December 2024. Our project "SAMANTHA - Safe and smArt MANufacTuring with HumAn-in-the-loop" has been approved under the CAPES-COFECUB program. It brings together researchers from UFAM, UFMG, UEA (Brazil), and UPHF/LAMIH (France).
December 2024. I attended the International Conference and Forum on Assistive Technologies for Special Needs in Kuwait, where I presented on Automatic Control & Disability: Experiences.
November 2024. Mr. Nery Uriel Ortiz Gutierrez joined our group as a PhD student, working on the topic "Robust Estimation and Control for Robotic Rehabilitation". Welcome!
October 2024. I am glad to share that I have received the Grande Prêmio de Teses 2024 da Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais in the broad fields of Exact Sciences, Earth Sciences, and Engineering — a recognition similar to the CAPES award, but within UFMG. This is the most important doctoral thesis award granted by the university.
September 2024. I am pleased to share that I have been awarded the prestigious 2024 Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award in Electrical Engineering by CAPES, Brazil’s National Agency for Research and Education. My thesis was recognized as the best doctoral thesis defended in Electrical Engineering in Brazil in 2023.
June 2024. From June 24 to June 28, Prof. Iury Bessa from the Federal University of Amazonas is visiting our laboratory to collaborate.
June 2024. From June 10 to June 21, Prof. Márcio Lacerda from Control Engineering and Cyber-Physical Systems at London Metropolitan University is visiting our laboratory to collaborate.
May 2024. Our paper Event-Triggered Dynamic Output-Feedback Control for LPV Systems has been accepted for publication in the journal International Journal of Systems Science.
April 2024. I attended the 14th United Kingdom Automatic Control Council (UKACC) International Conference on Control in Winchester, where we presented two papers.
March 2024. Our paper A new approach for dynamic output feedback control design of time-delayed nonlinear systems is accepted for publication in the European Journal of Control journal.
March 2024. We are hiring! We offer a fully-funded 3-year PhD position in collaboration with the Universitat Poliètcnica de Catalunya on the topic of Robust Estimation and Control for Robotic Rehabilitation. More details can be found here. Please contact me if you are interested in this PhD opportunity.
February 2024. Our paper Event-triggered control for LPV systems under hybrid cyberattacks is accepted for publication in the journal Journal of Control, Automation, and Electrical Systems.
January 2024. Two papers are accepted for presentation at, and publication in the proceedings of, the 14th United Kingdom Automatic Control Council International Conference on Control to be held in Winchester, UK in April 2024.