@article{KennerThalerKuceraetal., author = {Kenner, Susanne and Thaler, Raphael and Kucera, Markus and Volbert, Klaus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Comparison of Smart Grid architectures for monitoring and analyzing power grid data via Modbus and REST}, series = {EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems}, volume = {2017}, journal = {EURASIP Journal on Embedded Systems}, doi = {10.1186/s13639-016-0045-7}, abstract = {Smart grid, smart metering, electromobility, and the regulation of the power network are keywords of the transition in energy politics. In the future, the power grid will be smart. Based on different works, this article presents a data collection, analyzing, and monitoring software for a reference smart grid. We discuss two possible architectures for collecting data from energy analyzers and analyze their performance with respect to real-time monitoring, load peak analysis, and automated regulation of the power grid. In the first architecture, we analyze the latency, needed bandwidth, and scalability for collecting data over the Modbus TCP/IP protocol and in the second one over a RESTful web service. The analysis results show that the solution with Modbus is more scalable as the one with RESTful web service. However, the performance and scalability of both architectures are sufficient for our reference smart grid and use cases.}, subject = {Intelligentes Stromnetz}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{KennerThalerKuceraetal., author = {Kenner, Susanne and Thaler, Raphael and Kucera, Markus and Volbert, Klaus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Smart Grid architecture for monitoring and analyzing, including modbus and REST performance comparison}, series = {International Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 12th, 29.-30. Oct. 2015, Ancona, Italy}, booktitle = {International Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 12th, 29.-30. Oct. 2015, Ancona, Italy}, isbn = {978-8-8875-4808-2}, pages = {96}, abstract = {Smart Grid, Smart Metering, Electromobility and the regulation of the power network are keywords of the transition in energy policies. In the future, the power grid will be smart. Due to this the OTH Regensburg does research in this area based on different projects. This paper presents a data collection, analyzing and monitoring software for a reference Smart Grid. We discuss two possible architectures for collecting data from energy analyzers. The performance is analyzed with respect to real-time monitoring, analyzing load peaks and automated regulation of the power grid.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BrunnerRoederKuceraetal., author = {Brunner, Stefan and R{\"o}der, J{\"u}rgen and Kucera, Markus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Automotive E/E-architecture enhancements by usage of ethernet TSN}, series = {13th Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 12-13 June 2017, Hamburg, Germany}, booktitle = {13th Workshop on Intelligent Solutions in Embedded Systems (WISES), 12-13 June 2017, Hamburg, Germany}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/WISES.2017.7986925}, pages = {9 -- 13}, abstract = {A huge upheaval emerges from the transition to autonomous vehicles in the domain of road vehicles, ongoing with a change in the vehicle architecture. Many sensors and Electronic Control Units are added to the current vehicle architecture and further safety requirements like reliability become even more necessary. In this paper we present a potential evolution of the Electrical/Electronic-Architecture, including a Zone Architecture, to enable future functionality. We reveal the impact on the communication network concerning these architectures and present a potential communication technology to facilitate such architectures.}, subject = {Kraftfahrzeug}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BrunnerKuceraWaas, author = {Brunner, Stefan and Kucera, Markus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Ontologies used in robotics}, series = {IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES), 2017, Vienna, Austria}, booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES), 2017, Vienna, Austria}, publisher = {IEEE}, doi = {10.1109/ICVES.2017.7991905}, abstract = {Full autonomy of road vehicles is a major goal of the automotive industry. To reach such high autonomy it is necessary to provide an accurate and comprehensible situation description for the environment and the vehicle itself. A consistent depiction is essential to facilitate data exchange and communication between internal modules, e.g. collision check and environment model, as well as communication with further information sources like traffic participants vehicle to vehicle (V2V) or the infrastructure, e.g. smart traffic lights, road signs or radio traffic service (V2I). One necessary tool to create such a model could be an ontology which represents the given information and its dependencies. Initially this work provides a summary of given approaches in the literature for use of ontologies in robotics in general. Therefore approaches are stated sorted by application and task. Further approaches with focus on autonomous robots and in particular on autonomous vehicles are listed and described. Finally we give an outlook for further research topics in the domain of ontologies.