• openAccess   The UJI Aerial Librarian Robot: A Quadcopter for Visual Library Inventory and Book Localisation 

      Martínez Martín, Ester; Ferrer, Eric; Vasilev, Ilia; del Pobil, Angel P. MDPI (2021)
      Over time, the field of robotics has provided solutions to automate routine tasks in differentscenarios. In particular, libraries are awakening great interest in automated tasks since they aresemi-structured environments ...
    • openAccess   The UJI librarian robot 

      Prats Sánchez, Mario; Martínez Martín, Ester; Sanz, Pedro J; del Pobil, Angel P. Springer Verlag (2008)
      This paper describes the UJI Librarian Robot, a mobile manipulator that is able to autonomously locate a book in an ordinary library, and grasp it from a bookshelf, by using eye-in-hand stereo vision and force sensing. The ...
    • openAccess   Tight arrival curve at the output of a work-conserving blind multiplexing serve 

      Echagüe, Juan; Cholvi, Vicent IOS Press (2010)
      As a means of supporting quality of service guarantees, aggregate multiplexing has attracted a lot of attention in the networking community, since it requires less complexity than flow-based scheduling. However, contrary ...
    • closedAccess   Time and energy modeling of a high-performance multi-threaded Cholesky factorization 

      Catalán, Sandra; Igual, Francisco; Mayo, Rafael; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer (2016-02-05)
      We present accurate time and energy piece-wise models of high-performance multi-threaded implementations for the general matrix multiplication, triangular system solve with multiple right-hand sides, and symmetric rank-k ...
    • closedAccess   Time and energy modeling of high–performance Level-3 BLAS on x86 architectures 

      Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Catalán, Sandra; Igual, Francisco; Mayo, Rafael; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Elsevier (2015-06)
      We present accurate piece-wise models for the time and energy costs of high performance implementations of both the matrix multiplication (gemm) and the triangular system solve with multiple right-hand sides (trsm) on x86 ...
    • openAccess   Toward a modular precision ecosystem for high-performance computing 

      Anzt, Hartwig; Flegar, Goran; Grützmacher, Thomas; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Sage (2019-05)
      With the memory bandwidth of current computer architectures being significantly slower than the (floating point) arithmetic performance, many scientific computations only leverage a fraction of the computational power in ...
    • closedAccess   Toward the parallelization of GSL 

      Aliaga Estellés, José Ignacio; Almeida, Francisco; Badía, José; Barrachina Mir, Sergio; Blanco, Vicente; Castillo Catalán, María Isabel; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Remón Gómez, Alfredo; Rodríguez, Casiano; De Sande, Francisco; Santos, Adrián Springer-Verlag (2009)
      In this paper, we present our joint efforts to design and develop parallel implementations of the GNU Scientific Library for a wide variety of parallel platforms. The multilevel software architecture proposed provides ...
    • openAccess   Toward the Robot Butler: the HUMABOT Challenge 

      Cervera, Enric; García Sánchez, Juan Carlos; Sanz, Pedro J Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) (2015-06)
      Presents information on the HUMABOT Challenge, the official robot competition for the 2014 IEEE Robotics and Automation Society (RAS) International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids 2014) that was held during the ...
    • openAccess   Towards a model of creative understanding: deconstructing and recreating conceptual blends using image schemas and qualitative spatial descriptors 

      Falomir, Zoe; Plaza, Enric Springer (2020)
      Computational models of novel concept understanding and creativity are addressed in this paper from the viewpoint of conceptual blending theory (CBT). In our approach, a novel, unknown concept is addressed in a communication ...
    • 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 ...
    • openAccess   Towards a Sustainable City for Cyclists: Promoting Safety through a Mobile Sensing Application 

      Boronat, Pablo; Pérez-Francisco, Miguel; Calafate, Carlos; Cano, Juan Carlos Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (2021-03-01)
      Riding a bicycle is a great manner to contribute to the preservation of our ecosystem. Cycling helps to reduce air pollution and traffic congestion, and so, it is one of the simplest ways to lower the environmental ...
    • openAccess   Towards an Efficient Use of the BLAS Library for Multilinear Tensor Contractions 

