<p>This report was written as a result of a Bachelor Degree Project at the School of Technology and Society at University of Skövde spring 2007, together with Jede AB in Mariestad. The report covers the development of a door to a coffee vending machine that is under construction, and will in a chronological order describe the project from ideas to final product.</p><p>The project started with a rather extensive feasibility study that thru market research and user tests sorted out the opinions of potential customers, concerning today’s available assortment. Technical areas concerning materials and manufacturing methods were also scrutinized for the consideration of the possibilities of a future production.</p><p>The next step was to constructively generate ideas and thoughts that later on could grow to be potential solutions. After several weeks of hard work and pieces of good advice and recommendations from the assigner, four comprehensive concepts were built up. After a deliberation, the project group at Jede determined to proceed with one of the concepts.</p><p>This concept was modeled in the CAD program Pro Engineer, and was later on used to produce a full-scale model of the door. After having evaluated the prototype and making the door compatible with the components that were to be used, a satisfying result approached.</p><p>When the project was brought to its end, all material was handed over to the assigner, including a computer model that will be used to manufacture moulding forms. If everything goes as planned, the coffee vending machine will be available on the market during the beginning of 2008.</p><p>To sum up the project a discussion concerning the assignment and all its matters will be brought up in the end of this report.</p> / <p>Denna rapport har skrivits i samband med ett examensarbete i integrerad produktutveckling på designingenjörsprogrammet vid Högskolan i Skövde våren 2007, i samarbete med Jede AB i Mariestad. Rapporten behandlar framtagningen av en ny dörr till en kaffeautomat som konstrueras på företaget, och beskriver projektet i kronologisk ordning från idé till färdig produkt.</p><p>Projektet startade med relativt omfattande förstudie som utforskade vad företagets potentiella kunder tyckte om det sortiment som finns på marknaden idag. Även tekniska områden berörande material och tillverkningsmetoder granskades för att få klarhet i vilket utbud som möjliggjorde en framtida produktion av dörren.</p><p>Med en stadig grund att stå på inleddes idégenereringsfasen, vilken innebär att på ett konstruktivt sätt ta fram en mängd olika idéer att sedan arbeta vidare med. Efter att ha fått fingervisningar, råd och rekommendationer från företaget stod efter flera veckors arbete fyra koncept klara. Koncepten överlämnades till projektgruppen på Jede som efter överläggning valde ut ett koncept att gå vidare med.</p><p>Det slutgiltiga konceptet modellerades upp och bearbetades i CAD programmet Pro Engineer, vilket senare ledde till framtagning av en fullskalig prototyp. Efter att ha utvärderat prototypen och gjort dörren kompatibel med de komponenter som skulle ingå, närmades ett tillfredsställande resultat.</p><p>När projektet avslutades överlämnades material som var klart för verktygstillverkning, och om projektet fortskrider i planerad takt kommer automaten att finnas ute på marknaden under första kvartalet 2008.</p><p>Avslutningsvis diskuteras utvecklingsgruppens egna åsikter om projektupplägget och samarbetet med uppdragsgivaren, resultatet och tiden som följer efter projektets avslut.</p>

Techn. University, Diss., 1999--Berlin.

The content of the thesis is to familiarize students with module PLC Siemens LOGO! and its practical use in teaching courses in the subjects as automation, electro-nics and mechatronics at vocational secondary schools. The content is focused on the basic description of the development and graphical environment and its use in practical problems solving. In the practical part of the proposals there are worksheets for pupils with the design of pupils´ simple tasks. After studying this text and the compilation of practical problems, the student should be capable of independent operation with module PLC Siemens LOGO! and implementation of complex applications.

The aim of this diploma thesis was to obtain basic information about the milking process and than formulate findings about the behavior of dairy cows during milking and after 30 minutes after milking. There were compared data obtained during the milking in the milking parlor with a robot and in conventional milking parlor. Ethological observation was conducted for 24 hours and was focused on all milked cows during three different seasons at two different farms. During the monitoring there were conducted observations on 862 pieces 478 pieces on the farm with a milking robot and 384 pieces on the farm with a herringbone milking parlor. The data collection took place during the observation of the Holstein cattle and was focused in three areas of animal behavior. There was compared the need for feed intake, drinking and lying down of cows 30 minutes after they leaved the milking equipment. Obtained results were evaluated by means of two programs Microsoft Excel and Statistics 9.