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ButtnerAlonsoVillaBohigasBoladerasetal., author = {Buttner, Johannes and Alonso-Villa, Cristina and Bohigas Boladeras, Pere and Kucera, Markus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {The Need for New Software Architectures for Next-generation Vehicle}, series = {Proceedings of the 5th International E-Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Management (ICETM 2021)}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 5th International E-Conference on Advances in Engineering, Technology and Management (ICETM 2021)}, isbn = {978-1-63248-192-4}, pages = {58 -- 61}, abstract = {Assuming that future connected cars with automated driving functions will require even more computing power and communication bandwidth, the current network infrastructure as well as the existing individualized control units are not a profitable option for such vehicles. In addition, changing user expectations demand flexible architectural patterns and upgradeability of software components without the need to visit the workshop. However, the current statically developed and configured ECU architecture does not offer any practicable possibilities for this. For these reasons, the research for a new dynamic and flexible architecture is necessary. This new type of system architecture is expected to meet future requirements in terms of space, cost, performance, energy efficiency and number of required computing units in the vehicle, which will arise as a result of the implementation/inclusion of new automated driving functionalities, and due to the changes in user expectations. Solutions to this issue can be found in the field of enterprise IT (cluster computing), in which technologies such as Ethernet, container-based virtualization and flexible software architectures have proven themselves to be very efficient for years. Relevant infrastructures, for example from cloud computing providers, have commonly been used in high-performance or high-availability applications. Thus, in the research project A 3F has been investigated which of these concepts and methods can be applied to modern vehicle system architectures. One of the main goals is to assess the synergy potential of the two sectors, information technology and automotive industry, which to date have very different orientations. However, this synergy is expected to grow strongly in the course of the developments mentioned above. In the following pages, the necessary changes related to hardware and software will be discussed briefly und will be compared to concepts and possible solutions from the IT world.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BuettnerBohigasBoladerasGottschalketal., author = {B{\"u}ttner, Johannes and Bohigas Boladeras, Pere and Gottschalk, Philipp and Kucera, Markus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Performance Isolation of Co-located Workload in a Container-based Architecture for Automobile}, series = {9th International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies 2019, 22-26.09.2019, Porto, Portugal}, booktitle = {9th International Conference on Ambient Computing, Applications, Services and Technologies 2019, 22-26.09.2019, Porto, Portugal}, isbn = {978-1-61208-739-9}, pages = {31 -- 37}, abstract = {As the development in the automotive sector is facing upcoming challenges, the demand for in-vehicle computing power capacity increases and the need for flexible hardware and software structures arises, allowing dynamic managament of resources. In this new scenario, software components are to be added, removed, updated and migrated between computing units. To isolate the software components from each other and allow its orchestration, a container-based virtualization approach is being tested throughout this research. The analysis focuses on the question if this virtualization technology could be an option to ensure an interference-free operation. Four different sample applications from the automotive environment are tested for their susceptibility to resource contention. The research on the one hand shows that CPU and memory used by an application can be largely isolated with this technology, but on the other hand, it becomes apparent that support for I/O-heavy usage is currently not implemented sufficiently for container engines.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{BrunthalerWaasKucera, author = {Brunthaler, Sebastian and Waas, Thomas and Kucera, Markus}, title = {On Verify and Validate a Next Generation Automotive Communication Network}, series = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - PECCS, 121-127, 2019, Vienna, Austria}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - PECCS, 121-127, 2019, Vienna, Austria}, publisher = {SCITEPRESS - Science and Technology Publications}, isbn = {978-989-758-385-8}, doi = {10.5220/0008191601210127}, pages = {121 -- 127}, abstract = {As a result of the enormous growth in data traffic for autonomous driving, the conventional in-vehicle network is no longer sufficient and requires new types of network concepts in a vehicle. This part of the automobile is known as