Fernández Canti, Rosa Ma. (Date of defense: 2013-02-07)
In the Control Engineering field, the so-called Robust Identification techniques deal with the problem of obtaining not only a nominal model of the plant, but also an estimate of the uncertainty associated ...
Javalera Rincón, Valeria (Date of defense: 2016-04-07)
This thesis describes a methodology to deal with the interaction between MPC controllers in a distributed MPC architecture. This approach combines ideas from Distributed Artificial Intelligence (DAI) ...
Vento, Jorge (Date of defense: 2014-06-20)
Hybrid systems play an important role in the modeling of complex systems since they take into account the interaction between both continuous dynamics and discrete events. Complex systems are subject ...
Xu, Feng (Date of defense: 2014-11-27)
The fault-tolerant capability is an important performance specification for most of technical systems. The examples showing its importance are some catastrophes in civil aviation. According to some ...
Sánchez Sardi, Héctor Eloy (Date of defense: 2017-07-21)
Wind turbines components are subject to considerable stresses and fatigue due to extreme environmental conditions to which they are exposed, especially those located offshore. Also, the most common ...
Wang, Ye (Date of defense: 2018-10-22)
This dissertation intends to provide theoretical and practical contributions on estimation, diagnosis and control of complex systems, especially in the mathematical form of descriptor systems. The ...
Segovia Castillo, Pablo (Date of defense: 2019-06-11)
This thesis regards the problem of optimal management of water resources in inland navigation networks from a control theory perspective. In particular, the main objective to be attained consists in ...
Pourasghar-Lafmejani, Masoud (Date of defense: 2019-04-12)
Model-based Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) is a major theoretical topic that is becoming increasingly to one of the most significant key features to increase safety and reliability of complex ...
Alcalá Baselga, Eugenio (Date of defense: 2020-03-24)
This thesis presents some advances to the state of the art of state estimation, automatic control and trajectory planning fields applied to autonomous vehicles. Such contributions have a common aspect ...
Khoury, Boutrous (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)
(English) Maintenance is indispensable in every industry that uses machines and is inevitable regardless of the attention paid to it. The cumulative effect of its neglect or a non-optimized approach is ...