Description of the research topics

Sustainable Communication Networks
Field of study: 06.5 - Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Various topics in the area of sustainable communication networks, including wireless sensor networks, resource efficient protocols, simulation of wireless networks, opportunistic networks, sustainability applications.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Anna Förster: anna.foerster@comnets.uni-bremen.de
www.comNets.uni-bremen.de
 


Transfer of concepts/mechanisms of biological systems to production/logistics systems
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
In order to manage the increasing structural and dynamic complexity of production and logistics systems, new planning and control methods have to be developed. In the future, logistics have to be flexible to adapt to changing conditions and fluctuating work load. In addition to that, logistics should operate energy-efficient and resource-conserving. Such characteristics can be found in natural and biological systems, which are very robust and at the same time extremely adaptable. Particularly noteworthy is the resistance of biological systems in terms of failing subsystems as well as the ability for self-organization, self-reproduction and differentiation.
The aim of this work is to transfer concepts and mechanisms of biological systems to production and logistics systems. This shall lead to fundamentally new organizational forms and new coordination and control approaches. In this sense, production and logistics systems could develop and restructure themselves according to the same principles as biological systems do. Then, a planner would not develop the final layout of a logistics system, but formulate technical and spatial limitations. Within these limitations processes grow analogous to the principles of biological systems. Production and logistics systems designed is such a way could use their complexity for self-organization and self-adaption. Furthermore, they could use these abilities in a flexible and resource-conserving way to react on the high internal and external dynamics.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Michael Freitag
www.ips.biba.uni-bremen.de/home.html?&L=1
 
 


Application of sensor systems for monitoring of logistical processes 1
Field of study: 06.2 - Electrical Engineering
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Several product parameters can change during transport, storage and processing. Accurate and real-time sensor monitoring helps to reduce losses and to improve processes.
The development of specialized sensors are needed. The focus will be on the design and fabrication of sensor elements by micro technologies and related electrical circuits and software. Example applications include gas sensors, air flow sensors, detection of ethylene and fungi spores.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Dr. Rainer Jedermann
www.intelligentcontainer.com/
 
 


Application of sensor systems for monitoring of logistical processes 2
Field of study: 06.2 - Electrical Engineering
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Several product parameters can change during transport, storage and processing. Accurate and real-time sensor monitoring helps to reduce losses and to improve processes.
The research concerns the analysis of data resulting from a set of networked sensors. This includes the detection of spatial patters in temperature distribution or other parameters, as well as linking the sensor data with biological models to predict changes in the quality of perishable products.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Dr. Rainer Jedermann
www.intelligentcontainer.com/
 


Intelligent interactive Systems
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Digital Ecosystems like logistics infrastructures are complex networks with a high level of self-organization and hybrid control mechanisms. Typically humans are involved at various locations in these systems: they are customers, managers, workers or experts for certain activities. In order to model the human in the loop and to allow for understandable interaction in and with such systems we do research on semantic technologies, human computer-interaction, human computation and information visualization.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka: malaka@tzi.de
www.tzi.de
 
 


Smart Products and Services
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Smart Products and Services are able to provide information about their whereabouts, their environment, their state and usage situation and thus an embedded semantic product memory . By using embedded semantic product memories and the autonomous ability to make decisions within Smart Products in a smart factory, production and logistics processes for customized products can be optimized, kept flexible and cost efficient.
The focus of this doctoral research project is on the investigation of procedures and methods for the development, simulation and validation of Smart Products and Services. To that effect the methods of systems engineering and software engineering are to be reconsidered , and an integration of anticipated communication capabilities, functionality and physical product and service behavior must be achieved. Smart Products and Services must be designed and developed in a way that they are always functional in a complex operating environment with diverse event structures and reliable performance even taking into account the new failure modes of Internet-based intelligent systems.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog: herzog@tzi.de
www.tzi.de
 
 


Multiagent Systems
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Multiagent Systems are a basic technology to model, analyze and simulate distributed autonomous systems. The goal of this doctoral research project is the the development of a generic agent-based system architecture for the semantic modeling and the analysis of Smart Products and Services through logic, analytic, probability, and simulation approaches.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog: herzog@tzi.de
 
 


Knowledge representation for robots, perception and robotics
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Implementation of an automated kinematic calibration for the complete body of a service robot. This includes calibration of the poses of several cameras on the robot's head, the position of the robots arms and the torso. The goal of this project is to have an automated calibration routine, in which the robot has calibration plates on its grippers, and automatically moves the head and the arms to collect data necessary for the kinematic calibration. After collecting data, the corrected poses of the sensors and actuators should be entered into the description of the robot (URDF). The software used will be ROS and Halcon (from MvTec). Good programming skills in Python, C and C++ are required.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Michael Beetz PhD: veit@tzi.de
www.ai.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Object Discovery in household environments
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Objects in a household environment can be found at very different locations. They can be on a table, in a drawer or a cupboard or inside a dishwasher or refrigerator. Robots operating in these environments need to be capable of locating and detecting these objects. In this project we will investigate 2D and 3D perception methods for correctly finding and identifying objects of daily use in challenging kitchen scenarios.
Requirements would be: excellent programming skills in C/C++, experience in computer vision, 3D robotic perception.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Michael Beetz PhD: veit@tzi.de
www.ai.uni-bremen.de
 


