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GeKOS - Gemeinsam entdecken Kinder ihren Ort mit Studierenden, 3. Zwischenbericht
Get PDFDieses Dokument umfasst den dritten Zwischenbericht zum Projekt GeKOS – Gemeinsam entdecken Kinder ihren Ort mit Studierenden, der im Oktober 2018 an die Schöpflin-Stiftung übergeben wurde. Das Projekt GeKOS wird vom Ministerium für Wissenschaft, Weiterbildung und Kultur des Landes Rheinland-Pfalz im Rahmen der Programmbudgets Hochschulpakt III sowie von der Schöpflin-Stiftung mit Sitz in Lörrach von 2016 bis 2020 finanziell gefördert. Zudem gewährte das rheinland-pfälzische Ministerium für Integration, Familie, Kinder, Jugend und Frauen im Jahr 2015 eine Anschubfinanzierung
Echtzeitrendering von volumetrischen Wolken
No full textIn dieser Arbeit wird das Echtzeitrendering von Wolken von der Theorie bis hin zur Entwicklung derselben behandelt. Dabei sollen die visuellen Eigenschaften der Wolken sowie die unterschiedliche Wolkentypen simuliert werden. Dabei ist die Berechnung der Beleuchtung essentiell für ein glaubwürdiges Ergebnis. Die Rendertechniken nutzen dabei unterschiedliche Noise-Texturen; für die Modulierung der Wolken sind es hauptsächlich Perlin- und Perlin-Worley-Texturen. Das Rendern der Wolken wird per Compute-Shader durchgeführt um die Echtzeitfähigkeit zu gewährleisten. Um die Performance zu steigern, werden Temporal Reprojektion und andere Optimierungstechniken angewendet
Implementation of Agile Software Development Methodology in a Company – Why? Challenges? Benefits?
No full textThe software development industry is enhancing day by day. The introduction of agile software development methodologies was a tremendous structural change in companies. Agile transformation provides unlimited opportunities and benefits to the existing and new developing companies. Along with benefits, agile conversion also brings many unseen challenges. New entrants have the advantage of being flexible and cope with the environmental, consumer, and cultural changes, but existing companies are bound to rigid structure.
The goal of this research is to have deep insight into agile software development methodology, agile manifesto, and principles behind the agile manifesto. The prerequisites company must know for agile software development implementation. The benefits a company can achieve by implementing agile software development. Significant challenges that a company can face during agile implementation in a company.
The research objectives of this study help to generate strong motivational research questions. These research questions cover the cultural aspects of company agility, values and principles of agile, benefits, and challenges of agile implementation. The project management triangle will show how benefits of cost, benefits of time, and benefits of quality can be achieved by implementing agile methodologies. Six significant areas have been explored, which shows different challenges a company can face during implementation agile software development methodology. In the end, after the in depth systematic literature review, conclusion is made following some open topics for future work and recommendations on the topic of implementation of agile software development methodology in a company
Commonsense reasoning using path analysis on semantic networks
No full textCommonsense reasoning can be seen as a process of identifying dependencies amongst events and actions. Understanding the circumstances surrounding these events requires background knowledge with sufficient breadth to cover a wide variety of domains. In the recent decades, there has been a lot of work in extracting commonsense knowledge, a number of these projects provide their collected data as semantic networks such as ConceptNet and CausalNet. In this thesis, we attempt to undertake the Choice Of Plausible Alternatives (COPA) challenge, a problem set with 1000 questions written in multiple-choice format with a premise and two alternative choices for each question. Our approach differs from previous work by using shortest paths between concepts in a causal graph with the edge weight as causality metric. We use CausalNet as primary network and implement a few design choices to explore the strengths and drawbacks of this approach, and propose an extension using ConceptNet by leveraging its commonsense knowledge base
RoboCup 2019 – homer@UniKoblenz (Germany)
No full textThis paper describes the robots TIAGo and Lisa used by
team homer@UniKoblenz of the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany,
for the participation at the RoboCup@Home 2019 in Sydney,
Australia. We ended up first at RoboCup@Home 2019 in the Open Platform
League and won the competition in our league now three times
in a row (four times in total) which makes our team the most successful
in RoboCup@Home. We demonstrated approaches for learning from
demonstration, touch enforcing manipulation and autonomous semantic
exploration in the finals. A special focus is put on novel system components
and the open source contributions of our team. We have released
packages for object recognition, a robot face including speech synthesis,
mapping and navigation, speech recognition interface, gesture recognition
and imitation learning. The packages are available (and new packages
will be released) on http://homer.uni-koblenz.de
Konzeption und prototypische Implementierung einer „DogCam“
