Jesús Bautista Villar, PhD. Candidate

I am a PhD candidate at the Swarm Systems Lab (CITIC-UGR), where I design and analyze distributed Guidance, Navigation & Control (GNC) algorithms for autonomous robot swarms. My work lies at the intersection of **control theory**, **multi-agent systems**, and **aerial robotics experimentation**, with a strong focus on bridging theoretical analysis and real-world deployability.

With a background in physics, I enjoy deriving control strategies from first principles and exploring how physical constraints — nonlinear dynamics, sensing limitations, communication delays — shape collective behaviors. At the lab, we don’t just simulate: we **deploy and autonomously fly fixed-wing drones** in real environments, where aerodynamic coupling, actuation limits, and environmental disturbances test our algorithms in ways simulations cannot. This hands-on perspective deeply influences how I design distributed controllers that remain robust under real-world imperfections.

CV Short (November 2023)