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Design and Performance of Secure Geocast for Vehicular Communication

The characteristics of vehicular communication environments and their networking and application requirements have led to the development of unique networking protocols. They enable vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication based on th ...

2010

A Perching Mechanism for Micro Aerial Vehicles

Dario Floreano, Roland Siegwart, Mirko Kovac, Jürg Markus Germann

Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs) with perching capabilities can be used to efficiently place sensors in aloft locations. A major challenge for perching is to build a lightweight mechanism that can be easily mounted on a MAV, allowing it to perch (attach and de ...

2010

Highly Compact Robots for Inspection of Power Plants

Roland Siegwart, Francesco Mondada, Fabien Tâche, Gilles Caprari, Roland Moser, Frédéric Rochat, Patrick Schoeneich, Andreas Breitenmoser

This paper reports on a 3 years applied research project dealing with several inspection scenarios of power plants and resulting in many robot prototypes and 3 main achievements. The project is a common effort between industry and university, including ALS ...

IEEE Press2010

Microfluidic Protein Preconcentrator Using a Microchannel-Integrated Nafion Strip: Experiment and Modeling

Martinus Gijs, Venkataragavalu Sivagnanam, Meng Shen

We propose a simple microfluidic device for protein preconcentration based on the electrokinetic trapping principle. It comprises a narrow Nafion strip that is simply cut from a commercial membrane and is integrated into a molded poly(dimethylsiloxane) (PD ...

American Chemical Society2010

A numerical shoulder simulator to replicate a mechanical shoulder simulator

Mélanie Guittet

Joint simulators are widely used to perform pre-(and post) clinical test of joint prostheses. Several experimental or commercial devices already exist for the hip and knee joints, but nothing is available yet for the shoulder joint. The first goal of this ...

2010

Combining brain-computer interfaces and assistive technologies: state-of-the-art and challenges

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Robert Leeb

In recent years, new research has brought the field of electroencephalogram (EEG)-based brain–computer interfacing (BCI) out of its infancy and into a phase of relative maturity through many demonstrated prototypes such as brain-controlled wheelchairs, key ...

2010

Lavey Dam - Physical and numerical analysis of flow and sediment transport in the Rhone River

Anton Schleiss, Martin Peter Bieri

As several of other run-of:river hydropower plants, the hydraulic scheme of Lavey on the Rhone River in Switzerland is concerned by continuous reservoir sedimentation. To determine the flood evacuation capacity of the weir as well as the flow distribution ...

2010

An Assisted-GNSS Solution for Demanding Road Applications using the EGNOS Data Access System (EDAS)

Cyril Botteron, Jérôme Leclère

This paper describes a prototype solution which has been developed to provide both the positioning availability and integrity required for this application. The SIGNATURE (SImple GNSS Assisted & TrUsted REceiver) solution includes an assistance service whi ...

2010

Beam-Machine Interaction Studies for the Phase II LHC Collimation System

Luisella Lari

Collimation is essential in a high Energy and Intensity hadron collider with SuperConducting magnets, like the LHC at CERN. To improve the cleaning efficiency and to reduce the LHC impedance budget in stable condition and at top Energy, additional 30 Phase ...

EPFL2010

ProtoPeer: Distributed Systems Prototyping Toolkit

Karl Aberer, Wojciech Galuba, Zoran Despotovic

Simulators are an excellent tool for quick systems prototyping and large-scale parameter sweeps, but they cannot match the accuracy of live network evaluations. Switching from the simulation to the actual implementation often requires a considerable develo ...

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