TY  - JOUR
A1  - Friedrich, Tobias
A1  - Krejca, Martin Stefan
A1  - Rothenberger, Ralf
A1  - Arndt, Tobias
A1  - Hafner, Danijar
A1  - Kellermeier, Thomas
A1  - Krogmann, Simon
A1  - Razmjou, Armin
T1  - Routing for on-street parking search using probabilistic data
JF  - AI communications : AICOM ; the European journal on artificial intelligence
N2  - A significant percentage of urban traffic is caused by the search for parking spots. One possible approach to improve this situation is to guide drivers along routes which are likely to have free parking spots. The task of finding such a route can be modeled as a probabilistic graph problem which is NP-complete. Thus, we propose heuristic approaches for solving this problem and evaluate them experimentally. For this, we use probabilities of finding a parking spot, which are based on publicly available empirical data from TomTom International B.V. Additionally, we propose a heuristic that relies exclusively on conventional road attributes. Our experiments show that this algorithm comes close to the baseline by a factor of 1.3 in our cost measure. Last, we complement our experiments with results from a field study, comparing the success rates of our algorithms against real human drivers.
KW  - Parking search
KW  - probabilistic routing
KW  - constrained optimization
KW  - field study
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.3233/AIC-180574
SN  - 0921-7126
SN  - 1875-8452
VL  - 32
IS  - 2
SP  - 113
EP  - 124
PB  - IOS Press
CY  - Amsterdam
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Kovacs, Robert
A1  - Ion, Alexandra
A1  - Lopes, Pedro
A1  - Oesterreich, Tim
A1  - Filter, Johannes
A1  - Otto, Philip
A1  - Arndt, Tobias
A1  - Ring, Nico
A1  - Witte, Melvin
A1  - Synytsia, Anton
A1  - Baudisch, Patrick
T1  - TrussFormer
BT  - 3D Printing Large Kinetic Structures
T2  - The 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
N2  - We present TrussFormer, an integrated end-to-end system that allows users to 3D print large-scale kinetic structures, i.e., structures that involve motion and deal with dynamic forces.  TrussFormer  builds  on  TrussFab,  from  which  it inherits the ability to create static large-scale truss structures from 3D printed connectors and PET bottles. TrussFormer adds movement to these structures by placing linear actuators into them: either manually, wrapped in reusable components called assets, or by demonstrating the intended movement. TrussFormer  verifies  that  the  resulting  structure  is mechanically sound and will withstand the dynamic forces resulting  from  the  motion. To  fabricate  the  design, TrussFormer generates the underlying hinge system that can be printed on standard desktop 3D printers.  We demonstrate TrussFormer  with  several  example  objects,  including  a 6-legged walking robot and a 4m-tall animatronics dinosaur with 5 degrees of freedom.
KW  - fabrication
KW  - 3D printing
KW  - variable geometry truss
KW  - large-scale mechanism
Y1  - 2019
SN  - 978-1-4503-5971-9
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3290607.3311766
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - GEN
A1  - Kovacs, Robert
A1  - Ion, Alexandra
A1  - Lopes, Pedro
A1  - Oesterreich, Tim
A1  - Filter, Johannes
A1  - Otto, Philip
A1  - Arndt, Tobias
A1  - Ring, Nico
A1  - Witte, Melvin
A1  - Synytsia, Anton
A1  - Baudisch, Patrick
T1  - TrussFormer
BT  - 3D Printing Large Kinetic Structures
T2  - UIST '18: Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
N2  - We present TrussFormer, an integrated end-to-end system that allows users to 3D print large-scale kinetic structures, i.e., structures that involve motion and deal with dynamic forces. TrussFormer builds on TrussFab, from which it inherits the ability to create static large-scale truss structures from 3D printed connectors and PET bottles. TrussFormer adds movement to these structures by placing linear actuators into them: either manually, wrapped in reusable components called assets, or by demonstrating the intended movement. TrussFormer verifies that the resulting structure is mechanically sound and will withstand the dynamic forces resulting from the motion. To fabricate the design, TrussFormer generates the underlying hinge system that can be printed on standard desktop 3D printers. We demonstrate TrussFormer with several example objects, including a 6-legged walking robot and a 4m-tall animatronics dinosaur with 5 degrees of freedom.
KW  - Fabrication
KW  - 3D printing
KW  - variable geometry truss
KW  - large scale mechanism
Y1  - 2018
SN  - 978-1-4503-5948-1
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1145/3242587.3242607
SP  - 113
EP  - 125
PB  - Association for Computing Machinery
CY  - New York
ER  -