@inproceedings{9963, abstract = {{Tire-wheel assembly is the only connection between road and vehicle. Contacting directly with road within postcard size of contact area, it is mounted and guided by the suspension system. Therefore kinematics and compliances of suspension system greatly influence the frictional coupling of tire tread elements and road surface asperities by affecting pressure and sliding velocity distribution in the contact zone. This study emphasizes the development of a numerical methodology for frictional rolling contact analysis with focus on interaction of suspension system dynamics and tire-road contact using ADAMS. For this purpose a comprehensive flexible multibody system of the multi-link rear suspension is established, where both flexible and rigid bodies are modeled to allow large displacements with included elastic effects. To meet accuracy requirements for the high frequency applications, such as road excitations, the amplitude- and frequency-dependency of rubber-metal bushings is included. Furthermore the proposed flexible viscoelastic suspension model is enhanced by a Flexible Ring Tire Model (FTire), which describes a 3D tire dynamic response and covers any road excitations by tread submodel connected to road surface model. Concerning the verification and validation procedure numerous experiments are carried out to confirm the validity and the accuracy of both the developed submodels and the entire model. The devised approach makes it possible to investigate the influence of suspension system design on dynamical rolling contact and to evaluate tire tread wear. Therefore it can be a useful tool to predict frictional power distribution within the contact area under more realistic conditions.}}, author = {{Kohl, Sergej and Sextro, Walter and Schulze, Sebastian}}, booktitle = {{The 2nd International Conference on Automotive Innovation and Green Energy Vehicle (AiGEV 2016), Cyberjaya, Malaysia, 2016.}}, keywords = {{Kinematics and compliances, flexible viscoelastic suspension model, frictional rolling contact analysis, frictional power distribution.}}, pages = {{1--12}}, title = {{{Aspects of Flexible Viscoelastic Suspension Modeling for Frictional Rolling Contact Analysis using ADAMS}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{9966, abstract = {{Usage of copper wire bonds allows to push power boundaries imposed by aluminum wire bonds. Copper allows higher electrical, thermal and mechanical loads than aluminum, which currently is the most commonly used material in heavy wire bonding. This is the main driving factor for increased usage of copper in high power applications such as wind turbines, locomotives or electric vehicles. At the same time, usage of copper also increases tool wear and reduces the range of parameter values for a stable process, making the process more challenging. To overcome these drawbacks, parameter adaptation at runtime using self-optimization is desired. A self-optimizing system is based on system objectives that evaluate and quantify system performance. System parameters can be changed at runtime such that pre-selected objective values are reached. For adaptation of bond process parameters, model-based self-optimization is employed. Since it is based on a model of the system, the bond process was modeled. In addition to static model parameters such as wire and substrate material properties and vibration characteristics of transducer and tool, variable model inputs are process parameters. Main simulation result is bonded area in the wiresubstrate contact. This model is then used to find valid and optimal working points before operation. The working point is composed of normal force and ultrasonic voltage trajectories, which are usually determined experimentally. Instead, multiobjective optimalization is used to compute trajectories that simultaneously optimize bond quality, process duration, tool wear and probability of tool-substrate contacts. The values of these objectives are computed using the process model. At runtime, selection among pre-determined optimal working points is sufficient to prioritize individual objectives. This way, the computationally expensive process of numerically solving a multiobjective optimal control problem and the demanding high speed bonding process are separated. To evaluate to what extent the pre-defined goals of self-optimization are met, an offthe- shelf heavy wire bonding machine was modified to allow for parameter adaptation and for transmitting of measurement data at runtime. This data is received by an external computer system and evaluated to select a new working point. Then, new process parameters are sent to the modified bonding machine for use for subsequent bonds. With these components, a full self-optimizing system has been implemented.