October 2024. The PhD Thesis entitled "Design of driving automation systems based on robust control for the improvement of safety and comfort in automotive vehicles" written by Fernando Viadero-Monasterio and supervised by Beatriz López Boada and Mª Jesús López Boada has been recognized with the πππ¬π ππ‘π ππ‘ππ¬π’π¬ ππ°ππ«π from the ππππ«π¨-ππ¦ππ«π’πππ§ π ππππ«πππ’π¨π§ π¨π ππππ‘ππ§π’πππ₯ ππ§π π’π§πππ«π’π§π , based on the quality, novelty of the results obtained and their relevance to the field of mechanical engineering.
This Doctoral Thesis was conducted within the national competitive project Intelligent Driving Safety System under an IoT platform with low-cost devices (RTI2018-095143-BC21) supported through “FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades- Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)” of the Government of Spain.
October 2024. The researcher Beatriz López Boada is among the world’s most cited (top 2% Scientists of the World) in the field "Automobile Design & Engineering", according to the Ranking of World Scientists 2023 carried out by the University of Standford.
September 2024. Prof. Daniel García-Pozuelo Ramos, Farshad Afshari and Fernando Viadero Monasterio have been honored with the IFToMM Best Research Paper Award at EUCOMES 2024 for their work "Designing a New Sustainable and Instrumented Tire: ECOTIRE".
This work has been funded by MCIN/AEI/10.13039 501100011033 and by the European Union NextGeneration EU PRTR through the R+D+i project ECOTIRE TED2021-129604B-100.
August 2024. Fernando Viadero Monasterio has been identified as a finalist for the award of the 2024 IEEE ITSS Best PhD Dissertation Nomination.
This Doctoral Thesis has been conducted within the national competitive project Intelligent Driving Safety System under an IoT platform with low-cost devices (RTI2018-095143-BC21) supported through “FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades- Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)” of the Government of Spain.
April 2024. The research group VEDYMEC has obtained the FOS-YUFE 2022-2023 Seal. This initiative is part of the work led by UC3M on Open Science, in the YUFERING project, to promote the cultural change involved in Open Science in the members institutions of the YUFE Alliance. +info
November 2023. The researchers Beatriz López Boada and Maria Jesús López Boada, heads of the research group VEDYMEC, are among the world’s most cited (top 2% Scientists of the World) in the field "Automobile Design & Engineering", according to the Ranking of World Scientists 2022 carried out by the University of Standford.
July 2023. Miguel Melenedez Useros has won the runner-up prize of the XX Abertis Award for research in sustainable mobility, in the category of Master's thesis. The title of his Master's thesis was "Estimation of tire-to-road friction coefficient" and was supervised by the professors Beatriz López Boada and Maria Jesús López Boada.
July 2023. Fernando Viadero Monasterio has been elected as member of the Technical Committee for Transportation Machinery of the International Federation for the Promotion of Mechanism and Machine Science (IFToMM).
June 2023. Fernando Viadero Monasterio defended his PhD Thesis "Desing of driving automation system based on robust control for the improvement of dafety and comfort in vehicles" on June 12th, 2023. The PhD Thesis was supervised by Prof. Beatriz López Boada and Prof. Maria Jesus Lopez Boada.
This Doctoral Thesis has been conducted within the national competitive project Intelligent Driving Safety System under an IoT platform with low-cost devices (RTI2018-095143-BC21) supported through “FEDER/Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades- Agencia Estatal de Investigación (AEI)” of the Government of Spain.
Testing VEHICO.Sync equipment on a Toyota Corolla at INSIA tracks. This infrastructure is part of the AGREEMENT BETWEEN THE COMUNIDAD DE MADRID (CONSEJERÍA DE EDUCACIÓN, UNIVERSIDADES, CIENCIA Y PORTAVOCÍA) AND UC3M FOR THE DIRECT AWARD OF AID TO FUND RESEARCH PROJECTS ON SARS-COV 2 AND COVID-19 DISEASE FINANCED WITH THE REACT-UE RESOURCES OF THE EUROPEAN REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT FUND «A way for Europe».
The researchers Beatriz López Boada and Maria Jesús López Boada, heads of the research group VEDYMEC, are among the world’s most cited (top 2% Scientists of the World) in the field "Automobile Design & Engineering", according to the Ranking of World Scientists 2021 carried out by the University of Standford.
Members of the research group MECATRAN have participated in the Madrid es Ciencia Fair 2022, from the 2nd – 5th of March 2022, in collaboration with the madri+d Foundation showing our instrumented vehicle, a buggy equipped with sensors and actuators that, in the last few years, have been incorporated into mass production vehicles, in order to improve their safety and comfort.
The research group has joined the European Association Connected, Cooperative & Automated Mobility (CCAM).
The researches Beatriz López Boada and Maria Jesús López Boada, heads of the research group VEDYMEC, are among the world’s most cited in 2019 in their respective fields, according to the Ranking of World Scientists carried out by the University of Standford.
