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1) solución del sistema de cimentación para un tanque de almacenamiento elevado sobre suelos arenosos licuables; 2) diseño del soporte de la excavación para el sótano de un edificio mediante la técnica de suelo cosido con pilotes helicoidales; 3) diseño de la excavación de un pozo vertical para derivación de caudales y 4) diseño de un encofrado de tablaestacas para la construcción de una estación de pre-acondicionamiento del sistema de alcantarillado sanitario en una ciudad costera
(2022-08)El presente proyecto desarrolla la solución, aplicando diferentes teorías y técnicas de análisis de la Ingeniería Geotécnica, para cuatro proyectos de ingeniería que presentan complejidades o problemáticas geotécnicas ... -
2D SLAM Algorithms Characterization, Calibration, and Comparison Considering Pose Error, Map Accuracy, CPU Usage, and Memory Usage
(2022)The present work proposes a method to characterize, calibrate, and compare, any 2D SLAM algorithm, providing strong statistical evidence, based on descriptive and inferential statistics to bring confidence levels about ... -
A Comparative Study on Denoising Algorithms for Footsteps Sounds as Biometric in Noisy Environments
(2022-08-03)Biometrics is the automated identification of a person based on distinctive characteristics, such as fingerprints, face, voice, or the sound of footsteps. This last characteristic has significant challenges considering the ... -
A Comparison between a Relational Database and a Graph Database in the context of a Personalized Cancer Treatment Application
(2016)This paper presents a performance comparison between a relational database (implemented in MySQL) and a graph database (implemented in Neo4j). Unlike traditional benchmarks, this comparison is made in the context of a real ... -
A comparison of bio-inspired optimization methodologies applied to the tuning of industrial controllers
(2016-11-09)A comparison of different bio-inspired methods is presented for the problem of tuning the parameters of a PID industrial controller for second order plus time delay plants. The compared algorithms are representative of ... -
A first approach to acoustic characterization of Costa Rican children’s speech
(2020-03-27)As human interaction with computers becomes more pervasive, the value of developing automatic speech recognition, text-to-speech synthesis, and related speech technologies become more important for people of all ages, ... -
A Functional Size Measurement Procedure for MVC Applications from Source Code: Design, Automation and Empirical Evaluation
(2014-09)Software size has proved to be one of the main effort-and-cost drivers. It is widely accepted that software size is one of the key factors that has the potential to affect the effort and cost of the software projects. ... -
A genetic algorithm based framework for software effort prediction
(2017)Background: Several prediction models have been proposed in the literature using different techniques obtaining different results in different contexts. The need for accurate effort predictions for projects is one of the ... -
A Gesture-Based Interaction Approach for Manipulating Augmented Objects Using Leap Motion
(2015-11)Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing are carrying the world to a reality where almost every object interacts with the environment, either via sensors or actuators, and users must learn how to interact with such ... -
A mechano-biocatalytic one-pot approach to release sugars from lignocellulosic materials
(2020)A novel, mechano-biocatalytic one-pot process was developed by this study to efficiently release monosaccharides from lignocellulosic materials in an environmentally-friendly manner. The process synergistically integrates ... -
A mobile application that allows children in the early childhood to program robots
(2016)Children born in the Information Age are digital natives; this characteristic should be exploited to improve the learning process through the use of technology. This paper addresses the design, construction, and evaluation ... -
A Model Proposal for Augmented Reality Game Creation to Incentivize Physical Activity
(2017)Obesity and a sedentary lifestyle are relevant issues in today’s society. Even though different resources can be used to approach this problem, technology provides endless possibilities to fight against this problem. This ... -
A Novel Control System for Medium-Voltage Hexverter-Based Drives
(2020-09-23)In this paper, a novel control system for the Hexverter-based drive is proposed and analysed. Unlike previously proposed control schemes, the proposed one does not require the information of the machine variables to ... -
A performance evaluation of several artificial neural networks for mapping speech spectrum parameters
(2020)In this work, we compare different neural network architectures, for the task of mapping spectral coefficients of noisy speech signals with those corresponding to natural speech. In previous works on the subject, fully-connected ... -
A Prototype Mobile Expert System for Nutritional Diagnosis
(2013)This paper describes NUTRITION UCR, a prototype expert system for human nutritional diagnosis developed in Java on Android using a service-oriented architecture. The system runs on mobile devices and offers smart features ... -
A risk-based methodology for defining the time of intentional controlled islanding
(2015-10-05)Power systems are operated close to their stability limits and this increases the probability of cascading outages leading to large-area blackouts. To mitigate these phenomena, intentional controlled islanding (ICI) has ... -
A self-sustaining high-strength wastewater treatment system using solar-bio-hybrid power generation
(2017-06)This study focuses on system analysis of a self-sustaining high-strength wastewater treatment concept combining solar technologies, anaerobic digestion, and aerobic treatment to reclaim water. A solar bio-hybrid power ... -
A Strong-Motion Database of Costa Rica: 20 Years of Digital Records
(2020-09-09)In this article, we present a strong-motion database from earthquakes recorded by the Earthquake Engineering Laboratory at the University of Costa Rica. The database consists of 2471 three-component accelerograms from 155 ... -
A survey of software testing practices in Costa Rica
(2019-04-24)Software testing is an essential activity in software development projects for delivering high quality products. In a previous study, we reported the results of a survey of software engineering practices in the Costa Rican ... -
A survey on 3D Perception for robot object manipulation tasks
(2019)Un sistema confiable de manipulación de objetos requiere de percepción sofisticada. Aspectos importantes de este sistema es ser capaz de detectar la forma, tamaño y pose de los objetos a manipular. Estas capacidades se ...