LIBICP: C++ Library for Iterative Closest Point Matching

LIBICP (LIBrary for Iterative Closest Point fitting) is a cross-platfrom C++ library with MATLAB wrappers for fitting 2d or 3d point clouds with respect to each other.

By: Andreas Geiger and Philip Lenz and Raquel Urtasun
Blog: https://autonomousvision.github.io/
Paper: Are we ready for autonomous driving? The KITTI vision benchmark suite, 2012 IEEE Conf. on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

simpleICP: matlab function Iterative Closest Point Matching (available at FileExchange)
globalICP: A multi-scan ICP implementation for Matlab

Virsmel

Caramel artesanal amb mel, extractes de plantes i vitamina C fets a Lleida. Contenen polifenols que tenen un efecte prebiòtic que pot ajudar a reforçar les defenses del cos davant d'infeccions virals.

New research group to face new challenges: Logic, Optimization and Robotics (LOR)

Després de 31 anys de funcionament, el Departament d'Informàtica i Enginyeria Industrial (DIEI) de la UdL es divideix en dos nous departaments...

Departament d'Enginyeria Industrial i de l'Edificació (DEIE)
Departament d'Enginyeria Informàtica i Disseny Digital (DEIDD)

Llarga durada als nous departaments... !

Non-Parametric Calibration of the Inverse Kinematic Matrix of a Three-Wheeled Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Based on Genetic Algorithms, Applied Sciences 2023, 13(2), 1053.

The application of this non-parametric calibration procedure has provided an average improvement of 82 % in the odometric estimation of the final position and orientation of the mobile robot.

Instant NeRF
Is a (spectacular) neural rendering model that learns a high-resolution 3D scene in seconds and can render images of that scene in a few milliseconds (YouTube demo).
The model was developed using the NVIDIA CUDA Toolkit and the Tiny CUDA Neural Networks library. Since it’s a lightweight neural network, it can be trained and run on a single NVIDIA GPU, running fastest on cards with NVIDIA Tensor Cores.

NVIDIA Technical Blog: a tutorial on getting started with Instant NeRF.

YouTube: Arc Overhangs (can) make Supports Obsolete !
YouTube: Conical Slicing: A different angle of 3D printing
YouTube: Cura 5 - Arachne Engine (variable line widths)

Featured from IEEE Spectrum:The Future of the Transistor Is Our Future
Nothing but better devices can tackle humanity’s growing challenges.

Image: big 300 mm wafer used by the semiconductor industry (LIESA JOHANNSSEN-KOPPITZ/BLOOMBERG/GETTY IMAGES).

Featuring: Photopea, a free online photo editor.

Learn to use Photopea: https://www.photopea.com/learn/.

Chat GPT, is a new Chat bot, a conversational dialogue model, trained by machine learning, artificial intelligence (AI), and Generative Pre-Trained Transformer (GPT). It's free but requires registration.

YouTube: Chat GPT Is Insane ! (2:51)

Herramienta web destacada: Adobe Color Wheel
Perfecta para crear paletas de colores basados en reglas de armonías de colores.

Video Youtube: Cómo combinar colores, armonía del color y círculo cromático
Video Youtube: Psicologia del Color

En 5 palabras: IM PRE SIO NAN TE

Each ball of the image represents an atom of the virus. More info at wikipedia:SARS-CoV-2

YouTube video: Optimal elastic wing for flapping-wing robots through passive morphing from the Robotics, Vision and Control Group (GRVC) of the University of Seville

Featured Scientific paper: Lifting Universal Masking in Schools - COVID-19 Incidence among Students and Staff, The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE 2022, (Nov, 2022).

The authors examined COVID-19 case rates in districts in the Boston area.

This paper describes a natural experiment in the impact of mask requirements, as school districts removed the requirement at different points in time or not at all.

Newspaper journal explaining the research: Universal Masking in School Works. New Data Shows How Well, TIME, (November 2022)

The global population is projected to reach 8,000,000,000 people today !

United Nations report: World population to reach 8 billion on 15 November 2022

Featuring: A Better Route Planner, un planificador de movilidad con coche eléctrico.

