Decommissioned wind turbine blades: a pedagogical project on the uses of the raw material

The incorporation of new technical challenges created by the increase of the wind power industry in the world and how they were integrated into a MSc Course of Mechanical Engineering is addressed in this article.info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersio

Functional, lightweight materials: outlook, future trends and challenges

The growing demand for weight-saving engineering applications has led to the progress of lightweight composites with functional properties for an increasing number of applications. Lightweight materials with functional properties can be developed using a wide range of host matrices and reinforcement material. These large variety of possible combinations allow the development of new functional materials, structures and devices and that represent the present and the future of different engineering areas. Their novel properties combined with advanced manufacturing processes strongly increases the use of these materials in applications. This chapter presents some relevant challenges and an outlook on the future of this field.The authors thank the FCT (Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia) for financial support under the framework of Strategic Funding grants UID/FIS/04650/2019, UID/EEA/04436/2013 and UID/QUI/0686/2016; projects PTDC/EEI-SII/5582/2014 and PTDC/FIS-MAC/28157/2017 and grants s SFRH/BPD/110914/2015 (P.C.) and SFRH/BPD/112547/2015 (C.M.C.) Funding from the Basque Government Industry and Education Departments under the ELKARTEK, HAZITEK and PIBA (PIBA-2018-06) programs, respectively, is also acknowledged

Patriarcas/Minho football team

Autonomous mobile robots are ever increasing their num ber of di erent applications even in ludic application or in sports In the last few years several competitions of football have been organised with lots of teams participating This paper describes an Autonomous Mobile Robot which plays football and it was developed at the Industrial Electronics Engi neering department of the University of Minho in Guimares Portugal Each team is free to solve on his own way all the di erent electronics sensory systems playing algorithms etc as far as they cope with the rules imposed by the organisation Instead of using several di erent sensors increasing electronics complexity it was decided to use only one major sensor namely a vision system with the use of a colour camera All the image processing algorithms were developed from scratch and are hereby described . This vi sion system uses an innovative approach In order to see the whole field a convex mirror was placed on the top of the robot looking downwards with the video camera looking upwards towards the mirror This way the robot can see both goals the ball and other robots almost all the time as well as having a top view

Dynamical behaviour of the autonomous

This paper describes an Autonomous Mobile Robot project, developed by three senior students from the Industrial Electronics Engineering course during their probation period. A large robot was built in order to participate on the Festival International de Science et Technology 1998 in Bourges, France. In this contest, besides other tasks, the robot was supposed to follow a track painted on the floor. A dynamical approach was used for that purpose and this paper refers to the trajectory control module responsible to keep the robot centered and properly oriented as it travels through the track

CAMÕES autonomous mobile robot: image processing description

This paper describes an Autonomous Mobile Robot project, developed by three senior students from the Industrial Electronics Engineering course during their probation period. A large robot was built in order to participate on the Festival International de Science et Technology 1998 in Bourges, France. The robot was supposed to fulfil a certain number of rules stated by the organisation committee of this event. This paper describes the robot solution adopted by this team and the image processing software made specially for it

Robot Football Team from Minho University

This paper describes an Autonomous Mobile Robot team which plays football, developed by the Group of Automation and Robotics at the Industrial Electronics department of the University of Minho, in Guimarães (Portugal). In this competition each team is free to use and/or build all the different electronics, sensory systems, playing algorithms, etc. as far as they cope with the rules imposed by the organisation. Instead of using several different sensors increasing electronics complexity, this team decided to use only one major sensor: a vision system with a small colour camera. All the image processing algorithms were developed from scratch and they consist on the heart of the whole project. This vision system uses an innovative approach: in order to see the whole field, a convex mirror was placed at the top of the robot looking downwards with the video camera looking upwards towards the mirror. This way, the robot can see all around itself with a top view, which means continuous vision of the ball, goals and other robots.(undefined

Corrida Geológica: uma proposta lúdica para o ensino de Geociências na educação básica

Anais do 3° Encontro Nacional de Jogos e Atividades Lúdicas no Ensino de Química, Física e Biologia (Jalequim - Level III) - Núcleo de Desenvolvimento de Pesquisas em Ensino de Química/Ciências da UNILA (NuDDEQ)O ensino de ciências é composto por diversas áreas do conhecimento, e essa diversidade de informações pode desentimular os alunos durante o processo de ensino. Devido a isso, é importante que o professor de ciências busque recursos que contribuam com a melhoria da dinâmica desse processo, aumentando assim o interesse dos alunos. Sendo assim, foi desenvolvido o jogo didático "Corrida Geológica", para constibuir com o processo de ensino de Geociências. Após a aplicação deste jogo a 46 alunos de duas escolas municipais do interior do noroeste fluminense, foi possível notar que o jogo desenvolvido foi considerado uma boa ferramenta didática para o ensino de Geociências, tendo grande aprovação em todos os parâmetros avaliados, e cativando todos os alunos participantes

Velódromo: a infraestrutura esportiva como fator gerador de demanda

PRANCHA RESUMO- Velódromo: a infraestrutura esportiva como fator gerador de demandaPRANCHA RESUMO- Velódromo: a infraestrutura esportiva como fator gerador de demand