Research FieldsCyber-Physical Systems

Cyber-Physical Systems Monitor, control and bridge the cyber and physical world

Cyber-Physical Systems (CPSs) are bridging the virtual and physical world enabling us to communicate with physical objects. CPSs are used in various domains, such as transportation, health-care, manufacturing, agriculture, energy, defense, aerospace, buildings and public environments. CPSs are physical and engineered systems, which can monitor and control the physical environment. Typically, they possess a computing and communication subsystem being interconnected with other CPSs and the Internet. Concerning scale such systems cover size factors from nano meter up to kilometer scale.

Major challenges are the heterogeneity of the system components forming a CPS, interconnectivity, system dependencies and the lack of a comprehensive data analysis. As CPS development requires different disciplines and includes domain specific knowledge. An essential part of our research efforts is to locate and use synergies. Research and industrial partners are essential to build modern and applicable CPSs.

We cooperate with industrial partners in the field of Cyber-Physical Systems, to solve problems where the integration of the physical domain is an essential part of the system. Physical in our understanding refers to physical phenomena and measurable quantities that can be monitored and controlled by a CPS. Physical and virtual actuation triggered by a CPS can serve as direct input to other CPSs. We are focusing on data-collection and analysis, information offering and human assistance, integration of consumers electronics such as mobile devices and wearables. We claim that interdisciplinary research a requirement to establish save, transparent and modern CPSs.

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Research Members

Andreas Seitz

Master of Science
Doctoral Candidate

Zardosht Hodaie

Master of Science
Doctoral Candidate

Sajjad taheri

Master of Science
Doctoral Candidate

Dominic Henze

Master of Science
Doctoral Candidate

Nadine von Frankenberg und Ludwigsdorff

Nadine
von Frankenberg

Master of Science
Doctoral Candidate

Projects Partners and Co-operations

In the research field of Cyber-Physical Systems we are cooperating with different partners. Table below shows our current Projects with our partners.

Name	Partner
Agile Factory as CPSs
Incident Assistance System for CPSs
iCATCH

Theses In Progress

Bachelor's Thesis

Analysis and evaluation of technologies to detect human presence in Cyber-Physical Systems

Advisor

Andreas Seitz

Author

Bernhard Kreminski

Especially in the field of IoT and CPSs it is important to detect human presence in a specific area. In this thesis you have to compare different technologies and implement several demo scenarios and evaluate them.

Bachelor's thesis

Pinocch.io: Design and Implementation of an Smart Baton for Automatic Detection of Conducting Gestures

Advisor

Zardosht Hodaie

Author

Daniel Peter

Date

2015

Design and development of a smart baton. The baton consists of an IMU and the controller boards that send the motion data in different formats via BLE to the desktop computer. An interface to other systems and the the program for configuration of the baton is developed.

Master's thesis

Using Gesture Recognition Techniques for Conducting a Virtual Symphony Orchestra

Advisor

Zardosht Hodaie

Author

Alba Xhani

Date

2015

Design and development of a virtual symphony orchestra that reacts to conducting gestures performed using a smart baton. The recognition of the gestures is based motion data sent from the baton.

Theses Finished

MA-BA

TUMA: Intelligent Tutoring System for Manual-Procedural Activities

Advisor

Zardosht Hodaie

Author

Date

2017/2018

A manual-procedural activities (MPA) involves following the steps of a given workflow for manipulating the physical world. Examples include manual assembly, repair and maintenance, different crafts, cooking, etc. To learn an MPA the trainee needs to master both the steps of the procedure and the hand skills required for manipulating physical objects and the using the tools. TUMA: An Intelligent Tutoring System for Manual-Procedural Activities supports trainees in learning an MPA.

Multiple topics available in context of the TUMA project. For details of the topics please see my chair web page.

Guided Research

Qualitative Evaluation of the CHEST 2.0 Medical Advisor User Interface

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Thorben Knichwitz

Date

2016

Remote Patient Monitoring Systems (RPMSs) connect medical professionals with patients to provide medical services. RPMSs comprise hardware and software components. Hardware components, such as Smart Textiles, wearables, and sensors, transmit vital parameters of patients. Software components, such as the User Interface (UI), often lack usability. The UI should depict these parameters in a medically oriented way to support decision-making of professionals. We focus on RPMSs that humans use for working ...

Master's Thesis

4D Annotation Tool for Smart Suits

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Paul Gualotuna

Date

2017

Employed personnel executing tasks in extreme environments push themselves to physical and psychological limits. During a mission, they must wear protective suits designed to preserve them from dangers while a remotely located Medical Advisor (MA) monitors physiological strain for detection of injury events. Smart suits tailored with electronic textiles (e-textiles) and small sensors can provide...

Master's Thesis

E-Textiles in the Context of Smart Buildings

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Nadine von Frankenberg

Date

2017

Environmental conditions have an impact on our health, satisfaction, performance and productivity. Smart buildings allow occupants to gather information about their environment and to influence their indoor environmental quality, e.g. regulating the temperature. Such influences usually affect all occupants ...