The intended goal of this manuscript is to build bridges between two definitions of complexity. One of them, called the algorithmic complexity is well-known to any computer scientist as the difficulty of performing some task such as sorting or optimizing the outcome of some system. The other one, etymologically closer from the word "complexity" is about what happens when many parts of a system are interacting together. Just as cells in a living body, producers and consumers in some non-planned economies or mathematicians exchanging ideas to prove theorems. On the algorithmic side, the main objects that we are going to use are two models of computations, one called communication protocols, and the other one circuits. Communication protocols are found everywhere in our world, they are the basic stone of almost any human collaboration and achievement. The definition we are going to use of communication reflects exactly this idea of collaboration. Our other model, circuits, are basically combinations of logical gates put together with electrical wires carrying binary values, They are ubiquitous in our everyday life, they are how computers compute, how cell phones make calls, yet the most basic questions about them remain widely open, how to build the most efficient circuits computing a given function, How to prove that some function does not have a circuit of a given size, For all but the most basic computations, the question of whether they can be computed by a very small circuit is still open. On the other hand, our main object of study, cellular automata, is a prototype of our second definition of complexity. What "does" a cellular automaton is exactly this definition, making simple agents evolve with interaction with a small neighborhood. The theory of cellular automata is related to other fields of mathematics�� such as dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics, and topology. Several uses of cellular automata have been suggested, ranging from the simple application of them as a model of other biological or physical phenomena, to the more general study in the theory of computation. / The intended goal of this manuscript is to build bridges between two definitions of complexity. One of them, called the algorithmic complexity is well-known to any computer scientist as the difficulty of performing some task such as sorting or optimizing the outcome of some system. The other one, etymologically closer from the word "complexity" is about what happens when many parts of a system are interacting together. Just as cells in a living body, producers and consumers in some non-planned economies or mathematicians exchanging ideas to prove theorems. On the algorithmic side, the main objects that we are going to use are two models of computations, one called communication protocols, and the other one circuits. Communication protocols are found everywhere in our world, they are the basic stone of almost any human collaboration and achievement. The definition we are going to use of communication reflects exactly this idea of collaboration. Our other model, circuits, are basically combinations of logical gates put together with electrical wires carrying binary values, They are ubiquitous in our everyday life, they are how computers compute, how cell phones make calls, yet the most basic questions about them remain widely open, how to build the most efficient circuits computing a given function, How to prove that some function does not have a circuit of a given size, For all but the most basic computations, the question of whether they can be computed by a very small circuit is still open. On the other hand, our main object of study, cellular automata, is a prototype of our second definition of complexity. What "does" a cellular automaton is exactly this definition, making simple agents evolve with interaction with a small neighborhood. The theory of cellular automata is related to other fields of mathematics, such as dynamical systems, symbolic dynamics, and topology. Several uses of cellular automata have been suggested, ranging from the simple application of them as a model of other biological or physical phenomena, to the more general study in the theory of computation.

O trabalho proposto considerou o desenvolvimento de uma abordagem por autômatos celulares para modelagem de recursos minerais. De uma maneira geral, os autômatos celulares permitem a modelagem de sistemas e fenômenos levando em conta parâmetros de forma, dimensão, geometria, regras de evolução, regras de vizinhança e estado inicial. Para a aplicação dos autômatos celulares, foi desenvolvida uma ferramenta de software com apoio do Núcleo de Desenvolvimento de Software, do Departamento de Engenharia de Departamento de Sistemas Eletrônicos da Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo. A ferramenta de modelagem desenvolvida foi aplicada para modelar um banco de dados conhecido na mineração, que é o Walker Lake Dataset Isaaks e Srivastava (1989). Os resultados obtidos demonstraram que a abordagem por ACs tem potencial para a área de modelagem de recursos minerais, e indicaram a importância de definir uma metodologia específica para a seleção do método de interpolação mais adequado para cada conjunto de dados estudados. / This research project proposes a new approach for modeling geological resources using cellular automata. In general, cellular automata allow modeling systems taking into account parameters of shape, dimensions, evolution rules, neighboring rules and initial state of the cells. For the application of cellular automata in this project, a new tool has been developed in conjunction with the Software Development Group of the Department of Electronics of University of São Paulo. The modeling tool has been applied to model a popular dataset in mining which is the Waker Lake dataset (Isaaks e Srivastava,1989). The results showed that the approach has potential for ACs to the area of modeling of mineral resources and indicated the importance of defining an interpolation method most appropriate for evolutionary change of ACs for the dataset studied.

