Vitola Oyaga, Jaime (Date of defense: 2021-01-28)
For a few decades, systems for supervising structures have become increasingly irnportant. In origin, the strategies had as a goal only the detection of damages. Furthermore, now monitoring the civil ...
Repiso Polo, Ely (Date of defense: 2020-09-23)
Our society is evolving to include robots in our daily lives. Therefore, it is necessary to develop robots capable of collaborating with people to carry out daily tasks, for example: accompanying, ...
Pueyo Centelles, Roger (Date of defense: 2021-11-12)
There are several LPWAN radio technologies providing wireless communication to the billions of connected devices that form the so-called IoT. Among them, LoRa has emerged in recent years as a popular ...
Parera Morales, Ferran (Date of defense: 2020-01-27)
The understanding of soil behavior is the foundation where the geotechnical engineering is built on. Experimentation is essential to improve this comprehension, and then to be able to translate it into ...
Palimeri, Flavio (Date of defense: 2022-05-31)
End-stage renal disease (ESRD) patients demonstrate an increased incidence of sudden cardiac death (SCD) with declining kidney functioning as a consequence of blood potassium ([K+]) homeostasis impairment, ...
Oro García, David (Date of defense: 2020-11-17)
Recently, facial recognition systems have become extremely popular and deployments of this technology are now ubiquitous. Applications ranging from access control to automated surveillance of video feeds ...
Unnikrishnan Raveendran, Nair (Date of defense: 2020-07-23)
The rate of integration of the renewable energy sources in modern grids have significantly increased in the last decade. These intermittent, non-dispatchable renewable sources, though environment ...
Chacón Encalada, Luis Alejandro (Date of defense: 2022-07-08)
The introduction of technologies disruptive of Industry 4.0 in the workplace integrated through human cyber-physical systems causes operators to face new challenges. These are reflected in the increased ...
Ardanuy Della, Antoni (Date of defense: 2020-12-14)
This thesis aims at exploring the limits of low peak-power, low-cost, all-semiconductor, compact lidars (laser radars) for range-resolved remote sensing of atmospheric aerosols and clouds. The systems ...
Castilla, Sebastián (Date of defense: 2022-01-27)
Long wavelength light contains the infrared and terahertz (THz) spetral range of the spectrum. This wavelength range spans approximately from 1 µm to 1 mm. Several applications can be explored in this ...