TY  - CHAP
A1  - Matcha, Heike
A1  - Quasten, Gero
T1  - A Parametric-Typological Tool: More Diversity for Mass Produced Single Family Homes Through Parametrized Design and Customized Mass Production
T2  - Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-0-9541183-8-9
SP  - 409
EP  - 416
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Karzer, Rüdiger
A1  - Matcha, Heike
T1  - Experimental design-build: teaching parameter-based design
T2  - Computation: The New Realm of Architectural Design [27th eCAADe Conference Proceedings]
Y1  - 2009
SN  - 978-0-9541183-8-9
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.52842/conf.ecaade.2009.153
SP  - 153
EP  - 158
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Matcha, Heike
T1  - Parametric possibilities: designing with parametric modelling
T2  - Predicting the Future [25th eCAADe Conference Proceedings]
Y1  - 2007
SN  - 978-0-9541183-6-5
SP  - 849
EP  - 856
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Matcha, Heike
A1  - Karzel, Rüdiger
A1  - Quasten, Gero
T1  - Architectural Design with Parametric Modeling & Customized Mass Production: Explorations and Case Studies in Architectural Design and Production Methods
T2  - Language and the Scientific Imagination. The 11th International Conference of ISSEI, Language Centre, University of Helsinki (Finland) 28 July - 2 August 2008
Y1  - 2008
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eltester, Niklas Sebastian
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Schiffer, Stefan
T1  - A smart factory setup based on the RoboCup logistics league
T2  - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems (ICPS)
N2  - In this paper we present SMART-FACTORY, a setup for a research and teaching facility in industrial robotics that is based on the RoboCup Logistics League. It is driven by the need for developing and applying solutions for digital production. Digitization receives constantly increasing attention in many areas, especially in industry. The common theme is to make things smart by using intelligent computer technology. Especially in the last decade there have been many attempts to improve existing processes in factories, for example, in production logistics, also with deploying cyber-physical systems. An initiative that explores challenges and opportunities for robots in such a setting is the RoboCup Logistics League. Since its foundation in 2012 it is an international effort for research and education in an intra-warehouse logistics scenario. During seven years of competition a lot of knowledge and experience regarding autonomous robots was gained. This knowledge and experience shall provide the basis for further research in challenges of future production. The focus of our SMART-FACTORY is to create a stimulating environment for research on logistics robotics, for teaching activities in computer science and electrical engineering programmes as well as for industrial users to study and explore the feasibility of future technologies. Building on a very successful history in the RoboCup Logistics League we aim to provide stakeholders with a dedicated facility oriented at their individual needs.
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICPS48405.2020.9274766
N1  - 2020 IEEE Conference on Industrial Cyberphysical Systems (ICPS), 10-12 June 2020, Tampere, Finland.
SP  - 297
EP  - 302
PB  - IEEE
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Cordes, Sven
A1  - Gligorevic, Snjezana
A1  - Blicharski, Peter
T1  - Analysis of sine precision influence on DOA estimation using the MUSIC algorithm
T2  - 2019 20th International Radar Symposium (IRS)
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-7369-9860-5
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.23919/IRS.2019.8768162
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Bil, Cees
T1  - Impact of Engine Failure Constraints on the Initial Sizing of Hybrid-Electric GA Aircraft
T2  - AIAA Scitech 2019 Forum
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.2514/6.2019-1812
N1  - AIAA Scitech Forum, 2019; San Diego; United States; 7 January 2019 through 11 January 2019
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schwager, Christian
A1  - Teixeira Boura, Cristiano José
A1  - Flesch, Robert
A1  - Alexopoulos, Spiros
A1  - Herrmann, Ulf
T1  - Improved efficiency prediction of a molten salt receiver based on dynamic cloud passage simulation
T2  - AIP Conference Proceedings
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-0-7354-1866-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.5117566
VL  - 2126
IS  - 1
SP  - 030054-1
EP  - 030054-8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bosse, Elke
A1  - De Clercq, Mikael
A1  - Barnat, Miriam
T1  - The Role of Diversity for the Transition to Higher Education
T2  - EARLI SIG 4, Giessen
Y1  - 2018
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Steinbauer, Gerald
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
T1  - CogRob 2018 : 
Cognitive Robotics Workshop.
Proceedings of the 11th Cognitive Robotics Workshop 2018
co-located with 16th International Conference on Principles of Knowledge Representation and Reasoning (KR 2018).
