Acevedo Valle, Juan Manuel (Date of defense: 2018-11-06)
This research is motivated by the benefits that knowledge regarding early development in infants may provide to different fields of science. In particular, early sensorimotor exploration behaviors are ...
Cardoso Duarte, Amanda (Date of defense: 2022-06-27)
Signed languages are complete and natural languages used as the first or preferred mode of communication by millions of people worldwide. However, they, unfortunately, continue to be marginalized ...
Giménez Febrer, Pere Joan (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)
In matrix completion, the objective is to recover an unknown matrix from a small subset of observed entries. Most successful methods for recovering the unknown entries are based on the assumption that ...
Paillacho Chiluiza, Dennys (Date of defense: 2019-05-03)
Robots are making their way in environments inhabited by people. Whether in domestic or public crowded environments, robots should take into consideration social norms and behaviors in order to become ...
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 ...
Sória Pérez, José A. (José Antonio) (Date of defense: 2013-01-21)
This thesis deals with the automatic detection of features in signals, either extracted from photographs or captured by means of electronic sensors, and its possible application in the detection of ...
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 ...
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 ...