TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Why Some Ideas Refuse to Diffuse BT - 8th Annual Conference Front End of Innovation (FEI EMEA), Munich N2 - There is a popular saying in German: Innovation is when the market shouts “Hooray!”. Thus, a new idea is only as good as its diffusion into the addressed social system. The question is what affects the adoption or rejection of a new idea. Carsten Deckert shares his experience on the main innovation resistances and on ways to increase the acceptance of new ideas. He talks about which perceived attributes of innovations are conducive to the rate of adoption of an innovation and which are characteristics of failed innovations. Y1 - 2014 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18193 PB - KNect 365 CY - München ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Scherer, Anke A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - The Dao of Innovation: What European innovators can learn from philosophical Daoism N2 - The article argues that European innovators can profit from some of the concepts of philosophical Daoism, namely "wu-wei" (non-interference) and "ziran" ("go with the flow"). Whereas most Western approaches to innovation emphasize the different stages of the creative process as well as tools to enhance creativity, the Daoist world view allows for the mind to just wander and thus spontaneously discover the solution to a problem in a rather detached state of mind. Creative minds need space for personal development and the permission to wander around without being exposed to control and instant judgement on the results. Training individuals in the tools and techniques of problem solving and creativity as the common approach in innovation management is certainly necessary, but in the end it is the intellectual accomplishment of a creative mind that produces innovation. Managers can allow this to happen when they get the balance of control and non-interference right. Y1 - 2013 PB - EAMSA - Euro-Asia Management Studies Association CY - Duisburg ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Monti, Alessandro A1 - Raueiser, Markus ED - Albers, Sascha T1 - A Brazilian Love Affair - Did ThyssenKrupp's Internationalization Strategy Fail? T2 - Strategy case book Y1 - 2015 SN - 978-3-942720-84-7 SP - 123 EP - 137 PB - Kölner Wissenschaftsverlag CY - Köln ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Tensions in Creativity - Using the Value Square to Model Individual Creativity T2 - CBD Working Paper Series N2 - The definition of individual creativity is based on a tension between novelty on the one side and usefulness respectively appropriateness on the other side. The paper explores how this tension pervades the stage and componential theories of creativity. To achieve this, the so called value square (“Wertequadrat”) developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998)is used which balances a value with its countervalue to analyze creativity. The author identifies tensions of action and inaction, expertise and mindfulness, precision and ambiguity as well as immersion and detachment permeating the creative process and the components of creativity. As a conclusion a morphological box for creativity is presented which allows one to show which combination of characteristics of the tensions support different stages of creativity. Furthermore implications for development and time management are discussed. Y1 - 2015 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18209 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282875608_Tensions_in_Creativity_-_Using_the_Value_Square_to_Model_Individual_Creativity VL - 2 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Scherer, Anke A1 - Nyssen Guillén, Viola T1 - Cultural Impacts on National Innovativeness - Links between the GLOBE Cultural Dimensions and the GII and IUS Innovation Indexes T2 - CBD Working Paper Series N2 - The working paper at hand assumes that differences of innovativeness of different countries can be explained to a certain extent by cultural differences. Thus, the paper deals with the research question of which cultural dimensions have an influence on national innovativeness. Previous research mainly uses the Hofstede-dimensions to describe cultural differences and often focuses on single parameters to describe national innovativeness (e.g. number of patents per capita). This paper, instead, uses the dimensions of the GLOBE-study which builds on the findings of Hofstede but is more up-to-date and comprehensive and uses two innovation indexes – the Global Innovation Index (GII) and the Innovation Union Scoreboard (IUS) – to describe national innovativeness. The authors use correlation analysis to find relationships between the GLOBEdimensions and the innovation indexes. They find positive correlations of innovativeness (both indexes) to Future Orientation (practice scale), Gender Egalitarianism (value scale), Human Orientation (value scale) and Uncertainty Avoidance (practice scale) as well as negative correlations to In-Group Collectivism (practice scale), Future Orientation (value scale) and Uncertainty Avoidance (value scale). Some of the findings are contrary to existing hypotheses, e.g. only a weak negative correlation of Power Distance to one of the indexes. Furthermore the findings show significant differences between practice scales and value scales, especially concerning Future Orientation and Uncertainty Avoidance which deserve further examination. Overall it can be concluded that culture has an impact on national innovativeness. The different cultural dimensions of the GLOBE-study show a multi-faceted interrelationship between culture and innovation. To come to a concise answer for the question which dimensions affect national innovativeness in which way additional research will be necessary. KW - A_FBMV Y1 - 2015 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/282868084_Cultural_Impacts_on_National_Innovativeness_-_Links_between_the_GLOBE_Cultural_Dimensions_and_the_GII_and_IUS_Innovation_Indexes/download VL - 1 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Buß, Mareike A1 - Hasenclever, Stephanie A1 - Mäckel, Frederic A1 - Nyssen Guillén, Viola A1 - Silverio, Isabell A1 - Wegner, Eileen T1 - Beer Picking Game - Entwicklung und Realisierung eines Planspiels zur Simulation eines Kommissionierbereichs T2 - CBS Working Paper Series Y1 - 2016 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305202910_Beer_Picking_Game_-_Entwicklung_und_Realisierung_eines_Planspiels_zur_Simulation_eines_Kommissionierbereichs