I dagsläget finns det en mängd utmaningar och svårigheter inom den traditio- nella designprocessen för användarupplevelse (UX, User Experience). Dessa utmaningar har en påverkan på hur tidskrävande och kostsam en designpro- cess för UX kan vara. Några av dem är att få prototyper att likna slutpro- dukten och kommunikationssvårigheter mellan UX-designers och utvecklare vid Agil projektmetodik. Några svårigheter som finns vid visualisering av strömmande data är att göra den lättförståelig för användaren och möjliggöra användaren att nå önskad information. För att undersöka dessa svårigheter togs en designprocess för UX, att använ- das med datavisualiseringsverktyget Kibana, fram. För att kunna utvärdera och bedöma designprocessen för UX, skapades en interaktiv dashboard som presenterade Transportstyrelsens data från betalstationer. Framtagningen av designprocessen för UX resulterade i en optimering av prototypskapandet och testningen. Detta eftersom designprocessen för UX möjliggjorde utveckling av produkten, istället för prototypen, vilket förbättrade testningen med slutan- vändaren och därmed även slutprodukten. Det fanns dock nackdelar då Kiba- na användes vilka var begränsningar i modifieringen av användargränssnittet och att systemet behövde vara klart innan designprocessen för UX kunde på- börjas. / In the current situation there are a lot of challenges and difficulties in the traditional design process for UX, User Experience. These challenges have an impact on how time consuming and costly a design process for UX can be. Some of them are to create prototypes that resemble the end product and communication difficulties between UX-designers and developers that follow an Agile project methodology. There are also difficulties in visualizing streaming data, as information in data must be made easy to understand for the user and the users must be able to get desired information. To investigate these difficulties, a design process for UX was created to be used with the Kibana data visualization tool. In order to evaluate and assess the design process for UX, an interactive dashboard was created that pre- sented data from Swedish payment stations. The development of the design process for UX resulted in an optimization of the prototype-creation and test- ing. The design process for UX enabled development of the product, instead of the prototype, which improved the testing with the end user and therefor also the end product. However, there were disadvantages when Kibana was used which were limitations in modifying the user interface and that the sys- tem needed to be ready before the UX design process could begin.

Bolted cores made of coated silicon steel sheets constitute a vital part of heavy electrical equipment for transformers, motors and turbogenerators. Bolted laminates are eminently suitable for facilitating smooth magnetic flux paths, but, unfortunately, they are unable to suppress interlaminate shearing caused by flexural vibration generating noise levels often exceeding 100 dB during operation. The resulting din and cacophony in the surrounding has become a major environmental concern. This thesis makes an attempt to develop theoretical, experimental and numerical models for evolving an effective stiffness approach enhancing the design and analysis underlying nonlinear flexure of bolted laminates. While large machine cores contain thousands of thin sheets bolted together along with end plates, this thesis reports the results obtained on two different assemblies. Two 375 mm long 60 mm wide and 10 mm thick plates assembled with 3, 4 or 5 bolts constitute the first configuration. The second one which is much more realistic comprises 80 coated 270 micron silicon steel sheets with end plates of 2 or 4 mm thickness held together by 3 or 5 bolts. Static 3 point bend tests on these bolted assemblies are followed by instrumented impact tests. Static bending tests highlight the role of frictional nonlinearity inducing a drop in the stiffness due to sliding between the plates. An experimentally determined effective modulus in the initial linear range is utilized for static and dynamic finite element simulations. Nonlinear response of bolted plates is simulated using contact elements in between the sliding plates, plates and the bolts heads. Since the first fundamental mode of vibration dominates the tribomechanical vibration induced noise, the primary focus is on the fundamental frequency in bending. There is generally a good overall agreement in all the results obtained through theory, experiment and FE simulation. Experiments, however, unveil quite complex nonlinear effects induced by friction and plasticity outside the scope of this thesis. However, the low amplitude response of bolted laminates which is reasonably well captured in this thesis represents the starting point for initiating a more elaborate effort for addressing large amplitude nonlinear flexure in bolted laminates. These findings shed light on estimating and controlling noise and vibration levels in heavy electric machines.