Tempe, AZ, USA, October 27th, 2018.
T2  - CEUR workshop proceedings
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 1613-0073
N1  - edited by Gerald Steinbauer, Alexander Ferrein
IS  - Vol-2325
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schiffer, Fabian
A1  - Bragard, Michael
T1  - Cascaded LQ and Field-Oriented Control of a Mobile Inverse Pendulum (Segway) with Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines
T2  - 2019 20th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM)
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-5386-9257-8
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/REM.2019.8744101
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Bragard, Michael
A1  - Sube, Maike
A1  - Schneider, Maike
A1  - Jungemann, Christoph
T1  - Introducing a Cross-University Bachelor’s Programme with Orientation Semester - Enabling a Permeable Academic Education System
T2  - 2019 20th International Conference on Research and Education in Mechatronics (REM)
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-5386-9257-8
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/REM.2019.8744132
SP  - 1
EP  - 6
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  - Götten, Falk
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Havermann, Marc
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Marino, Matthew
A1  - Bil, Cees
T1  - A highly automated method for simulating airfoil characteristics at low Reynolds number using a RANS - transition approach
T2  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress - DLRK 2019. Darmstadt, Germany
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.25967/490026
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Finger, Felix
A1  - Götten, Falk
A1  - Braun, Carsten
A1  - Bil, Cees
T1  - Mass, Primary Energy, and Cost - The Impact of Optimization Objectives on the Initial Sizing of Hybrid-Electric General Aviation Aircraft
T2  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress 2019, DLRK 2019. Darmstadt, Germany
Y1  - 2019
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.25967/490012
SP  - 1
EP  - 17
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Götten, Falk
A1  - Finger, Felix
T1  - Conceptual Design of a Modular 150 kg Vertical Take-off and Landing Unmanned Aerial Vehicle
T2  - Deutscher Luft- und Raumfahrtkongress - DLRK 2019. Darmstadt, Germany
Y1  - 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Blanke, Tobias
A1  - Dring, Bernd
A1  - Vontein, Marius
A1  - Kuhnhenne, Markus
T1  - Climate Change Mitigation Potentials of Vertical Building Integrated Photovoltaic
T2  - 8th International Workshop on Integration of Solar Power into Power Systems : 16-17 October 2018, Stockholm, Sweden
Y1  - 2018
SP  - 1
EP  - 7
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hailer, Benjamin
A1  - Weber, Tobias
A1  - Arent, Jan-Christoph
T1  - Manufacturing Process Simulation for Autoclave-Produced Sandwich Structures
T2  - Proceedings of SAMPE Europe Conference 2019, Nantes, France
Y1  - 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Weber, Tobias
A1  - Englhard, Markus
A1  - Hailer, Benjamin
A1  - Arent, Jan-Christoph
T1  - Manufacturing Process Simulation for the Prediction of Tool-Part-Interaction and Ply Wrinkling
T2  - Proceedings of SAMPE Europe Conference 2019, Nantes, France
Y1  - 2019
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Weber, Tobias
A1  - Englhard, Markus
A1  - Hailer, Benjamin
A1  - Arent, Jan-Christoph
T1  - Manufacturing Process Simulation for the Prediction of Tool-Part-Interaction and Ply Wrinkling
T2  - Proceedings of SAMPE Europe Conference, Amiens , France
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Weber, Tobias
T1  - Manufacturing Process Simulation for Tooling Optimization: Reduction of Quality Issues During Autoclave Manufacturing of Composite Parts
T2  - Proceedings of SAMPE Europe Conference 2015, Amiens, France
Y1  - 2015
SP  - 1
EP  - 8
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Otten, D.
A1  - Schmid, M.