VL - 2 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Tensions in Creative Products - Using the Value Square to Model Functional Creativity T2 - CBS Working Paper Series Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18078 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/305900610_Tensions_in_Creative_Products_-_Using_the_Value_Square_to_Model_Functional_Creativity VL - 4 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Tensions in Corporate Creativity T2 - Book of Papers N2 - The standard definition of creativity is based on a tension between originality and effectiveness. Borrowing from the wave-particle duality in physics one could say that there is an originality-effectiveness duality at work for creativity. The paper explores how this tension pervades Amabile's (1997) componential theory of organizational creativity with the components organizational motivation, management practices (including work assignment and work control) and resources. As a method the so called value square (" Wertequadrat ") developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998) is used which balances a value with its countervalue. The author identifies a tension of corporate tradition and corporate change for organizational motivation, a tension of skills and challenges for work assignment, a tension of management by control and management by loss of control for work control as well as a tension of organizational efficiency and organizational slack for resources. Additionally different implications of these tensions for the resistance of a company to creativity, for an organizational climate conducive to creativity as well as for resource allocation in creative endeavours are discussed. KW - Components of Creativity KW - Corporate Creativity KW - Organizational Creativity Y1 - 2016 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-18065 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/313010955_TENSIONS_IN_CORPORATE_CREATIVITY SP - 79 EP - 86 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Scherer, Anke T1 - The Dao of Innovation: What European Innovators Can Learn from Philosophical Daoism JF - Kindai Management Review N2 - A central question for managers in charge of innovation is to what extent creativity and inno-vation can be controlled and supervised, or whether they just have to be set free and allowed to take shape. In assessing this dilemma the authors conclude that there is a contradiction of action versus inaction on the personal level as well as a contradiction of control versus loss of control on the organizational level. What European innovators can learn from philosophical Daoism is an attitude that allows a process to just develop “naturally” and refrains from prem-ature interference with the intention to permanently be in control. In business structures that judge everything according to its usefulness, i.e. profitability for the company, a look at the laid-back attitude of Daoism where usefulness and uselessness are relative qualities might relief the pressure on people to perform in a premeditated way. Innovation can be supported, but creativity cannot be forced. It can only be allowed to happen when control, interference, and action are balanced out with non-interference, and go-with-the-flow. This attitude in not an excuse for stressed-out managers to neglect their duty, but a time honoured worldview of one of the oldest civilizations in the world that can give them the sovereignty to “get out of the way” and let innovation happen. Y1 - 2017 VL - 5 IS - 4 SP - 105 EP - 118 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - On the Originality-Effectiveness Duality of Creativity: Tensions Concerning the Components of Creativity JF - Business Creativity and the Creative Economy N2 - The standard definition of individual creativity is based on a tension between originality on the one side and effectiveness (usefulness and appropriateness) on the other side. In this article this tension is called the originality-effectiveness duality of creativity. The article explores how this duality pervades the componential theories of creativity. To analyze the components of creativity with regard to their tensions, the so called value square (“Wertequadrat”) developed by Helwig (1967) and Schulz von Thun (1998) is used. The value square explains each component as a dynamic equilibrium and shows how a positive value is balanced with its positive countervalue. Tensions of mindfulness, precision and ambiguity, as well as immersion and detachment are identified permeating the components of creativity. This article explores the implications these tensions have for creativity research and for businesses in a creative economy. Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.18536/bcce.2016.10.2.1.07 VL - 2 IS - 1 SP - 70 EP - 82 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Ecological sustainability of material resources – Why material efficiency just isn’t enough JF - uwf UmweltWirtschaftsForum Y1 - 2016 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-016-0419-2 VL - 24 IS - 4 SP - 325 EP - 335 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Tensions in Creative Products: Using the Value Square to Model Functional Creativity JF - International Journal of Creativity & Problem Solving Y1 - 2017 VL - 26 SP - 71 EP - 93 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Creative Heuristics: A Framework for Systematic Creative Problem Solving T2 - CBS Working Paper Series Y1 - 2017 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-17982 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318700662_Creative_Heuristics_A_Framework_for_Systematic_Creative_Problem_Solving VL - 1 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Creative Heuristics in Engineering Education T2 - 46th SEFI Annual Conference in Copenhagen 17-21 September 2018 "Creativity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship for Engineering Education Excellence" KW - Creativity KW - Heuristics KW - Invention Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/327801276_Creative_Heuristics_in_Engineering_Education/download CY - Copenhagen ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Rehberg, David A1 - Rütten, Pia T1 - Beer Inventory Game: Entwicklung und Realisierung eines Planspiels zur Simulation selektiver Lagerhaltungsstrategien im Distributionsnetzwerk T2 - CBS Working Paper Series Y1 - 2017 U6 - https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.31366.88641 VL - 3 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Deckert, Carsten ED - Lu, Hualiang ED - Schmidpeter, René ED - Capaldi, Nicholas ED - Zu, Liangrong T1 - Sustainable Logistics: A Framework for Green Logistics and City Logistics T2 - Building New Bridges Between Business and Society Y1 - 2018 SN - 978-3-319-63560-6 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-63561-3_4 SP - 53 EP - 70 PB - Springer International Publishing CY - Cham ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Nawrat, Nicole A1 - Scherer, Anke T1 - Cultural Product Design Matrix T2 - CBS Working Paper Series Y1 - 2018 UR - https://www.researchgate.net/publication/326041216_Cultural_Product_Design_Matrix SN - 2195-6618 VL - 2 PB - Cologne Business School CY - Köln ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Görs, Nadine T1 - Transport carbon footprint in the german courier, express and parcel industry (CEP industry) JF - Sustainability Management Forum | NachhaltigkeitsManagementForum Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/s00550-018-0471-1 VL - 27 IS - 1 SP - 23 EP - 30 PB - Springer ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Kampa, Miriam A1 - Finke, Johannes A1 - Stalder, Tobias A1 - Bucher, Leandra A1 - Klapperich, Holger A1 - Mertl, Fabian A1 - Zimmer, Christian A1 - Geiger, Christian A1 - Hassenzahl, Marc A1 - Klucken, Tim T1 - Facilitating relaxation and stress reduction in healthy participants through a virtual reality intervention: study protocol for a non-inferiority randomized controlled trial JF - Trials KW - MIREVI Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-40118 SN - 1745-6215 N1 - Open Access funding enabled and organized by Projekt DEAL. This work is funded by the Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF, Funding number: 16SV8068). The funding source was not involved in the study design; the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report; or the decision to submit the article for publication. (see SPIRIT item 4). VL - 23 PB - BMC ER - TY - INPR A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - QI2 -- an Interactive Tool for Data Quality Assurance N2 - The importance of high data quality is increasing with the growing impact and distribution of ML systems and big data. Also the planned AI Act from the European commission defines challenging legal requirements for data quality especially for the market introduction of safety relevant ML systems. In this paper we introduce a novel approach that supports the data quality assurance process of multiple data quality aspects. This approach enables the verification of quantitative data quality requirements. The concept and benefits are introduced and explained on small example data sets. How the method is applied is demonstrated on the well known MNIST data set based an handwritten digits. KW - Data Structures and Algorithms KW - Machine Learning KW - Computers and Society KW - Artificial Intelligence Y1 - 2023 CY - arXiv ER - TY - INPR A1 - Sieberichs, Christian A1 - Geerkens, Simon A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Waschulzik, Thomas T1 - ECS -- an Interactive Tool for Data Quality Assurance N2 - With the increasing capabilities of machine learning systems and their potential use in safety-critical systems, ensuring high-quality data is becoming increasingly important. In this paper we present a novel approach for the assurance of data quality. For this purpose, the mathematical basics are first discussed and the approach is presented using multiple examples. This results in the detection of data points with potentially harmful properties for the use in safety-critical systems. KW - Artificial Intelligence KW - Machine Learning KW - PrePrint KW - Systems and Control Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2307.04368 PB - arXiv ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Molloy, Dara A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Deegan, Brian A1 - Mullins, Darragh A1 - Horgan, Jonathan A1 - Ward, Enda A1 - Jones, Edward A1 - Braun, Alexander A1 - Glavin, Martin T1 - Analysis of the Impact of Lens Blur on Safety-Critical Automotive Object Detection JF - IEEE Access N2 - Camera-based object detection is widely used in safety-critical applications such as advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and autonomous vehicle research. Road infrastructure has been designed for human vision, so computer vision, with RGB cameras, is a vital source of semantic information from the environment. Sensors, such as LIDAR and RADAR, are also often utilized for these applications; however, cameras provide a higher spatial resolution and color information. The spatial frequency response (SFR), or sharpness of a camera, utilized in object detection systems must be sufficient to allow a detection algorithm to localize objects in the environment over its lifetime reliably. This study explores the relationship between object detection performance and SFR. Six state-of-the-art object detection models are evaluated with varying levels of lens defocus. A novel raw image dataset is created and utilized, containing pedestrians and cars over a range of distances up to 100-m from the sensor. Object detection performance for each defocused dataset is analyzed over a range of distances to determine the minimum SFR necessary in each case. Results show that the relationship between object detection performance and lens blur is much more complex than previous studies have found due to lens field curvature, chromatic aberration, and astigmatisms. We have found that smaller objects are disproportionately impacted by lens blur, and different object detection models have differing levels of robustness to lens blur KW - DOAJ KW - Object detection KW - intelligent transportation system KW - autonomous vehicles KW - ADAS KW - lens blur Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-42999 SN - 2169-3536 VL - 12 SP - 3554 EP - 3569 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lorenzen, Finn A1 - Schönig, Felix A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Oliveira Brito, Marcel A1 - Neuberger, Heiko A1 - Sobolyev, Alexander T1 - Continual Adaptation of Compressor Maps During Operation on Measurement Data For Increased Performance of Model-Based Applications in Turbomachinery T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 26–30, 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, USA