Una defensa del convencionalismo jurídico

Este trabajo muestra que la existencia de un sistema jurídico requiere la presencia de una práctica unitaria de identificación de normas. El autor sostiene que esa práctica consiste en una convención constitutiva, que permite identificar de manera autónoma el Derecho de una determinada comunidad. Se pone de relieve de este modo una forma específica en que el Derecho es una creación social: del mismo modo que la existencia del dinero requiere la creencia de que éste existe, también la existencia de un sistema jurídico depende, en última instancia, de un conjunto de creencias compartido por las personas relevantes. El planteamiento de esta posición y de sus ventajas se lleva a cabo a lo largo de los apartados 2, 3, 4 y 5. El último apartado se dedica a examinar y a descartar cinco posibles objeciones a una tesis convencionalista como la que aquí se defiende.

Recognition of online handwritten music symbols

Paper submitted to MML 2013, 6th International Workshop on Machine Learning and Music, Prague, September 23, 2013.

Visual perception for the 3D recognition of geometric pieces in robotic manipulation

During grasping and intelligent robotic manipulation tasks, the camera position relative to the scene changes dramatically because the robot is moving to adapt its path and correctly grasp objects. This is because the camera is mounted at the robot effector. For this reason, in this type of environment, a visual recognition system must be implemented to recognize and “automatically and autonomously” obtain the positions of objects in the scene. Furthermore, in industrial environments, all objects that are manipulated by robots are made of the same material and cannot be differentiated by features such as texture or color. In this work, first, a study and analysis of 3D recognition descriptors has been completed for application in these environments. Second, a visual recognition system designed from specific distributed client-server architecture has been proposed to be applied in the recognition process of industrial objects without these appearance features. Our system has been implemented to overcome problems of recognition when the objects can only be recognized by geometric shape and the simplicity of shapes could create ambiguity. Finally, some real tests are performed and illustrated to verify the satisfactory performance of the proposed system.