Education

Thesis: "Parallel robots with unconventional joints to achieve under-actuation and reconfigurability" (http://www.tdx.cat/handle/10803/396272).

Proposal, analysis, design, and construction of under-actuated parallel robots. Robots based on the classic Gough-Stewart platform, with a reduced number of actuators replaced by non-holonomic constraints or lockable joints.

Supervisor :  Federico Thomas       thomas@iri.upc.edu            (+34)   93 4015757 

https://www.iri.upc.edu/people/thomas/ 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Federico-Thomas

- Courses: Machines and Mechanisms (Design, Analysis, and Simulation) – Computer Vision – Optical Image Processing – Robot Control and Programming – Systems Modeling – Advanced Control Algebra – Fault Detection

- Supervised Research Credits: Joint Modeling and Control

Supervisor :  Raul Suarez        raul.suarez@upc.edu        (+34)   93 401 6548 

https://iocnet.upc.edu/usuaris/raulsuarez/ 

Thesis Project: Economic Feasibility Study, Design, and Construction of a Prototype. Pneumatic manipulator for extracting plastic parts from injection molds. Achievement: Manipulator price equivalent to half of the cheapest on the market, cost reduction due to a design tailored to the application.

 Degree Project: Design, Construction and Installation of Equipment. Automatic Feeder for a rod punching machine (previously: Manual feeding). Achievement: Recovery of investment in 5 months. The team's production rate tripled. Two workers, rod feeders, left the line, a single operator feeds the hoppers of the three die-cutting machines.

5th place in the National Physics Competition.