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    Transformación escalar de la interfaz de operador en teleoperación asistida 

    Muñoz Morgado, Luis Miguel (Date of defense: 2012-02-03)

    Human-machine interaction in teleoperation, through the adequate user interface, allows achieving the level of intelligence necessary to execute complex tasks that cannot be executed by machines or robots alone neither ...

    Modelado, análisis y control dinámico de un reformador de etanol en tres etapas para aplicaciones en pilas de combustible 

    Garcia, Vanesa M. (Date of defense: 2012-04-16)

    This thesis presents results related to the design, modeling and control of a low temperature ethanol reformer as a source of hydrogen designed to feed a fuel cell (PEMFC). As fuel, ethanol has been selected as one of the ...

    Planificación de movimientos en entornos dinámicos o inciertos mediante la coordinación de métodos aleatorios de búsqueda y funciones armónicas 

    Íñiguez Galbete, Pedro (Date of defense: 2012-05-23)

    En los métodos planificadores de trayectorias basados en funciones potenciales, la utilización de las funciones armónicas tiene la importante propiedad de no presentar mínimos locales. Sin embargo, la creación de ...

    Distance-based formulations for the position analysis of kinematic chains 

    Rojas, Nicolàs (Date of defense: 2012-06-20)

    This thesis addresses the kinematic analysis of mechanisms, in particular, the position analysis of kinematic chains, or linkages, that is, mechanisms with rigid bodies (links) interconnected by kinematic pairs (joints). ...

    Experimental characterization and diagonosis tools for proton exchange membrane fuel cells 

    Primucci, Mauricio (Date of defense: 2012-09-10)

    A fuel cell is a device that gives electric power directly from electrochemical reduction and oxidation reactions. PEM fuel cells present some properties that make them appropriate for portable and transport applications: ...

    Digital repetitive control under varying frequency conditions 

    Ramos Fuentes, Germán Andrés (Date of defense: 2012-09-12)

    The tracking/rejection of periodic signals constitutes a wide field of research in the control theory and applications area and Repetitive Control has proven to be an efficient way to face this topic; however, in some ...

    Generació de decisions davant d'incerteses 

    Escobet i Canal, Antoni (Date of defense: 2012-09-17)

    Aquesta tesi tracta sobre la metodologia del raonament inductiu difús (FIR, de l’anglès fuzzy inductive reasoning) aplicada a sistemes de detecció i diagnòstic de fallades. La metodologia FIR sorgeix de l’enfocament del ...

    Efficient approaches for object class detection 

    Villamizar Vergel, Michael Alejandro (Date of defense: 2012-09-18)

    La visión por computador y más específicamente el reconocimiento de objetos han demostrado en los últimos años un impresionante progreso que ha llevado a la aparición de nuevas y útiles tecnologías que facilitan nuestras ...

    Asistencia háptica basada en planificación de movimientos para la teleoperación cooperativa de sistemas multirobot 

    Pérez Ruiz, Alexander (Date of defense: 2012-10-17)

    This work proposes a framework for the teleoperation of anthropomorphic industrial robots using desktop haptic devices that provides an aid to the operator in the form of haptic guidance based on path planning techniques. ...

    Grasp plannind under task-specific contact constraints 

    Rosales Gallegos, Carlos (Date of defense: 2013-01-10)

    Several aspects have to be addressed before realizing the dream of a robotic hand-arm system with human-like capabilities, ranging from the consolidation of a proper mechatronic design, to the development of precise, ...

    Mapping, planning and exploration with Pose SLAM 

    Valencia Carreño, Rafael (Date of defense: 2013-04-19)

    This thesis reports research on mapping, path planning, and autonomous exploration. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing them within a common ...

    Numerical computation and avoidance of manipulator singularities 

    Bohigas Nadal, Oriol (Date of defense: 2013-05-10)

    This thesis develops general solutions to two open problems of robot kinematics: the exhaustive computation of the singularity set of a manipulator, and the synthesis of singularity-free paths between given configurations. ...

    Robot learning from demonstration of force-based manipulation tasks 

    Rozo, Leonel (Date of defense: 2013-06-11)

    One of the main challenges in Robotics is to develop robots that can interact with humans in a natural way, sharing the same dynamic and unstructured environments. Such an interaction may be aimed at assisting, helping or ...

    Resolución del problema de flujo general flexible con fechas comprometidas y costes dependientes del intervalo de realización de las operaciones 

    González Vargas, Néstor Andrés (Date of defense: 2013-06-28)

    En el marco de la problemática de la programación de operaciones en taller, en esta tesis se introduce un nuevo problema, que se identifica como problema de flujo general flexible (fJSP) con fechas comprometidas y costes ...

    A contribution to the ranking and description of classifications 

    Sánchez Hernández, Germán (Date of defense: 2013-09-13)

    This thesis presents a novel and complete fuzzy multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) methodology. This methodology is specifically designed for selecting classifications in the framework of unsupervised learning systems. ...

    Estimación de la forma de un objeto deformable mediante integración de visión y tacto 

    Castillo Pérez, Esteban del (Date of defense: 2013-09-30)

    Desde hace varias décadas los robots industriales han demostrado su eficiencia para tareas desarrolladas en entornos perfectamente conocidos. No obstante, surgen importantes complicaciones operativas en entornos limitadamente ...

    Human movement analysis by means of accelerometers : aplication to human gait and motor symptoms of Parkinson's Disease 

    Samà Monsonís, Albert (Date of defense: 2013-10-03)

    This thesis presents the original contributions of the author on the field of human movement analysis from signals captured by accelerometers. These sensors are capable of converting acceleration from some body parts into ...

    Cooperative social robots: accompanying, guiding and interacting with people 

    Garrell Zulueta, Anaís (Date of defense: 2013-12-20)

    The development of social robots capable of interacting with humans is one of the principal challenges in the field of robotics. More and more, robots are appearing in dynamic environments, like pedestrian walkways, ...

    Modelado, simulación y control de un convertidor boost acoplado magnéticamente 

    Carrero Candelas, Niliana Andreina (Date of defense: 2014-07-18)

    This thesis covered the modeling, simulation as well as the design of a control law for a coupled inductor Boost converter. In particular, from the point of view of modeling, we focused on the use of averaged modeling ...

    Hybrid modelling and receding horizon control of combined sewer networks 

    Joseph Duran, Bernat (Date of defense: 2014-11-04)

    Combined sewer networks carry wastewater and storm water together. During normal operation all the water is delivered to wastewater treatment plants, where it is treated before being released to surrounding natural water ...