A1  - Weber, Tobias
T1  - Advances In Sheet Metal-Forming: Reduction Of Tooling Cost By Methodical Optimization
T2  - Proceedings of SAMPE Europe Conference, Amiens , France
Y1  - 2015
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schmidts, Oliver
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Winkens, Marvin
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Catalog integration of low-quality product data by attribute label ranking
T2  - Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Data Science, Technology and Applications - Volume 1: DATA
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-989-758-440-4
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0009831000900101
SP  - 90
EP  - 101
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Braun, Sebastian
A1  - Cheng, Chi-Tsun
A1  - Dowey, Steve
A1  - Wollert, Jörg
T1  - Survey on Security Concepts to Adapt Flexible Manufacturing and Operations Management based upon Multi-Agent Systems
T2  - 2020 IEEE 29th International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE)
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISIE45063.2020.9152210
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eggert, Mathias
A1  - Stanke, Max-Alexander
T1  - Adoption of Integrated Voice Assistants in Health Care– Requirements and Design Guidelines
T2  - 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, March 08-11, 2020 Potsdam, Germany
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.30844/wi_2020_k2-eggert
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Eggert, Mathias
A1  - Edelbauer, Thomas Rudolf
T1  - Gamified Information Systems for Assisted Living Facilities - Relevant Design Guidelines, Affordances and Adoption Barriers
T2  - 15th International Conference on Wirtschaftsinformatik, March 08-11, 2020 Potsdam, Germany
Y1  - 2020
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.30844/wi_2020_f3-eggert
SP  - 1
EP  - 16
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Jockwer, R.
A1  - Kleiber, M.
A1  - Uibel, Thomas
ED  - Görlacher, Rainer
T1  - Criteria for Evaluating the Simplification of Design Rules for Dowel-type Fasteners
T2  - International Network on Timber Engineering Research, INTER : proceedings, meeting 51, 10 - 13 August 2016, Tallinn, Estonia
Y1  - 2018
SP  - 461
EP  - 466
PB  - Timber Scientific Publishing, KIT Holzbau und Baukonstruktionen
CY  - Karlsruhe
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Chajan, Eduard
A1  - Schulte-Tigges, Joschua
A1  - Reke, Michael
A1  - Ferrein, Alexander
A1  - Matheis, Dominik
A1  - Walter, Thomas
T1  - GPU based model-predictive path control for self-driving vehicles
T2  - IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
N2  - One central challenge for self-driving cars is a proper path-planning. Once a trajectory has been found, the next challenge is to accurately and safely follow the precalculated path. The model-predictive controller (MPC) is a common approach for the lateral control of autonomous vehicles. The MPC uses a vehicle dynamics model to predict the future states of the vehicle for a given prediction horizon. However, in order to achieve real-time path control, the computational load is usually large, which leads to short prediction horizons. To deal with the computational load, the control algorithm can be parallelized on the graphics processing unit (GPU). In contrast to the widely used stochastic methods, in this paper we propose a deterministic approach based on grid search. Our approach focuses on systematically discovering the search area with different levels of granularity. To achieve this, we split the optimization algorithm into multiple iterations. The best sequence of each iteration is then used as an initial solution to the next iteration. The granularity increases, resulting in smooth and predictable steering angle sequences. We present a novel GPU-based algorithm and show its accuracy and realtime abilities with a number of real-world experiments.
KW  - Heuristic algorithms
KW  - Computational modeling
KW  - model-predictive control
KW  - GPU
KW  - autonomous driving
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-1-7281-5394-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/IV48863.2021.9575619
N1  - 2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV)
July 11-17, 2021. Nagoya, Japan
SP  - 1243
EP  - 1248
PB  - IEEE
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Lorenz, Imke-Sophie
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Neufeld, Janis S.
ED  - Buscher, Udo
ED  - Lasch, Rainer
ED  - Möst, Dominik
ED  - Schönberger, Jörn
T1  - Assessing and Optimizing the Resilience of Water Distribution Systems Using Graph-Theoretical Metrics
T2  - Operations Research Proceedings 2019
N2  - Water distribution systems are an essential supply infrastructure for cities. Given that climatic and demographic influences will pose further challenges for these infrastructures in the future, the resilience of water supply systems, i.e. their ability to withstand and recover from disruptions, has recently become a subject of research. To assess the resilience of a WDS, different graph-theoretical approaches exist. Next to general metrics characterizing the network topology, also hydraulic and technical restrictions have to be taken into account. In this work, the resilience of an exemplary water distribution network of a major German city is assessed, and a Mixed-Integer Program is presented which allows to assess the impact of capacity adaptations on its resilience.
