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Operation 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 ...

IEEE2016

High spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer with enhanced throughput for space and commercial applications

Mohammadreza Madi

This dissertation presents the results concerning the development of an innovative high spectral resolution waveguide spectrometer, from the concept to the prototype demonstration and the test results. The main innovative aspects of this instrument are the ...

EPFL2016

Reliability Aspects of Microelectromechanical Systems for Space Applications

Tobias Bandi

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) are an essential ingredient in many technological innovations and a source of game-changing inventions in the automotive industry, space exploration, consumer electronics and medical applications due to its capability ...

EPFL2014

Ground to Flight Investigations of Hayabusa with Ablation Effects

Pénélope Leyland, Daniel Potter, Nikhil Banerji, Jérémy Raphaël Mora-Monteros, Valentin Marguet, Elise Joy Fahy

Thermal protection systems (TPS) are of extreme importance for the survival of space vehicles especially during superorbital re-entry to Earth. The design of thermal protection systems requires in-depth knowledge of the thermal loading experienced during a ...

2013

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

Discussion of three definitions of spatial justice in the writing of Jacques Lévy

Ana Moura Bastos de Fernandes Póvoas

This text address the challenge of answering to two inseparable question: What is a just territory ? and What can we do to approach more just territories? The first section of this text explores three approaches of spatial justice as deployed by Jacques Lé ...

2013

Validation of Brain-Machine Interfaces during Parabolic Flight

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz

Here we report on a validation study on brain–machine interfaces (BMIs) performed during the December 2007 ESA parabolic flight campaign. We investigated the feasibility of using BMIs for space applications by performing tests in microgravity. Brain signal ...

Elsevier2009

Reliability of MEMS for space applications

Herbert Shea

With their extremely low mass and volume, low power consumption and tight integration with electronics, MEMS sensors and actuators are extremely appealing for reducing the size and mass of spacecraft without sacrificing functionality. In view of the harsh ...

2006

Adaptive cooperation between driver and assistant system to improve the road safety

Frédéric Holzmann

The last decades have seen the most important improvements of the safety on the road. But most of the accidents are still coming from the driver when a source of danger is not noticed or when the reaction is not correct during an unusual situation. Two way ...

EPFL2006

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