Jorge Cortés
Associate Professor
Welcome!
Jorge
Cortés is an Associate Professor with the Department of Mechanical and
Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San
Diego. He received the Licenciatura degree in mathematics
from the Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain, in 1997, and the
Ph.D. degree in engineering mathematics from the Universidad
Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in 2001. He held postdoctoral
positions at the Systems, Signals and Control Department of
the University of Twente in 2002 and at the Coordinated
Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign from 2002 to 2004. He was an Associate
Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from
2004 to 2007.
He received a NSF CAREER award in 2006. He is the author of
the book Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of
Nonholonomic Systems (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002) and the
recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics
Young Researcher Prize. He currently serves in the Editorial
Board of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, Systems and
Control Letters and the European Journal of Control and in the
Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems
Society.
Dr. Cortés' research interests are in the area of systems and control, sensor networks, engineering mathematics, and geometric mechanics. More specifically, he is interested in designing and analyzing motion planning strategies and distributed coordination algorithms for autonomous mobile networks performing spatially-distributed sensing tasks. Application areas include mobile robotics, environmental adaptive sampling, and autonomous deployment of unmanned multi-vehicle networks. His PhD thesis work was focused on the geometric, numerical, and control aspects of nonholonomic systems.
For more information, check out Dr. Cortés' resume.
Latest news
Feb 10
CONNECT Frontiers in Science & Technology Lecture
Nov 09
Swarms of ocean robots will drift in formation, monitor oil
spills, thanks to advanced controls systems, press release
Jul 09
At last, Associate Professor!
Jun 09
Associate Editor for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control
Mar 09
Distributed Control of
Robotic Networks
by F. Bullo, J. Cortés, and
S. Martínez
is now complete!!!
Mar 09
Nonsmooth coordination and geometric optimization via
distributed dynamical systems is SIAM Review SIGEST
selection from SIAM J. Control and Optimization!
Travel
Nov 2-3, 09
"Natural Algorithms" Workshop, Princeton University
Nov 6, 09
Southern California Control Workshop, University of California, Irvine
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr,
La Jolla, California, 92093-0411
Ph: 1-858-822-7930
Fax: 1-858-822-3107
cortes at ucsd.edu
Skype id:
jorgilliyo