}}, author = {{Meyer , Tobias and Unger, Andreas and Althoff, Simon and Sextro, Walter and Brökelmann, Michael and Hunstig, Matthias and Guth, Karsten}}, booktitle = {{IEEE 66th Electronic Components and Technology Conference}}, keywords = {{Self-optimization, adaptive system, bond process, copper wire}}, pages = {{622--628}}, title = {{{Reliable Manufacturing of Heavy Copper Wire Bonds Using Online Parameter Adaptation}}}, doi = {{10.1109/ECTC.2016.215}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{9968, abstract = {{To increase quality and reliability of copper wire bonds, self-optimization is a promising technique. For the implementation of self-optimization for ultrasonic heavy copper wire bonding machines, a model of stick-slip motion between tool and wire and between wire and substrate during the bonding process is essential. Investigations confirm that both of these contacts do indeed show stick-slip movement in each period oscillation. In a first step, this paper shows the importance of modeling the stick-slip effect by determining, monitoring and analyzing amplitudes and phase angles of tooltip, wire and substrate experimentally during bonding via laser measurements. In a second step, the paper presents a dynamic model which has been parameterized using an iterative numerical parameter identification method. This model includes Archard’s wear approach in order to compute the lost volume of tool tip due to wear over the entire process time. A validation of the model by comparing measured and calculated amplitudes of tool tip and wire reveals high model quality. Then it is then possible to calculate the lifetime of the tool for different process parameters, i.e. values of normal force and ultrasonic voltage.}}, author = {{Unger, Andreas and Schemmel, Reinhard and Meyer, Tobias and Eacock, Florian and Eichwald, Paul and Althoff, Simon and Sextro, Walter and Brökelmann, Michael and Hunstig, Matthias and Guth, Karsten}}, booktitle = {{Wear Modeling in Copper Wire Wedge Bonding. IEEE CPMT Symposium Japan, 2016}}, keywords = {{the Ultrasonic Wire Bonding Process}}, pages = {{251--254}}, title = {{{Validated Simulation of the Ultrasonic Wire Bonding Process}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{3934, abstract = {{Typical optical integrated circuits combine elements, like straight and curved waveguides, or cavities, the simulation and design of which is well established through numerical eigenproblem-solvers. It remains to predict the interaction of these modes. We address this task by a ”Hybrid” variant (HCMT) of Coupled Mode Theory. Using methods from finite-element numerics, the optical properties of a circuit are approximated by superpositions of eigen-solutions for its constituents, leading to quantitative, low-dimensional, and interpretable models in the frequency domain. Spectral scans are complemented by the direct computation of supermode properties (spectral positions and linewidths, coupling-induced phase shifts). This contribution outlines the theoretical background, and discusses briefly limitations and implementational details, with the help of an example of a 2-D coupled-resonator-optical-waveguide configuration.}}, author = {{Hammer, Manfred}}, booktitle = {{Integrated Optics: Devices, Materials, and Technologies XX}}, editor = {{Broquin, Jean-Emmanuel and Nunzi Conti, Gualtiero}}, keywords = {{tet_topic_waveguide, tet_topic_numerics}}, location = {{San Francisco, USA}}, number = {{9750}}, pages = {{975018--975018--8 }}, publisher = {{SPIE}}, title = {{{Wave interaction in photonic integrated circuits: Hybrid analytical / numerical coupled mode modeling}}}, doi = {{10.1117/12.2214331}}, year = {{2016}}, } @misc{10695, author = {{Horstmann, Jens}}, publisher = {{Paderborn University}}, title = {{{Beschleunigte Simulation elektrischer Stromnetze mit GPUs}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{10766, author = {{Ghribi, Ines and Ben Abdallah, Riadh and Khalgui, Mohamed and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the 30th European Simulation and Modelling Conference (ESM)}}, title = {{{RCo-Design: New Visual Environment for Reconfigurable Embedded Systems}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{11829, abstract = {{This contribution investigates