scholarly journals Determining infrastructure requirements for an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Feldhoff ◽  
Gonçalo Soares Roque
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Utilization Factor ◽  
Passenger Demand ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Taxi Service ◽  
Parking Garages ◽  
Key Issues ◽  
Current Operating

AbstractThe worldwide increasing population density in major urban centres poses great challenges for transportation systems. Air taxi services could be a solution to this growing problem by bringing the existing transportation system to the three dimensional space. This paper analyzes the challenges and requirements of developing a vertiport intended for the use of air taxis at Cologne Bonn Airport. This research was conducted with the information available at the time of writing, for which a basis scenario is defined for the Cologne Bonn Airport where important aspects of an air taxi service are determined such as passenger demand and possible vehicles. The main aspects analysed were the requirements on the vertiport infrastructure and its location, as well as the requirements on passenger processing. For the defined basis scenario, results show that the preferential locations to develop a vertiport at Cologne Bonn Airport are the roof top levels of parking garages P2 and P3. Furthermore, it is shown that given the estimated passenger demand, a very high utilization factor of the defined infrastructure is to be expected. This paper provides a starting point for the development of an air taxi service at Cologne Bonn Airport. Further research is needed in key issues such as the financial aspects of an air taxi service, its integration into the current operating scenario of the Cologne Bonn Airport and the approval process for an air taxi service and the vertiport itself.

Different Learned Coordinate Frames for Planning Trajectories and Final Positions in Reaching

2007 ◽  
Vol 98 (6) ◽  
pp. 3614-3626 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claude Ghez ◽  
Robert Scheidt ◽  
Hank Heijink
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Hand Position ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Final Position ◽  
Visuomotor Rotation ◽  
Coordinate Frames ◽  
Single Target ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Separate Control

We previously reported that the kinematics of reaching movements reflect the superimposition of two separate control mechanisms specifying the hand's spatial trajectory and its final equilibrium position. We now asked whether the brain maintains separate representations of the spatial goals for planning hand trajectory and final position. One group of subjects learned a 30° visuomotor rotation about the hand's starting point while performing a movement reversal task (“slicing”) in which they reversed direction at one target and terminated movement at another. This task required accuracy in acquiring a target mid-movement. A second group adapted while moving to—and stabilizing at—a single target (“reaching”). This task required accuracy in specifying an intended final position. We examined how learning in the two tasks generalized both to movements made from untrained initial positions and to movements directed toward untrained targets. Shifting initial hand position had differential effects on the location of reversals and final positions: Trajectory directions remained unchanged and reversal locations were displaced in slicing whereas final positions of both reaches and slices were relatively unchanged. Generalization across directions in slicing was consistent with a hand-centered representation of desired reversal point as demonstrated previously for this task whereas the distributions of final positions were consistent with an eye-centered representation as found previously in studies of pointing in three-dimensional space. Our findings indicate that the intended trajectory and final position are represented in different coordinate frames, reconciling previous conflicting claims of hand-centered (vectorial) and eye-centered representations in reach planning.

scholarly journals Acoustic Architecture: Music and Space in the Video Installations of Bill Viola

2005 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 197-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
HOLLY ROGERS
Keyword(s):  
Installation Art ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Single Point ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Musical Structure ◽  
Video Installation ◽  
Common Procedure ◽  
Film Exhibition ◽  
Sound Image ◽  
Starting Point

Video installation art is a collaboration of sound, image, and space, with a closer relationship to music and art than to cinema. Accordingly, those working in this genre are often both artist and musician, a double role that represents a radical departure from the artist/musician divide of many other audio-visual genres. Because it is single authored, video installation can invert many elements of the filmmaking process: while it is common procedure to add a soundtrack to film during post-production, for instance, many video artists use sound as their starting point, often basing whole works on a musical structure. While such an inversion invites reconsideration of musical audibility and film narrative, video work, when installed, also challenges the notions of screen space and realism. An audience is no longer offered the single-point perspective of film, but is instead enveloped within a three-dimensional space. And as image expands beyond the four sides of the cinema screen – a space occupied previously by music alone – important questions are raised: what happens to music when film breaks from the containment of the screen? when it destroys its own boundaries? Focusing on the work of Bill Viola, this paper explores the ways in which video installation art confronts methods of film exhibition and audience engagement, and investigates how such confrontation redefines the roles of music and image in film.