1a Fira MAKER Lleida

Divendres 11 i Dissabte 12 de Novembre, de 11h a 21h, a l'edifici del Mercat del Pla
Organitzat per diverses associacions i entitats lleidatanes per difondre el món de les impressores 3D i la realitat virtual a Lleida. Durant els dos dies s'hi faran diverses xerrades i activitats.
El Laboratori de Robòtica de la UdL hi participarà amb un estand on es presentaran (entre altres):

Un sistema de visió 3D utilitzat per aconseguir que els robots hi puguin veure (càmera RGB-D)

El nas electrònic Osmee One desenvolupat pel laboratori

Un prototipus (Maker customitzat) d'impressora 3D amb 2 extrusors

Un tamboret de dos materials dissenyat per a ser creat amb una única impressió 3D

Un Kart elèctric "Maker" fet per un estudiant del laboratori a partir d'un motor d'arrencada

Article del diari Segre: La UdL crea un tamboret amb una impressora 3D (11/11/2022)
Article del diari Segre: Naix Fira Maker Lleida, un espai de creacions 3D (08/10/2022)

Text-to-Speech demo with many languages and voices available
Ready to be embedded in many practical applications

Article de EL PUNT AVUI: Un laboratori d’innovació digital dissenya un robot per ajudar a menjar persones grans.

Darrere del Barcelona Aging coLLaboratory, hi ha el Parc Sanitari Pere Virgili; el Vall d’Hebron Institut de Recerca (VHIR); l’Institut de Robòtica i Informàtica Industrial (CSIC-UPC); la Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC); la Universitat Ramon Llull, amb la Facultat de Ciències de la Salut Blanquerna i l’Institut Borja de Bioètica; la Federació d’Associacions de Gent Gran de Catalunya (Fatec); la Fundació iSocial i tres empreses privades (Grup Efebé, Qida i UniversalDoctor).
Com a primer projecte han proposat un braç robotitzat que subjecta i apropa una cullera a la boca d'una persona. El sistema reconeix la cara de l’usuari i adapta els moviments.

Featured paper: Thermally modulated lithium iron phosphate batteries for mass-market electric vehicles, Nature Energy 2021, 6, 176-185.
📑 This paper demonstrate a thermally modulated LFP battery to offer an adequate cruise range per charge that is extendable by 10 min recharge in all climates, essentially guaranteeing electric vehicles that are free of range anxiety.

Artículo periodístico que explica la investigación: Desarrollan una batería para coches eléctricos capaz de cargarse en tan solo 10 minutos, el Economista, Noviembre 2022.

III Fira del Vehicle Elèctric de Lleida

Dissabte 15 d’octubre de 17h a 20.30h
Al Campus universitari de Cappont - Edifici Centre de Cultures de la UdL (biblioteca)

17.30h Xerrada: 10 mites sobre el vehicle elèctric. Veritat o mentida ?

18.30h Xerrada tot el què necessites saber abans de comprar un cotxe elèctric

20.00h Xerrada: la recàrrega del vehicle elèctric: bateries, carregadors i xarxa de punts de càrrega

Optimal PID Control of a Brushed DC Motor with an Embedded Low-Cost Magnetic Quadrature Encoder for Improved Step Overshoot and Undershoot Responses in a Mobile Robot Application, Sensors 2022, 22(20), 7817.

This paper describes the optimization of the PID control of a brushed DC motor (BDCM) with an embedded low-cost magnetic quadrature encoder. This paper demonstrates empirically that the feedback provided by low-cost magnetic encoders produces some inaccuracies and control artifacts that are not usually considered in simulations, proposing a practical optimization approach in order to improve the step overshoot and undershoot controller response.

Application of a Single-Type eNose to Discriminate the Brewed Aroma of One Caffeinated and Decaffeinated Encapsulated Espresso Coffee Type, Chemosensors 2022, 10(10), 421.

This paper assesses a prototype single-type electronic nose (eNose) applied to differentiate the complex aromas generated by the caffeinated and decaffeinated versions of one encapsulated espresso coffee mixture type. The eNose has been developped by the laboratory and is composed of 16 single-type (identical) metal–oxide semiconductor (MOX) gas sensors based on microelectromechanical system (MEMS).

