Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya: Enviaments recents
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Luz artificial y campo visual: hacia un contraste equilibrado de luminancias. Aplicación de la cámara CCD para el estudio nocturno en las salas de lectura de cinco bibliotecas universitarias de Barcelona
(English) FORMULATION OF THE TOPIC. Visibility at night without contributions of natural light. Artificial light is still a difficult invention to control, even in our time of advanced technologies. Human visual perception ...
Arraigo: estudios sobre el riesgo desde la resistencia y la crítica al reasentamiento de población en Bogotá
(English) The investigation of climate risks affecting the popular neighborhoods in the mountainous outskirts of Bogotá, Colombia, has served as a case study and starting point to critically study the concept of risk and ...
Design, management, and simulation of mixed station-based and free-floating vehicle-sharing systems
(English) This thesis provides tools, based on mathematical modelling, for the analysis, optimization and simulation, of vehicle-sharing systems. The thesis addresses various implementation levels of such systems, from ...
Exploring quantum memory schemes in cold atoms for quantum repeaters
(English) Quantum memories are devices that are able to store photonic quantum states and entanglement. Future quantum networks, which could enhance cybersecurity through quantum key distribution, improve the precision in ...
Marcelo Cortés arquitecto. El desafío sísmico de las técnicas con tierra armada
(English) The main objective of the research is to provide a development in the technological knowledge of architecture and construction with earth in seismic territory, exploring into the subject of traditional and ...
Blends of modified PLA and biopolyamides for additive manufacturing
(English) The main objective of this work is to counteract the limitations of polylactic acid (PLA) and propose a sustainable manufacturing approach using bioblends of a rheologically modified PLA by reactive extrusion ...
US signal and image monitoring and diagnosis using computer vision and deep learning
(English) This thesis presents a comprehensive investigation of the reliability and efficacy of Ultra-Sound (US) signals and images for remote monitoring and early diagnosis in medical applications. The main objective of ...
Control strategies for exoskeleton gait training after stroke: understanding the importance of parameter tuning
(English) The control strategies implemented in exoskeletons play a crucial role in determining the interaction between the device and user. However, it is unclear what is the most suitable control strategy and settings ...
Zero-touch service orchestration in 5G and beyond mobile networks
(English) The expeditious growth and development of Beyond-5G and 6G networks inaugurated a new sector in the research of cellular networking. Automation and scaling are now considered a necessity to cope with the anticipated ...
Sedimentación fina y corrientes de turbiedad en embalses. Caso de estudio: Embalse Amaluza (Ecuador)
(English) Turbidity currents in reservoirs are of strong scientific interest because they can be responsible for the contribution of large amounts of fine sediments that can cause early sediment filling. The case study ...
La innovació tecnològica en l'arquitectura per a la indústria durant els anys 40, 50 i 60 del segle XX a l'àrea de Barcelona
(English) The construction of architecture for industry between 1939 and 1969 in the Barcelona area was a challenge for all those who intervened, since, in a post-war environment with serious economic, technical and cultural ...
The dynamics of bike sharing systems: advancements in analytics tools
(English) Nowadays, Bicycle Sharing Systems (BSS) have become a popular and widespread transportation system across the world thanks to their multiple environmental and health benefits, and its successful support for urban ...
Optimización de recursos intralogísticos en entornos industriales para su uso en vehículos autónomos
(English) The introduction of autonomous vehicles in intralogistics has significantly increased in recent times. However, in the industry, a single autonomous vehicle is often not used, but several of them are needed to ...
Modeling and reconstruction of 3D humans
(English) Understanding humans in images has been a long-standing goal in Computer Vision. Recently, modelling and generation of virtual humans has become a popular area of research spurred by the success of deep learning, ...
Optimized content caching strategies for multi-access edge computing (MEC)-assisted future cellular networks
(English) Handling the tsunami of multimedia content is a big challenge for heterogeneous cellular networks. Serving large volumes of content from the central system to end-users, through a bandwidth-limited network, at ...
AI/ML for multi-technology RAN automation with full and limited infrastructure support
(English) This thesis studies and proposes solutions to some of the most relevant challenges in the Radio Access Network (RAN) management arising from its evolution beyond 5G and towards 6G. The tackled problems are selected ...
Job scheduling for disaggregated memory in high performance computing systems
(English) In a typical HPC cluster system, a node is the elemental component unit of this architecture. Memory and compute resources are tightly coupled in each node and the rigid boundaries between nodes limits compute ...
Acceleration of automatic speech recognition for low-power devices
(English) In this thesis, we study the challenges preventing ASR deployment on edge devices and propose innovations to tackle them, hopefully moving the technology a step forward to the future. First, we characterize ...
Optimizing workspace division for multi-UAV systems
(English) With the advance of UAV-related technology using several drones in the context of a single mission becomes more and more common. New problems and challenges appear as a result. When analyzing research works ...
Obtaining micro- and nanotextured functional surfaces on thermoplastics via injection moulding techniques using laser textured metallic inserts and NIL (nano-imprint lithography) -textured polymeric films
(English) Surfaces with special functionalities owed to their surface topographies or textures are present all around us in nature. Millions of living organisms around us profit from those special functionalities thanks ...
