Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
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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 ...
(English) This dissertation intends to provide a methodology for leak supervision in the water distribution network (WDN), focusing on detecting, estimating, and locating leaks in the system. Additionally, sensor placement ...
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 ...
(English) It is expected that automated driving will enhance road safety, increase highway capacity, reduce carbon emissions, and make transportation more accessible to disabled and older people. However, fully automated ...
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 ...
(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 ...
(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, ...
(English) In this thesis, a model predictive control-based energy management system for a specific house powered by a high temperature proton exchange membrane fuel cell is presented. Fuel cells and combined heat and power ...
(English) In this thesis, the dynamic model for the piezoelectric cantilever beam is build by using partial differential equation (PDE). To facilitate the parameter estimation procedure and the controller design, a simplified ...
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, ...
(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 ...
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 ...
(English) This thesis proposes a Robust Economic Model Predictive Control (REMPC) design based on deterministic approach for optimizing economic costs of energy production and dispatch in smart electrical grids. Robust ...
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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
(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 ...
