Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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Robotic assistants have inspired numerous books and science fiction movies. In the real world, these kinds of devices are a growing need in amongst the elderly, who while life continue requiring more assistance. While ...
This thesis is devoted to the study of the optimisation-based control techniques for the design of control strategies that contribute to improve the energy efficiency of smart manufacturing systems. Currently, manufacturing ...
(English) Critical energy challenges are forcing a rapid modification of the current energy infrastructure. lndeed, larger renewable energy penetration, more distributed generation and storage, and higher degree of autonomy ...
(English) Aerial manipulators, which commonly take the form of multirotors with attached robotic limbs, primarily employ their limbs for pure manipulation tasks and do not rely on them during aerial locomotion. Besides, ...
(English) Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) constitute a new generation of control systems that seeks a better integration between computation and physical processes. However, the notable advances of these systems in terms of ...
3D reconstruction and image synthesis are two of the main pillars in computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as multi-view reconstruction and texture synthesis. With the spur of Deep Learning, the field ...
Our society is evolving to include robots in our daily lives. Therefore, it is necessary to develop robots capable of collaborating with people to carry out daily tasks, for example: accompanying, searching, transporting, ...
(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 cameras. These novel ...
Performing semantic interpretation of fashion images is undeniably one of the most challenging domains for computer vision. Subtle variations in color and shape might confer different meanings or interpretations to an ...
This dissertation intends to provide theoretical and practical contributions on the development of deep learning algorithms for autonomous driving applications. The research is motivated by the need of deep neural networks ...
The research is motivated by real applications, such as pasteurization plant, water networks and autonomous system, which each of them require a specific control system to provide proper management able to take into account ...
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 that has allowed ...
With over 1.35 million fatalities related to traffic accidents worldwide, autonomous driving was foreseen at the beginning of this century as a feasible solution to improve security in our roads. Nevertheless, it is meant ...
(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, ...
(English) In this thesis, the dynamic model for the piezoelectric cantilever beam is build by using partial differential equation (PDE). To facilitate the parameter estimation procedure and the controller design, a simplified ...
(English) There are 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050. While there are no pharmacological treatments for this syndrome, behavioural therapy such as cognitive ...
The position analysis problem is a fundamental issue that underlies many problems in Robotics such as the inverse kinematics of serial robots, the forward kinematics of parallel robots, the coordinated manipulation of ...
(English) Although robotic platforms have been used for a wide range of purposes, recent advances in robot autonomy raise the opportunity of bringing them closer to humans. This implies that, under any circumstance, robots ...
(English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be broken down into a ...
