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November The student Ander Loidi has been the winner of the scholarship awarded by the UVa Social Council for collaboration in research tasks at the institute during the 2018/2019 academic year. |
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January One more member in the senior residence Researchers from Valladolid design social interaction strategies: Robot to develop the physical and cognitive abilities of the elderly. See more… |
February Research projects of the Junta de Castilla y León “Analysis of energy-efficient technologies for the sustainability of buildings” and “Robots with the capacity for interaction and adaptation in healthcare environments” , respectively, for an amount of €120,000 each. Congratulations!
Congratulations Congratulations to the new professors. Recently (February 2019) ITAP members Eloy Velasco and Jaime Gómez have passed the competitive examination for the University Professors body. Congratulations!! Postdoctoral contract offer ROASIS Project ROBOTS WITH CAPACITY FOR INTERACTION AND ADAPTATION IN CARE ENVIRONMENTS More information: https://www2.eii.uva.es/GIR-TAP/OfertaTrabajo.pdf |
March ITAP has collaborated with CITECH in dissemination tasks within the “Industry and Technology Summit” that was held on March 28, 29 and 30, 2019 in Gijón. See more… Seminar on experimental techniques in structural dynamics Organized by the Structural Dynamics group of the School of Itineraries of the UPM and by the ITAP, the seminar on modal analysis techniques, signal processing and vibration cancellation has been held (from March 18 to 22, 2019) aimed at doctoral students, taught by professors Iván Muñoz and Emiliano Pereira. See more… |
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May Conference: “Detection of faults in electrical machines” Dr. Lucía Frosini Department of Electrical, Computer and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of Pavia, Italy. Wednesday, May 22, 10:30 -12:30, Lecture Hall of the School of Industrial Engineering, Paseo del Cauce. Abstract: Introduction to fault detection of electrical machines: meaning of diagnostics, types of faults that can occur in induction motors, possible fault indicators. Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA) for detection of broken rotor bars and the effects of rotor bar tilt on inter-bar currents. MCSA for detection of air gap eccentricity (static and dynamic). MCSA for detection of short circuits in stator windings supplied at low voltage. Bio: Lucia Frosini obtained a Master's degree (1994) and a PhD (2000) in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pavia, where she is an assistant professor and lecturer on “Diagnostic systems for electrical machines and drives” and “Design and technology of electrical machines and drives”. Organizers: GIR ADIRE, ITAP and the INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING DOCTORATE PROGRAM For more information: daniel.morinigo@eii.uva.es (Department of Electrical Engineering) A UVa research group will collaborate with MIT in the design of a device to reduce the risk of thrombosis See more… |
June UVa Research Supplement “El Norte de Castilla” La Oficina de Comunicación de la UVa y el Vicerrectorado de Extensión Universitaria, junto con los Institutos Universitarios de Investigación, han elaborado este suplemento donde se presentan los institutos y se resumen algunos de sus proyectos recientes. |
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September Seminar: “Therapeutic strategies for cardiac disease using soft materials, structures and devices” (Download PDF) Seminar: “Therapeutic strategies for cardiac disease using soft materials, structures and devices” (Download PDF) Professor Roche is a biomedical engineer and has developed new cardiac assistance devices and therapeutic treatments. The visit is funded by a project of the Fundación la Caixa – MISTI – MIT Spain in which we participated with her from the IBD Fluid Mechanics Group. Ellen is a pioneer in the use of “soft robotics” applied to bioengineering, working in this area together with the head of cardiac surgery at Boston Children’s Hospital, surgeon Pedro del Nido. |
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December Conference: “An Adaptive Neural Harmonic Compensator for Inverter-Fed Distributed Generation” (Download PDF) |
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March We will stop this virus together #StayHome |
April We will stop this virus together #StayHome13/04/2020 |
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June 30/06/2020 We would like to express our appreciation to all the staff involved in the fight against Covid-19, especially those who have contracted the disease and in particular to our colleague Carlos Vaquero, who has happily recovered. |
July 10/07/2020 Members of ITAP / University of Valladolid, as partners of PTEC, can participate in the third edition of Sacyr iChallenges, an open innovation and co-creation program aimed at solving, jointly with the innovative community, four business challenges posed by Sacyr. |
