Robotic control based on the human nervous system

This article presents a model of robotic control system inspired by the human neuroregulatory system. This model allows the application of functional and organizational principles of biological systems to robotic systems. It also proposes appropriate technologies to implement this proposal, in particular the services. To illustrate the proposal, we implemented a control system for mobile robots in dynamic open environments, demonstrating the viability of both the model and the technologies chosen for implementation

Model of Competencies for Decomposition of Human Behavior: Application to Control System of Robots

Humans and machines have shared the same physical space for many years. To share the same space, we want the robots to behave like human beings. This will facilitate their social integration, their interaction with humans and create an intelligent behavior. To achieve this goal, we need to understand how human behavior is generated, analyze tasks running our nerves and how they relate to them. Then and only then can we implement these mechanisms in robotic beings. In this study, we propose a model of competencies based on human neuroregulator system for analysis and decomposition of behavior into functional modules. Using this model allow separate and locate the tasks to be implemented in a robot that displays human-like behavior. As an example, we show the application of model to the autonomous movement behavior on unfamiliar environments and its implementation in various simulated and real robots with different physical configurations and physical devices of different nature. The main result of this study has been to build a model of competencies that is being used to build robotic systems capable of displaying behaviors similar to humans and consider the specific characteristics of robots

Implicar al alumno en su aprendizaje. Una experiencia en Gestión y Gobierno TI

Con la llegada de los grados y los nuevos planes docentes, hemos visto aparecer asignaturas que desarrollan competencias que hasta hoy no eran abordadas durante la carrera. En nuestro caso, la asignatura de Gestión y Gobierno de las Tecnologías de la Información presenta unos contenidos con un calado atípico para un Ingeniero Informático ya que aspectos como legislación internacional, gestión de recursos humanos, responsabilidad ética o impacto social no han sido abordados tradicionalmente en los planes docentes antiguos y además se alejan del resto de asignaturas más tradicionales. Estos nuevos contenidos requieren de nuevas metodologías docentes, tanto dentro como fuera del aula, y de formas de evaluación donde se consiga implicar al alumnado en un verdadero proceso de evaluación continua. En este trabajo exponemos nuestra experiencia docente en la dicha asignatura, donde se han aplicado distintas técnicas colaborativas como son los debates, exposiciones y defensas temáticas, el uso del portafolio público como herramienta central de seguimiento y la propia implicación del alumnado para consensuar el baremo evaluador. Este planteamiento docente ha generado un entorno en el que el profesorado no dirige sino cataliza el aprendizaje, obteniendo resultados muy satisfactorios tanto para el alumnado como para el profesorado

Experiencia docente en el Gobierno y Gestión TI

La implantación de los grados ha provocado la aparición de nuevas asignaturas cuyas competencias no se abordaban anteriormente y sobre cuya formación no se tiene referencia, o se tiene muy poca, en nuestras áreas. Los contenidos de estas asignaturas pueden poseer un calado atípico para un Ingeniero Informático ya que aspectos como legislación internacional, gestión de recursos humanos, responsabilidad ética o impacto social no se abordaban en planes antiguos, además de alejarse bastante de las asignaturas más tradicionales. Estos nuevos contenidos requieren de nuevas metodologías docentes, tanto dentro como fuera del aula, y de formas de evaluación donde se consiga implicar al alumnado en un verdadero proceso de evaluación continua. En este trabajo exponemos nuestra experiencia docente en la asignatura Gestión y Gobierno de las Tecnologías de la Información donde se han aplicado distintas técnicas colaborativas como son los debates, exposiciones y defensas temáticas, el uso del portafolio público como herramienta central de seguimiento y la propia implicación del alumnado para consensuar el baremo evaluador. Este planteamiento docente ha generado un entorno en el que el profesorado no dirige sino cataliza el aprendizaje, obteniendo resultados muy satisfactorios tanto para el alumnado como para el profesorado

An AI-based Ventilation KPI using embedded IoT devices

The air ventilation of enclosed premises has a direct impact on the occupants well-being. If not properly regulated, the air ventilation can originate a multitude of diseases and pathologies. The present study proposes a new KPI (ventilation KPI) adapted to Smart Cities. It is especially designed for academic environments (Smart Universities) in which community members spend a long time gathered in classrooms, seminars, laboratories, etc. The ventilation KPI (or KPIv) was designed to support decision-making and is based on the estimation of the number of occupants of an enclosed space and the accumulation of existing CO2. Two AI techniques are proposed to perform these estimations, specifically, two regressive neural networks. The resulting models, together with the KPI were implemented through the development of value-added services for the University of Alicantes Smart University platform. The network models were designed to be embedded within the built IoT device prototypes. These prototypes are small and inexpensive. They act as intelligent sensors and are connected via a low consumption and emission network (LoRa). The case study showed that it is possible to take advantage of the pre-existing services and resources of these platforms, and to validate the KPIv

