Medina Tapia, Marcos (Date of defense: 2021-06-15)
Cities face problems influencing urban mobility, such as traffic growth, congestion, explosive population growth, urban sprawl. According to the literature, traffic, congestion, and urban development ...
Akgul, M. Zafer (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
Due to the continuously increasing energy demand and the environmental concerns about climate changes raised by international community, alternative energy resources have been put under intense investigation ...
Tarragó Munté, Daniel (Date of defense: 2021-06-03)
The starting point of this thesis is the failure of part of a quay wall under construction. The quay was divided in two phases, failure affected Phase 1 only. The failure and all the relevant associated ...
Hesp, Niels Caspar Herman (Date of defense: 2021-10-20)
Nano-optics studies the behaviour of light on the nanoscale. In particular, it probes the interaction of light with objects, often of nanometre-size, and reveals fine details of the material's optical ...
Alterini, Tommaso (Date of defense: 2021-06-25)
Vision loss affects physical, psychological, and emotional wellbeing and social life as well. High life expectancy and health policies are translated into an aging population worldwide, which has higher ...
Shokry Abdelaleem Taha Zied, Ahmed (Date of defense: 2021-05-05)
In the chemical process industry, the decision-making hierarchy is inherently model-based. The scale and complexity of the considered models (e.g., enterprise, plant or unit model) depend on the ...
Blanca Alcubilla, Gonzalo (Date of defense: 2021-11-26)
Air transport, in 2018, was the means of transport chosen by 8.8 billion people around the world. This is a sector that expected continued passenger growth in the following years, but due to the current ...
Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc (Date of defense: 2021-06-17)
Earth Observation using satellites has helped to better model our planet. The goal of such systems is to provide large data sets to help to understand the effects of our actions on the climate, to predict ...
Chen, Jianlin (Date of defense: 2021-04-23)
The motion of space objects is strongly nonlinear and non-integrable since it is not only affected by the Keplerian central gravity of the Earth, but also subjected to some complex perturbations. Either ...
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 ...