Robotic manipulation of cloth: mechanical modeling and perception 

Coltraro Ianniello, Franco (Date of defense: 2023-03-30)

(Eng) In this work we study various mathematical problems arising from the robotic manipulation of cloth. First, we develop a locking-free continuous model for the physical simulation of inextensible textiles. We present ...

Robots, Cyborgs, and Humans. A Model of Consumer Behavior in Services: A Study in the Healthcare Services Sector 

Almahameed, Ala' Ali Mohammad (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)

La present tesi es basa en una investigació que proposa un ús futurista de l'robot i el cyborg com cirurgians oculars. El model desenvolupat investiga la intenció de l'consumidor per elegir cada cirurgià (és a dir: cirurgià ...

Robótica quirúrgica y derecho de daños 

García Micó, Tomàs Gabriel (Date of defense: 2022-07-05)

La cirugía robótica con el Da Vinci se está convirtiendo en una alternativa cada vez más común para la práctica de procedimientos quirúrgicos en todo el mundo. Este robot no constituye un ejemplo de inteligencia artificial, ...

Robust analysis and protection of dynamic scenes for privacy-aware video surveillance 

Ellatif FatahAllah Ibrahim Mahmoud Rashwan, Hatem Abd (Date of defense: 2014-05-26)

Robust and fault-tolerant strategies for controlling blood glucose in patients with type 1 diabetes 

Beneyto Tantiña, Aleix (Date of defense: 2020-12-02)

Type 1 diabetes is a serious disease that must be monitored and controlled artificially by supplying exogenous insulin to the body. The artificial pancreas (AP) is a closed-loop system that resulted from integrating an ...

Robust Carrier Tracking Techniques for GNSS Receivers affected by Ionospheric Scintillation 

Locubiche-Serra, Sergi (Date of defense: 2019-07-18)

Las tecnologías de posicionamiento por satélite (GNSS, del inglés global navigation satellite systems) se han convertido en una herramienta indispensable en diferentes ámbitos de nuestra sociedad moderna. Algunos ejemplos ...

Robust control of systems subjected to uncertain disturbances and actuator dynamics 

Villamizar Mejia, Rodolfo (Date of defense: 2005-03-17)

Esta tesis está enfocada al diseño y validación de controladores robustos que pueden reducir de una manera efectiva las vibraciones structurales producidas por perturbaciones externas tales como terremotos, fuertes vientos ...

Robust control through robusntness enhancement. Control Configurations And Two-Step Design Approaches 

Pedret Ferré, Carles (Date of defense: 2003-07-18)

En aquesta Tesi es proposa una nova estructura de control amb l'objectiu de solucionar el conflicte entre rendiment i robustesa en l'esquema de realimentació tradicional. La teoria matemàtica de la factorització coprimera ...

Robust damage detection in smart structures 

Gharibnezhad, Fahit (Date of defense: 2014-04-07)

This thesis is devoted to present some novel techniques in Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). SHM is a developing field that tries to monitor structures to make sure that they remain in their desired condition to avoid ...

Robust Handwritten Text Recognition in Scarce Labeling Scenarios: Disentanglement, Adaptation and Generation 

Kang, Lei (Date of defense: 2020-12-21)

Els documents escrits a mà no només es conserven en arxius històrics, sinó que també s’utilitzen àmpliament en documents administratius, com ara xecs o formularis. Amb l’auge de de l’anomenat aprenentatge profund (Deep ...

Robust image segmentation applied to magnetic resonance and ultrasound images of the prostate 

Ghose, Soumya (Date of defense: 2012-10-19)

Prostate segmentation in trans rectal ultrasound (TRUS) and magnetic resonance images (MRI) facilitates volume estimation, multi-modal image registration, surgical planing and image guided prostate biopsies. The objective ...

Robust indoor positioning in WLAN networks 

Castro-Arvizu, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2017-03-24)

Navigation and location technologies have been reaching in a major interest where Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) is mostly adopted. The limitation of this technology is that direct sky view is needed for reliable ...

Robust interactive simulation of deformable solids with detailed geometry using corotational FEM 

Civit Flores, Óscar (Date of defense: 2016-02-01)

This thesis focuses on the interactive simulation of highly detailed deformable solids modelled with the Corotational Finite Element Method. Starting from continuum mechanics we derive the discrete equations of motion and ...

Robust leak localization in water distribution networks using machine learning techniques 

Soldevila Coma, Adrià (Date of defense: 2018-03-23)

This PhD thesis presents a methodology to detect, estimate and localize water leaks (with the main focus in the localization problem) in water distribution networks using hydraulic models and machine learning techniques. ...

Robust microbial construction and efficient processes for recombinant enzymes production in Escherichia coli 

Pasini, Martina (Date of defense: 2015-12-18)

Encara que els gens de resistència a antibiòtics són una eina important per a la selecció i manteniment de plàsmids recombinants, les autoritats reguladores consideren el seu ús inacceptable ...

Robust navigation for industrial service robots 

Deray, Jérémie (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)

Robust, reliable and safe navigation is one of the fundamental problems of robotics. Throughout the present thesis, we tackle the problem of navigation for robotic industrial mobile-bases. We identify its components and ...

Robust perceptual organization techniques for analysis of color images 

Moreno Serrano, Rodrigo (Date of defense: 2010-11-15)

Esta tesis aborda el desarrollo de nuevas técnicas de análisis robusto de imágenes estrechamente relacionadas con el comportamiento del sistema visual humano. Uno de los pilares de la tesis es la votación tensorial, una ...

Robust speaker diarization for meetings 

Anguera Miró, Xavier (Date of defense: 2006-12-21)

Aquesta tesi doctoral mostra la recerca feta en l'àrea de la diarització de locutor per a sales de reunions. En la present s'estudien els algorismes i la implementació d'un sistema en diferit de segmentació i aglomerat de ...

Robust structural damage detection by using statistical hybrid algorithms 

Camacho Navarro, Jhonatan (Date of defense: 2019-07-15)

This thesis presents the results of applying a statistical hybrid approach for structural health monitoring using piezo actuating signals. Where, by combining statistical processing based on Principal Component Analysis ...

Robust volume mesh generation for non-watertight geometries 

Coll Sans, Abel (Date of defense: 2014-07-01)

Nowadays large part of the time needed to perform a numerical simulation is spent in preprocessing, especially in the geometry cleaning operations and mesh generation. Furthermore, these operations are not easy to automatize ...