Publications related to Railway signalling

Quantifying the Unknown: Data-Driven Approaches and Applications in Energy Systems

In light of the challenges posed by climate change and the goals of the Paris Agreement, electricity generation is shifting to a more renewable and decentralized pattern, while the operation of systems like buildings is increasingly electrified. This calls ...

EPFL2024

Bioinspired Soft Bendable Peristaltic Pump Exploiting Ballooning for High Volume Throughput

Josephine Anna Eleanor Hughes

Interest in bioinspired peristaltic pumps has grown in popularity among the scientific community in the last decade thanks to their extreme flexibility and their intrinsic compliance. In this paper, we propose a soft peristaltic pump exploiting ballooning. ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Large-scale traffic signal control and multimodal network design

Dimitrios Tsitsokas

Traffic congestion constitutes one of the most frequent, yet challenging, problems to address in the urban space. Caused by the concentration of population, whose mobility needs surpass the serving capacity of urban networks, congestion cannot be resolved ...

EPFL2022

Contrastive Feature Learning for Railway Infrastructure Fault Diagnostic

Olga Fink

To operate the railway system safely and efficiently, a multitude of assets need to me monitored. Railway sleepers are one of these infrastructure assets, that are safety critical. To automate the monitoring process, data-driven fault diagnostics models ha ...

Research Publishing2022

Breaking Silos to Guarantee Control Stability with Communication over Ethernet TSN

Amir Aminifar

Editor's notes: The cross-layer approach presented in this article involves co-designing a feedback controller's parameters together with the schedule of an Ethernet network used for communicating state information and control signals.-Samarjit Chakraborty ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

Enhancement of riveted steel bridges by adding a trough in UHPFRC acting in composite action

Eugen Brühwiler

Riveted railway bridges are commonly considered as being “old”, having fatigue damage and are therefore replaced. While this practice should be by now obsolete by using novel engineering methods like structural monitoring, prolongation of the service durat ...

Taylor & Francis2021

Passenger-centric timetable rescheduling: A user equilibrium approach

Michel Bierlaire, Shadi Sharif Azadeh, Mohammad Yousef Maknoon, Stefan Yves Gabriel Binder

Unexpected disruptions commonly occur in the railway network, causing delays, and extra cost for operators and inconvenience for passengers by missing their connection and facing overcrowded trains. This paper presents a passenger-centric approach for time ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Mechanotaxis directs Pseudomonas aeruginosa twitching motility

Alexandre Louis André Persat, Lorenzo Anton-Louis Talà, Xavier Jean-Yves Pierrat, Jose Negrete Jr, Marco Julian Kühn, Joanne Netter Engel

The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa explores surfaces using twitching motility powered by retractile extracellu-lar filaments called type IV pili (T4P). Single cells twitch by sequen-tial T4P extension, attachment, and retraction. How single ...

National Academy of Sciences2021

Renewal of a fixed railway track using UHPFRC - first use worldwide of UHPFRC in rail track construction, part 1

Eugen Brühwiler, Antonina Hochuli

This two-part article reports on the renewal and adaptation of the fixed railway track in the heavily frequented underground train station at Zurich Airport. The fixed track built in 1980 had reached the service duration predicted by the system provider an ...

2021

Improving Railway Track Coverage with mmWave Bridges: A Measurement Campaign

Andreas Peter Burg, Ruben Merz, Adrian Schumacher

Bringing cellular capacity into modern trains is challenging because they act as Faraday cages. Building a radio frequency (RF) corridor along the railway tracks ensures a high signal-to-noise ratio and limits handovers. However, building such RF corridors ...

ASSOC COMPUTING MACHINERY2021

Restoration of sensory information via bionic hands

Silvestro Micera

This Review discusses non-invasive and invasive technologies for conveying artificial sensory feedback through bionic hands. ...

NATURE RESEARCH2023

An optimization framework for exclusive bus lane allocation in large networks with dynamic congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Dimitrios Tsitsokas, Anastasios Kouvelas

Road space distribution among multiple modes of transport in urban networks has attracted the interest of several researchers and policy planners. Traditionally, these problems are solved by ignoring operational and dynamic characteristics of multi-modal c ...

2019

Pixel sensor cell for cmos image sensors with enhanced conversion gain at high dynamic range capability

Assim Boukhayma

The present invention relates to a pixel sensor cell (1) for a CMOS sensor device comprising: - a photodiode (11) for generating photoelectrons; - a first transfer transistor (12) coupling the photodiode (11) with an intermediate node (IN) and configured t ...

2019

Two-layer hierarchical control for large-scale urban traffic networks

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Anastasios Kouvelas

Many efforts have been carried out to optimize the traffic signal settings in cities. Nevertheless, state-of-the-art and -practice strategies cannot deal efficiently with oversaturated conditions (i.e. queue spillbacks and partial gridlocks), as they are e ...

IEEE2018

Evidence of a structure in (K)over-bar(0)Lambda(+)(c) consistent with a charged Xi(c)(2930)(+), and updated measurement of (B)over-bar(0) -> (K)over-bar(0)Lambda(+)(c) (Lambda)over-bar(c)(-) at Belle

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

We report evidence for the charged charmed-strange baryon Xi(c)(2930)(+) with a signal significance of 3.9 sigma with systematic errors included. The charged Xi(c)(2930)(+) is found in its decay to K-S(0)Lambda(+)(c) in the substructure of (B) over bar (0) ...

SPRINGER2018

Novel systems biology approaches for design and analysis of palmitoylation networks reveal its regulatory effects on protein stability, activity and localization

Tiziano Dallavilla

Communication and environment sensing are fundamental for the regulation of the majority of the cellular functions. In cells there are dedicated networks that are responsible for signalling, which gives the ability to the cell of sensing the external and i ...

EPFL2017

Data-driven Demand Response Modeling and Control of Buildings with Gaussian Processes

Colin Neil Jones, Xuan Truong Nghiem

This paper presents an approach to provide demand response services with buildings. Each building receives a normalized signal that tells it to increase or decrease its power demand, and the building is free to implement any suitable strategy to follow the ...

2017

Observation of the B+ -> D*K--(+) pi(+) decay

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Michel De Cian, Luca Pescatore, François Fleuret, Elena Graverini, Chitsanu Khurewathanakul, Renato Quagliani, Federico Betti, Aravindhan Venkateswaran, Luis Miguel Garcia Martin, Jian Wang, Zhirui Xu, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Jessica Prisciandaro, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Cédric Potterat, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Mirco Dorigo, Jean Wicht, Xiaoxue Han, Sebastiana Gianì, Liupan An, Federico Leo Redi, Ilya Komarov, Thibaud Humair, Maxime Schubiger, , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , ,

Modulated scattering technique in the terahertz domain enabled by current actuated vanadium dioxide switches

Juan Ramon Mosig, Anja Skrivervik, Mihai Adrian Ionescu, Michele Tamagnone, Wolfgang Amadeus Vitale, Santiago Capdevila Cascante

The modulated scattering technique is based on the use of reconfigurable electromagnetic scatterers, structures able to scatter and modulate an impinging electromagnetic field in function of a control signal. The modulated scattering technique is used in a ...

Nature Research2017

Thermal Diffusion in Binary Mixtures: Transient Behavior and Transport Coefficients from Equilibrium and Nonequilibrium Molecular Dynamics

Sara Bonella, Mauro Ferrario

Equilibrium and nonequilibrium molecular dynamics simulations are combined to compute the full set of coefficients that appear in the phenomenological equations describing thermal transport in a binary mixture subject to a constant thermal, gradient The Dy ...

Amer Chemical Soc2017