Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial

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Recent Submissions

Modeling and reconstruction of 3D humans 

Corona Puyane, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-11-16)

(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, ...

Safety and adaptation in physical interaction control for robotic applications 

San Miguel Tello, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-09-04)

(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 ...

Visual understanding of human behavior: 3D pose, motion, actions and context 

Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

(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 ...

Towards efficient quantum repeater nodes based on solid-state quantum memories 

Duranti, Stefano (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

(English) Quantum repeaters are the foundation of future long-distance quantum networks. In most architectures, their functional core is constituted by quantum memories, which are devices that can store and re-emit photonic ...

Modeling and control of a vanadium redox flow battery 

Clemente León, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-03-29)

(English) Due to the current climate crisis, significant efforts are being made in the field of renewable energies, being one of the main challenges the storage of energy in an efficient, environmentally friendly and ...

Event based SLAM 

Chamorro Hernández, William Oswaldo (Date of defense: 2023-02-17)

(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 ...

Mathematical modelling and advanced control design applied to high-pressure electrolyzers for hydrogen production 

David, Martín Rafael (Date of defense: 2021-11-08)

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 ...

Kinodynamic planning and control of closed-chain robotic systems 

Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

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 ...

Position analysis based on multi-affine formulations 

Shabani, Arya (Date of defense: 2021-07-05)

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 ...

Collaborative social robot navigation in accompanying and approaching tasks 

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, searching, transporting, ...

Bridging the gap between reconstruction and synthesis 

Pumarola Peris, Albert (Date of defense: 2021-10-13)

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 ...

Health-aware predictive control schemes based on industrial processes 

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 to take into account ...

Geometric computer vision meets deep learning for autonomous driving applications 

García López, Javier (Date of defense: 2021-05-17)

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 ...

Fashion discovery : a computer vision approach 

Rubio Romano, Antonio (Date of defense: 2021-07-23)

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 ...

Advanced energy management/control strategies for smart manufacturing systems 

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. Currently, manufacturing ...

Lidar-based scene understanding for autonomous driving using deep learning 

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. Nevertheless, it is meant ...

Control and management of energy storage systems in microgrids 

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 friendly tend to be ...

Robust navigation for industrial service robots 

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 its components and ...

Adapting robot behavior to user preferences in assistive scenarios 

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 assistance. While ...

Non-centralized optimization-based control schemes for large-scale energy systems 

Ananduta, Wayan Wicak (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)

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, ...

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