{"id":7726,"date":"2021-02-25T11:33:59","date_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/?p=7726"},"modified":"2021-02-25T11:33:59","modified_gmt":"2021-02-25T10:33:59","slug":"fpu-grant-awarded-to-the-new-researcher-pau-vial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/fpu-grant-awarded-to-the-new-researcher-pau-vial\/","title":{"rendered":"FPU grant awarded to the new researcher Pau Vial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/vicorob\/members\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Pau\u00a0Vial<\/strong><\/a> begins his doctoral thesis in the <a href=\"https:\/\/cirs.udg.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Underwater Robotics LAB<\/strong><\/a>, in the CIRS facilities. In 2018 he was graduated in Industrial Technology Engineering in the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.udg.edu\/ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Universitat de Girona<\/a><\/strong>, obtaining the Extraordinary Award of his degree for being the student with the best academic record. In 2020 he finished the Master&#8217;s Degree in Industrial Engineering in the <strong>Universitat Polit\u00e8cnica de Catalunya<\/strong>. His master thesis was carried out at the <strong>Institut de Rob\u00f2tica i Inform\u00e0tica Industrial<\/strong> (IRI) of the <strong>UPC<\/strong>, where he participated in the development of localization techniques for the <strong>autonomous driving of vehicles<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Pau\u00a0will develop his doctoral thesis titled <em>&#8220;Active SLAM and Motion Planning for Autonomous Underwater Exploration&#8221;<\/em> and directed by Dr Marc Carreras and Dr Narc\u00eds Palomeras. In this thesis, he proposes <strong>inspecting<\/strong> unknown environments using <strong>AUVs<\/strong> introducing an active localization system, based on sonar data, to reduce the robot drift during the exploration task. At the same time, he wants to inspect the contour of the discovered free space using optical cameras to be able to generate visual models of the discovered environment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The\u00a0objective of the <strong>FPU grant<\/strong> is to train doctors by financing employment contracts in the predoctoral modality, to write doctoral thesis related with his teacher training.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u00a0Pau\u00a0Vial begins his doctoral thesis in the Underwater Robotics LAB, in the CIRS facilities. In 2018 he was graduated in Industrial Technology Engineering in the Universitat de Girona, obtaining the Extraordinary Award of his degree for being the student with the best academic record. In 2020 he finished the Master&#8217;s Degree in Industrial Engineering&hellip;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7728,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vicorob.udg.edu\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}