Diari Segre.com: El 'nas electrònic' de la UdL fins i tot distingeix el cafè descafeïnat (05/11/2022)
Diario Segre.com: La 'nariz electrónica' de la UdL distingue hasta el café descafeinado (05/11/2022)

Presentant l'article del diari EL PUNT AVUI: Els robots entren als hospitals

L'article descriu una prova pilot que s'està fent amb el robot Rose, que es una adaptació Neerlandesa del prototipus de robot TIAGo fabricat per l'empresa Pal-Robotics (ubicada a Barcelona).
El robot entra a les habitacions per comprovar que tothom és al llit i dorm sense problemes.
Segons s'indica a l'article, el robot utilitza una càmera infraroja per revisar l'habitació i avisar en cas de que la porta estigui tancada, si el pacient es troba caigut al terra o si la barana del llit està abaixada.

Sharing our Matlab function: matrix2WordEq.m

This function helps to copy a matlab matrix into a Word equation (trhough clipboard).
1) Create an empty equation in word. 2) Call this function. 3) Click over the Word equation. 4) Wait until the whole matrix has been copied (do not change the focus from Word).

>> matrix2WordEq(M);

Sharing our Matlab function: getFigure.m

This function adds a new menu option in the current figure to copy the content of another figure (axes, lines, or even the whole figure) into the current figure.
First call adds a new menu (in the current figure), second call deletes this new menu.

>> getFigure;

Featured paper: The abundance, biomass, and distribution of ants on Earth, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, September 2022.

According to this paper, the world population of ants is approximately 20 quadrillion (USA) = 20 x 10¹⁵ = 20 P (peta-) = 20,000,000,000,000,000 ants. There are more than 12,000 known species of ants, which generally are black, brown or red in colour and possess bodies segmented into three parts.
Then, there are approximatelly 2.5 million ants for every human in Earth.

The Guardian: Researchers estimate there are 2.5M ants for every human across the planet
The New York Times: How many ants are there on earth? You’re going to need more zeros

Article del suplement dominical del Segre: A Camarasa van fer la llum
La Canadiense va posar en marxa la central de Sossís al 1912, Seròs al 1914, Talarn al 1916 i Camarasa al 1920.

Conjunt complet de la turbina Pelton (fitxers STL): conjuntcomplet
Peces individuals de la turbina Pelton (fitxers STL): turbina Pelton, complements, carcassa, tapa.

At Max Estrella Gallery, Madrid, up to 29-10-2022.
Vimeo video: Creating Pixelweaver, 2022 (video of the creation of the artwork, created by Studio Daniel Canogar)

Covid-19 sounds is the APP developed by the researchers of the University of Cambridge to create the dataset.
The large-scale audio dataset (53,499 audio samples from 36,116 participants) is available for scientific purpouses trhough a Data Transfer Agreement (DTA): more info. Publications from the authors of the audio dataset.
Wafaa Aljbawi (Maastricht University) will present an APP for COVID-19 detection in the European Respiratory Society International Congress, Barcelona 2022.

YouTube Video: Wireless (with an embedded W11 APP): How to Mirror/Cast Your Android Display to a W11.
YouTube Video: Via USB (with a free software): How to mirror phone screen to PC via USB por free.

California’s Death Valley recorded a temperature of 53 °C this September 2, the hottest temperature ever recorded in the world during the month of September.
The Death Valley holds the hottest temperature ever recorded in the world: 56.6 °C on July 10, 1913.

Dieter Rams y su equipo diseñaron más de 1.800 productos de la compañía de productos de consumo Braun. Estas son algunas de sus frases más inspiradoras:
    • menos, pero mejor
    • menos, pero con mejor ejecución
    • Creo que los diseñadores deberían eliminar lo innecesario
Link: https://www.braundesign.es
Link: productos Braun diseñados
Link: Los diez principios del buen diseño, según Dieter Rams, YouTube video

La función Fuzzy Skin crea una estructura de superficie rugosa y desigual en las paredes exteriores de una pieza modelo. En este efecto el slicer le dice a la impresora que mueva la boquilla hacia adelante y hacia atrás mientras imprime las paredes exteriores.

