Research Based Learning - Smart Sensing Applications (RBL)

Language

In Winter Term 2024, the course will be held in englisch (likely)

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General Motivation

When it comes to the terms sensors and research, you have to look very closely at what it is all about in the end. From the Smart Sensors department, research focuses on the sensor systems themselves, while at the same time sensors are an important component in various multidisciplinary research activities.

As a result, we as researching engineers have a dual function. On the one hand, we have to continuously improve the technical aspects of sensor systems and explore new methods; on the other hand, we have to consider our technical solutions to the needs, specifications and requirements for other research fields.

In this Research-Based-Learning course, motivated by an application, the relevant aspects in interdisciplinary sensor research will be taught. For this purpose, a close cooperation with another university is envisaged, which acts as a "stake-holder" for a superordinate research question, while we learn how to enable and cleanly document the technical basis for the preparation of interdisciplinary research.

Winter Term 2024 Topic: Facing Climate Change with remote sensing

Remote sensing offers a new way of observing the Earth’s climate system with continuous and high-resolution spatial coverage through satellite-based, aircraft-based, or drone-based sensor technologies. This can significantly improve our understanding of climate change and its potential impacts at global, regional, and local scales. The data collected with remote sensing technologies can also be used to validate our climate models, improve our knowledge of the physical and dynamical processes of the climate system, and help us to project future climate change and its impacts with minimized uncertainties. This Challenge aims to plan a mission for a small satellite that is actually capable of flight that is built in one of the TUHH's Bachelor's programme. In this Challenge, addressing Master students, we will focus on: which Big Question could be answered applying an UV-sensor to the satellite? What needs to be considered once the satellite is in space?

Work-Schedule and Technical Aspects

In this course, together with ECIU students, we will develop co-concepts for payloads for small satellites. These payloads should help to contribute to research in the field of climate change through remote sensing.

• Initially, this will be done in general terms in order to better approach the topic as a whole. The limitations, especially with small satellites, will play a role here (size, weight, power, data rates, contact times, resolutions, etc.).

• The implementation and hands-on experiments will then become more concrete. The satellite platform that we are currently targeting as part of the EduSat project serves as a starting point.

• A small payload prototype is to be built, which takes the STM32H7 micro controller of the EduSat OBC as a basis. Multi-spectral sensors and a thermal imaging sensor are to be integrated into the DevBoard of the OBC hardware. These sensors are to be used in our own experiments, for example, to experimentally experience and implement scenarios for monitoring plant conditions (drought stress, florescence, etc.).

During the course, we will remain on a conceptual level and want to better understand the technical aspects through hands-on experiments.

Literature and Further Reading

Remote Sensing

P. K. GargMercury Learning and Information20249781501522840.
doi:10.1515/9781501522840 [BibTex]

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BibTex Entry

@book{KGarg2024,
location = {Berlin, Boston},
author = {P. K. Garg},
doi = {doi:10.1515/9781501522840},
isbn = {9781501522840},
lastchecked = {2024-09-18},
publisher = {Mercury Learning and Information},
title = {Remote Sensing},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9781501522840},
year = {2024},
}

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Mechatronik: Grundlagen und Anwendungen technischer Systeme

Horst CzichosSpringer2015.
[BibTex]

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BibTex Entry

@book{czichos2015mechatronik,
author = {Czichos, Horst},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {Mechatronik: Grundlagen und Anwendungen technischer Systeme},
year = {2015},
}

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Taschenbuch der Messtechnik

Jörg HoffmannCarl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG2015.
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BibTex Entry

@book{hoffmann2015taschenbuch,
author = {Hoffmann, J{ö}rg},
publisher = {Carl Hanser Verlag GmbH Co KG},
title = {Taschenbuch der Messtechnik},
year = {2015},
}

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Smart sensors and systems

Chong-Min Kyung, Hiroto Yasuura, Yongpan Liu, Youn-Long LinSpringer2017.
[BibTex]

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BibTex Entry

@book{kyung2017smart,
author = {Kyung, Chong-Min and Yasuura, Hiroto and Liu, Yongpan and Lin, Youn-Long},
publisher = {Springer},
title = {Smart sensors and systems},
year = {2017},
}

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• STM32H7 micro controller
• EduSat OBC
• Multi-spectral sensors
• Thermal imaging sensor

Evaluation

After semester the evaluation results will be published here.