KW  - OR 2019
KW  - business analytics
KW  - decision analytics
KW  - digital economy
KW  - mathematical optimization
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-48439-2
SN  - 978-3-030-48438-5
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_63
N1  - Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Dresden, Germany, September 4-6, 2019
SP  - 521
EP  - 527
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Simon, Nicolai
A1  - Altherr, Lena
T1  - Comparison of Piecewise Linearization Techniques to Model Electric Motor Efficiency Maps: A Computational Study
T2  - Operations Research Proceedings 2019
N2  - To maximize the travel distances of battery electric vehicles such as cars or buses for a given amount of stored energy, their powertrains are optimized energetically. One key part within optimization models for electric powertrains is the efficiency map of the electric motor. The underlying function is usually highly nonlinear and nonconvex and leads to major challenges within a global optimization process. To enable faster solution times, one possibility is the usage of piecewise linearization techniques to approximate the nonlinear efficiency map with linear constraints. Therefore, we evaluate the influence of different piecewise linearization modeling techniques on the overall solution process and compare the solution time and accuracy for methods with and without explicitly used binary variables.
KW  - MINLP
KW  - Powertrain
KW  - Piecewise linearization
KW  - Efficiency optimization
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-48439-2
SN  - 978-3-030-48438-5
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_55
N1  - Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Dresden, Germany, September 4-6, 2019
SP  - 457
EP  - 463
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Müller, Tim M.
A1  - Schmitt, Andreas
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Meck, Tobias
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
A1  - Pfetsch, Marc E.
T1  - Validation of an optimized resilient water supply system
T2  - Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering
N2  - Component failures within water supply systems can lead to significant performance losses. One way to address these losses is the explicit anticipation of failures within the design process. We consider a water supply system for high-rise buildings, where pump failures are the most likely failure scenarios. We explicitly consider these failures within an early design stage which leads to a more resilient system, i.e., a system which is able to operate under a predefined number of arbitrary pump failures. We use a mathematical optimization approach to compute such a resilient design. This is based on a multi-stage model for topology optimization, which can be described by a system of nonlinear inequalities and integrality constraints. Such a model has to be both computationally tractable and to represent the real-world system accurately. We therefore validate the algorithmic solutions using experiments on a scaled test rig for high-rise buildings. The test rig allows for an arbitrary connection of pumps to reproduce scaled versions of booster station designs for high-rise buildings. We experimentally verify the applicability of the presented optimization model and that the proposed resilience properties are also fulfilled in real systems.
KW  - Optimization
KW  - Mixed-integer nonlinear programming
KW  - Water distribution system
KW  - Resilience
KW  - Validation
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-77255-0
SN  - 978-3-030-77256-7
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-77256-7_7
N1  - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Uncertainty in Mechanical Engineering (ICUME 2021), June 7–8, 2021
SP  - 70
EP  - 80
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Müller, Tim M.
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Ahola, Marja
A1  - Schabel, Samuel
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Rodrigues, H. C.
T1  - Multi-Criteria optimization of pressure screen systems in paper recycling – balancing quality, yield, energy consumption and system complexity
T2  - EngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization
N2  - The paper industry is the industry with the third highest energy consumption in the European Union. Using recycled paper instead of fresh fibers for papermaking is less energy consuming and saves resources. However, adhesive contaminants in recycled paper are particularly problematic since they reduce the quality of the resulting paper-product. To remove as many contaminants and at the same time obtain as many valuable fibres as possible, fine screening systems, consisting of multiple interconnected pressure screens, are used. Choosing the best configuration is a non-trivial task: The screens can be interconnected in several ways, and suitable screen designs as well as operational parameters have to be selected. Additionally, one has to face conflicting objectives. In this paper, we present an approach for the multi-criteria optimization of pressure screen systems based on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming. We specifically focus on a clear representation of the trade-off between different objectives.
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-3-319-97773-7
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97773-7_105
N1  - EngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization. 17-19 September 2018. Lisboa, Portugal
PB  - Springer International Publishing
CY  - Basel
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Ulmer, Jessica
A1  - Braun, Sebastian
A1  - Cheng, Chi-Tsun
A1  - Dowey, Steve
A1  - Wollert, Jörg
T1  - Adapting Augmented Reality Systems to the users’ needs using Gamification and error solving methods
T2  - Procedia CIRP
N2  - Animations of virtual items in AR support systems are typically predefined and lack interactions with dynamic physical environments. AR applications rarely consider users’ preferences and do not provide customized spontaneous support under unknown situations. This research focuses on developing adaptive, error-tolerant AR systems based on directed acyclic graphs and error resolving strategies. Using this approach, users will have more freedom of choice during AR supported work, which leads to more efficient workflows. Error correction methods based on CAD models and predefined process data create individual support possibilities. The framework is implemented in the Industry 4.0 model factory at FH Aachen.
