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Feasibility analysis and preliminary design of a Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
This thesis presents the feasibility analysis and preliminary design of a new Lunar Reconnaissance Drone. The system’s objective, which is composed of the drone and a service station, is to assist a large-scale rover mission into low-light zones of the Moo ...
2022Uncooperative Rendezvous in Space: Design of an Electronic Architecture for High Performance Avionic with Multi Sensor Input and Intensive Data Rate.
Active Debris Removal missions consist of sending a satellite in space and removing one or more debris from their current orbit. A key challenge is to obtain information about the uncooperative target. By gathering the velocity, position, and rotation of t ...
EPFL2022Policy-based Exploration of Equilibrium Representations (PEER): A topology grammar for generative conceptual structural design
Design exploration is a creative process that consists of the incremental generation of design candidates. Supported by digital means or not, the process handles the ill-structured nature of design and allows creativity to flourish through diversity of des ...
EPFL2022Experimental and numerical investigation of the unbalance behavior of rigid rotors supported by spiral-grooved gas journal bearings
Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Elia Iseli
The forced response of rigid rotors, supported by herringbone-grooved gas journal bearings are investigated numerically and experimentally. The rotor configurations are varied by using end cylinders, attached at both sides of the shaft. Three rotors with d ...
ACADEMIC PRESS LTD- ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022A simple theoretical model for estimating the frequency characteristics of black hole mergers
Gravitational waves, despite predicted within the Theory of General Relativity about a century ago, were observed experi-mentally only in the last few years, thanks to the recent advances of the LIGO and Virgo detectors. In this work, we introduce a simple ...
CANADIAN SCIENCE PUBLISHING2022Feasibility Study and Preliminary Design of Lunar Reconnaissance Drone
Jean-Paul Richard Kneib, David Rodriguez Martinez, Erik Uythoven, Thomas Pfeiffer
With orbiting stations and ground bases planned to be built, we are yet to master the ability to explore long term and long range over areas of the Moon often characterised by an extreme topography, dauntingly low temperatures, and wedged with what are kno ...
2022HD 60431, the CP2 star with the shortest rotational period Physical parameters and period analysis
Context. CP2 stars show periodic photometric, spectroscopic, and magnetic variations with the rotational period. They are generally slow rotators, with rotational periods exceeding half a day, except for the late B-type star HD 60431, which has an unusuall ...
EDP SCIENCES S A2022Numerical and experimental investigation of spiral-grooved gas journal bearings
Small-scale turbomachinery is increasingly used in carbon-free energy conversion systems, such as commercial or domestic scale heat pumps, fuels cells for transportation and waste heat recovery. The usage of aerodynamic bearings allows the design of compac ...
EPFL2022Reflectivity of Venus's Dayside Disk During the 2020 Observation Campaign: Outcomes and Future Perspectives
We performed a unique Venus observation campaign to measure the disk brightness of Venus over a broad range of wavelengths in 2020 August and September. The primary goal of the campaign was to investigate the absorption properties of the unknown absorber i ...
IOP Publishing Ltd2022Covariant formulation of relativistic mechanics
Miguel Alexandre Ribeiro Correia
Accretion disks surrounding compact objects, and other environmental factors, deviate satellites from geodetic motion. Unfortunately, setting up the equations of motion for such relativistic trajectories is not as simple as in Newtonian mechanics. The prin ...
AMER PHYSICAL SOC2022