Brennstoffzellen-Stapel werden zu Beginn ihres Bauteil-Lebens einmal abschließend fix verspannt. Für das Kompressionsverhalten der Einheitszelle ist das Material der Bipolarplatte eine maßgebliche Einflussgröße. Auf Ebene der Bipolarplatte werden allgemein zwei Basismaterialien verwendet; beschichtete Metallplatten und Carbonplatten. Metallische Bipolarplatten bestehen aus dünnen Blechen. Bipolarplatten aus Carbon sind Vollkörper-Elemente aus carbongraphitischem Kompositmaterial, in deren Vollkörper die geometrische Struktur des Plattendesigns eingebettet ist. In diesem Beitrag wird ein Vergleich zwischen der Verpressung von Metallplatten-Stapeln gegenüber Carbonplatten-Stapeln auf Basis von produktionsnahen, statistischen Daten herangezogen. Hierbei ist das jeweils unterschiedliche Kompressionverhalten der Brennstoffzellen-Stapel mit ihren entsprechenden Federelementen entscheidend. Der Vergleich zeigt, dass ein fundamentaler Unterschied im Kompressionsverhalten zwischen beschichteten Metallplatten und komposit-basierten Carbonplatten besteht. Dies ist insbesondere im Hinblick auf großserien-taugliche Produktionsverfahren entscheidend, bei dem eng getaktete Stapel- und Verspannprozesse eine Schlüsselstelle im Aufbau von Brennstoffzellen-Stapeln als Massenprodukt darstellen. / Fuel cell stacks are finally clamped in place at the beginning of their component life. The material of the bipolar plate is a decisive influencing factor for the compression behavior of the unit cell. Two basic materials are generally used at the level of the bipolar plate; coated metal plates and carbon plates. Metallic bipolar plates consist of thin sheets. Bipolar plates made of carbon are full-body elements made of carbon-graphitic composite material, in whose full body the geometric structure of the plate design is embedded. This article uses a comparison between the compression of metal plate stacks versus carbon plate stacks on the basis of production-related statistical data. The different compression behavior of the fuel cell stacks with their corresponding spring elements is decisive here. The comparison shows that there is a fundamental difference in the compression behavior between coated metal plates and composite-based carbon plates. This is particularly important with regard to production processes suitable for large-scale series, in which closely-timed stacking and clamping processes represent a key point in the construction of fuel cell stacks as a mass product.

Le développement de la technologie « piles à combustible » nécessite l'utilisation d'outils de diagnostic adéquats notamment pour le monitoring de l'état de santé des systèmes industriels (stacks) dans les conditions réelles de fonctionnement. L'utilisation des moyens traditionnels de diagnostic nécessite l'arrêt ou la perturbation du fonctionnement du système. Le travail de cette thèse vise le développement d'une approche innovante non intrusive pour le diagnostic des stacks PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane), basée sur la mesure des petites fluctuations électriques (bruits électrochimiques). Pour mesurer les bruits, un système d'acquisition des faibles signaux à haute fréquence a été utilisé sans filtrage analogique préalable. Ces mesures ont été dans le cadre du projet ANR « Propice » pour quatre campagnes de mesures avec la collaboration du FCLAB et du CEA LITEN. Les mesures des bruits électrochimiques, sur plusieurs semaines, ont permis de construire une base de données extrêmement riche. Pour traiter ces données, différents approches statistiques dans le domaine temporel, fréquentiel et tempo-fréquentiel ont été utilisés pour la génération de descripteurs fiables et robustes. Il a été démontré que la mesure des bruits permet d'obtenir une riche signature des stacks PEM dans un vaste domaine fréquentiel. Cette signature reflète les différents phénomènes physico-chimiques et est très sensible aux paramètres de fonctionnement du système. L'évolution de cette signature au court de temps peut être utilisée pour le diagnostic in-situ de d'état de santé des stacks commerciaux dans les conditions réelles de fonctionnement et pour le développement des moyens de pronostic. / Fuel cell technology development requires adequate diagnostic tools, in particular for monitoring the state of health of industrial systems (stacks) under operating conditions. Traditional diagnostic tools require to stop or disrupt the system operating. This thesis aims at the development of an innovative and non-intrusive approach for the diagnostic of PEM (Proton Exchange Membrane) fuel cell stacks. The methodology is based on the measurement of small electrical fluctuations (electrochemical noise). To measure this noise, a high frequency signal acquisition system was used without prior analog filter. These measurements were obtained within the ANR project « Propice » using four measurement campaigns with the collaboration of FCLAB and CEA LITEN. Electrochemical noise Measurements, over several weeks, made it possible to build a rich database. To process these data, different statistical approaches in time, frequency and tempo-frequency domains have been used for the generation of reliable and robust descriptors. It has been shown that the measurement of noise makes it possible to obtain a rich signature of the PEM stacks in a wide frequency range. This signature reflects the various physico-chemical phenomena and it is very sensitive to the operating parameters of the system. The evolution of this signature in short time analysis can be used for an in-situ diagnostic of the state of health of commercial stacks under real operating conditions and for the development of prognostic strategies.

