Browsing by Author "Bou Balust, Elisenda"
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3Cat-1 project: a multi-payload CubeSat for scientific experiments and technology demonstrators
Jové Casulleras, Roger; Araguz López, Carles; Via Ortega, Pol; Solanellas Bofarull, Arnau; Amézaga Sarries, Adrià; Vidal Mateu, David; Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Marí Barceló, Marc; Olivé Muñiz, Roger; Sáez Hernández, Alberto; Jané Abad, Jaume; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Iannazzo Soteras, Mario Enrique; Gorreta Mariné, Sergio; Ortega Villasclaras, Pablo Rafael; Pons Nin, Joan; Domínguez Pumar, Manuel; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Ramos Castro, Juan José; Camps Carmona, Adriano José (2017)
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Open AccessThis article introduces 3 Cat-1, the first project of the Technical University of Catalonia to build and launch a nano-satellite. Its main scope is to develop, construct, assemble, test and launch into a low Earth orbit a ... -
3Cat-1: a multi-payload Cubesat-based scientific and technology demonstrator
Jové Casulleras, Roger; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Ramos Castro, Juan José; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Carreño Luengo, Hugo; Amézaga Sarries, Adrià; Olivé Muñiz, Roger; Vidal Mateu, David; Muñoz Martin, Joan Francesc; Araguz López, Carles; Marí Barceló, Marc; Ortega Villasclaras, Pablo Rafael; Pons Nin, Joan; Gorreta Mariné, Sergio; Domínguez Pumar, Manuel; Iannazzo Soteras, Mario Enrique (European Spatial Agengy (ESA), 2014)
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A comparison of analytical models for resonant inductive coupling wireless power transfer
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Gutiérrez Cabello, Jordi (The Electromagnetics Academy, 2012)
Conference report
Open AccessRecent research in wireless power transfer (WPT) using resonant inductive coupling has demonstrated very high e±ciencies (above 40%) at large distances compared to the antenna dimensions, which has exponentially increased ... -
A design-oriented characterization framework for decentralized, distributed, autonomous systems: the nano-satellite swarm case
Araguz López, Carles; Closa, Marc; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThe design of autonomous operational schemes for distributed, decentralized systems is expected to bring multiple qualities to systems of this kind. One of their instances are Earth-observing swarms of nano-satellites, in ... -
Advances in non-radiative resonant inductive coupling wireless power transfer: a comparison of alternative circuit and system models driven by emergent applications
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Sedwick, Raymond; Hu, Patrick; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyRecent research in wireless power transfer (WPT) using resonant inductive coupling has demonstrated very high efficiencies at large distances compared to the transmitting element dimensions, thereby increasing the number ... -
Applying autonomy to distributed satellite systems: Trends, challenges, and future prospects
Araguz López, Carles; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (2018-03-26)
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Open AccessWhile monolithic satellite missions still pose significant advantages in terms of accuracy and operations, novel distributed architectures are promising improved flexibility, responsiveness, and adaptability to structural ... -
Architectural optimization framework for earth-observing heterogeneous constellations : marine weather forecast case
Araguz López, Carles; Llaveria Godoy, David; Lancheros Sepulveda, Estefany Maria; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Tonetti, Stefania; Cornara, Stefania; Vicario, Gonzalo; Lluch i Cruz, Ignasi; Matevosyan, Hripsime; Golkar, Alessandro; Cote, Judith; Pierotti, Stéphane; Rodríguez, Pedro; Alvaro Sanchez, A.; Sochacki, Mateusz; Narkiewicz, Janusz (2019-01-25)
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Open AccessEarth observation satellite programs are currently facing, for some applications, the need to deliver hourly revisit times, subkilometric spatial resolutions, and near-real-time data access times. These stringent requirements, ... -
Class E2 resonant non-radiative wireless power transfer link: a design-oriented joint circuit-system co-characterization approach
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Nagashima, Tomoharu; Sekiya, Hiroo; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2014)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyResonant Inductive CouplingWireless Power Transfer is a key technology to provide an efficient and harmless wireless energy channel to consumer electronics, biomedical implants and wireless sensor networks. Many applications ... -
Demonstration of electromagnetic formation flight and wireless power transfer
Porter, Allison K; Allinger, Dustin J; Sedwick, Raymond; Merk, John; Opperman, Roedolph A.; Buck, Alexander; Eslinger, Gregory; Fisher, Peter; Miller, David W; Bou Balust, Elisenda (2014-11-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyThe Resonant Inductive Near-Field Generation System uses a single set of hardware to perform both electromagnetic formation flight and wireless power transfer operations in a six-degree-of-freedom microgravity environment. ... -
Design and optimization of a polar satellite mission to complement the Copernicus System
Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Alvaro Sanchez, A.; Araguz López, Carles; Barrot, G.; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Cornara, Stefania; Gutiérrez Peña, Pedro Antonio; Lancheros Sepulveda, Estefany Maria; Lesne, O.; Llaveria Godoy, David; Lluch, I.; Males, Jan; Mangin, A.; Matevosyan, H.; Monge, A.; Narkiewicz, J.; Ourevitch, S.; Pierotti, S.; Pica, U.; Poghosyan, A.; Ruiz de Azúa Ortega, Joan Adrià (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-06-05)
