April 27, 2012
Recently while browsing some folders on my hard disk I discovered relicts from my time in Lausanne, Switzerland. Somehow, for me this is an interesting and exciting view back into the past - into something I had almost forgotten. I hope you enjoy seeing these documents as well.
April 24, 2012
In a previous article I showcased some logo ideas I created with Inkscape and Gimp. In the mean time I bought a Tablet PC with Stylus and discovered a little tool called MyPaint. As I would like to demonstrate in this article, this combination is great for logo sketching: It's fast, flexible, and sophisticated at the same time!
April 19, 2012
We are not there yet, but we are making good progress! That's probably the message of this second report on smart grid simulation (see first report). This article shows a first screenshot of our smart grid simulation software. The software allows us to assemble arbitrarily large smart grid systems from a kit of components.
April 16, 2012
Today the spring term started at the Technical University of Munich and so did our newly created smart grid seminar. The goal of the seminar is to teach young students about the area of Smart Grids and inspire them for their future academic careers. I hope in the coming months I can report good progress and interesting results.
April 12, 2012
To improve the usability of my blog I worked on two new features: (1) The timeline navigation and (2) the Facebook like button. When reading an article, the timeline navigation allows exploring the remaining blog articles in chronological order. Instead, the Facebook like button provides information about how interesting a given article is for the community.
April 05, 2012
I am happy to announce that my colleagues Maximilian Irlbeck, Vasileios Koutsoumpas, Denis Bytschkow and I successfully published a paper on applying formal software engineering techniques to smart grids at the ICSE'2012 workshop on software engineering challenges for the smart grid (SE4SG). The ICSE is the largest international conference on software engineering, a branch of computer science dedicated to systematic software development.
March 15, 2012
Due to the overwhelming response from the research community over the past 2 years I decided to put online my Master Thesis written at Fraunhofer FIT. I hope my experience will help at least a few researchers and enthusiasts to move forward with their approaches and technologies. Overall, this is my contribution to improving human-computer interaction towards a more ergonomic, inuitive and fun experience.
February 23, 2012
The last weeks my colleagues and I have been working hard on a basic simulation of a household with electric components and control software. We show first results in our latest YouTube video featuring weahter, user interaction, solar panels, a lamp and a refrigerator. The result is a show case for the direction we are working towards, i.e. large scale electric component and software simulation.