Submitted by JOSIANE SANTOS DE OLIVEIRA (josianeso) on 2018-02-22T13:55:41Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Robson de Azevedo Martins da Silva_.pdf: 3067819 bytes, checksum: d7b5c1e064c742114237189fe8cdc3d7 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-02-22T13:55:41Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Marcelo Robson de Azevedo Martins da Silva_.pdf: 3067819 bytes, checksum: d7b5c1e064c742114237189fe8cdc3d7 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-09-27 / Nenhuma / Existem muitas técnicas para reconstrução de objetos tridimensionais em computador, algumas são empregadas em ambientes controlados e outras em ambientes que não necessitam de grande precisão. Shape From Focus é um método bastante conhecido que utiliza uma pilha de fotografias retiradas com diferentes configurações focais para reconstruir um mapa de profundidade bastante preciso. Este método obtém maior estabilidade na reconstrução de objetos muito pequenos ou microscópios, mas recentemente vem sendo utilizado para reconstrução de ambientes. Com isso, o modelo de reconstrução de mapas de profundidade, Shape From Focus, passou a processar maiores quantidades de interferências na pilha de fotografias, como por exemplo, a distorção da lente, o aumento da profundidade de campo, o efeito zoom, entre outros, e também o ruído introduzido pelo ambiente. Este trabalho analisa os efeitos do suporte adaptativo para o janelamento de avaliação do medidor de qualidade de foco do método Shape From Focus. Apesar de diferentes trabalhos sobre este tema utilizarem diversas variações do janelamento de avaliação, o suporte adaptativo pode fornecer uma alternativa para encontrar a estabilidade e confiança na obtenção do mapa de profundidade, limitando o erro introduzido por interferências globais. / There are many techniques for reconstructing three-dimensional objects in a computer, some are used in controlled environments and others in environments that do not require great precision. Shape From Focus is one of the well-known method that uses a stack of cropped photographs with different focal settings to reconstruct a fairly accurate depth map. This method obtains greater stability in the reconstruction of very small objects or microscopes, but has recently been used for reconstruction of environments. As a result, the Shape From Focus reconstruction model began to process greater amounts of interference in the photo stack, such as lens distortion, increased depth of field, zoom effect, among others, as well as noise Introduced by the environment. This work analyzes the effects of the adaptive support for the evaluation window of the focus quality meter of the Shape From Focus method. Although different works on this theme use several variations of the evaluation window, the adaptive support can provide an alternative to find the stability and confidence in obtaining the depth map, limiting the error introduced by global interferences.

The essence of this diploma thesis is the design and implementation of driver for Profinet bus coupler from Phoenix Contact, which use computer's network card for communication. The proposal builds on the knowledge gained from available literature and analysis of Profinet protocol.

Syftet med det här examensarbetet är att presentera process och erfarenheter från mitt konstnärliga musikproduktionsprojekt som genomförts under mitt sista år av min masterutbildning. Genomförandet har bestått av att skapa ett svenskt popmusikalbum där låtar har skapats enskilt, genom samarbeten och tre verk har blivit slutförda och distribuerats på streamingtjänster så som Spotify och YouTube. Vidare är syfte att presentera en modell med hjälp av mitt konstnärliga arbete där det prövas potentiella omformuleringar för yrkesroller inom låtskapande. Dessa termer ska i sin tur underlätta rolldefinition inom låtskapande och även ge utrymme för att förtydliga den ideella rätten som medverkande i ett konstnärligt verk har. Med utgångspunkt till att musikproducenten ofta hamnar i en multikompetent position så har jag valt att låna begrepp från systemutvecklarens yrkesvärld för att skapa modellen. Begreppen jag valt att låna består av back-end, front-end och full-stack och avsikten är att bryta upp paraplybegrepp såsom ”låtskrivare, producent och performer” och även kunna bidra till tydligare rekryteringsprocesser för samarbeten inom låtskapande. / The purpose of this master’s thesis is to present the process and experiences of my music production project that was carried out during the last year of my masters’ studies. The project’s creative content is a Swedish pop album which created through collaborative and independent work. Three single releases and one music video have been released and distributed through the course of the project on streaming platforms such as Spotify and YouTube. In addition to the making of the album I have chosen to create a model to use as a frame for potential recruitment instances of creative collaborations, improve role definition and develop a more accurate method to credit rights holder’s moral credentials as a contributor to an artistic work. The root cause of this model is that a music producer often finds themselves as a multicompetent keyperson in creative collaborations where the lines between different professions overlap. The model is inspired of the software developers job terminology and aims to break up umbrella concept roles such as “songwriter, producer and performer” to facilitate the recruiting process of creative collaborations within the crafting of songs. The terminologies inspired out of the software developer’s professions are back-end, front-end and full-stack.

