---

Biography

Prof. Héctor Ríos received the Ph.D. degree in Electrical Engineering, with a specialization in Automatic Control, from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2014, under the supervision of Leonid Fridman and Jorge Dávila.

He completed postdoctoral stays at Inria Lille, France, from 2014 to 2015, and at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering of the University of California, Santa Barbara, United States, from 2015 to 2016.

Since 2016, he has been a member of the SECIHTI Investigadoras e Investigadores por México program, assigned to the Instituto Tecnológico de La Laguna in Torreón, Coahuila, Mexico.

He is the author and co-author of more than 190 publications in JCR journals, book chapters, and national and international conference proceedings. He has participated in more than 20 research projects, including international collaborations with France and China.

He is a member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadoras e Investigadores (SNII), Level II, and a Senior Member of IEEE. He has served as Associate Editor on the IEEE Conference Editorial Board and in several international journals.

Abstract

Trajectory tracking in autonomous mobile robots is a fundamental problem affected by uncertainties, external disturbances, and phenomena such as wheel slip.

This talk presents robust control strategies for unicycle-type mobile robots affected by possible wheel slip. Different problems and approaches are discussed in order to guarantee stability properties such as exponential stability, finite-time stability, and robustness.

Experimental results on real robotic platforms are also presented, demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed methods for precise trajectory tracking in autonomous mobile robots.