Tadesse, Girmaw Abebe (Date of defense: 2018-04-26)
Advances in wearable technologies are facilitating the understanding of human activities using first-person vision (FPV) for a wide range of assistive applications. In this thesis, we propose robust ...
Amézaga, Adrià (Date of defense: 2020-11-25)
Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) has proven a valuable tool in the monitoring of the Earth, either at a global or local scales. SAR is a coherent radar system able to image extended areas with high ...
Krishnakumar, Vrinda (Date of defense: 2022-09-29)
Persistent Scatterer interferometry (PSI) is a group of advanced differential interferometric Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) techniques used to measure and monitor terrain deformation. Sentinel-1 has ...
Kumar, Dhiraj (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)
The increasing need for range-resolved aerosol and water-vapour atmospheric observation networks worldwide has given rise to multi-spectral LIDARs (Light Detection and Ranging, a synonym of laser radar) ...
Atienza García, María Terersa (Date of defense: 2018-02-13)
The work underlying this Thesis, has contributed to the main study and characterization of diffusive systems. The research work has been focused on the analysis of two kind of systems. On the one hand, ...
Lai, Ngoc Bao (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
Power system is undergoing an unpreceded paradigm shift: from centralized to distributed generation. As the renewable-based generations and battery storage systems are increasingly displacing conventional ...
Fernández Canti, Rosa Ma. (Date of defense: 2013-02-07)
In the Control Engineering field, the so-called Robust Identification techniques deal with the problem of obtaining not only a nominal model of the plant, but also an estimate of the uncertainty associated ...
Aghazadeh Dafsari, Seyed Rasoul (Date of defense: 2022-05-03)
Antenna array systems have a broad range of applications in radio frequency (RF) and ultra-wideband (UWB) communications to receive/transmit electromagnetic waves from/to the sky. They can enhance the ...
Siniscalchi Minna, Sara (Date of defense: 2019-12-20)
Nowadays, there is rising concern among Transmission System Operators about the declining of system inertia due to the increasing penetration of wind energy, and other renewable energy systems, and the ...
Moreira Sánchez, José (Date of defense: 2013-11-13)
A traceability or fingerprinting scheme is a cryptographic scheme that facilitates the identification of the source of leaked information. In a fingerprinting setting, a distributor delivers copies of ...