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A vibration control strategy using variable stiffness joints

Adaptive joints are structural joints made of materials with enhanced transduction properties that can vary their stiffness via solid-state actuation (e.g. thermal, mechanical). In this work, stiffness tuning is used to switch the joint between a ‘locked’ ...

2018

The Cybathlon BCI race: Successful longitudinal mutual learning with two tetraplegic users

José del Rocio Millán Ruiz, Serafeim Perdikis, Luca Tonin, Sareh Saeedi, Christoph Schneider

This work aims at corroborating the importance and efficacy of mutual learning in motor imagery (MI) brain–computer interface (BCI) by leveraging the insights obtained through our participation in the BCI race of the Cybathlon event. We hypothesized that, ...

2018

A new hybrid Additive Manufacturing process combining Selective Laser Melting and Laser Shock Peening

Nikola Kalentics

Additive Manufacturing (AM) in whole and especially Selective Laser Melting (SLM) are already making a revolution in the way parts are designed and manufactured with the ability to produce lightweight parts with unprecedented complex geometries which are o ...

EPFL2018

Experiment and Machine Protection from Fast Losses caused by Crab Cavities in the High Luminosity LHC

Andrea Santamaría García

The High Luminosity Large Hadron Collider (HL-LHC) upgrade aims for a tenfold increase in integrated luminosity compared to the nominal Large Hadron Collider (LHC), and for operation at a leveled luminosity five times higher than the nominal LHC peak lumin ...

EPFL2018

Validation of the Critical Shear Crack Theory for punching of slabs without transverse reinforcement by means of a refined mechanical model

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, João Tiago Ramos Bernardo de Santa Rita Simões

Despite the intensive efforts dedicated in the last decades to better understanding punching shear failures, there is still no consensus on the mechanics governing this phenomenon and on how to implement it within a physical approach. In this paper, an ana ...

2018

Shape constrained splines as transparent black-box models for bioprocess modeling

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Sriniketh Srinivasan

Empirical model identification for biological systems is a challenging task due to the combined effects of complex interactions, nonlinear effects, and lack of specific measurements. In this context, several researchers have provided tools for experimental ...

Elsevier2017

The Art of Flexure Mechanism Design

Simon Nessim Henein, Florent Cosandier, Lennart Rubbert, Murielle Richard

Flexure mechanism design is an art, and this book provides the theoretical and practical foundation for scientists and engineers to express their creativity in this field. Flexure mechanisms, also known as compliant mechanisms, rely on the elasticity of ma ...

EPFL Press2017

The Design of A New Rotary Hexapod with A Single Active Degree of Freedom

Jamie Paik, Alexey Fomin

This study provides a novel approach for designing a rotary hexapod with a single actuator and definable motion of a platform. Hexapod is a parallel structure mechanism with six legs and six degrees of freedom (DoF) of an end-effector. It is not an underac ...

2017

Mergeable nervous systems for robots (vol 8, 439, 2017)

Francesco Mondada

Robots have the potential to display a higher degree of lifetime morphological adaptation than natural organisms. By adopting a modular approach, robots with different capabilities, shapes, and sizes could, in theory, construct and reconfigure themselves a ...

Nature Publishing Group2017

Higher-order continuation method for the rigid-body kinematic design of compliant mechanisms

Simon Nessim Henein, Lennart Rubbert

Compliant mechanisms are of great interest in precision engineering. In this paper we propose a higher order continuation method to help their rigid-body kinematic design. The method helps to investigate the choice of a mechanism configuration through the ...

Elsevier2017

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