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Multi-object spectroscopic operations with the Sloan Digital Sky Survey V

Luzius Gregor Kronig, Ricardo Jorge Araùjo Pereira, Loïc Grossen

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey V (SDSS-V) is an all-sky spectroscopic survey of more than 6 million objects, designed to decode the history of the Milky Way, reveal the inner workings of stars, investigate the origin of solar systems, and track the growth of ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2020

Precision Positioning of Microrobots for Multi-Object Spectrographs

Luzius Gregor Kronig

How does one study the evolution of the Milky Way, or the expansion of the Universe, or explore the mysteries of Dark energy? To investigate these complex topics, astronomers require data, and a great deal of it, in the form of the spectra of stars, galaxi ...

EPFL2020

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu, Carine Rognon

Haptic guidance has been shown to improve performance in many fields as it can give additional information without overloading other sensory channels such as vision or audition. Our group is investigating new intuitive ways to interact with robots, and we ...

2018

Haptic Guidance with a Soft Exoskeleton Reduces Error in Drone Teleoperation

Auke Ijspeert, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Amy Roning Wu, Carine Rognon

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2018

A co-rotational scroll machine

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Luis Carlos Mendoza Toledo

A co-rotating scroll machine operable as compressor or expander, comprises a transmission and guidance mechanism (9,10) for first and second scroll plates (7,8), having three transmission and guidance units (9,10) uniformly distributed around the scroll pl ...

2018

Mapping GNSS Restricted Environment with a Drone Tandem and Indirect Position Control

Davide Antonio Cucci, Emmanuel Pierre Quentin Clédat

The problem of autonomously mapping highly cluttered environments, such as urban and natural canyons, is intractable with the current UAV technology. The reason lies in the absence or unreliability of GNSS signals due to partial sky occlusion or multi-path ...

2017

Intracorporeal anchoring and guiding system with permanent magnet force modulation

Lionel Flaction

Magnetic manipulation of objects within the body is a growing field of research since the second half of the last century. Therapeutic and diagnostic capabilities offered by such technology are extended with the clinical need to make procedures less invasi ...

EPFL2013

Dual-frequency RF front-ends for GNSS receivers

The Global Positioning System (GPS) is a trilateration system which allows to compute the position of a receiver from the time the signals need to propagate from the satellites down to the receiver. Since the Selective Availability (SA) was turned off in 2 ...

EPFL2010

Towards in-flight quality assessment of airborne laser scanning

Jan Skaloud, Phillip Tomé

One of the main problems of today's ALS is the lack of reliable data quality assessment within or shortly after the airborne survey campaign. The paper presents an in- flight quality monitoring tool that allows assessing the quality of the recorded data "o ...

2008

Hybridization of MEMS and Assisted GPS for Pedestrian Navigation

Valérie Jeanne Thérèse Renaudin-Schouler, Phillip Tomé

Exploration of hybrid inertial/GPS systems to provide continuous positioning through varying environments represents a growing field of interest to researchers. In particular, first responders and public safety professional would like to see robust systems ...

2007

HELIMAP: Rapid Large Scale Mapping Using Handheld LiDAR/CCD/GPS/INS Sensors on Helicopters

Jan Skaloud, Julien Vallet

The HELIMAP is a portable mapping system for quick helicopter deployment. It integrates high accuracy navigation sensors (GPS/INS) with Airborne Laser Scanner (ALS) and high-resolution digital (CCD) camera. This paper presents the system hardware and softw ...

2005

Elaboration d'un système de navigation auto-alimenté (SNA) et évaluation de ses performances

Alexandre Torday

This research deals with self-supplied navigation systems (SNS), a combination of the technology of gathering travel time using floating car data (FCD) and dynamic route guidance (DRG). Using similar on-board equipment, these two systems can easily be comb ...

EPFL2005