Direction of Arrival (DoA) estimation using linearly arranged microphone arrays. We are going to develop a model for the DoA estimation error in a reverberant scenario and show the existence of a bias, that is a consequence of the linear arrangement and limited field of view (FoV) bias: First, the limited FoV leading to a clipping of the measurements, and, second, the angular distribution of the signal energy of the reflections being non-uniform. Since both issues are a consequence of the linear arrangement of the sensors, the bias arises largely independent of the kind of DoA estimator. The experimental evaluation demonstrates the existence of the bias for a selected number of DoA estimation methods and proves that the prediction from the developed theoretical model matches the simulation results.}}, author = {{Jacob, Florian and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}}, booktitle = {{12. ITG Fachtagung Sprachkommunikation (ITG 2016)}}, title = {{{On the Bias of Direction of Arrival Estimation Using Linear Microphone Arrays}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{11834, abstract = {{We present a system for the 4th CHiME challenge which significantly increases the performance for all three tracks with respect to the provided baseline system. The front-end uses a bi-directional Long Short-Term Memory (BLSTM)-based neural network to estimate signal statistics. These then steer a Generalized Eigenvalue beamformer. The back-end consists of a 22 layer deep Wide Residual Network and two extra BLSTM layers. Working on a whole utterance instead of frames allows us to refine Batch-Normalization. We also train our own BLSTM-based language model. Adding a discriminative speaker adaptation leads to further gains. The final system achieves a word error rate on the six channel real test data of 3.48%. For the two channel track we achieve 5.96% and for the one channel track 9.34%. This is the best reported performance on the challenge achieved by a single system, i.e., a configuration, which does not combine multiple systems. At the same time, our system is independent of the microphone configuration. We can thus use the same components for all three tracks.}}, author = {{Heymann, Jahn and Drude, Lukas and Haeb-Umbach, Reinhold}}, booktitle = {{Computer Speech and Language}}, title = {{{Wide Residual BLSTM Network with Discriminative Speaker Adaptation for Robust Speech Recognition}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @article{144, abstract = {{Following the direction pioneered by Fiat and Papadimitriou in their 2010 paper [12], we study the complexity of deciding the existence of mixed equilibria for minimization games where players use valuations other than expectation to evaluate their costs. We consider risk-averse players seeking to minimize the sum V=E+R of expectationE and a risk valuationR of their costs; R is non-negative and vanishes exactly when the cost incurred to a player is constant over all choices of strategies by the other players. In a V-equilibrium, no player could unilaterally reduce her cost.Say that V has the Weak-Equilibrium-for-Expectation property if all strategies supported in a player's best-response mixed strategy incur the same conditional expectation of her cost. We introduce E-strict concavity and observe that every E-strictly concave valuation has the Weak-Equilibrium-for-Expectation property. We focus on a broad class of valuations shown to have the Weak-Equilibrium-for-Expectation property, which we exploit to prove two main complexity results, the first of their kind, for the two simplest cases of the problem:• Two strategies: Deciding the existence of a V-equilibrium is strongly NP-hard for the restricted class of player-specific scheduling games on two ordered links [22], when choosing R as (1)Var (variance), or (2)SD (standard deviation), or (3) a concave linear sum of even moments of small order.• Two players: Deciding the existence of a V-equilibrium is strongly NP-hard when choosing R as (1)γ⋅Var, or (2)γ⋅SD, where γ>0 is the risk-coefficient, or choosing V as (3) a convex combination of E+γ⋅Var and the concave ν-valuationν−1(E(ν(⋅))), where ν(x)=xr, with r≥2. This is a concrete consequence of a general strong NP-hardness result that only needs the Weak-Equilibrium-for-Expectation property and a few additional properties for V; its proof involves a reduction with a single parameter, which can be chosen efficiently so that each valuation satisfies the additional properties.