Research

Research interests

Process control
Quantitative Feedback Theory
Computer Aided Control System Design tools

Journals

(2014) Network-based reset control systems with time-varying delays. Baños, A., Cervera, J. and Pérez, F. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, 2014; vol. 10, 1: 514-522.
(2013) QFT loop shaping with fractional order complex pole-based terms. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Journal of Vibration and Control, 2013; vol. 19, 2: 294-308.
(2011) Bode Optimal Loop Shaping with CRONE Compensators. Baños, A., Cervera, J., Lanusse, P. and Sabatier, J. Journal of Vibration and Control, 2011; vol. 17: 1964-1974.
(2009) Nonlinear Nonconvex Optimization by Evolutionary Algorithms Applied to Robust Control. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, July 2009; vol. 2009, Article ID 671869.
(2008) Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using CRONE Structures. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Journal of Vibration and Control, Sep 2008; vol. 14: pp. 1513-1529.
(2007) Interconnection of Port-Hamiltonian Systems and Composition of Dirac Structures. Cervera, J., van der Schaft, A.J. and Baños, A. Automatica, Vol. 43, # 2, 2007 , pgs. 212-225.
(2003) On Composition of Dirac Structures and its Implications for Control by Interconnection. Cervera, J., van der Schaft, A.J. and Baños, A. Nonlinear and Adaptive Control, Eds. A. Zinober, D. Owens, 55-64. Springer Lectures Notes in Control and Information Sciences 281, Springer, London, 2003.

Conferences

(2012) An experience of early initiation to parallelism in the Computing Engineering Degree at the University of Murcia, Spain. M.E. Acacio, J. Cuenca, L.Fernández, R. Fernández-Pascual, J. Cervera, D.Giménez, M.C.Garrido, J.A. Sánchez, J. Guillén, J.A. Palomin and M.E. Requena. IEEE 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium Workshops & PhD Forum. Shangai, China, 2012.

(2012) An experience of initiation to parallelism in the second year of the Computing Engineering Degree at the University of Murcia, Spain (Una experiencia de iniciación al paralelismo en segundo curso del Grado de Ingeniería Informática). M.E. Acacio, J. Cuenca, L.Fernández, R. Fernández-Pascual, J. Cervera, D.Giménez, M.C.Garrido, J.A. Sánchez, J. Guillén, J.A. Palomin and M.E. Requena. Proceedings of JENUI 2012. Ciudad Real, Spain, 2012.

(2011) Design of networked reset control systems for reference tracking. Pérez, F., Baños, A. and Cervera, J. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society – IECON 2011. Melbourne, Australia.

(2011) Periodic reset control of an In-line pH process. Autores: Pérez, F., Baños, A. and Cervera, J. Poster at the 16th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation – ETFA 2011. Toulouse, France.

(2011) Design of networked periodic reset control systems. Pérez, F., Baños, A. and Cervera, J. Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics - ISIE - 2011. Gdansk, Poland.

(2010) Networked reset control systems with discrete time-varying delays. Baños, A., Pérez F., and Cervera, J. Proceedings of the 36th IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Conference - IECON 2010. New Jersey, USA.

(2009) Discrete-time reset control applied to networked control systems. Baños, A., Perez, F., and Cervera, J. Proceedings of the 35th IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Annual Conference - IECON. Oporto, Portugal, 2009.

(2009) Design and implementation of a SCADA system for a process control pilot plant (Diseño e implementación de un sistema SCADA para una planta piloto de control de procesos). Davó, M.A., Baños, A. and Cervera, J. 1ast Industrial Computer Engineering Workshop, Madrid, Spain, 1999.

(2008) Bode Optimal Loop Shaping with CRONE compensators. Baños, A., Cervera, J, Lanusse, P. and Sabatier, J. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE Mediterranean Electrotechnical Conference. Ajaccio, France, 2008.

(2007) Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using Fractional Structures. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Proceedings of the Simposium on Applied Fractional Calculus, Badajoz, Spain, 2007.

(2006) Tuning of Fractional PID Controllers by Using QFT. Cervera, J., Baños, A., Monje, C.A., Vinagre, B.M. Proceedings of IECON '06 - 32nd Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society París, France, 2006.

