The motion of a car is described using a stochastic model in which the driving processes are the steering angle and the tangential acceleration. The model incorporates exactly the kinematic constraint that the wheels do not slip sideways. Two lters based on this model have been implemented, namely the standard EKF, and a new lter (the CUF) in which the expectation and the covariance of the syst...

The motion of a car is described using a stochastic model in which the driving processes are the steering angle and the tangential acceleration. The model incorporates exactly the kinematic constraint that the wheels do not slip sideways. Two lters based on this model have been implemented, namely the standard EKF, and a new lter (the CUF) in which the expectation and the covariance of the syst...

In this M.Sc. Thesis, a biometric recognition system based on images simulated at the millimeter wave band of the electromagnetic spectrum is implemented and tested. In particular, body geometry information obtained from the silhouette of the body is used to determine the user's identity. In order to achieve this goal, firstly, some existing human body imaging technologies working beyond the vi...

TITLE: Estudio de estrategias de selección del formato de transmisión para el enlace ascendente en sistemas WCDMA. To Antonio for his help in all aspects during all the project time. I want to thank to my parents, for their advices and their support, too. And finally I want to mention my sister Dèlia for her smile in hard moments. Overview The proposed PFC is in the framework of Radio Resources...

1 Universidad de Caldas, Calle 65 No. 26-10, P.O. Box: Apartado Aéreo 275, Manizales, Caldas, Colombia 2 Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Carrera 27 No. 64-60, P.O. Box: Apartado Aéreo 275, Manizales, Colombia 3 Department of Mathematics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Calle 45, Carrera 30. P.O. Box: Apartado Aéreo 52465, Bogota, Colombia 4 Department of Mathemati...

This paper addresses the problem of formulation of a unified dynamic model for sundry robotic manipulator systems derived from the first principle of mechanics instead of the existing formulation based on linear separability principle. It provides a systematic derivation, evaluation and subsequent conceptual interpretation of manipulator dynamics model. Further, it analyzes the generality of th...

Variable-angle-tow (VAT) composite laminates can eventually improve the mechanical performance of lightweight structures by taking advantage a larger design space compared to straight-fiber counterparts. Here, we provide scalable low- high-fidelity methodology retrieve tow angles that maximize buckling load and fundamental frequency VAT plates. A genetic algorithm is used solve optimization pro...

Abstract In this paper, the use of node-dependent kinematics concept for geometrical nonlinear analysis composite one-dimensional structures is proposed With present approach, can be independent in each element node. Therefore theory changes continuously over structural domain, describing remarkable cross-section deformation with higher-order and giving a lower-order kinematic to those portion ...