Francisco Rodríguez-Sedano

Universidad de León | UNILEON · Department of Electric, Systems and Automatics Engineering

Nuestra sociedad está cambiando de forma radical y a un ritmo vertiginoso debido, fundamentalmente, a que las tecnologías de la información y la comunicación forma parte, cada vez más de nuestras vidas. En este artículo nos planteamos el uso de un nuevo lenguaje visual, denominado VILA (VIsual LAnguage), para resolver problemas de accesibilidad que...

In recent years, the interaction of a human operator with teleoperated robotic systems has been much improved. One of the factors influencing this improvement is the addition of force feedback to complement the visual feedback provided by traditional graphical user interfaces. However, the users of these systems performing tasks in isolated and saf...

This article presents the results regarding a systematic literature review procedure on digital twins applied to precision agriculture. In particular, research and development activities aimed at the use of digital twins, in the context of predictive control, with the purpose of improving soil quality. This study was carried out through an exhausti...

In our current society the acquisition of competences such as teamwork is essential. However, the evaluation of how this competence is developed is not easy and requires methodologies and tools to support the assessment process. In this sense several Learning Analytics tools have been developed. They explore students’ interactions in different type...

In Portugal, the olive groves soil has been subject to severe degradation due to harsh farming techniques combined with uncontrollable conditions such as climate changes and steep terrain orography. In this framework, this tendency must be reverted by adopting different farm management policies. The MAN4HEALTH project address this subject in two-fo...

Nowadays, working in groups is very usual and popular in most professional environments. Thus, students, as potential workers, need to acquire teamwork competence in their educational institutions. However, when the students are working in groups, it is easy assessing their final result but not so much evaluating how each of them, individually, is...

Definition of the criteria and standards formats to create the contents: - The criteria to select the 3D objects - The format for the analysis and description of the articles and 3d Objects The proposal will be finally adopted according to the feedbacks and contribution of all the parterns. They will identify, analyse and describe 3D objects that w...

The Higher Educational Institutions (HEI) and the Museums involved as Contractual Partners of the project are working on the development of the Intellectual Output 1: "Literature Review: VR applied in educational and cultural institutions and their impact" developing a literature review of academic publications about VR applied to educational touri...

Instant Messaging tools are a part of our technified daily life. Tools such as WhatsApp or Telegram have millions of users that send continuously billion of messages. This can be used in different context and one of them is in Education. An important part of education is students’ interaction and specially how they interact when working together as...

This paper presents a systematic literature review (SLR) about realistic simulators that can be applied in an educational robotics context. These simulators must include the simulation of actuators and sensors, the ability to simulate robots and their environment. During this systematic review of the literature, 559 articles were extracted from six...

Students’ acquisition of teamwork competence has become a priority for educational institutions. The development of teamwork competence in education generally relies in project-based learning methodologies and challenges. The assessment of teamwork in project-based learning involves, among others, assessing students’ participation and the interacti...

Digital society demands professionals prepared for the current landscape. It is necessary to teach current students how to employ and solve problems related to this constantly changing context. This requires new learning approaches that facilitate developing computational thinking skills by learning programming and applying STEAM disciplines. Howev...

Robots have been proposed as teaching assistants for children, but few studies have measured their effectiveness. This paper describes an experiment using the Baxter robot for teaching basic computational principles. We compare acquired abilities in students with a control group lectured by a human teacher in a traditional way. These abilities are...

Nowadays, companies are demanding better‐prepared professionals to succeed in a digital society, and the acquisition of Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, and Mathematics (STEAM)‐related competencies is a key issue. One of the main problems in this sense is how to integrate STEAM into the current educational curricula. This is not something re...

In the context of the digital society, educational systems should prepare the students to succeed in a really volatile environment. In order to do so they require to acquire some specific competences that use to be related to STEAM Education. However, integrating STEAM is hard and requires of new methodologies and tools. RoboSTEAM is an Erasmus+ pr...

Situated in the intersection of two emerging trends, online self- and peer assessment modes and learning analytics, this study explores the current landscape of software applications to support peer assessment activities and their necessary requirements to complete the learning analytics cycle upon the information collected from those applications....

Teamwork methodology and classroom response systems have been used in several educational contexts with positive effects. These systems are aimed to increase active engagement in the classroom and to improve the academic performance. In this paper, the authors present an initiative to implement these methodologies in a Chinese higher education cont...

Version Control Systems are commonly used by Information and communication technology professionals. They allow monitoring the single activity of different people working in the same project through all the project's lifetime. Thus, Version Control Systems are also used by educational institutions. The aim of this work is to demonstrate that the ac...

