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About the process of technology transfer from research to engineering practice

The transfer of technology from research to structural engineering and construction practice is illustrated using two cases of the implementation of innovative engineering methods and technologies in the renewal and 'upcycling' of existing bridges, namely ...

Informa UK Limited2025

(Un)leashed Robots Leverage Environmental Constraints and Compliant Interactions To Explore Extreme Environments

Max Mirko Polzin

Robots operating in extreme outdoor environments face hazardous terrain, unpredictable conditions, and the need for long-term robust operation with minimal human intervention. This thesis proposes a shift from traditional, perception-heavy systems toward r ...

EPFL2025

Augmenting rehabilitation robotics with spinal cord neuromodulation: A proof of concept

Auke Ijspeert, Léonie Asboth, Salif Axel Komi, Grégoire Courtine, Miroslav Caban, Camille Claire Varescon, Nicolas Hankov, Fabien Bertrand Paul Wagner, Robin Jonathan Demesmaeker, Margaux Roulet, Jocelyne Bloch, Henri Charles Alexandre Lorach, Edeny Baaklini, Jimmy James Ravier, Francesco Acquati, Cathal John Harte, Nadine Intering, Frédéric Norbert Merlos

Rehabilitation robotics aims to promote activity-dependent reorganization of the nervous system. However, people with paralysis cannot generate sufficient activity during robot-assisted rehabilitation and, consequently, do not benefit from these therapies. ...

AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE2025

Towards Accessible and Intuitive Shared Autonomy

Shalutha Navindu Rajapakshe Rajapakshe Mudiyanselage

The deployment of assistive robotics technologies in human environments is often hindered by the diverse personalization requirements of individual users. A promising solution to this challenge is shared autonomy, enabling collaboration between robots and ...

IEEE2025

Combining Multi-Level Modeling with Automatic Control Synthesis for Multi-Robot Systems

Cyrill Silvan Baumann

As robotic systems become more and more pervasive in our daily lives, automating the design of their controllers is a highly desirable and important goal. There are, however, significant computational challenges due to the costly evaluation of candidate co ...

EPFL2024

A new method to interpolate POD reduced bases-Application to the parametric model order reduction of a gas bearings supported rotor

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Fabio Nobile, Dimitri Maurice Goutaudier

The proper orthogonal decomposition (POD) is successfully employed in a variety of projection-based methods for parametric model order reduction (pMOR) of large dynamical systems. It extracts the most energetic modes describing the dynamics of a system fro ...

Wiley2023

Training Provably Robust Models by Polyhedral Envelope Regularization

Mathieu Salzmann, Sabine Süsstrunk, Chen Liu

Training certifiable neural networks enables us to obtain models with robustness guarantees against adversarial attacks. In this work, we introduce a framework to obtain a provable adversarial-free region in the neighborhood of the input data by a polyhedr ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2023

Environmental Adaptability of Legged Robots with Cutaneous Inflation and Sensation

Sudong Lee

In this article, a novel approach to enhance the maneuverability and adaptability of legged robots in challenging environments is proposed. This approach involves the integration of soft inflatable sensing skin, which provides additional mobile modes and e ...

WILEY2023

Robots for Learning 7 (R4L): A Look from Stakeholders' Perspective

Jauwairia Nasir, Daniel Carnieto Tozadore

This year's conference theme "HRI for all" not just raises the importance of reflecting on how to promote inclusion for every type of user but also calls for careful consideration of the different layers of people potentially impacted by such systems. In e ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2023

An improved subthreshold swing expression accounting for back-gate bias in FDSOI FETs

Christian Enz, Farzan Jazaeri, Hung-Chi Han

In a MOSFET transistor, the subthreshold swing defines the switching efficiency, and the associated slope factor, or so-called body factor, is a critical parameter in charge-based models. However, in an advanced Fully -Depleted Silicon-On-Insulator (FDSOI) ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Intrinsic thermal stability of inverted perovskite solar cells based on electrochemical deposited PEDOT

Jing Gao

Thermal stability of perovskite materials is an issue impairing the long-term operation of inverted per-ovskite solar cells (PSCs). Herein, the thermal attenuation mechanism of the MAPbI3 films that deposited on two different hole transport layers (HTL), p ...

