To optimize production at Tyco Electronics Czech s.r.o. I designed and implemented an automated classification cell with a collaborative manipulator Universal Robots UR5e and a Cognex camera system. The classification cell is supposed to pick up the loose parts and then optically test them, sorting the parts into output binders following the inspection results. First of all, I had to learn programming language for Universal Robots manipulators and Cognex vision system. Next step was to design and draw an electrical diagram. According to the diagram, I connected the cabinet and other peripherals. I also programmed an algorithm controlling the manipulator arm and inspecting of both cameras. Finally, I successfully tested the functionality of the entire classification cell.

Le romantisme français est hanté par la fête de nuit, thème obsédant qui s’incarne dans les productions poétiques, dramatiques et narratives, majeures comme mineures, dès les libations de Smarra ou les Démons de la nuit de Charles Nodier. À partir de ce constat, cette thèse déploie et analyse le choix du cadre nocturne pour écrire la fête entre 1821 et 1856. L’étude du motif permet de rouvrir l’analyse de la nuit romantique pour montrer que ce thème livre, non pas une, mais plusieurs poétiques dont certaines se révèlent ancrées dans la modernité. La fête de nuit intègre tout d’abord l’imaginaire nocturne « traditionnel » du romantisme, lui-même hérité de représentations anciennes de la nuit, noire et claire. Or, ces nuits fantastiques, oniriques et lyriques ne sont pas toutes les nuits romantiques. Alors que la première moitié du XIXe siècle invente la nuit blanche, la littérature se fait la chambre d’échos bruyante de nuits parisiennes agitées, reflets d’une époque qui annonce les mythes de la ville-lumière et de la fête impériale. Ces images, qui circulent entre « littérature panoramique » et corpus romantique, trahissent la passion du siècle pour le spectaculaire. La fête de nuit transforme le quotidien en spectacle. Les fictions esquissent en outre des types de la fête de nuit parisienne souvent proches de la figure de l’auteur romantique, habituellement présenté comme un mélancolique solitaire. Porteuse de contrastes entre lumière et nuit, vie et mort, la fête de nuit apparaît finalement comme une posture existentielle et scripturaire adoptée par l’homme romantique qui entend se révolter contre la nuit noire, avec les feux et les fantaisies de la nuit blanche. / As a writing pattern, night feasts haunt French Romanticism since Nodier’s Smarra ou les Démons de la nuit (1821). The motif appears in poetic, dramatic and narrative works, in major as well as in minor productions. This thesis answers the following question : why is the night the place to write feasts in French Romanticism, between 1821 and 1856 ? In this way, this dissertation reopens the analysis of the Romantic night and shows that this theme provides not once but various poetics, some of them announcing modernity. Certainly, night feasts are part of a Romantic “classical” nocturnal imagination, inherited from ancient traditions. But fantastic, dreamlike and lyrical hues are not the only colors of the Romantic nights. In fact, thanks to the invention of night life in the early 19th century, Romantic works reflect restless Parisian nights, during a period which discovers night leisure activities, forecasting the myth of City of Light and the entertainment’s industry blooming during the Second Empire area. The images of the night feast, which circulate between “panoramic literature” and Romantic literature, reveal the century’s burning passion for sight. These nocturnal festivities transform everyday life into a show. Furthermore, fictions are brimming with archetypal characters inhabiting the Parisian festive nights, themselves often suggestive of the Romantic figure of the author, usually depicted as a melancholic loner. Based on contrasts, between light and darkness, life and death, the night feast is also an existential and creative pattern for Romantic authors who are using the night life and their lights as a way to rise up against the dark night.

abstract: The objective of this work is to design a novel method for imaging targets and scenes which are not directly visible to the observer. The unique scattering properties of terahertz (THz) waves can turn most building surfaces into mirrors, thus allowing someone to see around corners and various occlusions. In the visible regime, most surfaces are very rough compared to the wavelength. As a result, the spatial coherency of reflected signals is lost, and the geometry of the objects where the light bounced on cannot be retrieved. Interestingly, the roughness of most surfaces is comparable to the wavelengths at lower frequencies (100 GHz – 10 THz) without significantly disturbing the wavefront of the scattered signals, behaving approximately as mirrors. Additionally, this electrically small roughness is beneficial because it can be used by the THz imaging system to locate the pose (location and orientation) of the mirror surfaces, thus enabling the reconstruction of both line-of-sight (LoS) and non-line-of-sight (NLoS) objects. Back-propagation imaging methods are modified to reconstruct the image of the 2-D scenario (range, cross-range). The reflected signal from the target is collected using a SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) set-up in a lab environment. This imaging technique is verified using both full-wave 3-D numerical analysis models and lab experiments. The novel imaging approach of non-line-of-sight-imaging could enable novel applications in rescue and surveillance missions, highly accurate localization methods, and improve channel estimation in mmWave and sub-mmWave wireless communication systems. / Dissertation/Thesis / Masters Thesis Electrical Engineering 2019

