Professor Mario Garcia-Sanz
Head of the Control, Energy and Space Technology
(CES-Tech) Research Group
Public University of Navarra (UPNA)
Tel. +34 948 169387
Fax. +34 948 168924
Postal
address:
Automatic
Control & Computer Science Department
Public
University of Navarra (UPNA)
Campus Arrosadia
31006 Pamplona
Spain
Dr. Garcia-Sanz is Full Professor (Catedratico
de Universidad) at the Public University of Navarra, and Head of the Control, Energy and Space Technology
Research Group (CES-Tech), an active group on QFT (Quantitative Feedback Theory) robust
control with Space, Energy, Industrial and Environmental applications.
Visiting Positions
led him to the Control Systems Centre, UMIST (Manchester, UK, 1995), Oxford University (UK, 1996), NASA-JPL (Pasadena, California, USA, 2004), ESA-ESTEC (Noordwijk, The Netherlands, 2008), and Case Western Reserve University (Cleveland, Ohio, USA, 2009). He has published over 120 scientific papers
and holds 14 industrial patents. He was awarded the 1995 IEE Heaviside Prize
(UK) and the 2001 BBVA Researcher Prize (Spain) for his research in advanced
control and applications.
Dr. Garcia-Sanz has
been responsible of many research projects for industry, including QFT robust control of multiple spacecraft flying in
formation (NASA-JPL), Control of
satellites with large flexible appendages (ESA-ESTEC),
Robust and Nonlinear Switching Control Systems Design for Advanced Satellite Missions
(ESA-ESTEC),
Large
multi-megawatt wind
turbines design and control (M.Torres Ltd.), Control of Electrical Power
Systems and Fault Detection (Iberdrola Ltd.), (REE),
(TeamArteche Ltd.), Wastewater
treatment plant control systems design (CEIT),
(AMVISA Ltd.), Parallel kinematics and advanced machinery
for the aerospace industry
(M.Torres Ltd.), Control of Heating Systems (Giroa Ltd.), Reliable Control Of Uncertain Systems (UMIST), Control Problems of Tele-Manipulators (Oxford Univ.), Fault Detection Systems for Wind Turbines (Gamesa Ltd.),
(EHN Ltd.), Quantitative Robust Control of nonlinear, multivariable, distributed and uncertain systems. Space, environmental and industrial applications (MEC), QFT robust control for formation flying satellites (CDTI), Control concepts for spacecraft formations with ON-OFF nonlinear thrusters and digital controllers. PROBA-3 application (SENER), etc.
He is also co-author
of the book
Quantitative Feedback Theory:
Theory and Applications, C.H. Houpis, S. Rasmussen (US Air Force,
AFIT) and M. Garcia-Sanz (UPNA), published by Taylor & Francis (2006).
Prof. Garcia-Sanz is also
- Subject Editor of the
International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control
(IJRNC), Wiley, as an expert
on robust control in the frequency
domain and applications (Since
2005);
- Subject Editor of
RIAI (Revista Iberoamericana
de Automatica e Informatica Industrial), as an expert on technology
(Since 2004).
He has
also served as
- Guest Editor of the International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC), Wiley, as an expert on Robust frequency domain (Special Issue June-2003);
- Guest Editor of the IET Control
Theory and Applications (IET) as an expert on Cooperative control of spacecraft flying in formation (Special
Issue March-2007);
- Guest Editor of the International
Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC), Wiley, as an expert on Quantitative Feedback Theory (Special Issue January-2007);
- Guest Editor of the International Journal of
Robust and Nonlinear Control (IJRNC), Wiley, as an expert on Wind
turbine control (Special Issue January-2009).
Dr. Garcia-Sanz has been
- NATO/RTO Lecturer in 2003 (LS SCI-236, RTO) for Robust Integrated Control Systems,
- NATO/RTO Lecturer in 2005 (LS SCI-166, RTO) for Robust Control Methods,
- NATO/RTO LS Director in 2007 (LS SCI-175, RTO) for Advanced
Control of Unmanned Air Vehicles (UAVs),
- NATO/RTO LS Co-Director in 2008 (LS SCI-195, RTO) for Advanced Autonomus Formation Control
,
- NATO/RTO Lecturer in 2009 (LS SCI-209, RTO) for Small Satellite Formations For Distributed Surveillance: System Design and Optimal
Control Considerations,
He is
also
- Dr. Ing. (Doctor Ingeniero Industrial, 1992),
- Senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
(IEEE) ,
- member of the Technical Committee on Aerospace Control of the IEEE,
- member of the Technical Committee on Robust Control of the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC),
- member of the Technical Committee on
Aerospace of the International Federation of
Automatic Control (IFAC) ,
- member of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics
(AIAA),
- and
has been invited to teach in many universities and research centers,
including NASA-JPL (USA), ESA-ESTEC (Holland), University of Southern California (USA), Air Force Institute
of Technology (USA), Politec. Setubal (Portugal), Bologna University (Italy), Hamilton Institute (Ireland),
ETH (Switzerland), Swedish Defense Research Agency (Sweden), University Politehnica of Bucarest (Romania),
Rostock University (Germany), University of Florence (Italy), NATO-RTO Headquarters (France), CEIT (Spain),
Univ. Polit. Catalunia (Spain), Univ. Valladolid (Spain), UNED (Spain), University of California-Davis (USA),
Univ. La Rioja (Spain), Univ. of Strathclyde (UK), Case Western Reserve University (USA), etc.
His
research activity is in the field of quantitative robust control theory in the
frequency domain, systems engineering, and space, energy, environmental and
industrial applications.
Topics:
- Robust Control Design for MIMO systems, Nonlinear plants,
Non-minimum phase characteristics, Distributed parameter systems, Time
delay systems, etc.
- Quantitative Feedback Theory.
- Nonlinear Switching Controller Design.
- Systems Modeling and System identification techniques.
- Applications:
Wind Turbines and Renewable Energy Systems, Formation Flying Spacecraft
Control, Control of Satellites with flexible appendages, Heating systems,
Power electronics, Robotics and Parallel Kinematics, Wastewater treatment
plants, Electrical networks, etc.
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