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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Aguilar Castillo, Wilbert Geovanny (Date of defense: 2015-09-04)
Micro Aerial Vehicles (MAVs), a subset of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), also known as drones, are becoming popular for several applications and gaining interest due to advantages as manufacturing and ...
Hernansanz Prats, Albert (Date of defense: 2016-04-14)
This thesis proposes the study and development of a teleoperation system based on multi-robot cooperation under the task oriented teleoperation paradigm: Multi-Robot Cooperative Paradigm, MRCP. In ...
Grosso Pérez, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2015-03-26)
This thesis is devoted to design Model Predictive Control (MPC) strategies aiming to enhance the management of constrained generalised flow-based networks, with special attention to the economic ...
Colomé Figueras, Adrià (Date of defense: 2017-07-14)
In our culture, robots have been in novels and cinema for a long time, but it has been specially in the last two decades when the improvements in hardware - better computational power and components - ...
Marbán González, Arturo (Date of defense: 2018-02-12)
Perceiving and understanding the world represents a long-term goal in the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI). In recent years, advances in the field of Machine Learning (ML), and specifically in Deep ...
Bohigas Nadal, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-05-10)
This thesis develops general solutions to two open problems of robot kinematics: the exhaustive computation of the singularity set of a manipulator, and the synthesis of singularity-free paths between ...
Ud Din, Muhayy (Date of defense: 2018-12-04)
This thesis develops a series of knowledge-oriented physics-based motion planning algorithms for grasping and manipulation in cluttered an uncertain environments. The main idea is to use high-level ...