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Multiobjective Vector Modulation for Improved Control of NPC-Based Multi-Source Inverters in Hybrid Traction Systems

The concept of a multi-source inverter (MSI) based on NPC topology was recently introduced for hybrid-electric powertrains to connect several dc sources to the traction load in a single conversion stage without magnetics. This work proposes a new modulatio ...

2022

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

Beyond Security and Efficiency: On-Demand Ratcheting with Security Awareness

Serge Vaudenay, Fatma Betül Durak, Andrea Felice Caforio

Secure asynchronous two-party communication applies ratcheting to strengthen privacy, in the presence of internal state exposures. Security with ratcheting is provided in two forms: forward security and post-compromise security. There have been several suc ...

2021

Size-resolved aerosol pH over Europe during summer

Athanasios Nenes, Spyros Pandis

The dependence of aerosol acidity on particle size, location, and altitude over Europe during a summertime period is investigated using the hybrid version of aerosol dynamics in the chemical transport model PMCAMx. The pH changes more with particle size in ...

Copernicus GmbH2021

Planning Multi-Scale District Energy Systems with Hybrid Cooling Technologies and Decentralized Thermal Networks for Low Carbon Cities in the Tropics

Shanshan Hsieh

Energy demand for cooling of buildings is projected to drastically increase in the next decades. Urban areas in tropical Asia are expected to contribute a major share to this growing demand. These areas are characterized by a high urban density and a diver ...

EPFL2021

Design and Development of Injectable, Tough and Intrinsically-Adhesive Hydrogels for Biomedical Applications

Peyman Karami

Despite the development of hydrogels with a wide range of mechanical properties, insufficient adhesion between these materials and biological surfaces limits their use in the biomedical applications. Most recent advancements in highly adhesive hydrogel sys ...

EPFL2021

Discover deeper bugs with dynamic symbolic execution and coverage-based fuzz testing

George Candea, Vitaly Chipounov, Bin Zhang, Chao Feng

Coverage-based fuzz testing and dynamic symbolic execution are both popular program testing techniques. However, on their own, both techniques suffer from scalability problems when considering the complexity of modern software. Hybrid testing methods attem ...

INST ENGINEERING TECHNOLOGY-IET2018

STEP-NC digital thread for additive manufacturing: data model, implementation and validation

Ian Anthony Stroud, Pascal Mognol

Substantial progress and development in additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have been realised during the last decade but have hardly been implemented on AM systems due to old numerical solutions still used by the AM digital thread, for instance STL ( ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD2018

Hybrid, Job-Aware, and Preemptive Datacenter Scheduling

Pamela Isabel Delgado Borda

Scheduling in datacenters is an important, yet challenging problem. Datacenters are composed of a large number, typically tens of thousands, of commodity computers running a variety of data-parallel jobs. The role of the scheduler is to assign cluster reso ...

EPFL2018

On the Delays in Time-Varying Networks: Does Larger Service-Rate Variance Imply Larger Delays?

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In all networks, link or route capacities fluctuate for multiple reasons, e.g., fading and multi-path effects on wireless channels, interference and contending users on a shared medium, varying loads in WAN routers, impedance changes on power-line channels ...

2018

Optimal Number of Paths with Multipath Routing in Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In recent years, multipath routing, i.e., employing several paths simultaneously, has emerged as an efficient way to provide significant throughput gains in local networks. This has been observed both with technologies that are not subject to interference, ...

2018

Optimal Number of Paths with Multipath Routing in Hybrid Networks

Patrick Thiran, Sébastien Christophe Henri

In recent years, multipath routing, i.e., employing several paths simultaneously, has emerged as an efficient way to provide significant throughput gains in local networks. This has been observed both with technologies that are not subject to interference, ...

IEEE2018

Multi-Directional Structural Component Hybrid Testing System for the Assessment of the Seismic Response of Steel I-Shaped Columns

Dimitrios Lignos, Ahmed Mohamed Ahmed Elkady, Ali Imanpour

The Multi-Directional Hybrid Testing System (MDHTS) at Polytechnique Montreal is an advanced structural testing system that can be used to study the response of large-scale structural components such as columns, walls, or bridge piers subjected to any comb ...

2016

Simulation Neurotechnologies for Advancing Brain Research: Parallelizing Large Networks in NEURON

Felix Schürmann, Michael Lee Hines

Large multiscale neuronal network simulations are of increasing value as more big data are gathered about brain wiring and organization under the auspices of a current major research initiative, such as Brain Research through Advancing Innovative Neurotech ...

Mit Press2016

Libra: Software-Controlled Cell Bit-Density to Balance Wear in NAND Flash

Paolo Ienne, Xavier Jimenez, David Novo Bruna

Hybrid flash storages combine a small Single-Level Cell (SLC) partition with a large Multilevel Cell (MLC) partition. Compared to MLC-only solutions, the SLC partition exploits fast and short local write updates, while the MLC part brings large capacity. O ...

Assoc Computing Machinery2015

Electri-Fi Your Data: Measuring and Combining Power-Line Communications with WiFi

Patrick Thiran, Christina Vlachou, Sébastien Christophe Henri

Power-line communication (PLC) is widely used as it offers high data-rates and forms a network over electrical wiring, an existing and ubiquitous infrastructure. PLC is increasingly being deployed in hybrid networks that combine multiple technologies, the ...

2015

H2B2VS (HEVC Hybrid Broadcast Broadband Video Services) – building innovative solutions over hybrid networks

Claudio Paolo Alberti

Broadcast and broadband networks continue to be separate worlds in the video consumption business. Some initiatives such as HbbTV have built a bridge between both worlds, but its application is almost limited to providing links over the broadcast channel t ...

2015

A multi criterion analysis for renewable energy integration process of a standalone hybrid energy system with internal combustion generator

Amarasinghage Tharindu Dasun Perera

Integrating renewable energy into standalone Internal Combustion Generator (ICG) systems is an economical and eco-friendly option. However, previous studies demonstrate the difficulties in replacing the ICGs completely by using Solar PV (SPV) and wind ener ...

Amer Inst Physics2015

Comparison of hybrid production planning and control strategies for supply chain management: A multi-criteria approach

Naoufel Cheikhrouhou

In most of the cases, a supply chain management strategy addressing material flows control consists of push, pull or hybrid controlled system. This paper presents the development of a multi-criteria decision making approach for the comparison of hybrid str ...

2012

Alignment of defect levels and band edges through hybrid functionals: Effect of screening in the exchange term

Alfredo Pasquarello, Peter Broqvist, Hannu-Pekka Komsa

We investigate how various treatments of exact exchange affect defect charge transition levels and band edges in hybrid functional schemes for a variety of systems. We distinguish the effects of long-range vs short-range exchange and of local vs nonlocal e ...

2010