KW  - Augmented Reality
KW  - Adaptive Systems
KW  - Gamification
KW  - Error Recovery
Y1  - 2021
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.procir.2021.11.024
SN  - 2212-8271
N1  - Part of special issue: 54th CIRP CMS 2021 - Towards Digitalized Manufacturing 4.0
VL  - 104
SP  - 140
EP  - 145
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hüning, Felix
T1  - Sustainable changes beyond covid-19 for a second semester physics course for electrical engineering students
T2  - Blended Learning in Engineering Education: challenging, enlightening – and lasting?
N2  - The course Physics for Electrical Engineering is part of the curriculum of the
bachelor program Electrical Engineering at University of Applied Science Aachen.
Before covid-19 the course was conducted in a rather traditional way with all parts
(lecture, exercise and lab) face-to-face. This teaching approach changed
fundamentally within a week when the covid-19 limitations forced all courses to
distance learning. All parts of the course were transformed to pure distance learning
including synchronous and asynchronous parts for the lecture, live online-sessions
for the exercises and self-paced labs at home. Using these methods, the course was
able to impart the required knowledge and competencies. Taking the teacher’s
observations of the student’s learning behaviour and engagement, the formal and
informal feedback of the students and the results of the exams into account, the new
methods are evaluated with respect to effectiveness, sustainability and suitability for
competence transfer. Based on this analysis strong and weak points of the concept
and countermeasures to solve the weak points were identified. The analysis further
leads to a sustainable teaching approach combining synchronous and asynchronous
parts with self-paced learning times that can be used in a very flexible manner for
different learning scenarios, pure online, hybrid (mixture of online and presence
times) and pure presence teaching.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-2-87352-023-6
N1  - SEFI 49th Annual Conference
Technische Universität Berlin (online),
13 – 16 September 2021
SP  - 1405
EP  - 1409
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Breuer, Tim
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Development, validation and assessment of a resilient pumping system
T2  - Proceedings of the Joint International Resilience Conference, JIRC2020
N2  - The development of resilient technical systems is a challenging task, as the system should adapt automatically to unknown disturbances and component failures. To evaluate different approaches for deriving resilient technical system designs, we developed a modular test rig that is based on a pumping system. On the basis of this example
system, we present metrics to quantify resilience and an algorithmic approach to improve resilience. This approach enables the pumping system to automatically react on unknown disturbances and to reduce the impact of component failures. In this case, the system is able to automatically adapt its topology by activating additional valves. This enables the system to still reach a minimum performance, even in case of failures. Furthermore, timedependent disturbances are evaluated continuously, deviations from the original state are automatically detected and anticipated in the future. This allows to reduce the impact of future disturbances and leads to a more resilient
system behaviour.
KW  - water supply system
KW  - fault detection
KW  - anticipation strategy
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-90-365-5095-6
N1  - Proceedings of the Joint International Resilience Conference 2020.
Interconnected: Resilience Innovations for Sustainable Development Goals. 23 - 27 November, 2020
SP  - 97
EP  - 100
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Lorenz, Imke-Sophie B.
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Graph-theoretic resilience analysis of a water distribution system's topology
T2  - World Congress on Resilience, Reliability and Asset Management 2019
N2  - Water suppliers are faced with the great challenge of achieving high-quality and, at the same time, low-cost water supply. In practice, the focus is set on the most beneficial maintenance measures and/or capacity adaptations of existing water distribution systems (WDS). Since climatic and demographic influences will pose further challenges in the future, the resilience enhancement of WDS, i.e. the enhancement of their capability to withstand and recover from disturbances, has been in particular focus recently. To assess the resilience of WDS, metrics based on graph theory have been proposed. In this study, a promising approach is applied to assess the resilience of the WDS for a district in a major German City. The conducted analysis provides insight into the process of actively influencing the
resilience of WDS
KW  - Resilience Assessment
KW  - Graph Theory
KW  - Water Supply System
KW  - Case Study
Y1  - 2019
N1  - World Congress on Resilience, Reliability and Asset Management, 28-31 July 2019. Furama Riverfront Hotel, Singapore
SP  - 106
EP  - 109
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Meck, Marvin M.
