I have been a member of the Electronics Engineering and Systems Division (DSIE) research group of the Universidad Politécnica de Cartagena (UPCT) since 2000. Here I have developed my research mainly on software engineering for service robots, Model Driven Engineering, electronic instrumentation and industrial process automation. I have a PhD in Industrial Engineering with the thesis 'Reference Architecture for Control Units of Teleoperated Service Robots', Ed. ProQuest UMI Dissertation Services, ISBN: 0-542-40915-1, in 2005.

After being in different teaching positions, I became a tenured associate professor in 2010 in UPCT, where I teach robotics, electronics and electronic instrumentation. I have been Coordinator of the Official Post-Graduate Program in Information and Communication Technologies and Vice-Dean of the Higher Technical School of Industrial Engineers in UPCT. Currently I am header of 'Cátedra UPCT-EMERSON', from april 2018.

I have been a member of the International Committee IEEE Robotics & Automation Society 'Software Engineering for Robotics and Automation' (TCSOFT) since February 2010. I have been member of the European Robotics Network representing the UPCT from 2001 to 2008. I participated in the work team for the edition of 'White-Book of Robotics in Spain' in 2007, as part of the Tematic Group of Robotics in Spanish CEA-IFAC. I am the reviewer of several international journals listed in JCR. 

My current research focuses on robotics, software architectures and software engineering for robots, automation technology and instrumentation of processes applied to precision farming. I am currently coordinating the national project "Robotic-based Well-Being Monitoring and Coaching for Elderly People during Daily Life Activities", ref. RTI2018-095599-A-C22, Retos de la Sociedad, Agencia Estatal de Investigación. Spain Government. Period 2019-2021

I am supervising a PhD thesis in this last field and other two thesis in the robotics domain. In last years, I have applied my research on software architecture for robotics to the field of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs). Beginning with a research stay in Heriot-Watt University - Ocean Systems Laboratory, in Edinburgh, UK, in 2012, and then as a member of the Underwater Vehicles Lab in the UPCT. As a result, my last three publications are in listed international journals. 

Last updated: 2022