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    • The R&D activity as a supporting tool for the active teaching and learning methodology in an engineering course 

      Berbey Alvarez, Aranzazu; Caballero, Rony; Alvarez, Humberto (2017-07)
      R&D activities as a supporting tool of the active teaching and learning methodologies in an engineering course has been less explored. This document compares the results obtained after two questionnaires were applied to ...
    • Railway Engineering: Timetable Planning and Control, Artificial Intelligence and Externalities 

      Berbey Alvarez, Aranzazu; Guevara Cedeño, Jessica (2021-01)
      This chapter is a case study of the dissemination of railway engineering research in Latin America developed by a railway engineering research group. The leader of the group is a female researcher. The authors aim to ...
    • Real-time flood detection for video surveillance 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Hyun Jo, Kang; Filonenko, Alexander; Seo, Dongwook (11/09/2015)
      This paper introduces the real-time flash flood detection method for stationary surveillance cameras. It can be applied for rural and urban areas and capable of working during day time. The background subtraction was used ...
    • Real-Time Lane Region Detection Using a Combination of Geometrical and Image Features 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Filonenko, Alexander; Hyun Jo, Kang; Kurnianggoro, Laksono (2016-11-17)
      Over the past few decades, pavement markings have played a key role in intelligent vehicle applications such as guidance, navigation, and control. However, there are still serious issues facing the problem of lane marking ...
    • Relación Entre la Investigación y la Docencia Activa. Un Punto de Vista Cualitativo de Estudiantes de Ingeniería 

      Berbey Alvarez, Aranzazu; Alvarez, Humberto; Guevara, Jessica; Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios (2017-10)
      En este manuscripto se presenta una investigación de carácter cualitativa relativa a la percepción de los estudiantes de ingeniería sobre la inserción de los resultados de investigaciones en el proceso enseñanza aprendizaje ...
    • Reliable, Built-in, High-Accuracy Force Sensing for Legged Robots 

      Montes Franceschi, Héctor; Nabulsi, Samir; Armada, Manuel (2006-06-28)
      An approach for achieving reliable, built-in, high-accuracy force sensing for legged robots is presented, based on direct exploitation of the properties of a robot’s mechanical structure. The proposed methodology relies ...
    • ROBOCLIMBER: Control System Architecture 

      Montes Franceschi, Héctor; Armada, Manuel; Nabulsi, Samir (07/01/2004)
      The paper shows the complete system architecture of a walking and climbing robot developed to make slope consolidation, where heavy duty equipment is employed for drilling up to 20m holes. ROBOCLIMBER a quadruped robot ...
    • Robot Saltador y Procedimiento para su Control 

      Akinfiev, Teodor; Armada, Manuel; Fernández, Roemi; Montes Franceschi, Héctor (2005-10-01)
      Robot saltador para el movimiento en terrenos con obstáculos, que contiene al menos un resorte (4) con uno de sus extremos unido al cuerpo (1) del robot, y una cadena cinemática entre el motor (5) y el resorte (4) que ...
    • Robots Móviles para Tareas de Desminado Humanitario 

      Armada, Manuel; Fernández, Roemi; Montes Franceschi, Héctor; Sarria, Javier; Salinas, Carlota (2013-07-05)
      La eliminación de minas antipersona es un problema de dimensión internacional que requiere del empleo de nuevas tecnologías tales como el desarrollo de sensores avanzados y el empleo eficiente de robots móviles. ...
    • Robust Cascade Controller for Nonlinearly Actuated Biped Robots: Experimental Evaluation 

      Caballero, Rony; Armada, Manuel; Akinfiev, Teodor (2004-06-26)
      In this paper we consider the postural stability problem for nonlinearly actuated quasi-static biped robots, both with respect to the joint angular positions and also with reference to the gripping effect between the ...
    • Robust lane marking detection based on multi-feature fusion 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Seo, Dongwook; Hyun Jo, Kang (07/06/2016)
      In the field of intelligent vehicle systems (IVS), color and edge of lane markings are important features for vision-based applications. This paper proposes a method to detect lane marking based on a fusion approach which ...
    • Simple and efficient method for calibration of a camera and 2D laser rangefinder 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Dung Hoang, Van; Hyun Jo, Kang (2014-04-07)
      In the last few years, the integration of cameras and laser rangefinders has been applied to a lot of researches on robotics, namely autonomous navigation vehicles, and intelligent transportation systems. The system based ...
    • Smoke detection for static cameras 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Hyun Jo, Kang; Filonenko, Alexander (01/28/2015)
      This paper describes the smoke detection for static cameras. The background subtraction was used to determine moving objects. Color characteristics were utilized to distinguish smoke regions and other scene members. Separate ...
    • SoC control for improved battery life and throughput performance under VST-TDMA 

      Torres, Boris; L. Quintero, Vanessa; Estevez, Claudio; Orchard, Marcos; Azurdia, César (IETIET, 02/09/2017)
      Energy independence is a wireless device quality that demands the utmost exigency. Energy harvesting devices (EHD) alleviate the energy constraints demanded by these nodes and with the use of protocols, such as variable ...
    • Spatio-temporal probabilistic modeling based on Gaussian mixture models and neural gas theory for prediction of criminal activity 

      Jaramillo, Francisco; L. Quintero, Vanessa; Perez, Aramis; Orchard, Marcos (Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017Annual Conference of the Prognostics and Health Management Society 2017, 2017-08-18)
      Criminal risk models are used to assist security forces both in the identification of zones with high of criminal activity for better resource allocation and prediction of future criminal events for the prevention of new ...
    • Stairway Detection Based on Single Camera by Motion Stereo 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo (2011-06-28)
      In this paper we are proposing a method for detecting the localization of indoor stairways. This is a fundamental step for the implementation of autonomous stair climbing navigation and passive alarm systems intended for ...
    • Stairway segmentation using Gabor Filter and vanishing point 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Hyun Jo, Kang (08/07/2011)
      This paper we are proposing to detect the localization and recognition of an indoor stairway. This is a fundamental step in the implementing of autonomous stair climbing navigation, as well as the implementing of passive ...
    • Stairway tracking based on automatic target selection using directional filters 

      Cáceres Hernández, Danilo; Hyun Jo, Kang (02/09/2011)
      In this paper we are proposing to detect the localization and recognition of an indoor stairway. This is a fundamental step in the implementing of autonomous stair climbing navigation, as well as the implementing of passive ...
    • State of the Art Review on Mobile Robots and Manipulators for Humanitarian Demining 

      Marques, L.; De Almeida, A. T.; Armada, Manuel; Fernández, Roemi; Montes Franceschi, Héctor; González, P.; Baudoin, Y. (2016-07-04)
      Robotics solutions properly sized with suitable modularized structure and well adapted to local conditions of dangerous unstructured areas can greatly improve the safety of personnel as well as the work efficiency, ...
    • State-of-charge estimation to improve decision making by MAC protocols used in WSNs 

      L. Quintero, Vanessa; Perez, A.; Estevez, C.; Orchard, M. (IETIET, 02/07/2019)
      Energy conservation is a topic of great interest in wireless sensor networks (WSNs). Various techniques have been proposed to minimise the energy consumption. One approach is to design medium access control (MAC) protocols ...