N2 - Higher control engineering concepts, including artificial intelligence and model-based control, are recently becoming more popular in complex industrial applications because they enable a significant increase in efficiency. E.g., a model-based approach can be used to enhance the control and monitoring of several coupled components of a larger turbomachinery train. This requires dynamic models of the components, including all machine characteristics, which may experience a shift in their behavior over the course of their lifetime. Such changes occur due to natural fouling, wear of sub-components or external effects induced by maintenance measures. To overcome this problem, we model machine-characteristic maps with artificial neural networks, which may be used as part of prediction models in a model predictive control unit. If an appropriate data set is available, this allows us to adapt the model to the current behavior of the machine without requiring in-depth knowledge about the underlying physics of this “concept drift”, as it is known in literature. However, the training of neural networks is usually connected with high computational effort while the task needs to be executed in real-time during operation. Furthermore, in real operating conditions, machine sensors can only provide labeled data from the current operating point of the machine, which can be stationary for long operation periods of up to several months. In general, this yields only an unrepresentative data subset of the machine-characteristics, which is not sufficient to retrain the whole model to a new state. To solve these problems, we firstly reduce the model adaptation to a convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved in real-time conditions. Secondly, we use a specialized data management system with which we can integrate historical data to supplement the unrepresentative data subset. In this paper we show the application of the outlined method on a compressor map and discuss the advantages and requirements of the method in the context of modeling applications for industrial turbomachinery. KW - compressors KW - Intelligent control KW - Neural networks KW - Modeling Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-0-7918-8697-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2023-103458 VL - Volume 4 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - ASME CY - Boston ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Lanuschny, David A1 - Lorenzen, Finn A1 - Oliveira Brito, Marcel A1 - Schönig, Felix T1 - Continual learning for neural regression networks to cope with concept drift in industrial processes using convex optimisation JF - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence N2 - Process models in industrial applications, e.g. predictive maintenance or automation, are subject to both divergence from the underlying system due to their time-variant nature and to high complexity resulting from a wide operational range being covered. Hence, regression models require high accuracy for the present system state and at the same time need to be valid across the whole system operating space. While accuracy for the current system state can be gained by updating the model on the current data, the overall validity must often be retrieved from historical or design data. We propose a method to find an appropriate compromise for these two demands. A pre-trained artificial neural network (ANN) is continually updated on the current sensor data stream using convex optimisation. Thus, a unique and optimal solution is generated in each update step, while robust regression accuracy on the domain that is not covered by the arriving data subset is maintained. This is achieved by introducing a data management system to provide some historical data, constraining the optimisation problem and manipulating the architecture of the ANN. Models updated with this method show reasonable stability but display plastic behaviour at the current operating point. KW - Continual learning KW - Concept drift KW - Catastrophic forgetting KW - Convex optimization Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.105927 SN - 1873-6769 VL - 120 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schramm, Alexander A1 - Kruger, Karl A1 - Niemann, Jörg A1 - Grote, Wolfgang ED - Dimitrov, Dimiter ED - Hagedorn-Hansen, Devon ED - Leipzig, Karl von T1 - Possibilities, Limitations and Considerations for Eye Tracking in Industrial Environments: Experience from a Case Study T2 - International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing (COMA 19) proceedings : 30 January 2019-1 February 2019, Stellenbosch, South Africa N2 - Eye tracking is a measurement technique for determining the orientation and viewing direction of an individual’s eyes. It allows for an evaluation of the individual’s gaze and other related information.There is a wide variety of application areas for eye tracking, however the usage in engineeringindustry is still limited. This paper presents a case study for the use of eye tracking in a testingstation for electrical circuit breakers. The case study aims to evaluate the measurement and analysispossible with the Tobii wearable eye tracking system. From the case study, possibilities, limitationsand considerations for eye tracking in industrial settings are identified and discussed. The paperconcludes that while eye tracking can be used to effectively capture and visualize insightfulinformation, it faces major challenges related to subjectivity in analysis and labour intensiveness. KW - Eye Tracking Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0-7972-1779-9 SP - 390 EP - 396 PB - Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University CY - Stellenbosch ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jost, Michael A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Möllenbruck, Florian A1 - Mönnigmann, Martin T1 - Plant-wide control of a parabolic trough power plant with thermal energy storage JF - IFAC Proceedings Volumes N2 - We present a control scheme for a parabolic trough power plant that is equipped with a molten salt thermal energy storage system. We show that the multivariable control problem for the solar field can be decoupled by controlling the three way valve that splits the heat transfer fluid between the storage system and the steam generator. The steam generation cycle is regulated with inlet pressure control. The subsystems of the plant are modeled based on first principles, where we