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The applications of Internet of Things in the automotive industry: A review of the batteries, fuel cells, and engines

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The current advances in the integration of devices through the internet of things (IoT) have encouraged researchers to focus on the applications of IoT in the automotive industry. Although different achievements in the in-vehicle network analysis and traff ...

ELSEVIER2022

Dual-function artificial molecular motors performing rotation and photoluminescence

Lukas Pfeifer

Molecular machines have caused one of the greatest paradigm shifts in chemistry, and by powering artificial mechanical molecular systems and enabling autonomous motion, they are expected to be at the heart of exciting new technologies. One of the biggest c ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2022

Intentional oxygen oscillations on Pd/Al2O3 for enhanced methane removal from the exhaust of natural gas engines

Maneka Claire Roger

Natural gas (NG) is a suitable alternative to gasoline and diesel fuels to decrease the carbon footprint of the mobility and energy sectors. Although NG is considered a fossil fuel, methane (CH4), its main component, can be produced industrially from power ...

EPFL2022

Acoustic emission techniques for the detection of simulated failures in historical vehicles engines

Stefano Mischler, Alejandro Roda Buch

Technical and industrial heritage artefacts are characterized by the presence of mechanisms. The possibility to activate, or reactivate, these mechanisms is an integral part of the cultural values of this kind of patrimony. The artefacts' functionality, ho ...

SPRINGER HEIDELBERG2021

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza

Modern Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) systems use an integrated data processing engine that performs analytics on fresh data, which are ingested from a transactional engine. HTAP systems typically consider data freshness at design time, ...

2020

Adaptive HTAP through Elastic Resource Scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Periklis Chrysogelos, Angelos Christos Anadiotis, Syed Mohammad Aunn Raza

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2020

A Product Engine for Energy-Efficient Execution of Binary Neural Networks Using Resistive Memories

David Atienza Alonso, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Marina Zapater Sancho, Xifan Tang, Yasir Mahmood Qureshi, Edouard Giacomin

The need for running complex Machine Learning (ML) algorithms, such as Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs), in edge devices, which are highly constrained in terms of computing power and energy, makes it important to execute such applications efficiently. ...

2019

Carbon Dioxide Capture From Internal Combustion Engine Exhaust Using Temperature Swing Adsorption

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma

In order to reduce the CO2 emissions in the transportation sector, one can electrify the vehicle, switch to biofuel, or capture and store CO2 on board. In this study, integration of an on board CO2 capture and storage unit with an internal combustion engin ...

2019

Robust control for an electromagnetic actuator for a camless engine

Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The increase of the effective efficiency of the internal combustion engines is important for the fuel consumption reduction and the CO2 emission reduction. The variable engine valve trains are important for the gas exchanges and influence directly the effe ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2019

Process integration as a tool for the improvement of cruise ships energy efficiency

François Maréchal, Francesco Baldi

The growing trend of the cruise ship industry, together with increasing concerns over its impact on the environment, makes these ships a much relevant target for efforts toward increasing ship energy efficiency, thus ultimately reducing fuel consumption an ...

2018

Jacket for embodied interaction with virtual or distal robotic device

David Atienza Alonso, Dario Floreano, Stefano Mintchev, Fabio Isidoro Tiberio Dell'Agnola, Carine Rognon, Alice Ghislaine Concordel

A system for interacting with a remote object comprising a wearable jacket for a user, two actuators for supporting arms of the user, motors for causing movements to at least one of a torso and the arms of the user, and sensors for measuring at least one o ...

2018

Multi-objective optimization of turbo-ORC systems for waste heat recovery on passenger car engines

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Eliott Philippe Guenat, Violette Mounier, Kévin Rosset

Waste heat recovery from passenger car internal combustion engines by means of an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) system is promising for reducing CO2 emissions. In this study, different cycle configurations capable of converting waste heat from both coolant a ...

2018

Energy integration on a gasoline engine for a vehicular application

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The internal combustion engines are the most applied energy converters in the passenger cars. In order to increase their efficiency, energy integration techniques are used to recover the waste heat. An adapted methodology is required to design the ORC as a ...

2017

Validation by Measurements of a Windage Losses Model for Very-High-Speed Machines

Yves Perriard, Christian Köchli, Douglas Martins Araujo, Guillaume Paul-André Burnand

When designing a very-high-speed (VHS) machine, it is crucial to evaluate the windage losses accurately, because they are an important part of the total losses. It is therefore important to validate a reliable model, further used for the design and optimiz ...

2017

Energy Integration on a Gasoline Engine for Efficiency Improvement

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

2017

Bistability, Oscillations, and Bidirectional Motion of Ensemble of Hydrodynamically Coupled Molecular Motors

We analyze the collective behavior of hydrodynamically coupled molecular motors. We show that the local fluxes induced by motor displacement can induce the experimentally observed bidirectional motion of cargoes and vesicles. By means of a mean-field appro ...

Amer Physical Soc2017

Multi-objective optimization and exergoeconomic analysis of a combined cooling, heating and power based compressed air energy storage system

François Maréchal, Ligang Wang

Compressed air energy storage technologies can improve the supply capacity and stability of the electric- ity grid, particularly when fluctuating renewable energies are massively connected. While incorporating the combined cooling, heating and power system ...

Elsevier2017

Building Virtualization Engine: a Novel Approach Based on Discrete Event Simulation

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Olivier Valentin Henri Van Cutsem

This paper proposes and validates a Discrete Event Simulation (DES) engine for the Smart-Building (SB). It strives to virtualize the common elements found within it and integrates them transparently to an existing Building Management System (BMS), along wi ...

Ieee2016

On-Board Relative Bearing Estimation for Teams of Drones Using Sound

Dario Floreano, Felix Stephan Schill, Meysam Basiri

In a team of autonomous drones, individual knowledge about the relative location of teammates is essential. Existing relative positioning solutions for teams of small drones mostly rely on external systems such as motion tracking cameras or GPS satellites ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2016

Potential of Flex-PCB Winding in Coreless Tubular Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machines

Yves Perriard

Many applications are limited by the performance of the motors that power them. In the small power range, slotless BLDC motors are commonly used due to their intrinsic high power density and smooth torque characteristic. However, recent work has shown that ...

2016