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    • A learning approach to the FOM problem 

      Romo Grau, Eudald (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-05)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      Hogan recently provided an heuristic technique called family of modes (FOM) to solve model predictive control (MPC) problems under hybrid constraints and underactuation. The goal of this study is to further develop this ...
    • A Reactive Planning Framework for Dexterous Robotic Manipulation 

      Ballester Huesca, José Andrés (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-05-30)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      This thesis investigates a reactive motion planning and controller framework that enables robots to manipulate objects dexterously. We develop a robotic platform that can quickly and reliably replan actions based on sensed ...
    • Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curves and Yano's conjecture 

      Blanco Fernández, Guillem (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2020-04-16)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      The main aim of this thesis is the study of the Bernstein-Sato polynomial of plane curve singularities. In this context, we prove a conjecture posed by Yano about the generic b-exponents of a plane irreducible curve. In ...
    • Classification of plane germs: metric and valorative properties 

      Abío Roig, Ignasi (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2008-06)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      In this memory we follow the geometric approach of Casas’ boof [1] for studying of the singularities of plane germs of curves, which updates Enriques’ works to modern standards and reviews the modern development of the ...
    • Dificultades de aprendizaje de la geometría por parte de alumnos del primer ciclo de la ESO 

      Roca Cuffí, Marta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-06-25)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      El objetivo principal de este trabajo es investigar qué dificultades se encuentran los alumnos del primer ciclo de la ESO en el aprendizaje de la geometría, y cómo se puede incidir para ayudarlos en la superación de estas ...
    • Effective computation of base points of two-dimensional ideals 

      Blanco Fernández, Guillem (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-10)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      This works focus on computational aspects of the theory of singularities of plane algebraic curves. We show how to use the Puiseux factorization of a curve, computed through the Newton-Puiseux algorithm, to study the ...
    • Geometria de la Grassmanniana de rectes de l'espai i aplicacions a robòtica 

      Elizalde Masiá, Borja (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-03)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      Mesurar la proximitat a les configuracions singulars dels manipuladors paral·lels pot ser útil per evitar el mal comportament que es dóna quan el manipulador es mou en un entorn d'una singularitat. Alguns dels índexos que ...
    • Human motion dataset in the wild (MAT) 

      Coll Ribes, Gabriel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-03-07)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      The popularity of wearable cameras is steadily increasing, both for entertainment and productivity purposes. Understanding the footage and inferring the body pose of the camera wearer can be of great importance in many ...
    • Learning graph-based event representations for unconstrained video segmentation 

      Tura Vecino, Biel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2021-05)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - confidentiality agreement
      Covenantee:   Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial
      Recent research has shown that, in particular domains, unsupervised learning algorithms are achieving on par, or even better performance than fully supervised algorithms, avoiding the need of human labelled data. The ...
    • Local geometry of analytic planar morphisms 

      Almirón Cuadros, Patricio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2017-07)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      This work focuses in the study of local geometry of analytic planar morphisms. First, we introduce the basic concepts that will be needed to present the main part of the work. Secondly, we study the effect of analytic ...
    • Machine Learnig for Robotic Manipulation in cluttered environments 

      Alet Puig, Ferran (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-05)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Massachusetts Institute of Technology
      In this thesis we focus on designing the planner for MIT s entry in the Amazon Picking Challenge, a robotic competition aiming at pushing the frontiers of manipulation until robots can substitute human pickers in warehouses. ...
    • Material didàctic perquè els alumnes de 2n d’ESO puguin treballar el tema de geometria de forma no presencial 

      Sabé Martínez, Esteve (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-06-27)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      L’institut on he estat de pràctiques ha constatat el baix nivell dels alumnes en geometria. A més, és un temari al qual els professors no dediquen gaires classes per manca de temps. És per això que el departament de ...
    • Mesura d'àrees a l'aula 

      Gracia Escarrabill, Carlota (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2022-07)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Malgrat ser un concepte intuïtiu, com mesurar àrees no és evident. En aquest treball proposem una manera d'introduir aquest problema a alumnes de secundària i una solució versàtil: el planímetre. A tal efecte, presentem ...
    • Mesures de proximitat a les singularitats d'un robot amb ndexos de rendiment vectorial 

      Elizalde Masiá, Borja (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-07)
      Master thesis (pre-Bologna period)
      Open Access
      Les con guracions singulars dels robots s on situacions complicades de predir i de localitzar de manera anticipada i, en general, associades a un mal comportament, tot i que tamb e s'apro ta el factor d'ampli caci o que ...
    • Multiplier ideals of plane curves 

      Dachs Cadefau, Ferran (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-10)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      Multiplier ideals and their corresponding jumping numbers have been revealed as a fundamental tool to measure the singularity of plane curves. There are approaches to these objects from both Commutative Algebra and Algebraic ...
    • On the relative position of two coplanar ellipses 

      Elizalde Masia, Borja (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2014-10)
      Master thesis
      Restricted access - author's decision
      This work solves the problem of computing the relative position of two affine coplanar ellipses in terms of the coefficients that deffine their equations without solving the quartic equation for the intersection points. ...
    • Parallel Tracking and Mapping for Manipulation Applications with Golem Krang 

      Rodríguez Estévez, Daniel (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2019-07)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Covenantee:   Georgia Institute of Technology
      Implementing a simultaneous localization and mapping system and an image semantic segmentation method on a mobile manipulation. The application of the SLAM is working towards navigating among obstacles in unknown environments. ...
    • Polar germs and singularity invariants 

      González Alonso, Víctor (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-07)
      Master thesis
      Open Access
      In this work we obtain an algorithm which explicitly recovers the cluster of singular points a germ of curve from the cluster of base points of the polar germs of the curve. To achieve this, we reinterpret the problem in ...
    • Probabilistic data-driven models for the pushing problem 

      Bauzà Villalonga, Maria (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2016-01)
      Bachelor thesis
      Open Access
      Pushing actions are common mechanisms present in most human and industry manipulations. Nevertheless, finding a precise description for the motion of pushed objects is still an open problem. In this work, we will develop ...
    • Robotic manipulation of cloth: mechanical modeling and perception 

      Coltraro Ianniello, Franco (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2023-03-30)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
      (Eng) In this work we study various mathematical problems arising from the robotic manipulation of cloth. First, we develop a locking-free continuous model for the physical simulation of inextensible textiles. We present ...