Contributions to high accuracy snapshot GNSS positioning 

    Liu, Xiao (Date of defense: 2022-11-10)

    (English) Snapshot positioning is the technique to determine the position of a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver using only a very brief interval of the received satellite signal. In recent years, this ...

    A high-performace computing tool for partitioned multi-physics applications 

    Zavala-Aké, J. Miguel (Date of defense: 2018-09-13)

    The simulation and modelling of complex applications involving the interaction of processes governed by different physical principles is addressed in this thesis. The interaction of a fluid with a deformable body, or the ...

    Machine learning for aircraft trajectory prediction: a solution for pre-tactical air traffic flow management 

    Mateos Villar, Manuel (Date of defense: 2022-11-08)

    (English) The goal of air traffic flow and capacity management (ATFCM) is to ensure that airport and airspace capacity meet traffic demand while optimising traffic flows to avoid exceeding the available capacity when it ...

    Magnetic diagnostics algorithms for LISA Pathfinder: system identification and data analysis 

    Díaz Aguiló, Marc (Date of defense: 2011-10-27)

    LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA, which aims to be the first space-borne gravitational wave observatory. LISA will consist in a constellation of three spacecraft at the vertexes ...

    Optimization on industrial problems focussing on multi-player strategies 

    Coma Company, Martí (Date of defense: 2022-07-26)

    Algorithms (EA) are useful optimization methods for exploration of the search space, but they usually have slowness problems to exploit and converge to the minimum with accuracy. On the other hand, gradient based methods ...

    Ubiquitous supercomputing : design and development of enabling technologies for multi-robot systems rethinking supercomputing 

    Camargo Forero, Leonardo (Date of defense: 2019-10-25)

    Supercomputing, also known as High Performance Computing (HPC), is almost everywhere (ubiquitous), from the small widget in your phone telling you that today will be a sunny day, up to the next great contribution to the ...

    World-wide analysis and modelling of the ionospheric and plasmaspheric electron contents by means of radio occultations 

    Shao, Yixie (Date of defense: 2019-02-25)

    The research of this dissertation is studying the ionosphere by GPS radio occultation (RO) techniques. It is mainly divided into two parts. The first part focuses on the methodology in electron density profile retrievals ...