Departament d'Enginyeria Electrònica

Recent Submissions

  • Temperature stability in the sub-milliHertz band with LISA Pathfinder 

    Armano, M.; Audley, H.; Baird, J.; Binetruy, P.; Born, M.; Bortoluzzi, D.; Ramos Castro, Juan José (Oxford University Press, 2019-07-01)
    Article
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    LISA Pathfinder (LPF) was a technology pioneering mission designed to test key technologies required for gravitational wave detection in space. In the low frequency regime (milliHertz and below), where space-based gravitational ...

  • Origin of the negative differential resistance in the output characteristics of a picene-based thin-film transistor 

    Ros, Eloi; Puigdollers i González, Joaquim; Ortega Villasclaras, Pablo Rafael; Voz Sánchez, Cristóbal (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019)
    Conference report
    Open Access
    In this work, we have fabricated and studied p-type picene thin-film transistors. Although the devices exhibited good electrical performance with high field-effect mobility (up to 1.3 cm2/V¿s) and on/off ratios above ...

  • Fuzzy-based energy management of a residential electro-thermal microgrid based on power forecasting 

    Arcos Aviles, Diego Gustavo; Guinjoan Gispert, Francisco; Pascual Miqueleiz, Julio; Marroyo Palomo, Luis; Gordillo Orquera, Rodolfo; Sanchis Gúrpide, Pablo; Marietta, Martín Pablo; Ibarra, Alexander (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018)
    Conference report
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    In this paper, an energy management strategy based on microgrid power forecasting is applied to a residential grid-connected electro-thermal microgrid with the aim of smoothing the power profile exchanged with the grid. ...

  • Embroidered electrodes for bioelectrical impedance analysis: impact of surface area and stitch parameters 

    Logothetis, Irini; Fernández García, Raúl; Troynikov, Olga; Dabnichki, Peter; Pirogova, Elena; Gil Galí, Ignacio (2019-07-15)
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    A non-intrusive particle sizing method with a high spatial distribution is used to estimate cloud droplet spectra during flight test campaigns. The interferometric laser imaging for droplet sizing (ILIDS) method derives ...

  • Data conversion in area-constrained applications: the wireless network-on-chip case 

    Abadal Cavallé, Sergi; Alarcón Cot, Eduardo José
    Conference report
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    Network-on-Chip (NoC) is currently the paradigm of choice to interconnect the different components of System-on-Chips (SoCs) or Chip Multiprocessors (CMPs). As the levels of integration continue to grow, however, current ...

  • LISA pathfinder micronewton cold gas thrusters: in-flight characterization 

    Armano, M.; Audley, H.; Baird, J.; Binetruy, P.; Born, M.; Bortoluzzi, D.; Ramos Castro, Juan José (American Physical Society (APS), 2019-06-28)
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    Open Access
    The LISA Pathfinder (LPF) mission has demonstrated the ability to limit and measure the fluctuations in acceleration between two free falling test masses down to sub-femto-g levels. One of the key elements to achieve such ...

  • Multiple-fault detection and identification scheme based on hierarchical self-organizing maps applied to an electric machine 

    Saucedo Dorantes, Juan Jose; Delgado Prieto, Miquel; Romero Troncoso, René; Osornio Rios, Roque A. (2019-08-01)
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    Strategies of condition monitoring applied to electric motors play an important role in the competitiveness of multiple industrial sectors. However, the risk of faults coexistence in an electric motor and the overlapping ...

  • Developing of the smart textile for energy expenditure monitoring 

    Piedra, A.; Boqué, N; Fernández García, Raúl (2019)
    Conference lecture
    Open Access

  • Data analytics for performance evaluation under uncertainties applied to an industrial refrigeration plant 

    Cirera Balcells, Josep; Cariño Corrales, Jesús Adolfo; Zurita Millán, Daniel; Ortega Redondo, Juan Antonio (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-01-01)
    Article
    Open Access
    Artificial intelligence has bounced into industrial applications contributing several advantages to the field and have led to the possibility to open new ways to solve many actual problems. In this paper, a data-driven ...

  • Fuzzy logic controller parameter optimization using metaheuristic Cuckoo search algorithm for a magnetic levitation system 

    García-Gutiérrez, Gabriel; Arcos Aviles, Diego Gustavo; Carrera, Enrique; Guinjoan Gispert, Francisco; Motoasca, Emilia; Ayala, Paul; Ibarra, Alexander (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2019-06-16)
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    Open Access
    The main benefits of fuzzy logic control (FLC) allow a qualitative knowledge of the desired system’s behavior to be included as IF-THEN linguistic rules for the control of dynamical systems where either an analytic model ...

  • LISA Pathfinder platform stability and drag-free performance 

    Armano, M.; Audley, H.; Baird, J.; Binetruy, P.; Born, M.; Bortoluzzi, D.; Ramos Castro, Juan José (American Physical Society (APS), 2019-04-15)
    Article
    Open Access
    The science operations of the LISA Pathfinder mission have demonstrated the feasibility of sub-femto-g free fall of macroscopic test masses necessary to build a gravitational wave observatory in space such as LISA. While ...

  • Driver drowsiness detection based on respiratory signal analysis 

    Guede Fernández, Federico; Fernández Chimeno, Mireya; Ramos Castro, Juan José; García González, Miguel Ángel (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2019-06-24)
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    Drowsy driving is a prevalent and serious public health issue that deserves attention. Recent studies estimate around 20% of car crashes have been caused by drowsy drivers. Nowadays, one of the main goals in the development ...

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