Analysis and Development of a Platform for Generating Context-Aware Apps for Mental Health 

    Miralles Tena, Ignacio (Fecha de defensa: 2019-12-19)

    This work gathers a research carried out on the use of context-aware technologies in their application to the field of mental health. It starts performing a review of mobile technologies used in psychological interventions ...

    Analysis of Parallelization Strategies in the context of Hierarchical Matrix Factorizations 

    Carratalá Sáez, Rocío (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-26)

    H-matrices offer log-linear storage and computations costs, thanks to a controlled accuracy loss. This is the reason why they are specially suitable for Boundary Element Methods (BEM). Task-parallelism strategies are applied ...

    Análisis automático del patrón de la marcha mediante visión por computador: problemas, métodos y aplicaciones 

    Ortells Lorenzo, Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2017-06-19)

    Automatic gait recognition has become a research topic of interest due to its advantages versus other biometrics. However, the procedure for its analysis is still an open issue. Firstly, in this thesis, a method to construct ...

    Aplicación de la visión artificial a la manipulación robótica en el contexto de la intervención subacuática 

    Fornas García, David (Fecha de defensa: 2019-02-06)

    En esta tesis se describe un sistema integral para la manipulación de objetos guiada por visión en escenarios subacuáticos en el contexto de la arqueología. El sistema propuesto consiste en la reconstrucción en 3D del ...

    Application and use of quality metrics for the prediction of grasp success and evaluation of artificial hands 

    Rubert Escuder, Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-08)

    Artificial manipulation has been one of the main areas of interest in robotics for decades. Finding a proper grasp to seize objects and design robotic hands capable of such grasps are two of the main problems in such ...

    Avances en Telerobótica Inalámbrica Submarina 

    Centelles Beltrán, Diego (Fecha de defensa: 2021-03-26)

    Los estándares de comunicación sin umbilicales utilizados a través del aire son inútiles bajo el agua debido a la elevada atenuación de las ondas de radiofrecuencia. Esto obliga al uso de otras tecnologías con capacidades ...

    Characterisation and adaptive learning in interactive video retrieval 

    Fernández Beltrán, Rubén (Fecha de defensa: 2016-05-20)

    El objetivo principal de esta tesis consiste en utilizar eficazmente los modelos de tópicos latentes para afrontar el problema de la recuperación automática de vídeo. Concretamente, se pretende mejorar tanto a nivel de ...

    Contact driven robotic grasping 

    Felip León, Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2016-04-01)

    As a result, in this thesis we provide a complete implementation of a manipulation system that can operate in unstructured environments. However, there is room for improvement in all the components presented and many ...

    Data selection and spectral-spatial characterisation for hyperspectral image segmentation. Applications to remote sensing 

    Rajadell Rojas, Olga (Fecha de defensa: 2013-12-17)

    El análisis de imágenes ha impulsado muchos descubrimientos en la ciencia actual. Esta tesis se centra en el análisis de imágenes remotas para inspección aérea, exactamente en el problema de segmentación y clasificación ...

    Design and evaluation of variable-stiffness robotic grippers 

    Cardín Catalán, Daniel (Fecha de defensa: 2022-03-16)

    In store warehouses, objects differ in terms of shape. During the automation process, reliable grasping is required, due to the variability of object shapes and positions. The main objective is to create and validate a ...

    Diseño e Implementación de una Arquitectura Multiagente para la Ayuda a la Toma de Decisiones en un Sistema de Control de Tráfico Urbano 

    García Fernández, Luis Amable (Fecha de defensa: 2000-07-20)

    El control de Tráfico Urbano es altamento complejo y dinámico: depende de la cantidad, tipo y calidad de los datos recibidos, de las previsiones de datos a recibir, del comportamiento del tráfico (actual, pasado y en ...

    Framework for Autonomous Underwater Grasping of Unknown Objects 

    Peñalver Monfort, Antonio (Fecha de defensa: 2018-11-30)

    This thesis studies the problem of autonomously grasping an unknown object in an underwater scenario using an I-AUV. Firstly, a new approach to autonomously obtain an accurate and complete 3D reconstruction of an object ...

    Generalized least squares-based parametric motion estimation and segmentation 

    Montoliu Colás, Raúl (Fecha de defensa: 2008-09-22)

    El análisis del movimiento es uno de los campos más importantes de la visión por computador. Esto es debido a que el mundo real está en continuo movimiento y es obvio que podremos obtener mucha más información de escenas ...

    Machine learning-based techniques for indoor localization and human activity recognition through wearable devices 

    Sansano Sansano, Emilio (Fecha de defensa: 2020-12-22)

    This thesis approaches the study of several machine learning techniques to improve the performance of indoor positioning systems, with a special focus on wearable and low-cost devices. It also presents some tools designed ...

    Received Signal Strength-based Indoor Positioning: Integrative Outlooks and Solutions 

    Mendoza Silva, Germán Martín (Fecha de defensa: 2020-03-03)

    This thesis mainly deals with the stages of model description and evaluation of Indoor Positioning Systems based on fingerprinting. Its first contribution is a meta-review that addresses the current state of the art and ...

    Towards a predictive interface for the specification of intervention tasks in underwater robotics 

    García Sánchez, Juan Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 2021-12-21)

    Robots play a critical role in our everyday lives, performing tasks as diverse as maintenance, surveillance, exploration in harsh environments, or search and rescue operations. Concerning the different environments where ...

    Unification of Lightweight Thread Solutions and their Application in High Performance Programming 

    Castelló Gimeno, Adrián (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-02)

    Lightweight thread (LWT) libraries have been developed to tackle fine-grained and dynamic software requirements. These libraries are based on the concept of threads that are managed in the user-space. This thesis aims ...

    Visibility in underwater robotics: Benchmarking and single image dehazing 

    Pérez Soler, Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2017-07-06)

    Dealing with underwater visibility is one of the most important challenges in autonomous underwater robotics. The light transmission in the water medium degrades images making the interpretation of the scene difficult and ...

    Visual neuroscience of robotic grasping 

    Chinellato, Eris (Fecha de defensa: 2008-06-20)

    En esta tesis se define e implementa un modelo funcional de las áreas del cerebro involucradas en las acciones de agarre basadas en visión que incluye todos los pasos requeridos para la ejecución de un agarre satisfactorio. ...