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Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-11-26T11:05:00Z

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email: dsosasianies

Research

Right now, I am interested in the development of projects related to marine technologies and mechatronics, in general.

Projects

euRathlon http://www.eurathlon.eu/
AVORA https://es-es.facebook.com/avoraauv ULPGC Team Coordinator for taking part in robotic marine competitions such as SAUCE http://www.sauc-europe.org/ or euRathlon.
Red WEGEMT http://www.wegemt.org.uk/
Kraken, A Robotic Arm Manipulator for Offshore Operations: http://www.erakraken.eu/

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Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-11-23T11:10:00Z

Postal Address

Lab. Robótica e Interacción. Edf. Polivalente I del Parque Científico-Tecnológico. ULPGC - Campus Universitario de Tafira. 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. España

Phone

+34 928 459644

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Lab. Robótica e Interacción. Edf. Polivalente I del Parque Científico-Tecnológico. ULPGC - Campus Universitario de Tafira. 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. España

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+34 928 459644

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Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-11-29T18:19:51Z

Antonio González Ramos awarded with the RU COOL Technical Achievement Award

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2013-04-04T10:30:00Z

Our division colleague Antonio González Ramos has been awarded with the prestigious RU COOL Technical Achievement Award by the Rutgers University Coastal Ocean Laboratory. From here we would like to congratulate our colleague for the award.

Antonio Carlos Domínguez Brito

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-12-11T12:30:10Z

Antonio Carlos Domínguez Brito

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-11-26T11:05:00Z

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Dpto. de Informática y Sistemas / Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria

Postal Address

Edf. Informática y Matemáticas. Despacho 1.8. Campus Universitario de Tafira (ULPGC). 35017 Las Palmas de Gran Canaria. España

Contact Data

phones.: +34 928454572/9644; email: adominguez@iusiani.ulpgc.es

Research

Right now, I am interested in system integration in robotics, secure navigation, map building (SLAM) and sensor fusion in mobile robotics. At the moment my main work research lines are:

The CoolBOT Project: This is an open source initiative build around CoolBOT, a component based programming framework for robotics, whose first operating version was my Phd Thesis.
Autonomomous Navigation: Implementation and tests of local obstacle avoidance algorithms using a short-term path planner for preventing local minima situations. Now we have an operating home-made implementation of the ND algoritm with a short-term path planner based on a modification of the numerical navigation function NF2 found in Latombe. You can access to this autonomous navigation system through The CoolBOT Project's web site.

Publications

You can find an enumeration fo my publications here, or in the section of publications of our web.

Teaching

This academic year I teach the following courses in the University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria (in spanish):

Tecnología de Computadores (Ingeniería Técnica en Informática de Sistemas en la Escuela de Ingeniería Informática).

Sistemas Empotrados y de Tiempo Real (Grado en Ingeniería Informática en la Escuela de Ingeniería Informática).

Robótica Móvil de Servicios (Máster del Instituto Universitario SIANI).

Ingenieríad el Software de los Sistemas Percepto-Efectores (Máster del Instituto Universitario SIANI).

Sistemas de Navegación Autónoma (Máster del Instituto Universitario SIANI).

Phd, Master and Engineering Theses

In addition, I have been supervisor/co-supervisor of the following Phd, Master and Engineering Theses (in spanish):

"Robot Móvil Semiautónomo con Telecontrol para Inspección de Interiores". Soraya Santana de la Fe. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Marzo 2010. (zipped pdf).
"Sistema Integrado de Planificación y Control de Misiones con Vehículos Submarinos Autónomos". Eliezer Ramírez Cabrera. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Febrero 2010. (zipped pdf).
"Entorno de Simulación para el Desarrollo de Misiones con Vehículos Submarinos Autónomos". Rodrigo Heredero Robayna. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Diciembre, Febrero 2010. (zipped pdf).
"Evaluación y Prueba de Algoritmos de Construcción de Mapas para un Robot Móvil". Samuel Artiles Artiles. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Febrero 2010. (zipped pdf).
"Elaboración de Mapas Cognitivos de Entorno empleando un Sensor Láser Activo". Victor Prieto Marañón. Trabajo Final de Máster. Máster Oficial en Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Instituto Universitario en Sistemas Inteligencias y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Diciembre, Diciembre 2009. (zipped pdf).
"Mejora del Compilador/Generador de Esqueletos C++ para Componentes CoolBOT". Francisco Jesús Santan Jorge. Trabajo Final de Máster. Máster Oficial en Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Instituto Universitario en Sistemas Inteligencias y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Diciembre, Noviembre 2009. (web, online access).
"Test and Evaluation of the FastSLAM Algorithm in a Mobile Robot". Enrique Fernández Perdomo. Trabajo Final de Máster. Máster Oficial en Sistemas Inteligentes y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Instituto Universitario en Sistemas Inteligencias y Aplicaciones Numéricas en Ingeniería. Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Diciembre, Noviembre 2009. (online access).
"Construcción de Mapas Tridimensionales mediante un Láser Activo". Victor Prieto Marañón. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Julio 2009. (zipped pdf).
"Sistema Integrado de Control para un Vehículo Submarino Autónomo". Enrique Fernández Perdomo. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Octubre, 2008. (pdf zipped).
"Compilador/Generador de Esqueletos C++ para Componentes CoolBOT". Francisco Jesús Santana Jorge. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Diciembre, 2007. (web page).
"Evaluación y Prueba del Algoritmo FastSLAM de Construcción de Mapas para un Robot Móvil". Julio Delgado Mangas. Proyecto Final de Carrera en Ingeniería en Informática, Facultad de Informática, Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Noviembre, 2007. (pdf zipped).