the next generation communication network. Since the new car-systems can be extended by various services at any time, the network must adapt dynamically to new requirements wherever possible. For example, data flow must be configured dynamically between new services. Also data rates will be much higher in the future than today. This is one of the main reasons why we need to search for new technologies for data transfer in vehicles. This is based on an in-vehicle ethernet network. The process of configuring networks automatically has been discussed several times in recent years. One of the next steps is verifying and validating the automatic configuration process during the development of the new communication network. This research paper identifies several ways to ensure the automatically generated network configuration leads to a secure system. To achieve that, other parts of the company's enterprise IT architecture and network technologies, the conventional vehicle network and other options for verification and validation are analysed}, language = {en} } @article{Kucera, author = {Kucera, Markus}, title = {On end-to-end safety for mobile COTS devices}, series = {Advances in Computer Science : an International Journal}, volume = {4}, journal = {Advances in Computer Science : an International Journal}, number = {5}, publisher = {ACSIJ}, issn = {2322-5157}, pages = {107 -- 109}, abstract = {Today, ubiquitous mobile devices have not only arrived but entered the safety critical domain. There, systems are about to be controlled where human health or even human life is put at risk. For example, in automation systems first ideas surface to control parts of the system via a COTS smartphone. Another example is the idea to control the autonomous parking function of a car via a COTS smartphone too. As beneficial and convenient these ideas are on the first thought, on the second thought, dangers of these approaches become obvious. Especially in case of failures the system's safety has to be maintained. The open question is how to achieve this mandatory requirement with COTS components, e.g. smartphones that are not developed following the development process necessary for safetycritical systems. This paper presents a concept to reliably detect human interaction while activating safety critical functions via COTS mobile devices. Thus a means is provided to detect erroneous activation requests for the safetycritical function.}, language = {en} } @article{SchleglRobatzekKuceraetal., author = {Schlegl, Peter and Robatzek, Patrick and Kucera, Markus and Volbert, Klaus and Waas, Thomas}, title = {Performance analysis of mobile radio for automatic control in smart grids}, series = {International Journal of Advancements in Electronics and Electrical Engineering}, volume = {4}, journal = {International Journal of Advancements in Electronics and Electrical Engineering}, number = {1}, issn = {2319-7498}, pages = {69 -- 75}, abstract = {In the context of a "Smart Grid" research project, together with industrial partners, the OTH-Regensburg realized an intelligent medium-voltage grid in the local area. Goal was to improve the current voltage regulation and to counter the problems with inconsistent energy feed-in of decentralized renewable energy producers. In this paper we discuss the possibilities of using 3rd generation (3G) cellular networks (UMTS) as basic technology to communicate the voltage-levels within a medium-voltage grid. We build an experimental hardware setup to generate data-traffic as specified for the smart grid. By analyzing the performance of 3G cellular networks in terms of transmission latency and rate of failure, we tried to evaluate the usability of this technology for such critical data exchange. Though mobile communication in its structure is not specified for the use of transmitting such infrastructure critical data, the results show a promising high reliability with low transmission latency. The experiments served just to test a fragment of the conditions of use in a real scenario. An expanded test scope is needed to further analyze the performance of mobile radio for automatic control in smart grids. In the end the results discussed in this paper led to a successful prototype of an intelligent medium-voltage grid with mobile radio as communication technology}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{DegueldreWaasKucera, author = {Degueldre, Dennis and Waas, Thomas and Kucera, Markus}, title = {Electromagnetic Emission of an Optical-to-BroadR-Reach Converter}, series = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS), 2014, Lisbon, Portugal}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems (PECCS), 2014, Lisbon, Portugal}, isbn = {978-989-758-000-0}, issn = {2184-2817}, doi = {10.5220/0004711401310135}, pages = {131 -- 135}, abstract = {The automotive solution for Ethernet is BroadR-Reach, which cannot be found as a common Ethernet-interface in the consumer industry. Hence a media converter from IEEE 802.3 Ethernet to BroadR-Reach is needed to debug and test the communication of automotive devices under test (DUT). If the functionality of a BroadR-Reach connection has to be tested for electromagnetic compatibility (EMC), a BroadR-Reach to optical media converter is needed, which has to comply to the same EMC test specifications as the DUT. This research explains the internal structure of a media converter and defines a test setup for copper bound emission test of BroadR-Reach. By using a standardized stripline measurement like it is common for electromagnetic emission test, it could be shown, that the tested Technica/Tinytron media converter can safely be used inside an EMC chamber.