López Palma, Manuel (Date of defense: 2020-10-23)
In this work, a new method is presented to quantify the attention paid by people to the different objects in their environment. The new metric models the eye to determine the attention given and ...
Temsamani, Jamal (Date of defense: 2006-05-30)
La tesis aborda el análisis transitorio de modelos Markovianos de sistemas tolerantes a fallos con reparación diferida. Se consideran dos medidas definidas sobre cadenas de Markov a tiempo continuo con ...
Delgado Prieto, Miguel (Date of defense: 2012-10-26)
Electromechanical drives have traditionally found their field of application in the industrial sector. However, the use of such systems is spreading to other sectors within the field of transport, such ...
Pous Solà, Marc (Date of defense: 2015-04-24)
In the Electromagnetic Compatibility research area, an unsolved interference problem is the measurement and evaluation of the distortion produced by radiated transient disturbances on digital communication ...
Cárdenas Araujo, Juan José (Date of defense: 2013-07-11)
Nowadays, it would be very difficult to deny the need to prioritize sustainable development through energy efficiency at all consumption levels. In this context, an energy management system (EMS) is a ...
Gomez Cid-Fuentes, Raül (Date of defense: 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 ...
Sala Cardoso, Enric (Date of defense: 2019-12-16)
The efficacy of the energy management systems at dealing with energy consumption in buildings has been a topic with a growing interest in recent years due to the ever-increasing global energy demand and ...
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 ...
Martínez Padró, Enoc (Date of defense: 2021-07-09)
There has always been background sound in the oceans due to natural factors. However, since the first hydrophone deployments at mid-20th century, measured ocean sound levels have been steadily rising ...
González Agudelo, Julián (Date of defense: 2015-07-31)
This thesis deals with the further development of an existing underwater vehicle for autonomous navigation. The vehicle was conceived to navigate over the sea surface and, at certain fixed points, to ...