Jorge Cortés

Assistant Professor

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Jorge's picture Jorge Cortés is an Assistant 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. 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 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.

Latest news

Book cover Jun 08
New book posted online! Distributed Control of Robotic Networks
by F. Bullo, J. Cortés, and S. Martínez

Jun 08
Program Commitee, 2008 Robotics: Science and Systems, Zurich, Switzerland

Jan 3, 08
Ph.D. opportunities available. Strong math and control background required. Apply at MAE Graduate Admissions

Dec 1, 07
Guest Editor, IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, Special Issue on "Computational Geometry Approaches in Path Planning"


Travel

Jun 11-13, 08
American Control Conference, Seattle, WA

Nov 7, 08
Southern California Nonlinear Control Workshop, University of California, San Diego

Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr, La Jolla, California, 92093-0411

cortes at ucsd.edu
Skype id: jorgilliyo