TY - CHAP A1 - Schmitz, Annika A1 - Apandi, Shah Eiman Amzar Shah A1 - Spillner, Jan A1 - Hima, Flutura A1 - Behbahani, Mehdi ED - Digel, Ilya ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Trzewik, Jürgen ED - Sielemann, Stefanie ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Zylka, Waldemar T1 - Effect of different cannula positions in the pulmonary artery on blood flow and gas exchange using computational fluid dynamics analysis T2 - 4th YRA MedTech Symposium 2024 : February 1 / 2024 / FH Aachen N2 - Pulmonary arterial cannulation is a common and effective method for percutaneous mechanical circulatory support for concurrent right heart and respiratory failure [1]. However, limited data exists to what effect the positioning of the cannula has on the oxygen perfusion throughout the pulmonary artery (PA). This study aims to evaluate, using computational fluid dynamics (CFD), the effect of different cannula positions in the PA with respect to the oxygenation of the different branching vessels in order for an optimal cannula position to be determined. The four chosen different positions (see Fig. 1) of the cannulas are, in the lower part of the main pulmonary artery (MPA), in the MPA at the junction between the right pulmonary artery (RPA) and the left pulmonary artery (LPA), in the RPA at the first branch of the RPA and in the LPA at the first branch of the LPA. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-940402-65-3 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/81475 SP - 29 EP - 30 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Sherelkhan, Dinara A1 - Alibekova, Alina ED - Digel, Ilya ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Trzewik, Jürgen ED - Sielemann, Stefanie ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Zylka, Waldemar T1 - EEM spectroscopy characterization of humic substances of biomedical importance T2 - 4th YRA MedTech Symposium 2024 : February 1 / 2024 / FH Aachen N2 - Humic substances possess distinctive chemical features enabling their use in many advanced applications, including biomedical fields. No chemicals in nature have the same combination of specific chemical and biological properties as humic substances. Traditional medicine and modern research have demonstrated that humic substances from different sources possess immunomodulatory and anti-inflammatory properties, which makes them suitable for the prevention and treatment of chronic dermatoses, allergic rhinitis, atopic dermatitis, and other conditions characterized by inflammatory and allergic responses [1-4]. The use of humic compounds as agentswith antifungal and antiviral properties shows great potential [5-7]. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-940402-65-3 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/81475 SP - 31 EP - 32 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tepecik, Atakan ED - Digel, Ilya ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Trzewik, Jürgen ED - Sielemann, Stefanie ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Zylka, Waldemar T1 - AstroBioLab: Review of technical and bioanalytical approaches T2 - 4th YRA MedTech Symposium 2024 : February 1 / 2024 / FH Aachen N2 - This study presents the concept of AstroBioLab, an autonomous astrobiological field laboratory tailored for the exploration of (sub)glacial habitats. AstroBioLab is an integral component of the TRIPLE (Technologies for Rapid Ice Penetration and subglacial Lake Exploration) DLR-funded project, aimed at advancing astrobiology research through the development and deployment of innovative technologies. AstroBioLab integrates diverse measurement techniques such as fluorescence microscopy, DNA sequencing and fluorescence spectrometry, while leveraging microfluidics for efficient sample delivery and preparation. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-940402-65-3 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/81475 SP - 33 EP - 34 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Ngoc Trinh A1 - Trinh, Tu Luc A1 - Dao, Ngoc Tien A1 - Giap, Van Tan A1 - Truong, Manh Khuyen A1 - Dinh, Thuy Ha A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Limit and shakedown analysis of structures under random strength T2 - Proceedings of (NACOME2022) The 11th National Conference on Mechanics, Vol. 1. Solid Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching and Training, Hanoi, December 2-3, 2022 N2 - Direct methods comprising limit and shakedown analysis is a branch of computational mechanics. It plays a significant role in mechanical and civil engineering design. The concept of direct method aims to determinate the ultimate load bearing capacity of structures beyond the elastic range. For practical problems, the direct methods lead to nonlinear convex optimization problems with a large number of variables and onstraints. If strength and loading are random quantities, the problem of shakedown analysis is considered as stochastic programming. This paper presents a method so called chance constrained programming, an effective method of stochastic programming, to solve shakedown analysis problem under random condition of strength. In this our investigation, the loading is deterministic, the strength is distributed as normal or lognormal variables. KW - Reliability of structures KW - Stochastic programming KW - Chance constrained programming KW - Shakedown analysis KW - Limit analysis Y1 - 2022 SN - 978-604-357-084-7 SP - 510 EP - 518 PB - Nha xuat ban Khoa hoc tu nhien va Cong nghe (Verlag Naturwissenschaft und Technik) CY - Hanoi ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Tran, Ngoc Trinh T1 - Strain based brittle failure criteria for rocks T2 - Proceedings of (NACOME2022) The 11th National Conference on Mechanics, Vol. 1. Solid Mechanics, Rock Mechanics, Artificial Intelligence, Teaching and Training, Hanoi, December 2-3, 2022 N2 - When confining pressure is low or absent, extensional fractures are typical, with fractures occurring on unloaded planes in rock. These “paradox” fractures can be explained by a phenomenological extension strain failure criterion. In the past, a simple empirical criterion for fracture initiation in brittle rock has been developed. But this criterion makes unrealistic strength predictions in biaxial compression and tension. A new extension strain criterion overcomes this limitation by adding a weighted principal shear component. The weight is chosen, such that the enriched extension strain criterion represents the same failure surface as the Mohr–Coulomb (MC) criterion. Thus, the MC criterion has been derived as an extension strain criterion predicting failure modes, which are unexpected in the understanding of the failure of cohesive-frictional materials. In progressive damage of rock, the most likely fracture direction is orthogonal to the maximum extension strain. The enriched extension strain criterion is proposed as a threshold surface for crack initiation CI and crack damage CD and as a failure surface at peak P. Examples show that the enriched extension strain criterion predicts much lower volumes of damaged rock mass compared to the simple extension strain criterion. KW - Extension fracture KW - Extension strain criterion KW - Mohr–Coulomb criterion KW - Evolution of damage Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-604-357-084-7 SP - 500 EP - 509 PB - Nha xuat ban Khoa hoc tu nhien va Cong nghe (Verlag Naturwissenschaft und Technik) CY - Hanoi ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Mandekar, Swati A1 - Jentsch, Lina A1 - Lutz, Kai A1 - Behbahani, Mehdi A1 - Melnykowycz, Mark T1 - Earable design analysis for sleep EEG measurements T2 - UbiComp '21 N2 - Conventional EEG devices cannot be used in everyday life and hence, past decade research has been focused on Ear-EEG for mobile, at-home monitoring for various applications ranging from emotion detection to sleep monitoring. As the area available for electrode contact in the ear is limited, the electrode size and location play a vital role for an Ear-EEG system. In this investigation, we present a quantitative study of ear-electrodes with two electrode sizes at different locations in a wet and dry configuration. Electrode impedance scales inversely with size and ranges from 450 kΩ to 1.29 MΩ for dry and from 22 kΩ to 42 kΩ for wet contact at 10 Hz. For any size, the location in the ear canal with the lowest impedance is ELE (Left Ear Superior), presumably due to increased contact pressure caused by the outer-ear anatomy. The results can be used to optimize signal pickup and SNR for specific applications. We demonstrate this by recording