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We propose a new benchmarking protocol to evaluate algorithms for bimanual robotic manipulation semi-deformable objects. The benchmark is inspired from two real-world applications: (a) watchmaking craftsmanship, and (b) belt assembly in automobile engines. ...
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La pratiques de mobilité contemporaines sont fortement marquées par l’utilisation massive de la voiture. Bien que de nouvelles formes d’utilisation de l’automobile émergent comme le covoiturage, l’autopartage et la multipropriété, l’usage individuel reste ...
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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 ...
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Ambition affichée des politiques urbaines dans de nombreuses agglomérations européennes, le report modal de l’automobile vers les transports publics s’est longtemps heurté aux prédispositions de la population en matière de pratiques modales. À partir des d ...
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Mobilities after the car

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For many, the self-evident use of the car blends out other possible mobilities. We seek a way to unfold the future by questioning other ways of moving around and living. In order to do so, we consider automobility as a problem to which solutions can be fou ...
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In Europe, for the past several decades, we have observed that local urban transportation policies in many cities have been geared at reducing automobile use; at the same time, mobility has become a key aspect of social integration. The massive development ...
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Alexandra Quandt

This paper investigates the effectiveness of voluntary approaches in a comparative case study on European and Swiss climate legislation. Voluntary approaches are known to be less environmentally effective and economic efficient than other climate policy in ...
NCCR Climate2010

Voluntary approaches in climate policy: Comparing European and Swiss transport legislation

Alexandra Quandt

This paper investigates the effectiveness of voluntary approaches in a comparative case study on European and Swiss climate legislation. Voluntary approaches are known to be less environmentally effective and economic efficient than other climate policy in ...
2010

Progress on modeling EM interaction with complex systems: applications to aircraft and automobiles

Michel Ianoz

Summary form only given. The EM topology method was developed at the end of the 1980s. Experimental validations performed during the last 2-3 years, have permitted to achieve a significant progress pertaining to the assessment of effects of electromagnetic ...
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