A1  - Müller, Tim M.
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Improving an industrial cooling system using MINLP, considering capital and operating costs
T2  - Operations Research Proceedings 2019
N2  - The chemical industry is one of the most important industrial sectors in Germany in terms of manufacturing revenue. While thermodynamic boundary conditions often restrict the scope for reducing the energy consumption of core processes, secondary processes such as cooling offer scope for energy optimisation. In this contribution, we therefore model and optimise an existing cooling system. The technical boundary conditions of the model are provided by the operators, the German chemical company BASF SE. In order to systematically evaluate different degrees of freedom in topology and operation, we formulate and solve a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program (MINLP), and compare our optimisation results with the existing system.
KW  - Engineering optimisation
KW  - Mixed-integer programming
KW  - Industrial optimisation
KW  - Cooling system
KW  - Process engineering
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-48438-5 (Print)
SN  - 978-3-030-48439-2 (Online)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_61
N1  - Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Dresden, Germany, September 4-6, 2019.
SP  - 505
EP  - 512
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
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  - Müller, Tim M.
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Optimization of pumping systems for buildings: Experimental validation of different degrees of model detail on a modular test rig
T2  - Operations Research Proceedings 2019
N2  - Successful optimization requires an appropriate model of the system under consideration. When selecting a suitable level of detail, one has to consider solution quality as well as the computational and implementation effort. In this paper, we present a MINLP for a pumping system for the drinking water supply of high-rise buildings. We investigate the influence of the granularity of the underlying physical models on the solution quality. Therefore, we model the system with a varying level of detail regarding the friction losses, and conduct an experimental validation of our model on a modular test rig. Furthermore, we investigate the computational effort and show that it can be reduced by the integration of domain-specific knowledge.
KW  - Experimental validation
KW  - MINLP
KW  - Engineering optimization
KW  - Water supply system
KW  - Network design
Y1  - 2020
SN  - 978-3-030-48438-5
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48439-2_58
N1  - Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Dresden, Germany, September 4-6, 2019
SP  - 481
EP  - 488
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Altherr, Lena
T1  - Optimizing the design and control of decentralized water supply systems – a case-study of a hotel building
T2  - EngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization
N2  - To increase pressure to supply all floors of high buildings with water, booster stations, normally consisting of several parallel pumps in the basement, are used. In this work, we demonstrate the potential of a decentralized pump topology regarding energy savings in water supply systems of skyscrapers. We present an approach, based on Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Programming, that allows to choose an optimal network topology and optimal pumps from a predefined construction kit comprising different pump types. Using domain-specific scaling laws and Latin Hypercube Sampling, we generate different input sets of pump types and compare their impact on the efficiency and cost of the total system design. As a realistic application example, we consider a hotel building with 325 rooms, 12 floors and up to four pressure zones.
KW  - Engineering optimization
KW  - Energy efficiency
KW  - Water
KW  - Pump System
KW  - Latin Hypercube Sampling
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-97773-7
SN  - 978-3-319-97772-0
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97773-7_107
N1  - EngOpt 2018 Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Engineering Optimization. 17-19 September 2018. Lisboa, Portugal
SP  - 1241
EP  - 1252
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
T1  - Technical Operations Research (TOR) - Algorithms, not Engineers, Design Optimal Energy Efficient and Resilient Cooling Systems
T2  - FAN2018 - Proceedings of the International Conference on Fan Noise, Aerodynamics, Applications and Systems
N2  - The overall energy efficiency of ventilation systems can be improved by considering not only single components, but by considering as well the interplay between every part of the system. With the help of the method "TOR" ("Technical Operations Research"), which was developed at the Chair of Fluid Systems at TU Darmstadt, it is possible to improve the energy efficiency of the whole system by considering all possible design choices programmatically. We show the ability of this systematic design approach with a ventilation system for buildings as a use case example.
Based on a Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Program (MINLP) we model the ventilation system. We use binary variables to model the selection of different pipe diameters. Multiple fans are model with the help of scaling laws. The whole system is represented by a graph, where the edges represent the pipes and fans and the nodes represents the source of air for cooling and the sinks, that have to be cooled. At the beginning, the human designer chooses a construction kit of different suitable fans and pipes of different diameters and different load cases. These boundary conditions define a variety of different possible system topologies. It is not possible to consider all topologies by hand. With the help of state of the art solvers, on the other side, it is possible to solve this MINLP.
