• 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 ...
    • State-of-charge estimation to improve energy conservation and extend battery life of wireless sensor network nodes 

      L. Quintero, Vanessa; Estevez, Carlos; Orchard, Marcos (2017 Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN)2017 Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous and Future Networks (ICUFN), 07/27/2017)
      Wireless sensor networks are pervasive systems that continuously demonstrate increase in growth by branching into diverse applications. The state of charge is an indicator that conveys the amount of energy available in the ...
    • Synthesis of Optical Filters Using Sagnac Interferometer in Ring Resonator 

      Vargas, Salvador; Vásquez, Carmen (2010-07-02)
      We propose a novel synthesis method for designing flexible, tunable non-periodic filters. It is based on a building block which is presented by first time for these purposes, being the poles position tuned by means of a ...
    • Tecnologías y enfoques para el aprovechamiento de la energía regenerativa en el transporte ferroviario: Una revisión sistemática 

      Arauz Sarmiento, Jesús; Henríquez, Félix; Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios; Berbey Alvarez, Aranzazu (2021-09)
      En este capítulo se presenta una revisión sistemática sobre las tecnologías de sistemas de almacenamiento de energía y sobre los enfoques para un mejor aprovechamiento. La revisión se divide en dos vías: tendencias más ...
    • Trenes: material rodante del transporte ferroviario 

      Berbey Álvarez, Aranzazu; Caballero, Rony; Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios; Brunel, J.; Guerra, K.; Flores, J.; Samaniego, A.; Orozco, W. (2013-07-05)
      Se le conoce como material rodante a todos los tipos de vehículos dotados de ruedas capaces de circular sobre una vía férrea cuyo principal objetivo es transportar diferentes tipos de cargas. Los mismos se pueden clasificar ...
    • Un algoritmo de replanificación en tiempo real basado en un índice de estabilidad de Lyapunov para líneas de metro  

      Berbey Álvarez, Aranzazu; Galán, Ramón; San Segundo, Pablo; Sanz Bobi, Juan de Dios (2014-07-06)
      En este trabajo, se propone un nuevo índice basado en el método directo de Lyapunov para el diseño de un algoritmo de reprogramación en tiempo real para líneas de metro. En este estudio se utiliza una versión modificada ...