Scientific Publications

Ph.D.

[T1] Diego A. Mercado-Ravell. Autonomous Navigation and Teleoperation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles using Monocular Vision (Navigation autonome et télé-opération de véhicules aériens en utilizant la vision monoculaire). University of Technology of Compiègne, France. 2015. [download]

M.Sc.

[T2] Diego A. Mercado-Ravell. Quad-rotors Formation Control using a Leader-Follower Approach (Control de Formación de quadrirotores en un esquema líder-seguidor). CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City. 2012. [download]

Cyclists and cyclist orientations datset: https://gitlab.com/MaryChelo/cimat-cyclist

DonkieTown, a Low-cost Experimental Testbed for Research on Autonomous Cars: https://github.com/L4rralde/DonkieTown

[J1] E. Guerrero,  D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano and C. García. Swing-Attenuation for a Quadrotor transporting a Cable-Suspended Payload. ISA Transactions, 2017, 10.1016/j.isatra.2017.01.027. IF=6.5, Q1* [download]

[J2] E. Guerrero, O. Hernández, G. Valencia,  D. Mercado-Ravell, F. López, J. Hoyo. Robust IDA-PBC for Under-actuated Systems with Inertia Matrix Dependent of the Unactuated Coordinates: Application to a UAV Carrying a Load. Nonlinear Dynamics, 2021. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-021-06776-7. IF=6, Q1*[download]  

[J3] J. Gonzalez-Trejo**, D. Mercado-Ravell*, I. Becerra and R. Murrieta-Cid, "On the Visual-based Safe Landing of UAVs in Populated Areas: a Crucial Aspect for Urban Deployment" in IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters and IROS presentation,vol. 6, no. 4, pp. 7902-7909, Oct. 2021, doi: 10.1109/LRA.2021.3101861. IF=5.3, Q1 [download]

[J4] A. Manzanilla**, S. Reyes, M. Garcia, D. Mercado-Ravell* and R. Lozano. Autonomous Navigation for Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: Real-Time Experiments using Computer Vision. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L) and ICRA19 presentation, vol. 4, no. 2, pp. 1351-1356, April 2019.  doi: 10.1109/LRA.2019.2895272. IF=5.3, Q1 [download]

[J5] H. Tovanche-Picón**, J. González-Trejo, A. Flores-Abád, M. A. García and D. Mercado-Ravell*.  Real-time Safe Validation of Autonomous Landing in Populated Areas: from Virtual Environments to Robot-in-the-loop. Virtual Reality, 28, 66, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-024-00965-6, IF=5, Q1

[J6]  D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia and J. Diez. Modeling and Control of Unmanned Aerial/Underwater Vehicles using Hybrid Control. Control Engineering Practice, 2018, Vol. 76, pp. 112-122. 10.1016/j.conengprac.2018.04.006 . IF=4.6, Q1 [download]

[J7] I. Dominguez**, R. Miranda-Colorado, L. T. Aguilar and D. Mercado-Ravell. A Methodology for Setting-up a Low-cost Quadrotor Experimental Platform. Control Engineering Practice, Vol. 143, 2024, 105803, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.conengprac.2023.105803.  IF=4.6, Q1 [download] 

[J8] F. Oliva-Palomo, D. Mercado-Ravell* and P. Castillo. Aerial transportation control of suspended payloads with multiple agents. Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfranklin.2024.106787, IF=4.2, Q1*

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[J9] J. Gonzalez-Trejo**, D. Mercado-Ravell* and U. Jaramillo-Avila. Monitoring Social-distance in Wide Areas during Pandemics: a Density Map and Segmentation Approach. Applied Intelligence, 2022. 10.1007/s10489-022-03172-5, IF=3,5, Q2 [download] 

[J10] F.  Garibaldi-Márquez, G. Flores, D. Mercado-Ravell, A. Ramírez, L. Valentín. Weed Classification from Natural Corn Field-multi-plant Images based on Shallow and Deep Learning. Sensors, 2022. https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083021 . IF=3.5, Q2. [download] 

[J11] D. Mercado-Ravell*, F. Oliva-Palomo, G. Sanahuja and P. Castillo. Control and real-time experiments for a multi-agent aerial transportation system. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. 46, 616 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40430-024-05166-5. IF=2.1, Q2 [download] 

