Design-oriented model for predicting and controlling fast-scale instabilities in switching converters : application to advanced power management integrated circuits 

    Rodríguez Vilamitjana, Enric (Fecha de defensa: 2011-02-28)

    Trends in battery-operated portable applications require further miniaturization and eventually on-chip integration of power processing circuits along with their optimum power management control circuits, considered as key ...

    Detecció d'estructures estàtiques en el cos humà usant mètodes multifreqüència en Tomografia de impedància elèctrica 

    Riu Costa, Pere J. (Pere Joan) (Fecha de defensa: 1991-11-29)

    Se analiza la obtención de imágenes que representan la estructura de secciones del cuerpo humano por medio de la medida de impedancia eléctrica. El método propuesto se basa en el comportamiento frecuencial de la conductividad ...

    Determination of the state of health of Li-ion batteries : the irreversible entropy production approach 

    Ovejas Benedicto, Victòria Júlia (Fecha de defensa: 2017-11-24)

    In recent years, portable applications have experienced an exponential growth and consequently, the demand of batteries has increased accordingly. It is widely known, though, that the performance of batteries decreases ...

    Development and validation of the thermal diagnostics instrumentation in lisa pathfinder 

    Sanjuán Muñoz, Josep (Fecha de defensa: 2009-09-29)

    This thesis focuses on the issues related to the thermal diagnostics aboard the space mission LISA Pathfinder (LPF). LPF is a technological mission devoted to put to test critical subsystems for the LISA mission. LISA will ...

    Development of an active power filter based on wide-bandgap semiconductors 

    Lumbreras Carrasco, David (Fecha de defensa: 2022-07-19)

    Electrical and electronic equipment needs sinusoidal currents and voltages to function properly. Equipment such as computers, household appliances, electric vehicle chargers, and LED lights can distort the grid and worsen ...

    Development of textile capacitive sensor 

    Martínez Estrada, Marc (Fecha de defensa: 2023-03-10)

    (English) Nowadays, the textile clothing industry is searching for new ways to add value to their products. Developments in textile sensors start to demonstrate their usability and possibilities when they are integrated ...

    Dielectric charge control in contactless capacitive MEMS 

    Gorreta i Mariné, Sergi (Fecha de defensa: 2017-09-29)

    Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems, or MEMS, has been a continuously growing technology during the last decades. Since 1959, when the theoretical physicist Richard Feynman introduced the concept of nanotechnology in his ...

    Digital hardware architectures for beam synchronous processing and RF of synchronization of particle accelerators 

    Galindo Guarch, Francisco Javier (Fecha de defensa: 2021-07-01)

    In Particle Accelerators, the Low-Level RF (LLRF) is the control system of the RF, and in the end, of the purpose of the machine, that is the energy transfer and acceleration of particles. It implements algorithms synchronizing ...

    Direct torque control of permanent magnet synchronous machines using Matrix Converters 

    Ortega Garcia, Carlos (Fecha de defensa: 2008-10-23)

    La demanda d’aplicacions industrials avançades, fa que el control de màquines elèctriques de corrent altern (AC) sigui una disciplina contínuament creixent per satisfer l’alt nivell d’exigència. Tradicionalment, la màquina ...

    Diseño CMOS de un filtro de tiempo continuo con sistema de sintonía automática 

    Martínez García, Herminio (Fecha de defensa: 2003-07-11)

    OBJETIVOS.<br/><br/>El objetivo global de la presente tesis doctoral consiste en el estudio de la incorporación de las características de sintonizabilidad y ajuste en estructuras integradas analógicas de tiempo continuo ...

    Diseño del sistema de navegación en inmersión del vehículo Guanay II para aplicaciones de detección y seguimiento de vertidos de hidrocarburos en zonas costeras 

    Galarza Bogotá, Cesar Mauricio (Fecha de defensa: 2018-01-29)

    The study of the seas is a field of science that is in constant development. At the technological level, in recent years, important advances have been made in the design of platforms and measurement systems for oceanographic ...

    Disseny òptim d'amplificadors d'audio commutats DCI-NPC d'alta potència i qualitat 

    Sala, Vicenç M. (Fecha de defensa: 2014-12-12)

    Class-D Amplification has been an absolute improvement in terms of electrical efficiency in audio amplification systems, but it has been during the first stabilization decade of this technology in the market when manufacturers ...

    Dynamic modelling and control schemes for current-source resonant converters 

    Ghahderijani, Mohammad Moradi (Fecha de defensa: 2018-10-09)

    This thesis focuses on the control methods applied to current source resonant converters, especially in two different applications of switching power supplies and wire-less power transfer systems. In fact, the existing ...

    Efficient multiprocessing architectures for spiking neural network emulation based on configurable devices 

    Sánchez Rivera, Giovanny (Fecha de defensa: 2014-06-12)

    The exploration of the dynamics of bioinspired neural networks has allowed neuroscientists to understand some clues and structures of the brain. Electronic neural network implementations are useful tools for this exploration. ...

    Electrical and magnetic faults diagnosis in permanent magnet synchronous motors 

    Urresty Betancourt, Julio César (Fecha de defensa: 2012-09-21)

    Permanent magnet synchronous motors (PMSMs) are an alternative in critical applications where high-speed operation, compactness and high efficiency are required. In these applications it is highly desired to dispose of ...

    Eliminación selectiva de armónicos en convertidores pwm continua-alterna mediante la transformada de walsh 

    Vicente Rodrigo, Jesús (Fecha de defensa: 2012-03-09)

    La síntesis de tensión alterna a partir de continua mediante la generación de señales de modulación de anchura de pulsos (PWM) representa un método económico y eficaz de realización de dicha transformación, ya que se ...

    Elininación de perturbaciones de baja frecuencia en redes eléctricas mediante compensadores estáticos 

    Lamich Arocas, Manuel (Fecha de defensa: 2015-02-27)

    The increasing use of DC electronic devices connected to mains lead to numerous complications of harmonic distortion and efficiency reduction in electrical energy transmission. These devices behave as a marked non linear ...

    Enabling the internet of things through energy harvesting : a circuit-aware system synthesis-oriented analysis approach 

    Gomez Cid-Fuentes, Raül (Fecha de defensa: 2016-07-22)

    Powering wireless sensors has become a key challenge to enable the Internet of Things vision. A common approach to achieve this is to use Energy Harvesting. By means of this technology, sensors have access to an unlimited ...

    Energy harvesting from human passive power 

    Mateu Sáez, Maria Loreto (Fecha de defensa: 2009-06-05)

    Las tendencias en la tecnología actual permiten la reducción tanto en tamaño como en potencia consumida de los sistemas digitales complejos. Esta disminución en el tamaño y el consumo da lugar al concepto de dispositivos ...