@inproceedings{ChircuCzarneckiFriedmannetal.2023, author = {Chircu, Alina and Czarnecki, Christian and Friedmann, Daniel and Pomaskow, Johanna and Sultanow, Eldar}, title = {Towards a Digital Twin of Society}, series = {Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 56th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences 2023}, publisher = {University of Hawai'i}, address = {Honolulu}, isbn = {978-0-9981331-6-4}, pages = {6748 -- 6757}, year = {2023}, abstract = {This paper describes the potential for developing a digital twin of society- a dynamic model that can be used to observe, analyze, and predict the evolution of various societal aspects. Such a digital twin can help governmental agencies and policy makers in interpreting trends, understanding challenges, and making decisions regarding investments or policies necessary to support societal development and ensure future prosperity. The paper reviews related work regarding the digital twin paradigm and its applications. The paper presents a motivating case study- an analysis of opportunities and challenges faced by the German federal employment agency, Bundesagentur f¨ur Arbeit (BA), proposes solutions using digital twins, and describes initial proofs of concept for such solutions.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{PenneProfittlichRingbecketal.2010, author = {Penne, Jochen and Profittlich, Martin and Ringbeck, Thorsten and Buxbaum, Bernd}, title = {Touchless detailed 3D scan of human hand anatomy using time-of-flight cameras}, series = {Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies : Lugano, Switzerland, 19-20 October 2010}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the International Conference on 3D Body Scanning Technologies : Lugano, Switzerland, 19-20 October 2010}, editor = {D, Nicola D'Apuzzo}, publisher = {Hometrica Consulting}, address = {Z{\"u}rich}, isbn = {978-3-033-02714-5}, pages = {361 -- 369}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SchaenzleAltherrEdereretal.2015, author = {Sch{\"a}nzle, Christian and Altherr, Lena and Ederer, Thorsten and Pelz, Peter}, title = {TOR - Towards the energetically optimal ventilation system}, pages = {1 Seite}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{EllerwegRitz2008, author = {Ellerweg, Roland and Ritz, Thomas}, title = {Tool supported requirements analysis for the user centered development of mobile enterprise software}, series = {Proceeding of Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 and Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 : MCCSIS '08 ; IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems ; 22 - 24 July 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands}, booktitle = {Proceeding of Wireless Applications and Computing 2008 and Telecommunications, Networks and Systems 2008 : MCCSIS '08 ; IADIS Multi Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems ; 22 - 24 July 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands}, editor = {Roth, J{\"o}rg}, publisher = {IADIS Press}, address = {[Lisboa]}, isbn = {978-972-8924-62-1}, pages = {160 -- 162}, year = {2008}, abstract = {A user centered development method has proved satisfactory for the development of mobile enterprise software. To make use of this method, detailed information about the user and the place where the user interacts with his mobile device is required. This article describes how both can be modeled by a stereotypical and conceptual extended UML extension. Finally, a software tool is presented that supports the developed UML extension.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{RingbeckAlbrechtFreyetal.2003, author = {Ringbeck, Thorsten and Albrecht, M. and Frey, J. and [u.a.],}, title = {Time-of-Flight 3D-camera for autonomous navigation and industrial automation}, series = {Proceedings : 11th international conference, 13 - 15 May 2003, Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Germany ; an event of the Association for Sensor Technology, AMA}, booktitle = {Proceedings : 11th international conference, 13 - 15 May 2003, Exhibition Centre Nuremberg, Germany ; an event of the Association for Sensor Technology, AMA}, editor = {Lerch, Reinhard}, edition = {CD-ROM-Ausg.}, publisher = {AMA Service}, address = {Wunstorf/Germany}, year = {2003}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{HessLuanSchwarteetal.2001, author = {Hess, Holger and Luan, Xuming and Schwarte, Rudolf and Zhang, Zhigang and Xu, Zhanping and Heinol, Horst-Guenther and Buxbaum, Bernd and Ringbeck, Thorsten}, title = {Three-dimensional intelligent sensing based on the PMD technology}, series = {Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites V : 17 - 20 September 2001, Toulouse, France. - (SPIE proceedings series ; 4540)}, booktitle = {Sensors, Systems, and Next-Generation Satellites V : 17 - 20 September 2001, Toulouse, France. - (SPIE proceedings series ; 4540)}, editor = {Fujisada, Hiroyuki}, publisher = {SPIE}, address = {Bellingham, Wash.}, isbn = {0-8194-4265-8}, issn = {0038-7355}, pages = {482 -- 488}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KoenigVoelkerWolf2018, author = {K{\"o}nig, Johannes Alexander and V{\"o}lker, Veronika and Wolf, Martin}, title = {The user-focused storybuilding framework for competence developing games - a design-framework considering the basics of an educational game's story}, series = {ACHI 2018 : The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions}, booktitle = {ACHI 2018 : The Eleventh International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions}, isbn = {978-1-61208-616-3}, pages = {98 -- 106}, year = {2018}, abstract = {During the development of a Competence Developing Game's (CDG) story it is indispensable to understand the target audience. Thereby, CDGs stories represent more than just the plot. The Story is about the Setting, the Characters and the Plot. As a toolkit to support the development of such a story, this paper introduces the UserFocused Storybuilding (short UFoS) Framework for CDGs. The Framework and its utilization will be explained, followed by a description of its development and derivation, including an empirical study. In addition, to simplify the Framework use regarding the CDG's target audience, a new concept of Nine Psychographic Player Types will be explained. This concept of Player Types provides an approach to handle the differences in between players during the UFoS Framework use. Thereby, this article presents a unique approach to the development of target group-differentiated CDGs stories.