In the context of the development of the future mobility models it is necessary to consider the different aspects that may determine the feasibility of a proposed solution. For sure, the need to reduce the emissions and energetic consumption associated to the movement of people and goods has become a major issue of the policy […]
PMM-HEV: Power Management and Modelling of Hybrid Electrical Vehicle Read More »
Today’s greatest global challenge is the need for more affordable, reliable, clean and renewable sources of electricity: according to EUROSTAT [1], the greatest source of man-caused greenhouse gas emissions is fuel combustion, which mostly takes place in energy transformation, responsible for nearly 80% of all emissions in the EU. The main goal of HEWiT project
HEWiT: High Energy Wind Turbine Read More »
Small urban retailers, in European cities, are facing a decrease in attractiveness because of the increase number of shopping malls, big chain shops and internet retailers. This led to the closure of a relevant number of stores and to the consequent reduction of people’s traffic in cities’ street. These closures are negatively affecting the vivacity
FRUC: Future of Retailing in Urban Cities Read More »
AM is a technical innovation with the potential to turn around the way in which companies manufacture end-products and do business, giving a new shape to both internal and external processes (concerning the firm-client relationship). As a matter of facts, its market, consisting of all products, materials and services, was worth around 3.07 billion USD
LAMP: Laser Additive Manufactoring & Prototyping Read More »
The definition of the Cre-Active Places (CAPs) project brief is a challenge in itself: to empower creative production in a creative way, by activating an abandoned place outside of large metropolitan context, while simultaneously actuating a communication platform to support the reactivation by establishing a critical mass of participants in the project. From a theoretical
CAPs: Cre-A(c)tive-Places Read More »
Traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) are nowadays a widespread issue in sports, both at the professional and at the amateur level. The severity of their consequences and the difficulty for athletes to fully recover in their sports and daily lives have convinced public opinion that prevention cannot be the only strategy to face this problem. Indeed,
PASL: Pushing Athletes to Safe Limits Read More »
The ASP multidisciplinary project “New forms of work in the automobile industry: toward the factory of the future WCM@FCA” broadly aims at studying new technological paradigms and new forms of organization in manufacturing contexts, with a particular focus on the automotive industry. To understand how to increase productivity, quality and cost efficiency, the team has
WCM@FCA: New forms of work in the Automobile Industry: toward the Factory of the Future Read More »
Guaranteeing a future for cultural heritage in an era of rapid technological innovation is a complex challenge. The aim of this project is to develop a tool to support the choice of an Adaptive reuse for three castles in Valle d’Aosta (Chateau Vallaise in Arnad, Sant-Germain castle in Montjovet and Ussel castle). Adaptive reuse is
ARCHe_Tool: Adaptive Reuse of Cultural Heritage Read More »
The need to monitor the territory, as can be seen from Regional, National and International requests, is strong and growing. The development of technologies for environmental monitoring and regional safety represents an important aspect for the management and control system. Fixed or rotary-wing aircraft are currently used in this role for monitoring coastlines and borders,
PTHELI: Piston twin helicopters for territorial and environmental safeguarding Read More »
In the age of urbanization, mountain areas are facing a continuous depopulation and a decrease in socio-economic standards, which entails a disharmony development leading to a substantial marginalization of these territories. Energy park project intends to emphasize the strength points of the alpine areas, exploiting the use of new technologies and innovation in order to
Energy Park: Smart Grid and Mobility for an Energy Park Read More »
The Turin Energy Centre multidisciplinary project is a work aimed at designing the functions and assessing the energy performance of a 20.000 m2 under-construction building. The paradox of having to fill an “about-to-be-completed” empty box embodies both an opportunity and a challenge: on one hand, the need to outline innovative functions is a great chance
TEC: Turin Energy Centre Read More »
The HyperSMS project is devoted to the identification of a solution for achieving reusability of space vehicles and thus increasing space access capability. What really is the obstacle for the realization of a truly reusable space vehicle is the flight phase called re-entry, when the space vehicle impacts with the Planetary atmosphere at hypersonic velocity.
HyperSMS: GOING HYPERSONIC, Spaceplane Multifunctional Structures Read More »
In the context of this project, we applied the principles of neuromorphic computing to the classification of EMG signals, proposing an innovative approach to prostheses control. Although the market already provides high-tech solutions in fact, the process of adapting industry-standard prostheses to patients is nowadays complex and lengthy. For some aspects, it can be said
MEM-BRAIN: MEMristor synapses for BRAIN computing Read More »
In recent years the data companies collect from their business have increased exponentially and new frontiers of information extraction has started the so called Big Data techniques. In fact the real value that companies can obtain from data measured not only upon the quantity of collected data but also upon the process they implement to
Big Diamond: Big Data for Internet Monitoring Read More »
Visual impairment is a global health issue which impacts the life of about 285 millions of people, interfering with their daily activities and routine. Among the major obstacles faced everyday by blind and visually impaired people, orientation and mobility are of utmost relevance, preventing a fully autonomous life. The design of a wearable user-centered device
ORIENTOMA: A wearable orientation system for blind and visually impaired people Read More »
Operating in the energy sector and interested in the new market possibilities offered by the Micro Combined Heat and Power (µCHP) generation, the group AsjaGen S.r.l. has proposed a study of different technologies in order to understand which is the most promising for innovative production systems to be installed in single-family houses. In an effort
MICRA: Micro Combined Generation for Residential Applications Read More »
Cycling Tourism is a new and great challenge for enhancing our territories thanks to its powerful ability to generate green jobs, economies, cultural actions involving people. In this general topic, a project named VENTO, born by DAStU – Politecnico di Milano and based on the idea to realize a green infrastructure – a cycling tourism
ECOBikePrint: bicycling toward a sustainable design Read More »
The ESTIA project is an innovative product-service solution for earthquake-related housing emergency in ‘aree sparse’, meaning all those areas far from the main urban centres, where housing emergencies cannot be tackled through standard procedures (i.e. large makeshift camps). The groundwork of the project was the collaboration with two external partners: AcellTec Ltd and Protezione Civile
ESTIA: collaborative platform for emergencies in aree sparse Read More »