Industrial Automation

Biography

Alfonso Baños received the Licenciado degree and Ph.D. degree in Physics from the University of Madrid, Complutense, Spain, in 1987 and 1991, respectively. From 1988 to 1992, he was with the Instituto de Automática Industrial (CSIC), Madrid, where he pursued research in nonlinear control and robotics. In 1992, he joined the University of Murcia, Murcia, Spain, where he is currently a Professor in the area of Automatic Control. He has also held visiting appointments with the University of Strathclyde, the University of Minnesota at Minneapolis, and the University of California at Berkeley. His research activity has been focused in control engineering, mainly in robust control (QFT) and impulsive/hybrid control systems (reset control), and with applications in mechatronic systems, process control, networked control systems, etc. He has been the leader of several research projects, including industrial projects, and has published over 110 works in journals and proceedings of international conferences. He is the coauthor of the monograph Reset Control Systems (Springer, 2012, AIC Series). Since 2012, he is a Member of the Managing Committee of the Industrial Production and Design-DPI programme (National Plan of Research and Development, Spain), and since 2013 he is a Member of the Committee 6.2 for Research Evaluation at Spain.

Research Interest

Robust and nonlinear control and reset/hybrid control, with applications in process control and networked control systems