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Strategy to systematically design and deploy the ITER plasma control system: A system engineering and model-based design approach

Richard Pitts, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Federico Pesamosca, Anna Ngoc Minh Trang Vu

The paper details the process of developing the ITER Plasma Control System (PCS), that is, how to design and deploy it systematically, in the most efficient and effective manner. The integrated nature of the ITER PCS, with its multitude of coupled control ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Modified capillary number to standardize droplet generation in suction-driven microfluidics

Jatin Panwar

In droplet microfluidic devices with suction-based flow control, the microchannel geometry and suction pressure at the outlet govern the dynamic properties of the two phases that influence the droplet generation. Therefore, it is critical to understand the ...

Springer Heidelberg2024

An aircraft assembly process formalism and verification method based on semantic modeling and MBSE

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

The aircraft assembly system is highly complex involving different stakeholders from multiple domains. The design of such a system requires comprehensive consideration of various industrial scenarios aiming to optimize key performance indicators. Tradition ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2024

Chat2Code: A Chatbot for Model Specification and Code Generation, The Case of Smart Contracts

Shailesh Mishra

The potential of automatic code generation through Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) frameworks has yet to be realized. Beyond their ability to help software professionals write more accurate, reusable code, MDE frameworks could make programming accessible fo ...

Ieee Computer Soc2023

Interlocking modular microfluidic cooling substrates for future high energy physics experiments

Massimo Angeletti

In high energy physics, semiconductor-based sensors are widely used in particle tracking applications. These sensors are typically glued on low-mass cooling substrates, which guarantee the correct thermal management and, at the same time, minimise their in ...

EPFL2023

Out of their minds? Externalist challenges for using AI in forensic psychiatry

Marcello Ienca

Harnessing the power of machine learning (ML) and other Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques promises substantial improvements across forensic psychiatry, supposedly offering more objective evaluations and predictions. However, AI-based predictions abou ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Model-based Systems Engineering Papers Analysis based on Word Cloud Visualization

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu

With the continuous improvement of system scale and complexity, model-based system engineering (MBSE) is of great importance in the practice of system engineering (SE). MBSE has been widely concerned in industry, especially in the field of complex equipmen ...

IEEE2022

A semantic-driven tradespace framework to accelerate aircraft manufacturing system design

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu, Xiaochen Zheng

During the design phase of an aircraft manufacturing system, different industrial scenarios need to be evaluated according to key performance indicators to achieve the optimal system performance. It is a highly complex process involving multidisciplinary s ...

SPRINGER2022

A Theory of Value for Service Ecosystems

Blagovesta Hristova Kostova

In this thesis, we present a theory of value for the design and analysis of service ecosystems. The theory is based on general systems thinking. The concept of a system is used for relating knowledge from different disciplines (such as software engineering ...

EPFL2022

Leveraging topology, geometry, and symmetries for efficient Machine Learning

Michaël Defferrard

When learning from data, leveraging the symmetries of the domain the data lies on is a principled way to combat the curse of dimensionality: it constrains the set of functions to learn from. It is more data efficient than augmentation and gives a generaliz ...

EPFL2022

Synthesis of Novel Integrated Actuators Powered by Shape Memory Alloys

Sean Thomas

In the modern age of miniaturisation, Smart Materials, a type of material that reacts mechanically to a certain stimulus, have become an integral part of this revolution. Among these materials, Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs), which have the highest volumetric ...

EPFL2022

Spinon-like excitations in spin-1/2 quantum antiferromagnets

Irina Safiulina

Quantum magnetism remains a hot topic in condensed matter physics due to its complexity and possible powerful and significant applications in data storage and memory. To understand how the materials can achieve these goals, one should have a clear idea abo ...

EPFL2022

Design optimization of the Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) for ITER ECHUL in view of disruptive events

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Anastasia Xydou, Matteo Vagnoni

Four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) will be used at ITER to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The millimeter waves are guided through a set of fixed mirr ...

Elsevier2021

Design Ontology Supporting Model-Based Systems Engineering Formalisms

Dimitrios Kyritsis, Jinzhi Lu

Model-based systems engineering (MBSE) provides an important capability for managing the complexities of system development. MBSE empowers the formalism of system architectures for supporting model-based requirement elicitation, specification, design, deve ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Optimization of operational decisions for on-demand shared mobility systems

Martin Jean Marie Joseph Repoux

This thesis introduces new operational management policies for two types of on-demand shared mobility systems, the now well-studied one-way carsharing systems and a new innovative semi-autonomous last-mile transportation system. In addition, two associated ...

EPFL2021

3D Printed Motor-Sensory Module Prototype for Facial Rehabilitation

Jamie Paik, Amir Firouzeh, Matthew Aaron Robertson

This work demonstrates the first 3D printed wearable motor-sensory module prototype designed for facial rehabilitation, focusing on facial paralysis. The novelty of the work lies in the fast fabrication of the first fully soft working prototype, including ...

MARY ANN LIEBERT, INC2022

A ductility criterion for bcc high entropy alloys

William Curtin, Binglun Yin, Eleanor Yi Kei Mak

A current goal driving alloy development is the identification of alloy compositions for high temperature applications but with the additional requirement of sufficient ductility at ambient temperatures. Multicomponent, single-phase, polycrystalline High E ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

A portable picocell antenna for 5G

Danelys Rodríguez Avila

Deployable emergency communication systems are a backbone solution for replacing damaged network infrastructures and/or providing high-end services in case of an emergency event. It is important that such systems are up-to-date with the latest mobile netwo ...

EPFL2021

Sun-synchronous repeat ground tracks and other useful orbits for future space missions

Sun Hee Kim, Luzius Gregor Kronig

The development of oceanography and meteorology has greatly benefited from satellite-based data of Earth's atmosphere and ocean. Traditional Earth observation missions have utilised Sun-synchronous orbits with repeat ground tracks due to their advantages i ...

2020

Preliminary Design of DEMO PF Coils Based on EU DEMO 2018 Baseline

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Xabier Sarasola Martin, Mithlesh Kumar

The dimensioning of Winding Packs and allocation of materials in DEMO PF coils is proposed based on the requirements defined by the EUROfusion 2018 DEMO baseline. The coils are pancake-wound and use two types of forced flow cable-in-conduit conductors. The ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020