focus on the steam generation cycle. A multi-group extraction turbine with pre- and reheater is considered, which is suitable for solar power plants. We demonstrate the benefits of the proposed control scheme with a day-to-day simulation. KW - Control of power plants KW - Solar power plants KW - Thermal energy storage KW - Decoupling control Y1 - 2014 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3182/20140824-6-ZA-1003.00879 SN - 2589-3653 VL - 47 IS - 3 SP - 419 EP - 425 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Kastsian, Darya A1 - Mönnigmann, Martin T1 - Guaranteed stability in optimal power generation dispatching under uncertainty JF - IEEE Transactions on Power Systems N2 - Stability and cost optimality of power generation and supply systems must not be considered independently from one another. Simple examples show that optimizing cost without considering stability may result in modes of operation that, while economically optimal, are unstable. We demonstrate that stability, robustness, and optimality can be considered systematically and simultaneously by combining bifurcation theory and nonlinear optimization. Essentially, the proposed method enforces a backoff distance between the optimal point of operation and operational or stability boundaries in the space of the optimization variables, where bifurcation theory is used to describe nonlinear stability boundaries. KW - Normal vector method KW - Power dispatch KW - Robust optimization KW - Stability KW - Unit commitment Y1 - 2013 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/TPWRS.2012.2207970 SN - 1558-0679 VL - 28 IS - 2 SP - 1103 EP - 1112 PB - IEEE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mier, Dominik A1 - Möllenbruck, Florian A1 - Jost, Michael A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Mönnigmann, Martin T1 - Model predictive control of the steam cycle in a solar power plant JF - IFAC-PapersOnLine N2 - We derive a nonlinear model of the steam cycle of a solar power plant, estimate its unknown parameters with measured data, and design a linear model predictive controller based on the resulting model. Simulations show that the linear model predictive controller is able to regulate the electrical power of the nonlinear steam process of the plant to a given reference trajectory very well. Moreover, it results in very good disturbance rejection. KW - Power plant control KW - solar power KW - model predictive control Y1 - 2015 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.052 SN - 2405-8963 VL - 48 IS - 8 SP - 710 EP - 715 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Schönig, Felix T1 - Model Predictive Control of Solar Receivers T2 - 25th Cologne Solar Colloquium (DLR) Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.dlr.de/sf/PortalData/73/Resources/dokumente/soko/soko2022/DLR_Solar_Colloquium_2022_Model_Predictive_Control_GROTE-RAMM.pdf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Kastsian, Darya A1 - Mönnigmann, Martin T1 - Optimal power system unit commitment with guaranteed local stability T2 - Proceedings of the 2011 American Control Conference N2 - This article deals with the cost optimal commitment of power systems. System stability is often only considered after solving the commitment problem. We show by example that a cost optimization may result in a mode of operation that, while economically optimal, is unstable or has otherwise unacceptable dynamics. As a remedy, we propose to use the so-called normal vector method, which has been developed for the optimization of nonlinear dynamical systems with stability boundaries and uncertain parameters. We apply the method to a small sample power grid, where the optimization goal is to minimize the energy production costs for a given power consumption. KW - Optimization KW - Power system stability KW - Robustness Y1 - 2011 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2011.5991058 SN - 2378-5861 SP - 4526 EP - 4531 PB - IEEE ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Uffmann, Kai A1 - Abicht, Claus A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Quick, Harald H. A1 - Ladd, Mark E. T1 - Design of an MR-compatible piezoelectric actuator for MR elastography JF - Concepts in Magnetic Resonance Part A: Bridging Education and Research N2 - Magnetic Resonance (MR) elastography is a method for measuring tissue elasticity via phase images acquired with an MR scanner. The propagation of periodic mechanical waves through the tissue can be captured by means of a modified phase contrast sequence. These waves are generated with a mechanical oscillator (actuator) and coupled into the tissue through the skin. The actuator must be capable of generating a sinusoidal excitation with excellent phase and amplitude stability, while not disturbing the MR imaging process. In this work, an actuator based on a piezoelectric principle was developed. Based on the imaging evaluation of several material samples, the housing for the piezoelectric ceramic was constructed of aluminum. Smaller parts of the housing were manufactured from brass and titanium to fulfill the mechanical constraints. A lever was used to transfer the oscillation generated by the piezoelectric ceramic to the point of excitation. The lever amplifies the piezoelectric motion, allowing for a more compact design. Three different lever designs were characterized by an acceleration sensor both outside and inside the magnet. It was shown that the rigidity of the lever, as determined by its material and form, was decisive in determining the resonant frequency of the system and therefore the maximum practical frequency of operation. It was also shown that the motion of the oscillator is unaffected by the electromagnetic fields of the MR imager. The final design can be placed directly in the magnet bore within a few centimeters of the tissue volume to be imaged without generating significant artifacts. An amplitude range of 0–1 mm in the frequency range from 0 to over 300 Hz was achieved, sufficient for performing most MR elastography applications. