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 ...
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 ...
Valencia Carreño, Rafael (Date of defense: 2013-04-19)
This thesis reports research on mapping, path planning, and autonomous exploration. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Teniente Avilés, Ernesto Homar (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
This thesis reports research on mapping, terrain classification and path planning. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
Chamorro Hernández, William Oswaldo (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)
(English) Event-based cameras are novel sensors with a bio-inspired design that exhibit a high dynamic range and extremely low latency. They sensing principle is different than the one of conventional ...