sleep spindles during sleep onset with high quality (5.27 μVrms). KW - EEG KW - sensors KW - Impedance Spectroscopy KW - Sleep EEG KW - biopotential electrodes Y1 - 2021 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3460418.3479328 N1 - UbiComp '21: Adjunct Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2021 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers, September 21–26, 2021, Virtual, USA SP - 171 EP - 175 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Borella, Laura A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Chand, Suditi A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Fexer, Sebastian A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Hendrikse, Jeffrey A1 - Herčík, David A1 - Herique, Alain A1 - Hillebrandt, Martin A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Kesseler, Lars A1 - Laabs, Martin A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lange, Michael A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - McInnes, Colin R. A1 - Moore, Iain A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Plettenmeier, Dirk A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Venditti, Flaviane c. F. A1 - Vergaaij, Merel A1 - Viavattene, Giulia A1 - Virkki, Anne K. A1 - Zander, Martin T1 - More bucks for the bang: new space solutions, impact tourism and one unique science & engineering opportunity at T-6 months and counting T2 - 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference N2 - For now, the Planetary Defense Conference Exercise 2021's incoming fictitious(!), asteroid, 2021 PDC, seems headed for impact on October 20th, 2021, exactly 6 months after its discovery. Today (April 26th, 2021), the impact probability is 5%, in a steep rise from 1 in 2500 upon discovery six days ago. We all know how these things end. Or do we? Unless somebody kicked off another headline-grabbing media scare or wants to keep civil defense very idle very soon, chances are that it will hit (note: this is an exercise!). Taking stock, it is barely 6 months to impact, a steadily rising likelihood that it will actually happen, and a huge uncertainty of possible impact energies: First estimates range from 1.2 MtTNT to 13 GtTNT, and this is not even the worst-worst case: a 700 m diameter massive NiFe asteroid (covered by a thin veneer of Ryugu-black rubble to match size and brightness), would come in at 70 GtTNT. In down to Earth terms, this could be all between smashing fireworks over some remote area of the globe and a 7.5 km crater downtown somewhere. Considering the deliberate and sedate ways of development of interplanetary missions it seems we can only stand and stare until we know well enough where to tell people to pack up all that can be moved at all and save themselves. But then, it could just as well be a smaller bright rock. The best estimate is 120 m diameter from optical observation alone, by 13% standard albedo. NASA's upcoming DART mission to binary asteroid (65803) Didymos is designed to hit such a small target, its moonlet Dimorphos. The Deep Impact mission's impactor in 2005 successfully guided itself to the brightest spot on comet 9P/Tempel 1, a relatively small feature on the 6 km nucleus. And 'space' has changed: By the end of this decade, one satellite communication network plans to have launched over 11000 satellites at a pace of 60 per launch every other week. This level of series production is comparable in numbers to the most prolific commercial airliners. Launch vehicle production has not simply increased correspondingly – they can be reused, although in a trade for performance. Optical and radio astronomy as well as planetary radar have made great strides in the past decade, and so has the design and production capability for everyday 'high-tech' products. 60 years ago, spaceflight was invented from scratch within two years, and there are recent examples of fast-paced space projects as well as a drive towards 'responsive space'. It seems it is not quite yet time to abandon all hope. We present what could be done and what is too close to call once thinking is shoved out of the box by a clear and present danger, to show where a little more preparedness or routine would come in handy – or become decisive. And if we fail, let's stand and stare safely and well instrumented anywhere on Earth together in the greatest adventure of science. Y1 - 2021 N1 - 7th IAA Planetary Defense Conference, Vienna, Austria, 26-30 April 2021 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Ngoc Trinh A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - FEM shakedown analysis of Kirchhoff-Love plates under uncertainty of strength T2 - Proceedings of UNCECOMP 2021 N2 - A new formulation to calculate the shakedown limit load of Kirchhoff plates under stochastic conditions of strength is developed. Direct structural reliability design by chance con-strained programming is based on the prescribed failure probabilities, which is an effective approach of stochastic programming if it can be formulated as an equivalent deterministic optimization problem. We restrict uncertainty to strength, the loading is still deterministic. A new formulation is derived in case of random strength with lognormal distribution. Upper bound and lower bound shakedown load factors are calculated simultaneously by a dual algorithm. Y1 - 2021 SN - 978-618-85072-6-5 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.7712/120221.8041.19047 N1 - Proceedings of UNCECOMP 2021, 4th International Conference on Uncertainty Quantification in Computational Sciences and Engineering, streamed from Athens, Greece, 28–30 June 2021. SP - 323 EP - 338 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schoutetens, Frederic A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Heiligers, Jeannette T1 - Optimisation of photon-sail trajectories in the alpha-centauri system using evolutionary neurocontrol T2 - 8th ICATT (International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques) 23 - 25 June 2021, Virtual N2 - With the increased interest for interstellar exploration after the discovery of exoplanets and the proposal by Breakthrough Starshot, this paper investigates the optimisation of photon-sail trajectories in Alpha Centauri. The prime objective is to find the optimal steering strategy for a photonic sail to get captured around one of the stars after a minimum-time transfer from Earth. By extending the idea of the Breakthrough Starshot project with a deceleration phase upon arrival, the mission’s scientific yield will be increased. As a secondary objective, transfer trajectories between the stars and orbit-raising manoeuvres to explore the habitable zones of the stars are investigated. All trajectories are optimised for minimum time of flight using the trajectory optimisation software InTrance. Depending on the sail technology, interstellar travel times of 77.6-18,790 years can be achieved, which presents an average improvement of 30% with respect to previous work. Still, significant technological development is required to reach and be captured in the Alpha-Centauri system in less than a century. Therefore, a fly-through mission arguably remains the only option for a first exploratory mission to Alpha Centauri, but the enticing results obtained in this work provide perspective for future long-residence missions to our closest neighbouring star system. Y1 - 2021 N1 - 8th ICATT (International Conference on Astrodynamics Tools and Techniques) 23 - 25 June 2021, Virtual SP - 1 EP - 15 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Iomdina, Elena N. A1 - Kiseleva, Anna A. A1 - Kotliar, Konstantin A1 - Luzhnov, Petr V. T1 - Quantification of Choroidal Blood Flow Using the OCT-A System Based on Voxel Scan Processing T2 - 2020 International Conference on Biomedical Innovations and Applications (BIA) Y1 - 2020 SN - 978-1-7281-7073-2 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/BIA50171.2020.9244511 SP - 41 EP - 44 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pohle-Fröhlich, Regina A1 - Dalitz, Christoph A1 - Richter, Charlotte A1 - Hahnen, Tobias A1 - Stäudle, Benjamin A1 - Albracht, Kirsten T1 - Estimation of muscle fascicle orientation in ultrasonic images T2 - VISIGRAPP 2020 - Proceedings of the 15th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications, 5 Y1 - 2020 SP - 79 EP - 86 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hunker, Jan A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Goßmann, Matthias A1 - Linder, Peter A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Development of a tool to analyze the conduction speed in microelectrode array measurements of cardiac tissue T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen N2 - The discovery of human induced pluripotent stem cells reprogrammed from somatic cells [1] and their ability to differentiate into cardiomyocytes (hiPSC-CMs) has provided a robust platform for drug screening [2]. Drug screenings are essential in the development of new components, particularly for evaluating the potential of drugs to induce life-threatening pro-arrhythmias. Between 1988 and 2009, 14 drugs have been removed from the market for this reason [3]. The microelectrode array (MEA) technique is a robust tool for drug screening as it detects the field potentials (FPs) for the entire cell culture. Furthermore, the propagation of the field potential can be examined on an electrode basis. To analyze MEA measurements in detail, we have developed an open-source tool. