====== Journals: ====== * P. Mercader, J. Carrasco, and A. Baños, "**IQC analysis of reset control systems with time-varying delay**", International Journal of Control, 2018. [[https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00207179.2018.1426881]] * P. Mercader, K. Soltesz, and A. Baños, "**Robust PID design by chance-constrained optimization**", Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2017. [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0016003217305355]] * P. Mercader, A. Baños, and R. Vilanova, "**Robust PID design for processes with interval parametric uncertainty**", IET Control Theory & Applications, 2017. [[http://digital-library.theiet.org/content/journals/10.1049/iet-cta.2016.1239]] * P. Mercader and A. Baños, "**A PI tuning rule for integrating plus dead time processes with parametric uncertainty**", ISA Transactions, 2017. [[http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0019057817301593]] * K. Soltesz, P. Mercader, and A. Baños, "**An automatic tuner with short experiment and probabilistic plant parametrization**", International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2016. [[http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/wol1/doi/10.1002/rnc.3640/abstract]] * P. Mercader, K. J. Åström, A. Baños, and T. Hägglund, "**Robust PID Design Based on QFT and Convex-Concave Optimization**", IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, 2016. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7475888]] ====== Conferences: ====== * D. Rubin, P. Mercader, H.-N. Nguyen, P.-O. Gutman, and A. Baños, "**Improvements on Interpolation Techniques based on Linear Programming for Constrained Control**", 20th IFAC World Congress, Toulouse, France, 2017. [[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896317305578]] * P. Mercader, K. Soltesz, and A. Baños, "**Autotuning of an In-Line pH Control System**", 21st IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA16), Berlin, Germany, 2016. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7733588]] * P. Mercader, K. Soltesz, and A. Baños, "**PID Synthesis under Probabilistic Parametric Uncertainty**", American Control Conference (ACC16), Boston, USA, 2016. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7526527]] * K. Soltesz and P. Mercader, "**Identification for Control of Biomedical Systems using a very Short Experiment**", International Conference on Systems in Medicine and Biology (ICSMB16), Kharagpur, India, 2016. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/7915107/]] * P. Mercader, M. A. Davó, and A. Baños, "**Performance Analysis of PI and PI+CI Compensation for an IPDT Process**", 23rd Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation (MED15), Torremolinos, Spain, 2015. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7158755]] * P. Mercader and A. Baños, "**Robust PI compensator design for FOPDT systems with large uncertainty**", 14th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS14), Gyeonggi-do, Korea, 2014. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6987750]] * P. Mercader and A. Baños, "**Tuning of PI compensators for integrating systems with large parametric uncertainty**", 19th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA14), Barcelona, Spain, 2014. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=7005115]] * P. Mercader, J. Carrasco, and A. Baños, "**IQC Analysis for Time-Delay Reset Control Systems with First Order Reset Elements**", 52nd IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC13), Florence, Italy, 2013. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6760216]] * P. Mercader, M. A. Davó, and A. Baños, "**H∞/H2 Analysis for Time-Delay Reset Control Systems**", 3rd International Conference on Systems and Control (ICSC13), Algiers, Algeria, 2013. [[http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?arnumber=6750909]] ====== Research stays: ====== * Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) - April to June 2016 * Lund University (Sweden) - April to June 2015 ====== Research interests: ====== Automatic control and applications * PID control * Robust control * Constrained control ====== Research activity: ====== * Member of [[http://www.um.es/iindus/|Computer and Control Engineering Group]]