YouTube Video: How to use the Fuzzy Skin Feature in Cura

La función de cura Espirilizador del contexto exterior / Spiralize the outer contour imprime solo la pared exterior del objeto con un fondo sólido, con un constante movimiento de en el eje Z que evita la marca de costura y deja un acabado liso.

YouTube Video: How to enable Vase Mode in Cura

DALL·E2, is a new AI system that can create realistic images and art from a description in natural language, combining concepts, attributes, and styles. Is made by OpenAI, an AI research and deployment company with the objective to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity.
DALL·E2 Publications: https://openai.com/publications
Free Open Source alternative: Stable Diffusion
Free Open Source alternative: craiyon (from Dall.E Mini), Dall.E mini

S'acaba la festa major d'ALCARRÀS (una festa major de pel·lícula) i aviat acabarà definitivament l'estiu, la platja, les vacances, ...
Ben aviat tot tornarà a ser un TOBOGAN !!!!       ... però, fins llavors ... intentem ... no perdre ... l'eufòria del moment

The Assistant Personal Robot Project: From the APR-01 to the APR-02 Mobile Robot Prototypes, Designs 2022, 6(4), 66.

This paper describes the evolution of the Assistant Personal Robot (APR) project developed at the Robotics Laboratory of the University of Lleida, Spain. This paper describes the first APR-01 prototype design developed in this project and the basic hardware and anthropomorphic improvements proposed to maximize the perceived affinity with the new evolved APR-02 mobile robot prototype design.

Classification of Three Volatiles Using a Single-Type eNose with Detailed Class-Map Visualization, Sensors 2022, 22(14), 5262.
Paper published in the Special Issue: Electronic Gas Sensors, Sensor Arrays, and Electronic Noses for Indoor and Outdoor Environment Monitoring

The paper assesses the multivariate classification performance of a custom, low-cost eNose composed of 16 single-type (identical) MOX gas sensors for the classification of three volatiles. The paper proposes improving the visual interpretation of the classification results by means of generating a detailed 2D class-map representation based on the inverse of the orthogonal linear transformation obtained from a PCA and LDA analysis.

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Curs professionalitzador: Impressió 3D: Tècniques i Materials
Adreçat a estudiants universitaris de qualsevol titulació (amb 2 crèdits ECTS reconeguts per la UdL) i professorat universitari i no universitari
Format del curs: presencial (curs professionalitzador de 20 hores lectives i amb certificació oficial)
Objectiu: presentar les possibilitats i aplicacions de la impressió 3D en l'àmbit domèstic, semiprofessional i industrial
Breu descripció del curs
Dates: del 11 al 15 de juliol de 2022
Horari: de matí, de 9.00 a 11.00 i de 11.30 a 13.30

Lleida del 6 al 8 de julio
Seminario Anual de Automática, Electrónica Industrial e Instrumentación

https://www.saaei.org/ediciones/edicion2022/

Títol del curs: Com funciona això de la impressió 3D ?
Format del curs: presencial
Adreçat a estudiants de Batxillerat i Cicles Formatius de Grau Superior
Objectiu: descripció de les possibilitats, funcionament i aplicacions de les impressores 3D
Breu descripció del curs
Dates: del 4 al 8 de juliol de 2022
Horari: de matí, de 9.00 a 13.30

Esta escultura impresa en 3D representa el registro de la voz de un extracto del discurso del presidente de los Estados Unidos Barack Obama (Febrero de 2013 en el State of the Union Address).

Es una actualización de la idea del fonógrafo, inventado por Thomas Alva Edison en 1877.
La lectura del sonido se representa mediante una línea láser que avanza por la escultura aunque realmente el sonido está digitalizado aparte.

Elena Rubies ha ganado el segundo premio del "XIX Certamen Universitario Arquímedes" que distingue a los mejores Trabajos Final de Grado (TFG) y Trabajos Final de Máster (TFM) realizados en Universidades Españolas durante el curso 2020/2021.

En total se presentaron 567 trabajos al premio, agrupados en 4 áreas temáticas. De los cuales 25 fueron seleccionados para la fase final del certamen. En esta fase final el TFM de Elena Rubies consiguió el segundo premio en la competida área temática de Ingeniería y Arquitectura.