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 7 EP - 8 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Raman, Aravind Hariharan A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Horváth, András A1 - Becker, Nadine A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Modification of a computer model of human stem cell-derived cardiomyocyte electrophysiology based on Patch-Clamp measurements T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen N2 - Human induced pluripotent stem cells (hiPSCs) have shown to be promising in disease studies and drug screenings [1]. Cardiomyocytes derived from hiPSCs have been extensively investigated using patch-clamping and optical methods to compare their electromechanical behaviour relative to fully matured adult cells. Mathematical models can be used for translating findings on hiPSCCMs to adult cells [2] or to better understand the mechanisms of various ion channels when a drug is applied [3,4]. Paci et al. (2013) [3] developed the first model of hiPSC-CMs, which they later refined based on new data [3]. The model is based on iCells® (Fujifilm Cellular Dynamics, Inc. (FCDI), Madison WI, USA) but major differences among several cell lines and even within a single cell line have been found and motivate an approach for creating sample-specific models. We have developed an optimisation algorithm that parameterises the conductances (in S/F=Siemens/Farad) of the latest Paci et al. model (2018) [5] using current-voltage data obtained in individual patch-clamp experiments derived from an automated patch clamp system (Patchliner, Nanion Technologies GmbH, Munich). Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 10 EP - 11 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Azar, Fouad A1 - Digel, Ilya ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Utilization of fluorescence spectroscopy and neural networks in clinical analysis T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen N2 - Fluorescence topography of human urine in combination with learning algorithms can provide a variant pattern recognition method in analytical clinical chemistry and, eventually, diagnosis. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 40 EP - 41 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zingsheim, Jonas A1 - Grimmer, Timo A1 - Ortner, Marion A1 - Schmaderer, Christoph A1 - Hauser, Christine A1 - Kotliar, Konstantin ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Recognition of subjects with mild cognitive impairment (MCI) by the use of retinal arterial vessels. T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 36 EP - 37 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Blum, Yannik A1 - Albanna, Walid A1 - Benninghaus, Anne A1 - Kotliar, Konstantin ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Vasomotion in retinal vessels of patients presenting post hemorrhagic hydrocephalus following subarachnoid hemorrhage T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH Aachen N2 - Clearance of blood components and fluid drainage play a crucial role in subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) and post hemorrhagic hydrocephalus (PHH). With the involvement of interstitial fluid (ISF) and cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), two pathways for the clearance of fluid and solutes in the brain are proposed. Starting at the level of capillaries, flow of ISF follows along the basement membranes in the walls of cerebral arteries out of the parenchyma to drain into the lymphatics and CSF [1]–[3]. Conversely, it is shown that CSF enters the parenchyma between glial and pial basement membranes of penetrating arteries [4]–[6]. Nevertheless, the involved structures and the contribution of either flow pathway to fluid balance between the subarachnoid space and interstitial space remains controversial. Low frequency oscillations in vascular tone are referred to as vasomotion and corresponding vasomotion waves are modeled as the driving force for flow of ISF out of the parenchyma [7]. Retinal vessel analysis (RVA) allows non-invasive measurement of retinal vessel vasomotion with respect to diameter changes [8]. Thus, the aim of the study is to investigate vasomotion in RVA signals of SAH and PHH patients. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 38 EP - 39 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Baader, Fabian A1 - Keller, Denis A1 - Lehmann, Raphael A1 - Gerber, Lukas A1 - Reiswich, Martin A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Förstner, Roger T1 - Operating melting probes for ice penetration under sublimation conditions and in reduced gravity on a sounding rocket T2 - Proceedings of the 24th ESA Symposium on European Rocket and Balloon Programmes and related Research Y1 - 2019 SN - 0379-6566 N1 - 24th PAC Symposium 2019 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bayer, Robin A1 - Hescheler, Jürgen A1 - Artmann, Gerhard A1 - Temiz Artmann, Aysegül ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Treating arterial hypertension in a cell culture well T2 - 3rd YRA MedTech Symposium 2019 : May 24 / 2019 / FH AachenW N2 - Hypertension describes the pathological increase of blood pressure, which is most commonly associated with the increase of vascular wall stiffness [1]. Referring to the “Deutsche Bluthochdruck Liga” this pathology shows a growing trend in our aging society. In order to find novel pharmacological and probably personalized treatments, we want to present a functional approach to study biomechanical properties of a human aortic vascular model. In this method review we will give an overview of recent studies which were carried out with the CellDrum technology [2] and underline the added value to already existing standard procedures known from the field of physiology. Herein described CellDrum technology is a system to measure functional mechanical properties of cell monolayers and thin tissue constructs in-vitro. Additionally, the CellDrum enables to elucidate the mechanical response of cells to pharmacological drugs, toxins and vasoactive agents. Due to its highly flexible polymer support, cells can also be mechanically stimulated by steady and cyclic biaxial stretching. Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-940402-22-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/48750 SP - 5 EP - 6 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Boden, Ralf A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Chand, Suditi A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Heiligers, Jeannette A1 - Herčík, David A1 - Hérique, Alain A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Kofman, Wlodek A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - McInnes, Colin A1 - Meß, Jan-Gerd A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Moore, Iain A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Plettemeier, Dirk A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Rogez, Yves A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Tóth, Norbert A1 - Vergaaij, Merel A1 - Viavattene, Giulia A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Wiedemann, Carsten A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Ziach, Christian T1 - Flights are ten a sail – Re-use and commonality in the design and system engineering of small spacecraft solar sail missions with modular hardware for responsive and adaptive exploration T2 - 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) KW - system engineering KW - small solar system body characterisation KW - small spacecraft solar sail KW - small spacecraft asteroid lander KW - responsive space Y1 - 2019 SN - 9781713814856 N1 - 70th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Washington D.C., United States, 21-25 October 2019 SP - 1 EP - 7 