ASP Cycle

Gecko vs Lotus: Super-Adhesive or Anti-adhesive Bio-inspired Nanomaterials

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Several animals, such as insects, spiders and geckos have developed fascinating nano-architectures in order to maximize and control adhesion. Adhesion-prevention solutions are also suggested by nature: peculiar plant leaves, such as the famous lotus, are able to prevent insect adhesion, again thanks to nano-architectures, even if insects evolved in order to maximize adhesion. The replication […]

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Green Cloud: Advanced Energy Management in Cloud systems

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Climate debate and carbon dioxide emission reduction are fostering the development of — green policies — with the aim of improving environmental performance and putting global warming and the enhancement of resource usage at the top of the list of the world’s global challenges. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) plays a key role in this

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CitySpaces: A virtual/real platform for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The CitySpaces project has the objective of conceiving a multichannel digital media approach for exploring, learning about and interacting with the layered histories of city spaces. A CitySpaces is a virtual-real system for exploring cities overlaid with their rich geo-history, including the diverse histories of people, architecture and the urban environment, as well as the

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TETI: Integrated technologies for sustainable management of underwater cultural heritage

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Four out of five parts of the world are underwater and sea also acts as a jealous custodian of the traces of human evolution. Today, technology can have unfortunate consequences on this wellestablished equilibrium, allowing people to destroy in few years what has been sleeping in the deep for centuries. We must save our past,

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HASEW: Household Appliance System with Equipped Walls

2010, 6th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Three quarters of the global population are predicted to live in urban areas by 2050. Shortcomings of natural resources and increasing demand of user-friendly domotics make the design of innovative home environments imperative. The goal goes far beyond collecting different appliances, each independently designed. The real challenge is to design a synergic home environment in

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SSP: Switched Positive Dynamical Systems for Cloud Computing Load Balancing

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The project focuses on a very important challenge currently arising in Cloud infrastructure design, namely the problem of optimal allocation of load among virtual machines. Efficient load balancing in a Cloud environment can indeed lead to important benefits for both end users and service providers. In particular, end users can experience a better quality of

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PROPER: Future perspectives of joint prostheses

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

The project deals with the open issues and future perspectives of joint prostheses. The main topic of the project concerns wear of the bearing surfaces. Cobalt-chromium-molybdenum alloys are widely used in total hip and knee joint replacement. They are able to form efficient artificial joints by means of coupling metal-on-polymer or metal-on-metal contacts. However, a

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Green Move: Design and testing of an innovative transport system for vehicle sharing

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, ASP projects, Year

Green Move is a new project for an innovative electric vehicle sharing system in Milan founded by Regione Lombardia and developed by 8 departments and centers of the Politecnico di Milano. Vehicle sharing consists of the use of a shared car, taken from the user in a special parking area and left in the same

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