Palomer Vila, Albert (Date of defense: 2018-11-26)
This thesis presents a SLAM algorithm using a multibeam echosounder, a new 1/2 underwater laser scanner for online 3D perception and two applications of this new laser scanner: inspection and ...
Vallicrosa Massaguer, Guillem (Date of defense: 2018-11-15)
Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) true autonomy capabilities in complex unknown environments, have not yet been fully achieved because of the lack of online algorithms that can solve fundamental ...
Lee, Chee Sing (Date of defense: 2015-09-01)
The majority of research in feature-based SLAM builds on the legacy of foundational work using the EKF, a single-object estimation technique. Because feature-based SLAM is an inherently multi-object ...
Roura Pérez, Eloy (Date of defense: 2016-07-01)
In this thesis, we have focused on the image pre-processing in order to enhance the image information. The main aspects of this enhancement rely on removing any image noise and correcting any intensity ...
Bosch Alay, Josep (Date of defense: 2018-10-17)
Omnidirectional vision has received increasing interest during the last decade from the computer vision community. However, the use of omnidirectional cameras underwater is still very limited. In this ...
Maldonado López, Ferney A. (Date of defense: 2017-09-12)
SDN is a network technology that separates control functions and the data plane. This separation allows flexibility in the management and use of network resources because the software is specialized in ...
Tortajada Giménez, Meritxell (Date of defense: 2017-07-17)
This thesis is focused on the automatic detection of masses in FFDM images by using case-level information which includes bilateral, temporal and/or ipsilateral information. As a first step, FFDM images ...
Carrera Viñas, Arnau (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
The interest in performing underwater tasks using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs) has been growing over the past few years. In this thesis, a flexible framework for underwater interventions using ...
Youakim Isaac, Dina Nagui (Date of defense: 2019-06-21)
A key challenge in autonomous mobile manipulation is the ability to determine in real-time how to safely execute complex tasks when placed in an unknown world. In response to those arising needs in ...
Vidal Garcia, Eduard (Date of defense: 2019-11-28)
Autonomous underwater vehicles are used nowadays in many applications. One of the applications is mapping of a particular area of the ocean. Quen the robot needs to cover the area of interest and no ...