Publications associées à Programme spatial de la Chine

A lunar reconnaissance drone for cooperative exploration and high-resolution mapping of extreme locations

Daniel Tataru, David Rodriguez Martinez, Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer

An efficient characterization of scientifically significant locations is essential prior to the return of humans to the Moon. The highest resolution imagery acquired from orbit of south-polar shadowed regions and other relevant locations remains, at best, ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2024

Attaining the PeV frontier of the cosmic ray spectrum in space with HERD

Chiara Perrina

The High Energy cosmic-Radiation Detection facility (HERD) is a calorimetric experiment planned to be launched in 2027. It will be operational for at least 10 years on board the China Space Station. With HERD we will measure the energy flux of cosmic proto ...

E D P SCIENCES2023

Potential scientific synergies in weak lensing studies between the CSST and Euclid space probes

Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, Huanyuan Shan, Jean-Luc Starck

Aims. With the next generation of large surveys poised to join the ranks of observational cosmology in the near future, it is important to explore their potential synergies and to maximize their scientific outcomes. In this study, we aim to investigate the ...

EDP SCIENCES S A2023

Radiation Hardness Study of Single-Photon Avalanche Diode for Space and High Energy Physics Applications

Edoardo Charbon, Emanuele Ripiccini, Ming-Lo Wu, Ekin Kizilkan, Pouyan Keshavarzian, Francesco Gramuglia, Kazuhiro Morimoto, Carlo Alberto Fenoglio

The radiation hardness of 180 nm complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) and 55 nm bipolar-CMOS-double-diffused MOS single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs) is studied using 10 MeV and 100 MeV protons up to a displacement damage dose of 1 PeV/g. It is ...

MDPI2022

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

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

Simulating energetic particle losses in JET plasmas with a reverse integration biasing scheme

Mario Ludovico Podesta, Matteo Vallar

An integrated energetic particle transport model has been constructed in JET plasmas constrained by experimental fast ion loss measurements. The model incorporates a synthetic fast ion loss detector identical to JET's thin-foil Faraday cup fast ion loss de ...

IOP Publishing Ltd2022

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

Performance and Micro-Vibrations in Magnetic Bearings for Space Actuators

Guzmán Borque Gallego

The development of new space missions with novel high-performance and very sensitive payloads for Earth observation or scientific missions has imposed considerably tougher requirements in terms of the satellite's pointing accuracy and stability, and thus o ...

EPFL2021

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

Sun-synchronous repeat ground tracks and other useful orbits for future space missions

Sun Hee Kim, Luzius Gregor Kronig

The development of oceanography and meteorology has greatly benefited from satellite-based data of Earth's atmosphere and ocean. Traditional Earth observation missions have utilised Sun-synchronous orbits with repeat ground tracks due to their advantages i ...

2020

Periodic cellular aluminum structures for space applications : from casting to additive manufacturing

Florian Thibaut Gallien

Mass is one of the crucial parameters for hardware that has to be placed in Earth orbit. Due to its harsh environment, a material with highest specific properties is desired to achieve space missions. The rise and development of new technologies, such as a ...

EPFL2018

Automatic Generation of Efficient Accelerators for Reconfigurable Hardware

Christos Kozyrakis, Yunqi Zhang

Acceleration in the form of customized datapaths offer large performance and energy improvements over general purpose processors. Reconfigurable fabrics such as FPGAs are gaining popularity for use in implementing application-specific accelerators, thereby ...

Ieee2016

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

A Methodology for Profiling and Partitioning Stream Programs on Many-core Architectures

Marco Mattavelli, Malgorzata Maria Michalska, Jani Boutellier

Maximizing the data throughput is a very common implementation objective for several streaming applications. Such task is particularly challenging for implementations based on many-core and multi-core target platforms because, in general, it implies tackli ...

2015

PowerCool: Simulation of Integrated Microfluidic Power Generation in Bright Silicon MPSoCs

David Atienza Alonso, Arvind Raj Mahankali Sridhar, Bruno Michel

Integrated microfluidic power generation and power delivery promises to be a disruptive packaging technology with the potential to combat dark silicon. It essentially consists of integrated microchannel-based electrochemical “flow cells” in a 2D/3D multipr ...

IEEE/ACM Press2014

Model-independent search for CP violation in D-0 > K-K+pi(-)pi(+) and D-0 -> pi(-)pi(+)pi(+)pi(-) decays

Olivier Schneider, Aurelio Bay, Yiming Li, Guido Haefeli, Frédéric Blanc, Christoph Frei, Tatsuya Nakada, Julien Rouvinet, Barinjaka Rakotomiaramanana, Raluca Anca Muresan, Michel De Cian, Johan Luisier, Luca Pescatore, Anne Keune, Yi Zhang, Lei Zhang, Mark Tobin, Minh Tâm Tran, Niko Neufeld, Matthew Needham, Marc-Olivier Bettler, Greig Alan Cowan, Maurizio Martinelli, Vladislav Balagura, Donal Patrick Hill, Liang Sun, Pietro Marino, Jean Wicht, Ilya Komarov, Plamen Hristov Hopchev, Bastien Luca Muster, Frédéric Guillaume Dupertuis, Pierre Jaton, Joël Bressieux, Songmei Wu, Raphael Märki, Hans Dijkstra, Gerhard Raven, Peter Clarke, Frédéric Teubert, Giovanni Carboni, , , , ,

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