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BooysenMathewKnoxetal.2015, author = {Booysen, Tracy and Mathew, Thomas and Knox, Greig and Fong, W. K. and St{\"u}ttgen, Marcel and Ferrein, Alexander and Steinbauer, Gerald}, title = {The Scarab Project}, series = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum}, booktitle = {ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum}, pages = {3 S.}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) is an active research field in the robotics community. Despite recent advances for many open research questions, these kind of systems are not widely used in real rescue missions. One reason is that such systems are complex and not (yet) very reliable; another is that one has to be an robotic expert to run such a system. Moreover, available rescue robots are very expensive and the benefits of using them are still limited. In this paper, we present the Scarab robot, an alternative design for a USAR robot. The robot is light weight, humanpackable and its primary purpose is that of extending the rescuer's capability to sense the disaster site. The idea is that a responder throws the robot to a certain spot. The robot survives the impact with the ground and relays sensor data such as camera images or thermal images to the responder's hand-held control unit from which the robot can be remotely controlled.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{FerreinSchifferKallweit2018, author = {Ferrein, Alexander and Schiffer, Stefan and Kallweit, Stephan}, title = {The ROSIN Education Concept - Fostering ROS Industrial-Related Robotics Education in Europe}, series = {ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference}, booktitle = {ROBOT 2017: Third Iberian Robotics Conference}, publisher = {Springer}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-70836-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-70836-2_31}, pages = {370 -- 381}, year = {2018}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{NiemuellerFerreinReuteretal.2015, author = {Niemueller, Tim and Ferrein, Alexander and Reuter, Sebastian and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {The RoboCup Logistics League as a Holistic Multi-Robot Smart Factory Benchmark}, series = {Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Open forum on evaluation of results, replication of experiments and benchmarking in robotics research}, pages = {3 S.}, year = {2015}, abstract = {With autonomous mobile robots receiving increased attention in industrial contexts, the need for benchmarks becomes more and more an urgent matter. The RoboCup Logistics League (RCLL) is one specific industry-inspired scenario focusing on production logistics within a Smart Factory. In this paper, we describe how the RCLL allows to assess the performance of a group of robots within the scenario as a whole, focusing specifically on the coordination and cooperation strategies and the methods and components to achieve them. We report on recent efforts to analyze performance of teams in 2014 to understand the implications of the current grading scheme, and derived criteria and metrics for performance assessment based on Key Performance Indicators (KPI) adapted from classic factory evaluation. We reflect on differences and compatibility towards RoCKIn, a recent major benchmarking European project.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{NiemuellerLakemeyerFerrein2015, author = {Niemueller, Tim and Lakemeyer, Gerhard and Ferrein, Alexander}, title = {The RoboCup Logistics League as a Benchmark for Planning in Robotics}, series = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob-15); Jerusalem, Israel 7-8/6/2015}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Planning and Robotics (PlanRob-15); Jerusalem, Israel 7-8/6/2015}, editor = {Finzi, Alberto}, pages = {63 -- 68}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KoenigWolf2016, author = {K{\"o}nig, Johannes Alexander and Wolf, Martin}, title = {The pyramid assessment framework for 'competence developing games'}, series = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, volume = {618}, booktitle = {Communications in Computer and Information Science}, editor = {Stephanidis, C.}, publisher = {Springer}, isbn = {978-331940541-4}, issn = {1865-0929}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40542-1_37}, pages = {232 -- 237}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BuxbaumHessRingbeck2001, author = {Buxbaum, Bernd and Hess, Holger and Ringbeck, Thorsten}, title = {The photonic mixer device : new perspectives in optical wireless communication}, series = {International Workshop on Optical MEMS and Integrated Optics : Universit{\"a}t Dortmund, Universit{\"a}tskolleg Bommerholz, 11. \& 12. June 2001}, booktitle = {International Workshop on Optical MEMS and Integrated Optics : Universit{\"a}t Dortmund, Universit{\"a}tskolleg Bommerholz, 11. \& 12. June 2001}, editor = {Voges, Edgar}, publisher = {Univ.}, address = {Dortmund}, pages = {(12)1 -- (12)5}, year = {2001}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{DowidatKoenigWolf2017, author = {Dowidat, Linda and K{\"o}nig, Johannes Alexander and Wolf, Martin}, title = {The motivational competence developing game framework}, series = {Mensch und Computer 2017 - Tagungsband}, booktitle = {Mensch und Computer 2017 - Tagungsband}, publisher = {Gesellschaft f{\"u}r Informatik e.V.