Nowadays, teleoperation systems are increasingly used for the training of specific skills to carry out complex tasks in dangerous environments. One of the challenges of these systems is to ensure that the time it takes for users to acquire these skills is as short as possible. For this, the user interface must be intuitive and easy to use. This doc...

El objetivo general de esta investigación se dirige a conocer la circulación de los materiales tradicionales en las bibliotecas de la ULe, para observar la evolución del préstamo en el momento de auge de la colección electrónica, indagar sobre los principales usuarios de la colección y averiguar qué tipos documentales son los más prestados. En espe...

In our present professional and educational contexts one of the key competences to assess is the teamwork competence. However, this require not only to explore the development of the competence by a group but how it is acquired by each of its members. In order to do so it is necessary to analyze several issues and one of the most relevant is studen...

The use of teleoperation systems can provide substantial advantages in various fields such as remote explosive dismantling and rescue operations, as well as improve the accuracy on certain tasks like surgery. These systems offer feedback mainly based on visual information of the task performed showing relevant data of the systems used as well as th...

When considering the application of different interfaces for human-robot interaction, several questions about their usability arise: Which are the most appropriate interfaces for this type of interaction? Can haptic devices improve human-robot interaction? Are there any type of interface that is not suitable for interacting with robots? This study...

Nowadays students live in the digital age and they do not only should learn to speak, write or develop specific skills. Students needs to be successful in their context and a possible way to achieve this is by developing the computational thinking. In the last few years there are several initiatives to promote computational thinking and to define a...

Social robots have been used and are being used in many projects, research initiatives and experiments, but we know few about their use in the long term. Taking as a starting point an experiment where a robot and a human teacher were used for teaching computational concepts to a group of K12 students, the main goal of this paper is not to analyse t...

Social robots have been and are currently being used in many projects, research initiatives and experiments, but we know relatively little about them compared to humans when performing a social task such as teaching. Using an experiment in which a robot and a human teacher were used for teaching computational concepts to a group of K-12 students, t...

Our society is radically changing at an astonishing rate essentially, due to the fact that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are becoming an ever greater part of our lives. The frenetic rhythm at which the technology has evolved in recent years, has caused a significant separation between individuals who use communication technologie...

Most workplace task and processes involve collaborative work between peers. This makes teamwork competence acquisition a key issue for educational institutions. This type of competence uses to be associated to project-based learning activities. In these activities students’ assessment is something complex and mostly based on the outcome developed b...

The study presented in this paper explored the acceptance of robots as teachers for a group of K-12 students. These students attended a programming session designed to applied computational principles in different fields. We have analyzed how this acceptance varies with age, and also if their opinion changes if they were exposed to a real robot tea...

This research is aimed at establishing the circulation of the materials available at the University of León Library in order to determine the evolution of the circulation data, identify the main users of the resource collection available for borrowing, determine the periods of greater and lesser usage of the checkout collection and identify the doc...

Teleoperating robots is quite a common practice in fields such as surgery, defence or rescue. The main source of information in this kind of environments is the sense of sight. The user can see on a display what the robot is watching in real time, and maybe also a visual representation of the robot's surroundings. Our proposal involves the use of h...

This article discusses the use of a new visual language known as VILA (VIsual LAnguage) to resolve the accessibility problems people with certain types of disabilities have when using ICTs to access the information and knowledge society and communicate with other people under equal terms.

Software engineering courses usually face a situation where a reasonable size application has to be developed within a semester period. But, on the one hand, if students begin from scratch and start with the knowledge acquisition and requirements phases, they usually do not get to the deployment one. And, on the other hand, developing quality softw...

This paper shows the experience in the development of an ontology-based expert system for the field of control engineering education. The particular characteristics of the knowledge in this domain and some of the conceptualization strategies used are shown. Also the prototype expert system built is described, showing how the ontology-based nature...

Los cambios que estamos viviendo de forma continua en los departamentos universitarios, entre ellos los cambios en los planes de estudio, el aumento del número de docentes en los departamentos, la variación en los tipos de contratos de los profesores, los cambios en la organización, etc. son algunas de las causas que originan un aumento de la docum...

The modeling of domains is today a technique with growing acceptance into the software community. Domain models allow the information to be represented in the computer at higher abstraction levels than in the usual applications, so improving the human to machine and machine to machine interactions. This paper deals with the application of such mode...

