Publications
Diseño, implementación y evaluación cuantitativa del rendimiento de un prototipo mejorado de una nueva red de comunicaciones para sistemas de control distribuidos llamada Highly Discriminating Monitoring Star for CAN (HDMS-CAN)
Los buses de campo son una familia de protocolos diseñados para soportar las comunicaciones en sistemas de control distribuido, principalmente en el ámbito industrial. Uno de los buses de campo más utilizados hoy en día es el Controller Area Network (CAN); debido...
Implementation and Validation of the Fundamental Mechanisms of the Flexible Time-Triggered Communication Paradigm for Ethernet-based Highly-Reliable Systems
Ethernet is nowadays the most widespread communication standard for local networks in the domestic and office environment. Its main advantages are: high bandwidth, low price of its components and compatibility with other communication standards. For that reason it is...
Testing the Control Architecture of a Micro-Aerial Vehicle for Visual Inspection of Vessels
Vessels constitute one of the most cost effective ways of transporting goods around the world. Despite the efforts, maritime accidents still occur, with catastrophic consequences. For this reason, vessels are submitted to periodical inspections for the early detection...
A Saliency-boosted Corrosion Detector for the Visual Inspection of Vessels
Corrosion is one of the major causes of the structural defects that affect vessel hulls. For its early detection, intensive inspections of the inner and outer structures of the vessel hull are carried out at a great cost, where the visual assessment plays an important...
A Novel Approach for Defect Detection on Vessel Structures using Saliency-related Features
Seagoing vessels have to undergo regular visual inspections in order to detect defects such as cracks and corrosion before they result into catastrophic consequences. These inspections are currently performed manually by ship surveyors at a great cost, so that any...
Towards a Pre-diagnose of Surgical Wounds Through the Analysis of Visual 3D Reconstructions.
Adding Fault Tolerance To a Flexible Real-Time Ethernet Network for Embedded Systems
Visual Discrimination and Large Area Mapping of Posidonia Oceanica Using a Lightweight AUV
Hacia la Navegación Visual de un Vehı́culo Autónomo Submarino en Areas con Posidonia Oceanica
iND: A significant improvement of the Nearness Diagram method for reactive mobile robot navigation
EG strategy – real experiment using a low-cost robot
The EG strategy moves an Eyebot robot in an office-like environment with a U-shaped obstacle. Click here to see or download the video (for a better visualization, we recommend to download it). As can be appreciated in the above figure, the mission consisted in going...
Indistinguishability Operators Applied to Task Allocation Problems in Multi-Agent Systems
In this paper we show an application of indistinguishability operators to model response functions. Such functions are used in the mathematical modeling of the task allocation problem in multi-agent systems when the stimulus, perceived by the agent, to perform a task...
Detection of Defects on Vessel Structures using Saliency-related Features
Seagoing vessels have to undergo regular visual inspections in order to detect the typical defective situations affecting metallic structures, such as cracks and corrosion. These inspections are currently performed manually by ship surveyors at a great cost. Assisting...
Contributions to Robot-based Vessel Visual Inspection
A proposal toward a possibilistic multi-robot task allocation
Towards a Dynamic Task Allocation Scheme for Highly-Reliable Adaptive Distributed Embedded Systems
An adaptive distributed embedded system is able to automatize some processes at the same time it modifies its behaviour autonomously and dynamically in response to changing operating conditions. To support adaptivity it is necessary that the underlying Distributed...
Towards a Time Redundancy Mechanism for Critical Frames in Time-Sensitive Networking
Time-Sensitive Networking (TSN) is a set of technical standards that is being developed to provide Ethernet with hard real-time, reliability and flexibility services. In the last years, there has been a growing interest in increasing the connectivity of all kind of...
New Results on Possibilistic Cooperative Multi-Robot Systems
A Comparative Analysis of Indistinguishability Operators Applied to Swarm Multi-Robot Task Allocation Problem
Toward a Possibilistic Swarm Multi-robot Task Allocation: Theoretical and Experimental Results
Selecting the best task to execute (task allocation problem) is one of the main problems in multi-robot systems. Typical ways to address this problem are based on swarm intelligence and very especially using the so-called response threshold method. In the...