• Identification of critical parameters for the design of energy management algorithms for Li-ion batteries operating in PV power plants 

      Berrueta Irigoyen, Alberto Upna Orcid; Soto Cabria, Adrián Upna Orcid; Marcos Álvarez, Javier Upna Orcid; Parra Laita, Íñigo de la Upna Orcid; Sanchis Gúrpide, Pablo Upna Orcid; Ursúa Rubio, Alfredo Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Lithium-ion batteries are gaining importance for a variety of applications due to their price decrease and characteristics improvement. For a proper use of such storage systems, an energy management algorithm (EMA) is ...
    • IIoT low-cost Zigbee-based WSN implementation for enhanced production efficiency in a solar protection curtains manufacturing workshop 

      Klaina, Hicham Upna; Picallo Guembe, Imanol Upna Orcid; López Iturri, Peio Upna Orcid; Biurrun, Aitor; Alejos, Ana; Azpilicueta Fernández de las Heras, Leyre Upna Orcid; Socorro Leránoz, Abián Bentor Upna Orcid; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2024)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Nowadays, the Industry 4.0 concept and the Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) are considered essential for the implementation of automated manufacturing processes across various industrial settings. In this regard, ...
    • Impact of body wearable sensor positions on UWB ranging 

      Otim, Timothy Upna; Bahillo, Alfonso; Díez, Luis E.; López Iturri, Peio Upna Orcid; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In recent years, Ultrawideband (UWB) has become a very popular technology for time of flight (TOF) based localization and tracking applications but its human body interactions have not been studied yet extensively. Most ...
    • Impact of graphene monolayer on the performance of non-conventional silicon heterojunction solar cells with moox hole-selective contact 

      Ros, Eloi; Fernández, Susana; Ortega, Pablo; Taboada, Elena; Arnedo Gil, Israel; Gandía, José Javier; Voz, Cristóbal (MDPI, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, a new design of transparent conductive electrode based on a graphene monolayer is evaluated. This hybrid electrode is incorporated into non-standard, high-efficiency crystalline silicon solar cells, where the ...
    • Impact of micro-cycles on the lifetime of lithium-ion batteries: an experimental study 

      Soto Cabria, Adrián Upna Orcid; Berrueta Irigoyen, Alberto Upna Orcid; Mateos Inza, Miren; Sanchis Gúrpide, Pablo Upna Orcid; Ursúa Rubio, Alfredo Upna Orcid (Elsevier, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Experimental aging studies are commonly conducted on lithium-ion batteries by full charge and discharge cycles. However, such profiles may differ from the actual operation of batteries in electric vehicles and stationary ...
    • Impedance bandwidth improvement of a planar antenna based on metamaterial-inspired T-matching network 

      Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Virdee, Bal S.; Shukla, Panchamkumar; Wang, Yan; Azpilicueta Fernández de las Heras, Leyre Upna Orcid; Naser Moghadasi, Mohammad; See, Chan H.; Elfergani, Issa; Zebiri, Chemseddine; Abd-Alhameed, Raed; Huynen, Isabelle; Rodriguez, Jonathan; Denidni, Tayeb A.; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Limiti, Ernesto (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc., 2021)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper a metamaterial-inspired T-matching network is directly imbedded inside the feedline of a microstrip antenna to realize optimum power transfer between the front-end of an RF Wireless transceiver and the antenna. ...
    • Implementation of an interactive environment with multilevel wireless links for distributed botanical garden in university campus 

      Klaina, Hicham Upna; Picallo Guembe, Imanol Upna Orcid; López Iturri, Peio Upna Orcid; Astrain Escola, José Javier Upna Orcid; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this contribution, an end to end system to enable user interaction with a distributed botanical university campus garden is designed, implemented and tested. The proposed system employs different wireless links to collect ...
    • Implementation of radiating elements for radiofrequency front-ends by screen-printing techniques for Internet of Things applications 

      Picallo Guembe, Imanol Upna Orcid; Klaina, Hicham Upna; López Iturri, Peio Upna Orcid; Sánchez, Aitor; Méndez Giménez, Leire; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2019)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The advent of the Internet of Things (IoT) has led to embedding wireless transceivers into a wide range of devices, in order to implement context-aware scenarios, in which a massive amount of transceivers is foreseen. In ...
    • Improved adaptive impedance matching for RF front-end systems of wireless transceivers 

      Alibakhshikenari, Mohammad; Virdee, Bal S.; Shukla, Panchamkumar; See, Chan H.; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (Nature Research, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this paper an automatic adaptive antenna impedance tuning algorithm is presented that is based on quantum inspired genetic optimization technique. The proposed automatic quantum genetic algorithm (AQGA) is used to find ...
    • Improved strategies for HPE employing learning-by-synthesis approaches 

      Larumbe Bergera, Andoni Upna Orcid; Ariz Galilea, Mikel Upna; Bengoechea Irañeta, José Javier Upna; Segura, Rubén; Cabeza Laguna, Rafael Upna Orcid; Villanueva Larre, Arantxa Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2018)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      The first contribution of this paper is the presentation of a synthetic video database where the groundtruth of 2D facial landmarks and 3D head poses is available to be used for training and evaluating Head Pose Estimation ...
    • Improvement of corona breakdown threshold (peak power handling) in smooth-profiled microstrip filters 

