TY - CHAP A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Kallweit, Stephan A1 - Scholl, Ingrid A1 - Reichert, Walter T1 - Learning to Program Mobile Robots in the ROS Summer School Series T2 - Proceedings 6th International Conference on Robotics in Education (RiE 15) N2 - The main objective of our ROS Summer School series is to introduce MA level students to program mobile robots with the Robot Operating System (ROS). ROS is a robot middleware that is used my many research institutions world-wide. Therefore, many state-of-the-art algorithms of mobile robotics are available in ROS and can be deployed very easily. As a basic robot platform we deploy a 1/10 RC cart that is wquipped with an Arduino micro-controller to control the servo motors, and an embedded PC that runs ROS. In two weeks, participants get to learn the basics of mobile robotics hands-on. We describe our teaching concepts and our curriculum and report on the learning success of our students. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pirovano, Laura A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Noomen, Ron T1 - Attitude and Orbital Dynamics Modeling for an Uncontrolled Solar-Sail Experiment in Low-Earth Orbit T2 - 25th International Symposium on Spaceflight Dynamics, 2015, Munich, Germany Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Alhwarin, Faraj A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Gebhardt, Andreas A1 - Kallweit, Stephan A1 - Scholl, Ingrid A1 - Tedjasukmana, Osmond Sanjaya T1 - Improving additive manufacturing by image processing and robotic milling T2 - 2015 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering (CASE), Aug 24-28, 2015 Gothenburg, Sweden Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294217 SP - 924 EP - 929 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Latzke, Markus A1 - Alexopoulos, Spiros A1 - Kronhardt, Valentina A1 - Rendón, Carlos A1 - Sattler, Johannes Christoph T1 - Comparison of Potential Sites in China for Erecting a Hybrid Solar Tower Power Plant with Air Receiver T2 - Energy Procedia Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.egypro.2015.03.142 SN - 1876-6102 N1 - International Conference on Concentrating Solar Power and Chemical Energy Systems, SolarPACES 2014, Beijing, China SP - 1327 EP - 1334 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Seefeldt, Patric A1 - Bauer, Waldemar A1 - Dachwald, Bernd A1 - Grundmann, Jan Thimo A1 - Straubel, Marco A1 - Sznajder, Maciej A1 - Tóth, Norbert A1 - Zander, Martin E. T1 - Large lightweight deployable structures for planetary defence: solar sail propulsion, solar concentrator payloads, large-scale photovoltaic power T2 - 4th IAA Planetary Defense Conference - PDC 2015, 13-17 April 2015, Frascati, Roma, Italy Y1 - 2015 N1 - IAA-PDC-15-P-20 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Booysen, Tracy A1 - Mathew, Thomas A1 - Knox, Greig A1 - Fong, W. K. A1 - Stüttgen, Marcel A1 - Ferrein, Alexander A1 - Steinbauer, Gerald T1 - The Scarab Project T2 - ICRA 2015 Developing Countries Forum N2 - 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. Y1 - 2015 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Limpert, Nicolas A1 - Schiffer, Stefan A1 - Ferrein, Alexander T1 - A Local Planner for Ackermann-Driven Vehicles in ROS SBPL T2 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Pattern Recognition Association of South Africa and Robotics and Mechatronics (PRASA-RobMech), 2015 Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/RoboMech.2015.7359518 SP - 172 EP - 177 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Pricking, Sebastian A1 - Gebs, Raphael A1 - Fleischhaker, Robert A1 - Kleinbauer, Jochen A1 - Budnicki, Aleksander A1 - Sutter, Dirk A1 - Killi, Alexander A1 - Weiler, Sascha A1 - Mielke, M. A1 - Beaudou, B. A1 - Debord, B. A1 - Gerome, F. A1 - Benabid, F. ED - Dorsch, Friedhelm T1 - Hollow core fiber delivery of sub-ps pulses from a TruMicro 5000 Femto edition thin disk amplifier T2 - High-power laser materials processing: Lasers, beam delivery, diagnostics, and applications IV : 7 Februar 2015, San Francisco, USA. - (SPIE proceedings series ; 9356) Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-162841446-2 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2079289 SN - 0277-786X SP - 935602 PB - SPIE, International Society for Optical Engineering ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schänzle, Christian A1 - Altherr, Lena A1 - Ederer, Thorsten A1 - Lorenz, Ulf A1 - Pelz, Peter F. T1 - As good as it can be: Ventilation system design by a combined scaling and discrete optimization method T2 - Proceedings of FAN 2015 N2 - The understanding that optimized components do not automatically lead to energy-efficient systems sets the attention from the single component on the entire technical system. At TU Darmstadt, a new field of research named Technical Operations Research (TOR) has its origin. It combines mathematical and technical know-how for the optimal design of technical systems. We illustrate our optimization approach in a case study for the design of a ventilation system with the ambition to minimize the energy consumption for a temporal distribution of diverse load demands. By combining scaling laws with our optimization methods we find the optimal combination of fans and show the advantage of the use of multiple fans. Y1 - 2015 N1 - Proceedings of FAN 2015, Lyon (France), 15 – 17 April 2015 SP - 1 EP - 11 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schänzle, Christian A1 - Altherr, Lena A1 - Ederer, Thorsten A1 - Pelz, Peter T1 - TOR – Towards the energetically optimal ventilation system KW - Energy KW - Efficiency KW - Ventilation System KW - Discrete Optimisation KW - TGA Y1 - 2015 N1 - EST 2015, Karlsruhe, 19-21 Mai 2015 ER -