Emmanuel Cruz Zavala
Email: emmanuel.cruz1692@{academicos.udg.com}
Telephone: (33) 13785900 ext. 27361
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6792-2398
Scopus: https://www.scopus.com/authid/detail.uri?authorId=36473108100
Current Professional Situation
Full-time Research Professor ‘A’ Department of Computer Science at:
Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering University of Guadalajara Address: Av. Revolución 1500, Módulo M, Office 202. C.P. 44430,Guadalajara, Jal., Mexico. Phone: (33) 13785900. Ext.: 27361.
Academic Education
- 2010 – 2015 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Doctor of Electrical Engineering (discipline: Automatic Control) Thesis: Lyapunov Function Control for Discontinuous Controller Design. Advisors: Dr. Jaime A. Moreno and Dr. Leonid Fridman.
- 2008 – 2010 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Master of Electrical Engineering (discipline: Automatic Control) Thesis: Super-Twisting Algorithm with Exact and Uniform Convergence. Advisor: Dr. Jaime A. Moreno.
- 2002 – 2008 National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico Bachelor of Mechatronic Engineering.
Work Experience
- Since 2017: Full-time Professor and Researcher at the Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering (CUCEI), University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Courses Taught
- 2020-Present: Control III (Nonlinear Control) in the Robotics Engineering program at CUCEI.
- 2021: Sliding Mode Control in the Doctoral Program in Electronics and Computer Sciences at CUCEI.
- 2020: Selected Topics in Advanced Mathematics in the Doctoral Program in Electronics and Computer Sciences at CUCEI.
- 2020: Robust Control in the Doctoral Program in Electronics and Computer Sciences at CUCEI.
- 2019: Selected Topics in Automatic Control in the Doctoral Program in Electronics and Computer Sciences at CUCEI.
- 2019: Selected Topics in Control Systems II in the Master’s Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering at CUCEI.
- 2018: Selected Topics in Control Systems I in the Master’s Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering at CUCEI.
- 2018: Linear Systems 1 in the Master’s Program in Electronic and Computer Engineering at CUCEI.
- 2017-2019: Control II (Digital Control) in the Robotics Engineering program at CUCEI.
Research Groups
- 2018-21 Consolidating Academic Group ‘Control Systems and Robotics’ UDG-CA-1004, University of Guadalajara. Members: Dr. Emmanuel Nuño Ortega, Dr. Carlos Iván Aldana López, Dr. Emmanuel Cruz Zavala.
- 2021-Present Consolidated Academic Group ‘Control Systems and Robotics’ UDG-CA-1004, University of Guadalajara. Members: Dr. Emmanuel Nuño Ortega, Dr. Carlos Iván Aldana López, Dr. Emmanuel Cruz Zavala.
Research Projects with Funding
- 2018-2023 ‘Energy shaping of robot networks’, CB-282807 project funded by the National Council for Science and Technology (Conacyt), participant. Technical Responsible: Dr. Emmanuel Nuño Ortega.
- 2017-2019 ‘Design and implementation of control schemes for finite-time consensus of nonholonomic robot networks’. SEP-PRODEP 511-6/18-9169 UDG-PTC-1400 project funded by the Ministry of Public Education (SEP). Technical Responsible: Dr. Emmanuel Cruz Zavala.
Postdoctoral
- 2015-2017 ‘Higher-Order Sliding Mode Control for Teleoperators’, Center for Exact Sciences and Engineering (CUCEI), University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
- 2015 ‘Construction of Lyapunov functions for the arbitrary-order Levant differentiator’. Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico.
Scientific Stays
- 2019 ‘Stability analysis of a class of feedforward compensator controllers for the finite-time global tracking problem of fully actuated manipulator robots’. Institute of Engineering of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), October 2019. Financed by the SEP-PRODEP 511-6/18-9169 UDG-PTC-1400 project.
- 2019 ‘Adaptive Control with Finite-time convergence properties’. Systems and Signals Laboratory of Centrale-SUPELEC, Gif-sur-Yvette, France. June-July 2019. Financed by the SEP-PRODEP 511-6/18-9169 UDG-PTC-1400 project.
- 2013 Homogeneous systems in the bi-limit. National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control, INRIA. Lille, France. November-December 2013. Mexico-France collaboration.
Reviewer of Articles
- 2012-Present In indexed journals: Automatica, Transactions on Automatic Control, International Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, International Journal of Control, Journal of Franklin Institute, Control Systems Letters, among others.
- In conferences: Conference on Decision and Control, American Control.
Training and Professional Competence
Disciplinary Courses
- 2022 Modeling and Control of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Dr. Gerardo Flores Colunga
- 2019 Control of Nonholonomic Robots. Dr. Emmanuel Nuño Ortega
- 2019 Neuronal Control of Uncertain Nonlinear Systems with Delays. Dra. Nancy Guadalupe Arana Daniel
- 2012 A New Control Theory to Face the Challenges of Modern Theory. Dr. Romeo Ortega
- 2010 Sliding Mode Control with Applications. Dr. Yuri B. Shtessel
Teaching Courses
- 2020 Diploma in Elements for Teaching in Hybrid Modality. CUCEI UdG
- 2020 Workshop on Transition of Teaching Practice. CUCEI UdG
- 2018 Student-Centered Learning. CUCEI UdG
- 2018 Design of Competency-Based Programs. CUCEI UdG
- 2018 History of the University of Guadalajara. CUCEI UdG
Direction and Co-Direction of Theses.
- 2017-2019
- University: Center for Exact and Engineering Sciences (CUCEI), University of Guadalajara
- Degree: Master of Science in Electronics and Computing
- Title: Finite time regulation of manipulator robots with strict Lyapunov functions
- Student: José Rubén Suárez Nuño
- 2020-2022
- University: Center for Exact and Engineering Sciences (CUCEI), University of Guadalajara
- Degree: Master of Science in Electronics and Computing
- Title: Consensus of robot networks with bounded pairs, without velocity measurements and communication delays
- Student: Angel Ignacio Paredes López
Distinctions
- 2020 – present: National System of Researchers (SNI) Level I.
- 2019 – present: Desirable Profile in Research, Development and Innovation Program (PRODEP)
- 2017 – 2019: National System of Researchers (SNI) Candidate.
- 2015: Best Doctoral Thesis Award at the Institute of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM).
- 2010 – 2014: CONACyT Doctoral Fellow.
- 2010: Master’s Degree with Honors.
- 2008 – 2010: CONACyT Master’s Fellow.
- 2004: 1st place in the «Design and construction of prototypes and experimental models» competition at the Faculty of Engineering, National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), with the project «Refrigeration system».