TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Maier, Christopher
A1  - Mühlbacher, Clemens
A1  - Niemueller, Tim
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Vassos, Stravros
T1  - Controlling Logistics Robots with the Action-based Language YAGI
T2  - Proceedings of the 2015 IROS Workshop on Workshop on Task Planning for Intelligent Robots in Service and Manufacturing
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
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  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Robots: challenges, chances and risks for solving 21st century problems
T2  - President’s Invitation Lecture / South African Institute of Electrical Engineers : May 21 & 22, 2015, University of Johannesburg
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 45
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  - Bonney, Gregor
A1  - Höfken, Hans-Wilhelm
A1  - Paffen, Benedikt
A1  - Schuba, Marko
T1  - ICS/SCADA Security - Analysis of a Beckhoff CX5020 PLC
T2  - 1st International Conference on Information Systems Security and Privacy : ICISSP 2015
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Bank, Bart L. van de
A1  - Orzada, Stephan
A1  - Smits, Frits
A1  - Lagemaat, Miriam W.
A1  - Rodgers, Christopher T.
A1  - Bitz, Andreas
A1  - Scheenen, Tom W. J.
T1  - Optimized (31) P MRS in the human brain at 7 T with a dedicated RF coil setup
JF  - NMR in Biomedicine
Y1  - 2015
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nbm.3422
SN  - 1099-1492
VL  - 28
IS  - 11
SP  - 1570
EP  - 1578
PB  - Wiley
CY  - Weinheim
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Ederer, Thorsten
A1  - Pöttgen, Philipp
A1  - Lorenz, Ulf
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Groche, Peter
T1  - Multicriterial optimization of technical systems considering multiple load and availability scenarios
JF  - Applied Mechanics and Materials
N2  - Cheap does not imply cost-effective -- this is rule number one of zeitgeisty system design. The initial investment accounts only for a small portion of the lifecycle costs of a technical system. In fluid systems, about ninety percent of the total costs are caused by other factors like power consumption and maintenance. With modern optimization methods, it is already possible to plan an optimal technical system considering multiple objectives. In this paper, we focus on an often neglected contribution to the lifecycle costs: downtime costs due to spontaneous failures. Consequently, availability becomes an issue.
KW  - sustainability
KW  - availability
KW  - energy efficiency
KW  - mixed-integer linear programming
KW  - system synthesis
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 1660-9336
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMM.807.247
VL  - 807
SP  - 247
EP  - 256
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  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/CoASE.2015.7294217
SP  - 924
EP  - 929
ER  -