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Plasma cleaning of ITER first mirrors in magnetic field
To avoid reflectivity losses in ITER optical diagnostic systems, plasma
sputtering of metallic First Mirrors is foreseen in order to remove deposits
coming from the main wall (mainly beryllium and tungsten). Therefore plasma
cleaning has to work on large mirrors (up to a size of 200*300 mm) and under
the influence of strong magnetic fields (several Tesla). This work presents the
results of plasma cleaning of aluminium and aluminium oxide (used as beryllium
proxy) deposited on molybdenum mirrors. Using radio frequency (13.56 MHz) argon
plasma, the removal of a 260 nm mixed aluminium/aluminium oxide film deposited
by magnetron sputtering on a mirror (98 mm diameter) was demonstrated. 50 nm of
pure aluminium oxide were removed from test mirrors (25 mm diameter) in a
magnetic field of 0.35 T for various angles between the field lines and the
mirrors surfaces. The cleaning efficiency was evaluated by performing
reflectivity measurements, Scanning Electron Microscopy and X-ray Photoelectron
Spectroscopy.Comment: 5 pages, 6 figures and 1 table. Results presented on the 21st Plasma
Surface Interaction conference held in Kanazawa Japan, May 201
Simulation-Based Parallel Training
Numerical simulations are ubiquitous in science and engineering. Machine
learning for science investigates how artificial neural architectures can learn
from these simulations to speed up scientific discovery and engineering
processes. Most of these architectures are trained in a supervised manner. They
require tremendous amounts of data from simulations that are slow to generate
and memory greedy. In this article, we present our ongoing work to design a
training framework that alleviates those bottlenecks. It generates data in
parallel with the training process. Such simultaneity induces a bias in the
data available during the training. We present a strategy to mitigate this bias
with a memory buffer. We test our framework on the multi-parametric Lorenz's
attractor. We show the benefit of our framework compared to offline training
and the success of our data bias mitigation strategy to capture the complex
chaotic dynamics of the system
Separation of Nutrient Solids and Liquids in Swine Manure
âą Producers want to provide transportation of solids and increase the available storage capacity of a storage system by separating nutrients produced in a shallow pit, external storage swine facility.
âą Producers transporting manure to fields donât want to pay to transport slurry that is 95% water
Comparative chemistry of diffuse clouds III: sulfur-bearing molecules
Using data from IRAM's Plateau de Bure Interferometer and 30 m Telescope, we
discuss the mm-wave absorption lines of CS, SO, H2S and HCS+ which arise in
diffuse clouds occulting several extragalactic continuum sources. Typical
relative abundances are X(CS)/X(HCO+) ~ 2, X(CS)/X(SO) ~ 2, X(CS)/X(H2S) ~ 6
and X(CS)/X(HCS+) ~ 13.Comment: Accepted by A&A 2002-Jan-1
Connectivity Optimization in Robotic Networks
La collaboration entre multiple appareils Ă©lectroniques (e.g. smartphones, ordinateurs, robots, senseurs et routeurs) est une tendance qui suscite un vif intĂ©rĂȘt tant ses applications semblent prometteuses. Les maisons autonomes ou villes intelligentes figurent parmi la prodigieuse variĂ©tĂ© dâexemples. La communication entre appareils est une des clĂ©s du succĂšs de leur coopĂ©ration. Sans un bon systĂšme de communication, les appareils se retrouvent vite incapables dâĂ©changer lâinformation nĂ©cessaire Ă la prise de dĂ©cision. Pour garantir une bonne communication, il faut un rĂ©seau solide sur lequel elle puisse reposer. Nous pourrions envisager une organisation
centralisĂ©e, puisquâelles sont si rĂ©pandues. Nos tĂ©lĂ©phones portables communiquent grĂące Ă des antennes-relais ; et nous naviguons sur lâinternet grĂące Ă des routeurs. Dans un rĂ©seau centralisĂ©, si un noeud principal, tel quâune antenne ou un routeur, est dĂ©faillant, la capacitĂ© Ă communiquer en est dramatiquement diminuĂ©e. Or, certaines collaborations entre appareils interviennent, parfois, dans des situations oĂč les infrastructures classiques ne sont pas accessibles.
Câest le cas pour les opĂ©rations de sauvetages, oĂč les moyens de communications classiques ont pu ĂȘtre endommagĂ©s Ă la suite dâun sinistre. Dâautres organisations sont alors
plus judicieuses. Dans les rĂ©seaux ad hoc, par exemple, il nâexiste pas de noeud central, car chaque appareil peut servir au transit de lâinformation. Cette dissertation sâintĂ©resse Ă la mise en place de rĂ©seaux ad hoc et mobiles entre smartphones et drones. Elle sâinscrit dans le cadre dâun partenariat, entre Humanitas Solutions et lâĂcole Polytechnique de MontrĂ©al, qui vise Ă Ă©tablir un moyen de communication basĂ© sur ces appareils, pour connecter victimes et premiers secours lors dâopĂ©rations de sauvetages. Pour mener Ă bien ce projet, nous devons permettre aux appareils Ă©lectroniques de communiquer
sans recourir Ă quelconque infrastructure. Pour relayer lâinformation, nous devons Ă©galement maintenir les drones connectĂ©s au-dessus de la zone sinistrĂ©e.----------ABSTRACT: Because of their promising applications, the interest for machine-to-machine interaction has soared (e.g. between smartphones, laptops, robots, sensors, or routers). Autonomous homes and smart cities are just two examples among the many. Without a good communication system, devices are unable to share relevant information and take effective decisions. Thus, inter-device communication is key for successful cooperations. To guarantee suitable communication, devices need to rely on a robust network. One might think of classical centralized network architecture since it is so common â antennae relay our smartphone communications, and routers provide us with an Internet connection at home. However, this architecture is not adequate for every application. When a central node (e.g.
an antenna or a router) fails, it can cripple all the network. Moreover, fixed infrastructure is not always available, which is detrimental for applications like search and rescue operations. Hence, other network designs can be more suitable, like ad hoc networks, where there is no
central node and every device can route information.
This work aims at establishing mobile ad hoc networks between multiple devices for search and rescue operations. This thesis is framed by a partnership between Humanitas Solutions and Ăcole Polytechnique de MontrĂ©al, whose goal is to relay information between victims and first responders by the use of smartphones and flying robots (i.e. drones). For this purpose, we have to enable infrastructureless communications between devices and maintain drones connected over the disaster area
Reconfiguration of plane trees in convex geometric graphs
A non-crossing spanning tree of a set of points in the plane is a spanning
tree whose edges pairwise do not cross. Avis and Fukuda in 1996 proved that
there always exists a flip sequence of length at most between any pair
of non-crossing spanning trees (where denotes the number of points).
Hernando et al. proved that the length of a minimal flip sequence can be of
length at least . Two recent results of Aichholzer et al. and
Bousquet et al. improved the Avis and Fukuda upper bound by proving that there
always exists a flip sequence of length respectively at most and
. We improve the upper bound by a linear factor for the first
time in 25 years by proving that there always exists a flip sequence between
any pair of non-crossing spanning trees of length at most where
. Our result is actually stronger since we prove that, for any
two trees , there exists a flip sequence from to of length
at most . We also improve the best lower bound in terms
of the symmetric difference by proving that there exists a pair of trees
such that a minimal flip sequence has length , improving the lower bound of Hernando et al. by considering the
symmetric difference instead of the number of vertices. We generalize this
lower bound construction to non-crossing flips (where we close the gap between
upper and lower bounds) and rotations
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