Master of Science

Sinnesmarknadsföring är en viktigt aspekt för organisationer och påverkar alla människor medvetet eller undermedvetet. Studien fokuserar på tre sinnen, syn, doft och hörsel kopplat till den traditionella könsuppdelningen. Syftet är att kartlägga sinnesmarknadsföring på ett köpcentrum i Kalmar med namn Kvarteret Giraffen. Det är möjligt att segmentera efter könen för att på så sätt omfamna i stort sätt alla människor. Fallstudien undersöker hur Kvarteret Giraffen arbetar med sinnesmarknadsföring och om det är den rätta vägen att gå. Detta genomförs med kvalitativa intervjuer med både experter inom ämnet och personer med direkt koppling till Giraffen. Bör Giraffen använda sinnesmarknadsföring i förhållande till könen eller fortsätta med nuvarande strategi. Resultatet visar att Kvarteret Giraffen bör marknadsföra sig könsneutralt, men frågor och funderingar kring fenomenet uppmärksammas hos respondenter. / Sensory marketing is something every organization should take into consideration as it affects all people either consciously or subconsciously. The study focuses on three crucial senses, vision, scent, and hearing, in connection to the traditional gender divide. The purpose is to map sensory marketing on a shopping mall in Kalmar called Kvarteret Giraffen. It is possible to segment by gender, thus embracing virtually all people. The case study examines how Kvarteret Giraffen is working with sensory marketing and whether it is the right way to go or not. This is done with qualitative interviews with both experts in the subject and people with direct connection to Giraffen. Should Kvarteret Giraffen use sensory marketing relative to gender or continue with its current strategy. The result shows that Kvarteret Giraffen in question should use a gender-neutral marketing approach, however, questions and reflections about the phenomenon are noticeable among the respondents.

Die kürzer gewordenen Bremswege moderner Pkw erlauben ein schnelleres Anhalten im Gefahrenfall. Dadurch erscheint es möglich, zukünftig auch kürzere Haltesichtweiten im Straßenentwurf zu fordern. Es ist jedoch fraglich, ob ein verringertes Sichtweitenniveau eine ausreichende Fahrerorientierung gewährleisten kann. In drei umfangreichen Versuchsreihen wurde das Blick- und Fahrverhalten von Probanden bei Versuchsfahrten im realen Verkehr sowie im Fahrsimulator untersucht. Das Untersuchungsprogramm umfasste Fahrten mit Blickbewegungsmessung, die Bearbeitung von Nebenaufgaben sowie die Reaktion an plötzlich auftauchenden Hindernissen. Ausgewertet wurden der Verlauf von Beanspruchungsindikatoren, Zuwendungshäufigkeiten zu Nebenaufgaben sowie Parameter des Fahrverhaltens bei geringer werdenden Sichtweiten. Aus den Ergebnissen konnten verallgemeinerungsfähige Aussagen zum Verhalten von Fahrern bei unterschiedlichen Sichtweiten abgeleitet werden. Es wurden Sichtweitenbereiche definiert, in denen eine ansteigende Beanspruchung der Fahrer auf eine unzureichende Orientierung über den Streckenverlauf hinweist bzw. in denen plötzlich auftauchende Hindernisse nur noch unter Schwierigkeiten gemeistert werden können. Daraus wurde ein entwurfsklassenbezogenes Modell einer Orientierungssichtweite abgeleitet, das die Belange der Fahrerorientierung im Straßenentwurf würdigt. Die Ergebnisse wurden bei der Fortschreibung der Entwurfsrichtlinien für Straßen berücksichtigt.

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The purpose of this case study was to examine musical experiences which may affect student perceptions of self-efficacy in Advanced Placement (AP) Music Theory. Four students from a single AP Music Theory class participated in interviews where they discussed experiences in high school music study. Interview topics included ensemble participation in high school, outside-school involvement in musical activities and study, and perceptions of success in the course and preparation for the AP Music Theory examination. Specific research questions addressed in the study were: (1) What course skills addressed in AP Music Theory do students from different musical backgrounds feel most prepared to demonstrate within the context of the AP Music Theory examination? (2) What do student participants from different musical backgrounds cite as specific challenges in AP Music Theory? (3) How do students perceive their own musical backgrounds in relationship to their perceived success in AP Music Theory? Findings suggested that prior musical experiences and a positive, low-stress classroom atmosphere contributed to participants’ confidence completing fundamental performance tasks in AP Music Theory, and that those influences affected participants’ feelings of self-efficacy in the class and on the AP Music Theory examination. Conversely, participants’ application of prior knowledge and previously developed musical skills to more difficult AP-style performance tasks solicited feelings of self-doubt and lower levels of self-efficacy. Implications of this study suggest that teachers of school music ensembles, applied lessons, and AP Music Theory should consider student self-efficacy when designing instruction and planning rehearsals or lessons. Researchers might consider measuring student feelings of self-efficacy in specific performance tasks, and the ways in which teachers can help students to develop self-efficacy in music classes. / Music Education

[pt] Este trabalho examina, sob o enfoque de custos, de investimento e operação, dois sistemas de telecomunicações usualmente empregados no estabelecimento da ligação entre dois pontos: sistema de transmissão por cabo coaxial e sistema de transmissão em microondas em visibilidade. Cada sistema está dividido em suas partes componentes, cujos custos são levantados. Calculados estes em ambos os sistemas, define-se uma grandeza que os relaciona. Um sistema é apresentado a partir do número de canais e do comprimento do enlace, ficando perfeitamente caracterizado qual dos sistemas de transmissão é mais econômico, de acordo com o critério de decisão adotado. / [en] This work examines two telecomunications systems which are usually used in the establishment and operation - the transmission system by coaxial cable and the transmission system by microwaves line-of-sight. Both are divided in their campontent parts, which calculation in surveyd. After the surveying of costs of both system, one can define a relating magnitude. The moment a system is defined, considering the number of system is the most economic, according to the adopted criterion of decision.