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Performance gap in the building sector and its impact on investment decisions for heating requirements

Between the ideal and reality lies the decisive world of the performance gap. This project is conducted within the framework of a Master Thesis at the Industrial Processes and Energy Systems Engineering (IPESE) laboratory of Ecole Polytechnique F´ed´erale ...

2024

Synthesis and application of bifunctional hypervalent iodine reagents for peptide modification.

Elija Grinhagena

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are responsible for regulating many biological processes in human bodies. PPIs often have a large binding site and often interact through an alpha helical segment. Therefore, the inhibition of PPIs can be difficult using ...

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Multi-agent Reinforcement Learning for Assembly of a Spanning Structure

Gabriel Rémi Vallat

In this master thesis, multi-agent reinforcement learning is used to teach robots to build a self-supporting structure connecting two points. To accomplish this task, a physics simulator is first designed using linear programming. Then, the task of buildin ...

2023

Nonsmooth and nonenergetic solutions of PDE’s through convex integration

Carl Johan Peter Johansson

In this Master thesis we explore the convex integration method by S. Müller and V. Šverák and its applications to partial differential equations. In particular, we use it to build very irregular solutions to elliptic systems. We also apply this method to b ...

2022

Appendix: Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling

François Maréchal, Jonas Schnidrig, Tuong-Van Nguyen, Xiang Li

This document corresponds to the appendix of the paper Regionalisation in high share renewable energy system modelling by Schnidrig et al. in redaction, and is based on the Master thesis of Amara Slaymaker 2021, giving additional information about the meth ...

2021

Railway timetable rescheduling with capacity constraint

Benoit Pahud

The increasing demand for travelling forces railway operators to use their network at maximum capacity. When unforeseen events occur, the time needed to make the proper adjustments before reaching a gridlocked state is too short. The timetable rescheduling ...

2021

Disruption-caused railway timetable rescheduling problem and its solution

In the framework of this master thesis an adaptive large neighborhood search meta-heuristic is implemented to solve the disruption caused railway timetable rescheduling problem. The multi-objective optimisation tries to minimize the travel time of passenge ...

2020

Behavior of precast reinforced spun concrete piles under seismic loading

This study was conducted under the supervision of Prof. Sumusu Kono in the Tokyo Institute of Technology (TIT) and Prof. Katrin Beyer from the Earthquake Engineering and Structural Dynamics (EESD) laboratory in the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in ...

2020

Fabrication and Characterization of MEMS Piezoelectric Accelerometers

Myriam Yvonne Käppeli

In this master thesis, the use of MEMS technology to miniaturize existing accelerometers used for vibration sensing is demonstrated. An updated process flow was established and carried out in the cleanrooms. MEMS piezoelectric accelerometers were fabricate ...

2020

Comment se modifient les logiques de mobilité sur un campus universitaire?

Lucie Arnaudon

More than 16, 000 people reach the EPFL campus every day by public transport, private car or non-motorised transports. According to the EPFL "Mobility Survey 2019", 22% of students commute by bicycle (compared to 20% of staff), but still 30% of the staff c ...

2020

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