[J12] L.A. Pinedo-Sánchez**, D. Mercado-Ravell* and C.A Carballo-Monsivais. Vibration Analysis in Bearings for Failure Prevention using CNN. J Braz. Soc. Mech. Sci. Eng. Springer, 42, 628 (2020). doi:10.1007/s40430-020-02711-w. IF=2.1, Q2 [download] 

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[J13] D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia and J. Diez. Aerial-Underwater Systems, a New Paradigm in Unmanned Vehicles. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer, 2018, 10.1007/s10846-018-0820-x.  IF=2.8, Q3 [download]

[J14] J. Gonzalez-Trejo** and D. Mercado-Ravell*. Lightweight Density Map Architecture for UAVs Safe Landing in Crowded Areas. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, Springer. 102, 7 (2021).  https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01380-8. IF=2.8, Q3 [download]

[J15] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Sliding Mode Collision-Free Navigation for Quadrotors using Monocular Vision. Robotica, 2018, 1-17. doi:10.1017/S0263574718000516.  IF=2.7, Q3 [download]

[J16] M. García-Venegas**, D. Mercado-Ravell*, L. A. Pinedo-Sanchez and C. Carballo-Monsivais. On the Safety of Vulnerable Road Users by Cyclist Orientation Detection  using Deep Learning. Machine Vision and Applications, 32, 109 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-021-01231-4. IF=2,3, Q3 [download]

[J17] B. Yam-Viramontes**, H. Cardona-Reyes, J. González-Trejo, C. Trujillo and D. Mercado-Ravell*. Commanding a Drone through Body Gestures, Improving the User Experience. J Multimodal User Interfaces, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12193-022-00396-0. IF=2.1, Q3  [download] 

[J18] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Visual Detection and Tracking with UAVs, Following a Mobile Object. Advanced Robotics. 2019. doi: 10.1080/01691864.2019.1596834. IF=2, Q3 [download]

[J19] E. Larralde-Ortiz**, A. Luviano-Juárez, F. Mirelez-Delgado and D. Mercado-Ravell*. DonkieTown: a Low-cost Experimental Testbed for Research on Autonomous Cars. IEEE Latin America Transactions, 21(6), 715–722. https://latamt.ieeer9.org/index.php/transactions/article/view/7756.  IF=1.3, Q3 [dowload] 

* Corresponding author

** Student is the main author

[C19} Vazquez-Soqui, L., Oliva-Palomo, F., Mercado-Ravell, D., and Castillo, P. SQP-Based Cable-Tension Allocation for Multi-Drone Load Transport. XX Latin American Control Congress LACC, Cancun, Mexico, 2025.

[C18] Mercado-Velázquez, J.A, Mercado-Ravell, D. and Becerra-Fermín, H. Decentralized Neural Control for Individual Trajectory Tracking in Lower Limb Joints of a Bipedal Robot, CCE International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control, Mexico City, 2025.

[C17] J. A. Loera-Ponce, D. Mercado-Ravell, I. Becerra-Durán,  L. M. Valentin Coronado, Risk Assessment for Autonomous Landing in Urban Environments using Semantic Segmentation, 18th Ibero-American Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Advances in Artificial Intelligence – IBERAMIA 2024. IBERAMIA 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15277. Springer, Cham, Montevideo, Uruguay, 2024. 

[C16] J. M. Arizaga, J. Cariño, H. Castañeda, D. Mercado-Ravell and P. Castillo, "Adaptive Quaternion Control for a Quadcopter Vehicle: Real-Time Validation in Presence of Wind Gusts," 2024 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Chania - Crete, Greece, 2024. [Download] 

[C15] L. E. Montañez, L. M. Valentín-Coronado, D.Moctezuma, D. A. Mercado-Ravell, Assessing the Impact of Data Augmentation on Photovoltaic Module Faults Detection Using Deep Learning Models, Research in Computing Science 153(12), 23rd Mexican International Conference on Artificial Intelligence MICAI, Puebla, México, 2024. 