Master's Thesis

ECO: A Smart Cooling System for Exoskeletons

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Konstantin Kromer

Date

2017

Exoskeletons for industrial application reduce physical overload of the human body that can occur while holding up or lifting weights. To transmit physical forces, interfaces between exoskeleton and human body are required. These forces generate pressure on the skin that is covered by the interfaces. The thermal energy produced by muscle contractions and friction leads to heat stress and sweating at those areas ...

Master's Thesis

Human-Oriented System Design For Logistics Scenarios: A Smartglove Application

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Florian Heinz

Date

2016

The logistics domain has been quick to adopt innovation in the past and has reached a high level of automation. Yet, the flexibility and fine motor skills of human workers are still unmatched by machines. While the tools supporting those human workers have improved over time, there are still cases where they are inadequate. Improved tools can reduce stress on workers and allow to redesign existing workflows and clean them from inefficiencies. In a previous work, Scheuermann et al. used electronic textiles to create a replacement for handheld barcode scanners. They combined a smart glove ...

Bachelor's Thesis

Speech Glove - An Industry 4.0 Logistics Application

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Mykola Odnoshyvkin

Date

2017

Humans are an essential part of the area of logistics. They are responsible for managing the warehouse inventory and need to commission products and materials. Supporting them during theses processes is one of the goals of the industry 4.0 movement. Commissioning materials and goods typically follows a workflow that includes identifying, counting and locating materials in inventories. To keep the inventory up-to-date a number of materials ...

Bachelor's Thesis

Remote Patient Monitoring System In Dangerous Environments: A Quantitative Usability Evaluation

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Daniel Benner

Date

2017

Remote patient monitoring systems (RPMS) can increase the operational safety in dangerous environments, for example for military personnel during combat. Typically, such systems collect health values of the personnel via sensors. They provide a medical advisor with a user interface (UI) for monitoring these health values. This medical advisor UI aims at facilitating the detection of potentially injured personnel and accelerating their medical treatment. CHEST 2.0 is such a RPMS...

Master's Thesis

A Framework for Data Analytics in Cyber-Physical Systems

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann, Andreas Seitz

Author

Thomas Sojka

Date

2015

Cyber-Physical Systems are generating huge amounts of data like sensor observations. This thesis aims to gain insights into these data by providing a generic way to communicate actions in a CPS and visualizing these actions.

Masterthesis

A Dynamically Scalable Fog Architecture in a Hospital Setting

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Philipp Diller

Date

15.01.2020

Masterthesis

QoS based Service Discovery for Dynamically Scalable Fog Architectures

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Sandra Grujovic

Date

15.11.2019

Masterthesis

Leveraging Decentralized Architectures to enable Collaborating, Autonomous Agents in the Internet of Things

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Tim Lewandowski

Date

15.08.2019

Bachelorthesis

Fog.BOI - A Scalable Broker Operation and Interaction System for Fog Computing

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Sebastian Aigner

Date

15.03.2019

Masterthesis

Adaption of an automated machine learning approach for the analysis of industrial equipment sensor data

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Maximilian Opbacher

Date

15.05.2019

Masterthesis

An Audio-based Approach for Industrial Equipment Predictive Maintenance

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Klaidi Gorishti

Date

15.11.2018

Guided Research

A Multi-Scalable Fog Architecture in Infrastructure Environments

Advisor

Dominic Henze

Author

Paul Schmiedmayer

Date

14.08.2018

Guided Research

An Empirical User Interface Evaluation of a Smart Glove in the Manufacturing Domain

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Maximilian Strobel

Date

2016

This guided research will develop and conduct a field experiment to evaluate different ProGlove user interfaces in practical scenarios.

Master's Thesis

Mobile Augmented Reality based Annotation System for Aircraft Maintenance using a 3D sensor

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Felix Meißgeier

Date

2015

The objective of this project is to improve the collaboration process for physical tasks such as repairing or maintaining of aircraft components as well as machines at industrial plants. For this purpose an Augmented Reality based Annotation System will be developed that runs on mobile hand-held devices using external depth data as input.

Master's Thesis

A Framework for Data Analytics in Cyber-Physical Systems

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann, Andreas Seitz

Author

Thomas Sojka

Date

2015

Cyber-Physical Systems are generating huge amounts of data like sensor observations. This thesis aims to gain insights into these data by providing a generic way to communicate actions in a CPS and visualizing these actions.

Bachelor's Thesis

Support to Humans in Human-Centric Cyber-Physical Systems - A Context Aware User Interface

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Annemarie Susanne Bichlmeier

Date

2016

This thesis evaluated the applicability of a context aware user interface that guides factory workers during a manufacturing process.

Guided Research

MQTT - Broker for Cyber-Physical Systems

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

André Kohn

Date

2016

A Publish/Subscribe mechanism is not enough to serve the idea of CPS. You will implement and evaluate an extended Service orientated MQTT - Broker offering RESTful Services in combination with Authentication.

IDP

Incident Detection ILAS - MES and Backend

Advisor

Constantin Scheuermann

Author

Sri Vishnu Totakura

Cyber-Physical Systems are bridging the cyber and physical world enabling us to monitor and control the physical world. In this master thesis you will do research on how to identify incidents in a real production line. You will bridge the MES and the Incident Assistance System developed in cooperation with T-Systems, TUM and ProGlove. You develop the missing part of incident identification by implementing and evaluating it.