GPA performs the first tests with an on-board drone array to detect people emitting distress sounds

Participation in the Lignomad congress19

The GPA GIR has participated, together with the GIR of Structures and Technology of the Wood of the University of Valladolid, in the congress Lignomad19, celebrated in Santiago de Compostela between the 1 and the 3 of July of 2019

GPA develops a MEMS accelerometer

As a consequence of the collaboration with the GIR group of Structures and Technologies of the Wood of the UVA, a low-cost MEMS accelerometer has been developed to measure the resonance frequencies of wooden beams in heritage environments.

GPA produces a promotional video about its research lines

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GPA Integrates a MEMS acoustic array in a drone for rescue applications

Integration on a Drontecnic DT6P platform of a MEMS 4×4 acoustic array with a myRIO processing system

Visita al Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Eindhoven

En enero de  2018, la doctora Lara del Val realizó una visita al Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica de la Universidad Tecnológica de Eindhoven, invitada por Inés López Arteaga, profesora catedrática de dicho departamento, así como profesora catedrática a tiempo parcial en el Real Instituto Tecnológico (KTH) de Estocolmo, dentro del Laboratorio Marcus Wallenberg para la investigación en Acústica y Vibraciones. En dicha visita, amparada por el programa de ayudas de movilidad del Erasmus +, Lara del Val impartío una charla sobre Beamforming, dentro del Curso “Coupled Problems: Vibro Acoustic”, a alumnos de Postgrado. Y dicha visita sentó las bases para un trabajo conjunto en relación al uso de técnicas de machine learning, en las que Lara del Val tiene experiencia, para la detección de fallos en placas vibrantes, a partir de imágenes acústicas obtenidas con arrays de micrófonos

Guest Lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University

Prof Alberto Izquierdo has made a 1-month stay as a visiting professor with Prof Jose Moura of Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburg-USA). July 2017 

New 3D positioner system for building Virtual Arrays

In collaboration with the UBU, a 3D positioning system has been designed allowing that 8×8 SAM array could be moved with millimetric precision. With this new tool, virtual arrays of thousands of sensors can be built with angular resolutions of tenths of degree.