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    Information metrics for localization and mapping 

    Vallvé Navarro, Joan (Date of defense: 2019-02-27)

    Decades of research have made possible the existence of several autonomous systems that successfully and efficiently navigate within a variety of environments under certain conditions. One core technology that has allowed ...

    Kinodynamic planning and control of closed-chain robotic systems 

    Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard (Date of defense: 2021-10-29)

    This work proposes a methodology for kinodynamic planning and trajectory control in robots with closed kinematic chains. The ability to plan trajectories is key in a robotic system, as it provides a means to convert ...

    Lidar-based scene understanding for autonomous driving using deep learning 

    Vaquero Gómez, Víctor (Date of defense: 2020-02-25)

    With over 1.35 million fatalities related to traffic accidents worldwide, autonomous driving was foreseen at the beginning of this century as a feasible solution to improve security in our roads. Nevertheless, it is meant ...

    Mathematical modelling and advanced control design applied to high-pressure electrolyzers for hydrogen production 

    David, Martín Rafael (Date of defense: 2021-11-08)

    This thesis is mainly dedicated to the study of high-pressure alkaline electrolysis. Alkaline electrolysis is a well established technology and is commercially available. However, the operation at high pressure for dispensing ...

    Modeling and control of a vanadium redox flow battery 

    Clemente León, Alejandro (Date of defense: 2023-03-29)

    (English) Due to the current climate crisis, significant efforts are being made in the field of renewable energies, being one of the main challenges the storage of energy in an efficient, environmentally friendly and ...

    Modeling and reconstruction of 3D humans 

    Corona Puyane, Enric (Date of defense: 2023-11-16)

    (English) Understanding humans in images has been a long-standing goal in Computer Vision. Recently, modelling and generation of virtual humans has become a popular area of research spurred by the success of deep learning, ...

    Non-centralized optimization-based control schemes for large-scale energy systems 

    Ananduta, Wayan Wicak (Date of defense: 2019-12-17)

    Non-centralized control schemes for large-scale systems, including energy networks, are more flexible, scalable, and reliable than the centralized counterpart. These benefrts are obtained by having a set of local control!ers, ...

    Personalising robot assistance for cognitive training therapy 

    Andriella, Antonio (Date of defense: 2022-10-13)

    (English) There are 50 million people worldwide living with dementia, and this number is projected to triple by 2050. While there are no pharmacological treatments for this syndrome, behavioural therapy such as cognitive ...

    Position analysis based on multi-affine formulations 

    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 manipulation of ...

    Robust navigation for industrial service robots 

    Deray, Jérémie (Date of defense: 2020-09-29)

    Robust, reliable and safe navigation is one of the fundamental problems of robotics. Throughout the present thesis, we tackle the problem of navigation for robotic industrial mobile-bases. We identify its components and ...

    Safety and adaptation in physical interaction control for robotic applications 

    San Miguel Tello, Alberto (Date of defense: 2023-09-04)

    (English) Although robotic platforms have been used for a wide range of purposes, recent advances in robot autonomy raise the opportunity of bringing them closer to humans. This implies that, under any circumstance, robots ...

    Towards efficient quantum repeater nodes based on solid-state quantum memories 

    Duranti, Stefano (Date of defense: 2023-03-24)

    (English) Quantum repeaters are the foundation of future long-distance quantum networks. In most architectures, their functional core is constituted by quantum memories, which are devices that can store and re-emit photonic ...

    Visual understanding of human behavior: 3D pose, motion, actions and context 

    Hernández Ruiz, Alejandro José (Date of defense: 2023-05-30)

    (English) Visual understanding of human behavior is a very broad topic that, in the abstract, means understanding what a person or group of people is doing in an image or video. In practice, it can be broken down into a ...