Selim, Hossam (Date of defense: 2020-07-21)
This PhD thesis is devoted to the design, development and implementation of a non-contact hybrid non-destructive testing (NDT) method applied to the analysis of metallic objects that contain embedded ...
Santamaria Navarro, Àngel (Date of defense: 2017-04-24)
The ability to fly has greatly expanded the possibilities for robots to perform surveillance, inspection or map generation tasks. Yet it was only in recent years that research in aerial robotics was ...
García Guerra, Carlos Enrique (Date of defense: 2016-07-29)
Within the visual system, the optics of the eye is responsible for forming images of external objects on the ocular fundus for its photo-reception and neural interpretation. However, the eye is not ...
Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized ...
Jedynak, Maciej (Date of defense: 2017-03-27)
The brain is known to operate under the constant influence of noise arising from a variety of sources. It also organises its activity into rhythms spanning multiple frequency bands. These rhythms originate ...
Luo, Chengyang (Date of defense: 2022-06-21)
Radio frequency identification over measurable ultra-high frequency textile substrates (UHF-RFID) is a promising technology to develop new applications in the field of health and the Internet of Things ...
Sanz Paz, Maria (Date of defense: 2020-07-27)
Photonic antennas are metallic (or dielectric) nanoscale structures that convert propagating light into highly confined fields, and vice versa, in analogy to common radio antennas but on nanometric ...
Giménez Febrer, Pere Joan (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
In matrix completion, the objective is to recover an unknown matrix from a small subset of observed entries. Most successful methods for recovering the unknown entries are based on the assumption that ...
Gawali, Sandeep Babu (Date of defense: 2020-12-17)
Semiconductor lasers in high-power regime typically manifest a poor beam quality due to its asymmetric beam divergence and its large beam quality factor (M2). The emission along one of the transverse ...
Anaya Vejar, Maribel (Date of defense: 2016-07-15)
The need of ensure the proper performance of the structures in service has made of structural health monitoring (SHM) a priority research area. Researchers all around the world have focused efforts on ...