J. Cervera - Research

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RESEARCH
(last update: 01/20/2010 11:42 )

RESEARCH LINES:
- QFT, multiloop QFT.
- port-Hamiltonian systems.
- Process control.

PH. D. THESIS : Automatic Controllers Shaping in QFT by Fractional Structures (2006)- presentation (Spanish)

JOURNAL PAPERS:
- Nonlinear Nonconvex Optimization by Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Robust Control
  Cervera, J y Baños, A.
  Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Julio 2009; vol. 2009, Article ID 671869.
- Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using CRONE Structures
  Cervera, J and Baños, A.
  Journal of Vibration and Control, Sep 2008; vol. 14: pp. 1513 - 1529.
- Interconnection of Port-Hamiltonian Systems and Composition of Dirac Structures
  Cervera, J, van der Schaft, A.J. y Baños, A.
  Automatica, Vol. 43, # 2, 2007 , pgs. 212-225
- On Composition of Dirac Structures and its Implications for Control by Interconnection
  Cervera, J., van der Schaft, A.J., Baños, A.
  pp. 55-64 en Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Eds. A. Zinober, D. Owens,
  Springer Lectures Notes in Control and Information Sciences 281,
  Springer, London, 2002.

RESEARCH PROJECTS: I have he participated in the following Computer and Control Engineering group research projects:
- Reset based control systems: applications in systems with lags (Sistemas de Control basados en Reset: Aplicaciones en Sistemas con Retardos)
- Robust control of systems with lags. Applications in process control and teleoperation (Control Robusto de Sistemas con Retardos. Aplicaciones en Control de Procesos y Teleoperación)
- Nonlinear control systems design: applications in can industry (Diseño de Sistemas de Control no Lineales: Aplicaciones en la industria conservera)
- Visual control of walking robot (Control Visual de un Robot Caminante)
- Breakthrough in the Control of Nonlinear Systems - Non linear Control Network (TMR program)

RESEARCH CONTRACTS: I have participated in the following Computer and Control Engineering group research contracts:
- Automatization project for plant "El Casón de Carrascoy".
- Simulation and temperature control in can industry (II)
- Simulation and temperature control in can industry (I)

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES PAPERS:
- Discrete-time reset control applied to networked control systems
  Baños, A., Perez, F., Cervera, J
  Proceedings de la 35th IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Conference - IECON.
  Oporto, Portugal, 2009.
- Bode Optimal Loop Shaping with CRONE compensators
  Baños, A., Cervera, J, Lanusse, P. and Sabatier, J.
  Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference.
  Ajaccio, France, 2008.
- Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using Fractional Structures
  Cervera, J. and Baños, A.
  Proceedings of the Simposium on Applied Fractional Calculus
  Badajoz, Spain, 2007.
- Tuning of Fractional PID Controllers by Using QFT
  Cervera, J., Baños, A., Monje, C.A., Vinagre, B.M.
  Proceedings del IECON '06 - 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
  París, France, 2006.

Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using CRONE Structures
Cervera, J. y Baños, A.
Proceedings del 2nd IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications
Porto, Portugal, 2006.
Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using a Complex Fractional Order Terms Controller
Cervera, J. y Baños, A.
Proceedings del 7th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods,
Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 2005.
Non Plant Modifying Multiloop QFT Revisited
Cervera, J., Baños, A. y Horowitz, I.
Proceedings del 6th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods (incluido en la AFCON I),
Cape Town, South Africa, 2003.
Composition of Dirac Structures and Control of Port-Hamiltonian Systems
van der Schaft, A. J. y Cervera, J.
International Symposium on the Theory of Networks and Systems,
South Bend, Indiana, USA, 2002.
Computation of SISO General Plant Templates
Cervera, J., Baños, A. y Horowitz, Isaac M.
Proceedings del 5th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods,
Ed. Mario García Sanz, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2001.

NATIONAL (SPANISH) CONFERENCES PAPERS:
- Diseño e implementación de un sistema SCADA para una planta piloto de control de procesos
  Davó, M.A., Baños, A., Cervera, J.
1er Workshop en Informática Industrial - 2009
Madrid, España, 1999.
- Análisis del entorno Simulink/RTW para el diseño de sistemas de control con la tarjeta DSPACE 1102
  Cervera, J., Baños, A. y Arenas, A.
  III MATLAB Users Conference,
  Madrid, Spain, 1999.

The previous paper is a summary of my homonimous Final-Year Project (Spanish)..

TEACHING BOOKS :
- Texto guía Algoritmos y Estructuras de Datos (2003) (Algorithms and Data Structures).
  - Volume I: Estructuras de Datos.
  - Volume II: Algoritmos.