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Boden, Ralf Christian A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Hercik, D. A1 - Herique, A. A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Kofman, Wlodek A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - McInnes, Colin R. A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Moore, Iain A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Plettemeier, Dirk A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Rogez, Yves A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Viavattene, Giulia A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Ziach, Christian T1 - Responsive integrated small spacecraft solar sail and payload design concepts and missions T2 - Conference: 5th International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2019) N2 - Asteroid mining has the potential to greatly reduce the cost of in-space manufacturing, production of propellant for space transportation and consumables for crewed spacecraft, compared to launching the required resources from Earth’s deep gravity well. This paper discusses the top-level mission architecture and trajectory design for these resource-return missions, comparing high-thrust trajectories with continuous low-thrust solar-sail trajectories. This work focuses on maximizing the economic Net Present Value, which takes the time-cost of finance into account and therefore balances the returned resource mass and mission duration. The different propulsion methods will then be compared in terms of maximum economic return, sets of attainable target asteroids, and mission flexibility. This paper provides one more step towards making commercial asteroid mining an economically viable reality by integrating trajectory design, propulsion technology and economic modelling. Y1 - 2019 N1 - Conference: 5th International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2019)At: Aachen, Germany ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Boden, Ralf Christian A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Hercik, D. A1 - Herique, A. A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Kofman, Wlodek A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - McInnes, Colin R. A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Moore, Iain A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Plettenmeier, Dirk A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Rogez, Yves A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Viavattene, Giulia A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Ziach, Christian T1 - Responsive exploration and asteroid characterization through integrated solar sail and lander development using small spacecraft technologies T2 - IAA Planetary Defense Conference N2 - In parallel to the evolution of the Planetary Defense Conference, the exploration of small solar system bodies has advanced from fast fly-bys on the sidelines of missions to the planets to the implementation of dedicated sample-return and in-situ analysis missions. Spacecraft of all sizes have landed, touch-and-go sampled, been gently beached, or impacted at hypervelocity on asteroid and comet surfaces. More have flown by close enough to image their surfaces in detail or sample their immediate environment, often as part of an extended or re-purposed mission. And finally, full-scale planetary defense experiment missions are in the making. Highly efficient low-thrust propulsion is increasingly applied beyond commercial use also in mainstream and flagship science missions, in combination with gravity assist propulsion. Another development in the same years is the growth of small spacecraft solutions, not in size but in numbers and individual capabilities. The on-going NASA OSIRIS-REx and JAXA HAYABUSA2 missions exemplify the trend as well as the upcoming NEA SCOUT mission or the landers MINERVA-II and MASCOT recently deployed on Ryugu. We outline likely as well as possible and efficient routes of continuation of all these developments towards a propellant-less and highly efficient class of spacecraft for small solar system body exploration: small spacecraft solar sails designed for carefree handling and equipped with carried landers and application modules, for all asteroid user communities –planetary science, planetary defence, and in-situ resource utilization. This projection builds on the experience gained in the development of deployable membrane structures leading up to the successful ground deployment test of a (20 m)² solar sail at DLR Cologne and in the 20 years since. It draws on the background of extensive trajectory optimization studies, the qualified technology of the DLR GOSSAMER-1 deployment demonstrator, and the MASCOT asteroid lander. These enable ‘now-term’ as well as near-term hardware solutions, and thus responsive fast-paced development. Mission types directly applicable to planetary defense include: single and Multiple NEA Rendezvous ((M)NR) for mitigation precursor, target monitoring and deflection follow-up tasks; sail-propelled head-on retrograde kinetic impactors (RKI) for mitigation; and deployable membrane based methods to modify the asteroid’s properties or interact with it. The DLR-ESTEC GOSSAMER Roadmap initiated studies of missions uniquely feasible with solar sails such as Displaced L1 (DL1) space weather advance warning and monitoring and Solar Polar Orbiter (SPO) delivery which demonstrate the capability of near-term solar sails to achieve NEA rendezvous in any kind of orbit, from Earth-coorbital to extremely inclined and even retrograde orbits. For those mission types using separable payloads, such as SPO, (M)NR and RKI, design concepts can be derived from the separable Boom Sail Deployment Units characteristic of DLR GOSSAMER solar sail technology, nanolanders like MASCOT, or microlanders like the JAXA-DLR Jupiter Trojan Asteroid Lander for the OKEANOS mission which can shuttle from the sail to the asteroids visited and enable multiple NEA sample-return missions. These are an ideal match for solar sails in micro-spacecraft format whose launch configurations are compatible with ESPA and ASAP secondary payload platforms. Y1 - 2019 N1 - Conference: IAA Planetary Defense ConferenceAt: Washington DC, USA 29.04-03.05.2019 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Wlademar A1 - Borchers, Kai A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Koch, Aaron D. A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Maiwald, Volker A1 - Meß, Jan-Gerd A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - McInnes, Colin A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Krause, Christian A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Hercik, David A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Koncz, Alexander A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Boden, Ralf A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Ziach, Christian A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Tardivel, Simon T1 - Solar sails for planetary defense & high-energy missions T2 - IEEE Aerospace Conference Proceedings N2 - 20 years after the successful ground deployment test of a (20 m) 2 solar sail at DLR Cologne, and in the light of the upcoming U.S. NEAscout mission, we provide an overview of the progress made since in our mission and hardware design studies as well as the hardware built in the course of our solar sail technology development. We outline the most likely and most efficient routes to develop solar sails for useful missions in science and applications, based on our developed `now-term' and near-term hardware as well as the many practical and managerial lessons learned from the DLR-ESTEC Gossamer Roadmap. Mission types directly applicable to planetary defense include single and Multiple NEA Rendezvous ((M)NR) for precursor, monitoring and follow-up scenarios as well as sail-propelled head-on retrograde kinetic impactors (RKI) for mitigation. Other mission types such as the Displaced L1 (DL1) space weather advance warning and monitoring or Solar Polar Orbiter (SPO) types demonstrate the capability of near-term solar sails to achieve asteroid rendezvous in any kind of orbit, from Earth-coorbital to extremely inclined and even retrograde orbits. Some of these mission types such as SPO, (M)NR and RKI include separable payloads. For one-way access to the asteroid surface, nanolanders like MASCOT are an ideal match for solar sails in micro-spacecraft format, i.e. in launch configurations compatible with ESPA and ASAP secondary payload platforms. Larger landers similar to the JAXA-DLR study of a Jupiter Trojan asteroid lander for the OKEANOS mission can shuttle from the sail to the asteroids visited and enable multiple NEA sample-return missions. The high impact velocities and re-try capability achieved by the RKI mission type on a final orbit identical to the target asteroid's but retrograde to its motion enables small spacecraft size impactors to carry sufficient kinetic energy for deflection. Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2019.8741900 N1 - AERO 2019; Big Sky; United States; 2 March 2019 through 9 March 2019 SP - 1 EP - 21 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ketelhut, Maike A1 - Göll, Fabian A1 - Braunstein, Bjoern A1 - Albracht, Kirsten A1 - Abel, Dirk T1 - Iterative learning control of an industrial robot for neuromuscular training T2 - 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications N2 - Effective training requires high muscle forces potentially leading to training-induced injuries. Thus, continuous monitoring and controlling of the loadings applied to the musculoskeletal system along the motion trajectory is required. In this paper, a norm-optimal iterative learning control algorithm for the robot-assisted training is developed. The algorithm aims at minimizing the external knee joint moment, which is commonly used to quantify the loading of the medial compartment. To estimate the external knee joint moment, a musculoskeletal lower extremity model is implemented in OpenSim and coupled with a model of an industrial robot and a force plate mounted at its end-effector. The algorithm is tested in simulation for patients with varus, normal and valgus alignment of the knee. The results show that the algorithm is able to minimize the external knee joint moment in all three cases and converges after less than seven iterations. KW - Knee KW - Training KW - Load modeling KW - Force KW - Iterative learning control Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-1-7281-2767-5 (ePub) SN - 978-1-7281-2766-8 (USB) SN - 978-1-7281-2768-2 (PoD) U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CCTA.2019.8920659 N1 - 2019 IEEE Conference on Control Technology and Applications (CCTA) Hong Kong, China, August 19-21, 2019 PB - IEEE CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Tran, Ngoc Trinh A1 - Matthies, Hermann G. A1 - Stavroulakis, Georgios Eleftherios A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Direct plastic structural design by chance constrained programming T2 - 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6), 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), 11-15 June 2018, Glasgow, UK N2 - We propose a stochastic programming method to analyse limit and shakedown of structures under random strength with lognormal distribution. In this investigation a dual chance constrained programming algorithm is developed to calculate simultaneously both the upper and lower bounds of the plastic collapse limit or the shakedown limit. The edge-based smoothed finite element method (ES-FEM) using three-node linear triangular elements is used. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Frotscher, Ralf A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Electromechanical model of hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes cocultured with fibroblasts T2 - 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6), 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), 11-15 June 2018, Glasgow, UK N2 - The CellDrum provides an experimental setup to study the mechanical effects of fibroblasts co-cultured with hiPSC-derived ventricular cardiomyocytes. Multi-scale computational models based on the Finite Element Method are developed. Coupled electrical cardiomyocyte-fibroblast models (cell level) are embedded into reaction-diffusion equations (tissue level) which compute the propagation of the action potential in the cardiac tissue. Electromechanical coupling is realised by an excitation-contraction model (cell level) and the active stress arising during contraction is added to the passive stress in the force balance, which determines the tissue displacement (tissue level). Tissue parameters in the model can be identified experimentally to the specific sample. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kahmann, Stephanie Lucina A1 - Uschok, Stephan A1 - Wegmann, Kilian A1 - Müller, Lars-P. A1 - Staat, Manfred T1 - Biomechanical multibody model with refined kinematics of the elbow T2 - 6th European Conference on Computational Mechanics (ECCM 6), 7th European Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ECFD 7), 11-15 June 2018, Glasgow, UK N2 - The overall objective of this study is to develop a new external fixator, which closely maps the native kinematics of the elbow to decrease the joint force resulting in reduced rehabilitation time and pain. An experimental setup was designed to determine the native kinematics of the elbow during flexion of cadaveric arms. As a preliminary study, data from literature was used to modify a published biomechanical model for the calculation of the joint and muscle forces. They were compared to the original model and the effect of the kinematic refinement was evaluated. Furthermore, the obtained muscle forces were determined in order to apply them in the experimental setup. The joint forces in the modified model differed slightly from the forces in the original model. The muscle force curves changed particularly for small flexion angles but their magnitude for larger angles was consistent. Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bhattarai, Aroj A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Fernandes, P.R. ED - Tavares, J. M. T1 - Pectopexy to repair vaginal vault prolapse: a finite element approach T2 - Proceedings CMBBE 2018 N2 - The vaginal prolapse after hysterectomy (removal of the uterus) is often associated with the prolapse of the vaginal vault, rectum, bladder, urethra or small bowel. Minimally invasive surgery such as laparoscopic sacrocolpopexy and pectopexy are widely performed for the treatment of the vaginal prolapse with weakly supported vaginal vault after hysterectomy using prosthetic mesh implants to support (or strengthen) lax apical ligaments. Implants of different shape, size and polymers are selected depending on the patient’s anatomy and the surgeon’s preference. In this computational study on pectopexy, DynaMesh®-PRP soft, GYNECARE GYNEMESH® PS Nonabsorbable PROLENE® soft and Ultrapro® are tested in a 3D finite element model of the female pelvic floor. The mesh model is implanted into the extraperitoneal space and sutured to the vaginal stump with a bilateral fixation to the iliopectineal ligament at both sides. Numerical simulations are conducted at rest, after surgery and during Valsalva maneuver with weakened tissues modeled by reduced tissue stiffness. Tissues and prosthetic meshes are modeled as incompressible, isotropic hyperelastic materials. The positions of the organs are calculated with respect to the pubococcygeal line (PCL) for female pelvic floor at rest, after repair and during Valsalva maneuver using the three meshes. Y1 - 2018 N1 - 15th International Symposium on Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering and 3rd Conference on Imaging and Visualization. CMBBE 2018. 26-29 March 2018, Lisbon, Portugal ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Richter, Charlotte A1 - Braunstein, Bjoern A1 - Stäudle, Benjamin A1 - Attias, Julia A1 - Suess, Alexander A1 - Weber, T. A1 - Rittweger, Joern A1 - Green, David A. A1 - Albracht, Kirsten T1 - In vivo fascicle length of the gastrocnemius muscle during walking in simulated martian gravity using two different body weight support devices T2 - 23rd Annual Congress of the European College of Sport Science, Dublin, Irland Y1 - 2018 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Baader, Fabian A1 - Reiswich, M. A1 - Bartsch, M. A1 - Keller, D. A1 - Tiede, E. A1 - Keck, G. A1 - Demircian, A. A1 - Friedrich, M. A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Schüller, K. A1 - Lehmann, R. A1 - Chojetzki, R. A1 - Durand, C. A1 - Rapp, L. A1 - Kowalski, Julia A1 - Förstner, R. T1 - VIPER - Student research on extraterrestrical ice penetration technology T2 - Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Space Educational Activities N2 - Recent analysis of scientific data from Cassini and earth-based observations gave evidence for a global ocean under a surrounding solid ice shell on Saturn's moon Enceladus. Images of Enceladus' South Pole showed several fissures in the ice shell with plumes constantly exhausting frozen water particles, building up the E-Ring, one of the outer rings of