      Di Napoli, Edoardo; Fabregat Traver, Diego; Quintana-Ortí, Gregorio; Bientinesi, Paolo Aachen University (2014)
      Mathematical operators whose transformation rules constitute the building blocks of a multi-linear algebra are widely used in physics and engineering applications where they are very often represented as tensors. In the ...
    • openAccess   Towards Automatic Parallelization of Stream Processing Applications 

      Dolz, Manuel F.; del Río Astorga, David; Fernández Muñoz, Javier; García, J. Daniel; Carretero, Jesús IEEE (2018-08)
      Parallelizing and optimizing codes for recent multi-/many-core processors have been recognized to be a complex task. For this reason, strategies to automatically transform sequential codes into parallel and discover ...
    • openAccess   Towards Fish Welfare in the Presence of Robots: Zebrafish Case 

      Pino Jarque, Andrea; Vidal, Rosario; Tormos, Elisabeth; Cerda-Reverter, Jose Miguel; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J MDPI (2024-05-31)
      Zebrafish (Danio rerio) have emerged as a valuable animal model for neurobehavioral research, particularly in the study of anxiety-related states. This article explores the use of conceptual models to investigate stress, ...
    • closedAccess   Towards portable realizations of winograd-based convolution with vector intrinsics and OpenMP 

      Dolz, Manuel F.; Castelló, Adrián; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. IEEE (2022)
      We take a step forward in the direction of developing high performance codes for the convolution, based on the Winograd transformation, that are easy to customize for different processor architectures. In our approach, ...
    • openAccess   Towards Semantic Digital Twins for Social Networks 

      Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Museros, Lledó; Llidó Escrivá, Dolores María; Sanz, Ismael; Aramburu Cabo, María José CEUR Workshop Proceedings (2021-09-03)
      This position paper proposes a platform for the creation of digital twins for social networks as semantic digital twins for people. These are mainly aimed at simulating human behavior from a cognitive point of view. The ...
    • openAccess   Towards the interoperability of computerised guidelines and electronic health records: an experiment with openEHR archetypes and a chronic heart failure guideline 

      Marcos, Mar; Martínez-Salvador, Begoña Springer (2011)
      Clinical guidelines contain recommendations based on the best empirical evidence available at the moment. There is a wide consensus about the benefits of guidelines and about the fact that they should be deployed through ...
    • openAccess   Towards the semantic enrichment of Computer Interpretable Guidelines: a method for the identification of relevant ontological terms 

      Quesada-Martínez, Manuel; Marcos, Mar; Abad-Navarro, Francisco; Martínez-Salvador, Begoña; Fernández Breis, Jesualdo Tomás American Medical Informatics Association (2018-12-05)
      Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) contain recommendations intended to optimize patient care, produced based on a systematic review of evidence. In turn, Computer-Interpretable Guidelines (CIGs) are formalized versions ...
    • closedAccess   Towards Underwater Robust Image Transmission Using Acoustic Communications 

      Muntaner, Caterina; Nordfeldt-Fiol, Bo Miquel; Martin-Abadal, Miguel; Martorell Torres, Antoni; Bonin Font, Francisco; Molina Arcas, Fernando; Marin, Raul; Oliver-Codina, Gabriel; Sanz, Pedro J IEEE (2023-06-05)
      This paper presents a novel approach aimed at broadcasting pre-compressed images of reference hot-spots between marine robots through an acoustic link. The transmission must be robust, even on areas with potential acoustic ...
    • closedAccess   Transforming general networks into feed-forward by using turn-prohibition 

      Echagüe, Juan; Villadangos, José; Cholvi, Vicent; Prieto, M. Elsevier (2008)
      The issue of breaking cycles in communication networks is an important topic for several reasons. For instance, it is required when transparent bridges are filling the forwarding tables. It is also needed to prevent the ...