Publications associées à Direction (automobile)

Haptics based collaborative steering control in automated driving environments

A vehicle's steering is a particular system in that it is exposed to individual subjective reviews based on criteria that are hard to assess quantitatively. Haptic design of such systems is a prime concern that has been at the center of industrial developm ...

EPFL2023

PopTouch: A Submillimeter Thick Dynamically Reconfigured Haptic Interface with Pressable Buttons

Herbert Shea, Ayana Mizutani, Amir Firouzeh

The interactions with touchscreens rely heavily on vision: The virtual buttons and virtual sliders on a touchscreen provide no mechanical sense of the object they seek to represent. This work presents PopTouch: a 500 mu m thick flexible haptic display that ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2023

Resynchronization of islanded unbalanced ADNs: Control, synchrocheck and experimental validation

Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy, Quentin Walger

The problem of securely reconnecting active distribution networks (ADNs) - e.g. microgrids - to their upstream grids at the point of common coupling (PCC) has been extensively discussed by the existing literature. The latter is commonly referred to as resy ...

Elsevier2022

Interspace and Vacancy Modulation: Promoting the Zinc Storage of an Alcohol-Based Organic-Inorganic Cathode in a Water-Organic Electrolyte

Kangning Zhao, Yutao Li

Expanding interspace and introducing vacancies are desired to promote the mobility of Zn ions and unlock the inactive sites of layered cathodes. However, this two-point modulation has not yet been achieved simultaneously in vanadium phosphate. Here, a stra ...

Wiley-V C H Verlag Gmbh2022

Unstable tilting motion of flexibly supported gas bearing bushings

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Philipp Kaspar Bättig

This paper presents measurements of the motion amplitudes from flexibly supported Herringbone Grooved Journal Bearing bushings. Measurements taken in four locations on the flexibly supported bearing bushing enable the distinction between the radial and the ...

2022

Motion planning for CAVs in mixed traffic, a study on roundabouts

Ezequiel González Debada

Driving is a very challenging task to automatize despite how naturally and efficiently it may come to experienced human drivers. The complexity stems from the need to (i) understand the surrounding context and forecast how it is likely to evolve, (ii) plan ...

EPFL2020

The role of optic flow pooling in insect flight control in cluttered environments

Dario Floreano, Julien Jean Denis Nicolas Lecoeur, Emily Baird

Flight through cluttered environments, such as forests, poses great challenges for animals and machines alike because even small changes in flight path may lead to collisions with nearby obstacles. When flying along narrow corridors, insects use the magnit ...

Nature Research2019

Diamond Window Technology for Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive: State of the Art

Konstantinos Avramidis

Nuclear fusion power plants require electron cyclotron (EC) heating and current drive (H&CD) systems for plasma heating and stabilization. High-power microwave beams between 1 and 2?MW generated by gyrotrons propagate in a dedicated waveguide transmission ...

TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC2019

Interactive optimization for supporting multicriteria decisions in urban and energy system planning

Sébastien Cajot

Climate change and growing urban populations are increasingly putting pressure on cities to reduce their carbon emissions and transition towards efficient and renewable energy systems. This challenges in particular urban planners, who are expected to integ ...

EPFL2018

FRIDA: FRI-Based DOA Estimation For Arbitrary Array Layouts

Martin Vetterli, Eric Bezzam, Ivan Dokmanic, Robin Scheibler, Hanjie Pan

In this paper we present FRIDA—an algorithm for estimating directions of arrival of multiple wideband sound sources. FRIDA combines multi-band information coherently and achieves state- of-the-art resolution at extremely low signal-to-noise ratios. It work ...

IEEE2017

Automobility Beyond Car : Introducing a New Coordinate System for Transforming Urban Mobility

Farzaneh Bahrami

How is the future of automobility imagined today? What has structured such imaginary ? And what levers can steer its evolution towards a Post-Car World? These very three questions form the foundational motivations of this thesis. First, through a h ...

EPFL2017

Optimal acoustic rake receiver

Martin Vetterli, Ivan Dokmanic, Robin Scheibler

An acoustic processing method for M acoustic receivers comprising the steps of: Determining a beamforming weight vector with M weights for the M acoustic receivers based on at least one the steering vector of at least one real acoustic source, on steering ...

2016

A Friction Compensation Control for Power Steering

Philippe Müllhaupt, Robert Fuchs

The effects of friction are critical to the dynamics of electric power steering (EPS). On the one hand, friction contributes to the stability of the system and filters some of the disturbances (road vibration, etc.). On the other hand, it affects negativel ...

Ieee-Inst Electrical Electronics Engineers Inc2015

Cheetah-cub-S: Steering of a Quadruped Robot using Trunk Motion

Auke Ijspeert, Peter Eckert, Karl Weinmeister

A reliable concept for steering was realized by in- tegrating a spine-like structure with one DoF into a quadruped robot - Cheetah-cub-S. We increased maneuverability dramat- ically compared to a robot with rigid spine, while keeping controlling effort low ...

2015

Steerable PCA for Rotation-Invariant Image Recognition

Michaël Unser, Cédric René Jean Vonesch, Frédéric Stauber

In this paper, we propose a continuous-domain version of principal-component analysis, with the constraint that the underlying family of templates appears at arbitrary orientations. We show that the corresponding principal components are steerable. Our met ...

SIAM2015

Progress of the ECRH Upper Launcher design for ITER

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Francisco Sanchez, Emanuele Poli

The design of the ITER ECRH system provides 20 MW millimeter wave power for central plasma heating and MHD stabilization. The system consists of an array of 24 gyrotrons with power supplies coupled to a set of transmission lines guiding the beams to the fo ...

Elsevier Science Sa2014

Preliminary design of the ITER ECH Upper Launcher

Olivier Sauter, Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis, Francisco Sanchez, Hartmut Zohm, Emanuele Poli

The design of the ITER electron cyclotron launchers recently reached the preliminary design level - the last major milestone before design finalization. The ITER ECH system contains 24 installed gyrotrons providing a maximum ECH injected power of 20 MW thr ...

Elsevier Science Sa2013

Quotient method for stabilising a ball-on-a-wheel system – Experimental results

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt, Killian Mark Daly

This paper extends the quotient method proposed in [1] and applies it to stabilize a “ball-on-a-wheel” system. The quotient method requires a diffeomorphism to obtain the normal form of the input vector field and uses canonical pro- jection to obtain the q ...

2012

Progress on the ITER H&D EC Upper Launcher Steering-Mirror Control System

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Federico Alberto Alfredo Felici, Jean-Daniel Landis, Frédéric Dolizy, Francisco Sanchez, Robert Bertizzolo

The ITER Heating and Current Drive Upper Launcher (H&CD EC UL) uses a pneumomechanical steering-mirror assembly (SMA) to steer the RF beams for their deposition in the appropriate location in the plasma to control magnetohydrodynamic activity (neoclassical ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010

Wavelet Steerability and the Higher-Order Riesz Transform

Michaël Unser, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville

Our main goal in this paper is to set the foundations of a general continuous-domain framework for designing steerable, reversible signal transformations (a.k.a. frames) in multiple dimensions (d ≥ 2). To that end, we introduce a self-reversible, Nth-order ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2010