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Optimization and Real-Time Aspects of Aircraft Model-Based Navigation

The Vehicle Dynamic Model (VDM) based navigation of fixed-wing drones determines the airborne trajectory in conjunction with Inertial Measurement Unit (IMU) sensors. Without Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) signals, this method estimates navigati ...

EPFL2022

Mechanical oscillator with tunable isochronism defect

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Mohamed Gamal Abdelrahman Ahmed Zanaty

Mechanical oscillator (1) for a timepiece comprising an inertial mass (3) arranged to oscillate about a neutral position under the effect of a restoring force provided by at least one elastic element (5),characterised in that said mechanical oscillator (1) ...

2020

Two degree of freedom oscillator system

Simon Nessim Henein, Billy Nussbaumer, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan

Oscillator system (1) comprising:- a substantially planar frame (3);- a first sub-oscillator (5), a second sub-oscillator (7), a third sub-oscillator (9), and a fourth sub-oscillator (11), each sub-oscillator (5, 7, 9, 11) comprising a substantially rigid ...

2020

Foucault pendulum properties of spherical oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Patrick Robert Flückiger

The Foucault pendulum provides a demonstration of the turning of the Earth. The principle at work is that linear oscillations of a two-degree-of-freedom isotropic harmonic oscillator remain unchanged in an inertial frame of reference, so appear to precess ...

2020

Foucault pendulum properties of spherical oscillators

Simon Nessim Henein, Ilan Vardi, Patrick Robert Flückiger

In 1851 Léon Foucault created a sensation with his pendulum providing a direct demonstration of the turning of the Earth. This simple device consists of a pendulum which is launched in a purely planar orbit. Following Mach's principle of inertia, the mass ...

euspen2020

Horological oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Billy Nussbaumer, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Etienne Frédéric Gabriel Thalmann, Ilan Vardi

Horological oscillator comprising: - a first inertial body (141; 151; 1305; 1405; 1505; 301; 311; 314; 41; 51; 507; 529; 544; 541; 901; 903) arranged to rotate with respect to a first axis; - a second inertial body (143; 153; 1306; 1406; 1506; 302; 313; 31 ...

2019

Sensitivity to Time Delays in VDM-Based Navigation

Jan Skaloud, Gabriel François Laupré, Mehran Khaghani

A recently proposed navigation methodology for aerial platforms based on the vehicle dynamic model (VDM) has shown promising results in terms of navigation autonomy. Its practical realization requires that control inputs are related to the same absolute ti ...

2019

Observation of an Excited B-c(+) State

Christoph Frei, Peter Clarke, Aurelio Bay, Minh Tâm Tran, François Fleuret, Tatsuya Nakada, Guido Haefeli, Niko Neufeld, Olivier Schneider, Hans Dijkstra, Frédéric Teubert, Gerhard Raven, Mingkui Wang, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Frédéric Blanc, Matthew Needham, Axel Kuonen, Olivier Göran Girard, Liang Sun, Maxime Schubiger, Brice Emile Maurin, Thibaud Humair, Hang Yin, Xiaoxue Han, Greig Alan Cowan, Paolo Durante, Guillaume Max Pietrzyk, Matthieu Philippe Luther Marinangeli, Vladislav Balagura, Lino Ferreira Lopes, Zhirui Xu, Mark Tobin, Victor Coco, Violaine Bellée, Mirco Dorigo, Yu Zheng, Alexander Vasiliev, Vincenzo Battista, Maurizio Martinelli, Tommaso Colombo, Guido Andreassi, Maxim Borisyak, Dipanwita Dutta, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Anton Petrov, Jian Wang, Liupan An, Preema Rennee Pais, Pavol Stefko, Ho Ling Li, Yi Zhang, Maria Elena Stramaglia, Lei Zhang, Luca Pescatore, Vladimir Macko, Adam Davis, Zhipeng Tang, Pietro Marino, Simon Van Mulders, Tara Nanut, Ana Bárbara Rodrigues Cavalcante, Federico Leo Redi, Michel De Cian, Sebastian Schulte, Veronica Sølund Kirsebom, Elena Graverini, Maria Vieites Diaz, Evgenii Shmanin, Xuan Li, Donal Patrick Hill, Federico Betti, Renato Quagliani, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Feng Jiang, Wenyu Zhang, Yiming Li, Yi Wang, Vitalii Lisovskyi, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Giovanni Carboni, Zheng Wang, Katharina Müller

Using pp collision data corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 8.5 fb(-1) recorded by the LHCb experiment at center-of-mass energies of root s = 7, 8, and 13 TeV, the observation of an excited B-c(+) state in the B-c(+)pi(+)pi(-) invariant-mass spect ...

2019

Segregation of large particles in dense granular flows suggests a granular Saffman effect

Christophe Ancey, Kasper van der Vaart

We report on the scaling between the lift force and the velocity lag experienced by a single particle of different size in a monodisperse dense granular chute flow. The similarity of this scaling to the Saffman lift force in (micro-) fluids, suggests an in ...

