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Microbial life in porous systems dominates the functioning of numerous ecosystems, ranging from stream sediments to soils. While these environments are characterized by structures that vary spatially over orders of magnitude, the traditional research focus ...

EPFL2019

Atomic Force Microscopy of Biological Systems: Quantitative Imaging and Nanomotion Detection

Petar Stupar

The core of this thesis is the application of different modalities of atomic force microscopy to study living systems. After a brief introduction, quantitative imaging state of the art is presented and the applications for mammalian, plant, bacterial, and ...

EPFL2018

From Hydro/Geology to the Streetscape: Evaluating Urban Underground Resource Potential

Michael Robert Doyle

Despite a persistent call for a greater recognition of the underground in urban planning practices, cities still tend to address underground resources only when the need arises. Historically, this has proven costly for cities that have neglected the potent ...

Elsevier2016

Autonomous Construction of Separated Artifacts by Mobile Robots Using SLAM and Stigmergy

Francesco Mondada, Hadi Ardiny, Stefan John Witwicki

Autonomous mobile robots equipped with arms have the potential to be used for automated construction of structures in various sizes and shapes, such as houses or other infrastructures. Existing construction processes, like many other additive manufacturing ...

2015

What Future for the Urban Underground? Subsurface and Surface Potential in San Antonio, Texas

Michael Robert Doyle

Underground space provides an opportunity to increase city compactness and pedestrian accessibility through the overlapping of activities in urban areas. The potential for development is not homogeneous throughout an urban area but depends on variations in ...

2014

How are small endohedral silicon clusters stabilized?

Fabrice Avaltroni

Clusters in the (Be, B, C)@Si-n((0,1,2+)) (n = 6-10) series, isoelectronic to Si-n(2-), present multiple symmetric structures, including rings, cages and open structures, which the doping atom stabilizes using contrasting bonding mechanisms. The most strik ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2012

Étude multidisciplinaire d'un développement durable du sous-sol urbain

Pierrick Maire

Increasing demographic pressure can lead to an increase in urban sprawl, which challenges the principles of sustained development. It enhances both displacement and loss of green space. Urban planners have to design space while allowing for increases in po ...

EPFL2011

Autonomous Construction by a Mobile Robot in Unknown Environments with Scarce Resources

Francesco Mondada, Daniel Burnier, Michael Bonani, Stéphane Magnenat, Philippe Rétornaz, Frédéric Rochat, Florian Christopher Vaussard, Patrick Schoeneich, Valentin Longchamp, Thierry Barras, Martin Voelkle

Autonomous construction by mobile robots would be useful in various situations, such as in outer space, in hazardous environments, but also for the building industry. Current works tackle simplified scenarios where environment is flat and resources readily ...

2010

La ville comme "Stimmungslandschaft"

This thesis analyses the city of Buenos Aires as a lived space in its historical context, based on my childhood memories. It characterizes the specific Stimmung that colours the urban and suburban spaces of Buenos Aires in the XIXth and XXth century. I ach ...

EPFL2007

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