Web con la información del XIX Certamen Universitario Arquímedes

Nota de prensa de la UdL: Segon premi estatal Arquímedes en enginyeria per a una estudiant de la UdL

Nota de prensa de la EPS: Segon premi estatal 'Arquímedes' en enginyeria per Elena Rubies, estudiant de l'EPS

Diario Segre.com: Premio estatal a una alumna de la UdL por un robot móvil

Diari Segre.com: Premi estatal a una alumna de la UdL per un robot mòbil

Featured paper: PD-1 Blockade in Mismatch Repair–Deficient, Locally Advanced Rectal Cancer, The NEW ENGLAND JOURNAL of MEDICINE (June, 2022).
📑 A total of 12 rectal cancer patients have completed treatment with dostarlimab and have undergone at least 6 months of follow-up. All 12 patients (100%; 95% confidence interval, 74 to 100) had a clinical complete response, with no evidence of tumor.

Artículo periodístico que explica la investigación: A (short people) Cancer Trial’s Unexpected Result: Remission in Every Patient, The New York Times, (June 2022)

Enhancing the Sense of Attention from an Assistance Mobile Robot by Improving Eye-Gaze Contact from Its Iconic Face Displayed on a Flat Screen, Sensors 2022, 22(11), 4282.
Paper published in the Special Issue: Practical Application of Sensors and Signal Processing Techniques in Mobile Robots

This paper presents the enhancement of the sense of attention from the face of a human-sized mobile robot during an interaction. The perception of eye-gaze contact has been improved by manually calibrating the gaze of the robot relative to the location of the face of the person interacting with the robot. The sense of attention has been further enhanced by implementing cyclic face explorations with saccades in the gaze and by performing blinking and small movements of the mouth.

The New York Times news: Doctors Transplant Ear of Human Cells, Made by 3-D Printer

3DBio Therapeutics, a biotech company in Queens, said it had for the first time used 3-D printing to make a body part with a patient’s own cells.
The living cells were then mixed with the company’s collagen-based bio-ink. The new ear was printed in a shape that precisely matched the woman’s left ear and will continue to regenerate cartilage tissue, giving it the look and feel of a natural ear.

Brushstrokes, by Studio Daniel Canogar, is a permanent generative installation located at the new Deka building lobby on Lyoner Straße, Frankfurt.
Four webcams strategically placed in the lobby capture the movement of employees and visitors as they walk by the LED screen. Their movements are transformed into linear paint splatters that usually appear in the artwork with bold and bright colors ( video at vimeo ).

Featured scientific paper: Qubit teleportation between non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network, Nature 605, 663-668 (2022)
📑 This study realize quantum teleportation between remote, non-neighbouring nodes in a quantum network.

Artículo periodístico que explica el trabajo de investigación: ‘Quantum Internet’ Inches Closer With Advance in Data Teleportation, The New York Times, (May 2022)
Scientists have improved their ability to send quantum information across distant computers.

small but determined steps are required...

Robot humanoide Ameca de la empresa ENGINEERED ARTS

Vídeo conversant. El disseny del robot és una autèntica passada però (de moment) les respostes a les preguntes que se li fan les "escriu" una persona que telecontrola el robot.
Vídeo seguint la mirada
Entrevista: A visit to the human factory

El Laboratori de Robòtica de la Universitat de Lleida es troba a la ciutat de Lleida, a uns 11 Km d' ALCARRÀS

Diari Segre: L'estrena de cinema més vista el divendres 30 d'abril de 2022

Setmanari VINT-I-DOS (diari Segre): Què és i per a què serveix la robòtica ?
3 pàgines

Setmanari VINT-I-DOS (diari Segre): Després del telègraf i l'smartphone, ara és el moment de la robòtica ?
1 pàgina