2018

Mechanical oscillator

Simon Nessim Henein, Mohammad Hussein Kahrobaiyan, Ilan Vardi

wherein k1, k3, k5 . . . are constants and θ is an angle of inclination of said third axis (x, P) of said inertial body with respect to a direction of said third axis (xr) when said inertial body is in said resting position. ...

2018

Observation of e(+) e(-) -> pi(+) pi(-) pi(0)chi(b1,2) (1P) and search for e(+) e (-) -> phi chi(b1,2) (1P) at root s=10.96-11.05 GeV

Roberto Gargiani, Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Hiroyasu Yamamoto, Yong Chan Choi, Seyed Sina Mirrazavi Salehian, Arnaud Michel Gelb, Gaétan Charles Antoine Giriat, Jun Yong Kim, Linlin Cao, Jiayun Shen, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Martin Lubej, Chang-Hyun Park, Lei Li, Ji Hyun Kim, Yiming Li, Xiao Wang

We report searches for the processes e(+) e(-) -> pi(+)pi(-)pi(0)chi(bJ) and e(+) e(-) -> phi chi(bJ) ( J = 1, 2) based on data samples collected by the Belle experiment at the KEKB collider. We report the first observation of the process e(+) e(-) -> (pi( ...

American Physical Society2018

Drift Reduction for Inertial Sensor Based Orientation and Position Estimation in the Presence of High Dynamic Variability During Competitive Skiing and Daily-Life Walking

Benedikt Fasel

Nowadays inertial sensors are extensively used for gait analysis. They can be used to perform temporal event detection (i.e. step detection) and to estimate the orientation of the feet and other body segments to determine walking speed and distance. Usuall ...

EPFL2017

Heightened clinical utility of smartphone versus body-worn inertial system for shoulder function B-B score

Kamiar Aminian, Alain Farron, Cyntia Duc, Brigitte Jolles-Haeberli

The B-B Score is a straightforward kinematic shoulder function score including only two movements (hand to the Back + lift hand as to change a Bulb) that demonstrated sound measurement properties for patients for various shoulder pathologies. However, the ...

2017

Improving the accuracy of low-cost GNSS by fusion with inertial and magnetic sensors in alpine ski racing

Kamiar Aminian, Benedikt Fasel

For analysing performance in alpine ski racing, an accurate estimation of the skier’s centre of mass trajectory and speed is indispensable. However, the sole use of low-cost GNSS might not be accurate enough to detect meaningful differences. The aim of thi ...

2016

Instrumented shoes for daily activity monitoring in healthy and at risk populations

Christopher Moufawad El Achkar

Daily activity reflects the health status of an individual. Ageing and disease drastically affect all dimensions of mobility, from the number of active bouts to their duration and intensity. Performing less activity leads to muscle deterioration and furthe ...

EPFL2016

Observation of Z(b)(10610) and Z(b)(10650) Decaying to B Mesons

Olivier Schneider, Sun Hee Kim, Tagir Aushev, Mingkui Wang, Chao Wang, Dipanwita Dutta, Ho Ling Li, Jun Yong Kim, Tara Nanut, Donghyun Kim, Ji Hyun Kim

We report the analysis of the three-body e(+)e(-) -> B (B) over bar pi(+/-), B (B) over barpi(+/-), and B(B) over bar* pi(+/-) processes, including the first observations of the Z(b)(+/-)(10610) -> B (B) over bar* + c.c. and Z(b)(+/-)(10650) -> [B ...

Amer Physical Soc2016

Flow separation at convex banks in open channels

Koen Blanckaert

Laboratory experiments in an open channel bend provide insight into the physics of convex bank flow separation occurring in a variety of channel configurations, including confluences and bifurcations. The edge of the zone of flow separation is characterize ...

Cambridge University Press2015

Method to determine a direction and amplitude of a current velocity estimate of a moving device

Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Dario Floreano, Adrien Briod

A new method for the estimation of ego-motion (the direction and amplitude of the velocity) of a mobile device comprising optic-flow and inertial sensors (hereinafter the apparatus). The velocity is expressed in the apparatus's reference frame, which is mo ...

2014

Implantable and wearable measurement system for smart knee prosthesis

Kamiar Aminian, Philippe Renaud, David Forchelet, Arash Arami

In this work we present the implantable and wearable measurement system developed for smart knee prostheses monitoring. The kinematic measurement system contains three anisotropic magnetoresistive sensors embedded into the polyethylene part of the prosthes ...

IEEE2014

Measurement of the dynamics in ski jumping using a wearable inertial sensor-based system

Kamiar Aminian, Julien Favre, Julien Chardonnens

Dynamics is a central aspect of ski jumping, particularly during take-off and stable flight. Currently, measurement systems able to measure ski jumping dynamics (e.g., 3D cameras, force plates) are complex and only available in few research centres worldwi ...

Taylor & Francis2014