ELSEVIER2023

Thin, flexible, and scalable mobile robot driven by electrostatic zipping actuators

Herbert Shea, Djen Timo Kühnel

Small-scale soft mobile robots are an attractive solution to gain access to hard-to-reach places. We demonstrate a thin (similar to 4 mm) and flexible mobile robot, 8 cm x 9 cm, mass 4 g, that uses 6 electrostatic zipping actuators with hydraulic coupling, ...

SPIE-INT SOC OPTICAL ENGINEERING2022

A Bistable Silicon Photonic Mems Phase Switch For Nonvolatile Photonic Circuits

Niels Quack, Alain Yuji Takabayashi

Silicon photonic circuits are rapidly growing in complexity and spreading to new applications. However, programmable circuits consume much power and require active electrical interfaces. For the first time, we demonstrate a nonvolatile photonic MEMS pi-pha ...

IEEE2022

Optimal grid-forming control of battery energy storage systems providing multiple services: Modeling and experimental validation

Sidi-Rachid Cherkaoui, Mario Paolone, Zhao Yuan, Elena Vagnoni, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Antonio Zecchino, Yihui Zuo, Francesco Gerini

This paper proposes and experimentally validates a joint control and scheduling framework for a grid-forming converter-interfaced Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESSs) providing multiple services to the electrical grid. The framework is designed to dispat ...

Elsevier2022

A Compressor Off-Line Washing Schedule Optimization Method With a LSTM Deep Learning Model Predicting the Fouling Trend

Jinwei Chen

Compressor fouling is one of the most prevalent fault modes that contribute to the performance degradation of a gas turbine power plant. Off-line washing is a standard maintenance procedure to recover the fouling degradation, but with washing cost. In this ...

2022

TWIICE One powered exoskeleton: effect of design improvements on usability in daily life as measured by the performance in the CYBATHLON race

Mohamed Bouri, Ali Reza Manzoori

Background Spinal cord injury leading to paraplegia affects the mobility and physiological well-being of one in a thousand people. Powered exoskeletons can temporarily restore the ability to walk. Their relevance in daily life is still limited because of l ...

BioMed Central2022

Revitalisation des deltas lacustres : Quelle méthodologie adopter pour améliorer les services écosystémiques et bénéfices environnementaux ? / River mouth revitalization design, how to improve ecosystem services and environmental benefits of engineering work?

Giovanni De Cesare, Alexandre Philippe Louis Antoine Fourrier

Les deltas lacustres sont des systèmes largement anthropisés rendant des services écosystémiques importants à l’Homme et à son environnement. Les travaux de protection contre les crues du siècle passé ont conduit à considérer l’embouchure comme un vecteur ...

2022

Experimental investigation of viscoelastic turbulent fluid hammer in helical tubes, considering column-separation

Sahar Rezapour

The fluid hammer phenomenon is a devastating incident that can cause substantial damages to the hydraulic systems. If the fluid reaches the vapor pressure due to high pressure gradients, the phenomenon is called column separation. In this study, the overpr ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2021

Actuation bandwidth extension of an integrated piezo-optomechanical nanophotonic device

Tobias Kippenberg, Johann Emmeram Riemensberger, Junqiu Liu, Wenle Weng, Anat Siddharth

We demonstrate a novel technique of contour-mode suppression of an integrated MEMS-photonic chip up to the first HBAR mode at 17 MHz. The flattened actuation response is critical to the development of compact LiDAR engine or low-noise frequency-agile laser ...

IEEE2021

Microfluidic-assisted bioprinting of tissues and organoids at high cell concentrations

Philippe Renaud, Arnaud Bertsch, John McKinney, Ludovic Serex, Kunal Sharma

Despite its simplicity, which makes it the most commonly used bioprinting method today, extrusion-based bioprinting suffers from its inability to reproduce the complex tissue architecture found in organs. Generally, this printing method allows for the disp ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021