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Autonomous manipulator robot navigation to tidy up unknown environments
(2025) [Dissertation]The worldwide population is becoming older, and service robots may assist in home envi ronments to help with this demographic challenge. Therefore, there is room for proposing strategies that enable the robot to perform a ... -
Exploring the impact of hardware technologies on effective bandwidth : a case study on a brazilian mobile web network
(2024) [Dissertation]The Internet has shifted towards a mobile-first ecosystem with tools, frameworks, and forums explicitly discussing and catering for the mobile users, both mobile apps and mobile web-pages. Although many of these tools are ... -
KTWIN : a serverless kubernetes-based digital twin platform
(2024) [Dissertation]Digital Twins (DTs) systems are virtual representations of physical assets allowing organizations to gain insights and improve existing processes. In practice, DTs require proper modeling, coherent development and seamless ... -
Fundamental Requirements of Digital Twins forProduction System in Oil and Gas Industry
(2024) [Dissertation]Digital Twin (DT) has become a main object of study in recent years, with many applications. It brings promising results to various fields where it can be applied, especially in large industrial applications such as Smart ... -
Areference ontology of portions of matter
(2024) [Dissertation]The maincontributions of this dissertation are a reference ontology about portions of mat ter and the existential events that create and destroy these entities. Two case studies in the domains of Geology and Oil & Gas ... -
Characterizing weight perception in VR with ungrounded haptic devices : a study of wrist strain and wrist torque through force-feedback and pendular actuation
(2024) [Dissertation]Virtual reality (VR) offers immersive experiences, yet replicating the sense of touch, particularly weight perception, remains a challenge due to the limitations of grounded forcefeedback devices. In response to this, our ... -
Extracting displacement maps through differentiable rendering and dynamic tessellation
(2024) [Dissertation]We introduce a Differentiable Rendering pipeline to leverage hardware tessellation whenextracting displacement maps with respect to image-space gradients. This method allowsus to use differentiable rendering to reconstruct ... -
ContAudIT - uma abordagem de auditoria contínua com blockchain para gerenciamento de mudanças em TI
(2024) [Dissertation]Mudanças de Tecnologia da Informação (TI) são uma parte crítica das operações diárias da maioria das organizações modernas, e uma execução deficiente dessas mudanças pode representar riscos graves para a continuidade dos ... -
Mapping crowd-based dynamic blockages for navigation in indoor environments
(2025) [Dissertation]In indoor environments, the presence of people and dynamic objects is a common occurrence. In autonomous navigation, this proposes a challenge since such objects have unpredictable behavior. This affects the robots’ ... -
Producing synthetic instances for textual classification and natural language inference
(2024) [Thesis]Natural Language Inference (NLI) is a special type of text classification focused on deduction – a model is presented to a pair of sentences (premise and hypothesis) and classifies the relationship between their meanings. ...