The modeling of domains is today a technique with growing acceptance into the software community. Domain models allow the information to be represented in the computer at higher abstraction levels than in the usual applications, so improving the human to machine and machine to machine interactions. This paper deals with the application of such mode...

With the integration of the European Higher Education Area one of the challenges we must face is the reduction of lectures and providing students with greater autonomy and room for practice. In order for this to happen new mechanisms that enable interaction among teachers and students are necessary as well as the means by which teachers might susta...

One of the most important issues when talking about cost in industry is cost regarding software applications' development and use. This paper shows new directions related to this discipline, aimed at the improvement of the different technologies and applications used today in every area of the product life cycle, and stress the need for a more conc...

Document engineering is the automatic or semiautomatic process that assists a documental department of a company in the gathering, storing, retrieving and generation of articles and documents, and also in the distribution of these documents. A web-based multi-agent system was chosen as the best approach to build such a system, providing a flexible...

Resumen. Con el incremento en el empleo de los ordenadores y la emergencia del comercio electrónico, la detección de intrusos se ha convertido en una prioridad importante, pues no resulta técnicamente factible construir un sistema totalmente invulnerable. La hipótesis de la presente investigación es que la Lógica Borrosa es capaz de producir "mejor...

Con el incremento en el empleo de los ordenadores y la emergencia del comercio electrónico, la detección de intrusos se ha convertido en una prioridad importante, pues no resulta técnicamente factible construir un sistema totalmente invulnerable. La hipótesis de la presente investigación es que la Lógica Borrosa es capaz de producir "mejores" regla...

En este trabajo se pretende analizar distintos sistemas de detección de intrusos basados en Redes Neuronales tanto para detección de anomalías como para detección de mal uso (misuse). La característica que se aprove-cha es la de aprendizaje de estas redes, lo que permite predecir acciones de usuario. Por tanto, su consideración es lícita como una a...

Este trabajo describe el sistema INELMEC, un entorno de apoyo a la enseñanza del idioma inglés en el campo científico-técnico aplicado a los dominios de las ingenierías eléctrica, mecánica y de control. Se introduce la idea de que las disciplinas técnicas tienen un conjunto de conceptos y características particulares que hacen que se pueda hablar d...

The use of computers in the control engineering domain is not as fruitful as it could be. Computers should be much more than machines performing fast numerical calculations, aiming to represent the expertise and the knowledge of the human that are experts in the domain. Knowledge engineering and knowledge representation are the scientific areas tha...

The future of control engineering education will require the detailed and careful analysis of both the curricula and the methods involved in the learning process. This paper deals with the two key elements that are going to mean a revolution in the educational field: the computer and the Internet. Considering the education as a knowledge transfer p...

En cualquier dominio sobre el que se trabaje es habitual encontrar colecciones de datos que son utilizados para extraer de ellos información. En este trabajo se presenta una técnica utilizada para extraer información conceptualizada de un determinado dominio y su aplicación a un problema particular: el desarrollo de un clasificador de documentos de...

Fundación Hullera Vasco-Leonesa is a company with a documental department responsible for managing the bibliographic information the company uses. That department manually elaborates and distributes periodic documents (press bulletins, environmental dossiers, etc). This paper describes an intelligent multiagent system as a way to solve the work han...

Los sistemas multiagente se vienen utilizando en muy variadas áreas de investigación y desarrollo. En este artículo se pretende ofrecer la experiencia del grupo investigador con dichos sistemas en el curso de un proyecto de investigación aplicada a una empresa para resolver un problema específico. Partiendo de conocimientos teóricos, se describen l...

En los últimos años, debido al incremento en el uso de los ordenadores y la emergencia del comercio electrónico, la detección de intrusos se ha convertido en una prioridad importante, pues no resulta técnicamente factible construir un sistema invulnerable. La hipótesis de la investigación es que la Lógica Borrosa es capaz de producir "mejores" regl...

Resumen Los Sistemas Expertos encontraron un campo de aplicación en la Ingeniería de Control a mediados y finales de los años 80. Desde su crisis a principios de los años 90, los Sistemas Expertos casi han desaparecido de la Ingeniería de Control. Hoy, el campo de la Ingeniería de Control exige nuevas características al software que no se pueden co...

Resumen La creación de nuevo software de propósito docente supone una potente herramienta y un complemento a la clase magistral tradicional. Las nuevas tecnologías de la información proporcionan la capacidad de acceso a estas aplicaciones vía internet. En el documento se muestrea como se ha construido un simulador de PWM desde la resolución de la e...