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 ...
Arocas Pérez, José (Date of defense: 2022-05-18)
Some electrical devices in direct current (DC) networks, under certain operating characteristics, behave as constant power loads (CPLs). This behavior is defined by presenting negative incremental ...
Akbari, Aliakbar (Date of defense: 2020-04-04)
This thesis addresses the combination of task and motion planning which deals with different types of robotic manipulation problems. Manipulation problems are referred to as mobile manipulation, ...
Diab, Mohammed (Date of defense: 2021-01-22)
This thesis develops a series of modeling and reasoning tools for knowledge-oriented manipulation planning in semi/unstructured environments. The main idea is to use high-level knowledge-based reasoning ...