• closedAccess   Towards a reactive grasping system for an industrial robot arm 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Recatalá Ballester, Gabriel; Traver Roig, Vicente Javier; del Pobil, Angel P. IEEE (1999-11)
      As robots are being increasingly called to operate out of well-structured environments, our contribution focuses in the grasp determination in unknown objects, vision being the exclusive mode of perception. Two strategies ...
    • closedAccess   Increasing autonomy within underwater intervention scenarios: The user interface approach 

      García Sánchez, Pedro José; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sanz, Pedro J; Marin, Raul IEEE (2010)
      The present work represents working progress for designing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) within an ongoing research project named RAUVI (e.g. Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention Missions). This GUI should help the user ...
    • closedAccess   A distributed architecture for enabling autonomous underwater intervention missions 

      Palomeras, Narcís; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Prats Sánchez, Mario; Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier IEEE (2010)
      This work introduces the main aspects related with a new architecture defined for an ongoing research project named RAUVI (i.e. Reconfigurable AUV for Intervention Missions). Two initially independent architectures for ...
    • openAccess   TRIDENT: A Framework for Autonomous Underwater Intervention 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Ridao, Pere; Oliver, Gabriel; Melchiorri, Claudio; Casalino, Giuseppe; Silvestre, Carlos; Petillot, Yvan; Turetta, Alessio (2011)
      TRIDENT is a STREP project recently approved by the European Commission whose proposal was submitted to the ICT call 4 of the 7th Framework Program. The project proposes a new methodology for multipurpose underwater ...
    • openAccess   Recent Progress in the RAUVI Project: A Reconfigurable Autonomous Underwater Vehicle for Intervention 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Prats Sánchez, Mario; Ridao, Pere; Ribas, David; Oliver, Gabriel; Ortiz, Alberto (2011)
      Starting in January 2009, the RAUVI project is a three years coordinated research action funded by the Spanish Ministry of Research and Innovation. This paper shows the research evolution during the first half of RAUVI’s ...
    • openAccess   Prácticas externas y trabajo fin de grado en el Grado en Ingeniería Informática de la Universitat Jaume I 

      López, Angeles; Rebollo Santamaría, Cristina; Aramburu Cabo, María José; García-Sevilla, Pedro Publicacions de la Universitat Jaume I (2015)
      Todos los grados de la Universitat Jaume I exigen, además de un trabajo fin de grado, la realización de unas prácticas externas en empresas que son obligatorias para todos los estudiantes. En el nuevo plan de estudios del ...
    • closedAccess   Tuning stationary iterative solvers for fault resilience 

      Anzt, Hartwig; Dongarra, Jack; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. ACM. Association for Computing Machinery (2015)
      As the transistor’s feature size decreases following Moore’s Law, hardware will become more prone to permanent, intermittent, and transient errors, increasing the number of failures experienced by applications, and ...
    • openAccess   Adaptive precision solvers for sparse linear systems 

      Anzt, Hartwig; Dongarra, Jack; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. ACM (2015)
      We formulate an implementation of a Jacobi iterative solver for sparse linear systems that iterates the distinct components of the solution with different precision in terms of mantissa length. Starting with very low ...
    • openAccess   Enabling big data analytics in the hybrid cloud using iterative MapReduce 

      Clemente-Castelló, Francisco J.; Bogdan, Nicolae; Katrinis, Kostas; Rafique, M. Mustafa; Mayo, Rafael; Fernández Fernández, Juan Carlos; Loreti, Daniela HAL-Inria (2015-12)
      The cloud computing model has seen tremendous commercial success through its materialization via two prominent models to date, namely public and private cloud. Recently, a third model combining the former two ...
    • openAccess   Increasing the Performance of Data Centers by Combining Remote GPU Virtualization with Slurm 

      Iserte, Sergio; Prades, Javier; Reaño, Carlos; Silla, Federico IEEE (2016)
      The use of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) presents several side effects, such as increased acquisition costs as well as larger space requirements. Furthermore, GPUs require a non-negligible amount of energy even ...
    • openAccess   Dynamic Management of Resource Allocation for OmpSs Jobs 

      Iserte, Sergio; Peña Monferrer, Antonio J.; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Beltran Querol, Vicenç Carretero Pérez, Jesús (2016-02)
      The main purpose of this thesis is to research in the relation between task-based programming models and resource management systems in order to provide a smart autonomous load-balancing and fault-tolerant system. Thus, ...
    • openAccess   Remote GPU Virtualization: Is It Useful? 

      Silla, Federico; Prades, Javier; Iserte, Sergio; Reaño, Carlos IEEE (2016-03)
      Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) are currently used in many computing facilities. However, GPUs present several side effects, such as increased acquisition costs as well as larger space requirements. Also, GPUs still require ...
    • openAccess   Efficient target-response interpolation for a graphic equalizer 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Välimäki, Vesa IEEE (2016-05)
      A graphic equalizer is an adjustable filter in which the command gain of each frequency band is practically independent of the gains of other bands. Designing a graphic equalizer with a high precision requires evaluating ...
    • openAccess   A Model of Artificial Genotype and Norm of Reaction in a Robotic System 

      Durán Bosch, Angel Juan; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer (2016-08-10)
      The genes of living organisms serve as large stores of information for replicating their behavior and morphology over generations. The evolutionary view of genetics that has inspired artificial systems with a Mendelian ...
    • openAccess   A Data-Parallel ILUPACK for Sparse General and Symmetric Indefinite Linear Systems 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Bollhöfer, Matthias; Dufrechou, Ernesto; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2017-05-28)
      The solution of sparse linear systems of large dimension is a critical step in problems that span a diverse range of applications. For this reason, a number of iterative solvers have been developed, among which ILUPACK ...
    • closedAccess   Autonomous underwater grasping using multi-view laser reconstruction 

      Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2017-06)
      Autonomous manipulation in underwater scenarios is a highly complex task which is still poorly studied, but with a growing interest in the last years. Two of the main phases of this problem are the detection and characterization ...
    • closedAccess   Progressive image compression and transmission with region of interest in underwater robotics 

      Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo; Centelles, Diego; Sales Gil, Jorge; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J; Alvares, Alberto IEEE (2017-06)
      The increasing demand for underwater robotic intervention systems around the world in several application domains requires more versatile and inexpensive systems. By using a wireless communication system, supervised ...
    • closedAccess   Wireless HROV control with compressed visual feedback over an acoustic link 

      Centelles, Diego; Moscoso Rubino, Eduardo; Vallicrosa, Guillem; Palomeras, Narcís; Sales Gil, Jorge; Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Marin, Raul; Ridao, Pere; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2017-06)
      This paper presents the current state of the devel- opment of a Wireless HROV (Hybrid Remotely Operated Vehicle HROV), providing feedback of both, camera and telemetry data to the operator, over an ...
    • closedAccess   A benchmarking study on single image dehazing techniques for underwater autonomous vehicles 

      Pérez Soler, Javier; Sanz, Pedro J; Bryson, Mitch; Williams, Sephan B. IEEE (2017-06)
      Enhancing the underwater images is of utmost importance for autonomous underwater vehicles. This kind of robots usually have to deal with highly degraded images from which it is extremely difficult to accurately find, ...
    • closedAccess   Increasing underwater manipulation autonomy using segmentation and visual tracking 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Vincze, Markus; Fornas Garcia, David IEEE (2017-06)
      The present research in underwater robotics aims to increase the autonomy of manipulation operations in fields such as archaeology or biology, that cannot afford costly underwater interventions using traditional Remote ...