Differences and similarities in perceptions of interactions with Artificial Social Agents between German and English speakers

Humans interact with various Artificial Social Agents (ASAs) on a daily basis. ASAs range from the Honda robot ASIMO to Apple’s Siri. To measure the perception of human-ASA interactions, a standardized questionnaire was created. Yet, this questionnaire was so far only available in English and Chinese. It has been found that culture can affect...

Opto-Electrical Simulation of Perovskite/Silicon Tandem Solar Cell: ASA optimization of Pvk/c-Si tandem simulation

Emerging PV technologies like Perovskite has lead to the development of Perovskite/Silicon (Pvk/c-Si) tandem device (Multi-junction device) and has now gained a lot of momentum and attention due to the fact that the tandem device can reach a Shockley-Quisser limit of about 44.1% efficiency. But to speed up its development, a lot of emphasis is...

Simulation of Perovskite absorber materials for the application in flexible thin-film devices following HyET's solar cell structure: GenPro4 and ASA based simulations of a-Si, nc-Si, low and high bandgap perovskite single junction and tandem solar cells

Individual actions cannot solve the current climate crisis. Part of the collective effort is to research solar energy as new ways to produce cleaner, cheaper and more efficient electricity. Among all the current solar cell technologies, a thriving and promising one is perovskite as an absorber material. In the last ten years, the power...

Fabrication and Analysis of a-Si:H/μc-Si:H Tandem Solar Cell on Flexible Al Substrates: A Flamingo PV Project

Our world is on its way to re-engineer the daily life based on renewable clean energy. And this multilateral attempt to combat environmental and climate change has its focus perfectly poised to embrace the infinite energy source - solar energy as an alternative. Thin-film photovoltaic technology also referred to as second-generation technology...

A Decentralized Recovery Method for Air Traffic Conflicts

In an effort to increase airspace capacity, new methods for the decentralization of air traffic control have been a topic for research since the early nineties. The Modified Voltage Potential is a method to provide decentralized conflict detection and resolution. Through this method, aircraft can fly direct routes while resolving conflicts in a...

Optimisation of a-Si:H/μc-Si:H Tandem Solar Cell on Flexible Al Substrates: Use of Modelling for Cell Design and Performance Predictions

The future of our energy supply cannot continue to depend on the use of exhaustible fossil fuels. The successful transition to a society powered by renewable energy sources is one of the major challenges our current generation faces. Renewable systems will only fully establish themselves if high conversion efficiencies can be obtained at a...

The Effect of Intent on Conflict Detection and Resolution at High Traffic Densities

The use of drones for applications such as package delivery, in an urban setting, would result in traffic densities that are orders of magnitude higher than any observed in manned aviation. Such densities not only make automated conflict detection and resolution a necessity, but it will also force a reevaluation of aspects such as centralised vs...

Multi-aircraft Conflict Resolution using Velocity Obstacles

Currently, Air Traffic Control is responsible for the separation of air traffic in our limited airspace. To facilitate the continuing growth of air traffic, an ambitious plan is to give the responsibility of the separation task to the pilots of the aircraft. The behavior of existing conflict resolution methods within this decentralized approach...

Design of a Co-Planar Airborne Separation Display

This paper describes a concept for a coplanar airborne self-separation display, which is designed to aid pilots in their separation task, by visualizing the possibilities for conflict resolution that the airspace provides. This study is a part of an ongoing research toward the design of a constraint-based 3-D separation assistance interface that...

Experimental Evaluation of a Coplanar Airborne Separation Display

Two experiments, an active conflict resolution task and a passive situation awareness assessment, were conducted that compared two versions of a constraint-based coplanar airborne separation assistance display. A baseline display showed a maneuver space based on 2-D projections of traffic and performance constraints. A second augmented display...

Design of an Airborne Three-Dimensional Separation Assistance Display

In the context of the Next Generation Air Transportation System and Single European Sky ATM Research future airspace programs, this paper describes a concept for an airborne separation assurance display that is designed to aid pilots in their task of self-separation, by visualizing the possibilities for conflict resolution that the airspace...