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Experimental observation of topological transition in linear and nonlinear parametric oscillators

Romain Christophe Rémy Fleury, Benjamin Apffel

Parametric oscillators are examples of externally driven systems that can exhibit two stable states with opposite phase depending on the initial conditions. In this work, we propose to study what happens when the external forcing is perturbed by a continuo ...

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3D printed large amplitude torsional microactuators powered by ultrasound

Mehdi Ali Gadiri, Mahmut Selman Sakar, Amit Yedidia Dolev, Junsun Hwang

Here, we introduce a design, fabrication, and control methodology for large amplitude torsional microactuators powered by ultrasound. The microactuators are 3D printed from two polymers with drastically different elastic moduli as a monolithic compliant me ...

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Mechanism balancing taxonomy

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

The balancing of mechanisms consists in distributing their moving masses, inertias, and elastic components in order to achieve key mechanical properties, such as the elimination of the shaking forces and moments exported onto their supporting structure or ...

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A unified framework for Simplicial Kuramoto models

Alexis Arnaudon

Simplicial Kuramoto models have emerged as a diverse and intriguing class of models describing oscillators on simplices rather than nodes. In this paper, we present a unified framework to describe different variants of these models, categorized into three ...

2024

500 MHz high resolution proximity sensors with fully integrated digital counter

Giovanni Boero, Nergiz Sahin Solmaz, Reza Farsi

We report on the design and characterization of two inductive proximity sensors based on LC oscillators operating at 500 MHz. The distance from the target is obtained by measuring the oscillation frequency variation. Both sensors contain an off-chip LC res ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2023

Rectilinear translation four-bar flexure mechanism based on four Remote Center Compliance pivots

Simon Nessim Henein, Charles Baur, Loïc Benoît Tissot-Daguette, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans, Quentin Gubler

This paper presents a novel planar four-bar linkage compliant mechanism (called 4-RCC) based on four flexure-based Remote Center of Compliance (RCC) pivots. With particular configurations and dimensions, the beam shortening of the RCC pivots can compensate ...

euspen2022

CPG-RL: Learning Central Pattern Generators for Quadruped Locomotion

Auke Ijspeert, Guillaume Denis Antoine Bellegarda

In this letter, we present a method for integrating central pattern generators (CPGs), i.e. systems of coupled oscillators, into the deep reinforcement learning (DRL) framework to produce robust and omnidirectional quadruped locomotion. The agent learns to ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Low-Power and Wide-Tuning Range Frequency Generation for FMCW Radars in Advanced CMOS Technologies

Francesco Chicco

Nowadays, the internet of things (IoT) nodes have started to spread in various domains of our society, from the industrial to the domestic environment. The remote sensing is one among their fundamental functions. The implementation of a radio detection and ...

EPFL2021

A 60 GHz QDCO with 11 GHz Seamless Tuning for Low-Power FMCW Radars in 22-nm FDSOI

Christian Enz, Francesco Chicco, Sammy Cerida Rengifo

This paper presents the design of a 60GHz Quadrature Digitally-Controlled Oscillator for a low-power Frequency-Modulated Continuous Wave radar System-on-Chip. The accurate detection of vital signs requires 1 and Q demodulation of the received signal. The q ...

IEEE2021

Shaking force balancing of a 2-DOF isotropic horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Hubert Pierre-Marie Benoît Schneegans

Despite centuries of research and significant advances, the escapement mechanism used to count and maintain oscillations of mechanical time bases remains a complex mechanism and a major source of energy losses. We showed in previous work that, instead of t ...

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Optical measurement method for mechanical time base characterization

Simon Nessim Henein, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann

The recent adoption of silicon components by the mechanical watch industry has triggered the search for new time bases to advantageously replace the traditional balance and hairspring oscillator. In particular, flexure-based oscillators manufactured in sil ...

euspen2021

Slow-fast Dynamics of Strongly Coupled Adaptive Frequency Oscillators

Auke Ijspeert, Ludovic Righetti, Jonas Buchli

Oscillators have two main limitations: their synchronization properties are limited (i.e., they have a finite synchronization region) and they have no memory of past interactions (i.e., they return to their intrinsic frequency whenever the entraining signa ...

SIAM PUBLICATIONS2021

Coupling-dependent convergence behavior of phase oscillators with tegotae-control

Auke Ijspeert, Jonathan Patrick Arreguit O'Neill, Simon Lukas Hauser, Matthieu Guillaume Marie Dujany

A bio-inspired way to model locomotion is using a network of coupled phase oscillators to create a Central Pattern Generator (CPG). The recently developed feedback control method tegotae includes exteroceptive force feedback into the governing phase update ...

IEEE2021

Networks of Coupled VO2 Oscillators for Neuromorphic Computing

Elisabetta Corti

Neuromorphic computing is a wide research field aimed to the realization of brain-inspired hardware, apt to tackle computation of unstructured data more efficiently than currently done with standard computational units. Oscillatory neural networks are know ...

EPFL2021

Coupled VO2 oscillators circuit as analog first layer filter in convolutional neural networks

Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Kirsten Emilie Moselund, Elisabetta Corti, Siegfried Karg

In this work we present an in-memory computing platform based on coupled VO2 oscillators fabricated in a crossbar configuration on silicon. Compared to existing platforms, the crossbar configuration promises significant improvements in terms of area densit ...

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A Low-Jitter and Low-Spur Charge-Sampling PLL

Edoardo Charbon, Fabio Sebastiano

This article presents a low-jitter and low-spur charge-sampling phase-locked loop (CSPLL). A charge-domain sub-sampling phase detector is introduced to achieve a high phase-detection gain and to reduce the PLL in-band phase noise. Even without employing an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Development of Lamb wave resonators in thin film X-cut lithium niobate

Muhammad Faizan

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) is among the most revolutionary technologies of 21st century, with the applications ranging from industrial systems to consumer electronics. Using MEMS in battery-powered wireless devices has long been seen as the evol ...

EPFL2021

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

Ralph Spolenak, 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

Control-Free Mechanical Oscillator Powered by Shape Memory Alloys

Paolo Germano, Yves Perriard, Sean Thomas, Thomas Guillaume Martinez

Shape Memory Alloy (SMA) based actuators have been commonly used in applications that require being compact and lightweight. In this paper, the inherent stiffness of a flexure-based linear guide is used to create a bias-spring SMA actuator which further re ...

IEEE2021

Evidence of Smaller 1/F Noise in AlScN-Based Oscillators Compared to AlN-Based Oscillators

Luis Guillermo Villanueva Torrijo, Andrea Lozzi, Marco Liffredo

In this paper we investigate the direct effect of resonator quality factor (Q) on the oscillator phase noise. We use 2-port contour mode resonators (CMRs), fabricated both with aluminum nitride (AlN) and aluminum scandium nitride (AlScN), as the frequency- ...

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