Radares de tramo: vía de hasta 100 km/h sumar 3 km/h al límite, vía de más de 100 km/h sumar 4%: 30➡33, 50➡53, 90➡93, 100➡104, 120➡124
Radares fijos: vía de hasta 100 km/h sumar 5 km/h al límite, vía de más de 100 km/h sumar 5%:         30➡35, 50➡55, 90➡95, 100➡105, 120➡126
Radares móviles: vía de hasta 100 km/h sumar 7 km/h al límite, vía de más de 100 km/h sumar 7%:   30➡37, 50➡57, 90➡97, 100➡107, 120➡128
El PAÍS: La velocidad exacta a la que multan los radares de la DGT

Available at Matlab Fileexchange: ellipseDetection(img, params), by Martin Simonovsky

Fits an ellipse by examining all possible major axes (all pairs of points) and getting the minor axis using Hough transform
Selected as File Exchange Pick of the Week

Featured Scientific paper: Stopping pandemics before they start: Lessons learned from SARS-CoV-2, Science 375, 7585 (Mar, 2022).

This Review describes how each of the vaccines, antibody therapies, and antiviral drugs that have been approved to date were built on decades of investment in technology and basic science.

CSIC: COVID-19 and lessons learned – Preparing for future pandemics, Consalud.es, (enero 2022)

Assessing Over Time Performance of an eNose Composed of 16 Single-Type MOX Gas Sensors Applied to Classify Two Volatiles, Chemosensors 2022, 10(3), 118.
Paper published in the Special Issue: Advances in Analytical Systems for Gaseous Mixture

This paper proposes a procedure that is able to improve the over time performances of a single-type MOX eNose.

Cable USB conectado pero sin ninguna aplicación accediendo a la cámara: 80 mA
Con una conexión activa pero sin utilizar la cámara (sin pedirle imágenes): 45 mA
Utilizada (solo) como cámara RGB (como una webcam normal): 240 mA
Utilizada plenamente como cámara RGB-D: 450 mA

Utilizando (solo) el stream D: 360 mA

Utilizando (solo) el stream RGB: 240 mA

Utilizando (solo) el stream IR: 300 mA

Utilizando los streams D y el IR: 360 mA

Utilizando los streams RGB y el IR: 380 mA

Utilizando los streams RGB y el D: 450 mA

En W10 se necesita el Intel® RealSense 2.0 (no funciona con la versión 1.0). La cámara no funciona en un USB 2.0.

Cable USB conectado pero sin ninguna aplicación accediendo a la cámara: 120 mA
Con una conexión activa pero sin utilizar la cámara (sin pedirle imágenes): 120 mA
Utilizada (solo) como cámara RGB (como una webcam normal): 140 mA
Utilizada plenamente como cámara RGB-D: 400 mA

Utilizando (solo) el stream D: 400 mA

Utilizando (solo) el stream RGB: 140 mA

Utilizando los streams RGB y el D: 400 mA

En W10 se necesita el Intel® Perceptual Computing™ 2013 (no funciona con la versión Intel® RealSense™ 2.0)

STL file availabre at thingiverse: 2-color tree frog

Systematic Odometry Error Evaluation and Correction in a Human-Sized Three-Wheeled Omnidirectional Mobile Robot Using Flower-Shaped Calibration Trajectories, Applied Sciences 2022, 12(5), 2606.
Paper published in the Special Issue: Trajectory Analysis, Positioning and Control of Mobile Robots

This paper proposes a general procedure to evaluate and correct the systematic odometry errors of a human-sized three-wheeled omnidirectional mobile robot designed as a versatile personal assistant tool. The correction procedure is based on the definition of 36 individual calibration trajectories which together depict a characteristic flower-shaped figure.

Classification of Two Volatiles Using an eNose Composed by an Array of 16 Single-Type Miniature Micro-Machined Metal-Oxide Gas Sensors, Sensors 2022, 22(3), 1120.
Paper published in the Special Issue: Thin Film Gas Sensors

This paper presents an electronic nose (eNose) composed by 16 identical BME680 MEMS sensors (using the miniature MOX gas sensor embedded in the BME680). This eNose has been applied to classify two volatiles.
The main advantages of this eNose are: low-cost (less than 200 €), compact-size and low power (5.0 V & 0.9 W).
Nota de premsa de la UdL: A la recerca d'un 'nas electrònic' més barat per detectar gasos
Noticia al diari Segre: La UdL millora el 'nas electrònic'