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 ...
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 retirements of ...
(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, ...
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, ...
The rate of integration of the renewable energy sources in modern grids have significantly increased in the last decade. These intermittent, non-dispatchable renewable sources, though environment friendly tend to be ...
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 ...
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 ...
This work proposes a methodology for kinodynamic planning and trajectory control in robots with closed kinematic chains. The ability to plan trajectories is key in a robotic system, as it provides a means to convert ...
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) It is expected that automated driving will enhance road safety, increase highway capacity, reduce carbon emissions, and make transportation more accessible to disabled and older people. However, fully automated ...
This thesis is mainly dedicated to the study of high-pressure alkaline electrolysis. Alkaline electrolysis is a well established technology and is commercially available. However, the operation at high pressure for dispensing ...
(English) This thesis is devoted to exploring existing research around modeling, control, and estimation strategies in OCIS, in order to identify improvement opportunities and propose new strategies that increase their ...
(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 ...
Non-centralized control schemes for large-scale systems, including energy networks, are more flexible, scalable, and reliable than the centralized counterpart. These benefrts are obtained by having a set of local control!ers, ...
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) This thesis proposes a Robust Economic Model Predictive Control (REMPC) design based on deterministic approach for optimizing economic costs of energy production and dispatch in smart electrical grids. Robust ...
Robust, reliable and safe navigation is one of the fundamental problems of robotics. Throughout the present thesis, we tackle the problem of navigation for robotic industrial mobile-bases. We identify its components and ...
