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 ...

The development of this work was born from cooperation between the Power Electronics and Renewable Sources Laboratory of the University of Salerno and the ABB Solar Group company (ex Power-One) of Terranuova Bracciolini ...

Nowadays, the analysis of issues associated with road traffic within urban and suburban areas has taken a leading role in trying to implement efficient plans of transport regulations by taking advantage of the available ...

One of the mega trends over the past century has been humanity’s move towards cities. Public Administration and Municipalities are facing a challenging task, to harmonize a sustainable urban development offering to people ...

The fast technological evolution of our world requests the necessity to make this development sustainable. In order to achieve this goal more relevance has been given to the energy consumption and environmental impact of ...

How the brain controls movement is a question that has fascinated researchers from different areas as neuroscience, robotics and psychology. To understand how we move is not only an intellectual challenge, but it is important ...

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 ...

The manufacturing industry is very diverse and covers a wide range of specific processes ranging from extracting minerals to assembly of very complex products such as planes or computers, with all intermediate processing ...

In this thesis we introduce a new software platform for the development of real-time video analysis applications, that has been designed to simplify the realization and the deployment of intelligent video-surveillance sy ...

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 ...