Dr. Rodolfo Salinas Villarreal salinas@gama.fime.uanl.mx http://gama.fime.uanl.mx/~salinas/ General data División de Postgrado en Ingeniería Eléctrica Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica, UANL Cd. Universitaria San Nicolás de los Garza, Nuevo Léón México, 66450 Phone: 52-81-83294020 ext. 5773 Fax: 52-81-10523550
Education Electronic and Communications Engineering, UANL, México, 1993 MSc Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, USA, 1997 PhD Electrical Engineering, Tulane University, USA, 2002
Research Topics Optimal control design Optimal sliding modes Sliding mode control
Publications
Salinas, R., Barbieri, E., and Drakunov, S.V., "Time Sub-Optimal/Sliding Mode Controller for a Flexible Structure", Proceedings of the 28th Southeastern Symposium on System Theory (SSST '96), pp. 253-257, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
Salinas, R., Vibration Control of a Flexible Structure using Feedback Linearization. Congreso AMCA 2003, Ensenada, Baja California.
Salinas, R. and Drakunov, S.V., "Higher Order Optimal Control Design based on Singular Perturbation Approach", Proceedings of the 2005 American Control Conference, Portland, Oregon.
Thesis
MSc Thesis, Sara Sánchez Hernández, Sliding mode observer design and implementation in microcontroller systems. (in progress)
Current projects
Electronic circuit design and controller development using optimal sliding modes.