Publications related to Eddy current brake

Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots

Dario Floreano, Yi Sun, Hoang Vu Phan, Krishna Manaswi Digumarti, Omar Aloui

Electro-adhesive clutches have become effective tools for variable stiffness functions in many robotic systems due to their light weight, high speed and strong brake force. In this paper, we present a novel, tubular design of an electro-adhesive clutch. Ou ...

IEEE2022

Design optimization of the Upper Steering Mirror Assembly (USMA) for ITER ECHUL in view of disruptive events

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Matteo Vagnoni, Anastasia Xydou

Four Electron Cyclotron Heating Upper Launchers (ECHUL) will be used at ITER to counteract magneto-hydrodynamic plasma instabilities by targeting them with up to 20 MW of mm-wave power at 170 GHz. The millimeter waves are guided through a set of fixed mirr ...

2021

A New Cabled Stabilizer for the Nb3Sn React&Wind DEMO Conductor Prototype

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria

A Nb3Sn based, React&Wind flat cable, named RW2, was developed in the past three years at the Swiss Plasma Center in the scope of the EUROfusion conceptual studies for DEMO. The test results presented earlier proved an excellent DC performance, but large e ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2021

A New Cabled Stabilizer for the Nb3Sn React&Wind DEMO Conductor Prototype

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Mithlesh Kumar, Vincenzo D'Auria

A Nb3Sn based, React&Wind flat cable, named RW2, was developed in the past three years at the Swiss Plasma Center in the scope of the EUROfusion conceptual studies for DEMO. The test results presented earlier proved an excellent DC performance, but large e ...

2021

Pure Spin Current and Magnon Chemical Potential in a Nonequilibrium Magnetic Insulator

Kyongmo An, Li Shi

Nonequilibrium phenomena are ubiquitous in nature and in a wide range of systems, including cold atomic gases and solid-state materials. While these phenomena are challenging to describe both theoretically and experimentally, they are essential for the fun ...

American Physical Society2020

DextrES: Wearable Haptic Feedback for Grasping in VR via a Thin Form-Factor Electrostatic Brake

Herbert Shea, Ronan Julien Hinchet

We introduce DextrES, a flexible and wearable haptic glove which integrates both kinesthetic and cutaneous feedback in a thin and light form factor (weight is less than 8g). Our approach is based on an electrostatic clutch generating up to 20 N of holding ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2018

Different approaches to improve energy consumption of battery electric buses

Francesco Baldi

Transportation electrification is increasing and recently more focus has been directed on heavy vehicles and especially on city buses. Battery electric buses are inherently more energy efficient than diesel buses and the efficiency can be further increased ...

IEEE2018

Method and Procedure in Metal Detection and Distinctive Discrimination of Size, Shape, and Location of Hidden Single and Multi-Material Targets

Chafic Abu Antoun

This work provides a procedure and methodology for the design of an electro-magnetic sensor based on induction due to ferromagnetic and pure electrically conduc-tive hidden targets. The electromagnetic sensor is made of one or several excitation coils, whi ...

EPFL2017

Deriving a load model for the braking force on road bridges: Comparison between a deterministic and a probabilistic approach

Katrin Beyer, André-Gilles Dumont, Marc-Antoine Fénart, Glauco Feltrin

The current provisions for the braking force in the Eurocodes are much more demanding than previously enforced national codes from most European countries. Hence, safety assessments of existing bridges may show a lack of compliance with the new safety requ ...

Springer International Publishing2016

Updated braking forces for the assessment of road bridges

João Miguel De Oliveira Durães Alves Martins

Safety assessments of road bridges to braking events combine the braking force, acting along the longitudinal axis of the deck, with a vertical load that accounts for the vertical component of the traffic action. In modern design standards the vertical loa ...

EPFL2016

Stabilization of electrodynamic bearings with active magnetic dampers

Qingwen Cui

Electrodynamic Bearings (EDBs) are a kind of passive magnetic bearings that exploits the interaction between the induced eddy currents in a conductor and a magnetic field to provide re-storing forces. They have been regarded as an appealing alternative to ...

EPFL2016

Defining a braking probability to estimate extreme braking forces on road bridges

Katrin Beyer, André-Gilles Dumont, Marc-Antoine Fénart, Glauco Feltrin

A probabilistic approach is necessary to estimate the magnitude of the braking force that compares in terms of return period with the vertical traffic loads present in bridge design codes. A data set from a Danish Field Operational Test served as support t ...

2015

Characterization of Surface Cracks Through The Local Magnetic Field Induced by Eddy Currents

Hannes Bleuler, Roland Moser, Marco Picasso, Pavel Kejik, Gilles Raphaël Santi, David Florian Hippert

It is important to reliably characterize cracks in metallic mechanical parts in order to assess the serenity of damage due to fatigue. The most important parameter for this is the crack depth. This is notoriously difficult with standard Eddy current techni ...

Ios Press2014

Robust and Efficient 3D Model of an Electromagnetic Induction (EMI) Sensor

Yves Perriard, Chafic Abu Antoun

Eddy current induction is used in a wide range of electronic devices, for example in detection sensors. Due to the advances in computer hardware and software, the need for 3D computation and system comprehension is a requirement to develop and optimize suc ...

2014

The High-Resolution Magnetic Camera: A Novel Sensor for Eddy Current Testing

Hannes Bleuler, Roland Moser, Marco Picasso, Pavel Kejik, Gilles Raphaël Santi, David Florian Hippert

Eddy current techniques are often used to detect and, in some advanced applications, to characterize fatigue surface-breaking cracks appearing in mechanical parts. One of the major difficulties in this approach is to reliably separate the crack contributio ...

Ios Press2014

Effects of LHRF on toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas

Christian Gabriel Theiler

Application of lower hybrid range of frequencies (LHRF) waves can induce both co- and counter-current directed changes in toroidal rotation in Alcator C-Mod plasmas, depending on the target plasma current, electron density, confinement regime and magnetic ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2013

Design and Control of a Modular Multilevel DC/DC Converter for Regenerative Applications

Alfred Rufer, Daniel Montesinos Miracle

This paper compares different cascaded and multilevel topologies to interface supercapacitors to a dc bus in regenerative braking applications. It is shown that the modular multilevel dc/dc converter (MMC) can benefit from both reduced voltage and increase ...

2013

Multilevel two quadrant DC/DC converter for regenerative braking in mobile applications

Alfred Rufer, Daniel Montesinos Miracle

In this paper different cascaded and multilevel topologies are compared for regenerative braking systems using supercapacitors (SC). It shows that the multilevel buck derived topology can beneficiate from both reduced voltage across the inductor and increa ...

2011

Slotless Permanent-Magnet Machines: General Analytical Magnetic Field Calculation

Yves Perriard, Pierre-Daniel Pfister

This paper presents a general analytical model for predicting the magnetic field of slotless permanent-magnet machines. The model takes into account the effect of eddy currents in conductive regions and notably in conductive permanent magnets without negle ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2011

Control of a multilevel modular DC/DC converter for mobile applications

Alfred Rufer, Daniel Montesinos Miracle

This paper presents the control design of a multilevel modular DC/DC converter for regenerative braking systems in mobile applications. The proposed control scheme is able to control the energy flow between supercapacitors and the DC link and equalizing th ...

2010