Publications related to Design and Validation of a Low-Cost Wearable Assistive Device for Carrying Back Loads

Homogenous power distribution along gyrotron collector walls

Stefano Alberti, Damien Fasel, Pierre-François Isoz, Jean-Philippe Hogge, Ugo Siravo, Jérémie Dubray, Miguel Filipe Silva Füglister

EC RF power sources will play a major role in the future operation of large scale tokamaks (ITER, DEMO). A 1MW/170GHz gyrotron is the standard RF power unit considered for ITER. Even though the efficiency of such devices has been significantly increased th ...

2023

The thermodynamic and life-cycle assessments of a novel charging station for electric vehicles in dynamic and steady-state conditions

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani, Chengzhang Xu

The current study performs the thermodynamic and life-cycle assessments (LCA) of a novel charging station in two system designs. The goal is to design an efficient charging station for electric vehicles with high efficiencies and low environmental impacts ...

Nature Portfolio2023

An Empirical and Subjective Model of Upper Extremity Fatigue Under Hypogravity

Claude Nicollier, Volker Gass, Tatiana Maillard

In the context of extra-terrestrial missions, the effects of hypogravity (0 < G < 1) on the human body can reduce the well-being of the crew, cause musculoskeletal problems and affect their ability to perform tasks, especially during long-term missions. To ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2022

Miniaturised Wireless Power Transfer Systems for Neurostimulation: A Review

Sandro Carrara, Diego Ghezzi, Danilo Demarchi, Gian Luca Barbruni

In neurostimulation, wireless power transfer is an efficient technology to overcome several limitations affecting medical devices currently used in clinical practice. Several methods were developed over the years for wireless power transfer. In this review ...

2020

Real-time optimization of load sharing for gas compressors in the presence of uncertainty

Dominique Bonvin, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Timm Faulwasser, Predrag Milosavljevic

This paper investigates the problem of load-sharing optimization of gas compressors in the presence of uncertainty. The objective is to operate a set of compressor units in an energy-efficient way, while at the same time meeting a varying load demand. The ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

COREDIV numerical simulation of high neutron rate JET-ILW DD pulses in view of extension to JET-ILW DT experiments

Patrick Blanchard, Basil Duval, Ambrogio Fasoli, Richard Pitts, Olivier Sauter, Henri Weisen, Martinus Gijs, Partha Dutta, Marco Wischmeier, Jan Horacek, Vlad Trifa, Yann Camenen, Jonathan Graves, Francesca Maria Poli, Ricardo Lima, Duccio Testa, Emiliano Fable, Sun Hee Kim, Mikhail Maslov, Javier García Hernández, Soo-Jin Moon, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, José Pedro Rebelo Ferreira Marques, Julio Rodriguez, Pedro Camilo de Oliveira e Silva, Daniel Scott Alessi, Daniele Brunetti, Jonnathan Cesar Hidalgo Acosta, Ana Francisca Leal Silva Soares, Dalziel Joseph Wilson, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Alberto Hernando de Castro, Anna Teplukhina, Leonardo Pigatto, Hamish William Patten, Alberto Mariani, Bruno Emanuel Ferreira De Sousa Correia, Li Shuai, , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

The USENIX Association2018

PerfIso: Performance Isolation for Commercial Latency-Sensitive Services

Sameh Mohamed Elnikety, Calin Iorgulescu

Large commercial latency-sensitive services, such as web search, run on dedicated clusters provisioned for peak load to ensure responsiveness and tolerate data center outages. As a result, the average load is far lower than the peak load used for provision ...

USENIX ASSOC2018

Actuator Layout Optimization for Adaptive Structures Performing Large Shape Changes, Advanced Computing Strategies for Engineering

Ian Smith, Arka Prabhata Reksowardojo, Gennaro Senatore

Adaptive structures are sensed and actuated to modify internal forces and shape to maintain optimal performance in response to loads. The use of large shape changes as a structural adaptation strategy to counteract the effect of loads has been investigated ...

2018

Distributed Multi-Unit Privacy Assured Bidding (PAB) for Smart Grid Demand Response Programs

Muhammed Fatih Balli

The stringent requirement of the demand-supply equilibrium for delivering electricity has traditionally been dealt with a supply-side perspective, assuming that the demand is not alterable. With the promises of the Smart Grid, demand- side management techn ...

2018

A linear programming approach to the optimization of residential energy systems

Jan Van Herle, Dirk Lauinger, Priscilla Caliandro, Daniel Kuhn

A decision-support tool (ORES) in the form of a linear program is developed to determine the optimal investment and operating decisions for residential energy systems. It shows how energy conversion units such as a cogeneration fuel cell, a heat pump, a bo ...

2016

HCloud: Resource-Efficient Provisioning in Shared Cloud Systems

Christos Kozyrakis

Cloud computing promises flexibility and high performance for users and cost efficiency for operators. To achieve this, cloud providers offer instances of different sizes, both as long-term reservations and short-term, on-demand allocations. Unfortunately, ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2016

Exact Convex Modeling of the Optimal Power Flow for the Operation and Planning of Active Distribution Networks with Energy Storage Systems

Mostafa Nick

The distribution networks are experiencing important changes driven by the massive integration of renewable energy conversion systems. However, the lack of direct controllability of the Distributed Generations (DGs) supplying Active Distribution Networks ( ...

EPFL2016

Optimal Allocation of Dispersed Energy Storage Systems in Active Distribution Networks for Energy Balance and Grid Support

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Mostafa Nick

Dispersed storage systems (DSSs) can represent an important near-term solution for supporting the operation and control of active distribution networks (ADNs). Indeed, they have the capability to support ADNs by providing ancillary services in addition to ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Physical Mechanisms governing Self-Excited Pressure Oscillations in Francis Turbines

Andres Müller

The importance of renewable energy sources for the electrical power supply has grown rapidly in the past decades. Their often unpredictable nature however poses a threat to the stability of the existing electric grid. Hydroelectric powerplants play an impo ...

EPFL2014

Autonomic SLA-driven Provisioning for Cloud Applications

Nicolas Bonvin, Karl Aberer

Significant achievements have been made for automated allocation of cloud resources. However, the performance of applications may be poor in peak load periods, unless their cloud resources are dynamically adjusted. Moreover, although cloud resources dedica ...

2011

Decoupling contention management from scheduling

Anastasia Ailamaki, Radu Ioan Stoica, Frederick Ryan Johnson

Many parallel applications exhibit unpredictable communication between threads, leading to contention for shared objects. The choice of contention management strategy impacts strongly the performance and scalability of these applications: spinning provides ...

2010

Kinetic simulations of the parallel transport in the JET scrape-off layer

Richard Pitts

in this paper, we present kinetic simulation results of plasma parallel transport in the stationary and ELMy scrape-off (SOL) layer. We demonstrate that number of kinetic factors describing SOL are strongly nonuniform and evolve during the ELM. Power loads ...

Elsevier2009

Stochastic Simulation of Occupant Presence and Behaviour in Buildings

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Jessen Page, Darren Robinson

While most current building simulation tools consider occupants as predictable robots the true nature of human behaviour is more complex. This article describes a set of stochastic models aimed at capturing this complexity by decoupling occupant presence f ...

2007