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 Assistant
Professor with the Department of Applied Mathematics and
Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz from
2004 to 2007.
Dr. Cortés is the author of "Geometric, Control and Numerical Aspects of Nonholonomic Systems" (New York: Springer-Verlag, 2002) and co-author of "Distributed Control of Robotic Networks" (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2009). He received a NSF CAREER award in 2006 and was the recipient of the 2006 Spanish Society of Applied Mathematics Young Researcher Prize. He has co-authored papers that have won the 2008 IEEE Control Systems Outstanding Paper Award, the 2009 SIAM Review SIGEST selection from the SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, and the 2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category. He is a IEEE Control Systems Society Distinguished Lecturer (2010-2012). He served in the Editorial Board of the European Journal of Control (2006-2009) and in the Conference Editorial Board of the IEEE Control Systems Society (2005-2009). He currently serves in the Editorial Board of IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, IEEE Control Systems Magazine, SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Systems and Control Letters, and Journal of Geometric Mechanics.
Dr. Cortés' research interests are in the area of systems and control, sensor networks, game theory, 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
Sep 14-15, 12
Program Co-Chair for
3rd IFAC Workshop on Distributed Estimation and Control in Networked Systems, Santa Barbara, California
Jun 12
2012 O. Hugo Schuck Best Paper Award in the Theory category
with the paper
Self-triggered coordination of robotic networks for optimal deployment coauthored with Ph.D student Cameron Nowzari, ACC 2012, Montréal, Canada
Jan 12
Associate Editor
for IEEE
Control Systems Magazine
Aug 11
Associate Editor
for Journal of Geometric Mechanics
Distributed Control of
Robotic Networks
F. Bullo, J. Cortés, and
S. Martínez
electronically available
Travel
Feb 22, 12
UCLA Center for Engineering Economics, Learning, and Networks, UCLA, Los Angeles, California
Apr 26, 12
Workshop on Multi-Agent Control Applications, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
June 27-29, 12
American Control Conference 2012, Montreal, Canada
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering,
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr,
La Jolla, California, 92093-0411
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cortes at ucsd.edu
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