Research Topics

IMPARAR: Improving access to resources at reduced risk for urban areas with strong informal settlements: towards sustainable growth for the town of Guayaquil and major social inclusion of citizens

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Resource protection management and increasing access to public services is today perceived as a precondition to human promotion and social development, especially in low income economies. The project focused on the municipality of Guayaquil (EC) which, with its 3 million inhabitants, 2 of which living in informal settlements, is the economic capital of the country. […]

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TSC4 MiTo: The Social Computer for Milano and Torino

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

How long does it take to locate 10 red weather balloons in 10 secret locations in the continental United States? 8 hours and 52 minutes, harnessing the Internet and social networks! This is the incredible result of the DARPA Network Challenge that was launched on December 2009. The MIT team that won the challenge designed

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Spider Silk: Inspired super-tough nanoarmours

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

Over the last few decades, the search for bio-inspired solutions has been widely accepted in many engineering and technological fields as the best way for optimizing and taking advantage of available resources. Nature over the ages has found its optimal solution for survival and our teams therefore looked at Nature for the design of device

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ARAM-AOCS: Development of innovative attitude and orbit control for low-cost and low-mass spacecrafts

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The aim of the ARAM-AOCS project was to design an Attitude and Orbit Control system for a new class of small, affordable and easy-to-use satellites. The idea was proposed and supported by the Politecnico di Torino Electronics Department, that developed AraMiS, aiming to provide a modular satellite architecture in a very short period of time.

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SustHealth: Sustainable High Quality Healthcare

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

One of the most significant problems of today’s society is the unsustainable way of living. To guarantee a better future, people should change their habits and behavior in many fields, not neglecting the most difficult and complex issues. Healthcare structures are by definition very complex realities, since they include numerous services, various kinds of facilities

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NEST: NEw Services for Teaching and learning

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

Nowadays the learning scenario can be defined as “fragmented”, due to the many different specific services or courses related to the specific needs of different learner targets, but also as “global”, in terms of the broad potential audience it can reach. Searching on the web, it is easy to find every kind of opportunity, “localized”

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CoSpaR: Components for Space Robotics

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

In the next decades, planetary exploration will play an important role in directing global technological development and at the same time will provide an extensive application and testing field for many innovative technologies. In support of exploration missions, new space systems must be developed requiring research on many new technologies involving robotics, automation, bio-engineering, artificial

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FUSE: Future Scenarios in Banking: new Services and sustainability

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The banking sector has always been facing a big challenge: coping with continuous and fast-evolving financial services. Nowadays, financial institutions need to be not only promoters of innovation but also of sustainable services. The concept of sustainability is intended from the economic, environmental and social viewpoints. As a result, the financial service industry is ahead

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SME 2.0: “Software as a service” as a breakthrough change for Small and Medium Enterprises

2011, 7th Cycle, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Torino, Research Topics, University, Year

The software market for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) is today facing a technological breakthrough and growing importance of distribution methods represented by “Cloud Computing” and “Software as a Service” (SaaS). Existing technologies, software packages and vendor business models are apidly changing, and future market leadership will be based both on new software adoption models

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LET’ SET: Choose, Build, Experience

14th Cycle, 2018, ASP Cycle, Courses and Projects, Politecnico di Milano, Research Topics, University, Year

The tourism industry is undergoing a deep transformation due to new and different activities that people are willing to perform. This trend is called experiential tourism, since travellers are increasingly organizing their holidays looking for an occasion to try and discover something new, rather than a full week relax. Nevertheless, relax is not completely excluded

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