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Orientation dans l'espace

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Strength and timing of primary and secondary vortices generated by a rotating plate

Karen Ann J Mulleners, Diego Francescangeli

Accurate predictions of how vortices grow, evolve, and separate from aerodynamic objects are desirable for various applications ranging from autonomous aerial vehicles to wind turbines. Here, we present an experimental characterisation of the formation pro ...

2023

Physical Body Orientation Impacts Virtual Navigation Experience and Performance

Olaf Blanke, Emanuela De Falco, Hyukjun Moon, Hsin-Ping Wu

Most human navigation studies in MRI rely on virtual navigation. However, the necessary supine position in MRI makes it fundamentally different from daily ecological navigation. Nonetheless, until now, no study has assessed whether differences in physical ...

Soc Neuroscience2023

Robust Design of Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearings using Multi-Objective Optimization with Artificial Neural Networks

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Soheyl Massoudi

Herringbone grooved journal bearings (HGJBs) are widely used in micro-turbocompressor applications due to their high load-carrying capacity, low friction, and oil-free solution. However, the performance of these bearings is sensitive to manufacturing devia ...

Amer Soc Mechanical Engineers2023

Robust Design of Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearings using Multi-Objective Optimization with Artificial Neural Networks

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Soheyl Massoudi

2023

Growth, timing, & trajectory of vortices behind a rotating plate

Diego Francescangeli

The presence of aerodynamic vortices is widespread in nature. They can be found at small scales near the wing tip of flying insects or at bigger scale in the form of hurricanes, cyclones or even galaxies. They are identified as coherent regions of high vor ...

EPFL2022

Experimental Investigation of Enhanced Grooves for Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearings

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Patrick Hubert Wagner, Philipp Kaspar Bättig

This paper presents the results of a theoretical and experimental investigation of the potential of enhanced groove geometries to increase the bearing clearance of a Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearing (HGJB) supported rotor. The theoretical study investig ...

2022

Perceiving Humans: from Monocular 3D Localization to Social Distancing

Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Sven Kreiss, Lorenzo Bertoni

Perceiving humans in the context of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) often relies on multiple cameras or expensive LiDAR sensors. In this work, we present a new cost-effective vision-based method that perceives humans' locations in 3D and their bod ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2022

A 4D printed active compliant hinge for potential space applications using shape memory alloys and polymers

Jamie Paik, Zhenishbek Zhakypov, Jian-Lin Huang

This paper presents the proof-of-concept for a 4D printed active compliant hinge with a selectively variable stiffness for the deployment and reorientation of satellite appendages. We use 4D printing to create an active compliant hinge capable of bending t ...

IOP PUBLISHING LTD2021

Music influences vividness and content of imagined journeys in a directed visual imagery task

Steffen Alexander Herff, Gabriele Cecchetti, Ken Jacques Alfonso Deguernel

Directed, intentional imagination is pivotal for self-regulation in the form of escapism and therapies for a wide variety of mental health conditions, such anxiety and stress disorders, as well as phobias. Clinical application in particular benefits from i ...

Nature Portfolio2021

A fast algorithm to find reduced hyperplane unit cells and solve N-dimensional Bezout's identities

Cyril Cayron

Deformation twinning on a plane is a simple shear that transforms a unit cell attached to the plane into another unit cell equivalent by mirror symmetry or 180 degrees rotation. Thus, crystallographic models of twinning require the determination of the sho ...

INT UNION CRYSTALLOGRAPHY2021

A hybrid control strategy for force and precise end effector positioning of a twisted string actuator

Jamie Paik, Andres San Millan Rodriguez, Mohssen Fischer

We propose a new control approach for the twisted string actuation (TSA) system; a hybrid control scheme consisting of two nested loops, considering the motor angle and the axial force at the clamping point of the actuator as the system outputs. We show th ...

2021

Robot skills learning with Riemannian manifolds: Leveraging geometry-awareness in robot learning, optimization and control

Noémie Laure Gwendoline Jaquier

Humans exhibit outstanding learning and adaptation capabilities while performing various types of manipulation tasks. When learning new skills, humans are able to extract important information by observing examples of a task and efficiently refine a priori ...