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Concepts in Magnetic Resonance (Magn Reson Engineering) 15: 239–254, 2002 KW - Elasticity KW - Elastography KW - Actuator KW - MRI KW - Piezoelectric Y1 - 2002 UR - 1552-5023 U6 - https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1002/cmr.10045 VL - 15 IS - 4 SP - 239 EP - 254 PB - Wiley ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Beyer, Marc-André A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - Reinig, Gunter T1 - Adaptive exact linearization control of batch polymerization reactors using a Sigma-Point Kalman Filter JF - Journal of Process Control N2 - The Chylla–Haase polymerization reactor is widely accepted as a benchmark process for the evaluation of control strategies for batch reactors. In this contribution a control concept based on Exact I/O-Linearization is proposed and compared to a conventional cascade control structure. In order to adapt the exact linearization control strategy to various polymerization products and batch conditions, an advanced probabilistic inference algorithm (Sigma-Point Kalman Filter) is applied and investigated. Sigma-Point Kalman Filters have the major improvement of simplified implementation compared to local linearization methods (i.e. Extended Kalman Filter) because no analytical Jacobians are required. Stochastic simulation studies are introduced and show the effectiveness, accuracy and benefit of the control concept. Within several scenarios a satisfying robustness against structural errors in the underlying model equations for the nonlinear control law and the inference algorithm is demonstrated. Furthermore it is pointed out, that with little effort in reassembling the plant design, control performance can be improved significantly. KW - Batch process operation KW - Exact I/O-Linearization control KW - Online parameter estimation KW - Sigma-Point Kalman Filter Y1 - 2008 UR - 1873-2771 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2007.12.002 VL - 18 IS - 7-8 SP - 663 EP - 675 PB - Elsevier ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Galban, Craig A1 - Maderwald, Stefan A1 - Eggebrecht, Holger A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - de Greiff, A. A1 - Uffmann, K. A1 - Ladd, M. E. T1 - Monitoring the Effects of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Muscle Elasticity by MR Elastography JF - Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. N2 - Men afflicted with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) show signs of muscle dysfunction, such as increased muscle fatigue and acidosis during exercise. We hypothesize that muscle elasticity of the lower extremities differs between patients with COPD and age-related controls. The shear modulus of the soleus muscle was measured non-invasively using MR elastography (MRE) at 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of the subject’s maximum applied force. The results from this study showed statistical differences between the patients and controls, even though there were no statistical differences in the maximum applied force. Y1 - 2005 UR - https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/05MProceedings/PDFfiles/02015.pdf VL - 13 SP - 2015 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Galban, Craig A1 - Maderwald, Stefan A1 - Herrmann, Burkhard A1 - Brauck, K. A1 - Grote, Wolfgang A1 - de Greiff, A. A1 - Uffmann, K. A1 - Ladd, M. T1 - Measuring Skeletal Muscle Elasticity in Patients with Hypogonadism by MR Elastography JF - Proc. Intl. Soc. Mag. Reson. Med. N2 - Men afflicted with hypogonadism have reduced fat-free mass and in some cases a loss in muscle strength. We hypothesize that muscle elasticity of the lower extremities differs between patients with hypogonadism and healthy controls. The shear modulus of the soleus muscle was measured non-invasively using MR elastography (MRE) at 0%, 5%, 10%, 15%, and 20% of the subject’s maximum applied force. The results from this study showed statistical differences between the patients and controls, even though there were no statistical differences in applied force. Y1 - 2005 UR - https://cds.ismrm.org/protected/05MProceedings/PDFfiles/02016.pdf VL - 13 SP - 2016 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Schönig, Felix A1 - Schwarzbözl, Peter A1 - Drexelius, Maximilian A1 - Maldonado Quinto, Daniel A1 - Binder, Matthias T1 - Model Predictive Control and Service Life Monitoring for Molten Salt Solar Power Towers T2 - 29th SolarPACES Conference, Sydney N2 - A two-component system for control and monitoring of solar power towers with molten salt receivers is proposed. The control component consists of a model predictive control applica-tion (MPC) with a flexible objective function and on-line tunable weights, which runs on a In-dustrial PC and uses a reduced order dynamic model of the receiver’s thermal and flow dy-namics. The second component consists of a service-life monitoring unit, which estimates the service-life consumption of the absorber tubes depending on the current mode of operation based on thermal stresses and creep fatigue in the high temperature regime. The calculation of stresses is done based on a detailed finite element study, in which a digital twin of the re-ceiver was developed. By parallelising the model solver, the estimation of service-life con-sumption became capable of real-time operation. The system has been implemented at a test facility in Jülich, Germany, and awaits field experiments. In this paper, the modeling and archi-tecture are presented along simulation results, which were validated on a hardware-in-the-loop test bench. The MPC showed good disturbance rejection while respecting process variable constraints during the simulation studies. KW - Solar Power Tower KW - Molten Salt KW - Model Predictive Control KW - Dynamic Modelling KW - Service-life Monitoring Y1 - 2023 N1 - Eingereichter Beitrag ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Langmann, Reinhard A1 - Michael, Stiller T1 - The PLC as a Smart Service in Industry 4.0 Production System JF - Applied Sciences Y1 - 2019 U6 - https://doi.org/10.3390/app9183815 SN - 2076-3417 VL - 9 IS - 18 PB - MDPI ER - TY - PAT A1 - Lessmann, Stephanie A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Mueller, Dennis T1 - Method to determine distance of an object from an automated vehicle with a monocular device N2 - A method of determining the distance of an object from an automated vehicle based on images taken by a monocular image acquiring device. The object is recognized with an object-class by means of an image processing system. Respective position data are determined from the images using a pinhole camera model based on the object-class. Position data indicating in world coordinates the position of a reference point of the object with respect to the plane of the road is used with a scaling factor of the pinhole camera model estimated by means of a Bayes estimator