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Hydropower plants are still the most important renewable energy resource worldwide. Hydropower is also the most efficient electricity production and has a very high flexibility in combination with reservoirs. Nevertheless, the construction of hydropower pl ...

EPFL-LCH2017

Hydropower Design under Uncertainties

Felix Oberrauch

The design of hydropower is determined by estimates and long-term forecasts. These forecasts and estimates are highly uncertain and make performance evaluation and design choices challenging. Performance evaluation of hydropower projects is affected by a n ...

EPFL2017

Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Damien Doy

Volumetric ultrasound (US) is a very promising development of medical US imaging. An under-exploited advantage of volumetric US is the mitigation of the strict probe positioning constrains necessary to acquire 2D scans, potentially allowing the decoupling ...

IEEE2017

Live Demonstration: Inexpensive 1024-Channel 3D Telesonography System on FPGA

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Giovanni De Micheli, Federico Angiolini, Marcel Arditi, Aya Mohamed Naguib Ahmed Ibrahim, Damien Doy

2017

Protection Strategy against IEMI for Wireless Communication Infrastructures

Marcos Rubinstein, Mirjana Stojilovic, Nicolas Mora Parra

In this paper, we present a methodology for estimating the protection levels of critical equipment against IEMI. We apply the method to a wireless communication infrastructure, but it can be applied to any critical infrastructure. The required protection l ...

Ieee2016

Crowdsourcing Microdata for Cost-Effective and Reliable Lexicography

Martin Benjamin

Lexicography has long faced the challenge of having too few specialists to document too many words in too many languages with too many linguistic features. Great dictionaries are invariably the product of many person-years of labor, whether the lifetime wo ...

2015

Utility Metrics Specifications. OpenIoT Deliverable D422

Jean Paul Calbimonte Perez, Mehdi Riahi

This deliverable specifies the utility metrics that are considered and used in the scope of the OpenIoT project. These utility metrics are recorded as part of the implementation of the Utility Manager component of the OpenIoT platform, while they have also ...

2014

CAMEA: Costing Report

The costing of the CAMEA spectrometer as proposed, involving the prices of guides and shielding, the spectrometer itself and the key pieces of sample environment equipment needed to fulfill the science goals of CAMEA, is estimated at 19.519 M€, which shoul ...

2014

CAMEA: Technical Solutions

CAMEA is a new instrument concept so it is possible that the construction could or maintenance of the instrument would be hampered by technical details. In order to prevent this a technical predesign have been performed. This is not a final technical solut ...

2014

System Modeling and Thermo-Economic Analysis of a High Concentration Photovoltaic Thermal System

Anna Sophia Wallerand, Angelos Selviaridis

Solar energy is a free and abundant renewable energy source which is expected to contribute towards reducing the environmental impact of worldwide electricity production. However, the harvesting of solar energy is associated to investment costs. Industry t ...

2014

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