Citizen Reactions to Bureaucratic Encounters: Different Ways of Coping With Public Authorities

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vibeke Lehmann Nielsen ◽  
Helle Ørsted Nielsen ◽  
Mette Bisgaard
Keyword(s):  
Latent Class ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Coping Behavior ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Coping Behaviors ◽  
Public Authorities ◽  
Street Level ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Street Level Bureaucrats ◽  
Behavior Types

Abstract Common to most studies on street-level bureaucrats is a fundamental acknowledgment that behaviors of citizens with whom the street-level bureaucrats interact play an important role for their decision-making. However, within literature, there is a lack of generic and systematic attention to the agency of the citizens. This article aims to respond to this criticism and answer the questions: How do citizens cope with public encounters? Do citizen behaviors towards public authorities divide into distinct, meaningful, multidimensional behavior types? Through an explorative theory-based approach, the article opens those questions. Based on self-reported survey-data on behavior, from a representative sample of Danish citizens, we use latent class analysis (LCA) to identify systematic patterns in citizens’ behavior towards public authorities (exemplified by Tax and Home Care Referral authorities). We identify five types of citizen coping behavior in public encounters: “Resisters,” “Activists,” “Accommodators,” “Flighters,” and “Cooperators.” The five types of coping behaviors can be placed in a three-dimensional space measuring degree of activity, degree of preparation, and degree of opposition. We suggest that this insight and conceptual framework of citizen coping behavior can create a starting point for researchers to embark a research agenda on citizens’ coping behavior in citizen-state encounters.

scholarly journals The system of acquisition and archiving of motion parameters of mobile systems - an overview of measuring sensors

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 234-240
Author(s):  
Jakub Grabiński ◽  
Konrad Waluś
Keyword(s):  
Coordinate System ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Mobile Systems ◽  
Measuring System ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Macro Scale ◽  
Mems Technology ◽  
Motion Parameters ◽  
Cartesian Coordinate

As part of the work, a measuring system is presented that allows collecting and recording vehicle motion parameters. To build the system, an inertial navigation module was used, consisting of two-axis accelerometers and gyroscopes made in MEMS technology. The tests were carried out and calculation methods were developed to allow the collected data to be referenced, to a point in the three-dimensional space, in order to determine the trajectory of the vehicle's movement. The built-in measuring system uses three types of sensors: accelerometer, gyroscope, magnetometer. Each of these sensors allows the measurement of the physical size in three orthogonal axes of the Cartesian coordinate system. In addition, the work uses a satellite navigation module (GPS), as a reference on the "macro" scale (coordinate system related to the center of the globe with a radius of about 6371 km) for the inertial updating module (INS / IMU), enabling accurate measurement in the "micro" scale (the coordinate system associated with the starting point of the traffic for the route, the length of which does not exceed several hundred meters). The article presents an overview of available measuring sensors with special consideration of the parameters of selected sensors and errors introduced into the measurement system.

scholarly journals A Novel Indoor Localization Method Based on Image Retrieval and Dead Reckoning

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (11) ◽  
pp. 3803
Author(s):  
Jiuchao Qian ◽  
Yuhao Cheng ◽  
Rendong Ying ◽  
Peilin Liu
Keyword(s):  
Indoor Localization ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Dead Reckoning ◽  
Indoor Navigation ◽  
Two Dimensional ◽  
Localization Method ◽  
Practical Applications ◽  
Cumulative Error ◽  
Starting Point

Indoor pedestrian localization measurement is a hot topic and is widely used in indoor navigation and unmanned devices. PDR (Pedestrian Dead Reckoning) is a low-cost and independent indoor localization method, estimating position of pedestrians independently and continuously. PDR fuses the accelerometer, gyroscope and magnetometer to calculate relative distance from starting point, which is mainly composed of three modules: step detection, stride length estimation and heading calculation. However, PDR is affected by cumulative error and can only work in two-dimensional planes, which makes it limited in practical applications. In this paper, a novel localization method V-PDR is presented, which combines VPR (Visual Place Recognition) and PDR in a loosely coupled way. When there is error between the localization result of PDR and VPR, the algorithm will correct the localization of PDR, which significantly reduces the cumulative error. In addition, VPR recognizes scenes on different floors to correct floor localization due to vertical movement, which extends application scene of PDR from two-dimensional planes to three-dimensional spaces. Extensive experiments were conducted in our laboratory building to verify the performance of the proposed method. The results demonstrate that the proposed method outperforms general PDR method in accuracy and can work in three-dimensional space.

scholarly journals Method of an unmanned aerial vehicle composition route in space

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 26-33
Author(s):  
Denys Voloshyn ◽  
Veronika Brechko ◽  
Serhii Semenov
Keyword(s):  
Unmanned Aerial Vehicle ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Spatial Location ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Aerial Vehicle ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Extended Graph ◽  
Three Dimensional Space ◽  
Vehicle Routes

The article is devoted to the development of a method of composition of the route of an unmanned aerial vehicle in three-dimensional space. The main difference of the presented method is the complex consideration of the features of the environment, which reflects the possible obstacles (active or passive) and other limitations of the problem when composing the route of the unmanned aerial vehicle in three-dimensional space. This allowed to increase the safety of the task in autonomous flight conditions. The article analyzes the main approaches to the composition of unmanned aerial vehicle routes in space. The conclusion about the shortcomings of the two-dimensional representation is made. The method presents four stages of the task. This is the stage of modeling the environment that reflects possible obstacles (active or passive) and other limitations of the task. Stage of construction of an extended graph of unmanned aerial vehicle routes in space. The difference of this stage is the adaptive consideration of the spatial location of active obstacles in space. The next stage is the route search stage, which connects the starting point with the end and bypasses all obstacles and allows you to build a starting route in the form of a broken line, which is formed by a sequence of waypoints, and connects the starting point with the end, bypassing obstacles. The last is the stage of obtaining the final result, which is provided by smoothing the obtained broken line. In this part of the composition method, to solve the problem of smoothing the trajectory of the unmanned aerial vehicle in space on the selected route, the expediency of using the method of non-uniform cubic B-spline is proved. With the help of this method the task of selection and optimization of the smoothing parameter is set and solved.