EPFL2020

Drift-Free Foot Orientation Estimation in Running Using Wearable IMU

Kamiar Aminian, Grégoire Millet, Benoît Mariani, Mathieu Pascal Falbriard, Frédéric Meyer

This study aimed to introduce and validate a new method to estimate and correct the orientation drift measured from foot-worn inertial sensors. A modified strap-down integration (MSDI) was proposed to decrease the orientation drift, which, in turn, was fur ...

2020

Complements to Mugge and Friedel's Theory of Twinning

Cyril Cayron

The crystallography of twinning is based on the concepts of simple shear and obliquity introduced by Mugge, Mallard and Friedel at the turn of the last century, with tensor mathematics later developed by Bilby, Bevis and Crocker in the 1960s. We propose a ...

2020

Methods and apparatus for three-dimensional fabrication by tomographic back projections

Christophe Moser, Damien Claude-Marie Loterie, Paul Delrot

A method for producing a three-dimensional object comprising computing a sequence of back-projections describing the three-dimensional object to be formed from different orientation angles of said object, defining a sequence of patterns of light using said ...

2019

A priori error for unilateral contact problems with Lagrange multipliers and isogeometric analysis

Annalisa Buffa, Pablo Antolin Sanchez, Mathieu Jonathan Fabre

In this paper, we consider unilateral contact problem without friction between a rigid body and deformable one in the framework of isogeometric analysis. We present the theoretical analysis of the mixed problem. For the displacement, we use the pushforward ...

2019

Manipulating Topological Domain Boundaries in the Single-Layer Quantum Spin Hall Insulator 1T '-WSe2

Yixing Chen, Oleg Yazyev, Michele Pizzochero, Artem Pulkin

We report the creation and manipulation of structural phase boundaries in the single-layer quantum spin Hall insulator 1T'-WSe2 by means of scanning tunneling microscope tip pulses. We observe the formation of one-dimensional interfaces between topological ...

2019

Interpretative and predictive modelling of Joint European Torus collisionality scans

Yiming Li, Olivier Sauter, Richard Pitts, Ambrogio Fasoli, Basil Duval, Henri Weisen, Yann Camenen, Jan Horacek, Javier García Hernández, Duccio Testa, Marco Wischmeier, Nicola Vianello, Mikhail Maslov, Patrick Blanchard, Alessandro Pau, Davide Galassi, Antonio José Pereira de Figueiredo, Cristian Sommariva, Jonathan Graves, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Emiliano Fable, Francesca Maria Poli, Antoine Pierre Emmanuel Alexis Merle, Federico Nespoli, Daniele Brunetti, Anna Teplukhina, Hamish William Patten, Samuel Lanthaler, Haomin Sun, Alberto Mariani, Michele Marin

Transport modelling of Joint European Torus (JET) dimensionless collisionality scaling experiments in various operational scenarios is presented. Interpretative simulations at a fixed radial position are combined with predictive JETTO simulations of temper ...

2019

Orientation, rotation and solvation of ions in helium nanodroplets

Verónica Oliver Álvarez de Lara

Helium nanodroplets are liquid, finite size, nanoscale helium clusters that have been employed since the 1990s as a matrix for high-resolution spectroscopy of molecules. Spectroscopic studies of ionic species inside helium droplets were not however realise ...

EPFL2019

Numerical Simulations of Pulsating Heat Pipes, Part 2: Comparison to Experimental Data

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Raffaele Luca Amalfi, Philippe Aubin, Filippo Cataldo

Due to the local pulsating/transient nature and complex thermal-hydraulic coupling of a closed loop pulsating heat pipe (CLPHP), there is a need to develop an effective simulation code capable to design and predict the local and overall thermal performance ...

IEEE2019

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Robot skills learning with Riemannian manifolds: Leveraging geometry-awareness in robot learning, optimization and control

Noémie Laure Gwendoline Jaquier

EPFL2020