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{ReinhardtKucera, author = {Reinhardt, Dominik and Kucera, Markus}, title = {Domain controlled architecture: A new approach for large scale software integrated automotive systems}, series = {PECCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, 19 - 21 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain}, booktitle = {PECCS 2013 - Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems, 19 - 21 February 2013, Barcelona, Spain}, publisher = {IEEE}, pages = {221 -- 226}, abstract = {Electric and electronic functionalities increase exponentially in every mobility domain. The automotive in-dustry is confronted with a rising system complexity and several restricting requirements and standards (likeAUTOSAR), in particular to design embedded software for electronic control units. To stand against rampantfunctionalities software units could be restructured according to their affiliation and should not be attached toa certain place. This can be effected by integration on single controllers. On the one hand the system wideamount of hardware controllers could such be limited. On the other hand the workload for integration CPUswill rise. To support this paradigm, multi-core systems can provide enough processing power in an efficientway. This paper shows a first approach to combine automotive functionality on such a single controller.}, language = {en} } @inproceedings{SophiaKucera, author = {Sophia, Strasser and Kucera, Markus}, title = {Artificial intelligence in safety-relevant embedded systems - on autonomous robotic surgery}, series = {2021 10th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), 11-16 July 2021, Niigata, Japan}, booktitle = {2021 10th International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), 11-16 July 2021, Niigata, Japan}, publisher = {IEEE}, isbn = {978-1-6654-2420-2}, doi = {10.1109/IIAI-AAI53430.2021.00089}, pages = {506 -- 509}, abstract = {This paper focuses on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in robotic surgery. The question of safety and autonomy follows through the whole paper. Guidelines like Safety Integrity Levels which apply to dependable systems in general are described shortly. Overall, this work does not explicitly supply advantages of AI and instructional guidelines to build autonomous robots, instead, concentrates on challenges in the use of AI. In conclusion, there are still many open issues in the use of AI which cause potential gaps in reliability.}, language = {en} } @misc{BeimlerLeisslEbneretal., author = {Beimler, Josef and Leißl, Caroline and Ebner, Lena and Elsner, Michael and M{\"u}hlbauer, Gerhard and Kohlert, Dieter and Schubert, Martin J. W. and Weiß, Andreas P. and Sterner, Michael and Raith, Thomas and Afranseder, Martin and Krapf, Tobias and Mottok, J{\"u}rgen and Siemers, Christian and Großmann, Benjamin and H{\"o}cherl, Johannes and Schlegl, Thomas and Schneider, Ralph and Milaev, Johannes and Rampelt, Christina and Roduner, Christian and Glowa, Christoph and Bachl, Christoph and Schliekmann, Claus and Gnan, Alfons and Grill, Martin and Ruhland, Karl and Piehler, Thomas and Friers, Daniel and Wels, Harald and Pflug, Kenny and Kucera, Markus and Waas, Thomas and Schlachetzki, Felix and Boy, Sandra and Pemmerl, Josef and Leis, Alexander and Welsch, Andreas F.X. and Graf, Franz and Zenger, Gerhard and Volbert, Klaus and Waas, Thomas and Scherzinger, Stefanie and Klettke, Meike and St{\"o}rl, Uta and Heyl, C. and Boldenko, A. and Monkman, Gareth J. and Kujat, Richard and Briem, Ulrich and Hierl, Stefan and Talbot, Sebastian and Schmailzl, Anton and Ławrowski, Robert Damian and Prommesberger, Christian and Langer, Christoph and Dams, Florian and Schreiner, Rupert and Valentino, Piergiorgio and Romano, Marco and Ehrlich, Ingo and Furgiuele, Franco and Gebbeken, Norbert and Eisenried, Michael and Jungbauer, Bastian and Hutterer, Albert and Bauhuber, Michael and Mikrievskij, Andreas and Argauer, Monika and Hummel, Helmut and Lechner, Alfred and Liebetruth, Thomas and Schumm, Michael and Joseph, Saskia and Reschke, Michael and Soska, Alexander and Schroll-Decker, Irmgard and Putzer, Michael and Rasmussen, John and Dendorfer, Sebastian and Weber, Tim and Al-Munajjed, Amir Andreas and Verkerke, Gijsbertus Jacob and Renkawitz, Tobias and Haug, Sonja and Rudolph, Clarissa and Zeitler, Annika and Schaubeck, Simon and Steffens, Oliver and Rechenauer, Christian and Schulz-Brize, Thekla and Fleischmann, Florian and Kusterle, Wolfgang and Beer, Anne and Wagner, Bernd and Neidhart, Thomas}, title = {Forschungsbericht 2013}, editor = {Baier, Wolfgang}, address = {Regensburg}, organization = {Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg}, doi = {10.35096/othr/pub-799}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:898-opus4-7990}, pages = {80}, language = {de} }