using the position data as observations and under the assumption that the reference point of the object is located on the plane of the road with a predefined probability. The distance of the object from the automated vehicle is calculated from the estimated scaling factor using the pinhole camera model. Y1 - 2018 UR - https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=pdf&docid=US000009862318B2&xxxfull=1 ER - TY - PAT A1 - Kraemer, Marco A1 - Svetlichny, Vitaly A1 - Eilert, Eva T1 - Method for producing a fermentation product: Angemeldet durch DIREVO Industrial Biotechnology GmbH N2 - Prioritätsdaten: EP15191039A·2015-10-22; US201562245054P·2015-10-22 Bibliographische IPC: C12P7/06; C12P7/14; Y1 - 2017 UR - https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=pdf&docid=WO002017067698A1&xxxfull=1 ER - TY - PAT A1 - Eilert, Eva A1 - Suckow, Manfred A1 - Piontek, Michael T1 - A method for producing ectoine or a derivative thereof and a yeast cell for use as a host cell in such a method N2 - Klassifikationen IPC C12N15/81; C12N15/82; C12P17/12; C12P7/42; CPC C12N15/815 (EP); C12P17/12 (EP); Y1 - 2014 UR - https://depatisnet.dpma.de/DepatisNet/depatisnet?action=pdf&docid=EP000002743350A1&xxxfull=1 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Keszler, Julia A1 - Schmitz, Helen A1 - Mohya, Ahmed T1 - Forecasting Game: Teaching Prospective Engineers Quantitative Forecasting Techniques with a Simulation Game N2 - In order to determine demand as precisely as possible, many businesses use several forecasting methods. The aim of forecasting is to determine future demand based on data from the past. The use of a specific method is not always easy and depends on a number of factors. To help prospective engineers find the most suitable forecasting method for a specific problem, a forecasting game was developed and then evaluated. The paper describes the design and the evaluation of the forecasting game. In order to provide an overview of existing forecasting methods, the first part of the paper examined the mathematical fundamentals of eight different forecasting methods and outlined the requirements for their application. The second part of the paper describes the creation of a forecasting game in which prospective engineers can learn how to determine the appropriate forecasting method for specific scenarios. In total, five scenarios covering the three different demand patterns (linear/stationary, trend and seasonal) as well as the forecast quality methods were developed and can be played through. For each scenario, the player has to choose the most appropriate forecasting method for a specific problem based on a self-created task description. To make the game as realistic as possible, a fictional company with a background story was designed. The last part was about the evaluation of the forecasting game. For the evaluation, a student survey to gather the opinions of the students was conducted. The results of the student survey show an overall positive evaluation of the simulation game by the students. However, the test also showed that the game takes a certain amount of time. Since only 15 of the approximately 30 students who tested the game participated in the evaluation, the results are not significant. T3 - Working Papers in Industrial Engineering - 5 Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-39057 SN - 2627-8375 CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Benim, Ali Cemal T1 - Introducing the “Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation of Combustion and Fire” Section of the Journal Fire JF - fire Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-40257 SN - 2571-6255 VL - 5 IS - 6 PB - MDPI ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Osterheider, Angela A1 - Klapperich, Holger A1 - Stein, Elisabeth A1 - Weiler, Tim A1 - Endter, Cordula A1 - Huldtgren, Alina A1 - Müller, Claudia ED - Stolze, Markus ED - Loch, Frieder ED - Baldauf, Matthias ED - Alt, Florian ED - Schneegrass, Christina ED - Kosch, Thomas ED - Hirzle, Teresa ED - Sadeghian, Shadan ED - Draxler, Fiona ED - Bektas, Kenan ED - Lohan, Katrin ED - Knierim, Pascal T1 - Conceptualization of the Understanding of Participation and Co-Creation in Interdisciplinary Research Groups developing Digital Health Technology: An Exploratory Study BT - MuC '23: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2023, Rapperswil Switzerland, September 3 - 6, 2023 N2 - The healthcare sector's digital transformation necessitates the involvement of stakeholders through participation and co-creation processes. This study aims to investigate the understanding and implementation of participation and co-creation in the development of hybrid interaction technologies in healthcare. Eight interdisciplinary research projects were examined through semi-structured group interviews with 49 participants from academia, industry, and the application field. The interviews focused on participants' perspectives on project goals, user groups, access to the field, methods of participation and co-creation, and user motivation. The results highlight the diverse understandings of participation and co-creation, with some perceiving them as research-driven and others as already embedded in user- centered design. The projects emphasized user needs but often excluded stakeholders from collaborative decision-making. Challenges in achieving continuous involvement and co-decision were acknowledged. The findings underscore the need for reflexive practice and evaluation of participation and co-creation throughout the development process, as well as further research on participation across projects. By addressing these challenges and embracing participatory approaches, digital health applications can better address ethical concerns, build trust, and increase acceptance and adoption in the healthcare sector. Y1 - 2023 SN - 979-8-4007-0771-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3608572 SP - 534 EP - 538 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wohlmacher, Bernhard A1 - Klapperich, Holger A1 - Mertle, Fabian A1 - Huldtgren, Alina ED - Stolze, Markus ED - Loch, Frieder ED - Baldauf, Matthias ED - Alt, Florian ED - Schneegrass, Christina ED - Kosch, Thomas ED - Hirzle, Teresa ED - Sadeghian, Shadan ED - Draxler, Fiona ED - Bektas, Kenan ED - Lohan, Katrin ED - Knierim, Pascal T1 - Overcoming technology and communication barriers in intergenerational communication with a tangible interface T2 - MuC '23: Mensch und Computer 