Vaquero Gómez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)
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. ...
Canal Camprodon, Gerard (Date of defense: 2020-03-09)
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 ...
Deray, Jérémie (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)
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 ...
Repiso Polo, Ely (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
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, ...
Unnikrishnan Raveendran, Nair (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
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 ...
Diaz Castañeda, Jenny Lorena (Date of defense: 2020-03-27)
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. ...
Karimi Pour, Fatemeh (Date of defense: 2020-07-24)
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 ...