Publications related to Logistics automation

Data-driven Methods for Control: from Linear to Lifting

The progress towards intelligent systems and digitalization relies heavily on the use of automation technology. However, the growing diversity of control objects presents significant challenges for traditional control approaches, as they are highly depende ...

EPFL2023

How to compete with robots by assessing job automation risks and resilient alternatives

Dario Floreano, Nicola Nosengo, Fabrizio Schiano, Rafael Lalive, William John Stewart, Davide Zambrano, Antonio Paolillo

The effects of robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) on the job market are matters of great social concern. Economists and technology experts are debating at what rate, and to what extent, technology could be used to replace humans in occupations, and ...

2022

Design-to-Fabrication Workflow for Raw-Sawn-Timber using Joinery Solver

Petras Vestartas

Currently, the Swiss timber industry in mountain areas largely exports unprocessed lumber and imports finished timber products due to the lack of digital tools. By using new digital design-to-production workflows, it is possible to investigate new building ...

EPFL2021

A Dirichlet process mixture model of discrete choice: Comparisons and a case study on preferences for shared automated vehicles

Rico Krüger

This paper i) compares parametric and semi-parametric representations of unobserved heterogeneity in hierarchical Bayesian logit models and ii) applies these methods to infer distributions of willingness to pay for features of shared automated vehicle (SAV ...

2020

Programming by Demonstration for Shared Control with an Application in Teleoperation

Sylvain Calinon

Shared control strategies can improve task-performance in teleoperation. In such systems automation guides or corrects a human operator. The amount of correction or guidance that is provided is denoted the level-of-automation. As the variety of teleoperati ...

2018

Stability-Aware Integrated Routing and Scheduling for Control Applications in Ethernet Networks

Amir Aminifar

Real-time communication over Ethernet is becoming important in various application areas of cyber-physical systems such as industrial automation and control, avionics, and automotive networking. Since such applications are typically time critical, Ethernet ...

2018

Towards the next generation of intelligent building: An assessment study of current automation and future IoT based systems with a proposal for transitional design

Maher Kayal, Georgios Lilis, Gilbert Didier Francis Conus, Nastaran Asadi Zanjani

The intelligent building, a major smart city research and development domain, has grown beyond the scope of automation, currently focusing on the occupant centered approaches and the ancillary services offered to the power grid. The Internet of Things (IoT ...

Elsevier Science Bv2017

Ultra Low-Power Frequency Synthesizers for Duty Cycled IoT radios

Raghavasimhan Thirunarayanan

Internet of Things (IoT), which is one of the main talking points in the electronics industry today, consists of a number of highly miniaturized sensors and actuators which sense the physical environment around us and communicate that information to a cent ...

EPFL2016

Content and Context-Aware Interfaces for Smarter Media Control

Mathieu Hopmann

Since the arrival of the computer at home during the '80s, the importance of the digital world in our daily lives has hugely increased. First centralized on a unique computer, the digital world spread over several devices that surround us: smartphones, tab ...

EPFL2012