August 03/08/2020 Graduates (Bachelor's + Master's) interested in beginning PhD studies in research topics at the institute can apply for one of the predoctoral contracts offered by the university. To do so, they should contact the director/coordinator of the corresponding research team to focus their request. |
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October 01/10/2020 ITAP is currently immersed in the periodic evaluation process carried out by the Agency for the Quality of the University System of Castilla y León. Started in November 2019, and having submitted the application and the renewal report in March 2020, the last phase of this process remains in which the panel of experts proposed by ACSUCyL, made up of professors Mr. Francisco Tirado, Mr. Juan Ignacio Garcés and Mr. Robert Griñó, will interview different members of the institute, as well as representatives of the university itself, researchers in training and collaborating companies. 30/10/2020 Promoting energy efficiency in buildings is one of the pillars necessary to comply with the EU Green Deal. The Termotecnia group has just published the book “Design and Management of Nearly Zero Energy Buildings” with the aim of providing practical and current tools to the designer and energy manager of new or refurbished buildings. (More information) |
November 07/11/2020 Professor Daniel Moríñigo, together with professors René Romero and Joan Pons, is organizing a special issue in the indexed journal Energies (MDPI) dedicated to new techniques for early detection of faults in induction motors. Those researchers working in this field are invited to prepare a manuscript and send it before June 2021. For more information, consult here. |
December 04/12/2020 According to the statutes of the University of Valladolid, once the term of the current director has expired, elections must be called in accordance with the electoral calendar. The electoral rolls for each of the three bodies that will elect the new director coincide with the lists of the 32 academic members, 17 student representatives, and 4 members of the PAS. Academic members interested in submitting their candidacy may do so between 15 and 22 December. Voting will take place on 27 January 2021. |
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March 25/03/2021 On March 24, 2021, our colleague Ana Tejero González, from the Thermotechnology group, passed the competitive examination for the position of University Professor in the Department of Energy Engineering and Fluid Mechanics. The management of the institute congratulates her on her achievement. 08/03/2021 Thanks to the co – Expected date of submission of the paper to the journal. 03/03/2021 The professor |
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June 07/06/2021 Following the director elections held on 27/01/2021, the candidate, Mr. Juan Carlos Fraile Marinero, has gained the trust of the majority of the members. By rectoral resolution he takes possession of his new position on February 11, 2021 and on 23/02/2021 he appoints Mr. Antolín Lorenzana Ibán as secretary. Congratulations to the new management team of the institute! |
July Jul 2021 Professor Tomislav Jarak, from the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Zagreb, Croatia, has been awarded one of the 10 post-doctoral researcher contracts offered by the University of Valladolid in the 2020 call for applications. During his 3-year stay, he will work in the Structures Laboratory of the School of Industrial Engineering. His research topics include those related to mechanical fatigue and stress concentrations in new resistant materials, treated with a computational approach. |
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November 15/11/2021 On the occasion of its tenth anniversary, the Iberian Photocatalysis Association will present 10 awards to as many entities and people who have distinguished themselves by their support for the research and application of photocatalysis solutions as tools to improve air quality. One of the awards goes to our colleague Javier Rey, from the Thermotechnology group. Congratulations, Javier! More information is available at this link. 12/11/2021
CMMoST Congress The sixth edition of the international CMMOST congress will be held on December 1, 2 and 3, organized by ITAP, at the Escuelas de Ingenierías Industriales. During these days, 12 sessions will be held where more than 60 speakers will discuss aspects of computational mechanics such as “Simulation models for the analysis of structures”, “Sensorization for the characterization of actions on structures”, “Experimental methodology for the characterization of materials and structures”, “Models for the evaluation of structural damage”, “Models for structural interventions”, “Control of structures”, “Calibration of models” and “Structural Health Monitoring”. More information can be found on the website https://www.cmmost21.uva.es/ 11/11/2021 ITAP is participating in the First Conference on e-Health and Associated Technologies organised by the Oviedo City Council at the Health Sciences Incubator (Vivarium). The conference will be held on 11 and 12 November and will be attended by three technology companies and six universities. The topics to be addressed will include first aid platforms, risk prevention and health education. These conferences take place in a context of change in the relationship between technology and services and products in the health field, a change that has been accelerated following the health crisis suffered in recent months. |
