• openAccess   (MARGOT) Monocular Camera-Based Robot Grasping Strategy for Metallic Objects 

      Veiga Almagro, Carlos; Munoz, Renato; García González, Álvaro; Matheson, Eloise; Marin, Raul; Di Castro, Mario; FERRE PEREZ, MANUEL MDPI (2023-06-05)
      Robotic handling of objects is not always a trivial assignment, even in teleoperation where, in most cases, this might lead to stressful labor for operators. To reduce the task difficulty, supervised motions could be ...
    • openAccess   Matrix inversion on CPU–GPU platforms with applications in control theory 

      Benner, Peter; Ezzatti, Pablo; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Remón Gómez, Alfredo Wiley (2013-06-10)
      In this paper, we tackle the inversion of large-scale dense matrices via conventional matrix factorizations (LU, Cholesky, and LDLT) and the Gauss–Jordan method on hybrid platforms consisting of a multicore CPU and a ...
    • openAccess   Measures of Similarity Between Objects Based on Qualitative Shape Descriptions 

      Falomir, Zoe; Gonzalez Abril, Luis; Museros, Lledó; Ortega, Juan Antonio Taylor & Francis (2013)
      A computational approach for comparing qualitative shape descriptions (QSDs) of objects within digital images is presented. First, the dissimilarity of qualitative features of shape is measured: (i) intuitively using ...
    • openAccess   Measures of Similarity between Qualitative Descriptions of Shape, Colour and Size Applied to Mosaic Assembling 

      Falomir, Zoe; Museros, Lledó; Gonzalez Abril, Luis; Velasco, Francisco Elsevier (2013)
      A computational approach for obtaining a similarity measure between qualitative descriptions of shape, colour and size of objects within digital images is presented. According to the definition of the qualitative features, ...
    • openAccess   MiniCERNBot Educational Platform: Antimatter Factory Mock-up Missions for Problem-Solving STEM Learning 

      Marín Garcés, Josep; Veiga Almagro, Carlos; Lunghi, Giacomo; Di Castro, Mario; Buonocore, Luca Rosario; Marín Prades, Raúl; Masi, Alessandro MDPI (2021)
      Mechatronics and robotics appeared particularly effective in students’ education, allowing them to create non-traditional solutions in STEM disciplines, which have a direct impact and interaction with the world surrounding ...
    • openAccess   Mixed Reality Human–Robot Interface With Adaptive Communications Congestion Control for the Teleoperation of Mobile Redundant Manipulators in Hazardous Environments 

      Marin, Raul; Szczurek, Krzysztof Adam; Matheson, Eloise; Rodriguez-Nogueira, Jose; Di Castro, Mario IEEE (2022-08-22)
      Robotic interventions with redundant mobile manipulators pose a challenge for telerobotics in hazardous environments, such as underwater, underground, nuclear facilities, particle accelerators, aerial or space. Communication ...
    • openAccess   Mobile manipulation hackathon: moving into real world applications 

      Roa Garzón, Máximo A.; Dogar, Mehmet; Pagès, Jordi; Vivas, Carlos; Morales, Antonio; CORRELL, NIKOLAUS; Görner, Michael; Rosell, Jan; Foix, Sergi; Memmesheimer, Raphael; Ferro, Francesco IEEE (2021-06)
      The Mobile Manipulation Hackathon was held in late 2018 during the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) to showcase the latest applications of wheeled robotic manipulators. The challenge ...
    • openAccess   Model of tactile sensors using soft contacts and its application in robot grasping simulation 

      Moisio, Sami; León Pinzón, Beatriz Elena; Korkealaakso, Pasi; Morales, Antonio Elsevier (2013-01)
      In the context of robot grasping and manipulation, realistic dynamic simulation requires accurate modeling of contacts between bodies and, in a practical level, accurate simulation of touch sensors. This paper addresses ...
    • openAccess   Modeling Analytical Streams for Social Business Intelligence 

      Lanza Cruz, Indira Lázara; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Aramburu Cabo, María José MDPI (2018-08)
      Social Business Intelligence (SBI) enables companies to capture strategic information from public social networks. Contrary to traditional Business Intelligence (BI), SBI has to face the high dynamicity of both the social ...
    • closedAccess   Modeling power and energy consumption of dense matrix factorizations on multicore processors 

      Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Dolz, Manuel F.; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Wiley (2013-10-11)
      In this paper, we propose a model for the energy consumption of the concurrent execution of three key dense matrix factorizations, with task parallelism leveraged via the Symmetric Multi-Processing Superscalar (SMPSs) ...
    • closedAccess   Modeling power and energy of the task-parallel Cholesky factorization on multicore processors 

      Alonso-Jordá, Pedro; Dolz, Manuel F.; Mayo, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S. Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2014-05)
      In this paper we introduce a model for the total energy consumption of the Cholesky factorization on a multicore processor. Our model assumes a task-parallel execution of the factorization process, with concurrency leveraged ...
    • openAccess   Modeling power consumption of 3D MPDATA and the CG method on ARM and Intel multicore architectures 

      Rojek, Krzysztof; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Wyrzykowski, Roman Springer-Verlag (2017-03)
      We propose an approach to estimate the power consumption of algorithms, as a function of the frequency and number of cores, using only a very reduced set of real power measures. In addition, we also provide the formulation ...
    • closedAccess   Modeling the user acceptance of long-term evolution (LTE) services 

      Park, Eunil; del Pobil, Angel P. Wiley (2013-06)
      With an integrated framework, this paper aims to analyze user perception and acceptance toward long-term evolution (LTE) services, focusing on factors that may influence the intention to use. We conducted a web-based survey ...
    • openAccess   Monocular Robust Depth Estimation Vision System for Robotic Tasks Interventions in Metallic Targets 

      Veiga Almagro, Carlos; Di Castro, Mario; Lunghi, Giacomo; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J; Ferre, Manuel; Masi, Alessandro MDPI (2019)
      Robotic interventions in hazardous scenarios need to pay special attention to safety, as in most cases it is necessary to have an expert operator in the loop. Moreover, the use of a multi-modal Human-Robot Interface ...
    • openAccess   Multi-Sensor Localization and Navigation for Remote Manipulation in Smoky Areas 

      Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Sales Gil, Jorge; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J InTech (2013)
      Abstract When localizing mobile sensors and actuators in indoor  environments  laser  meters,  ultrasonic  meters  or  even image processing techniques are usually used. On  the  other  hand,  in  smoky  conditions,  ...
    • openAccess   Multi-sensor localization and navigation for remote manipulation in smoky areas 

      Martí Avilés, José Vicente; Sales Gil, Jorge; Marin, Raul; Sanz, Pedro J SAGE Publications (2013)
      When localizing mobile sensors and actuators in indoor environments laser meters, ultrasonic meters or even image processing techniques are usually used. On the other hand, in smoky conditions, due to a fire or building ...
    • 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 ...
    • closedAccess   Multi-threaded dense linear algebra libraries for low-power asymmetric multicore processors 

      Catalán, Sandra; Herrero Zaragoza, José R.; Igual, Francisco; Rodríguez Sánchez, Rafael; Quintana-Orti, Enrique S.; Adeniyi-Jones, Chris Elsevier (2018-03)
      Dense linear algebra libraries, such as BLAS and LAPACK, provide a relevant collection of numerical tools for many scientific and engineering applications. While there exist high performance implementations of the BLAS ...
    • openAccess   Multicore implementation of a multichannel parallel graphic equalizer 

      BELLOCH, JOSE A.; Badía, José; León, Germán; Bank, Balázs; Välimäki, Vesa Springer (2022-04-22)
      Numerous signal processing applications are emerging on mobile computing systems. These applications are subject to responsiveness constraints for user interactivity and, at the same time, must be optimized for energy ...
    • openAccess   Multidimensional Author Profling for Social Business Intelligence 

      Lanza Cruz, Indira Lázara; Berlanga Llavori, Rafael; Aramburu Cabo, María José Springer (2023)
      This paper presents a novel author profling method specially aimed at classifying social network users into the multidimensional perspectives for social business intelligence (SBI) applications. In this scenario, being the ...