Saturn. In this southern region of Enceladus, the ice shell is considered to be as thin as 2 km, about an order of magnitude thinner than on the rest of the moon. Under the ice shell, there is a global ocean consisting of liquid water. Scientists are discussing different approaches the possibilities of taking samples of water, i.e. by melting through the ice using a melting probe. FH Aachen UAS developed a prototype of maneuverable melting probe which can navigate through the ice that has already been tested successfully in a terrestrial environment. This means no atmosphere and or ambient pressure, low ice temperatures of around 100 to 150K (near the South Pole) and a very low gravity of 0,114 m/s^2 or 1100 μg. Two of these influencing measures are about to be investigated at FH Aachen UAS in 2017, low ice temperature and low ambient pressure below the triple point of water. Low gravity cannot be easily simulated inside a large experiment chamber, though. Numerical simulations of the melting process at RWTH Aachen however are showing a gravity dependence of melting behavior. Considering this aspect, VIPER provides a link between large-scale experimental simulations at FH Aachen UAS and numerical simulations at RWTH Aachen. To analyze the melting process, about 90 seconds of experiment time in reduced gravity and low ambient pressure is provided by the REXUS rocket. In this time frame, the melting speed and contact force between ice and probes are measured, as well as heating power and a two-dimensional array of ice temperatures. Additionally, visual and infrared cameras are used to observe the melting process. Y1 - 2018 SP - 1 EP - 6 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Borchers, Kai A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Maiwald, Volker A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Krause, Christian A1 - Cerotti, Matteo A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Dachwald, Bernd T1 - Small Spacecraft Solar Sailing for Small Solar System Body Multiple Rendezvous and Landing T2 - 2018 IEEE Aerospace Conference : 3-10 March 2018 Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-1-5386-2014-4 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Waldmann, Christoph A1 - Vera, Jean-Pierre de A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Strasdeit, Henry A1 - Sohl, Frank A1 - Hanff, Hendrik A1 - Kowalski, Julia A1 - Heinen, Dirk A1 - Macht, Sabine A1 - Bestmann, Ulf A1 - Meckel, Sebastian A1 - Hildebrandt, Marc A1 - Funke, Oliver A1 - Gehrt, Jan-Jöran T1 - Search for life in ice-covered oceans and lakes beyond Earth T2 - 2018 IEEE/OES Autonomous Underwater Vehicle Workshop, Proceedings November 2018, Article number 8729761 N2 - The quest for life on other planets is closely connected with the search for water in liquid state. Recent discoveries of deep oceans on icy moons like Europa and Enceladus have spurred an intensive discussion about how these waters can be accessed. The challenge of this endeavor lies in the unforeseeable requirements on instrumental characteristics both with respect to the scientific and technical methods. The TRIPLE/nanoAUV initiative is aiming at developing a mission concept for exploring exo-oceans and demonstrating the achievements in an earth-analogue context, exploring the ocean under the ice shield of Antarctica and lakes like Dome-C on the Antarctic continent. KW - Planetary exploration KW - Jupiter KW - ice moons KW - underwater vehicle KW - Antarctica Y1 - 2018 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AUV.2018.8729761 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Boden, Ralf A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Herčík, David A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Koch, Aaron D A1 - Koncz, Alexander A1 - Krause, Christian A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - Maiwald, Volker A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Tardivel, Simon A1 - Tóth, Norbert A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Ziach, Christian T1 - Small spacecraft based multiple near-earth asteroid rendezvous and landing with near-term solar sails and ‘Now-Term ‘technologies T2 - 69 th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) N2 - Physical interaction with small solar system bodies (SSSB) is the next step in planetary science, planetary in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), and planetary defense (PD). It requires a broader understanding of the surface properties of the target objects, with particular interest focused on those near Earth. Knowledge of composition, multi-scale surface structure, thermal response, and interior structure is required to design, validate and operate missions addressing these three fields. The current level of understanding is occasionally simplified into the phrase, ”If you’ve seen one asteroid, you’ve seen one asteroid”, meaning that the in-situ characterization of SSSBs has yet to cross the threshold towards a robust and stable scheme of classification. This would enable generic features in spacecraft design, particularly for ISRU and science missions. Currently, it is necessary to characterize any potential target object sufficiently by a dedicated pre-cursor mission to design the mission which then interacts with the object in a complex fashion. To open up strategic approaches, much broader in-depth characterization of potential target objects would be highly desirable. In SSSB science missions, MASCOT-like nano-landers and instrument carriers which integrate at the instrument level to their mothership have met interest. By its size, MASCOT is compatible with small interplanetary missions. The DLR-ESTEC Gossamer Roadmap Science Working Groups‘ studies identified Multiple Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) Rendezvous (MNR) as one of the space science missions only feasible with solar sail propulsion. The Solar Polar Orbiter (SPO) study showed the ability to access any inclination, theDisplaced-L1 (DL1) mission operates close to Earth, where objects of interest to PD and for ISRU reside. Other studies outline the unique capability of solar sails to provide access to all SSSB, at least within the orbit of Jupiter, and significant progress has been made to explore the performance envelope of near-term solar sails for MNR. However, it is difficult for sailcraft to interact physically with a SSSB. We expand and extend the philosophy of the recently qualified DLR Gossamer solar sail deployment technology using efficient multiple sub-spacecraft integration to also include landers for one-way in-situ investigations and sample-return missions by synergetic integration and operation of sail and lander. The MASCOT design concept and its characteristic features have created an ideal counterpart for thisand has already been adapted to the needs of the AIM spacecraft, former part of the NASA-ESA AIDA missionDesigning the 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October 2018. IAC-18-F1.2.3 Page 2 of 17 combined spacecraft for piggy-back launch accommodation enables low-cost massively parallel access to the NEA population. KW - multiple NEA rendezvous KW - solar sail KW - GOSSAMER-1 KW - MASCOT KW - small spacecraft Y1 - 2018 N1 - 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October 2018. https://www.bho-legal.com/1-5-october-2018-69th-international-astronautical-congress-2018-in-bremen-germany/ SP - 1 EP - 18 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jean-Pierre P., de Vera A1 - Baque, Mickael A1 - Billi, Daniela A1 - Böttger, Ute A1 - Bulat, Sergey A1 - Czupalla, Markus A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - de la Torre, Rosa A1 - Elsaesser, Andreas A1 - Foucher, Frédéric A1 - Korsitzky, Hartmut A1 - Kozyrovska, Natalia A1 - Läufer, Andreas A1 - Moeller, Ralf A1 - Olsson-Francis, Karen A1 - Onofri, Silvano A1 - Sommer, Stefan A1 - Wagner, Dirk A1 - Westall, Frances T1 - The search for life on Mars and in the Solar System - strategies, logistics and infrastructures T2 - 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC) N2 - The question "Are we alone in the Universe?" is perhaps the most fundamental one that affects mankind. How can we address the search for life in our Solar System? Mars, Enceladus and Europa are the focus of the search for life outside the terrestrial biosphere. While it is more likely to find remnants of life (fossils of extinct life) on Mars because of its past short time window of the surface habitability, it is probably more likely to find traces of extant life on the icy moons and ocean worlds of Jupiter and Saturn. Nevertheless, even