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Luis Hernández Callejo is guest editor of the special issue
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9/Mar/2022 Since March, ITAP has been collaborating with the recognized research group Array Processing, based at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Telecomunicaciones. Coordinated by Professor Alberto Izquierdo, the group is specialized in discrete processing of multiple signals, including acoustic biometry and vehicle and pedestrian detection and tracking systems. Detailed information about the activities of its members is available on its website. |
April  4/Apr/2022 In order to adapt the Institute's Regulations to the legal modifications of recent years, in particular to the Statutes of the UVa, according to agreement 111/2020 of December 30 of the Junta de Castilla y León, on March 28, 2022, the Permanent Commission of the Governing Council of the UVa approves the new regulations of the Institute, which can be consulted here |
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September 15/Sep/2022 Stay of Professor Amgad Abazeed Within the KA107 Erasmus+ programme, ITAP will host Professor Amgad Abazeed, from the School of Engineering and Technology in Aswan, Egypt, belonging to the Arab Academy for Science, Technology and Marine Transport, for 6 months. A specialist in monitoring systems for large structures, he will work in the Structures laboratory, joining Professor Antolín Lorenzana's team. |
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December 16/Dec/2022 Projects with Collaborative Robots In this article from El Norte de Castilla the director of the institute comments on some recent success stories developed by different ITAP researchers in the field of collaborative robotics, including social robots, surgical robots, rehabilitation robots, service robots, hospital robots, etc. |
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9/3/2023 Professors Jaime Duque, Jaime Gómez and Eduardo Zalama have just published the book entitled “Artificial Vision through Machine Learning with Tensorflow and Pytorch” aimed at students, researchers and professionals eager to delve deeper into the field of artificial vision and supervised and unsupervised learning algorithms. It also contains numerous examples that allow solving current problems.
9/3/2023 (PID2021-123020OB-I00, MCIN/ AEI / 10.13039/501100011033 / FEDER, EU). This project seeks to advance the care and entertainment of the elderly through a precise combination of social robots, robotic navigation and manipulation systems, monitoring, control and telepresence systems and ambient intelligence. The research will be approached from a user-centred point of view, with many users and a significant effort of experimentation in real operating environments. To do so, it will have the support of entities and companies that provide social services with which we are collaborating.
9/3/2023 (Consejería de Familia de la Junta de Castilla y León – Next Generation EU). 1.- Ambient Intelligence System to support independent living. The project is being developed jointly with the CARTIF Technology Centre and various entities and associations that care for the elderly. | ||||||||
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25/Ago/2023 Five research staff positions are on offer, with references CP23/159, CP23/163, CP23/166, CP23/174 and CP23/186. With a deadline of 31 August, those who meet the requirements and are interested in collaborating in the different groups of the institute in the areas of health, ecological transition, green economy, digitalization of services and "data science" must formalize their application following the instructions available on the electronic site. https://portal.sede.uva.es/tablon/investigacion/f6463e93-4950-45a2-b4ea-434ef5e1696d. Important: a commitment to stay for 2 years is required. | ||||||||
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3/10/2023 The paper entitled “Energy Management of a Renewable District Heating (DH), through the Analysis of Indicators (KPI) for the Decarbonisation of a Building on a University Campus” presented by the PhD student Ms. Rosaura Sastre Zamora has won first prize at the First Latin American Congress on District heating and cooling, recently held in Cartagena, Colombia. Congratulations to both the co-authors and the GIR de Termotecnia research group of which they are part.
3/10/2023 Revolutionary study of mobility recovery. As a result of the collaboration between the ITAP institute and the Benito Menni Hospital, patients with functional deterioration due to Covid recover 70% of their movement capacity with the new RobHand exoskeleton. The advances will be presented this Tuesday, October 3, at the hospital itself. More information in this link.
