GPA builds an acoustic array on a 1:8 scale RC car

The system will allow the evaluation of a new pedestrian detector in the automotive area.

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

Participation in the Lignomad19 conference

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

Visit to the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology

In January 2018, Dr. Lara del Val visited the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Eindhoven University of Technology, invited by Inés López Arteaga, full Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering and part-time professor at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm, within the Marcus Wallenberg Laboratory for Acoustics and Vibration Research. During this visit, supported by the Erasmus + mobility grants programme, Lara del Val gave a talk on Beamforming, as part of the course “Coupled Problems: Vibro Acoustic”, to postgraduate students. This visit laid the foundations for joint work on the use of machine learning techniques, in which Lara del Val has experience, for the detection of faults in vibrating plates, from acoustic images obtained with microphone arrays.

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.