Publications related to Dvorak keyboard layout

Wind farm power density optimization according to the area size using a novel self-adaptive genetic algorithm

Fernando Porté Agel, Nicolas Otto Kirchner Bossi

This work studies the power density (PD) optimization in wind farms, and its sensitivity to the available area size. A novel genetic algorithm (PDGA) is introduced, which optimizes PD and the turbine layout, by self-adapting to the PD and to the solutions ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2023

Overflow-free compute memories for edge AI acceleration

David Atienza Alonso, Giovanni Ansaloni, Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse, Marco Antonio Rios, Flavio Ponzina

Compute memories are memory arrays augmented with dedicated logic to support arithmetic. They support the efficient execution of data-centric computing patterns, such as those characterizing Artificial Intelligence (AI) algorithms. These architectures can ...

2023

Shared Intelligence for Robot Teleoperation via BMI

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Luca Tonin

This article proposes a novel shared intelligence system for brain-machine interface (BMI) teleoperated mobile robots where user's intention and robot's intelligence are concurrent elements equally participating in the decision process. We designed the sys ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Thermal-hydraulic analysis of alternative cable-in-conduit conductors for the European DEMO hybrid central solenoid

Kamil Sedlák, Nikolay Bykovskiy, Roberto Guarino

A hybrid design of the Central Solenoid is under study within the conceptual design phase of the European DEMO fusion reactor. It is based on HTS conductors in the innermost high-field layers, and Nb3Sn and NbTi conductors for field values below 15 T. Sinc ...

2022

X-Shell Pavilion: A Deployable Elastic Rod Structure

Mark Pauly, Florin Isvoranu, Tian Chen, Francis Julian Panetta, Etienne Bouleau

We present the X-Shell pavilion, a lightweight structure composed of elastic beam elements joined in a special layout that allows easy on-site deployment. The structure’s undeployed assembly configuration lies mostly flat and is easy to build, consisting o ...

Ingenta2019

Design of Load-Bearing Systems for Open-Ended Downstream Reuse

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet

This paper discusses the design of load-bearing systems for buildings with regard to their current lack of open-ended reusability. The reason for dismantling load-bearing systems today tends to be less related to material degradation than to a loss of func ...

2019

A Grammar of Muqarnas: Drawings of the Alhambra by Jones and Goury (1834-1845)

Ignacio Ferrer Perez-Blanco

The muqarnas of the Nasrid Alhambra stand out as one of the most singular architectural episodes o f Medieval Islamic art due to their sophisticated three-dimensional construction, whose layout remains little known. In 1834 and 1837, the architects Owen Jo ...

2019

Energy performance and occupancy-based analysis of visual and thermal comfort for transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics

Marilyne Andersen, Jan Wienold, Giorgia Chinazzo, Giuseppe Peronato

This paper investigates the impact of transmittance level and layout variations of semi-transparent photovoltaics (STPV) on both energy performance and occupancy-based visual and thermal comfort, simulating a reference office with a fully south-oriented gl ...

IBPSA2019

A Review of Evaluation, Optimization and Synthesis of Energy Systems: Methodology and Application to Thermal Power Plants

François Maréchal, Shivom Sharma, Ligang Wang, Alberto Mian, Tzu-En Lin

To reach optimal/better conceptual designs of energy systems, key design variables should be optimized/adapted with system layouts, which may contribute significantly to system improvement. Layout improvement can be proposed by combining system analysis wi ...

2018

Encapsulating Online Labs in Structured Learning Spaces

Denis Gillet, Juan Carlos Farah

This paper builds on the results of European research projects to support STEM education with online labs. We present Integrated Interaction Apps as a means to support learning activities centered on online labs. We then show how these apps, labs and other ...

2018

SPADE: Tuning scale-out OLTP on modern RDMA clusters

Rachid Guerraoui, Aleksandar Dragojevic, Georgios Chatzopoulos

Distributed transactions on modern RDMA clusters promise high throughput and low latency for scale-out workloads. As such, they can be particularly beneficial to large OLTP workloads, which require both. However, achieving good performance requires tuning ...

Association for Computing Machinery2018

Behaviour of a scour protection overlay with randomly distributed concrete prisms in plunge pools downstream of mobile barrages for exceptional operation conditions

Anton Schleiss, Giovanni De Cesare, Pedro Filipe De Almeida Manso, Sabine Chamoun, Davide Wüthrich

Uncontrolled scour is affecting multiple mobile dams. The plunge pool of the Chancy-Pougny barrage, located on the Rhone River bordering France and Switzerland, has recently been reported to develop in a potentially unfavourable direction after almost 100 ...

2018

FPGA-SPICE: A Simulation-Based Architecture Evaluation Framework for FPGAs

Giovanni De Micheli, Xifan Tang, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Edouard Giacomin

In this paper, we developed a simulation-based architecture evaluation framework for field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs), called FPGA-SPICE, which enables automatic layout-level estimation and electrical simulations of FPGA architectures. FPGA-SPICE can ...

2018

Layout Analysis on Newspaper Archives

Frédéric Kaplan, Vincent Christian Buntinx, Aris Xanthos

The study of newspaper layout evolution through historical corpora has been addressed by diverse qualitative and quantitative methods in the past few years. The recent availability of large corpora of newspapers is now making the quantitative analysis of l ...

2017

Contemporary renovation of 19th century housing in Lisbon, Oporto and Geneva : comfort, typology and urban character

Catarina Wall Gago

This work examines strategies for contemporary renovation of 19th century housing, focusing on three cities with significant ensembles dating from this time: Lisbon and Oporto, in Portugal, and Geneva, in Switzerland. Taking into account the unique urban i ...

EPFL2015

Strain Management in HTS High Current Cables

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Davide Uglietti, Rainer Wesche

The best performing HTS conductors are available in the form of thin tapes with operating current in the range of 200 A at the operating conditions. To realize conductors with high current carrying capability, in the range of several tens of kA, a large nu ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2015

Head losses in junction manholes for free surface flows in circular conduits

Michael Pfister, Corrado Gisonni

Former studies on combining flows resulted in an efficient layout of sewer junctions operated under supercritical approach flow conditions. Straight extensions allowed a reduction in the shock wave heights generated by the merging flows, so that the global ...

Asce-Amer Soc Civil Engineers2014

Hardware Architecture and Cutting-Edge Assembly Process of a Tiny Curved Compound Eye

Dario Floreano, Ramon Pericet Camara, Géraud L'Eplattenier

The demand for bendable sensors increases constantly in the challenging field of soft and micro-scale robotics. We present here, in more detail, the flexible, functional, insect-inspired curved artificial compound eye (CurvACE) that was previously introduc ...

Mdpi Ag2014

SULTAN test facility: Summary of recent results

Pierluigi Bruzzone, Kamil Sedlák, Boris Stepanov, Giancarlo Croari

The test campaigns of the ITER conductors in the SULTAN test facility re-started in December 2011 after three months break. The main focus of the activities is about the qualification tests of the Central Solenoid (CS) conductors, with three different samp ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

SATSoT: A Methodology to Map Controllable-Polarity Devices on a Regular Fabric Using SAT

Giovanni De Micheli, Pierre-Emmanuel Julien Marc Gaillardon, Catherine Lucie Jéromine Gasnier

Devices with controllable-polarity, such as Double-Gate Vertically-Stacked Nanowire FETs, have shown promising interests in recent years to implement XOR-based logic functions in an unprecedented compact way. Such a compactness is obtained at the cost of a ...

2013