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This article presents a design-for-test methodology for embedded memories. The methodology relies on a fully random fault model of post-fabrication errors, which results in a low-overhead test strategy. The methodology's effectiveness is demonstrated on an ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Heterogeneous Memory Organizations in Embedded Systems. Placement of Dynamic Data Objects

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RoboGen: Robot Generation through Artificial Evolution

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The MIT Press2014

Variability-Aware Design Space Exploration of Embedded Memories

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In-Flight Collision Avoidance Controller Based Only on OS4 Embedded Sensors

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Abcm Brazilian Soc Mechanical Sciences & Engineering2012

FREAK: Fast Retina Keypoint

Pierre Vandergheynst, Alexandre Massoud Alahi, Raphaël Ortiz

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Ieee2012

Tubulo II: magnetic climbing inchworm for inspection of boiler tubes

Francesco Mondada, Hannes Bleuler, Frédéric Rochat, Olivier Truong-Dat Nguyen, Patrick Schoeneich

TUBULO II is a climbing inspection robot with for inner inspection of boiler tubes. Its locomotion principle is the inchworm type. The adhesion is realized with Magnetic Switchable Device [1]. The inner is able to operate within a tube of inner bore diamet ...

World Scientific2011

Enabling Large-Scale Collective Systems in Outdoor Aerial Robotics

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For many real-life applications such as monitoring, mapping, search-and-rescue or ad-hoc communication networks, fleets of flying robots are expected to out-perform existing solutions. Robots can join forces to cover larger areas in less time, act as effic ...

EPFL2011

CURVACE - CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Michal Karol Dobrzynski, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

CURVACE aims at designing, developing, and assessing CURVed Artificial Compound Eyes, a radically novel family of vision systems. This innovative approach will provide more efficient visual abilities for embedded applications that require motion analysis i ...

Elsevier B.V.2011

Miniature Magnetic Climbing Inspection Robots

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Industrial plants have an abundance of complex and confined areas that require systematic inspection. Maintenance work is necessary to ensure reliability and safety. In many cases, due to either size limitations or high danger, access is impossible to huma ...

EPFL2011

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Francesco Mondada, Roland Moser, Roland Siegwart, Gilles Caprari, Fabien Tâche, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

This paper reports on a 3 years applied research project dealing with several inspection scenarios of power plants and resulting in many robot prototypes and 3 main achievements. The project is a common effort between industry and university, including ALS ...

IEEE Press2010

Architectural Support for Coherent Architecturally Visible Storage in Instruction Set Extensions

Ties Jan Henderikus Kluter

When it comes to performance, embedded systems share many problems with their higher-end counterparts. The growing gap between top processor frequency and memory access speed, the memory wall, is one such problem. Driven, in part, by low energy consumption ...

EPFL2010

Optimization of Dynamic Memory Managers for Embedded Systems Using Grammatical Evolution

David Atienza Alonso, José Luis Risco Martin

New portable consumer embedded devices must execute multimedia applications (e.g., 3D games, video players and signal processing software, etc.) that demand extensive memory accesses and memory usage at a low energy consumption. Moreover, they must heavily ...

ACM Press2009