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Goal-Directed Imitation in a Humanoid Robot

Our work aims at developing a robust discriminant controller for robot programming by demonstration. It addresses two core issues of imitation learning, namely "what to imitate" and "how to imitate". This paper presents a method by which a robot extracts t ...

2005

Conductive SU8 Photoresist for Microfabrication

Philippe Renaud, Heinrich Hofmann, Arnaud Bertsch, Sébastien Jiguet

A conductive composite photoresist has been developed for the direct photopatterning of electrodes. It is based on a dispersion of silver nanoparticles in SU8, a non-conductive, negative-tone photoresist. Manufactured structures have an electrical conducti ...

2005

What works and what doesn't with BOT contracts? The case of thermal and hydraulic plants

Matthias Finger, Nicolas Crettenand

Private financing and operations of public infrastructures – often also called Public-Private Partnerships or PPPs – are becoming increasingly important, especially in the case of developing countries. Different types of PPP instruments – among which in pa ...

EPFL-CDM-MIR2005

Micro manipulation by adhesion with two collaborating mobile micro robots

Jean-Marc Breguet, Walter Driesen

A micro manipulation platform consisting of two cubic centimeter sized micro robots each with four degrees of freedom has been developed. This paper discusses four different strategies of manipulation by adhesion for grasping, transferring and releasing a ...

2005

Which Colors Best Catch Your Eyes: a Subjective Study of Color Saliency

Touradj Ebrahimi, Elisa Drelie Gelasca

To determine Regions of Interest (ROI) in a scene, percep-tual saliency of regions has to be measured. When scenes are viewed with the same context and motivation, these ROIs are often highly correlated among different people. As a result, it is possible t ...

SPIE2005

Explaining the physics of tsunamis to undergraduate and non-physics students

Giorgio Margaritondo

After the recent devastating tsunami in southern Asia, I tried to find a simple way to present the physics of this phenomenon to students-in particular, the origin of the dispersion relation and the consequent wave properties. Being unable to locate a suit ...

2005

Generalized model of planar SOFC repeat element for design optimization

François Maréchal, Daniel Favrat, Jan Van Herle, Diego Larrain

A model for planar solid oxide fuel cell repeat elements and stacks has been developed. Distribution of concentrations, reaction rates and temperatures (both gases and solids) are computed as well as overall performance results. Specific experiments provid ...

Elsevier2004

Un concept de monitoring participatif au service des villes en développement

Alexandre Repetti

A collaborative monitoring concept for developing cities. Methodological approach and realization of an urban observatory. Cities in developing countries are experiencing a considerable demographic growth. This makes their development difficult to foresee ...

EPFL2004

Discontinuous Galerkin methods for the time-domain Maxwell's equations

Jan Sickmann Hesthaven

We discuss the basic elements of the discontinuous Galerkin methods for the time-domain Maxwell's equations. A one-dimensional example is developed in detail from which the extension to two- and three-dimensional algorithms are minimal. A few examples are ...

2004

SVG for SCADA Applications

Esther Gelle

In this paper, we study the applicability of SVG to SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) systems. One of the main purposes of a SCADA application is to provide an operator with the graphical interface needed to monitor and control the productio ...

2004

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