}}, author = {{Monien, Burkhard and Mavronicolas, Marios}}, journal = {{Theoretical Computer Science}}, pages = {{67--96}}, publisher = {{Elsevier}}, title = {{{The complexity of equilibria for risk-modeling valuations}}}, doi = {{10.1016/j.tcs.2016.04.013}}, volume = {{634}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{13152, author = {{Graf, Tobias and Platzner, Marco}}, booktitle = {{IEEE Computational Intelligence and Games}}, title = {{{Monte-Carlo Simulation Balancing Revisited}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{24264, abstract = {{Electronic systems, like they are embedded in road vehicles, have to be compliant to functional safety standards like ISO 26262 [1], which limit the impacts of malfunctions for safety critical systems. ISO 26262, for instance, defines different safety levels for road vehicles, which require different means and measures for a safety compliant system and its development process like risk analysis and fault effect simulation. For fault effect simulation it is important to investigate the impact of physical and hardware related effects to the correct function of a system. This article first studies code and model mutations for fault injection in the context of fault effect simulation through different system abstraction levels. It demonstrates how high level mutations correlate to bit flips of software binaries by examples from the TriCore™ instruction set and finally presents a virtual platform based implementation for automated injection of bit flip based mutations into software binaries. Experimental results demonstrate the efficiency of the implemented approach.}}, author = {{Adelt, Peer and Koppelmann, Bastian and Müller, Wolfgang and Becker, Markus and Kleinjohann, Bernd and Scheytt, Christoph}}, booktitle = {{Proceedings of the IEEE/IFIP International Conference on VLSI (VLSI-SOC)}}, issn = {{2324-8440}}, title = {{{Fast Dynamic Fault Injection for Virtual Microcontroller Platforms}}}, doi = {{10.1109/VLSI-SoC.2016.7753545}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{24263, abstract = {{The design of safety critical systems requires an efficient methodology for an effective fault effect simulation for analog and digital circuits where analog fault injection and fault effect simulation is currently a field of active research and commercial tools are not available yet. This article begins by discussing fault injection strategies for analog circuits applied on a case study with two topologies of a Voltage Controlled Oscillator (VCO). In the second part it performs on the basis of the example of a Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) node, how far different mixed level implementations with Verilog-A and SPICE can affect the simulation time and points out which component consumes the major part of the simulation time.}}, author = {{Abughannam, Saed and Wu, Liang and Müller, Wolfgang and Scheytt, Christoph and Ecker, Wolfgang and Novello, Christiano}}, booktitle = {{Analog 2016 - VDE}}, isbn = {{978-3-8007-4265-3}}, title = {{{Fault Injection and Mixed-Level Simulation for Analog Circuits - A Case Study}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{30611, author = {{Schulte, C. and Peter, K. and Böcker, Joachim and Leuer, M.}}, booktitle = {{8th IET International Conference on Power Electronics, Machines and Drives (PEMD 2016)}}, publisher = {{Institution of Engineering and Technology}}, title = {{{Comparison of Optimized Pulse Patterns with Direct Model Predictive Control Using Co-Simulation}}}, doi = {{10.1049/cp.2016.0331}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{28483, author = {{Marín López, Andrés and Almenárez-Mendoza, Florina and Arias Cabarcos, Patricia and Díaz Sánchez, Daniel}}, booktitle = {{2016 Mediterranean Ad Hoc Networking Workshop, Med-Hoc-Net 2016, Vilanova i la Geltru, Spain, June 20-22, 2016}}, pages = {{1--8}}, publisher = {{{IEEE}}}, title = {{{Wi-Fi Direct: Lessons learned}}}, doi = {{10.1109/MedHocNet.2016.7528493}}, year = {{2016}}, } @inproceedings{35231, author = {{Magyar, Balázs and Thielen, S and Löwenstein, M and Becker, A and Sauer, B}}, isbn = {{978-3-9817451-1-5}}, pages = {{22/1--22/10}}, publisher = {{GfT}}, title = {{{EHD Simulation eines Kettengelenks}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @techreport{35989, author = {{Schlegel-Matthies, Kirsten and Gigerenzer, Gerd and Wagner, Gert G.