La Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Barcelona Tech (UPC) és una institució pública de recerca i d'educació superior en els àmbits de l'enginyeria, l'arquitectura i les ciències.
L’activitat dels seus campus i centres fan de la UPC un punt de referència i, en complicitat amb el teixit productiu, són agent i motor de canvi econòmic i social, en posar en valor la recerca bàsica i aplicada i transferir tecnologia i coneixement a la societat.
Els investigadors i investigadores de la UPC treballen des dels laboratoris i centres de recerca per augmentar la producció científica, valoritzar-la socialment a través de la transferència de resultats i continuar liderant projectes internacionals d’excel·lència, ja sigui a partir d’iniciatives pròpies o en col·laboració amb altres centres de recerca i universitats d’arreu del món.
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Alves, Débora Cristina Costa da Silva (Fecha de defensa: 2022-11-18)
(English) This dissertation intends to provide a methodology for leak supervision in the water distribution network (WDN), focusing on detecting, estimating, and locating leaks in the system. Additionally, sensor placement ...
Wang, Bin (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-19)
(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 ...
Sanz i López, Víctor (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-04)
(English) In this thesis, a model predictive control-based energy management system for a specific house powered by a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell is presented. Fuel cells and combined heat and power ...
Bermeo Ayerbe, Miguel Ángel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-12-02)
(English) Concern about energy efficiency has increased in the industry, mainly motivated by rising energy prices and government policies to raise awareness of environmental impact. For this reason, this thesis is dedicated ...
Medero Borrell, Ariel (Fecha de defensa: 2023-09-28)
(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 ...
Martí Saumell, Josep (Fecha de defensa: 2024-04-30)
(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, ...
Cecilia Piñol, Andreu (Fecha de defensa: 2022-04-19)
(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 ...
Andriella, Antonio (Fecha de defensa: 2022-10-13)
(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 ...
Corona Puyane, Enric (Fecha de defensa: 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, ...
San Miguel Tello, Alberto (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Duranti, Stefano (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Clemente León, Alejandro (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Chamorro Hernández, William Oswaldo (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
David, Martín Rafael (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Shabani, Arya (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Repiso Polo, Ely (Fecha de defensa: 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, ...
Pumarola Peris, Albert (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...
Karimi Pour, Fatemeh (Fecha de defensa: 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 ...