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    • A differential game approach to urban drainage systems control 

      Ramírez Jaime, Andrés Felipe; Quijano Silva, Nicanor; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos (2016)
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      Urban drainage systems (UDSs) are complex large-scale systems that carry stormwater and wastewater throughout urban areas. During heavy rain scenarios, UDSs are not able to handle the amount of extra water that enters the ...
    • A solution for robotized sampling in wastewater plants 

      Guerra Paradas, Edmundo; Bolea Monte, Yolanda; Grau Saldes, Antoni; Munguía Alcalá, Rodrigo Francisco; Gámiz Caro, Javier Francisco (IEEE Press, 2016)
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      This work presents a solution to automatize the water sampling process of outdoor basins in a wastewater treatment plant. The system proposed is based on the utilization of collaborative robotics: a team of an UAV and a ...
    • Accurate and linear time pose estimation from points and lines 

      Vakhitov, A.; Funke, Jan; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc (2016)
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      The Perspective-n-Point (PnP) problem seeks to estimate the pose of a calibrated camera from n 3Dto-2D point correspondences. There are situations, though, where PnP solutions are prone to fail because feature point ...
    • Accurate computation of quaternions from rotation matrices 

      Sarabandi, Soheil; Thomas, Federico (Springer International Publishing, 2018)
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      The main non-singular alternative to 3×3 proper orthogonal matrices, for representing rotations in R3, is quaternions. Thus, it is important to have reliable methods to pass from one representation to the other. While ...
    • An application of chance-constrained model predictive control to inventory management in hospitalary pharmacy 

      Maestre Torreblanca, José María; Velarde, Pablo; Jurado, Isabel; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Isla Tejera, Beatriz; del Prado, José Ramón (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
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      Inventory management is one of the main tasks that the pharmacy department has to carry out in a hospital. It is a complex problem that requires to establish a tradeoff between different and contradictory optimization ...
    • An optimization-based control strategy for energy efficiency of discrete manufacturing systems 

      Diaz Castañeda, Jenny Lorena; Bermeo Ayerbe, Miguel Ángel; Díaz Rozo, Javier; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos (2019-01-01)
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      In order to reduce the global energy consumption and avoid highest power peaks during operation of manufacturing systems, an optimization-based controller for selective switching on/off of peripheral devices in a test bench ...
    • Combining model predictive control with constraint-satisfaction formulation for the operative pumping control in water networks 

      Sun, Congcong; Morley, Mark; Savic, Dragan; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela; Zhang, Zheng (2015)
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      This paper proposes a method to combine linear Model Predictive Control (MPC), a Constraint Satisfaction Problem (CSP) formulation and a Network Aggregation Method (NAM) for the predictive operational control of water ...
    • Coordinating multi-layer MPC for complex water systems 

      Sun, Congcong; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela (2014)
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      In this paper, coordinating technique for the multi-layer model predictive control (MPC) of complex water network is proposed. A multi-layer topology structure resulting from a functional decomposition of water network is ...
    • Design and analysis of fuel-cell hybrid systems oriented to automotive applications 

      Feroldi, Diego Hernán; Serra, Maria; Riera, Jordi (Riera Colomer) (2009-11)
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      Hybridization with high specific energy-storage devices such as supercapacitors (SCs) has important advantages in fuel-cell (FC)-based systems. This paper presents an approach for the design and analysis of FC hybrid systems ...
    • Design method for a reconfigurable mechanism for finger rehabilitation 

      Sands, Davin; Pérez Gracia, Alba; McCormack, Jay; Wolbrecht, Eric T. (2010)
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      This paper presents a design method for a reconfigurable single degree-of-freedom mechanism for robotic assisted finger therapy following a stroke. The mechanism is a four-bar linkage that in combination with variable link ...
    • Detailed 3D face reconstruction from a single RGB image 

      Rotger Moll, Gemma; Moreno-Noguer, Francesc; Lumbreras, Felipe; Agudo Martínez, Antonio (2019-01-01)
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      This paper introduces a method to obtain a detailed 3D reconstruction of facial skin from a single RGB image. To this end, we propose the exclusive use of an input image without requiring any information about the observed ...
    • Direct collocation methods for trajectory optimization in constrained robotic systems 

      Bordalba Llaberia, Ricard; Schoels, Tobias; Ros Giralt, Lluís; Porta Pleite, Josep Maria; Diehl, Moritzz (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2022)
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      Direct collocation methods are powerful tools to solve trajectory optimization problems in robotics. While their resulting trajectories tend to be dynamically accurate, they may also present large kinematic errors in the ...
    • Distributed MPC for large scale systems using agent-based reinforcement learning 

      Javalera Rincón, Valeria; Morcego Seix, Bernardo; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç (2010)
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      In the present work, distributed control and artificial intelligence are combined in a control architecture for Large Scale Systems (LSS). The aim of this architecture is to provide a general structure and methodology to ...
    • Embedded optimization-based controllers for industrial processes 

      Ibáñez López, Carlos; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; González García, Brais (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
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      Due to the growth of computational capabilities and the proliferation of field-programmable gate arrays (FPGA), the utilization of model predictive control (MPC) for embedded applications in the industry has become a ...
    • Experimental validation of an inextensible cloth model 

      Coltraro, Franco (2020)
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      In this technical report we present a framework for the empirical validation of a physical cloth model. First, we introduce the model to be validated and its parameters, next we explain how to obtain real world data of the ...
    • Leak localization in water distribution networks using pressure and data-driven classifier approach 

      Sun, Congcong; Parellada Calderer, Benjamí; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç; Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela (2019)
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      Leaks in water distribution networks (WDNs) are one of the main reasons for water loss during fluid transportation. Considering the worldwide problem of water scarcity, added to the challenges that a growing population ...
    • Learning relational dynamics of stochastic domains for planning 

      Martínez Martínez, David; Alenyà Ribas, Guillem; Torras, Carme; Ribeiro, Tony; Inoue, Katsumi (2016)
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      Probabilistic planners are very flexible tools that can provide good solutions for difficult tasks. However, they rely on a model of the domain, which may be costly to either hand code or automatically learn for complex ...
    • Load profile effect on durability of proton exchange membrane fuel cells 

      Aguilar Plazaola, José Agustín; Husar, Attila Peter (2019)
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      Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells (PEMFC) are a promising technology for substitution of hydrocarbon powerdrives and battery based electrical supply systems. However, below-required durability is still an important factor ...
    • Minimization of sewage network overflow 

      Duran, Bernat Joseph; Jung, Michael N.; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Sager, Sebastian; Cembrano Gennari, Gabriela (2014)
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      We are interested in the optimal control of sewage networks. It is of high public interest to minimize the overflow of sewage onto the streets and to the natural environment that may occur during periods of high rain. The ...
    • On the assessment of tree-based and chance-constrained predictive control approaches applied to drinking water networks 

      Grosso Pérez, Juan Manuel; Maestre Torreblanca, José María; Ocampo-Martínez, Carlos; Puig Cayuela, Vicenç (International Federation of Automatic Control (IFAC), 2014)
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      Water systems are a challenging problem because of their size and exposure to uncertain influences such as the unknown demands or the meteorological phenomena. In this paper, two different stochastic programming approaches ...