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    • A new relational geometric feature for human action recognition 

      Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (Springer, 2015-01)
      Article
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      Pose-based features have demonstrated to outperform low-levelappearance features in human action recognition. New RGB-D cameras provide locations of human joints with which geometric correspondences can be easily calculated. ...
    • Adaptive walking assistance based on human-orthosis interaction 

      Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      An assistive rehabilitation strategy for a lower-limb wearable robot is proposed and evaluated. The control strategy monitors the human-orthosis interaction torques and modifies the orthosis operation mode depending on its ...
    • An adaptive control strategy for postural stability using a wearable robot 

      Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia; Pons, Jose Luis (2015-11)
      Article
      Open Access
      Wearable robots are expected to expand the use of robotics in rehabilitation since they can widen the assistance application context. An important aspect of a rehabilitation therapy, in terms of lower extremity assistance, ...
    • An interactive robotic system for human assistance in domestic environments 

      Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (2014)
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      This work introduces an interactive robotic system for assistance, conceived to tackle some of the challenges that domestic environments impose. The system is organized into a network of heterogeneous components that share ...
    • Anticipating human activities from object interaction cues 

      Aranda López, Juan; Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
      Conference report
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      A real time approach to the recognition of human activity based on the interaction with objects in domestic settings is presented. It is based on capturing partial images where the activity takes place using a color camera, ...
    • Aportació als mètodes de seguiment tridimensional d'objectes d'alta velocitat d'operació mitjançant l'estereovisió 

      Aranda López, Juan (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 1997-10-16)
      Doctoral thesis
      Open Access
    • Assessment of gait patterns during crutch assisted gait through spatial and temporal analysis 

      Narváez Dorado, Marien Cristina; Salazar del Río, Miguel Antonio; Aranda López, Juan (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-05-31)
      Article
      Open Access
      The use of crutches is a common method of assisting people during recovery from musculoskeletal injuries in the lower limbs. There are several different ways to walk with crutches depending on the patient’s needs. The ...
    • Autoadaptive neurorehabilitation robotic system assessment with a post-stroke patient 

      Morales Vidal, Ricardo; Badesa Clemente, Francisco Javier; García Aracil, Nicolás; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (2015-01-01)
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      This paper presents a new rehabilitation system that is able to adapt its performance to patient's psychophysiological state during the execution of robotic rehabilitation tasks. Using this approach, the motivation and ...
    • Competency maps: An effective model to integrate professional competencies across a STEM curriculum 

      Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín; Soler Cervera, Antonia; Martín Escofet, Carme; López Álvarez, David; Ageno Pulido, Alicia; Cabré Garcia, José M.; García Almiñana, Jordi; Aranda López, Juan; Gibert, Karina (2018-10)
      Article
      Open Access
      Curricula designed in the context of the European Higher Education Area need to be based on both domain-specific and professional competencies. Whereas universities have had extensive experience in developing students’ ...
    • Compliant gait assistance triggered by user intention 

      Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2015)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      An automatic gait initialization strategy based on user intention sensing in the context of rehabilitation with a lower-limb wearable robot is proposed and evaluated. The proposed strategy involves monitoring the human-orthosis ...
    • Control de robots en neurorehabilitación: desde sensores neurales a sensores portables 

      Casals Gelpí, Alicia; Aranda López, Juan; Muñoz Morgado, Luis Miguel; Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Martínez Velasco, Antonio Benito; Jané Campos, Raimon; Amat Girbau, Josep (2017-07-06)
      Research report
      Open Access
      Las interfaces BCI tienen ya un cierto grado de desarrollo en el ámbito del diagnóstico y de la interacción persona-computador, sin embargo su aplicación al control de dispositivos robóticos está todavía muy limitado debido ...
    • Control of an ambulatory exoskeleton with a brain–machine interface for spinal cord injury gait rehabilitation 