Next to this, we also consider the effects of malfunctions in different components. Therefore, we show a first approach to measure the resilience of the shown example use case. Further, we compare the conventional approach with designs that are more resilient. These more resilient designs are derived by extending the before mentioned model with further constraints, that consider explicitly the resilience of the overall system. We show that it is possible to design resilient systems with this method already in the early design stage and compare the energy efficiency and resilience of these different system designs.
Y1  - 2018
N1  - International Conference on Fan Noise, Aerodynamics, Applications and Systems 
18-20.04.2018
Darmstadt, Deutschland
SP  - 1
EP  - 12
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rausch, Lea
A1  - Friesen, John
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Kliewer, Natalia
ED  - Ehmke, Jan Fabian
ED  - Borndörfer, Ralf
T1  - Using mixed-integer programming for the optimal design of water supply networks for slums
T2  - Operations Research Proceedings 2017
N2  - The UN sets the goal to ensure access to water and sanitation for all people by 2030. To address this goal, we present a multidisciplinary approach for designing water supply networks for slums in large cities by applying mathematical optimization. The problem is modeled as a mixed-integer linear problem (MILP) aiming to find a network describing the optimal supply infrastructure. To illustrate the approach, we apply it on a small slum cluster in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-3-319-89919-0 (Print)
SN  - 978-3-319-89920-6 (Online)
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89920-6_68
N1  - International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR), Freie Universiät Berlin, Germany, September 6-8, 2017.
SP  - 509
EP  - 516
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Rausch, Lea
A1  - Leise, Philipp
A1  - Ederer, Thorsten
A1  - Altherr, Lena
A1  - Pelz, Peter F.
ED  - Papadrakakis, M.
ED  - Ppadopoulos, V.
ED  - Stefanou, G.
ED  - Plevris, V.
T1  - A comparison of MILP and MINLP solver performance on the example of a drinking water supply system design problem
T2  - ECCOMAS Congress 2016 VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering
N2  - Finding a good system topology with more than a handful of components is a
highly non-trivial task. The system needs to be able to fulfil all expected load cases, but at the
same time the components should interact in an energy-efficient way. An example for a system
design problem is the layout of the drinking water supply of a residential building. It may be
reasonable to choose a design of spatially distributed pumps which are connected by pipes in at
least two dimensions. This leads to a large variety of possible system topologies. To solve such
problems in a reasonable time frame, the nonlinear technical characteristics must be modelled
as simple as possible, while still achieving a sufficiently good representation of reality. The
aim of this paper is to compare the speed and reliability of a selection of leading mathematical
programming solvers on a set of varying model formulations. This gives us empirical evidence
on what combinations of model formulations and solver packages are the means of choice with the current state of the art.
KW  - Technical Operations Research
KW  - Mixed-Integer Nonlinear Optimisation
KW  - Solver Per- formance
KW  - Drinking Water Supply
KW  - System Design Problem
Y1  - 2016
SN  - 978-618-82844-0-1
N1  - ECCOMAS Congress 2016
VII European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering, 5–10 June 2016.Crete Island, Greece
SP  - 8509
EP  - 8527
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Hüning, Felix
A1  - Wache, Franz-Josef
A1  - Magiera, David
T1  - Redundant bus systems using dual-mode radio
T2  - Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology
N2  - Communication via serial bus systems, like CAN, plays an important role for all kinds of embedded electronic and mechatronic systems. To cope up with the requirements for functional safety of safety-critical applications, there is a need to enhance the safety features of the communication systems. One measure to achieve a more robust communication is to add redundant data transmission path to the applications. In general, the communication of real-time embedded systems like automotive applications is tethered, and the redundant data transmission lines are also tethered, increasing the size of the wiring harness and the weight of the system. A radio link is preferred as a redundant transmission line as it uses a complementary transmission medium compared to the wired solution and in addition reduces wiring harness size and weight. Standard wireless links like Wi-Fi or Bluetooth cannot meet the requirements for real-time capability with regard to bus communication. Using the new dual-mode radio enables a redundant transmission line meeting all requirements with regard to real-time capability, robustness and transparency for the data bus. In addition, it provides a complementary transmission medium with regard to commonly used tethered links. A CAN bus system is used to demonstrate the redundant data transfer via tethered and wireless CAN.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-981-16-2379-0
SN  - 978-981-16-2380-6
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-2380-6_73
N1  - Proceedings of Sixth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology, ICICT 2021, Brunel University, London, February 25–26, 2021