Three Dimensional structure and organization of diploid chromosomes by optical section microscopy

1987 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 633-635
Author(s):  
David A. Agard ◽  
Yasushi Hiraoka ◽  
John W. Sedat
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Developmental State ◽  
Mitotic Cell ◽  
Biological Properties ◽  
Dimensional Structure ◽  
Specific Gene ◽  
Three Dimensional Structure ◽  
Complementary Techniques ◽  
Dynamic Structures

In an effort to understand the complex relationship between structure and biological function within the nucleus, we have embarked on a program to examine the three-dimensional structure and organization of Drosophila melanogaster embryonic chromosomes. Our overall goal is to determine how DNA and proteins are organized into complex and highly dynamic structures (chromosomes) and how these chromosomes are arranged in three dimensional space within the cell nucleus. Futher, we hope to be able to correlate structual data with such fundamental biological properties as stage in the mitotic cell cycle, developmental state and transcription at specific gene loci.Towards this end, we have been developing methodologies for the three-dimensional analysis of non-crystalline biological specimens using optical and electron microscopy. We feel that the combination of these two complementary techniques allows an unprecedented look at the structural organization of cellular components ranging in size from 100A to 100 microns.

Diffraction contrast of dislocations in icosahedral quasicrystals

1990 ◽  
Vol 48 (4) ◽  
pp. 454-455
Author(s):  
K. Urban ◽  
Z. Zhang ◽  
M. Wollgarten ◽  
D. Gratias
Keyword(s):  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Complete Characterization ◽  
Extinction Condition ◽  
Burgers Vector ◽  
Diffraction Contrast ◽  
Lattice Geometry ◽  
Reference Space ◽  
Icosahedral Quasicrystals ◽  
The One

Recently dislocations have been observed by electron microscopy in the icosahedral quasicrystalline (IQ) phase of Al65Cu20Fe15. These dislocations exhibit diffraction contrast similar to that known for dislocations in conventional crystals. The contrast becomes extinct for certain diffraction vectors g. In the following the basis of electron diffraction contrast of dislocations in the IQ phase is described. Taking account of the six-dimensional nature of the Burgers vector a “strong” and a “weak” extinction condition are found.Dislocations in quasicrystals canot be described on the basis of simple shear or insertion of a lattice plane only. In order to achieve a complete characterization of these dislocations it is advantageous to make use of the one to one correspondence of the lattice geometry in our three-dimensional space (R3) and that in the six-dimensional reference space (R6) where full periodicity is recovered . Therefore the contrast extinction condition has to be written as gpbp + gobo = 0 (1). The diffraction vector g and the Burgers vector b decompose into two vectors gp, bp and go, bo in, respectively, the physical and the orthogonal three-dimensional sub-spaces of R6.

Flavin radicals, conformational sampling and robust design principles in interprotein electron transfer: the trimethylamine dehydrogenase-electron-transferring flavoprotein complex

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
David Leys ◽  
Jaswir Basran ◽  
François Talfournier ◽  
Kamaldeep K. Chohan ◽  
Andrew W. Munro ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Electron Transfer ◽  
Dimensional Space ◽  
Three Dimensional ◽  
Kinetic Studies ◽  
Molecular Assembly ◽  
Conformational Sampling ◽  
Trimethylamine Dehydrogenase ◽  
Key Residues ◽  
Electron Transferring Flavoprotein ◽  
Electron Transfer Complex

TMADH (trimethylamine dehydrogenase) is a complex iron-sulphur flavoprotein that forms a soluble electron-transfer complex with ETF (electron-transferring flavoprotein). The mechanism of electron transfer between TMADH and ETF has been studied using stopped-flow kinetic and mutagenesis methods, and more recently by X-ray crystallography. Potentiometric methods have also been used to identify key residues involved in the stabilization of the flavin radical semiquinone species in ETF. These studies have demonstrated a key role for 'conformational sampling' in the electron-transfer complex, facilitated by two-site contact of ETF with TMADH. Exploration of three-dimensional space in the complex allows the FAD of ETF to find conformations compatible with enhanced electronic coupling with the 4Fe-4S centre of TMADH. This mechanism of electron transfer provides for a more robust and accessible design principle for interprotein electron transfer compared with simpler models that invoke the collision of redox partners followed by electron transfer. The structure of the TMADH-ETF complex confirms the role of key residues in electron transfer and molecular assembly, originally suggested from detailed kinetic studies in wild-type and mutant complexes, and from molecular modelling.

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