Publications related to Vision for Space Exploration

Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications

The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...

EPFL2024

Design Space Exploration for Partitioning Dataflow Program on CPU-GPU Heterogeneous System

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Aurélien François Gilbert Bloch

Dataflow programming is a methodology that enables the development of high-level, parametric programs that are independent of the underlying platform. This approach is particularly useful for heterogeneous platforms, as it eliminates the need to rewrite ap ...

SPRINGER2023

Assessment of the technological viability of photoelectrochemical devices for oxygen and fuel production on Moon and Mars

Sophia Haussener, Byron Stuart Ross

Human deep space exploration is presented with multiple challenges, such as the reliable, efficient and sustainable operation of life support systems. The production and recycling of oxygen, carbon dioxide (CO2) and fuels are hereby key, as a resource resu ...

Nature Research2023

Policy-based Exploration of Equilibrium Representations (PEER): A topology grammar for generative conceptual structural design

Ioannis Mirtsopoulos

Design exploration is a creative process that consists of the incremental generation of design candidates. Supported by digital means or not, the process handles the ill-structured nature of design and allows creativity to flourish through diversity of des ...

EPFL2022

Mixplorer: Scaffolding Design Space Exploration through Genetic Recombination of Multiple Peoples’ Designs to Support Novices’ Creativity

Pierre Dillenbourg, Richard Lee Davis, Kevin Gonyop Kim

The ability to consider a wide range of solutions to a design problem is a crucial skill for designers, and is a major differentiator between experts and novices. One reason for this is that novices are unaware of the full extent of the design space in whi ...

2022

Use of space analog missions as an educational tool in primary schools

Volker Gass

Space exploration is a field that inspires a wide range of people, from children to university students, including the general public. With a return to the Moon planned for 2024 and the rapid expansion of the private industry, educating the next generation ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

Biomechanics at the workplace under hypogravity conditions

Tatiana Maillard

The main goal of my research is to establish guidelines for workplace design based on human biomechanics: specifically sitting workplaces and handling areas in 1/6G-1/3G (Moon, Mars) conditions. Such a workplace could be used in long-term space missions in ...

EPFL2022

How Florist Apprentices Explore Bouquet Designs: Supporting Design Space Exploration for Vocational Students

Pierre Dillenbourg, Kevin Gonyop Kim, Catharine Regina Monika Maria Oertel Genannt Bierbach

Context: Exploring the design space is an important process in a design task. In this study, we considered design space exploration for the learners in vocational education and training (VET). The goal of the study was to investigate how they explore the d ...

2021

Design space exploration through force-based grammar rule

Corentin Jean Dominique Fivet, Ioannis Mirtsopoulos

Design exploration frames the process of understanding design as a challenge and helps taming its complexity. It is a creative, but also paramount, process, that flourishes diversity, emergence and variability. The approaches used during this exploration s ...

2020

RRAMSpec: A Design Space Exploration Framework for High Density Resistive RAM

Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Resistive RAM (RRAM) is a promising emerging Non-Volatile Memory candidate due to its scalability and CMOS compatibility, which enables the fabrication of high density RRAM crossbar arrays in Back-End-Of-Line CMOS processes. Fast and accurate architectural ...

2019

RRAMSpec: A Design Space Exploration Framework for High Density Resistive RAM

Alexandre Sébastien Julien Levisse

Resistive RAM (RRAM) is a promising emerging Non-Volatile Memory candidate due to its scalability and CMOS compatibility, which enables the fabrication of high density RRAM crossbar arrays in Back-End-Of-Line CMOS processes. Fast and accurate architectural ...

2019

Virtual Prototyping Methodology for Power Automation Cyber-Physical-Systems

Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan

In this thesis, the author proposes a circular system development model which considers all the stages in a typical development process for industrial systems. In particular, the present work shows that the use of virtual prototyping at early stages of the ...

EPFL2017

Design Space Exploration Problem Formulation for Dataflow Programs on Heterogeneous Architectures

Marco Mattavelli, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Endri Bezati, Nicolas Zufferey

The implementations of signal processing systems on the emerging many-core or multi-core processing platforms require to solve a very difficult problem: how to partition and schedule the processing tasks according to given optimization functions such as da ...

2016

Wire Mesh Design

Mark Pauly, Bailin Deng, Akash Garg

We present a computational approach for designing wire meshes, i.e., freeform surfaces composed of woven wires arranged in a regular grid. To facilitate shape exploration, we map material properties of wire meshes to the geometric model of Chebyshev nets. ...

2014

Design space exploration strategies for FPGA implementation of signal processing systems using CAL dataflow program

Marco Mattavelli, Simone Casale Brunet, Endri Bezati, Richard Thavot, Ab Al Hadi Bin Ab Rahman

This paper presents some strategies for design space exploration of FPGA-based signal processing systems that are specified using the CAL dataflow language. The actor- oriented, high-level of abstraction provided by CAL allows flexible exploration and cons ...

2012

Knowledge-based design space exploration of wireless sensor networks

David Atienza Alonso, Ivan Beretta

The complexity of Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) has been constantly increasing over the last decade, and the necessity of efficient CAD tools has been growing accordingly. In fact, the size of the design space of a WSN has become large, and an exploratio ...

ACM Press2012

Dataflow Programming for Systems Design Space Exploration for Multicore Platforms

Christophe Lucarz

Nowadays processing systems are asked to support increasing complex and demanding high-performance applications, especially in the signal processing and video processing domains. The design of these systems are becoming extremely challenging because of sev ...

EPFL2011

A component-based software framework for hybrid real-time and best-effort embedded applications

Frédéric Pont

Embedded systems play an increasing role in our society. From consumer electronics to driving assistance in cars, from medical devices to space exploration, they are ubiquitous. To better assist human beings, embedded systems become more complex, and more ...

EPFL2008

ModelLib: A Web-Based Platform for Collecting Behavioural Models and Supporting the Design of AMS Systems

Alain Vachoux, Torsten Mähne

This paper describes ModelLib, a web-based platform for collecting models from different domains (e.g. electrical, mechanical) and levels of abstractions. Use cases for this tool are presented, which show how it can support the design~process of complex AM ...

ECSI2006