Politecnico Di Torino

The present invention relates to a vertical take-off and landing module ( 200 ) for a fixed-wing aircraft ( 110 ), which includes at least one vertically-acting propulsion unit ( 240 ), actuator means ( 245 ) and support means ( 230 ), so as to be adapted to be operatively connected to said aircraft ( 110 ). The actuator means ( 245 ) can move the propulsion unit ( 240 ) from the inside of the module ( 200 ) towards the outside, and vice versa, so that the propulsion unit ( 240 ) is adapted to generate a substantially vertical propulsive force during the aircraft take-off and landing phases.

A computer implemented method for obtaining a real-time map, h(x), of a distribution in a D-dimensional space of a physical quantity, ƒ(x), describing a true phenomenon characterizing a complex uncertain system, wherein said physical quantity, ƒ(x), is inaccessible to direct measurements. The method can be utilized to obtain real time maps characterizing complex uncertain systems from scarce and indirect measurements, using non-invasive techniques.

A software storable in, and executable by, electronic processing resources and designed to cause, when executed, the electronic processing resources to become configured to real-time detect and/or predict one or more behavioural states and/or transitions among Awake, Drowsiness and Sleep phases of a subject. The software is designed to cause, when executed, the electronic processing resources to become configured to: receive a biometric signal of a subject; process the received biometric signal to classify it into one of different classes associated with the one or more behavioural states and/or transitions among Awake, Drowsiness and Sleep phases of a subject; and detect and/or predict a behavioural state and/or a transition among awake, Drowsiness, and Sleep phases of the subject based on the classified biometric signal. The software is designed to cause, when executed, the electronic processing resources to become configured to: compute at least a first one synthetic quantity for and based on the received biometric signal; compute at least one threshold for the received biometric signal based on the at least first one synthetic quantity computed therefor; and classify the biometric signal into one of different classes associated with the one or more behavioural states and/or transitions among awake, Drowsiness, and Sleep phases based on threshold computed therefor.

Described herein is a method of facilitating communication between (a) one or more communication devices and (b) a radio access network, comprising determining a semantic aspect of one or more prioritized classes of an application, collecting data that is associated with the one or more prioritized classes, compressing the data according to the semantic aspect to produce compressed data, and wirelessly communicating the compressed data to the wireless access network. The method may further comprise optimizing a network slice configuration according to the semantic aspect. Optimizing a network slice configuration may further comprises (i) determining an accuracy function, (ii) using the accuracy function to generate an accuracy value, (iii) determining a latency function, (iv) using the latency function to generate a latency value, and (v) using the accuracy value and the latency value to solve a Semantic Flexible Edge Slicing Problem (SF-ESP).

The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for image recognition. The apparatus comprises a machine learning network configured to map first and second input image data to either a first or a second predefined target probability distribution, depending on whether the first and second input image data correspond to matching or non-matching images, wherein an output of the machine learning network matching the first target probability distribution is indicative of matching images and an output of the machine learning network matching the second target probability distribution is indicative of non-matching images. The present disclosure also relates to a method for training the apparatus for image recognition.

A method is provided for characterizing junction temperatures of power diodes devices, each of the diode devices being one-to-one connected in antiparallel to each power semiconductor switching devices of a voltage source inverter having processing and measuring capability, the method including: an initialization stage, wherein a heater is thermally coupled with a heatsink and/or with a direct bonded copper element of the voltage source inverter; a temperature setting stage, wherein the temperature of the direct bonded copper element and/or the heatsink is increased up to a maximum operative temperature; a commissioning stage, wherein at each current pulse of a current pulses train sampled data are collected in a sampling period wherein the corresponding power semiconductor switching device connected with at least one of the power semiconductor diode devices is turned-off; an output stage, wherein the processor generates, from the sampled data, processed data for at least one of the power semiconductor diode devices.

A delta-sigma modulator includes a loop filter circuit having a first input that receives an input signal and a second input that receives a feedback signal. The loop filter circuit generates a filtered signal. A quantizer circuit quantizes the integrated signal to generate an output signal. An anti-windup circuit detects instances where the integrated signal is outside an input signal input of the quantizer circuit and in response thereto generates a dead zone signal having a magnitude and sign corresponding to a difference between the filtered signal and the input signal range. The feedback signal is a sum of the output signal and the dead zone signal.

The present invention pertains to an electrode-forming composition, to use of said electrode-forming composition in a process for the manufacture of an electrode, to said electrode and to an electrochemical device comprising said electrode.

The invention pertains to a process for the manufacture of a polymer electrolyte based on a fluoropolymer hybrid organic/inorganic composite, to a polymer electrolyte obtained thereof and to uses of said polymer electrolyte and membranes obtained therefrom in various applications, especially in electrochemical and in photo-electrochemical applications.

An on-board vehicle system manages operations and communications of the vehicle. A wireless network interface communicates with remote devices via multiple wireless channels. A computing module maintains a local dynamic map (EDM) representing the vehicle and a surrounding environment. A controller generates a navigation task from sensor data corresponding to the surrounding environment, and communicates with the computing module to determine a status of on-board computational resources. Based on the EDM and the status of on-board computational resources, the controller determines a destination, to process the navigation task. The destination can potentially include on-board and remote resources. The controller communicates the navigation task to the destination and facilitates an update to the EDM based on the result.