García Hidalgo, Néstor (Date of defense: 2019-10-08)
Motion planning is a traditional field in robotics, but new problems are nevertheless incessantly appearing, due to continuous advances in the robot developments. In order to solve these new problems, ...
Teniente Avilés, Ernesto Homar (Date of defense: 2016-02-09)
This thesis reports research on mapping, terrain classification and path planning. These are classical problems in robotics, typically studied independently, and here we link such problems by framing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Foix Salmerón, Sergi (Date of defense: 2016-07-28)
This thesis deals with active sensing and its use in real exploration tasks under both scene ambiguities and measurement uncertainties. While object modeling is the implicit objective of most of active ...
Duatis Juárez, Jordi (Date of defense: 2016-02-05)
The aim of this work is to improve the reliability and safety of complex critical control systems by contributing to the systematic application of fault diagnosis. In order to ease the utilization of ...
Simó Serra, Edgar (Date of defense: 2015-07-06)
Understanding humans from photographs has always been a fundamental goal of computer vision. Early works focused on simple tasks such as detecting the location of individuals by means of bounding boxes. ...
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 ...