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GNSS-Based Navigation for Lunar Missions

Vincenzo Capuano

Numerous applications, not only Earth-based, but also space-based, have strengthened the interest of the international scientific community in using Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) as navigation systems for space missions that require good accu ...

EPFL2016

Building Capabilities for Service Innovation : A Multi-Level Perspective on Strategies and Evolution

Andreas Felix von Vangerow

The service sector is the most dominant sector in every developed economy today. The ability to develop and successfully launch new services is crucial for service organizations to stay competitive and to adapt to the ever-changing conditions of the enviro ...

EPFL2015

Vacuum Ultraviolet Spectral Measurements for Superorbital Earth Entry in X2 Expansion Tube

Umar Sheikh

Experiments were conducted using the X2 expansion tube at two conditions representative of flight velocities of 10.0 km/s and 12.2 km/s for a vehicle entry into Earth's atmosphere. Calibrated spectral measurements were made of radiating shock layers ac ...

2015

A Collision Resilient Flying Robot

Dario Floreano, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, Adrien Briod, Przemyslaw Mariusz Kornatowski

Flying robots that can locomote efficiently in GPS-denied cluttered environments have many applications, such as in search and rescue scenarios. However, dealing with the high amount of obstacles inherent to such environments is a major challenge for flyin ...

John Wiley & Sons2014

Launch Hard or Go Home! Predicting the Success of Kickstarter Campaigns

Patrick Thiran, Matthias Grossglauser, Vincent Etter

Crowdfunding websites such as Kickstarter are becoming increasingly popular, allowing project creators to raise hundreds of millions of dollars every year. However, only one out of two Kickstarter campaigns reaches its funding goal and is successful. It is ...

ACM2013

Fluid-structure thermal coupling and ablation effects in atmospheric entry

Ojas Joshi

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

The pre-launch Planck Sky Model: a model of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths

Julien Lesgourgues

We present the Planck Sky Model (PSM), a parametric model for generating all-sky, few arcminute resolution maps of sky emission at submillimetre to centimetre wavelengths, in both intensity and polarisation. Several options are implemented to model the cos ...

Edp Sciences S A2013

On the estimation of arterial route travel time distribution with Markov chains

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Mohsen Ramezani Ghalenoei

Recent advances in the probe vehicle deployment offer an innovative prospect for research in arterial travel time estimation. Specifically, we focus on the estimation of probability distribution of arterial route travel time, which contains more informatio ...

Elsevier2012

The ITER EC H&CD upper launcher: Structural design

Timothy Goodman, René Chavan, Jean-Daniel Landis

Four ITER EC H&CD (Electron Cyclotron Heating and Current Drive) Upper Launchers will be installed in the ITER Tokamak to counteract plasma instabilities by injection of up to 20 MW of millimeter-wave power at 170 GHz. Each Launcher features a structural s ...

Elsevier2011

Self Evaluation of Floating Car Data based on Travel Times from actual Vehicle Trajectories

Floating Car Data (FCD) fleets are a valuable data source to obtain travel times as basis for traffic information or route guidance systems. To deliver reliable traffic information and to improve algorithms and systems for generating FCD from GPS positions ...

2011

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