on Mars there could still be a chance to find extant life in niches near to the surface or in just discovered subglacial lakes beneath the South Pole ice cap. Here, the different approaches for the detection of traces of life in the form of biosignatures including pre-biotic molecules will be presented. We will outline the required infrastructure for this enterprise and give examples of future mission concepts to investigate the presence of life on other planets and moons. Finally, we will provide suggestions on methods, techniques, operations and strategies for preparation and realization of future life detection missions. KW - life detection KW - Mars KW - icy moons KW - habitability KW - space missions Y1 - 2018 N1 - 69th International Astronautical Congress (IAC), Bremen, Germany, 1-5 October 2018. SP - 1 EP - 8 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Boden, Ralf A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Cordero, Federico A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian A1 - Herčík, David A1 - Herique, Alain A1 - Ho, Tra-Mi A1 - Jahnke, Rico A1 - Koch, Aaron A1 - Kofman, Wlodek A1 - Koncz, Alexander A1 - Krause, Christian A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - Maiwald, Volker A1 - Mikschl, Tobias A1 - Mikulz, Eugen A1 - Montenegro, Sergio A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Plettemeier, Dirk A1 - Quantius, Dominik A1 - Reershemius, Siebo A1 - Renger, Thomas A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schmitz, Nicole A1 - Seboldt, Wolfgang A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Tardivel, Simon A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet A1 - Wolff, Friederike A1 - Ziach, Christian T1 - Efficient massively parallel prospection for ISRU by multiple near-earth asteroid rendezvous using near-term solar sails and'now-term'small spacecraft solutions T2 - 2nd Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering – ASIME 2018 N2 - Physical interaction with small solar system bodies (SSSB) is key for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU). The design of mining missions requires good understanding of SSSB properties, including composition, surface and interior structure, and thermal environment. But as the saying goes "If you've seen one asteroid, you've seen one Asteroid": Although some patterns may begin to appear, a stable and reliable scheme of SSSB classification still has to be evolved. Identified commonalities would enable generic ISRU technology and spacecraft design approaches with a high degree of re-use. Strategic approaches require much broader in-depth characterization of the SSSB populations of interest to the ISRU community. The DLR-ESTEC GOSSAMER Roadmap Science Working Groups identified target-flexible Multiple Near-Earth asteroid (NEA) Rendezvous (MNR) as one of the missions only feasible with solar sail propulsion, showed the ability to access any inclination and a wide range of heliocentric distances as well as continuous operation close to Earth's orbit where low delta-v objects reside. Y1 - 2018 N1 - 2nd Asteroid Science Intersections with In-Space Mine Engineering – ASIME 2018 16-17 April 2018, Belval, Luxembourg SP - 1 EP - 33 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Abel, Alexander A1 - Pérez-Viana, Daniel A1 - Ciritsis, Bernard A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Prevention of femur neck fractures through femoroplasty T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 114 EP - 115 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Birgel, Stefan A1 - Leschinger, Tim A1 - Wegmann, Kilian A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Calculation of muscle forces and joint reaction loads in shoulder area via an OpenSim based computer calculation T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 N1 - In der Druckausgabe des Abstractbandes ist dieser Beitrag lose als Erratum beigefügt. SP - 116 EP - 117 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jabbari, Medisa A1 - Bhattarai, Aroj A1 - Anding, Ralf A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Biomechanical simulation of different prosthetic meshes for repairing uterine/vaginal vault prolapse T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 118 EP - 119 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Suryoputri, Nathania A1 - Ghaderi, Aydin A1 - Linder, Peter A1 - Kotliar, Konstantin A1 - Göttler, Jens A1 - Sorg, Christian A1 - Grimmer, Timo ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Does hemodynamic response function change in Alzheimer disease? T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 92 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schneider, Oliver A1 - Al Hakim, Taher A1 - Kayser, Peter A1 - Digel, Ilya ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Development and trials of a test chamber for ultrasound-assisted sampling of living cells from solid surfaces T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 96 EP - 97 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schlemmer, Katharina A1 - Porst, Dariusz A1 - Bassam, Rasha A1 - Artmann, Gerhard A1 - Digel, Ilya ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Effects of nitric oxide (NO) and ATP on red blood cell phenotype and deformability T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 100 EP - 101 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kuhlen, Max A1 - Digel, Ilya ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Fischerauer, Alice ED - Himmel, Jörg ED - Seeger, Thomas ED - Thelen, Klaus T1 - Fluorescence signatures and detection limits of ubiquitous terrestrial bio-compounds T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 102 EP - 103 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - de Honde, Lukas A1 - Porst, Dariusz A1 - Digel, Ilya ED - Fischerauer, Alice T1 - A randomized, observational thermographic study of the neck region before and after a physiotherapeutic intervention T2 - 2nd YRA MedTech Symposium 2017 : June 8th - 9th / 2017 / Hochschule Ruhr-West Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-3-9814801-9-1 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/43984 N1 - A young researchers track of the 7th IEEE Workshop & SENSORICA 2017 SP - 122 EP - 123 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Meß, Jan-Gerd A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Ulamec, Stephan T1 - Small spacecraft in small solar system body applications T2 - IEEE Aerospace Conference 2017, Big Sky, Montana, USA Y1 - 2017 SN - 978-1-5090-1613-6 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/AERO.2017.7943626 SP - 1 EP - 20 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Carzana, Livio A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Noomen, Ron T1 - Model and trajectory optimization for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail T2 - 68th International Astronautical Congress N2 - A laser-enhanced solar sail is a solar sail that is not solely propelled by solar radiation but additionally by a laser beam that illuminates the sail. This way, the propulsive acceleration of the sail results from the combined action of the solar and the laser radiation pressure onto the sail. The potential source of the laser beam is a laser satellite that coverts solar power (in the inner solar system) or nuclear power (in the outer solar system) into laser power. Such a laser satellite (or many of them) can orbit anywhere in the solar system and its optimal orbit (or their optimal orbits) for a given mission is a subject for future research. This contribution provides the model for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail and investigates how a laser can enhance the thrusting capability of such a sail. The term ”ideal” means that the solar sail is assumed to be perfectly reflecting and that the laser beam is assumed to have a constant areal power density over the whole sail area. Since a laser beam has a limited divergence, it can provide radiation pressure at much larger solar distances and increase the radiation pressure force into the desired direction. Therefore, laser-enhanced solar sails may make missions feasible, that would otherwise have prohibitively long flight times, e.g. rendezvous missions in the outer solar system. This contribution will also analyze exemplary mission scenarios and present optimial trajectories without laying too much emphasis on the design and operations of the laser satellites. If the mission studies conclude that laser-enhanced solar sails would have advantages with respect to ”traditional” solar sails, a detailed study of the laser