27/10/2023 Professor Dr. Luis Morales, visiting professor at UVa during this academic year from the Autonomous University of Querétaro (Mexico), will give two lectures this November, on the 10th and 24th. The first, entitled The Internet of Things (IoT) in the digitalization of processes is aimed at all EII students (degree, master's), while the second, entitled Design of mixed signal systems for data acquisition is more geared towards researchers and PhD students. It will take place in Degree Room 2304 at the Mergelina Campus. Click on the links for more information.
31/10/2023 The paper entitled “Broken rotor bar fault detection using odd triple harmonics in delta-connected induction motors” presented by R.P. Policarlo de Souza, D. Moriñigo Sotelo, V. Fernández Cavero, O. Duque Pérez, C. Marcos Agulhari and A. Goedtel, has been awarded at the fourteenth edition of the IEEE congress: International Symposium on Diagnostics for Electric Machines, Power Electronics and Drives, SDEMPED_2023, recently held in Crete, Greece. Congratulations to both the co-authors and the GIR ADIRE research group of which they are part.
31/10/2023 Last Thursday, October 26, in the Degree Hall of the Faculty of Medicine, Professor Carlos Vaquero, honorary member of ITAP, presented his new book entitled “Technological support for surgery”. | ||||||||
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6/11/2023 In addition to the recent international award achieved in theDistrict Energy LATAM Conference 2023 held in Cartagena/Colombia, the research group GIR de Termotecnia maintains intense international activity. Last October, the professor and director of the group, Dr. Fco. Javier Rey, gave a keynote lecture on the energy transition in efficiency and renewable energies, invited by the College of Mechanical Engineers of Peru. Also, now in November activities will take place in Brazil in the context of the research project in which they collaborate, coinciding with the invited participation in a plenary session at the international congress.
22/Nov/2023 ITAP participates, through the Termotecnia GIR, together with 21 other groups from Latin American, Andorran, Portuguese and Spanish countries, in the thematic network on ENABLING TECHNOLOGIES FOR NEAR-ZERO BUILDINGS IN IBERO-AMERICA, financed by the Ibero-American Program for Science and Technology for Development (CYTED) in the 2023 call for proposals for the next 4 years. The project director is Rodrigo Ramirez Pisco, from the Universitat CARLEMANY of Andorra, and the coordinator at the UVa is the professor of AgroForestal Engineering Dr. Manuel Navas, with the person responsible on behalf of ITAP being professor Javier Rey. More information at: https://cyted.org/conteudo.php?idnoticia=892 | ||||||||
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04/04/2023 On April 4, the following news was published in the newspaper “El Norte de Castilla” (click on the image to enlarge):  The robot that helps the elderly to continue living at home
07/04/2023 On April 7, the next news (click on the image to expand): A magazine of international prestige collects the research from UVA and Benito Menni that supports the exoskeleton to rescue mobility and reduce the lack of autonomy.
17/04/2023 We congratulate José Ramón Perán González, general director of Cartif, professor emeritus of the UVa, former director of the EII and member of ITAP, who has been awarded the “XI Prize for the Best Economic Director of Castilla y León”, for the launch 30 years ago of Cartif, which is currently positioned as the first technological center in Castilla y León and second in Spain in terms of its participation in projects financed by the Horizonte program. Europe. The awards ceremony will take place next May 9 at 6:15 p.m. in Auditorium I of the Valladolid Fair. |
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Organized by the ADIRE group, professors Dr. René de Jesús Romero, from the Autonomous University of Querétaro, and Dr. Tomás A. García from the University of Valladolid will teach an introductory course to the spectral analysis of signals in the industry on June 13, 2024 in Room 2304 of the Mergelina/EII Headquarters. It has been divided into two parts: The first part is dedicated to a theoretical introduction to the spectral analysis of stationary signals with the FFT. The second part addresses the time-frequency analysis of non-stationary signals with the Short-Time Fourier Transform. In both blocks, practical examples of signals taken in industry and electrical installations will be shown. More information in this enlace. |
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