(2006) Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using CRONE Structures. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Proceedings del 2nd IFAC Workshop on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications Porto, Portugal, 2006.

(2005) Automatic Loop Shaping in QFT by Using a Complex Fractional Order Terms Controller. Cervera, J. and Baños, A. Proceedings of the 7th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods, Lawrence, Kansas, USA, 2005.

(2003) Non Plant Modifying Multiloop QFT Revisited. Cervera, J., Baños, A. and Horowitz, I. Proceedings del 6th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods (included in AFCON I), Cape Town, South Africa, 2003.

(2002) Composition of Dirac Structures and Control of Port-Hamiltonian Systems. van der Schaft, A. J. and Cervera, J. International Symposium on the Theory of Networks and Systems, South Bend, Indiana, USA, 2002.

(2001) Computation of SISO General Plant Templates. Cervera, J., Baños, A. and Horowitz, Isaac M. Proceedings del 5th International Symposium on QFT and Robust Frequency Domain Methods, Ed. Mario García Sanz, Public University of Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, 2001.

(1999) Analysis of Simulink/RTW environment for control systems design with DSPACE 1102 card (Análisis del entorno Simulink/RTW para el diseño de sistemas de control con la tarjeta DSPACE 1102). Cervera, J., Baños, A. and Arenas, A. III MATLAB Users Conference, Madrid, Spain, 1999.

My Ph. D. Thesis

Automatic Controllers Shaping in QFT by Fractional Structures (University of Murcia, 2006) - slides (Spanish)

Supervised Ph. D. Thesis

(2013) Sistemas de control reseteado discretos: aplicaciones a control en red. Félix Pérez Rubio. Cosupervised with Alfonso Baños. Facultad de Informática de la Universidad de Murcia.

Projects

(2011-2013) New strategies in reset control: analysis and design tools and applications (Nuestas estrategias en control reseteado: herramientas de análisis y diseño y aplicaciones). Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, DPI2007-20466-C02-02. IP: Alfonso Baños.
(2007-2010) Reset based control systems: applications in systems with lags (Sistemas de Control basados en Reset: Aplicaciones en Sistemas con Retardos). MCYT. IP: Alfonso Baños.
(2005-2007) Nonlinear control systems design: applications in can industry (Diseño de Sistemas de Control no Lineales: Aplicaciones en la industria conservera). Fundación Séneca. IP: Alfonso Baños.
(2004-2007) Robust control of systems with lags. Applications in process control and teleoperation (Control Robusto de Sistemas con Retardos. Aplicaciones en Control de Procesos y Teleoperación). MCYT. IP: Alfonso Baños.
(2001-2004) Visual control of walking robot (Control Visual de un Robot Caminante). MCYT. IP: Alberto Ruiz García.
(1997-2002) Breakthrough in the Control of Nonlinear Systems - Non linear Control Network (TMR program). European Union (Research Network # ERB FMRXCT-970137). IP: Alfonso Baños.

Contracts

(2008-2009) Candy packaging automation (Automatización del envasado de golosinas). Sanchez Cano, S. A. IP: Alfonso Baños.

(2003-2004) Simulation and control of thermal treatments in vegetal canned food production - 2nd phase (Simulación y Control de los Tratamientos Térmicos en la Producción de Conservas Vegetales - fase 2). Centro Tecnológico Nacional de la Conserva. IP: Alfonso Baños.

(2002-2003) Simulation and control of thermal treatments in vegetal canned food production (Simulación y Control de los Tratamientos Térmicos en la Producción de Conservas Vegetales). Centro Tecnológico Nacional de la Conserva. IP: Alfonso Baños.

Stays

(2007) Indian Institute of Technology Bombay, Mumbai, India. 08-25-2007, 2 weeks. QFT automatic loop shaping, fractional control.

(2003) University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa. 12-01-2003, 1 week. Multiloop QFT.

(2002) Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 08-01-2002, 2 weeks. Nonlinear control systems, hamiltoninan systems control.

(2001) Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 08-01-2001, 12 weeks. Nonlinear control systems, hamiltoninan systems control.

(2000) Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands. 03-19-2000, 12 weeks. Nonlinear control systems, hamiltoninan systems control.