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Optimal Design Operation Strategies of a Hyperloop Transportation System

In the last decades, transportation demand growth has played a major role in the increase of global CO2 footprint. At the same time, a number of countries have scheduled measurable and substantial cutback of CO2 emissions by 2050. As the transportation sec ...

EPFL2023

The applications of Internet of Things in the automotive industry: A review of the batteries, fuel cells, and engines

Jan Van Herle, Hossein Pourrahmani

The current advances in the integration of devices through the internet of things (IoT) have encouraged researchers to focus on the applications of IoT in the automotive industry. Although different achievements in the in-vehicle network analysis and traff ...

ELSEVIER2022

Experimental Validation of the Real-Time Control of an Electric-Vehicle Charging Station

Jean-Yves Le Boudec, Mario Paolone, Sherif Alaa Salaheldin Fahmy, Roman Rudnik

The high penetration of electric vehicles (EVs) charging stations (CSs), together with the progressive availability of distributed energy resources, increases the risk of grid overloading and power-quality degradation. Real-time control has been advocated ...

IEEE2021

Electrochemical systems for hydrogen fuel cell and battery electric vehicle infrastructure

Yorick Ligen

Thermodynamics and heat engines are the core disciplines which enabled the development of the thermo-industrial society during the 20th century. Liquid hydrocarbon fuels are one of the easiest and most convenient solutions offered by the thermophysical con ...

EPFL2020

Small-scale organic Rankine cycle turbo-generator for waste heat recovery on truck engine

Kévin Rosset

Truck engine waste heat recovery (WHR) systems have been investigated for many years. Among them, organic Rankine cycle (ORC) systems show the highest potential, but still lack efficient small-scale expansion devices, in practice. Proposed expanders are of ...

EPFL2020

Exoskeletons as Mechatronic Design Example

Hannes Bleuler, Mohamed Bouri, Solaiman Shokur, Jeremy Olivier, Amalric Louis Ortlieb, Jemina Fasola, Tristan Hubert Vouga, Romain Pierre François Baud

Exoskeletons are a perfect example of a mechatronics product. They illustrate the close integration and interdependence of mechanical design, drive train, sensors, control strategy and user interface. Recent developments of our lab will be discussed in det ...

SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG2019

Environomic design of hybrid electric vehicles

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The improvement of the efficiency of vehicle energy systems promotes an active search to find innovative solutions during the design process. Engineers can use computer-aided processes to find automatically the best design solutions. This kind of approach ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Techno-economic design of hybrid electric vehicles using multi objective optimization techniques

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

Elsevier2015

Environomic Design of Vehicle Integrated Energy System - Application on a Hybrid Electric Vehicle Energy System

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

With the increasing trend of mobility of the human population, vehicles have to face the problem of primary energy resources scarcity. The vehicles need higher efficiency and better adaptation to the alternative energy sources. The need to improve the effi ...

Aidic Servizi Srl2014

Exploiting passive dynamics for robot throwing task

Robin Thandiackal, Amir Jafari

Throwing is a complex and highly dynamic task. Humans usually exploit passive dynamics of their limbs to optimize their movement and muscle activation. In order to approach human throwing, we developed a double pendulum robotic platform. To introduce passi ...

IEEE2012

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