satellites and the whole system architecture would be the second next step Y1 - 2017 N1 - 68th International Astronautical Congress: Unlocking Imagination, Fostering Innovation and Strengthening Security, IAC 2017, 2017-09-25 → 2017-09-29, Adelaide, Australia ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo T1 - Multiple NEA rendezvous mission: Solar sailing options T2 - Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing N2 - The scientific interest in near-Earth asteroids (NEAs) and the classification of some of those as potentially hazardous asteroid for the Earth stipulated the interest in NEA exploration. Close-up observations of these objects will increase drastically our knowledge about the overall NEA population. For this reason, a multiple NEA rendezvous mission through solar sailing is investigated, taking advantage of the propellantless nature of this groundbreaking propulsion technology. Considering a spacecraft based on the DLR/ESA Gossamer technology, this work focuses on the search of possible sequences of NEA encounters. The effectiveness of this approach is demonstrated through a number of fully-optimized trajectories. The results show that it is possible to visit five NEAs within 10 years with near-term solar-sail technology. Moreover, a study on a reduced NEA database demonstrates the reliability of the approach used, showing that 58% of the sequences found with an approximated trajectory model can be converted into real solar-sail trajectories. Lastly, this second study shows the effectiveness of the proposed automatic optimization algorithm, which is able to find solutions for a large number of mission scenarios without any input required from the user. KW - Multiphase KW - Trajectory Optimization KW - Automated Optimization KW - Gossamer KW - Sequence-Search Y1 - 2017 N1 - Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing (ISSS 2017), Kyoto, Japan, 17-20 Jan 2017. http://www.jsforum.or.jp/ISSS2017/ SP - 1 EP - 11 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Biele, Jens A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Ulamec, Stephan A1 - Ziach, Christian A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Ruffer, Michael A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Spietz, Peter A1 - Toth, Norbert A1 - Mimasu, Yuya A1 - Rittweger, Andreas A1 - Bibring, Jean-Pierre A1 - Braukhane, Andy A1 - Boden, Ralf Christian A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Jahnke, Stephan Siegfried A1 - Jetzschmann, Michael A1 - Krüger, Hans A1 - Lange, Michael A1 - Gomez, Antonio Martelo A1 - Massonett, Didier A1 - Okada, Tatsuaki A1 - Sagliano, Marco A1 - Sasaki, Kaname A1 - Schröder, Silvio A1 - Sippel, Martin A1 - Skoczylas, Thomas A1 - Wejmo, Elisabet T1 - Small landers and separable sub-spacecraft for near-term solar sails T2 - The Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing 2017 N2 - Following the successful PHILAE landing with ESA's ROSETTA probe and the launch of the MINERVA rovers and the Mobile Asteroid Surface Scout, MASCOT, aboard the JAXA space probe, HAYABUSA2, to asteroid (162173) Ryugu, small landers have found increasing interest. Integrated at the instrument level in their mothership they support small solar system body studies. With efficient capabilities, resource-friendly design and inherent robustness they are an attractive exploration mission element. We discuss advantages and constraints of small sub-spacecraft, focusing on emerging areas of activity such as asteroid diversity studies, planetary defence, and asteroid mining, on the background of our projects PHILAE, MASCOT, MASCOT2, the JAXA-DLR Solar Power Sail Lander Design Study, and others. The GOSSAMER-1 solar sail deployment concept also involves independent separable sub-spacecraft operating synchronized to deploy the sail. Small spacecraft require big changes in the way we do things and occasionally a little more effort than would be anticipated based on a traditional large spacecraft approach. In a Constraints-Driven Engineering environment we apply Concurrent Design and Engineering (CD/CE), Concurrent Assembly, Integration and Verification (CAIV) and Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE). Near-term solar sails will likely be small spacecraft which we expect to harmonize well with nano-scale separable instrument payload packages. KW - Small Solar System Body Lander KW - Small Spacecraft KW - PHILAE KW - MASCOT KW - Solar Power Sail Y1 - 2017 N1 - The Fourth International Symposium on Solar Sailing 2017, 17-20 January 2017. Kyoto Research Park, Kyoto, Japan SP - 1 EP - 10 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Boden, Ralf A1 - Ceriotti, Matteo A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Dumont, Etienne A1 - Grimm, Christian D. A1 - Lange, Caroline A1 - Lichtenheldt, Roy A1 - Pelivan, Ivanka A1 - Peloni, Alessandro A1 - Riemann, Johannes A1 - Spröwitz, Tom A1 - Tardivel, Simon T1 - Soil to sail-asteroid landers on near-term sailcraft as an evolution of the GOSSAMER small spacecraft solar sail concept for in-situ characterization T2 - 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference KW - multiple NEA rendezvous KW - solar sail KW - GOSSAMER-1 KW - MASCOT KW - asteroid sample return Y1 - 2017 N1 - 5th IAA Planetary Defense Conference – PDC 2017 15-19 May 2017, Tokyo, Japan ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Dachwald, Bernd T1 - Radiation pressure force model for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail T2 - 4th International Symposium on Solar Sailing N2 - The concept of a laser-enhanced solar sail is introduced and the radiation pressure force model for an ideal laser-enhanced solar sail is derived. A laser-enhanced solar sail is a “traditional” solar sail that is, however, not solely propelled by solar radiation, but additionally by a laser beam that illuminates the sail. The additional laser radiation pressure increases the sail's propulsive force and can give, depending on the location of the laser source, more control authority over the direction of the solar sail’s propulsive force vector. This way, laser-enhanced solar sails may augment already existing solar sail mission concepts and make novel mission concepts feasible. Y1 - 2017 N1 - 4th International Symposium on Solar Sailing 17-20 January 2017, Kyōto, Japan SP - 1 EP - 5 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Jung, Alexander A1 - Staat, Manfred A1 - Müller, Wolfram T1 - Effect of wind on flight style optimisation in ski jumping T2 - 15th International Symposium on Computer Simulation in Biomechanics ; July 9th-11th 2015, Edinburgh, UK Y1 - 2016 SP - 53 EP - 54 PB - The University of Edinburgh ; Loughborough University CY - Edinburgh ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Bhattarai, Aroj A1 - Staat, Manfred ED - Erni, Daniel T1 - Female pelvic floor dysfunction: progress weakening of the support system T2 - 1st YRA MedTech Symposium 2016 : April 8th / 2016 / University of Duisburg-Essen N2 - The structure of the female pelvic floor (PF) is an inter-related system of bony pelvis,muscles, pelvic organs, fascias, ligaments, and nerves with multiple functions. Mechanically, thepelvic organ support system are of two types: (I) supporting system of the levator ani (LA) muscle,and (II) the suspension system of the endopelvic fascia condensation [1], [2]. Significantdenervation injury to the pelvic musculature, depolimerization of the collagen fibrils of the softvaginal hammock, cervical ring and ligaments during pregnancy and vaginal delivery weakens thenormal functions of the pelvic floor. Pelvic organ prolapse, incontinence, sexual dysfunction aresome of the dysfunctions which increases progressively with age and menopause due toweakened support system according to the Integral theory [3]. An improved 3D finite elementmodel of the female pelvic floor as shown in Fig. 1 is constructed that: (I) considers the realisticsupport of the organs to the pelvic side walls, (II) employs the improvement of our previous FEmodel [4], [5] along with the patient based geometries, (III) incorporates the realistic anatomy andboundary conditions of the endopelvic (pubocervical and rectovaginal) fascia, and (IV) considersvarying stiffness of the endopelvic fascia in the craniocaudal direction [3]. Several computationsare carried out on the presented computational model with healthy and damaged supportingtissues, and comparisons are made to understand the physiopathology of the female PF disorders. Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/40821 SP - 11 EP - 12 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER -