Grosch, Patrick (Date of defense: 2016-06-23)
The aim of the thesis is to define, analyze, and verify through simulations and practical implementations, parallel robots with unconventional joints that allow them to be under-actuated and/or ...
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 ...
Goldhoorn, Alex (Date of defense: 2017-09-21)
Searching and tracking are important behaviours for a mobile service robot to assist people, to search-and-rescue and, in general, to locate mobile objects, animals or humans. Even though searching might ...
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 ...
Aldana López, Carlos Iván (Date of defense: 2015-03-17)
An interesting approach in cooperative control is to design distributed control strategies which use only local information so that a multi-agent system achieves specified behaviors. A basic behavior ...
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 - ...
González Vargas, Néstor Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)
En el marco de la problemática de la programación de operaciones en taller, en esta tesis se introduce un nuevo problema, que se identifica como problema de flujo general flexible (fJSP) con fechas ...
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 ...
Ramos Fuentes, Germán Andrés (Date of defense: 2012-09-12)
The tracking/rejection of periodic signals constitutes a wide field of research in the control theory and applications area and Repetitive Control has proven to be an efficient way to face this topic; ...
Rosich Oliva, Albert (Date of defense: 2011-06-03)
The present work aims to increase the diagnosis systems capabilities by choosing the location of sensors in the process. Therefore, appropriate sensor location will lead to better diagnosis performance ...