Samà Monsonís, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-03)
This thesis presents the original contributions of the author on the field of human movement analysis from signals captured by accelerometers. These sensors are capable of converting acceleration from ...
Luna Pacho, Julio Alberto (Date of defense: 2017-02-27)
Proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cells, which use hydrogen as fuel, provide high power densities while operating at lower temperatures, reducing the cost of materials and maintenance. PEM fuel cells ...
Sanz Estapé, Gerard (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
The success in the application of any model-based methodology (e.g. design, control, supervision) highly depends on the availability of a well calibrated model. There is no best or unique solution for ...
Rosell Gratacòs, Jan (Date of defense: 1998-10-13)
This thesis proposes a fine-motion planner for assembly tasks in the plane considering two degrees of freedom of translation and one of rotation, taking into account modelling and sensing uncertainties ...
Montaño Sarria, Andrés Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
In-hand dexterous manipulation of an object is the ability to change the configuration (position and/or orientation) of an object held in the hand. This is an ability that has allowed humans to use tools ...
Vidal Idiarte, Enric (Date of defense: 2003-12-21)
En esta tesis doctoral se aborda el estudio de la aplicación de nuevas técnicas de control como el control basado en lógica borrosa y el control robusto H a la regulación de sistemas conmutados ...
Avilés Rivero, Angélica Ivone (Date of defense: 2017-05-18)
Estimating and understanding motion from an image sequence is a central topic in computer vision. The high interest in this topic is because we are living in a world where many events that occur in the ...
Navarro López, Eva Maria (Date of defense: 2002-06-28)
El propósito de la presente tesis es el estudio de la disipatividad en sistemas no lineales discretos. Dicho trabajo de investigación presenta nuevas contribuciones en la teoría de control no lineal ...
Sarmiento Carnevali, Maria Laura (Date of defense: 2017-09-22)
In recent years, the PEM fuel cell technology has been incorporated to the R&D plans of many key companies in the automotive, stationary power and portable electronics sectors. However, despite current ...
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) ...