IT Strategic Project Portfolio - Process Sheets

This document describes in detail the processes that make up the framework of the IT Strategic Project Portfolio (ITSPP). It has been developed within the GrupoM: Redes y Middleware research group at the University of Alicante

Strategic IT alignment Projects. Towards Good Governance

The senior management of organisations frequently perceive IT Projects as merely technological in nature. They fail to realise that in reality, the mission of IT is to provide technology-based support to business processes that can be key to the organisation. This lack of understanding means that these IT projects are not aligned with the business objectives and that investments in resources and personnel are not adequately prioritised. This can lead to an opportunity loss: a mere computerising of the business is sought, and processes that could turn out to be transformative, generating added value, driving a true digital transformation of the business are overlooked. This article proposes a model for implementing and operating a portfolio of strategic IT projects. Based on Good Governance principles, these latter projects move strategic decision-making up to an organisation's senior management, succeeding in gradually implicating these managers into the IT strategy. But above all, the model succeeds in achieving the targeted strategic alignment of IT projects with the organisation's business objectives and interests. The model has already been implemented in fourteen medium and large size public universities. The follow-up through interviews of the nine longest-standing experiences—some are nearly a decade old—revealed that the portfolio implementation strategy had helped to markedly improve the following elements: the institutions’ state of maturity of Good Governance; senior management's involvement in IT projects; and the identification of the most interesting IT projects for the business. To conclude, based on our experience, we can affirm that the strategic IT alignment projects is an effective IT Governance tool and, by extension, an example of Good Governance practice

Portal de Recursos Docentes con Perspectiva de Género para la Docencia Universitaria

En este trabajo abordamos el desarrollo de un Portal de Recursos Docentes con Perspectiva de Género para la Docencia Universitaria promovido desde la Unidad de Igualdad de la Universidad de Alicante y financiado por el Instituto de la Mujer, donde se ha creado una biblioteca digital que recoge un gran número de recursos digitales para ayudar y extender la inclusión de la perspectiva de género en la docencia universitaria. En el presente artículo se recoge cuál ha sido el proceso para recopilar los recursos, cómo se ha creado la biblioteca digital y de qué manera su puesta en marcha ha favorecido la inclusión de perspectiva de género en una asignatura de Ingeniería Informática

Monitoring and Prevention the Smart Cities

Nowadays, the intensive use of Technology Information (TI) provide solutions to problems of the high population density, energy conservation and cities management. This produces a newest concept of the city, Smart City. But the inclusion of TI in the city brings associated new problems, specifically the generation of electromagnetic fields from the available and new technological infrastructures installed in the city that did not exist before. This new scenario produces a negative effect on a particular group of the society, as are the group of persons with electromagnetic hypersensitivity pathology. In this work we propose a system that would allow you to detect and prevent the continuous exposure to such electromagnetic fields, without the need to include more devices or infrastructure which would only worsen these effects. Through the use of the architecture itself and Smart City services, it is possible to infer the necessary knowledge to know the situation of the EMF radiation and thus allow users to avoid the areas of greatest conflict. This knowledge, not only allows us to get EMF current map of the city, but also allows you to generate predictions and detect future risk situations.This work has been performed within project Smart University funded from the Vice President office for Information Technology at the University of Alicante

Smart Sentinel: Monitoring and Prevention System in the Smart Cities

Today, faced with the constant rise of the Smart cities around the world, there is an exponential increase of the use and deployment of information technologies in the cities. The intensive use of Information Technology (IT) in these ecosystems facilitates and improves the quality of life of citizens, but in these digital communities coexist individuals whose health is affected developing or increasing diseases such as electromagnetic hypersensitivity. In this paper we present a monitoring, detection and prevention system to help this group, through which it is reported the rates of electromagnetic radiation in certain areas, based on the information that the own Smart City gives us. This work provides a perfect platform for the generation of predictive models for detection of future states of risk for humans.This work has been performed within project Smart University funded from the Vice President office for Information Technology at the University of Alicante