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Artificial intelligence of things for smart cities: advanced solutions for enhancing transportation safety

In the context of smart cities, ensuring road safety is crucial due to increasing urbanization and the interconnected nature of contemporary urban environments. Leveraging innovative technologies is essential to mitigate risks and create safer communities. ...

Springernature2024

SAFETRANS: a system for 3D visibility estimation and cloud cover detection

The estimation of visibility is of significant importance in aviation safety and forms part of the measurements rou-tinely collected in real time to provide safety guidelines and decisions. Our work concerns the creation and imple-mentation of a lidar-base ...

2023

Measuring the Safety Climate of Academic Laboratories to Improve Safety Behaviours

Thierry Meyer, Damien Stricker, Nadia Gerweck

In 2005, two major accidents occurred at the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL). Although there were no injuries, the material damages resulted in high financial losses. The management of safety was restructured as a consequence. One of the ma ...

2019

Cyclic Hypervalent Iodine Reagents for Azidation: Safer Reagents and Photoredox-Catalyzed Ring Expansion

Thierry Meyer, Jérôme Waser, Stefano Nicolai, Annik Nanchen, Raphaël Michel Henri Simonet-Davin, Sébastien Pierre Louis Alazet, Johannes Preindl

Azides are building blocks of increasing importance in synthetic chemistry, chemical biology, and materials science. Azidobenziodoxolone (ABX, Zhdankin reagent) is a valuable azide source, but its safety profile has not been thoroughly established. Herein, ...

2018

DroNet: Learning to Fly by Driving

Davide Scaramuzza

Civilian drones are soon expected to be used in a wide variety of tasks, such as aerial surveillance, delivery, or monitoring of existing architectures. Nevertheless, their deployment in urban environments has so far been limited. Indeed, in unstructured a ...

2018

A Versatile Method for Ice Particle Habit Classification Using Airborne Imaging Probe Data

Alexis Berne, Christophe Praz

A versatile method to automatically classify ice particle habit from various airborne optical array probes is presented. The classification is achieved using a multinomial logistic regression model. For each airborne probe, the model determines the particl ...

AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION2018

Vision-based detection of aircrafts and UAVs

Artem Rozantsev

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles are becoming increasingly popular for a broad variety of tasks ranging from aerial imagery to objects delivery. With the expansion of the areas, where drones can be efficiently used, the collision risk with other flying objects inc ...

EPFL2017

A BVLOS UAV for Lake Surface Imagery

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Htet Kyi Wynn, Ludovic Zulliger, Nawaaz Sidharth Gujja Shaik, Jean-Luc Liardon, Lukas Oliver Hostettler, Karl Johannes Kangur, Samuel Youcef Benketaf, Beat Marcel Geissmann

We describe the development of a BVLOS (Beyond Visual Line-Of-Sight) model aircraft (UAV). The broad design requirements included: 1. BVLOS Legal authorization by the Swiss Federal Aviation authority 2. Suitable for land and water take-offs/landing 3. More ...

2016

JET diagnostic enhancements in preparation for DT operations

Patrick Blanchard

In order to complete the exploitation of the JET ITER-like Wall and to take full benefit from deuterium-tritium experiments on JET, a set of diagnostic system refurbishments or upgrades is in progress. These diagnostic enhancements focus mainly on neutron, ...

Amer Inst Physics2016

Extending The Fatigue Life Of Riveted Bridges Using Data From Long Term Monitoring

A methodology inherent to existing structures is presented for the fatigue safety verification of riveted bridges. The suggested approach allows for the determination of updated action effects explicitly considering data from long term monitoring. Data fro ...

Hong Kong Inst Steel Construction2015

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