Ud Din, Muhayy (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
This thesis develops a series of knowledge-oriented physics-based motion planning algorithms for grasping and manipulation in cluttered an uncertain environments. The main idea is to use high-level ...
Sória Pérez, José A. (José Antonio) (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
This thesis deals with the automatic detection of features in signals, either extracted from photographs or captured by means of electronic sensors, and its possible application in the detection of ...
Vitola Oyaga, Jaime (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
For a few decades, systems for supervising structures have become increasingly irnportant. In origin, the strategies had as a goal only the detection of damages. Furthermore, now monitoring the civil ...
Repiso Polo, Ely (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
Our society is evolving to include robots in our daily lives. Therefore, it is necessary to develop robots capable of collaborating with people to carry out daily tasks, for example: accompanying, ...
Pueyo Centelles, Roger (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in recent years as a popular ...
Vallvé Navarro, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)
Decades of research have made possible the existence of several autonomous systems that successfully and efficiently navigate within a variety of environments under certain conditions. One core technology ...
Ferrer Mínguez, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2015-10-30)
Deploying mobile robots in social environments requires novel navigation algorithms which are capable of providing valid solutions in such challenging scenarios. The main objective of the present ...
Peñate Sánchez, Adrián (Date of defense: 2017-04-07)
Although there has been remarkable progress in the pose estimation literature, there are still a number of limitations when existing algorithms must be applied in everyday applications, especially in ...
Palimeri, Flavio (Date of defense: 2022-05-31)
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients demonstrate an increased incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) with declining kidney functioning as a consequence of blood potassium ([K+]) homeostasis impairment, ...
Oro García, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)
Recently, facial recognition systems have become extremely popular and deployments of this technology are now ubiquitous. Applications ranging from access control to automated surveillance of video feeds ...