SP  - 835
EP  - 842
PB  - Springer
CY  - Singapore
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Klöser, Lars
A1  - Kohl, Philipp
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Multi-attribute relation extraction (MARE): simplifying the application of relation extraction
T2  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications - DeLTA
N2  - Natural language understanding’s relation extraction makes innovative and encouraging novel business concepts possible and facilitates new digitilized decision-making processes. Current approaches allow the extraction of relations with a fixed number of entities as attributes. Extracting relations with an arbitrary amount of attributes requires complex systems and costly relation-trigger annotations to assist these systems. We introduce multi-attribute relation extraction (MARE) as an assumption-less problem formulation with two approaches, facilitating an explicit mapping from business use cases to the data annotations. Avoiding elaborated annotation constraints simplifies the application of relation extraction approaches. The evaluation compares our models to current state-of-the-art event extraction and binary relation extraction methods. Our approaches show improvement compared to these on the extraction of general multi-attribute relations.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-989-758-526-5
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.5220/0010559201480156
N1  - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Deep Learning Theory and Applications, DeLTA2021, July 7-9, 2021
SP  - 148
EP  - 156
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  - Kohl, Philipp
A1  - Schmidts, Oliver
A1  - Klöser, Lars
A1  - Werth, Henri
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - STAMP 4 NLP – an agile framework for rapid quality-driven NLP applications development
T2  - Quality of Information and Communications Technology. QUATIC 2021
N2  - The progress in natural language processing (NLP) research over the last years, offers novel business opportunities for companies, as automated user interaction or improved data analysis. Building sophisticated NLP applications requires dealing with modern machine learning (ML) technologies, which impedes enterprises from establishing successful NLP projects. Our experience in applied NLP research projects shows that the continuous integration of research prototypes in production-like environments with quality assurance builds trust in the software and shows convenience and usefulness regarding the business goal. We introduce STAMP 4 NLP as an iterative and incremental process model for developing NLP applications. With STAMP 4 NLP, we merge software engineering principles with best practices from data science. Instantiating our process model allows efficiently creating prototypes by utilizing templates, conventions, and implementations, enabling developers and data scientists to focus on the business goals. Due to our iterative-incremental approach, businesses can deploy an enhanced version of the prototype to their software environment after every iteration, maximizing potential business value and trust early and avoiding the cost of successful yet never deployed experiments.
KW  - Machine learning
KW  - Process model
KW  - Natural language processing
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-85346-4
SN  - 978-3-030-85347-1
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85347-1_12
N1  - International Conference on the Quality of Information and Communications Technology, QUATIC 2021, 8-11 September, Algarve, Portugal
SP  - 156
EP  - 166
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
ER  - 
TY  - CHAP
A1  - Schmidts, Oliver
A1  - Kraft, Bodo
A1  - Winkens, Marvin
A1  - Zündorf, Albert
T1  - Catalog integration of heterogeneous and volatile product data
T2  - DATA 2020: Data Management Technologies and Applications
N2  - The integration of frequently changing, volatile product data from different manufacturers into a single catalog is a significant challenge for small and medium-sized e-commerce companies. They rely on timely integrating product data to present them aggregated in an online shop without knowing format specifications, concept understanding of manufacturers, and data quality. Furthermore, format, concepts, and data quality may change at any time. Consequently, integrating product catalogs into a single standardized catalog is often a laborious manual task. Current strategies to streamline or automate catalog integration use techniques based on machine learning, word vectorization, or semantic similarity. However, most approaches struggle with low-quality or real-world data. We propose Attribute Label Ranking (ALR) as a recommendation engine to simplify the integration process of previously unknown, proprietary tabular format into a standardized catalog for practitioners. We evaluate ALR by focusing on the impact of different neural network architectures, language features, and semantic similarity. Additionally, we consider metrics for industrial application and present the impact of ALR in production and its limitations.
Y1  - 2021
SN  - 978-3-030-83013-7
U6  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83014-4_7
N1  - International Conference on Data Management Technologies and Applications, DATA 2020, 7-9 July
SP  - 134
EP  - 153
PB  - Springer
CY  - Cham
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  - 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/
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EP  - 18
ER  -