Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (MAE)
University of California at San Diego

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Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Dr
La Jolla, CA 92093-0411

EBU-I, 1205
+1 (858) 822-4243
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soniamd at ucsd dot edu

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Sonia Martínez received her Ph.D. degree in Engineering Mathematics from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain, in May 2002. Following a year as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Technical University of Catalonia, Spain, she obtained a Postdoctoral Fulbright Fellowship and held appointments at the Coordinated Science Laboratory of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and at the Center for Control, Dynamical systems and Computation (CCDC) of the University of California, Santa Barbara.

In a broad sense, Dr Martínez' main reseach interests include systems and information theory, nonlinear control theory and robotics. In particular, she has focused on the modeling and control of robotic sensor networks, the development of distributed coordination algorithms for groups of autonomous vehicles, and the geometric control of mechanical systems. For her work on the control of underactuated mechanical systems she received the Best Student Paper award at the 2002 IEEE Conference on Decision and Control. She was the recipient of a NSF CAREER Award in 2007. More here

Sonia Martínez

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