TY - CHAP A1 - Hülsen, Benjamin A1 - Mulsow, Niklas A. A1 - Dabrowski, Adam A1 - Brinkmann, Wiebke A1 - Gützlaff, Joel A1 - Spies, Leon A1 - Czupalla, Markus A1 - Kirchner, Frank T1 - Towards an autonomous micro rover with night survivability for lunar exploration T2 - Proceedings of the 74th International Astronautical Congress N2 - In Europe, efforts are underway to develop key technologies that can be used to explore the Moon and to exploit the resources available. This includes technologies for in-situ resource utilization (ISRU), facilitating the possibility of a future Moon Village. The Moon is the next step for humans and robots to exploit the use of available resources for longer term missions, but also for further exploration of the solar system. A challenge for effective exploration missions is to achieve a compact and lightweight robot to reduce launch costs and open up the possibility of secondary payload options. Current micro rover concepts are primarily designed to last for one day of solar illumination and show a low level of autonomy. Extending the lifetime of the system by enabling survival of the lunar night and implementing a high level of autonomy will significantly increase potential mission applications and the operational range. As a reference mission, the deployment of a micro rover in the equatorial region of the Moon is being considered. An overview of mission parameters and a detailed example mission sequence is given in this paper. The mission parameters are based on an in-depth study of current space agency roadmaps, scientific goals, and upcoming flight opportunities. Furthermore, concepts of the ongoing international micro rover developments are analyzed along with technology solutions identified for survival of lunar nights and a high system autonomy. The results provide a basis of a concise requirements set-up to allow dedicated system developments and qualification measures in the future. Y1 - 2023 N1 - 74. International Astronautical Congress (IAC-2023), October 2-6 2023, Baku, Azerbaijan PB - dfki ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Hüning, Felix A1 - Mund, Cindy T1 - Integration of agile development in standard labs T2 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) N2 - In addition to the technical content, modern courses at university should also teach professional skills to enhance the competencies of students towards their future work. The competency driven approach including technical as well as professional skills makes it necessary to find a suitable way for the integration into the corresponding module in a scalable and flexible manner. Agile development, for example, is essential for the development of modern systems and applications and makes use of dedicated professional skills of the team members, like structured group dynamics and communication, to enable the fast and reliable development. This paper presents an easy to integrate and flexible approach to integrate Scrum, an agile development method, into the lab of an existing module. Due to the different role models of Scrum the students have an individual learning success, gain valuable insight into modern system development and strengthen their communication and organization skills. The approach is implemented and evaluated in the module Vehicle Systems, but it can be transferred easily to other technical courses as well. The evaluation of the implementation considers feedback of all stakeholders, students, supervisor and lecturers, and monitors the observations during project lifetime. KW - professional skills KW - active learning KW - lab work KW - Agile development Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21427/NK4Z-WS73 N1 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Technological University Dublin, 10th-14th September, 2023 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Funke, Harald A1 - Beckmann, Nils A1 - Stefan, Lukas A1 - Keinz, Jan T1 - Hydrogen combustor integration study for a medium range aircraft engine using the dry-low NOx “Micromix” combustion principle T2 - Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 1: Aircraft Engine. N2 - The feasibility study presents results of a hydrogen combustor integration for a Medium-Range aircraft engine using the Dry-Low-NOₓ Micromix combustion principle. Based on a simplified Airbus A320-type flight mission, a thermodynamic performance model of a kerosene and a hydrogen-powered V2530-A5 engine is used to derive the thermodynamic combustor boundary conditions. A new combustor design using the Dry-Low NOx Micromix principle is investigated by slice model CFD simulations of a single Micromix injector for design and off-design operation of the engine. Combustion characteristics show typical Micromix flame shapes and good combustion efficiencies for all flight mission operating points. Nitric oxide emissions are significant below ICAO CAEP/8 limits. For comparison of the Emission Index (EI) for NOₓ emissions between kerosene and hydrogen operation, an energy (kerosene) equivalent Emission Index is used. A full 15° sector model CFD simulation of the combustion chamber with multiple Micromix injectors including inflow homogenization and dilution and cooling air flows investigates the combustor integration effects, resulting NOₓ emission and radial