In the last few years, satellite on board data handling data rate requirements increased dramatically, from hundreds of megabits per second to several gigabits per second. SpaceWire, the current generation European standard communication protocol, is...
SpaceFibre is an high speed communication protocol suitable for on board satellite communication. It is the successor of the SpaceWire protocol, allowing higher data rates (up to 6.25Gbps per lane), maintaining also compatibility with it. The...
Warehouse logistics is a rapidly growing market for robots. However, one key procedure that has not received much attention is the unwrapping of pallets to prepare them for objects picking. In fact, to prevent the goods from falling and to protect...
This paper presents an ultra-low voltage, ultra-low power, inverter-based, discrete-time delta sigma modulator. The modulator employs a novel, two-stage, switched capacitor integrator that overcomes most of the issues introduced by ultra-low voltage...
This paper proposes a multi-antenna approach of a synthetic aperture radar method for 3D UHF-RFID tag localization by exploiting an Unmanned Grounded Vehicle (UGV). The UGV is remote-controlled to move inside a complex indoor environment, and the...
This paper presents a novel, cost-effective and easy-to-deploy solution to discriminate the direction of goods crossing a UHF-RFID gate in warehouse scenario. The system is based on a grid of UHF-RFID tags deployed on the floor underneath the gate...
The correct determination of the antenna phase center is a key point when performing UHF-RFID localization through a phase-based method. In this paper, we investigate the effect of a wrong knowledge on the reader antenna phase center in phase-based...
VR navigation systems have emerged as a particularly useful tool for the guidance of minimally invasive surgical procedures to restore the 3D perception of the surgical field and augment the visual information available to the surgical team. Over the...
The focal length of available optical see-through (OST) head-mounted displays (HMDs) is at least 2 m therefore, during manual tasks, the user eye cannot keep in focus both the virtual and real content at the same time. Another perceptual limitation is...
Laser-generated fenestration is an alternative option for the intraoperative and selective modification of a endovascular endograft, especially in cases where patients are unsuitable for a standard endovascular aneurysms repair. Recently, diode laser...
In this work, we present a new approach to detect materials with known spectral emissivity, in data acquired by thermal infrared hyperspectral systems. The method takes into account the spectral variability of the downwelling radiance, commonly...
In this work, we study the effects of packaging-and reflow soldering-induced thermomechanical stress on the value of a p-type polysilicon resistor. We perform finite element multiscale simulations that, differently from previous works on this subject,...
Large-scale data sets of Internet measurements are commonly used by researchers and operators for investigating Internet performance or for tackling network issues. Looking at sequences of traceroutes in such data sets it is common to observe paths...
Space safety is nowadays a really urgent topic to be addressed. The population of objects created by explosion, fragmentation and collision events needs to be characterized carefully in order effectively enable Collision Avoidance Manoeuvre(CAM) and...
The population of resident space objects (RSOs) has increased drastically during the past years. These objects became a great threat for active satellites. The consequences of a collision with orbital debris strictly depend on the size and velocity of...
Abstract: The IETF is currently defining the 6TiSCH architecture for the Industrial Internet of Things to provide reliable and timely communication. 6TiSCH includes a distributed management mode, in which network resources are computed autonomously by...