Aprendizaje de la Domótica basado en prácticas experimentales y problemas

En este trabajo se expone la metodología utilizada en la asignatura de Domótica en el contexto del Máster Universitario en Innovación Tecnológica en Edificación de la Escuela Universitaria de Ingeniería de la Edificación, centrada en el aprendizaje, en la investigación y reflexión que siguen los alumnos para llegar a una solución ante un problema planteado por el profesor. Además, se propone al alumno el diseño y construcción de un sistema automático que se pueda aplicar en la domotización de una vivienda.--- ABSTRACT --- In this work it is exposed the methodology used in the course of Domotic in the context of the Master in Technological Innovation in Building of the School of Building Engineering, focused on learning, research and reflection that students to reach a solution to a problem proposed by the teacher. In addition, it is proposed to the student the design and construction of an automated system that can be applied in a home domotics

PWM Control of a Buck Converter with an Amorphous Core Coil

Pulse-width modulation is widely used to control electronic converters. One of the most topologies used for high DC voltage/low DC voltage conversion is the Buck converter. It is obtained as a second order system with a LC filter between the switching subsystem and the load. The use of a coil with an amorphous magnetic material core instead of air core lets design converters with smaller size. If high switching frequencies are used for obtaining high quality voltage output, the value of the auto inductance L is reduced throughout the time. Then, robust controllers are needed if the accuracy of the converter response must not be affected by auto inductance and load variations. This paper presents a robust controller for a Buck converter based on a state space feedback control system combined with an additional virtual space variable which minimizes the effects of the inductance and load variations when a not-toohigh switching frequency is applied. The system exhibits a null steady-state average error response for the entire range of parameter variations. Simulation results are presented

Development of an electrochemical maltose biosensor

In this work, electrochemical maltose biosensors based on mutants of the maltose binding protein (MBP) are developed. A ruthenium II complex (Ru II ), which is covalently attached to MBP, serves as an electrochemical reporter of MBP conformational changes. Biosensors were made through direct attachment of Ru II complex modified MBP to gold electrode surfaces. The responses of some individual mutants were evaluated using square wave voltammetry. A maltose-dependent change in Faradic current and capacitance was observed. It is therefore demonstrated that biosensors using generically this family of bacterial periplasmic binding proteins (bPBP) can be made lending themselves to facile biorecognition element preparation and low cost electrochemical transduction

Using the Own Flexibility of a Climbing Robot as a Double Force Sensor

Force sensors are used when interaction tasks are carried out by robots in general, and by climbing robots in particular. If the mechanics and electronics systems are contained inside the own robot, the robot becomes portable without external control. Commercial force sensors cannot be used due to limited space and weight. By selecting the links material with appropriate stiffness and placing strain gauges on the structure, the own robot flexibility can be used such as force sensor. Thus, forces applied on the robot tip can be measured without additional external devices. Only gauges and small internal electronic converters are necessary. This paper illustrates the proposed algorithm to achieve these measurements. Additionally, experimental results are presented

Torque control of switched reluctance motors

This paper presents the performance of an instantaneous torque control method. The simulation and experimental results illustrate the capability of Switched Reluctance Motors (SRM) being used in the motor drive industry. Based on experimental data, the advantages of this control method and its disadvantages in practical implementation were studied. The model used in the simulation is the linear magnetic model which has the 12/8 structure, the same structure as the experimental switched reluctance motor

Performance optimization in switched reluctance motor drives

In this paper, switched reluctance motors (SRM) are proposed as an alternative for electric power assisted steering (EPAS) applications. A prototype machine has been developed as very attractive design for a steering electric motor, both from a cost and size perspective. A fourphase 8/6 SRM drive is designed for a rack type EPAS which should provide a maximum force of 10 kN. Two-dimension finite element analysis is used to validate the design

A machine learning approach to pedestrian detection for autonomous vehicles using High-Definition 3D Range Data

This article describes an automated sensor-based system to detect pedestrians in an autonomous vehicle application. Although the vehicle is equipped with a broad set of sensors, the article focuses on the processing of the information generated by a Velodyne HDL-64E LIDAR sensor. The cloud of points generated by the sensor (more than 1 million points per revolution) is processed to detect pedestrians, by selecting cubic shapes and applying machine vision and machine learning algorithms to the XY, XZ, and YZ projections of the points contained in the cube. The work relates an exhaustive analysis of the performance of three different machine learning algorithms: k-Nearest Neighbours (kNN), Naïve Bayes classifier (NBC), and Support Vector Machine (SVM). These algorithms have been trained with 1931 samples. The final performance of the method, measured a real traffic scenery, which contained 16 pedestrians and 469 samples of non-pedestrians, shows sensitivity (81.2%), accuracy (96.2%) and specificity (96.8%).This work was partially supported by ViSelTR (ref. TIN2012-39279) and cDrone (ref. TIN2013-45920-R) projects of the Spanish Government, and the “Research Programme for Groups of Scientific Excellence at Region of Murcia” of the Seneca Foundation (Agency for Science and Technology of the Region of Murcia—19895/GERM/15). 3D LIDAR has been funded by UPCA13-3E-1929 infrastructure projects of the Spanish Government. Diego Alonso wishes to thank the Spanish Ministerio de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, Subprograma Estatal de Movilidad, Plan Estatal de Investigación Científica y Técnica y de Innovación 2013–2016 for grant CAS14/00238

Dynamic control of a reconfigurable stair-climbing mobility system

Electric-powered wheelchairs improve the mobility of people with physical disabilities, but the problem to deal with certain architectural barriers has not been resolved satisfactorily. In order to solve this problem, a stair-climbing mobility system (SCMS) was developed. This paper presents a practical dynamic control system that allows the SCMS to exhibit a successful climbing process when faced with typical architectural barriers such as curbs, ramps, or staircases. The implemented control system depicts high simplicity, computational efficiency, and the possibility of an easy implementation in a microprocessor-/microcontroller-based system. Finally, experiments are included to support theoretical results

New system for measuring impact vibration on floor decking sheets

The present paper exposes an alternative system more simple and economic, consisting of a predefined beating device and a sensor able to determine, once produced the hit, the energy absorbed by the plate. After the impact being produced, the plate undergoes a deformation which absorbs part of the energy, being the reminding one transmitted to the slab and, at the same time, causing induced airborne noise in the adjoining room

Eficacia luminosa en superficies horizontales en la estación de Radiación Solar e Iluminación de alta calidad del IDMP en Madrid

En la estación de radiación solar e iluminación de alta calidad del International Daylight Measurement Program (IDMP) en Madrid, ubicada en la Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura de la Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (40º 25’ N, 3º 41’ W) se ha realizado un estudio detallado sobre la e-cacia luminosa de la radiación global, difusa y directa en super¬cies horizontales para todo tipo de cielos (despejados, cubiertos y parcialmente cubiertos). La parte experimental ha consistido en tomar medidas durante 5 segundos cada 15 minutos, diariamente, de iluminancias e irradiancias globales y difusas durante 15 meses, a partir de las cuales se han deducido modelos para determinar iluminancias, irradiancias y e¬cacias luminosas de la radiación solar para todo tipo de cielos en función de la altitud solar, considerando pequeños intervalos de 2,5º. El principal resultado obtenido es constatar que es posible deducir un modelo de e¬cacia luminosa a partir de modelos de iluminancia e irradiancia obtenidos previamente, muy útiles para estimar los niveles de iluminación en la edi¬cació