}}, issn = {{2365-919X}}, pages = {{51}}, title = {{{Digitale Welt und Gesundheit. eHealth und mHealth – Chancen und Risiken der Digitalisierung im Gesundheitsbereich}}}, year = {{2016}}, } @article{4239, abstract = {{Confocal Raman spectroscopy is applied to identify ferroelectric domain structure sensitive phonon modes in potassium titanyl phosphate. Therefore, polarization-dependent measurements in various scattering configurations have been performed to characterize the fundamental Raman spectra of the material. The obtained spectra are discussed qualitatively based on an internal mode assignment. In the main part of this work, we have characterized z-cut periodically poled potassium titanyl phosphate in terms of polarity- and structure-sensitive phonon modes. Here, we find vibrations whose intensities are linked to the ferroelectric domain walls. We interpret this in terms of changes in the polarizability originating from strain induced by domain boundaries and the inner field distribution. Hence, a direct and 3D visualization of ferroelectric domain structures becomes possible in potassium titanyl phosphate.}}, author = {{Rüsing, Michael and Eigner, Christof and Mackwitz, P. and Berth, Gerhard and Silberhorn, Christine and Zrenner, Artur}}, issn = {{0021-8979}}, journal = {{Journal of Applied Physics}}, number = {{4}}, publisher = {{AIP Publishing}}, title = {{{Identification of ferroelectric domain structure sensitive phonon modes in potassium titanyl phosphate: A fundamental study}}}, doi = {{10.1063/1.4940964}}, volume = {{119}}, year = {{2016}}, } @article{54171, author = {{Ebrahimnejad, Ali and Tavana, Madjid and Santos-Arteaga, Francisco J.}}, issn = {{0378-4754}}, journal = {{Mathematics and Computers in Simulation}}, pages = {{1--17}}, publisher = {{Elsevier BV}}, title = {{{An integrated data envelopment analysis and simulation method for group consensus ranking}}}, doi = {{10.1016/j.matcom.2015.08.022}}, volume = {{119}}, year = {{2016}}, } @article{54158, author = {{Tavana, Madjid and Fallahpour, Alireza and Di Caprio, Debora and Santos-Arteaga, Francisco J.}}, issn = {{0957-4174}}, journal = {{Expert Systems with Applications}}, pages = {{129--144}}, publisher = {{Elsevier BV}}, title = {{{A hybrid intelligent fuzzy predictive model with simulation for supplier evaluation and selection}}}, doi = {{10.1016/j.eswa.2016.05.027}}, volume = {{61}}, year = {{2016}}, } @article{54929, abstract = {{The epithelial sodium channel (ENaC) is rate limiting for Na(+) absorption in the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron comprising the late distal convoluted tubule (DCT2), the connecting tubule (CNT), and the entire collecting duct. Liddle syndrome (pseudohyperaldosteronism), a severe form of salt-sensitive hypertension, is caused by gain-of-function mutations of ENaC, but the precise tubular site of increased ENaC function is unknown. In the cortical collecting duct (CCD), ENaC is known to be regulated by aldosterone. In contrast, we recently reported aldosterone-independent ENaC regulation in the early part of the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron. Here, we investigated ENaC function in the transition zone of DCT2/CNT or CNT/CCD microdissected from mice homozygous for Liddle syndrome mutation or from wild-type control mice. Whole-cell patch-clamp recordings were used to measure amiloride-sensitive ENaC currents in nephron fragments from mice maintained on different sodium diets to vary plasma aldosterone levels. Our data indicate that in mice with Liddle syndrome, the primary site of increased Na(+) reabsorption is the DCT2/CNT. In addition, increased aldosterone responsiveness of ENaC in CNT/CCD may contribute to salt-sensitive hypertension in Liddle syndrome. Single channel properties of ENaC were similar in Liddle syndrome mutation and wild-type mice, but ENaC expression at the apical membrane was increased in Liddle syndrome mutation when compared with wild-type mice, in particular, in animals maintained on a high salt diet. Our findings highlight the importance of ENaC function and regulation in the early part of the aldosterone-sensitive distal nephron for the maintenance of sodium balance and blood pressure control.}}, author = {{Nesterov, Viatcheslav and Krueger, Bettina and Bertog, Marko and Dahlmann, Anke and Palmisano, Ralf and Korbmacher, Christoph}}, journal = {{Hypertension}}, number = {{6}}, pages = {{1256–1262}}, publisher = {{Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)}}, title = {{{In Liddle Syndrome, Epithelial Sodium Channel Is Hyperactive Mainly in the Early Part of the Aldosterone-Sensitive Distal Nephron}}}, doi = {{10.1161/hypertensionaha.115.07061}}, volume = {{67}}, year = {{2016}}, }