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Realistic Modelling of Dynamics at Nanostructured Interfaces Relevant to Heterogeneous Catalysis

The focus of this short review is directed towards investigations of the dynamics of nanostructured metallic heterogeneous catalysts and the evolution of interfaces during reaction-namely, the metal-gas, metal-liquid, and metal-support interfaces. Indeed, ...

MDPI2022

Efficient Simulation for Visual Comfort Evaluations

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Stephen William Wasilewski

This paper provides a validation of a novel sampling, storage, and evaluation method named raytraverse that can quickly and accurately compute glare and visual comfort metrics including vertical illuminance, Daylight Glare Probability (DGP), and Unified Gl ...

2022

Perceptual Quality of Point Clouds with application to Compression

Evangelos Alexiou

Modern information technologies and human-centric communication systems employ advanced content representations for richer portrayals of the real world. The newly adopted imaging modalities offer additional information cues and permit the depiction of real ...

EPFL2021

A Review on Finite Element Modeling and Simulation of the Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction

Dimitar Yuriev Stanev

The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) constitutes one of the most important stabilizing tissues of the knee joint whose rapture is very prevalent. ACL reconstruction (ACLR) from a graft is a surgery which yields the best outcome. Taking into account the com ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2020

Looking beyond Pixels : Theory, Algorithms and Applications of Continuous Sparse Recovery

Hanjie Pan

Sparse recovery is a powerful tool that plays a central role in many applications, including source estimation in radio astronomy, direction of arrival estimation in acoustics or radar, super-resolution microscopy, and X-ray crystallography. Conventional a ...

EPFL2018

An Empirical Evaluation of Transfer-of-Training of Two Flight Simulation Games

Aim. The objective of this study was to collect evidence of transfer-of-training to professional performance provided by two stand-alone PC-based flight games. Background. These realistic games, Falcon 4.0 (F-16 specific) and Microsoft Flight Simulator (ci ...

Sage Publications Inc2017

Integration of Perimeter Control and Route Guidance in Large-scale Urban Networks via Model Predictive Control

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Isik Ilber Sirmatel

Traffic congestion is a substantial problem plaguing modern society. Researchers and practitioners working on transportation systems turn to methods from automatic control to decrease congestion and improve urban mobility. Considering the sheer physical si ...

2017

Quasi-Newton Methods for Real-Time Simulation of Hyperelastic Materials

Ladislav Kavan, Sofien Bouaziz

We present a new method for real-time physics-based simulation supporting many different types of hyperelastic materials. Previous methods such as Position-Based or Projective Dynamics are fast but support only a limited selection of materials; even classi ...

2017

Predictive Control methods for Building Control and Demand Response

Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki

This thesis studies advanced control techniques for the control of building heating and cooling systems to provide demand response services to the power network. It is divided in three parts. The first one introduces the MATLAB toolbox OpenBuild which aims ...

EPFL2017

A meshless method to simulate interactions between large soft tissue and a surgical grasper

Elahe Abdi

Realistic simulation of tool-tissue interactions can help to develop more effective surgical training systems and simulators. This study uses a finite element and meshless modeling approach to simulate the grasping procedure of a large intra-abdominal orga ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

Beam Dynamics Studies in Recirculating Machines

Dario Pellegrini

The LHeC and the CLIC Drive Beam share not only the high-current beams that make them prone to show instabilities, but also unconventional lattice topologies and operational schemes in which the time sequence of the bunches varies along the machine. In ord ...

EPFL2016

OpenBuild : An Integrated Simulation Environment for Building Control

Colin Neil Jones, Tomasz Tadeusz Gorecki, Faran Ahmed Qureshi

This paper introduces the OpenBuild toolbox for MATLAB. OpenBuild is a toolbox for advanced controller design for buildings heating ventilation and air conditioning systems, with emphasis on Model Predictive Control. It pro- vides researchers in the contro ...

IEEE2015

Multidimensional Indicator Analysis for Transport Policy Evaluation

Michel Bierlaire, Bilal Farooq, Dimitrios Efthymiou

The need for forecasting the direct and indirect effects of land use and transport policies on society, the environment, and the local economy has led to the development of integrated land use and transport (LUTI) models. The land use and transport policy ...

National Academy of Sciences2014

Ultra high-speed electronics for power system dynamic emulation

Laurent Fabre

Modern society is dependent on reliable electricity for security, health, communication, transportation, finance, computers and nearly all aspects of the contemporary life. Providing reliable electricity is a very complex challenge. It involves real-time m ...

EPFL2013

Design, Modeling and Optimization of Stochastic Reactive Distributed Robotic Systems

Grégory Mermoud

This dissertation describes a complete methodological framework for designing, modeling and optimizing a specific class of distributed systems whose dynamics result from the multiple, stochastic interactions of their constitutive components. These componen ...

EPFL2012

Collaborative coverage using a swarm of networked miniature robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll, Samuel Rutishauser

We study distributed coverage of environments with unknown extension using a team of networked miniature robots analytically and experimentally. Algorithms are analyzed by incrementally raising the abstraction level starting from physical robots, to realis ...

Elsevier2009

TraNS: Realistic Joint Traffic and Network Simulator for VANETs

Jean-Pierre Hubaux, Matthias Grossglauser, Panagiotis Papadimitratos, Maxime Raya, Ada Lezama Lugo

Realistic simulation is a necessary tool for the proper evaluation of newly developed protocols for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). Several recent efforts focus on achieving this goal. Yet, to this date, none of the proposed solutions fulfill all the r ...

2008

Robust Distributed Coverage using a Swarm of Miniature Robots

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll

For the multi-robot coverage problem deterministic deliberative as well as probabilistic approaches have been proposed. Whereas deterministic approaches usually provide provable completeness and promise good performance under perfect conditions, probabilis ...

2007

Distributed Coverage: From Deterministic to Probabilistic Models

Alcherio Martinoli, Nicolaus Correll

For the multi-robot coverage problem determin- istic deliberative as well as probabilistic approaches have been proposed. Whereas deterministic approaches usually provide provable completeness and promise good performance under perfect conditions, probabil ...

2007

A novel multiple objective optimization framework for constraining conductance-based neuron models by experimental data

Henry Markram, Idan Segev

We present a novel framework for automatically constraining parameters of compartmental models of neurons, given a large set of experimentally-measured responses of these neurons. In experiments, intrinsic noise gives rise to a large variability (e.g., in ...

2007