[C14] J. Gonzalez-Trejo** and D. Mercado-Ravell*, Dense Crowds Detection and Surveillance with Drones using Density Maps, 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020. [download] 

[C13] B. A. Yam-Viramontes** and D. Mercado-Ravell*, Implementation of a Natural User Interface to Command a Drone, 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Athens, Greece, 2020. [download] 

[C12] M. Maia, D. Mercado-Ravell and J. Diez. Design and Implementation of Multirotor Aerial-Underwater Vehicles with Experimental Results. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent  Robots and Systems (IROS), Vancouver, 2017. [download]

[C11] D. Mercado-Ravell, M. Maia, F. Diez. Aerial-underwater systems, a new paradigm in unmanned vehicles. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1690-1695. Miami, 2017. [download]

[C10] J. Flores-Delgado**, L. Martínez-Santos, R. Lozano, I. Gonzalez-Hernandez, D. Mercado-Ravell. Embedded control using monocular vision: Face tracking.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 1285-1291. Miami, 2017. [download]

[C9} E. Guerrero, D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano and C. García. Passivity Based Control for a Quadrotor UAV Transporting a Cable-Suspended Payload with Minimum Swing. IEEE Conference on  Decision and Control (CDC), Japan, 2015. [download]

[C8] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P Castillo, R Lozano. Quadrotor's trajectory tracking control using monocular vision navigation. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS),  844-850. Denver, 2015. [download]

[C7] M. E. Guerrero, D. Mercado-Ravell, R. Lozano, C.  D. García, IDA-PBC methodology for a quadrotor uav transporting a cable-suspended payload.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 470-476. Denver, 2015. [download]

[C6] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo, R. Castro and R. Lozano. 2-Sliding  Mode  Trajectory  Tracking  Control  and  EKF Estimation for  Quadrotors. 19th IFAC World Congress, South Africa, 2014. [download]

[C5] D. Mercado-Ravell*, P. Castillo and R. Lozano. Quadrotors Data Fusion using a Particle Filter. International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS). Orlando, 2014. [download]

[C4] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro and R. Lozano. Quadrotors Flight Formation Control using a Leader-Follower Approach. European Control Conference (ECC), Switzerland, 2013. [download]

[C3] D. Mercado-Ravell*, G. Flores, P. Castillo, J. Escareno, R. Lozano. Gps/ins/optic flow data fusion for position and velocity estimation.  International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 486-491. Atlanta, 2013. [download]

[C2] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro-Linares, R. Lozano. Quadrotors Trajectory Tracking Control with Inaccurate GPS Measurements. Research, Education and Development of Unmanned Aerial Systems 2 (1), 142-146. France, 2013. [download]

[C1] D. Mercado-Ravell*, R. Castro, R. Lozano. Control de Quadri-rotores en un Esquema de Formación Líder-Seguidor. 15th Latin American Control Conference (CLCA), Perú. 2012. [download]

Other Publications

• M. Á. Álvarez-Carmona, D. Cruz Sandoval, J. Favela, J. A. González Trejo, A. P. López Monroy, J. Martínez-Miranda, D. Mercado-Ravell, E.  F. Morales, C. Ovando-Vázquez, H. Pérez-Espinosa, M. Rivera, I. Sanchez-Bravo, L. E. Sucar y S. Trejo, “La Alianza de Inteligencia Artificial CONACYT, impulsa redes de investigación para enfrentar el COVID-19”. Komputer Sapiens: Técnicas y Herramientas de IA para enfrentar pandemias, año 12, vol. 3, sep-dic 2020.

• J.Z. Mendez-Sánchez, M.E. Guerrero-Sanchez, G. Valencia-Palomo, O. Hernandez-González, J.M. Chavez y D. Mercado Ravell. "Control por modos deslizantes basado en observador para el seguimiento de trayectoria de un cuadrirrotor". Avances de Investigación en Ingeniería en el Estado de Sonora, Año 7, Núm. 1, 2021.

• H.E. Tovanche-Picón and D. Mercado-Ravell*. "Semantic Segmentation using Deep Learning for Aerial Images." International Congress on Education and Technology in Sciences CISETC. 2023.

• Tovanche-Picón, H. E., Flores-Abad, Á, & Mercado-Ravell, D. A. (2021). Segmentación semántica en sistemas robóticos aéreos inteligentes: Resumen 2CP21-172. Memorias Científicas y Tecnológicas, 1(2).