Pascacio De Los Santos, Pavel (Date of defense: 2023-06-09)
This doctoral thesis focuses on developing and evaluating mobile device-based collaborative techniques to enhance the position accuracy of traditional indoor positioning systems based on RSSI (i.e., ...
Klus, Lucie (Date of defense: 2023-04-27)
The dissertation focuses on boosting the energy efficiency of IoT and wearable devices by implementing lossy compression techniques onto sensor-based time-series data and into indoor localization ...
Arnau Notari, María Rosario (Date of defense: 2022-04-01)
Anaerobic digestion is one of the most widely used biological treatments for the stabilisation of sewage sludge, but the effectiveness of the process depends on good mixing. The Computational Fluid ...
Sánchez-Pantoja Belenguer, Núria (Date of defense: 2020-11-30)
We are currently witnessing a constant increase in the presence of renewable energies in the urban environment, especially solar energy. This inevitably causes a visual impact that is not always socially ...
Sales Setién, Ester (Date of defense: 2019-07-25)
This thesis addresses some issues arisen from the application of estimation-based fault diagnosis strategies to different practical systems such as industrial pipe networks, multistage manufacturing ...
Alberola Borràs, Jaume Adrià (Date of defense: 2021-12-16)
An increasing concentration of greenhouse gases makes necessary changing the energy model to one in which photovoltaics play an important role. This thesis aims to assist the development of a novel ...
Vidal Meliá, Lidia (Date of defense: 2020-01-23)
The debate on the emissions control instruments for improving environmental policy is the inspiration of the present thesis. In a first attempt, we use a theoretical model to study how international ...
Jarque Bou, Néstor José (Date of defense: 2019-11-15)
This thesis presents contributions to the kinematic and muscular characterisation of the hand during the activities of daily living (ADL). Orientation and position data of the rotation axes of ...
Miguel Escrig, Oscar (Date of defense: 2021-11-10)
This thesis studies the robustness and performance of Event-Based Controllers applied to network control. In these systems, event generation techniques are of paramount importance, among them, sampling ...
Roda Sales, Alba (Date of defense: 2021-07-19)
This thesis presents contributions to the characterisation of hand kinematics during product manipulation in activities of daily living (ADLs). The main contributions have been: (í) providing quantifiable ...