Simple Dynamic Platooning in Green Transportation
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Platooning of trucks has a major impact on the pollutant emission and the energy requirements of the trucks. The aim of the project is to derive a simple dynamic connect/disconnect rule for a road network with fixed linking points and stochastic arrivals of trucks under current legal restrictions.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pannek: pan@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.dil.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Outward Stable Control of Smart Energy Grids
Field of study: 06.9 - Others - Engineering, Technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
The main risk of distributed energy generation and consumption lies in the stability of the overall network connecting multiple smart grids. The goal of this project is to analyse the impact of including such an outward stability condition on the performance of the smart grid. As a main tool to give a provable bound the relaxed Lyapunov inequality shall be used.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Jürgen Pannek: pan@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.dil.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Value Added Services in Maritime Port Logistics
Field of study: 04.2 - Business Studies with technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Literature review, elaboration of business models, business process modeling, identification of business cases and new models for coordination and cooperation.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis: haasis@uni-bremen.de
www.pro.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/en/
 
 


Logistics Services on Demand - New Trends in Cloud Logistics
Field of study: 04.2 - Business Studies with technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Literature review, elaboration of business models, business process modeling, identification of business cases and new models for coordination and cooperation.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis: haasis@uni-bremen.de
www.pro.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/en/
 
 


Design of Logistics Centers along Transportation Corridors
Field of study: 02.6 - Transport and Traffic Studies
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Literature review, elaboration of business models, business process modeling, identification of business cases and new models for coordination and cooperation.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis: haasis@uni-bremen.de
www.pro.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/en/
 
 


Self-coordinating cargo transportation systems
Field of study: 02.6 - Transport and Traffic Studies
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Literature review, elaboration of business models, business process modeling, identification of business cases and new models for coordination and cooperation.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis: haasis@uni-bremen.de
www.pro.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/en/
 
 


City of the future - smart grids for sustainable crowd transportation
Field of study: 04.2 - Business Studies with technology
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD, Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Literature review, elaboration of business models, business process modeling, identification of business cases and new models for coordination and cooperation.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Hans-Dietrich Haasis: haasis@uni-bremen.de
www.pro.wiwi.uni-bremen.de/en/
 
 


Resource Sharing within Transportation System for Inter-terminal Transshipment
Field of study: 04.2 - Business Studies with technology
Targeted mobilities: Post-Doctorate, Academic Staff
 
Resource sharing is a very important issue in logistics which enables a considerable increase of efficiency and offers a lot of chances for increasing the economic and ecological sustainability of logistics systems. The benefits of resource sharing are not yet intensively investigated in the scientific community, and the potential of resource sharing is by far not fully exploited in current logistics systems. In particular for transportation systems there are many options for improving transportation processes by sharing resources like for instance logistics equipment, information systems, customer orders, specific knowhow, newsworthy information, etc. Within this project, the sharing of more or less common resources is intended to be performed by independent partners within a transportation system for inter-terminal transport and transshipment. After a thorough analysis of the underlying system, the actors and processes, she will develop mathematical models and solution approaches for a joint optimization of collaborative processes of several partners in inter-terminal transportation. It is expected that her work will produce a valuable practical contribution resulting in an improvement of the way of cooperating in “Hinterland-transportation-Systems” and in a reduction of the total cost of all participating partners. This improvement further has the chance to diminish the pollution and the capacity demand for transportation lanes of the hinterland transport network.
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Prof. Dr. Herbert Kopfer: kopfer@uni-bremen.de
 
 


Integration of Internet-of-Things in Serious Games environments 1
Field of study: 06.6 - Manufacturing Sciences (including CAD, CAM, CAE)
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Develop and improve Learning analytics
Field of study: 06.5 - Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Applying AI in Serious Games 1
Field of study: 06.5 - Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Serious Games Development
Field of study: 04.9 - Others – Business Studies, Management Science
Targeted mobilities: Doctorate/PhD
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Management courses /SCRM/concurrent engineering
Field of study: 05.9 - Others – Education, Teacher Training
Targeted mobilities: Academic Staff
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Serious Games
Field of study: 06.5 - Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications
Targeted mobilities: Post-Doctorate
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de
 
 


Internet-of-Things and Serious Games
Field of study: 06.5 - Electronic Engineering, Telecommunications
Targeted mobilities: Post-Doctorate
 
Contact:
Dr.-Ing. Ingrid Rügge: logistics-gs@biba.uni-bremen.de
www.logistics-gs.uni-bremen.de
Jannicke Baalsrud Hauge
www.gaminglab.biba.uni-bremen.de