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Open AccessThe space industry is currently witnessing two concurrent trends: the increased modularity and miniaturization of technologies and the deployment of constellations of distributed satellite systems. As a consequence of the ... -
Design guidelines for general-purpose payload-oriented nanosatellite software architectures
Araguz López, Carles; Marí, Marc; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Selva, Daniel (American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2018-01-01)
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Open AccessDespite their limited lifespan and reduced cost, nanosatellite missions have proved to be suitable platforms for Earth observation, scientific experiments, and technology demonstration. During the last years, the number ... -
Designing CDIO capstone projects: a systems thinking approach
Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Bragós Bardia, Ramon; Oliveras Vergés, Albert; Pegueroles Vallés, Josep R.; Sayrol Clols, Elisa; Marqués Acosta, Fernando (2013)
Conference report
Open AccessGiven the all-pervasiveness of Systems thinking -which consists of thinking about things as systemsas a way of reasoning, in this work we will describe its application to make an interpretation of how to conceive and ... -
Enhancing online knowledge graph population with semantic knowledge
Fernàndez, Dèlia; Rimmek, Joan Marco; Espadaler, Joan; Garolera, Blai; Barja, Adrià; Codina, Marc; Sastre, Marc; Giró Nieto, Xavier; Riveiro, Juan Carlos; Bou Balust, Elisenda (Springer, 2020-11-01)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyKnowledge Graphs (KG) are becoming essential to organize, represent and store the world’s knowledge, but they still rely heavily on humanly-curated structured data. Information Extraction (IE) tasks, like disambiguating ... -
Inductively coupled wireless power transfer with Class-E2 DC-DC converter
Nagashima, Tomoharu; Inoue, Kazuhide; Wei, Xiuqin; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Sekiya, Hiroo (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
Conference report
Restricted access - publisher's policyThis paper proposes an inductive coupled wireless power transfer (WPT) system with class-E2 dc-dc converter along with its design procedure. The proposed WPT system can achieve high power-conversion efficiency at high ... -
Interference analysis on resonant inductive coupled wireless power transfer
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Sedwick, Raymond; Fisher, Peter (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyResonant Inductive Coupling Wireless Power Transfer is a key technology to provide an efficient and harmless wireless energy channel to consumer electronics, biomedical implants and wireless sensor networks. However, there ... -
Linking media: adopting semantic technologies for multimodal media connection
Fernàndez, Dèlia; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Giró Nieto, Xavier; Riviero, Juan Carlos; Espadaler, Joan; Rodríguez, David; Colom Serra, Aleix; Rimmerk, Joan Marco; Varas, David; Massuda, Issey; Roig, Carlos (CEUR-WS.org, 2018)
Conference report
Open AccessToday's media and news organizations are constantly generating large amounts of multimedia content, majorly delivered online. As the online media market grows, the management and delivery of contents is becoming a challenge. ... -
Magnetic characterization of interfering objects in resonant inductive coupling wireless power transfer
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Vidal, D.; Sedwick, Raymond; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (The Electromagnetics Academy, 2013)
Conference report
Open AccessResonant Inductive Coupling (RIC) Wireless Power Transfer is a key technology to provide an efficient and harmless wireless energy channel to consumer electronics, biomedical implants and wireless sensor networks. However, ... -
Maximizing efficiency through impedance matching from a circuit-centric model of non-radiactive resonant wireless power transfer
Bou Balust, Elisenda; Sedwick, Raymond; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyRecent research in wireless power transfer (WPT) using resonant inductive coupling has demonstrated very high efficiencies (above 40%) at large distances compared to the transmitting element dimensions, thereby exponentially ... -
Mission and system architecture for an operational network of earth observation satellite nodes
Tonetti, Stefania; Cornara, Stefania; Vicario, Gonzalo; Pierotti, Stéphane; Cote, Judith; Araguz López, Carles; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Llaveria Godoy, David; Lancheros Sepulveda, Estefany Maria; Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Rodríguez, Pedro; Sochacki, Mateusz; Narkiewicz, Janusz (2019)
Conference lecture
Restricted access - publisher's policyOver the next few years, Europe will take important steps towards implementing the architecture of the Copernicus Space Component for Earth Observation (EO), fulfilling the needs of stakeholders concerned with land monitoring, ... -
Mission and system architecture for an operational network of earth observation satellite nodes
Tonetti, Stefania; Cornara, Stefania; Vicario de Miguel, Gonzalo; Pierotti, Stéphane; Cote, Judith; Araguz López, Carles; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José; Camps Carmona, Adriano José; Llaveria Godoy, David; Lancheros Sepulveda, Estefany Maria; Ruiz De Azúa Ortega, Juan Adrián; Bou Balust, Elisenda; Rodríguez Perochena, Pedro; Sochacki, Mateusz; Narkiewicz, Janusz; Golkar, Alessandro; Lluch i Cruz, Ignasi; Matevosyan, Hripsime (2020-06-27)
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Restricted access - publisher's policyNowadays, constellations and distributed networks of satellites are emerging as clear development trends in the space system market to enable augmentation, enhancement, and possibilities of new applications for future Earth ...