Antonio Carlos Domínguez Brito

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2012-11-26T11:15:00Z

An Approach to Multi-Objective Path Planning Optimization for Underwater Gliders

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2020-02-16T18:16:23Z

Underwater gliders are energy-efficient vehicles that rely on changes in buoyancy in order to convert up and down movement into forward displacement. These vehicles are conceived as multi-sensor platforms, and can be used to collect ocean data for long periods in wide range areas. This endurance is achieved at the cost of low speed, which requires extensive planning to ensure vehicle safety and mission success, particularly when dealing with strong ocean currents. As gliders are often involved on missions that pursue multiple objectives (track events, reach a target point, avoid obstacles, sample specified areas, save energy), path planning requires a way to deal with several constraints at the same time; this makes glider path planning a multi-objective (MO) optimization problem. In this work, we analyse the usage of the non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (NSGA-II) to tackle a MO glider path planning application on a complex environment integrating 3D and time varying ocean currents. Multiple experiments using a glider kinematic simulator coupled with NSGA-II, combining different control parameters were carried out, to find the best parameter configuration that provided suitable paths for the desired mission. Ultimately, the system described in this work was able to optimize multi-objective trajectories, providing non dominated solutions. Such a planning tool could be of great interest in real mission planning, to assist glider pilots in selecting the most convenient paths for the vehicle, taking into account ocean forecasts and particular characteristics of the deployment location.

Airflow dynamics, vegetation and aeolian erosive processes in a shadow zone leeward of a resort in an arid transgressive dune system

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2019-12-10T13:43:16Z

Structures and infrastructures can modify aeolian sedimentary dynamics as has occurred in the arid transgressive dunefield of Maspalomas (Gran Canaria, Canary Islands), where an aeolian shadow zone has been formed leeward of a tourist resort (Playa del Inglés). The aim of this paper is to analyse spatial and statistically the influences of vegetation and topography on wind flow across this shadow zone. An experiment was carried out in March 2017, collecting wind speed and direction from 5 transects with anemometers at 0.40 m height. Simultaneously, a drone flight was carried out, from which an orthophoto and digital elevation and surface models (DEM and DSM) were obtained. Distance from the resort, and the presence of vegetation were found to influence transects dominated by erosional processes. Transects that do not display erosional processes were primarily affected by the presence of vegetation. The local wind field changes at a similar distance across the transects downwind from the resorts indicating an acceleration or reattachment of the wind at this distance downwind. The vegetation role in this aeolian shadow zone could be a key to the future evolution of the area resulting in either further stabilization, or alternatively, the continued deflation of the area.

ACUSQUAT Project: Acoustic behavioural monitoring of the Angelshark (Squatina squatina) in critical conservation areas

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2020-01-20T10:18:59Z

Acoustic Detection of Tagged Angelsharks from an Autonomous Sailboat

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2019-12-10T13:50:00Z

Autonomous sailboats are silent surface vehicles which are well suited for acoustic monitoring. The integration of an acoustic receiver in an unmanned surface vehicle has a large potential for population monitoring as it permits to report geo-referenced detections in real time, so that researchers can adapt monitoring strategies as data arrive. In this paper we present preliminary work, done on the framework of ACUSQUAT project, to explore the usage of an acoustic receiver onboard a small (2 m length-over-all) autonomous sailboat in order to detect the presence of tagged adult exemplars of angelshark (Squatina squatina), the target species in ACUSQUAT, in certain areas which have demonstrated that this approach is feasible. Results obtained in simulation and during field trials are presented.

A-TIRMA: A small autonomous sailboat

Antonio C. Domínguez Brito — 2015-05-13T13:35:00Z