Rafael Fierro

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Associate Professor

Electrical & Computer Eng. Department
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131-0001

Tel. (505) 277-4125              Fax  (505) 277-1439

 

e-mail:     rfierro at ece.unm.edu
Web site: http://www.ece.unm.edu/~rfierro

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Education

Post-doctoral Fellow, GRASP Laboratory, University of Pennsylvania
Ph.D., University of Texas-Arlington
MSc. in Control Engineering, University of Bradford, UK
B.S. in Electrical Engineering, National Polytechnic School, Quito, Ecuador

Curriculum vitae

Research Interests

  • Hybrid and Embedded Systems
  • Coordination of Multi-Vehicle Systems
  • Optimization-based Cooperative Control
  • Mobile Sensor Networks and Robotics

Publications

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Multi-Agent, Robotics, Hybrid and Embedded Systems Laboratory

MARHES

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Group

Current students
  • Jose Marcio Luna, Soumik Banerjee, Paul Ng, Brian Griffin
  • Lillian Acosta, Julie Welch

Former students

  • Omar Orqueda (Ph.D., Dec. 2006, The MathWorks), Feng Xie (Ph.D., Dec 2007)
  • MSc.: James McClintock, Brent Perteet, Carlo Branca, Yuan Cao, Justin Clark, Daniel Cruz, Ezzalden Edwan, Jose Sanchez, Kirk Wesselowski (PhD., Boston University, Dec. 2006)

Visitors

  • Nicola Bezzo (Exchange student from Italy Politecnico di Milano)

Current Research Projects (PI)

  • Robotic Games Increasing the interest of children in Engineering!!
    The Robotic Games project is focused on encouraging children's interest in science and engineering by developing a set of interactive games that introduce them to the basics of robotics in a fun-filled afternoon demonstration.
     
  • NSF CAREER: Coordination of Dynamic Networks - A Hybrid System Approach

Current Projects I participate (co-PI)

  • NSF CRI: IAD A Research and Education Infrastructure for Enabling Autonomic Sensor Grid Systems and Multidisciplinary Applications, 2007-2010.
  • NSF ES21C Engineering Students 21st Century
  • Scientific Adviser Task Planning and Scheduling in Robotic and Autonomous Systems, University of Zagreb, Croatia (PI: Prof. Stjepan Bogdan)

Past Research Projects

  • NSF Hierarchical Hybrid Control of Multi-Vehicle Systems
  • DoD ARO Adaptation and Learning at All Levels in Intelligent Robot Teams for Reconnaissance, Surveillance and Battlefield Assessment

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Teaching

  • ECE 445-001 Introduction to Control Systems, F07, F08
  • ECE 445-002 (On-line) Introduction to Control Systems, F07
  • ECE 649 Topics in Control of Hybrid Systems, Spr08

Prospective Students and Research Assistants

  • Graduate Research Fellowship in Hybrid Systems and Multi-Vehicle Coordination

Professional Service

Associate Editor for:

International Program Committed (IPC) Member

Associate Editor of Invited Papers

  • CDC 2008

Travel (Meetings and Conferences)

  • University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 20-22, 2008.
  • ICRA, Pasadena, California, May 19-23, 2008.
  • ACC, Seattle, WA, June, 2008.
  • MED, Ajaccio, Corsica, France on June 25-27, 2008
  • CDC, Cancun, Mexico, December 9-11, 2008.

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Last updated April 3, 2008