2023, Rapperswil Switzerland, September 3 - 6, 2023 N2 - Despite the higher uptake of digital media also in older age groups, there are still challenges for people of high ages and with cognitive or motoric problems, which prevent them from learning and using devices like smartphones or tablets. Tangible user interfaces provide an opportunity to connect these people to social media, thereby increasing their digital participation in society and reducing loneliness. In this paper, we discuss the challenges of intergenerational communication and research the opportunities affiliated with tangible technologies to overcome technology barriers for adults of high ages. We present a hybrid system for social media interactions between young smartphone users and their old relatives, who do not use mobile technologies. The system consists of a tangible user interface designed specifically for old adults that connects to a standard mobile messenger service. TAMI was designed in a user-centered process to fulfill the needs of older adults and tested in a longer-term field study with pairs of young and old relatives. Y1 - 2023 SN - 979-8-4007-0771-1 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1145/3603555.3608554 SP - 508 EP - 512 PB - Association for Computing Machinery CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Huldtgren, Alina A1 - Klapperich, Holger A1 - Endter, Cordula ED - Maciaszek, Leszek A. ED - Mulvenna, Maurice D. ED - Ziefle, Martina T1 - Configuring Participatory Design of ICT for Aging Well as Matters of Care T2 - Information and Communication Technologies for Ageing Well and e-Health KW - User-centered design KW - Participatory design KW - Subjective wellbeing KW - Ageing KW - eHealth KW - ALL Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-3-031-37496-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37496-8_9 N1 - This research is funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (NaDiA project, 01WJ2227A and CoCreHIT project 16SV8796). VL - Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1856 SP - 157 EP - 176 PB - Springer Nature CY - Cham ER - TY - CHAP A1 - von Berg, Markus A1 - Schwörer, Paul A1 - Prinz, Lukas A1 - Steffens, Jochen T1 - Analysis of physical and perceptual properties of room impulse responses: development of an online tool T2 - Forum Acusticuum 2023: 10th Convention of European Acoustics Association, Turin, Italy, 11th-15th September 2023 N2 - Over the past decades, research in room acoustics has established several derivative measures of an impulse response, some of which are incorporated in the ISO 3382 standards. These parameters intend to represent perceptual qualities, but were developed without a consistent modeling of room acoustical perception. More recent research proposed comprehensive inventories of room acoustic perception that are purely based on evaluations by human subjects, such as the Room Acoustical Quality Index (RAQI). In this work RA-QI scores acquired for 70 room impulse responses were predicted from room acoustical parameters. Except for Reverberance, the prediction of RAQI factors performed rather poor. In most cases, the sound source had a greater impact on RAQI scores. All analyses are published in an online tool, where users can upload omnidirectional and binaural impulse responses, and instantly obtain and visualize several physical descriptors, as well as predicted RAQI scores for three different sound sources. So far, acceptable prediction accuracy is achieved for Reverberance, Strength, Irregular Decay, Clarity and Intimacy. Larger data sets of evaluated impulse responses are required to improve the model performance and enable reliable predictions of room acoustical quality. Therefore, the administration of RAQI evaluations within the website is currently being developed. Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41955 PB - EAA ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Brummel, Mattis A1 - Müller, Patrick A1 - Braun, Alexander T1 - Spatial precision and recall indices to assess the performance of instance segmentation algorithms JF - Electronic Imaging KW - Space-Variance KW - Computer Vision KW - IoU KW - image perturbations Y1 - 2022 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41552 SN - 2470-1173 VL - 34 IS - 16 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - Society for Imaging Science and Technology ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Nunn, Christian A1 - Kummert, Anton A1 - Müller, Dennis A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Müller-Schneiders, Stefan T1 - An improved adaboost learning scheme using LDA features for object recognition T2 - Proceedings of the 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, St. Louis, MO, USA, October 3-7, 2009 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-1-4244-5521-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309856 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, N.J. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Gonner, Steffen A1 - Müller, Dennis A1 - Hold, Stephanie A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Kummert, Anton T1 - Vehicle recognition and TTC estimation at night based on spotlight pairing T2 - Proceedings of the 12th International IEEE Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems, St. Louis, MO, USA, October 3-7, 2009 Y1 - 2009 SN - 978-1-4244-5521-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/ITSC.2009.5309848 SP - 1 EP - 6 PB - IEEE CY - Piscataway, N.J. ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Zhao, Kun A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Nunn, Christian A1 - Muller, Dennis A1 - Muller-Schneiders, Stefan A1 - Pauli, Josef T1 - A novel multi-lane detection and tracking system T2 - 2012 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) Y1 - 2012 SN - 978-1-4673-2119-8 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1109/IVS.2012.6232168 SP - 1084 EP - 1089 PB - IEEE ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Meuter, Mirko A1 - Müller, Dennis A1 - Müller-Schneiders, Stefan A1 - Iurgel, Uri A1 - Park, Su-Birm A1 - Kummert, Anton ED - Bebis, George T1 - Pedestrian Tracking from a Moving Host Using Corner Points T2 - Advances in visual computing: Third international symposium ; proceedings Y1 - 2007 SN - 978-3-540-76855-5 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-76856-2_36 VL - Lecture notes in computer science, 4841 SP - 367 EP - 376 PB - Springer CY - Berlin; Heidelberg; New York ER -