No full textZiel dieser Arbeit ist es, ein einfaches Konzept zur Überwachung von Hunden, die mehrere Stunden alleine zu Hause sind, zu entwickeln. Die prototypische Implementierung einer solchen„DogCam“ kann als Proof of Concept angesehen werden. Die Grundlage für die Implementierung des Prototypen sind die im Rahmen einer Anforderungsanalyse herausgearbeiteten Anforderungen. Weiterhin zeigt die vorliegende Arbeit auf, welche Verbesserungen und Erweiterungen der prototypischen „DogCam“ möglich sind und welche ähnlichen Projekte bereits existieren.The aim of this work is to develop a simple concept for monitoring dogs that are alone at home for several hours. The prototypical implementation of such a "DogCam" can be considered as proof of concept. The basis for the prototype‘s implementation are the requirements identified within a conducted requirement analysis. Furthermore, the present work shows which improvements and extensions of the prototypical "DogCam" are possible and which similar projects already exist
Template Tracking auf Basis eines Partikelfilters
No full textIn dieser Bachelorarbeit wird ein System zur Kameratracking implementiert, dass auf Basis eines Partikelfilters arbeitet. Dazu wird ein Markertracking realisiert und anhand der Markerposition die Kameraposition errechnet. Der Marker soll mit ein Partikelfilter gefunden werden und um das zu bewerkstelligen werden mögliche Markerpositionen simuliert, auch Partikel genannt, und mit Likelyhood Funktionen gewichtet. Fokus liegt auf der Evaluation von verschiedenen Likelyhood-Funktionen des Partikelfilters. Die Likelyhood-Funktionen wurden in CUDA umgesetzt als Teil der Implementation.This bachelor thesis implements a system for camera tracking based on a particle filter. For this purpose, a marker tracking is realized and the camera position is calculated based on the marker position. The marker is to be found with a particle filter and in order to accomplish this possible marker positions are simulated, also called particles, and weighted with Likelyhood-Functions. The focus lies on the evaluation of different Likelihood-Functions of the particle filter. The Likelyhood functions were implemented in CUDA as part of the implementation
Agile Analytics: How organizations can benefit from the agile methodology for smoother delivery of data-driven analytics projects
No full textDespite the inception of new technologies at a breakneck pace, many analytics projects fail mainly due to the use of incompatible development methodologies. As big data analytics projects are different from software development projects, the methodologies used in software development projects could not be applied in the same fashion to analytics projects. The traditional agile project management approaches to the projects do not consider the complexities involved in the analytics. In this thesis, the challenges involved in generalizing the application of agile methodologies will be evaluated, and some suitable agile frameworks which are more compatible with the analytics project will be explored and recommended. The standard practices and approaches which are currently applied in the industry for analytics projects will be discussed concerning enablers and success factors for agile adaption. In the end, after the comprehensive discussion and analysis of the problem and complexities, a framework will be recommended that copes best with the discussed challenges and complexities and is generally well suited for the most data-intensive analytics projects
Untersuchung von Verfahren für dynamische Global Illumination in Echtzeit
No full textGlobal-Illumination ist eine wichtige Komponente beim Rendering von realistischen Bildern. Der Rechenaufwand für die akkurate Simulation dieser Effekte ist jedoch zu hoch für die Berechnung in Echtzeit. In dieser Arbeit werden Light-Propagation-Volumes, Scren-Space-Reflections und mehrere Varianten von Screen-Space-Ambient-Occlusion als Lösungen für Echtzeitrendering untersucht. Es wird gezeigt, dass alle schnell genug für den Einsatz in Echtzeitanwendungen sind. Die einzelnen Techniken approximieren nur einige Aspekte des Transports von Licht, ergänzen sich jedoch gegenseitig.Global-Illumination is an important part of the rendering of realistic images. However, the computational complexity of an accurate simulation of these effects is too high for the use in real time applications. In this paper Light-Propagation-Volumes, Screen-Space-Reflections and multiple variants of Screen-Space-Ambient-Occlusion are investigated as a solution for real time rendering. It is shown that they are fast enough for the use in real time applications. The various techniques approximate only a few aspects of the light transport, but complement each other
A Comparison of IoT Architecture Models
No full textThe Internet of Things is still one of the most relevant topics in the field of economics and research powered by the increasing demand of innovative services. Cost reductions in manufacturing of IoT hardware and the development of completely new communication ways has led to the point of bil-lions of devices connected to the internet. But in order to rule this new IoT landscape a standardized solution to conquer these challenges must be developed, the IoT Architecture.
This thesis examines the structure, purpose and requirements of IoT Architecture Models in the global IoT landscape and proposes an overview across the selected ones. For that purpose, a struc-tured literature analysis on this topic is conducted within this thesis, including an analysis on three existing research approaches trying to frame this topic and a tool supported evaluation of IoT Archi-tecture literature with over 200 accessed documents.
Furthermore, a coding of literature with the help of the specialised coding tool ATLAS.ti 8 is conduct-ed on 30 different IoT Architecture Models. In a final step these Architecture Models are categorized and compared to each other showing that the environment of IoT and its Architectures gets even more complex the further the research goes