Contribution to prognostics and health management of complex systems. Application to energy systems 

    Al Mohamad, Ahmad (Date of defense: 2021-10-22)

    (English) This thesis presents contributions to model-based Prognostics and Health Management (PHM) for online Remaining Useful Life (RUL) forecasting of degraded systems. The major issue in such a prognostics approach is ...

    Cooperative social robots: accompanying, guiding and interacting with people 

    Garrell Zulueta, Anaís (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)

    The development of social robots capable of interacting with humans is one of the principal challenges in the field of robotics. More and more, robots are appearing in dynamic environments, like pedestrian walkways, ...

    Detección y diagnóstico de fallos múltiples en sistemas dinámicos usando análisis de componentes principales no lineal y residuos estructurados 

    Rincón Charris, Amílcar Alejandro (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)

    In recent years the detection and diagnosis of faults in devices and processes has been a field of research and development that has been addressed from multiple perspectives: control engineering, artificial intelligence ...

    Generative models for the automatic recognition of reactive and abnormal peripheral blood cells with diagnosis purposes 

    Barrera Llanga, Kevin Iván (Date of defense: 2024-03-15)

    (English) Clinical pathologists focus on detailed morphological analysis of peripheral blood (PB) cells for the recognition of abnormal cells and contribute to the diagnosis of hematological diseases. While this traditional ...

    Modeling and control for a fuel cell system 

    Xing, Yashan (Date of defense: 2021-07-01)

    (English) Fuel cells are electrochemical devices to covert hydrogen and oxygen into electrical energy and heat. However, the degradation during the operation can reduce a fuel cell lifetime which is the major obstacle for ...

    Multi-layer model predictive control of complex water systems 

    Sun, Congcong (Date of defense: 2015-11-17)

    This thesis is devoted to design a multi-layer MPC controller applied to the complex water network taking into account that the different layers with different time scales and control objectives have their own controller. ...

    Robot learning from demonstration of force-based manipulation tasks 

    Rozo, Leonel (Date of defense: 2013-06-11)

    One of the main challenges in Robotics is to develop robots that can interact with humans in a natural way, sharing the same dynamic and unstructured environments. Such an interaction may be aimed at assisting, helping or ...