Jorge Cortés

Associate Professor

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Jorge's picture 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


Book cover 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
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