Recent Submissions

  • PoCoLoCo : Positioning through cooperating loquacious communications 

    Ramírez Alcántara, Jorge (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2015-02-24)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Aerial Transportation system is based in a legacy infrastructure that supports its different functionality separately. There is a tendency to simplify the infrastructure, increasing its efficiency, technical and monetary. UAS ...
  • A systematic approach to airborne sensor orientation and calibration: method and models 

    Blázquez González, Marta (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-07-03)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Avui dia, s'estima que el mercat de la geom atica mou pels volts de 30 bilions d'euros. Al darrera del creixement d'aquest mercat hi trobem noves tecnologies,projectes i aplicacions, com per exemple, \Global Positioning ...
  • Magnetic diagnostics algorithms for LISA Pathfinder: system identification and data analysis 

    Díaz Aguiló, Marc (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-10-27)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    LISA (Laser Interferometer Space Antenna) is a joint mission of ESA and NASA, which aims to be the first space-borne gravitational wave observatory. LISA will consist in a constellation of three spacecraft at the vertexes ...
  • Contributions to ionospheric determination with global positioning system: solar flare detection and prediction of global maps of total electron content 

    García Rigo, Alberto (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-12-17)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Two research studies have been addressed in this thesis. Both of them are of actual scientific interest and are based on processing GNSS data. The first part of this thesis is devoted to GNSS detection and monitoring of ...
  • Cruise speed reduction for air traffic flow management 

    Delgado Muñoz, Luis (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2013-04-08)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Avui dia un considerable nombre d’infraestructures del transport aeri tenen problemes de congestió. Aquesta situació es veu empitjorada amb l’increment de trànsit existent i amb la seva densitat deguda al sistema de hub i ...
  • An analysis of two-phase flows in conditions relevant to microgravity 

    Arias Calderón, Santiago (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2011-09-23)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Promising technological applications of two-phase flows in space have captured the increasing interest of the space sector, provoking a strong demand for more fundamental knowledge. Great efforts have been made in recent ...
  • Deformation measurement and monitoring with Ground-Based SAR 

    Monserrat Hernández, Oriol (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2012-03-15)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    The Ground-Based Synthetic Aperture Radar (GB-SAR) is a relatively new technique, which in the last ten years has gained interest as deformation measurement and monitoring tool. The GB-SAR technique is ...
  • Proximity maneuvering of libration point orbit formations using adapted finite element methods 

    García Taberner, Laura (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-02-04)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    This doctoral dissertation is structured in four chapters as follows. The first chapter contains a summary of formation flying projects that have been taken into consideration since few years ago. We specially focus on the ...
  • Contributions to the Optimisation of aircraft noise abatement procedures 

    Prats Menéndez, Xavier (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2010-01-29)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Tot i que en les últimes dècades la reducció del soroll emès pels avions ha estat substancial, el seu impacte a la població ubicada a prop dels aeroports és un problema que encara persisteix. Contenir el soroll generat ...
  • High-order discontinuous Galerkin methods for incompressible flows 

    Villardi de Montlaur, Adeline de (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2009-09-22)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Aquesta tesi doctoral proposa formulacions de Galerkin discontinu (DG) d'alt ordre per fluxos viscosos incompressibles. <br/>Es desenvolupa un nou mètode de DG amb penalti interior (IPM-DG), que condueix a una forma feble ...
  • Contributions to Libration Orbit Mission Design using Hyperbolic Invariant Manifolds 

    Canalias Vila, Elisabet (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, 2007-07-24)
    Doctoral thesis
    Open Access
    Aquesta tesi doctoral està emmarcada en el camp de l'astrodinàmica. Presenta solucions a problemes identificats en el disseny de missions que utilitzen òrbites entorn dels punts de libració, fent servir la teoria de sistemes ...