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Social Robots, from intelligent perception to emphatic behaviors
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2023-03-15)Social robots are a particular category of robots able to perceive in- formation about the environment to reason about the acquired infor- mation with the particular aim to interact with humans. Remarkable applications ... -
Provable Security: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2023-03-15)Since modern cryptography was born around the late 1970s, a myriad of cryptographic constructions and protocols have been proposed. The field quickly developed into a science whose results have had great im pact on people’s ... -
N-gram Retrieval for Word Spotting in Historical Handwritten Collections
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2023-03-21)Collections of handwritten documents of historical interest are often small, ranging from a few dozen to a few hundred pages, but they may have features typical of the collection itself which make them interesting for ... -
Intelligent embeddend system for facial soft biometrics in social robotics
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2021-03-25)The foundation of this thesis is the observation of the usefulness of contextual clues in the context of social robotics: studies prove that human-like behaviour is key to generate in the interlocutor the feeling of empathy ... -
Learning Preferential Attachment Graphs under Partial Observability
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2023-03-24)This thesis work deals with the problem of learning the topology of a network starting from the signals emitted by the network nodes while executing some distributed processing task. In particular, these signals are generated ... -
Organic semiconductor material and device characterization by low-frequency noise and admittance spectroscopy of polymer: fullerene solar cells and silicon/organic thin film heterodiodes
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-04-21)The main focus of the present work is addressed to the field of organic electronics, which has attracted increasing interest for the development of flexible, large area and low cost electronic applications, from light ... -
FPGA-based implementation of real-time identification procedures for adaptive control in photovoltaic applications
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-07-24)In this thesis two adaptive Maximum Power Point Tracking (MPPT) techniques for PhotoVoltaic (PV) applications, which are based on two different real-time identification procedures are proposed. The algorithms are implemented ... -
Diffraction by dielectric wedges: high frequency and time domain solutions
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2016-05-18)The knowledge of the propagation characteristics of the electromagnetic fields is fundamental in the analysis and planning of modern radio communication systems. When the dimensions of the systems are large in terms of the ... -
Photovoltaic Systems Reconfiguration
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2015-04-22)A photovoltaic field is typically composed by series-connected panels, thus composing strings, which are then connected in parallel. By this way, the current and the voltage values of the photovoltaic generator are adapted ... -
Carbon nanotube based networks, bio-nano-composites and sensors
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-15)The formation of a photosensitive device due to the local breakdown in an MOS structure with an impurity containing oxide layer has been observed. A stepwise breakdown of the oxide layer resulted in the formation of a ... -
Integrazione delle Fonti Rinnovabili nelle SMART-GRID
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-26)Energy market liberalization processes and incentive programs by various National governmwnts are driving an increasing diffusion of a wide variety of Distributed Generation (DG) powe plants, causing huge changes and ... -
Detecting and indexing moving objects for Behavior Analysis by Video and Audio Interpretation
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-02-28)In the last decades we have assisted to a growing need for security in many public environments. According to a study recently conducted by the European Security Observatory, one half of the entire population is worried ... -
Multispectral and hyperspectral pansharpening
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-03-03)Remote sensing consists in measuring some characteristics of an object from a distance. A key example of remote sensing is the Earth observation from sensors mounted on satellites that is a crucial aspect of space programs. ... -
A Study on Defects in Organic Semiconductors for Field Effect Transistors
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2014-03-20)The understanding and the modeling of mechanisms involved in organic semiconductors are the aims of this Ph.D. thesis. In particular, the document focuses the attention on the role played by organic semiconductor defectson ... -
Text retrieval and categorization through a weighted word pairs approach
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-19)The focus of this dissertation is the development and validation of a novel method for supervised text classification to be used effectively when small sized training sets are available. The proposed approach, which relies ... -
Planning and control of electric distribution networks with integration of wind turbines
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-25)In this thesis, deterministic and probabilistic methods are developed for optimal planning of distribution networks with integration of WTs within a market environment. With regards to the deterministic methods, hybrid ... -
Sliding mode control of DC/DC switching converters for photovoltaic applications
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-15)The maximum power point tracking (MPPT) is one of the most important features of a system that process the energy produced by a photovoltaic generator must hold. It is necessary, in fact, to design a controller that is ... -
Un metodo basato su LDA per la sentiment analysis
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-16)La progressiva diffusione dei social network, sia generalisti (quali Twitter, Facebook o Google+, la recente piattaforma messa a punto da Google) sia specializzati (ad esempio le comunità professionali di Linkedin), ha ... -
Efficient indexing and retrieval from large moving object databases through dynamic spatio-temporal queries
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2012-10-25)Intelligent Transportatin Systems have gained a great importance in the last decades given the growing need for security in many public environments, with particular attention for traffic scenarios, which are daily interested ... -
Analysis and design of 4H-SiC bipolar mode field effect power (BMFET)
(Universita degli studi di Salerno, 2013-03-20)Analysis and design of a new Silicon Carbide polytype 4H (4H-SiC) bipolar power transistor are the main topics of this Ph.D. thesis. The device is the Bipolar Mode Field Effect Transistor (BMFET) and exploits the electric ...