1109/TMTT.2014.2342652}, pages = {2471 -- 2480}, year = {2014}, abstract = {High-intensity discharge lamps can be driven by radio-frequency signals in the ISM frequency band at 2.45 GHz, using a matching network to transform the impedance of the plasma to the source impedance. To achieve an optimal operating condition, a good characterization of the lamp in terms of radio frequency equivalent circuits under operating conditions is necessary, enabling the design of an efficient matching network. This paper presents the characterization technique for such lamps and presents the design of the required matching network. For the characterization, a high-intensity discharge lamp was driven by a monofrequent large signal at 2.45 GHz, whereas a frequency sweep over 300 MHz was performed across this signal to measure so-called small-signal hot S-parameters using a vector network analyzer. These parameters are then used as an equivalent load in a circuit simulator to design an appropriate matching network. Using the measured data as a black-box model in the simulation results in a quick and efficient method to simulate and design efficient matching networks in spite of the complex plasma behavior. Furthermore, photometric analysis of high-intensity discharge lamps are carried out, comparing microwave operation to conventional operation.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SadeghfamSadeghiAhangarElgamaletal.2019, author = {Sadeghfam, Arash and Sadeghi-Ahangar, A. and Elgamal, Abdelrahman and Heuermann, Holger}, title = {Design and Development of a Novel Self-Igniting Microwave Plasma Jet for Industrial Applications}, series = {IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest}, booktitle = {IEEE MTT-S International Microwave Symposium Digest}, isbn = {978-172811309-8}, pages = {63 -- 66}, year = {2019}, language = {en} } @article{Ritz2002, author = {Ritz, Thomas}, title = {Mass Customized Production of Information Services - The combination of economies-of-scale with economies-of-scope}, series = {Media firms : structures, operations, and performance ; [World Media Economics Conference, 5th : 2002 : Turku, Finland] / ed. by Robert G. Picard}, journal = {Media firms : structures, operations, and performance ; [World Media Economics Conference, 5th : 2002 : Turku, Finland] / ed. by Robert G. Picard}, publisher = {Erlbaum}, address = {Mahwah, NJ [u.a.]}, isbn = {0-8058-4165-2}, pages = {267 S. : graph. Darst.}, year = {2002}, language = {en} }