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A mobile measurement platform and an image processing procedure for high-resolution aerial thermal imagery of lake surface water temperatures

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Daniel Sage, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi

A mobile platform for carrying out Lake Surface Water Temperature (LSWT) thermography with O(1 m) pixel resolution is presented. It consists of (i) a small balloon carrying a thermal and RGB imagery package tethered to a winch on a boat, and (ii) an autono ...

2018

Windfield: Learning Wind Meteorology with Handheld Haptic Robots

Pierre Dillenbourg, Francesco Mondada, Wafa Monia Benkaouar Johal, Ayberk Özgür

This article presents a learning activity and its user study involving the Cellulo platform, a novel versatile robotic tool designed for education. In order to show the potential of Cellulo in the classroom as part of standard curricular activities, we des ...

ACM2017

Foil-Level Inkjet-Printed pyroMEMS Balloon Actuators: Fabrication, Modeling, and Validation

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Francisco Molina Lopez, David de Koninck

A cleanroom-free fabrication process adapted to microfluidic devices is presented for pyrotechnical microelectromechanical systems balloon actuators. The actuators are intended for on-chip pumping and fluid ejection to replace tabletop pumping solutions in ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2014

Large Deformation Balloon Micro-Actuator Based on Pyrotechnics on Chip

Nico de Rooij, Danick Briand, Herbert Shea, Samuel Rosset

This communication presents the modeling and the first demonstration of very large deformation balloon actuators based on pyrotechnics on chip. The gas and pressure generated by the combustion of a solid propellant stored in a micromachined cavity lead to ...

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