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 21, 2002 / Town & Country Hotel and Conference Center, San Diego, California / The advent of COTS based network-centric data systems brings a whole new vocabulary into the realm of instrumentation. The Communications and computer industries have developed networks to a high level and they continue to evolve. One of the basic techniques that has proven itself useful with this technology is the use of a “layered architecture.” This paper is an attempt to discuss the basic ideas behind this concept and to give some understanding of the vocabulary that has grown up with it.

Master of Science / Department of Computing and Information Sciences / Eugene Vasserman / The unprecedented growth of ubiquitous computing infrastructure has brought new challenges for security, privacy, and trust. New problems range from mobile apps with incomprehensible permission (trust) model to OpenSSL Heartbleed vulnerability, which disrupted the security of a large fraction of the world's web servers. As almost all of the software bugs and flaws boil down to programming errors/misalignment in requirements, we need to retrace back Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) and supply chain to check and place security & privacy consideration and implementation plan properly. Historically, there has been a divergent point of view between security teams and developers regarding security. Security is often thought of as a "consideration" or "toll gate" within the project plan rather than being built in from the early stage of project planning, development and production cycles. We argue that security can be effectively made into everyone's business in SDLC through a broader exploration of the users and their social-cultural contexts, gaining insight into their mental models of security and privacy and usage patterns of technology, trying to see why and how security practices being satisfied or not-satisfied, then transferring those observations into new tool building and protocol/interaction design. The overall goal in our current study is to understand the common challenges and/or misconceptions regarding security-related issues among developers. In order to investigate into this issue, we conduct a mixed-method analysis on the data obtained from Stack Overflow(SO), one of the most popular on-line QA sites for software developer community to communicate, collaborate, and share information with one another. In this study, we have adopted techniques from mining software repositories research paradigm and have employed topic modeling for analyzing security-related topics in SO dataset. To our knowledge, our work in SO data mining is one of the earliest systematic attempts to understand the roots of challenges, misconceptions, and deterrent factors, if any, among developers while they try to implement security features during software development. We argue that a proper understanding of these issues is a necessary first step towards "build security in" culture in SDLC.

The world of industrial manufacturing has changed a lot during the past decades. It has gone from a labour-intensive process of manual control of machines to a fully connected and automated process. The next big leap in industrial manufacturing is known as industry 4.0 or smart manufacturing. With industry 4.0 comes increased integration between IT systems and the factory floor. This change has proven challenging to implement into existing factories many with the intended lifespan of several decades. One of the single most important parameters to measure is the operating hours of each machine. This information can help companies better utilize their resources and save huge amounts of money.  The goal is to develop a solution which can track the operating hours of the machines using image analysis and the signal lights already mounted on the machines. Using methods commonly used for traffic light recognition in autonomous cars, a system with an accuracy of over 99% during the specified conditions, has been developed. It is believed that if more diverse video data becomes available a system, with high reliability that generalizes well, could be developed using similar methodology. / Industriell tillverkning har förändrats mycket under de senaste decennierna. Det har gått från en process som krävt mycket manuellt arbete till en process som är nästan helt uppkopplad och automatiserad. Nästa stora steg inom industriell tillverkning går under benämningen industri 4.0 eller smart tillverkning. Med industri 4.0 kommer en ökad integration mellan IT-system och fabriksgolvet. Denna förändring har visat sig vara särskilt svår att implementera i redan existerande fabriker som kan ha en förväntad livstid på flera årtionden. En av de viktigaste parametrarna att mäta inom industriell tillverkning är varje maskins operativa timmar. Denna information kan hjälpa företag att bättre utnyttja tillgängliga resurser och därigenom spara stora summor pengar. Målet är att utveckla en lösning som, med hjälp av bildanalys och de signalljus som maskinerna kommer utrustade med, kan mäta maskinernas operativa timmar. Med hjälp av metoder som vanligen används för trafikljusigenkänning i autonoma fordon har ett system med en träffsäkerhet på över 99% under de förutsättningar som presenteras i rapporten utvecklats. Om mer video med större variation blir tillgänglig är det mycket troligt att det går att utveckla ett system som har hög pålitlighet i de flesta produktionsmiljöer.