}, address = {Regensburg}, doi = {10.18420/muc2017-mci-0130}, pages = {15 -- 26}, year = {2017}, abstract = {Competence Developing Games (CDGs) are a new concept of how to think about games with serious intentions. In order to emphasize on this topic, a new framework has been developed. It basically relies on learning and motivation theories. This 'motivational Competence Developing Game Framework' demonstrates how it is possible to use these theories in a CDG development process. The theoretical derivation and use of the framework is explained in this paper.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BragardConradDeDoncker2010, author = {Bragard, Michael and Conrad, M. and De Doncker, R. W.}, title = {The integrated emitter turn-off thyristor (IETO) : an innovative thyristor based high power semiconductor device using MOS assisted turn-off}, series = {2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2010) : Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12 - 16 September 2010 / [sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies]}, booktitle = {2010 IEEE Energy Conversion Congress and Exposition (ECCE 2010) : Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 12 - 16 September 2010 / [sponsored by the IEEE Power Electronics and Industry Applications Societies]}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-4244-5286-6 (Print)}, doi = {10.1109/ECCE.2010.5618410}, pages = {4551 -- 4557}, year = {2010}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{WolfLenz2015, author = {Wolf, Martin and Lenz, Laura L.}, title = {The economic effectiveness of serious games in the healthcare environment : application and evaluation of the Comparative Transformation Model (CTM)}, series = {IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health : SeGAH 2014 ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14 - 16}, booktitle = {IEEE 3rd International Conference on Serious Games and Applications for Health : SeGAH 2014 ; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, May 14 - 16}, publisher = {IEEE [u.a.]}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-4799-4823-9}, doi = {10.1109/SeGAH.2014.7067089}, pages = {135 -- 142}, year = {2015}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KoellenspergerBragardPlumetal.2007, author = {K{\"o}llensperger, P. and Bragard, Michael and Plum, T. and De Doncker, R. W.}, title = {The dual GCT : a new high-power device using optimized GCT technology}, series = {Conference record of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference : 42. IAS annual meeting ; September 23 - 27, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA}, booktitle = {Conference record of the 2007 IEEE Industry Applications Conference : 42. IAS annual meeting ; September 23 - 27, 2007, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA}, publisher = {IEEE Operations Center}, address = {Piscataway, NJ}, isbn = {978-1-4244-1260-0 (Online)}, doi = {10.1109/07IAS.2007.76}, pages = {358 -- 365}, year = {2007}, 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{NiemuellerReuterEwertetal.2016, author = {Niemueller, Tim and Reuter, Sebastian and Ewert, Daniel and Ferrein, Alexander and Jeschke, Sabina and Lakemeyer, Gerhard}, title = {The Carologistics Approach to Cope with the Increased Complexity and New Challenges of the RoboCup Logistics League 2015}, series = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX}, booktitle = {RoboCup 2015: Robot World Cup XIX}, editor = {Almeida, Luis}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Cham}, isbn = {978-3-319-29339-4}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-29339-4_4}, pages = {47 -- 59}, year = {2016}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{LeiseAltherrPelz2018, author = {Leise, Philipp and Altherr, Lena and Pelz, Peter F.}, title = {Technical Operations Research (TOR) - Algorithms, not Engineers, Design Optimal Energy Efficient and Resilient Cooling Systems}, series = {FAN2018 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fan Noise, Aerodynamics, Applications and Systems}, booktitle = {FAN2018 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fan Noise, Aerodynamics, Applications and Systems}, pages = {1 -- 12}, year = {2018}, abstract = {The overall energy efficiency of ventilation systems can be improved by considering not only single components, but by considering as well the interplay between every part of the system. With the help of the method "TOR" ("Technical Operations Research"), which was developed at the Chair of Fluid Systems at TU Darmstadt, it is possible to improve the energy efficiency of the whole system by considering all possible design choices programmatically. We show the ability of this systematic design approach with a ventilation system for buildings as a use case example. Based on a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program (MINLP) we model the ventilation system. We use binary variables to model the selection of different pipe diameters. Multiple fans are model with the help of scaling laws. The whole system is represented by a graph, where the edges represent the pipes and fans and the nodes represents the source of air for cooling and the sinks, that have to be cooled. At the beginning, the human designer chooses a construction kit of different suitable fans and pipes of different diameters and different load cases. These boundary conditions define a variety of different possible system topologies. It is not possible to consider all topologies by hand. With the help of state of the art solvers, on the other side, it is possible to solve this MINLP. Next to this, we also consider the effects of malfunctions in different components. Therefore, we show a first approach to measure the resilience of the shown example use case. Further, we compare the conventional approach with designs that are more resilient. These more resilient designs are derived by extending the before mentioned model with further constraints, that consider explicitly the resilience of the overall system. We show that it is possible to design resilient systems with this method already in the early design stage and compare the energy efficiency and resilience of these different system designs.}, language = {en} }