TY  - CHAP
A1  - Goeckel, Tom
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
A1  - Wagner, Hermann
A1  - Lakemeyer, Gerhard
T1  - The Video Conference Tool Robot ViCToR
T2  - Intelligent Robotics and Applications : 8th International Conference, ICIRA 2015, Portsmouth, UK, August 24-27, 2015, Proceedings, Part II
N2  - We present a robotic tool that autonomously follows a conversation to enable remote presence in video conferencing. When humans participate in a meeting with the help of video conferencing tools, it is crucial that they are able to follow the conversation both with acoustic and visual input. To this end, we design and implement a video conferencing tool robot that uses binaural sound source localization as its main source to autonomously orient towards the currently talking speaker. To increase robustness of the acoustic cue against noise we supplement the sound localization with a source detection stage. Also, we include a simple onset detector to retain fast response times. Since we only use two microphones, we are confronted with ambiguities on whether a source is in front or behind the device. We resolve these ambiguities with the help of face detection and additional moves. We tailor the system to our target scenarios in experiments with a four minute scripted conversation. In these experiments we evaluate the influence of different system settings on the responsiveness and accuracy of the device.
Y1  - 2015
SN  - 978-3-319-22876-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22876-1_6
N1  - Lecture Notes in Computer Science ; 9245
SP  - 61
EP  - 73
PB  - Springer
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Priede, Gareth
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - Towards passive walking for the fully-actuated biped robot Nao
T2  - Emerging trends in computing, informatics, systems sciences, and engineering. (Lecture notes in electrical engineering : vol. 151)
N2  - Many biped robots deploy a form of gait that follows the zero moment point (ZMP) approach, that is, the robot is in a stable position at any point in time. This requires the robot to be fully actuated. While very stable, the draw-backs of this approach are a fairly slow gait and high energy consumption. An alternative approach is the so-called passive-dynamic walking, where the gait makes use of the inertia and dynamic stability of the robot. In this paper we describe our ongoing work of combining the principles of passive-dynamic walking on the fully-actuated biped robot Nao, which is also deployed for robotic soccer applications. We present a simple controller that allows the robot to stably rock sidewards, showing a closed limit-cycle. We discuss first results of superimposing a forward motion on the sidewards motion. Based on this we expect to endow the Nao with a fast, robust, and stable passive-dynamic walk on the fully-actuated Nao in the future.
Y1  - 2013
SN  - 978-1-4614-3557-0 ; 978-1-4614-3558-7
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3558-7_18
SP  - 225
EP  - 236
PB  - Springer
CY  - New York, NY
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Pulini, Paola
A1  - Gligorevic, Snjezana
T1  - WIMAX performance in the airport environment
T2  - Multi-carrier systems & solutions 2009. (Lecture notes in electrical engineering ; 41)
N2  - In this paper, the multicarrier physical layers of WiMAX are evaluated in the context of airport data links. The orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) and orthogonal frequency-division multiple-access (OFDMA) cases are applied to the forward link (FL) and reverse link (RL), respectively. The performance of the so called parking and taxi scenarios is presented for airport communications in C-band. Numerical results show that the proposed scheme brings good performance for both the FL and the RL. For the OFDMA case a structure changing called double-tile is also proposed to improve the system performance.
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-90-481-2529-6 (Print) ; 978-90-481-2530-2 (Online)
SP  - 301
EP  - 310
PB  - Springer
CY  - Berlin [u.a.]
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bensberg, Frank
A1  - Czarnecki, Christian
A1  - Grob, Heinz Lothar
ED  - Bruhn, Manfred
ED  - Hadwich, Karsten
T1  - Wirtschaftlichkeitsbewertung von Smart Services mit vollständigen Finanzplänen
T2  - Smart Services: Band 1: Konzepte – Methoden – Prozesse
N2  - Dieser Beitrag stellt einen Bewertungsrahmen für Smart Services vor, der auf dem Konzept vollständiger Finanzpläne (VOFI) basiert. Zunächst wird eine IoT-Architektur für Smart Services eingeführt, die die Grundlage für deren Betrachtung aus Sicht der Unternehmensplanung liefert. Hierauf aufbauend wird ein Bewertungsrahmen für die finanzplanorientierte Wirtschaftlichkeitsbewertung von Smart Services geschaffen, mit dem die relevanten Zahlungsfolgen differenziert erfasst werden. Mithilfe des entwickelten VOFI-Systems wird anschließend aufgezeigt, wie mithilfe einer Risikoanalyse die Unsicherheit von Modellparametern berücksichtigt werden kann.
Y1  - 2022
SN  - 978-3-658-37344-3 (Online)
SN  - 978-3-658-37343-6 (Print)
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-37344-3_6
SP  - 225
EP  - 251
PB  - Springer Gabler
CY  - Wiesbaden
ER  -