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Active Improvement of Control Policies with Bayesian Gaussian Mixture Model

Sylvain Calinon, Emmanuel Pignat, Hakan Girgin, Noémie Laure Gwendoline Jaquier

Learning from demonstration (LfD) is an intuitive framework allowing non-expert users to easily (re-)program robots. However, the quality and quantity of demonstrations have a great influence on the generalization performances of LfD approaches. In this pa ...

IEEE2020

People's perceptions of the cultural ecosystem services of the Sava river in the Balkans: the contribution of participatory mapping

Constance Brouillet

Many rivers in the Balkan Peninsula are recognised at the European level for the biodiversity they host and their strong cultural heritage. However, they are experiencing significant anthropogenic changes, where their biodiversity and cultural values are o ...

2020

The simulation and classification of contact clusters between rough surfaces

Shijun Yin

The contact area of rough surfaces has a great influence on many mechanical process in tribology. In this report, we used the simulation method to study the contact area between two rough surfaces and its evolution when sliding. We generated artificial sel ...

2019

Application of Time Series Methods on Long-Term Structural Monitoring Data for Fatigue Analysis

Eugen Brühwiler, Bartlomiej Wojciech Sawicki, Morteza Ahmadivala

Structural health monitoring (SHM) can be employed to reduce uncertainties in different aspects of structural analysis such as: load modeling, crack development, corrosion rates, etc. Fatigue is one of the main degradation processes of structures that caus ...

2019

L'oeuvre de Leandro V. Locsin (1928-1994), architecte à la recherche de l'identité élusive de l'architecture philippine du second après-guerre

Jean-Claude Girard

Filipino architect Leandro Valencia Locsin (Silay1928 - Makati 1994) produced an architectural work that involved 250 projects, of which at least more than half were completed and mostly in his country of origin. A graduate in architecture of San Tomas de ...

EPFL2018

Etude et dimensionnement d’un relais MEMs électromagnétique

Dans le cadre d'un projet industriel, nous souhaiterions concevoir des relais miniatures de l'ordre du millimètre. Une des solutions consiste à utiliser le magnétisme. Le but de ce projet est donc de comparer les différentes solutions possibles et dimensio ...

2016

Influence de la Transjurane sur le réseau hydrologique de l’Ajoie

Les premiers travaux de construction de l’A16 en Ajoie ont débuté en 1995. La région traversée étant karstique, l’Office des Ponts et Chaussées du Canton du Jura s’est interrogé dès l’origine du projet sur l’influence de l’autoroute sur le régime hydrologi ...

2013

Architecture without Content 4: Necessary Architecture

Kersten Geers, Andrea Zanderigo

The Data Center is the most definitive and yet invisible typology of our contemporary world. It is the densest spot in our digital universe, a physically invisible space virtually visited by many. In a time when the collective spirit of the net itself is m ...

2013

A comparison between modeled and measured permafrost temperatures at Ritigraben borehole, Switzerland

Michael Lehning

The area-wide distribution of permafrost is sparsely known in mountainous terrain (e.g. Alps). Permafrost monitoring can only be based on point or small scale measurements such as boreholes, active rock glaciers, BTS measurements or geophysical measurement ...

2013

Conception d’un système de chauffage par induction

Dans le cadre d'une étude sur l'influence de l'environnement sur le transfert d'énergie sans contacts, le but est ici de réaliser un système de chauffage par induction. Cela consiste à émettre un champ magnétique à partir d'une bobine alimentée, afin d'ind ...

2012

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