• Fast FPGA prototyping to explore and compare new SPWM strategies 

      Geninatti, Sergio R.; Ortiz-López, Manuel; Quiles-Latorre, Francisco Javier; Morales-Leal, Tomás; Gersnoviez, Andrés; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (Elsevier, 2024)
      This study presents a Flexible Test Bench (FTB) implemented with FPGA that synthesises of a large number of strategies that apply “Spread Spectrum” to reduce the energy of the fundamental harmonics present in a conventional ...
    • First Approach to a Holistic Tool for Assessing RES Investment Feasibility 

      Flores Arias, José María; Ciabattoni, Lucio; Monteriù, Andrea; Bellido Outeiriño, Francisco José; Escribano, Antonio; Palacios García, Emilio (MDPI, 2018)
      Combining availability, viability, sustainability, technical options, and environmental impact in an energy-planning project is a difficult job itself for the today’s engineers. This becomes harder if the potential ...
    • FPGA implementation of embedded fuzzy controllers for robotic applications 

      Brox-Jiménez, María; Moreno-Velo, Francisco J.; Baturone, Iluminada; Cabrera, Alejandro J.; Sánchez-Solano, Santiago (IEEE, 2007)
      Fuzzy-logic-based inference techniques provide efficient solutions for control problems in classical and emerging applications. However, the lack of specific design tools and systematic approaches for hardware implementation ...
    • General logarithmic image processing convolution 

      Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; Prieto, Alberto; Ros, Eduardo; González, Jesús (IEEE, 2006)
      The logarithmic image processing model (LIP) is a robust mathematical framework, which, among other benefits, behaves invariantly to illumination changes. This paper presents, for the first time, two general formulations ...
    • GPU acceleration for liver enhancement and segmentation 

      Satpute, Nitin (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2020)
      This doctoral thesis deepens the GPU acceleration for liver enhancement and segmentation. With this motivation, detailed research is carried out here in a compendium of articles. The work developed is structured in three ...
    • Graphical Diagnosis of Performances in Photovoltaic Systems: A Case Study in Southern Spain 

      Santiago, Isabel; Trillo Montero, David; Luna Rodríguez, J.J.; Moreno-García, Isabel; Palacios García, Emilio (MDPI, 2017)
      The starting point of the operation and maintenance tasks in photovoltaic plants is the continuous monitoring and supervision of its components. The great amount of registered data requires a major improvement in the ...
    • Heterogeneous parallel computing for image registration and linear algebra applications 

      Zachariadis, Orestis (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2020)
      This doctoral thesis focuses on GPU acceleration of medical image registration and sparse general matrix-matrix multiplication (SpGEMM). The comprehensive work presented here aims to enable new possibilities in Image Guided ...
    • Hierarchical fuzzy controllers for explicit MPC control laws: adaptive cruise control example 

      Gersnoviez, Andrés; Brox-Jiménez, María; Baturone, Iluminada (IEEE, 2020)
      This paper presents a methodology to approximate explicit Model Predictive Control (MPC) laws by hierarchical fuzzy systems, particularly piecewise-affine hierarchical (PWAH) systems. These hierarchical controllers provide ...
    • High-speed and low-cost implementation of explicit model predictive controllers 

      Gersnoviez, Andrés; Brox-Jiménez, María; Baturone, Iluminada (IEEE, 2017)
      This paper presents a new form of piecewise-affine (PWA) solution, referred to as PWA hierarchical (PWAH), to approximate the explicit model predictive control (MPC) law, achieving a very rapid control response with the ...
    • Homomorphic Filtering for Improving Time Synchronization in Wireless Networks 

      Castillo Secilla, José María; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; León, Fernando; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín (MDPI, 2017)
      Wireless sensor networks are used to sample the environment in a distributed way. Therefore, it is mandatory for all of the measurements to be tightly synchronized in order to guarantee that every sensor is sampling the ...
    • Honey Bee Colonies Remote Monitoring System 

      Gil-Lebrero, Sergio; Quiles-Latorre, Francisco Javier; Ortiz-López, Manuel; Sánchez-Ruiz, Víctor; Gámiz-López, Victoria; Luna Rodríguez, J.J. (MDPI, 2017)
      Bees are very important for terrestrial ecosystems and, above all, for the subsistence of many crops, due to their ability to pollinate flowers. Currently, the honey bee populations are decreasing due to colony collapse ...
    • Integración de dispositivos electrónicos inteligentes en Smart Grid 

      Real Calvo, Rafael Jesús (Universidad de Córdoba, UCOPress, 2016)
      El sector eléctrico está experimentando cambios importantes tanto a nivel de gestión como a nivel de mercado. Una de las claves que están acelerando este cambio es la penetración cada vez mayor de los Sistemas de Generación ...
    • Inteligencia Artificial: aplicaciones a la espectrometría y dosimetría neutrónicas 

      Ortiz Rodríguez, José Manuel (Universidad de Córdoba, Servicio de Publicaciones, 2011)
      El objetivo de la presente tesis doctoral se centra en el estudio de metodolog´ıas aplicadas en el dise ˜ no de arquitecturas ´optimas de redes neuronales, as´ı como en el dise ˜ no de herramientas tecnol´ogicas que permitan ...
    • Intelligent Methods for Characterization of Electrical Power Quality Signals using Higher Order Statistical Features 

      Palomares-Salas, José Carlos; González de la Rosa, Juan José; Agüera Pérez, Agustín; Moreno-Muñoz, A. (SIGMA NOT, 2012)
      This paper considers a few important techniques classification for to identify several power quality disturbances. For this purpose, a process based in HOS has been realized to extract features that help in classification. ...
    • Internet transparente 

      Moreno-Muñoz, A. (EPI SCP, 2001)
      Si hay una característica que realmente guíe cada avance tecnológico esa es la levedad. En Internet, la levedad (junto con otras más de las que ya hemos hablado anteriormente) se ha convertido en el objeto inalcanzable de ...
    • Laboratorio portátil de experimentación electrónica 

      Flores Arias, José María (Consejo Social de la Universidad de Córdoba, 2008)
    • LED street lighting: A power quality comparison among street light technologies 

      Bollen, M.H.J.; Larsson, A.; Moreno-Muñoz, A.; González de la Rosa, Juan José; Gil-de-Castro, Aurora (SAGE Publications, 2012)
      High-pressure sodium lamps are currently the main lamps used in public lighting. However, the possibility of using high-power light emitting diode (LEDs) for street lighting is growing continuously due to their greater ...
    • Leer a los clásicos 

      Moreno-Muñoz, A. (EPI SCP, 2001)
      Encontrarse de nuevo con el libro The psychology of everyday things (Norman, D. A., 1988) es siempre una agradable y tranquila aventura, principalmente si tenemos en cuenta que su año de publicación es 1988 (en 1990 cambiaría ...
    • License Plate Detection based on Genetic Neural Networks, Morphology, and Active Contours 

      Olivares Bueno, Joaquín; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; Soto Hidalgo, José Manuel; Gámez Granados, Juan Carlos (2010)
      This paper describes a new method for License Plate Detection based on Genetic Neural Networks, Morphology, and Active Contours. Given an image is divided into several virtual regions sized 10×10 pixels, applying several ...
    • Lightweight method of shuffling overlapped data-blocks for data integrity and security in WSNs 

      Alcaraz Velasco, Francisco; Palomares Muñoz, José Manuel; Olivares Bueno, Joaquín (Elsevier, 2021)
      Wireless Sensor Networks (WSN) consist of devices with limited resources to explore and sense the environment in a cooperative way. Security, mainly in terms of guaranteeing the data integrity, is a primary issue for many ...