temperature distributions at the combustor outlet. The results show that the integration of a Micromix hydrogen combustor in actual aircraft engines is feasible and offers, besides CO₂ free combustion, a significant reduction of NOₓ emissions compared to kerosene operation. KW - emission index KW - nitric oxides KW - aircraft engine KW - Micromix KW - combustion KW - hydrogen Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-0-7918-8693-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2023-102370 N1 - Paper No. GT2023-102370, V001T01A022 N1 - ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition June 26–30, 2023, Boston, Massachusetts, USA PB - ASME CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Steuer-Dankert, Linda T1 - A crazy little thing called sustainability T2 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education (SEFI) N2 - Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) set by the United Nations (UN) in 2015 requires global collaboration between different stakeholders. Industry, and in particular engineers who shape industrial developments, have a special role to play as they are confronted with the responsibility to holistically reflect sustainability in industrial processes. This means that, in addition to the technical specifications, engineers must also question the effects of their own actions on an ecological, economic and social level in order to ensure sustainable action and contribute to the achievement of the SDGs. However, this requires competencies that enable engineers to apply all three pillars of sustainability to their own field of activity and to understand the global impact of industrial processes. In this context, it is relevant to understand how industry already reflects sustainability and to identify competences needed for sustainable development. KW - Transformative Competencies KW - Future Skills KW - Transdisciplinarity KW - Interdisciplinarity KW - Sustainability Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.21427/9CQR-VC94 N1 - 51st Annual Conference of the European Society for Engineering Education, Technological University Dublin, 10th-14th September, 2023 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Vladova, Gergana A1 - Ullrich, André A1 - Sultanow, Eldar A1 - Tobolla, Marinho A1 - Sebrak, Sebastian A1 - Czarnecki, Christian A1 - Brockmann, Carsten T1 - Visual analytics for knowledge management T2 - INFORMATIK 2023 - Designing Futures: Zukünfte gestalten N2 - The management of knowledge in organizations considers both established long-term processes and cooperation in agile project teams. Since knowledge can be both tacit and explicit, its transfer from the individual to the organizational knowledge base poses a challenge in organizations. This challenge increases when the fluctuation of knowledge carriers is exceptionally high. Especially in large projects in which external consultants are involved, there is a risk that critical, company-relevant knowledge generated in the project will leave the company with the external knowledge carrier and thus be lost. In this paper, we show the advantages of an early warning system for knowledge management to avoid this loss. In particular, the potential of visual analytics in the context of knowledge management systems is presented and discussed. We present a project for the development of a business-critical software system and discuss the first implementations and results. Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-88579-731-9 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18420/inf2023_187 SN - 1617-5468 N1 - INFORMATIK 2023, 26. - 29. September 2023, Berlin SP - 1851 EP - 1870 PB - GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik CY - Bonn ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Küppers, Malte A1 - Schuba, Marko A1 - Neugebauer, Georg A1 - Höner, Tim A1 - Hack, Sacha T1 - Security analysis of the KNX smart building protocol T2 - ARES '23: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security N2 - KNX is a protocol for smart building automation, e.g., for automated heating, air conditioning, or lighting. This paper analyses and evaluates state-of-the-art KNX devices from manufacturers Merten, Gira and Siemens with respect to security. On the one hand, it is investigated if publicly known vulnerabilities like insecure storage of passwords in software, unencrypted communication, or denialof-service attacks, can be reproduced in new devices. On the other hand, the security is analyzed in general, leading to the discovery of a previously unknown and high risk vulnerability related to so-called BCU (authentication) keys. Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3600160.3605167 N1 - ARES 2023: The 18th International Conference on Availability, Reliability and Security. August 29 - September 1, 2023. Benevento, Italy. Article No.: 87 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - ACM ER - 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 - YRA MedTech Symposium (2024) 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 - https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/81475 N1 - 4th YRA MedTech Symposium, February 1, 2024. FH Aachen, Campus Jülich SP - 29 EP - 30 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Simsek, Beril A1 - Krause, Hans-Joachim A1 - Engelmann, Ulrich M. ED - Digel, Ilya ED - Staat, Manfred ED - Trzewik, Jürgen ED - Sielemann, Stefanie ED - Erni, Daniel ED - Zylka, Waldemar T1 - Magnetic biosensing with magnetic nanoparticles: Simulative approach to predict signal intensity in frequency mixing magnetic detection T2 - YRA MedTech Symposium (2024) N2 - Magnetic nanoparticles (MNP) are investigated with great interest for biomedical applications in diagnostics (e.g. imaging: magnetic particle imaging (MPI)), therapeutics (e.g. hyperthermia: magnetic fluid hyperthermia (MFH)) and multi-purpose biosensing (e.g. magnetic immunoassays (MIA)). What all of these applications have in common is that they are based on the unique magnetic relaxation mechanisms of MNP in an alternating magnetic field (AMF). While MFH and MPI are currently the most prominent examples of biomedical applications, here we present results on the relatively new biosensing application of frequency mixing magnetic detection (FMMD) from a simulation perspective. In general, we ask how the key parameters of MNP (core size and magnetic anisotropy) affect the FMMD signal: by varying the core size, we investigate the effect of the magnetic volume per MNP; and by changing the effective magnetic anisotropy, we study the MNPs’ flexibility to leave its preferred magnetization direction. From this, we predict the most effective combination of MNP core size and magnetic anisotropy for maximum signal generation. Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-940402-65-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.17185/duepublico/81475 N1 - 4th YRA MedTech Symposium, February 1, 2024. FH Aachen, Campus Jülich SP - 27 EP - 28 PB - Universität Duisburg-Essen CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wittig, M. A1 - Rütters, René A1 - Bragard, Michael ED - Reiff-Stephan, Jörg ED - Jäkel, Jens ED - Schwarz, André T1 - Application of RL in control systems using the example of a rotatory inverted pendulum T2 - Tagungsband AALE 2024 : Fit für die Zukunft: praktische Lösungen für die industrielle Automation N2 - In this paper, the use of reinforcement learning (RL) in control systems is investigated using a rotatory inverted pendulum as an example. The control behavior of an RL controller is compared to that of traditional LQR and MPC controllers. This is done by evaluating their behavior under optimal conditions, their disturbance behavior, their robustness and their development process. All the investigated controllers are developed using MATLAB and the Simulink simulation environment and later deployed to a real pendulum model powered by a Raspberry Pi. The RL algorithm used is Proximal Policy Optimization (PPO). The LQR controller exhibits an easy development process, an average to good control behavior and average to good robustness. A linear MPC controller could show excellent results under optimal operating conditions. However, when subjected to disturbances or deviations from the equilibrium point, it showed poor performance and sometimes instable behavior. Employing a nonlinear MPC Controller in real time was not possible due to the high computational effort involved. The RL controller exhibits by far the most versatile and robust control behavior. When operated in the simulation environment, it achieved a high control accuracy. When employed in the real system, however, it only shows average accuracy and a significantly greater performance loss compared to the simulation than the traditional controllers. With MATLAB, it is not yet possible to directly post-train the RL controller on the Raspberry Pi, which is an obstacle to the practical application of RL in a prototyping or teaching setting. Nevertheless, RL in general proves to be a flexible and powerful control method, which is well suited for complex or nonlinear systems where traditional controllers struggle. KW - Rotatory Inverted Pendulum KW - MPC KW - LQR KW - PPO KW - Reinforcement Learning Y1 - 2024 SN - 978-3-910103-02-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.33968/2024.53 N1 - 20. AALE-Konferenz. Bielefeld, 06.03.-08.03.2024. (Tagungsband unter https://doi.org/10.33968/2024.29) SP - 241 EP - 248 PB - le-tex publishing services GmbH CY - Leipzig ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Kramer, Pia A1 - Bragard, Michael A1 - Ritz, Thomas A1 - Ferfer, Ute A1 - Schiffers, Tim T1 - Visualizing, Enhancing and Predicting Students’ Success through ECTS Monitoring T2 - 2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON) N2 - This paper serves as an introduction to the ECTS monitoring system and its potential applications in higher education. It also emphasizes the potential for ECTS monitoring to become a proactive system, supporting students by predicting academic success and identifying groups of potential dropouts for tailored support services. The use of the nearest neighbor analysis is suggested for improving data analysis and prediction accuracy. KW - Monitoring KW - Engineering education KW - Data visualization KW - Accuracy KW - Data analysis Y1 - 2024 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/EDUCON60312.2024.10578652 SN - 2165-9559 SN - 2165-9567 (eISSN) N1 - 2024 IEEE Global Engineering Education Conference (EDUCON), 08-11 May 2024, Kos Island, Greece PB - IEEE CY - New York, NY ER -