• closedAccess   Reduction to Condensed Forms for Symmetric Eigenvalue Problems on Multi-core Architectures 

      Bientinesi, Paolo; Igual, Francisco; Kressner, Daniel; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2010)
      We investigate the performance of the routines in LAPACK and the Successive Band Reduction (SBR) toolbox for the reduction of a dense matrix to tridiagonal form, a crucial preprocessing stage in the solution of the symmetric ...
    • openAccess   Reformulating the direct convolution for high-performance deep learning inference on ARM processors 

      Barrachina Mir, Sergio; Castelló, Adrián; Dolz, Manuel F.; Low, Tze Meng; Martinez, Hector; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Upasana, Sridhar; Tomás Domínguez, Andrés Enrique Elsevier (2022-12-20)
      We present two high-performance implementations of the convolution operator via the direct algorithm that outperform the so-called lowering approach based on the im2col transform plus the gemm kernel on an ARMv8-based ...
    • openAccess   Reliability Evaluation of LU Decomposition on GPU-Accelerated System-on-Chip Under Proton Irradiation 

      Badía, José; León, Germán; BELLOCH, JOSE A.; LINDOSO, ALMUDENA; García Valderas, Mario; Morilla, Yolanda; Entrena, Luis IEEE (2022-03-22)
      Graphic processing units (GPUs) have become a basic accelerator both in high-performance nodes and low-power system-on-chip (SoC). They provide massive data parallelism and very high performance per watt. However, their ...
    • openAccess   Reliable non-prehensile door opening through the combination of vision, tactile and force feedback 

      Prats Sánchez, Mario; Sanz, Pedro J; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer (2010-08-01)
      Whereas vision and force feedback—either at the wrist or at the joint level—for robotic manipulation purposes has received considerable attention in the literature, the benefits that tactile sensors can provide when combined ...
    • 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   Remote Programming of Multirobot Systems within the UPC-UJI Telelaboratories: System Architecture and Agent-Based Multirobot Control 

      Sanz, Pedro J; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier; Marin, Raul; Wirz, Raúl Westing Publishing Co. (2008)
      One of the areas that needs further improvement within E-Learning environments via Internet (A big effort is required in this area if progress is to be made) is allowing students to access and practice real experiments ...
    • closedAccess   Remote Programming of Network Robots Wihitin the UJI Industrial Robotics Telelaboratory: FPGA Vision and SNRP Network Protocol 

      Marin, Raul; León Navarro, Germán; Wirz, Raúl; Sales Gil, Jorge; Claver, José M.; Sanz, Pedro J; Fernández Fresneda, José Javier Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2009-12)
      This paper presents the UJI Industrial Robotics Telelaboratory, which lets Ph.D. and Master's degree students perform robotics and computer vision tele-experiments. By using this system, students are able to program ...
    • openAccess   Reproducibility of parallel preconditioned conjugate gradient in hybrid programming environments 

      Iakymchuk, Roman; Barreda Vayá, Maria; Graillat, Stef; Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Sage (2020-06-17)
      The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method is often employed for the solution of linear systems of equations arising in numerical simulations of physical phenomena. While being widely used, the solver is also known for ...
    • closedAccess   Reproducibility strategies for parallel Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient 

      Iakymchuk, Roman; Barreda Vayá, Maria; Wiesenberger, Matthias; Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Elsevier (2020-01-02)
      The Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient method is often used in numerical simulations. While being widely used, the solver is also known for its lack of accuracy while computing the residual. In this article, we aim at a ...
    • openAccess   Restructuring the Tridiagonal and Bidiagonal QR Algorithms for Performance 

      Van Zee, Field G.; Van de Geijn, Robert A.; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio ACM Digital Library (2014-04)
      We show how both the tridiagonal and bidiagonal QR algorithms can be restructured so that they be- come rich in operations that can achieve near-peak performance on a modern processor. The key is a novel, cache-friendly ...
    • openAccess   Revisiting conventional task schedulers to exploit asymmetry in multi-core architectures for dense linear algebra operations 

      Costero, Luis; Igual, Francisco; Olcoz, Katzalin; Catalán, Sandra; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Elsevier (2017)
      Dealing with asymmetry in the architecture opens a plethora of questions related with the performance- and energy-efficient scheduling of task-parallel applications. While there exist early attempts to tackle this problem, ...
    • closedAccess   Revisiting the Gauss-Huard Algorithm for the Solution of Linear Systems on Graphics Accelerators 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón, Alfredo Springer (2016-04-02)
      In 1979, P. Huard presented an efficient variant of the Gauss-Jordan elimination for the solution of linear systems. In particular, this alternative algorithm exhibits the same computational cost as the traditional LU-based ...
    • openAccess   RF-Based Location Using Interpolation Functions to Reduce Fingerprint Mapping 

      Ezpeleta, Santiago; Claver, José M.; Pérez Solano, Juan J.; Martí Avilés, José Vicente MDPI (2015-10)
      Indoor RF-based localization using fingerprint mapping requires an initial training step, which represents a time consuming process. This location methodology needs a database conformed with RSSI (Radio Signal Strength ...
    • openAccess   Ring-Topology Echo State Networks for ICU Sepsis Classification 

      Alfaras, Miquel; Varandas, Rui; Gamboa, Hugo IEEE Computer Society (2019)
      Sepsis is a life threatening condition that can be treated if detected early. This paper presents a study of the application of a Ring Topology Echo State Network (ESN) algorithm to a sepsis prediction task based on ICU ...
    • openAccess   Robot depth estimation inspired by fixational movements 

      Durán Bosch, Angel Juan; del Pobil, Angel P. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (2020-09-18)
      Distance estimation is a challenge for robots, human beings and other animals in their adaptation to changing environments. Different approaches have been proposed to tackle this problem based on classical vision algorithms ...
    • openAccess   Robot vision for manipulation: a trip to real-world applications 

      Martínez Martín, Ester; del Pobil, Angel P. IEEE (2021-01-01)
      Along the last decades, Robotics research has taken a major turn from laboratories to factories and ordinary real-world environments. Consequently, new issues to be overcome have arisen, specially when autonomous, dexterous ...
    • openAccess   Robotic execution for everyday tasks by means of external vision/force control 

      Prats Sánchez, Mario; Martinet, Philippe; del Pobil, Angel P.; Lee, Sukhan Springer Verlag (2008)
      In this article, we present an integrated manipulation framework for a service robot, that allows to interact with articulated objects at home environments through the coupling of vision and force modalities. We consider ...
    • openAccess   Robots Humanoides 

      Falomir, Zoe Departament d' Enginyeria i Ciència dels Computadors, Universitat Jaume I (2006-10)
      This technical report presents a state of the art in humanoid robots based on well-known European researchers' lectures wich took place at 6th International UJI Robotics School (IURS'2006) on Humanoid Robots. Some of the ...
    • openAccess   ROSLab Sharing ROS Code Interactively With Docker and JupyterLab 

      Cervera, Enric; del Pobil, Angel P. IEEE (2019-07-15)
      The success of the Robot Operating System (ROS) and the advance of open source ideas have radically changed and improved the experience of sharing software among members of the robotics community. Yet the lack of a suitable ...
    • openAccess   Run to the Source: The Effective Reproducibility of Robotics Code Repositories (Epub ahead of print) 

      Cervera, Enric Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. (2023-12-28)
      In recent years the robotics community has actively embraced the open paradigm, and research articles are commonly enriched with the inclusion of a source code repository of software. However, the reproducibility of such ...