Informatiemanagement en control in een ketenomgeving
In deze rede wordt ingegaan op de wereld van ketensamenwerking en informatiemanagement.
Niet een diepgaand theoretisch betoog of een omgevallen boekenkast, maar in de vorm
van een breedteschets die verschillende kanten van deze thematiek belicht.
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Perceived control decisions in preparation for a summative achievement test in higher education
Perceived control decisions in preparation for a summative achievement test in higher education
Frontiers in Education
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Addition to Systems Design and Engineering
Additions to the book "Systems Design and Engineering" by Bonnema et.al. Subjects were chosen based on the Systems Engineering needs for Small and Medium Enterprises, as researched in the SESAME project. The
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Droop Control in DC Grids using the Universal Four Leg as Laboratory Setup
Droop control is used for power management in DC grids. Based on the level of the DC grid voltage, the amount of power regulated to or from the appliance is regulated such, that power management is possible. The Universal 4 Leg is a laboratory setup for studying the functionality of a grid manager for power management. It has four independent outputs that can be regulated with pulse width modulation to control the power flow between the DC grid and for example, a rechargeable battery, solar panel or any passive load like lighting or heating.
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Distributed control system
This report is the final report for the FPGA accelerated PID controller, part of the Distributed Control Systems project. This project runs within the Lectoraat Robotics and High Tech Mechatronics of Fontys Hogeschool Engineering Eindhoven. The Lectoraat has the goal to develop applicable knowledge to support education and industry. This knowledge is acquired with projects run in conjunction with the industry. The report will go into detail for the software designed for this project, not the hardware design. This report is intended for follow up students working on the Distributed Control Systems project. Within this report the assumption is made that the reader is at least familiar with the terms EtherCAT, FPGA, Linux and PID controllers. However for each part a small basic introduction is included. For readers looking for the accomplishments in this project, the results are in chapter six. Following are short descriptions of the chapters in this report. The first chapter will give a short introduction to the project. It talks about why the project was conceived, where the project was done and what the expected end result is. The second chapter, the problem definition, talks about how the project has been defined, what is included and what is not and how the customer expects the final product to function and look like. The third chapter details the methodology used during this project. All the research preformed for this project will be described in the forth chapter. This chapter goes into the research into the Xilinx Zynq 7000 chip, Beckhoff's EtherCAT system, how the Serial Peripheral Interface works and how a PID controller functions. Following in chapter five the design is expanded upon. First the toolchain for building for the Zynq chip is explained. This is followed by and explanation of the different software parts that have been designed. Finally chapters six and seven provide the results and the conclusions and recommendations for this project.
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Interface guidelines for occupant-centered smart climate control systems
The Brains4Buildings project aims to develop methods to design new smart building climate management
systems that, among other things, reduce energy consumption, increase comfort and respond flexibly to user
behavior. We set out to develop design guidelines to help B4B stakeholders when designing innovative user
interfaces for such systems.
We built upon our prior user research and requirements (deliverables 3.04 & 3.09) to formulate design
dimensions. The dimensions encompass the different elements of user control and system feedback and the
range in which they can exist. The design dimensions played a key role as a foundation for the design process
and during evaluation and analysis.
Within this work package, we ultimately want to gain a deeper understanding of the elements of the design
dimensions and to formulate design guidelines. Building climate systems are generally designed for the
specific context/building they are built into and thus the goals for the user interfaces can vary greatly.
Therefore, a well-defined use case was necessary, which we defined in collaboration with one of our work
package partners - Spectral.
We chose an iterative approach to design for the use case, moving between design, prototype and test phases,
depending on the insights gained along the way.
Finally, we synthesized a list of key insights that led to design guidelines. In our final deliverable (D3.11) we
aim to evaluate these guidelines.
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Over het meten van gedragsaspecten in organisaties
De term soft control wordt gebruikt voor een keur aan sturings- en beheersmaatregelen die organisaties helpen op koers te blijven. Ze hebben vooral betrekking op gedrag en cultuur. Uit ons inventariserend onderzoek blijkt dat er geen eenduidigheid over de definitie van soft control is en al helemaal niet over de manier waarop soft control wordt uitgewerkt. Hierdoor zijn veel uitwerkingen en meetinstrumenten voor soft control in omloop. In dit artikel vragen we ons af hoe we de kwaliteit van meetinstrumenten voor soft control kunnen beoordelen. Op basis van een aantal methodologische criteria ontwikkelen we een ordeningskader van deze instrumenten. Hiermee scheppen we helderheid in de fascinerende wereld van sociaalwetenschappelijke meetinstrumenten.
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Beyond version control : inspirations for new game development pipelines and future game engines
Collaboratively editing game worlds and the underlying asset version management techniques present us with many challenges when using a traditional Version Control System (VCS). This paper suggests a new method that will aid in the tracking, branching, and selection of asset versions within a game development pipeline. A prototype has been developed which demonstrated im-provements in both productivity and usability providing greater visibility of incremental asset changes and alterations to their relationships which equated to approximately a 30% better user experience when compared to an existing industry VCS.