      Ahmad, Jamil; Hussain, Jabir; Arregui Padilla, Iván Upna Orcid; Martín Iglesias,  Petronilo; Arnedo Gil, Israel; Gómez Laso, Miguel Ángel Upna Orcid; Lopetegui Beregaña, José María (2022)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      In this paper, the PPHCs of two filter design techniques, stepped-impedance (SI) and smooth-profile (SP), are presented for four design prototypes. Smooth-profiled filters feature smooth variations in the characteristic ...
    • Improving the grid integration of large PV plants: inverter limitation and forecasting 

      González Moreno, Alejandro (2024)   Tesis doctoral / Doktoretza tesia
      En los últimos años ha aumentado considerablemente el número de instalaciones fotovoltaicas de gran potencia. Esto ha llevado a algunos operadores de red a expresar su preocupación por los posibles efectos no deseados de ...
    • Improving the width of lossy mode resonances (LMRs) in double-clad fibers 

      Imas González, José Javier Upna Orcid; Del Villar, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Zubiate Orzanco, Pablo Upna Orcid; Ruiz Zamarreño, Carlos Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      In this work, the characteristics of lossy mode resonances (LMRs) in double-clad fibers where the refractive index (RI) of the second cladding is lower than that of the first cladding are analyzed both numerically and ...
    • Improving the width of lossy mode resonances in a reflection configuration D-shaped fiber by nanocoating laser ablation 

      Fuentes Lorenzo, Omar Upna; Vaiano, Patrizio; Del Villar, Ignacio Upna Orcid; Corres Sanz, Jesús María Upna Orcid; Matías Maestro, Ignacio Upna Orcid (Optical Society of America, 2020)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The full width at half maximum (FWHM) of lossy mode resonances (LMRs) in the optical spectrum depends on the homogeneity of the thin film deposited. In this Letter, a method for improving the FWHM is applied for an LMR ...
    • In situ synthesis of gold nanoparticles in layer-b y-layer polymeric coatings for the fabrication of optical fiber sensors 

      Martínez Hernández, María Elena Upna Orcid; Goicoechea Fernández, Javier Upna Orcid; Rivero Fuente, Pedro J. Upna Orcid; Arregui San Martín, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid (MDPI, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      A new method is proposed to tune the interferometric response of wavelength-based optical fiber sensors. Using the nanoparticle in situ synthesis (ISS) technique, it is possible to synthesize gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) ...
    • In-field energy performance of solar PV module made of UMG silicon 

      Guerra, Moisés R.; Parra Laita, Íñigo de la Upna Orcid; García Solano, Miguel Upna Orcid; Pascual Miqueleiz, Julio María Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2022)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Upgraded metallurgical grade silicon (UMG-Si) PV modules have failed to make their space in the PV market, which was partly to the uncertainty on their in-field performance that brings the wide disparity of results published ...
    • In-field torsion measurements on solar trackers using fiber optic sensors 

      Leandro González, Daniel Upna Orcid; Bravo Acha, Mikel Upna Orcid; Júdez Colorado, Aitor Upna; Mariñelarena Ollacarizqueta, Jon Upna Orcid; Falcone Lanas, Francisco Javier Upna Orcid; Loayssa Lara, Alayn; López-Amo Sáinz, Manuel Upna Orcid; Jiménez, S.; Achaerandio, Álvaro (Optica, 2020)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      In-field torsion measurements on solar trackers using fiber Bragg gratings are presented. 45 FBG sensors have been deployed in an operational solar energy plant to study the mechanical response of the structure to wind.
    • Incandescent temporal metamaterials 

      Vázquez Lozano, Juan Enrique; Liberal Olleta, Íñigo Upna Orcid (Nature Research, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      Regarded as a promising alternative to spatially shaping matter, time-varying media can be seized to control and manipulate wave phenomena, including thermal radiation. Here, based upon the framework of macroscopic quantum ...
    • Inclusion of a supercapacitor energy storage system in DFIG and full-converter PMSG wind turbines for inertia emulation 

      Berrueta Irigoyen, Alberto Upna Orcid; Sacristán Sillero, Javier; López Taberna, Jesús Upna Orcid; Rodríguez Izal, José Luis; Ursúa Rubio, Alfredo Upna Orcid; Sanchis Gúrpide, Pablo Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2023)   Artículo / Artikulua  OpenAccess
      The energy transition towards renewables must be accelerated to achieve climate targets. To do so, renewable power plants, such as wind power plants (WPPs) must replace conventional power plants (CPPs). Transmission System ...
    • Incremental capacity analysis of lithium-ion second-life batteries from electric vehicles under cycling ageing 

      Braco Sola, Elisa Upna; San Martín Biurrun, Idoia Upna Orcid; Sanchis Gúrpide, Pablo Upna Orcid; Ursúa Rubio, Alfredo Upna Orcid (IEEE, 2021)   Contribución a congreso / Biltzarrerako ekarpena  OpenAccess
      Nowadays, the reuse of batteries from electric vehicles is considered a promising solution to benefit from their remaining energy and extend their lifespan. Yet, the economic viability of these second-life batteries is ...

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