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Technical Inspections of Vehicle (Inspecciones Técnicas de Vehículos - ITV) prevent 170 fatalities per year, nearly 11,000 injuries and at least 11,000 traffic accidents. This is the conclusion reached by the study “Contribución de la ITV a la Seguridad Vial 2012” (ITV’s Contribution to Road Safety) carried out by Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) and sponsored by the Fundación Instituto Tecnológico para la Seguridad del Automóvil (FITSA – Technological Institute for...

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid Researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) have developed a new system which improves the ability of a GPS to determine a vehicle’s position as compared to that of conventional GPS devices by up to 90 percent, and which can be installed in any vehicle at a very low cost. The system, which is based on sensorial fusion, was jointly designed and developed by the Applied Artificial Intelligence Group (GIAA – Grupo de Inteligencia Aplicada...

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) have designed a system that automates the administrative sanctioning process (traffic fines) by applying Communication and Information Technologies (CITs) to traffic flow and using sensors built into vehicles. The goal of the scientists in the Information and Communications Technology Security Group (Seguridad de las Tecnologías de la Información y las Comunicaciones - SeTI) at UC3M who are working on the E-SAVE project is to use...

A study by researchers at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Universidad de Zaragoza has determined that when deciding whether to cooperate with others, people do not act thinking in their own reward, as had been previously believed, but rather individuals are more influenced by their own mood at the time and by the number of individuals with whom they have cooperated before. In addition to previous studies, this research is also based on an experiment carried out by the Institute for...

Robotics is an area of research that can help us to innovate and become more competitive in the international marketplace. This was one of the conclusions of RoboCity12, the Robotics Summit that was recently held in Madrid by RoboCity2030, a consortium coordinated by Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M), which is made up of the strongest groups doing research in this area from the Autonomous Community of Madrid. The event, “RoboCity12: Robots para los ciudadanos” (Robots for the...

Research at Carlos III University (Universidad Carlos III) in Madrid (Universidad Carlos III - UC3M) is developing an algorithm, based on ants’ behavior when they are searching for food, which accelerates the search for relationships among elements that are present in social networks. One of the main technical questions in the field of social networks, whose use is becoming more and more generalized, consists in locating the chain of reference that leads from one person to another, from...

Researchers at Universidad Carlos III in Madrid (UC3M) have developed a system that can be built into virtual reality goggles that help patients with moderate visual impairment move around their surroundings. The application detects the distance and shape of objects and interacts with the user by means of a simple color code. People with moderate visual impairment, particularly those who have difficulty perceiving the full extent of their surroundings, could use the ingenious device that...

Research in which Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M) is participating analyzes the trafficking of women in China, a crime that is related to that country’s great imbalance in the proportion of men to women, which has become worse since the nineteen eighties. This study is part of broader research that these scientists are carrying out on the imbalance of the sexes in China and its potential consequences. This phenomenon started to be noticed during the nineteen eighties and can...

A study carried out by researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (UC3M – Carlos III University) analyzes, for the first time, the independent label sector in Spain. It describes both the wide range of activities and strategies that these firms use, and their presence in new networks and digital services. This report presents the results of a survey given to companies that make up the “independent” sector of popular music in Spain, in order to obtain a “picture” of the...

A new protocol, IPv6, is being introduced across the Web. Researchers at Universidad Carlos III of Madrid (Carlos III University - UC3M) who are participating in the Trilogy project have defined technology that allows users of this protocol to access Internet contents that are currently only available to users entering the Web using IPv4 protocol. The protocol that any device uses to connect to Internet, IPv4, (Internet Protocol version 4), has a problem: due to the Web’s tremendous...