Sanz Estapé, Gerard (Date of defense: 2016-03-18)
The success in the application of any model-based methodology (e.g. design, control, supervision) highly depends on the availability of a well calibrated model. There is no best or unique solution for ...
Kumar, Dhiraj (Date of defense: 2012-07-16)
The increasing need for range-resolved aerosol and water-vapour atmospheric observation networks worldwide has given rise to multi-spectral LIDARs (Light Detection and Ranging, a synonym of laser radar) ...
Atienza García, María Terersa (Date of defense: 2018-02-13)
The work underlying this Thesis, has contributed to the main study and characterization of diffusive systems. The research work has been focused on the analysis of two kind of systems. On the one hand, ...
Morancho Llena, Enric (Date of defense: 2002-07-11)
Uno de los mayores retos que debe ser afrontado por los diseñadores de micro-procesadores es el de mitigar la gran latencia de las instrucciones de carga de datos en registros. Esta tesis analiza una ...
Rosell Gratacòs, Jan (Date of defense: 1998-10-13)
This thesis proposes a fine-motion planner for assembly tasks in the plane considering two degrees of freedom of translation and one of rotation, taking into account modelling and sensing uncertainties ...
Montaño Sarria, Andrés Felipe (Date of defense: 2021-03-18)
In-hand dexterous manipulation of an object is the ability to change the configuration (position and/or orientation) of an object held in the hand. This is an ability that has allowed humans to use tools ...
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. ...
Lai, Ngoc Bao (Date of defense: 2022-03-23)
Power system is undergoing an unpreceded paradigm shift: from centralized to distributed generation. As the renewable-based generations and battery storage systems are increasingly displacing conventional ...
Fernández Canti, Rosa Ma. (Date of defense: 2013-02-07)
In the Control Engineering field, the so-called Robust Identification techniques deal with the problem of obtaining not only a nominal model of the plant, but also an estimate of the uncertainty associated ...
Escuain i Poole, Lara Sofia (Date of defense: 2019-03-28)
The brain is a complex organ whose activity spans multiple scales, both spatial and temporal. The computational unit of the brain is thought to be the neurone. At the microscopic level, neurones communicate ...