• 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, ...
    • openAccess   A deep learning model for intra-day forecasting of solar irradiance using satellite-based estimations in the vicinity of a PV power plant 

      Pérez, Emilio; Pérez Soler, Javier; Segarra-Tamarit, Jorge; Beltran, Hector Elsevier (2021-03-25)
      This work proposes an intra-day forecasting model, which does not require to be trained or fed with real-time data measurements, for global horizontal irradiance (GHI) at a given location. The proposed model uses a series ...
    • openAccess   A natural interface for remote operation of underwater robots 

      García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Patrao, Bruno; Almeida, Luis; Pérez Soler, Javier; Menezes, Paulo; Dias, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2017-01)
      Nowadays, an increasing need of intervention robotic systems can be observed in all kind of hazardous environments. In all these intervention systems, the human expert continues playing a central role from the decision-making ...
    • openAccess   Design and evaluation of a natural interface for remote operation of underwater roter 

      García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Patrao, Bruno; Almeida, Luis; Pérez Soler, Javier; Menezes, Paulo; Dias, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2015-11)
      Nowadays, an increasing need of intervention robotic systems can be observed in all kind of hazardous environments. In all these intervention systems, the human expert continues playing a central role from the decision ...
    • openAccess   Exploring 3-D Reconstruction Techniques: A Benchmarking Tool for Underwater Robotics 

      Pérez Soler, Javier; Sales Gil, Jorge; Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Fornas Garcia, David; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J; Marin, Raul; Prats, Mario Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-09)
      When the results of research in the field of robotics are presented to the scientific community, the same question is asked repeatedly: Are the results really reproducible? Regarding benchmarking issues, some technological ...
    • openAccess   Fitting primitive shapes in point clouds: a practical approach to improve autonomous underwater grasp specification of unknown objects 

      Fornas Garcia, David; Sales Gil, Jorge; Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Pérez Soler, Javier; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J Taylor & Francis (2015-04)
      This article presents research on the subject of autonomous underwater robot manipulation. Ongoing research in underwater robotics intends to increase the autonomy of intervention operations that require physical interaction ...
    • closedAccess   Implementación de benchmarking en el simulador submarino UWSIM 

      Pérez Soler, Javier (2012)
      Cuando se crearon los primeros robots se pens o que ser an el sustituto perfecto del hombre para tareas repetitivas aumentando productividad, exibilidad, calidad y seguridad. Sin embargo, se est an empezando a utilizar ...
    • openAccess   Multi-Sensor Person Following in Low-Visibility Scenarios 

      Sales Gil, Jorge; Marin, Raul; Cervera, Enric; Rodríguez, Sergio; Pérez Soler, Javier MDPI (2010)
      Person following with mobile robots has traditionally been an important research topic. It has been solved, in most cases, by the use of machine vision or laser rangefinders. In some special circumstances, such as a smoky ...
    • openAccess   UWSim, un simulador submarino conectado a la nube como herramienta educacional 

      Pérez Soler, Javier; Fornas Garcia, David; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J Universitat Politècnica de València (2018)
      La creciente demanda social de nuevas aplicaciones de la rob´otica, desde robots dom´esticos a coches aut´onomos, confirma la conveniencia de utilizar dicha tecnolog´ıa como factor motivante en el contexto educacional. ...
    • openAccess   Visually-Guided Manipulation Techniques for Robotic Autonomous Underwater Panel Interventions 

      Peñalver Monfort, Antonio; Pérez Soler, Javier; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Sales Gil, Jorge; Sanz, Pedro J; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Fornas Garcia, David; Marin, Raul Elsevier (2015)
      The long term of this ongoing research has to do with increasing the autonomy levels for underwater intervention missions. Bearing in mind that the speci c mission to face has been the intervention on a panel, in this paper ...