José M. Azorín participated on March 28, 2014, in a meeting at the University of Houston (USA) with members of the Brain-Machine Interface Systems laboratory in the framework of the European project BioMot (Smart Wearable Robots with Bioinspired Sensory-Motor Skills).
Francisco Amorós defended his PhD Thesis “Application of the Global Appearance of Omnidirectional Visual Information in Colour to Robotic Navigation Tasks in 2½D Space” on February 24th 2014. The thesis, directed by Dr. Oscar Reinoso García, has been realized in the Automation, Robotics and Computer Vision Laboratory (ARVC). In this work, a comparative study of...
Francisco Javier Badesa successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Multimodal Interface and Bio-cooperative Control for Robot-Aided Neuro-Rehabilitation Systems" on January 24th 2014. The thesis, directed by Dr. Nicholas Manuel García Aracil and Dr. José María Sabater Navarro, was realized in the Robotics and Virtual Reality Research Laboratory (VR2). The thesis developed a new robotic system for...
Ignacio Moreno imparted a course on optical modulators at Universidad de La Frontera - UFRO, in Temuco (Chile). This course is part of the activities of the VII Post-Graduate Summer School at this universityand was developed between January 13th and January 17th. This course is also part of the existing relation between UMH and UFRO, which...
Alberto Rodriguez-Mayol defended his PhD Thesis "Reputation Techniques for Multi-hop Mobile Ad-hoc Networks" on July 24th 2013. The thesis, directed by Prof. Javier Gozalvez, was realized in the Ubiquitous Wireless Communications Research (Uwicore) Laboratory. The thesis developed novel cooperation mechanisms for mobile ad-hoc networks and multi-hop cellular networks. The mechanisms were designed to accurately detect...
Javier Gozalvez, Associate Profesor at UMH's Department of Communications Engineering and Director of the UWICORE Laboratory, has been appointed Program Co‐Chair of the IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference 2013 in Boston (USA). The conference is one of the major international scientific events in the area of vehicular networks and cooperative ITS. Prof. Javier Gozalvez will work together with Professor Marco...
Noureddine Haouari, a PhD student from the University of Science and Technology Houari Boumediene (USTHB) in Algiers (Algeria) visited the UWICORE laboratory during the month of december for joint research activities in vehicular networks. Noureddine Haouari is a third year PhD student at USTHB's Computer Science Department.
Javier Gozalvez, Associate Profesor at UMH's Department of Communications Engineering and Director of the UWICORE Laboratory, has been elected as Executive Vice President of the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society for 2014, and has been re‐elected to the Society's Board of Governors for a new 3 years term starting in 2014. The society has three main areas of...
Michele Rondinone successfully defended his PhD Thesis "Connectivity-based Routing and Dissemination Protocols for Vehicular Networks" on November 7th 2013. The thesis, directed by Prof. Javier Gozálvez and realized in the Ubiquitous Wireless Communications Research (Uwicore) Laboratory, proposes the design and evaluation of novel vehicular routing and dissemination protocols aimed at providing multi-hop cooperative ITS applications with good performance while efficiently...
Ignacio Moreno has been designated as associate editor of the international journal Optical Engineering, for the general area of materials, photonic devices & sensors. In particular, he will be in charge of conducting the review process of hte papers dealing wit liquid crystals and LED technology and devices.
- Sobrino-Manzanares presented his PhD Thesis “Bidirectional DC-DC conversion, multidevice, multiphase, controlled by FPGA with soft commutation and dynamic reconfiguration of power transistors”
- Organized in Elche the International Workshop on Assistive & Rehabilitation Technology – IWART
- Workshop on Neurotechnology organized at UMH
- David Valiente defends his PhD Thesis «View-based SLAM in the 2-1/2D space with omnidirectional images and feature point information»
- Carlos R. Fernández-Pousa participates in the develeopment of a new quantum light device compatible with fiber optic communications technology