Tensegrity structures appeared in the science community about half a century ago, but they have already been applied to several heterogeneous research fields, such as architecture, civil engineering, space and even biology. ...

Multi-FPGA platforms, like Amazon AWS F1, can run in the cloud multikernel pipelined applications, like convolutional neural networks (CNNs), with excellent performance and lower energy consumption than CPUs or GPUs. We ...

During recent years, many research group interested in the study of organizational networks from different fields, e.g. studies of behavior of cities growth following the fractal theory. Considering the fractal analysis ...

This paper proposes a moving horizon estimator for nonlinear systems with unknown inputs, which do not comply with the model structures proposed in the literature for the design of nonlinear observers. The estimator is ...

We assume a monopolistic market for a non-durable non-renewable resource such as crude oil, phosphates or fossil water. Stating the problem of obtaining optimal policies on extraction and pricing of the resource as a ...

Recently, Differential Dynamic Programming (DDP) and other similar algorithms have become the solvers of choice when performing non-linear Model Predictive Control (nMPC) with modern robotic devices. The reason is that ...

This paper proposes the use of piecewise Cn smooth curve for mobile-base motion planning and control, coined Timed-Elastic Smooth Curve (TESC) planner. Based on a Timed-Elastic Band, the problem is defined so that the ...