Control systems attempt to predict system behaviour in order to permit manipulation, obtaining a desired output. There are a very broad range of systems, including chemical, mechanical and electronic systems, however they often share similar behaviour. System behaviour is described through a model, that represents the most important characteristics for the application at hand. Control techniques thereby make use of many techniques depending on the information and structure of the model, system behaviour, system manipulation and output requirements of the system themselves.
Control theory is my main research subject, and I plan on making future research in this area. I found the link between physics and math as well as its broad range of applications to be fascinating.
A list of research projects follows:
Controller Design for Six Degrees of Freedom Quadrotor
Controller Design for Three Degrees of Freedom Arm Helicopter Robot
3 Wheeled 2 Motor Driven Obstacle Evading Robot
Design of Analog Fuzzy Logic Gates based on Op-amps
A short description of each is given below.
Preliminary work on the design of neural network based controller for a six degrees of freedom Quadrotor was made. This research was under supervision of M.Sc. Salvador González Vázquez.
Collaborated on the controller design for an Arm Helicopter Robot. A positive input controller was designed, for one directional propeller motors. A publication was generated from this research. This research was made under supervision of M.Sc. Salvador González Vázquez.
An abstract of this publication may be found here.
Designed and implemented an “Obstacle evading three wheeled, 2 motor autonomous robot”. The aim of this project was to have a test system for different controller architectures. This project was my own proposal and spanned two semesters having to persuade my teachers into accepting it as a class project so that I could have a team to direct as I continued my research. During this research modeling, sensor and power systems design, and an analogical and digital implementation were done. These designs implemented my Analog Fuzzy Gates developed earlier. Initial supervision of this project was under M.Sc. Salvador González and later M.Sc. Jorge Edson Loya.
More information on this research topic may be found here.
Designed Analog Fuzzy Logic Gates based on Op-amps during my Electronics III course, based on independent tutoring on Artificial Intelligence. These were later implemented in my obstacle avoiding robot. A poster session was presented at the "Congreso Nacional de Física" in 2008. Research was done under supervision of M.Sc. Juán Jesús López García.
An abstract of this poster may be found here.
