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Design for demise applied to spacecraft structural panels and experiments for ClearSpace One platform
With growing awareness of the vulnerability of the near-Earth space region and the anticipated surge in satellite objects, efforts are underway to assess and implement various mitigation strategies. These aim to minimize the impact of space activities and ...
EPFL2024A lunar reconnaissance drone for cooperative exploration and high-resolution mapping of extreme locations
David Rodriguez Martinez, Daniel Tataru, 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 Ltd2024Exploring High-Performance and Energy-Efficient Architectures for Edge AI-Enabled Applications
Joshua Alexander Harrison Klein
The desire and ability to place AI-enabled applications on the edge has grown significantly in recent years. However, the compute-, area-, and power-constrained nature of edge devices are stressed by the needs of the AI-enabled applications, due to a gener ...
EPFL2024Feasibility analysis and preliminary design of a Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
This thesis presents the feasibility analysis and preliminary design of a new Lunar Reconnaissance Drone. The system’s objective, which is composed of the drone and a service station, is to assist a large-scale rover mission into low-light zones of the Moo ...
2022Policy-based Exploration of Equilibrium Representations (PEER): A topology grammar for generative conceptual structural design
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 ...
EPFL2022Preliminary Design of a Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
In this report, a preliminary design study of a compact lunar reconnaissance drone module which will assist exploration rovers is presented. It is designed to assist future exploratory rover missions in difficult environments such as PSRs or extreme topogr ...
2022The effects of radiation on ablative heat shields during atmospheric entry
Spacecraft employ composite materials as Thermal Protection Systems (TPS) to survive entering a planetary atmosphere at hypersonic speeds. Under intense convective and radiative heating from the surrounding shock layer, these composites decompose and erode ...
EPFL2017Virtual Prototyping Methodology for Power Automation Cyber-Physical-Systems
Juan Sebastian Rodriguez Estupinan
In this thesis, the author proposes a circular system development model which considers all the stages in a typical development process for industrial systems. In particular, the present work shows that the use of virtual prototyping at early stages of the ...
EPFL2017Operation of a Concurrent Design Facility for university projects
Louis Antoine Masson, Anton Ivanov, Federico Belloni
Concurrent Design is a part of the systems engineering process, which has been widely adopted in space mission design. This paper describes the setting up a facility in a university and will try to answer a question of where the Concurrent Design Facility ...
IEEE2016Fluid-structure thermal coupling and ablation effects in atmospheric entry
This thesis deals with the modelling of fundamental aspects of the mission engineering, the physics, and the constraints of atmospheric entry of space vehicles. The aim of this work is to formulate a coupled approach for the modelling and the simulation of ...
EPFL2013