Please read the abstract (Synopsis) in the section, 00front, of this document / Dissertation (M Eng (Control Engineering))--University of Pretoria, 2008. / Chemical Engineering / MEng / unrestricted

Gambling is a complicated topic not only because of its addictive features but it requires knowledge of medical, social and economic field. The current public discussion about new gambling law is moreover disturbed by false arguments and manipulations coming from activists. In the first part of this thesis I focused on paper (PCP, 2014): Socio-economic costs of gambling in Czech Republic, which is considered to be a cornerstone of new gambling law. I reviewed its way of data transfering and its presumptions and found out that the original amount of the costs were overvalued by 120 %. I also analysed the impacts of proposed measures, which have been prepared by the Treasury, the main regulator of gambling market. Measures are presented as harm reducing, but they will subvert the industry instead. In the third section I consider the threats and costs of electronic gaming machines prohibition, which had been introduced in some municipalities. The data analysis as well as field research did not validate the positive effects of EGM ban presented by anti-gambling activists. In final chapter I'm following less common approach to gambling not as a threat but as an opportunity and trying to evaluate the potential of gamblers from Germany and Austria, who are the frequent visitors of casinos at the czech side of the borders.

Tato disertační práce je zaměřena na vysokorychlostní simulace dopravy a jejich přesnou kalibraci pomocí různých typů dopravních dat. Práce se po úvodním popisu motivace pro samotný výzkum nejdříve věnuje současnému stavu poznání, a dále rozdělení simulátorů dopravy, zejména podle typu dat, se kterými se v nich pracuje. Úpravou existujícího řešení je navržen vlastní mikrosimulační model, který je založen na principu celulárního automatu. S tímto novým modelem je pak experimentováno, zpočátku z pohledu rychlosti simulace a další rozšiřitelnosti. Je navržena a popsána technika, kterou je možné navržený model významně akcelerovat a následně provádět simulace rychleji než v reálném čase i pro rozsáhlá území. Práce dále přistupuje k samotné kalibraci modelu, ke které byl využit evoluční přístup. Je představena metoda pro efektivní způsob optimalizace parametrů mikrosimulačního modelu, která nevyžaduje citlivostní analýzu a je schopná nalézt jinak obtížně nastavitelné parametry modelu. Kvalita získaných optimalizovaných modelů byla analyzována jak pomocí makroskopických, tak i mikroskopických dopravních dat, a to i s ohledem na jejich reálné vlastnosti, tj. chybějící vzorky. Dále jsou zhodnoceny výkonnostní a jiné kvalitativní parametry vlastního přístupu v porovnání s existujícími řešeními, přičemž bylo dosaženo významného zlepšení. Nakonec jsou představeny nástroje, které v rámci řešení vznikly. Na závěr je uvedeno další zaměření výzkumu, a to zejména s ohledem na využití výsledků práce v praxi.

The diploma thesis is focused on comparison of sensored and sensorless control of 3phase BLDC motor. This diploma thesis was compiled with engineers from Honeywell, spol. s r. o. and NXP Semiconductors comapny. Theoretical part of the diploma thesis is describing princip of function BLDC motor and different methods of control. The testing of NXP sensored and sensorless application is done in the practical part. Regarding to the fact, that applications were provided by NXP, furthemore the diploma thesis additionally contains a state machine using sensorless application from NXP. Finally, the author is evaluating a cooperation with NXP company and he thinks about next possible cooperation.