      López Larraz, Eduardo; Trincado Alonso, Fernando; Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Pérez Nombela, Soraya; Ama, Antonio J. del; Aranda López, Juan; Minguez, Javier; Gil Agudo, Angel; Montesano Del Campo, Luis (2016-08-03)
      Article
      Open Access
      The closed-loop control of rehabilitative technologies by neural commands has shown a great potential to improve motor recovery in patients suffering from paralysis. Brain–machine interfaces (BMI) can be used as a natural ...
    • Estudio cuantitativo del nivel de competencias transversales de los estudiantes del Grado en Ingeniería Informática 

      Sánchez Carracedo, Fermín; Ageno Pulido, Alicia; Aranda López, Juan; Cabré Garcia, José M.; Climent Vilaró, Joan; Gibert, Karina; Gil Martín, Joan Carles; Martín Escofet, Carme (Asociación de Enseñantes Universitarios de la Informática (AENUI), 2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      La reciente introducción de las competencias transversales en los planes de estudios justifica la falta de investigaciones cuantitativas que evalúen, entre otros aspectos, el grado de adquisición de las mismas por parte ...
    • Event-based control for sit-to-stand transition using a wearable exoskeleton 

      Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Aranda López, Juan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Sit-to-stand transition is an essential step in a lower limb rehabilitation therapy, mainly for assisting the patient to transit from wheel chair to the next level of therapy. A mixed stiffness-damping control adaptation ...
    • Human activity recognition from object interaction in domestic scenarios 

      Flores Vázquez, Carlos Alberto; Aranda López, Juan (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2016)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      This paper presents a real time approach to the recognition of human activity based on the interaction between people and objects in domestic settings, specifically in a kitchen. Regarding the procedure, it is based on ...
    • Plataforma para un entorno asistencial inteligente heterogéneo 

      Casals Gelpí, Alicia; Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Aranda López, Juan; Amat Girbau, Josep (Comité Español de Automática (CEA-IFAC), 2018)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      La creciente demanda de soporte tecnológico para la asistencia a personas con necesidades especiales obliga a avanzar tecnológi-camente hacia sistemas más eficientes y con más prestaciones. En esta íinea, en este artículo ...
    • PyMCGPU-IR Monte Carlo code test for occupational dosimetry 

      García Balcaza, Víctor; Fernández Bosman, David; Badal Soler, Andreu; Von Barnekow, Ariel; O'Connor, Una; Camp Brunés, Anna; Aranda López, Juan; Ginjaume Egido, Mercè; Duch Guillen, María Amor (2023-05-24)
      Article
      Open Access
      PyMCGPU-IR is an innovative occupational dose monitoring tool for interventional radiology procedures. It reads the radiation data from the Radiation Dose Structured Report of the procedure and combines this information ...
    • Recovering planned trajectories in robotic rehabilitation therapies under the effect of disturbances 

      Rajasekaran, Vijaykumar; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (2014-09)
      Article
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      Robotic rehabilitation is an emerging technology in the field of Neurorehabilitation, which aims to achieve an effective patient recovery. This research focusses on the control strategy for an assistive exoskeleton aiming ...
    • Simplified Voronoi diagrams for motion planning of quadratically-solvable Gough-Stewart platforms 

      Vaca Alzate, Rubén Hernando; Aranda López, Juan; Thomas, Federico (Springer, 2012)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      The obstacles in Configuration Space of quadratically-solvable Gough-Stewart platforms, due to both kinematic singularities and collisions, can be uniformly represented by a Boolean combination of signs of 4×4 determinants ...
    • Suitable task allocation in intelligent systems for assistive environments 

      Vinagre Ruiz, Manuel; Aranda López, Juan; Casals Gelpí, Alicia (Springer, 2020)
      Part of book or chapter of book
      Open Access
      The growing need of technological assistance to provide support to people with special needs demands for systems more and more efficient and with better performances. With this aim, this work tries to advance in a multirobot ...