Quiroga Méndez, Jabid E. (Date of defense: 2018-06-29)
This thesis presents some approaches for guided wave based stress monitoring as a part of Structural Health Monitoring (SHM). SHM systems include different levels, from damage detection to prognosis, ...
Unnikrishnan Raveendran, Nair (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The rate of integration of the renewable energy sources in modern grids have significantly increased in the last decade. These intermittent, non-dispatchable renewable sources, though environment ...
González Agudelo, Julián (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
This thesis deals with the further development of an existing underwater vehicle for autonomous navigation. The vehicle was conceived to navigate over the sea surface and, at certain fixed points, to ...
Carmona Leyva, Josep Maria (Date of defense: 2018-06-19)
Visual analysis of human movements concerns the understanding of human activities from image sequences. The goal of the action/gesture recognition is to recognize the label that corresponds to an action ...
Sarriá Gandul, David (Date of defense: 2014-04-02)
In this Thesis, new methods for monitoring marine species using optical, radio frequency and acoustic technologies have been proposed and evaluated for biological studies in the laboratory and open ...
Wis Gil, Mariano (Date of defense: 2016-11-02)
Es ampliamente conocido que los modelos de error para sensores inerciales tienen dos componentes: El primero es un componente determinista que normalmente es calibrado por el fabricante en el firmware ...
Morell Ybarz, Maria (Date of defense: 2012-05-04)
The morphological study of the Odontocete organ of Corti including possible pathological features resulting from sound over-exposure, represent a key conservation issue to assess the effects of acoustic ...
Torreño Piña, Juan Andrés (Date of defense: 2015-10-02)
State-of-the-art biophysical techniques featuring high temporal and spatial resolution have allowed for the first time the direct visualization of individual transmembrane proteins on the cell membrane. ...
Claret Robert, Josep Arnau (Date of defense: 2019-10-02)
This doctoral thesis deals with the use of the robot redundancy to execute several tasks simultaneously at different levels of priority and its application to two different robotic systems. In particular, ...
Salvador Yuste, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
In an increasingly technological society,vulnerability to the effects of lightning is also increasing. The implementation of monitoring and surveillance systems in real time of lightning activity can ...