Gerardo Flores received the B.S degree in Electronic Engineering with honors from the Instituto Tecnológico de Saltillo, Mexico in 2000; the M.S. degree in Automatic Control from CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico City, in 2010; and the Ph.D. degree in Systems and Information Technology from the Heudiasyc Laboratory of the Université de Technologie de Compiègne - Sorbonne Universités, France in October 2014.
From November 2014 to July 2016, he was a post-doctoral researcher with the Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico City. Since August 2016, he has been full time researcher and Head of the Perception and Robotics LAB with the Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, León Guanajuato, Mexico.
He has been published more than 30 papers in the areas of control systems, computer vision and robotics. He has been member of the Sistema Nacional de Investigadores since 2014.
Research Interests:
My research interests are focused on the theoretical and practical problems arising from the development of autonomous robotic systems and vision systems. I’m especially interested in the following topics.
- Artificial vision
- Theory and applications of intelligent systems
- Control of nonlinear systems
- Design, conception and control of unmanned vehicles; terrestrial, aerial and submarine types
Selected Publications by area [2020-2022]:
Aerial robotics
- Gerardo Flores, “Longitudinal modeling and control for the convertible unmanned aerial vehicle: Theory and experiments,” in ISA Transactions, vol. 122, pp. 312-335, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2021.04.043.
- Alejandro Flores and Gerardo Flores, “Implementation of a Neural Network for Nonlinearities Estimation in a Tail-Sitter Aircraft,” in Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, vol. 103, no. 22, 2021, https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01470-7
- R. Verdín, G. Ramírez, C. Rivera and Gerardo Flores, "Teleoperated aerial manipulator and its avatar. Communication, system's interconnection, and virtual world," 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021, pp. 1488-1493, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9476884
- A. Flores and Gerardo Flores, "Development and implementation of a new flight mode called Cartesian flight mode for easy piloting of muli-rotor UAVs," 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021, pp. 237-242, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9476827
Precision agriculture
- Andrés Montes de Oca and Gerardo Flores, “The AgriQ: A low-cost unmanned aerial system for precision agriculture,” in Expert Systems with Applications, vol. 182, 115163, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eswa.2021.115163
- F. Garibaldi, Gerardo Flores, D. Mercado, A. Ramírez, L. Valentín, “Weed Classification from Natural Corn Field-Multi-Plant Images Based on Shallow and Deep Learning,” in Sensors, vol. 22, 3021, 2022, https://doi.org/10.3390/s22083021
- A. M. de Oca and Gerardo Flores, "A UAS equipped with a thermal imaging system with temperature calibration for Crop Water Stress Index computation," 2021 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2021, pp. 714-720, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9476863
Control theory and applied mathematics
- Mohammad Reza-Rahmati, Gerardo Flores, "Graded Linearity of Stanley–Reisner Ring of Broken Circuit Complexes", Journal of Mathematics, vol. 2022, Article ID 1806967, 12 pages, 2022. https://doi.org/10.1155/2022/1806967
- S. Alvarez and Gerardo Flores, “PID Principles to Obtain Adaptive Variable Gains for a Bi-orderSliding Mode Control,” in International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol. 18, pp. 2456–2467, 2020, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12555-019-0343-7
- Gerardo Flores, V. González, and A. Rodríguez, “Output Feedback Control for a Quadrotor Aircraft Using an Adaptive High Gain Observer,” in International Journal of Control, Automation and Systems, vol. 18, pp. 1474–1486, 2020, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12555-019-0944-6
Mechatronic systems
- Gerardo Flores, N. Aldana and M. Rakotondrabe, "Model Predictive Control Based on the Generalized Bouc-Wen Model for Piezoelectric Actuators in Robotic Hand With Only Position Measurements," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 2186-2191, 2022, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9655319
- Gerardo Flores and M. Rakotondrabe, "Robust Nonlinear Control for a Piezoelectric Actuator in a Robotic Hand Using Only Position Measurements," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 6, pp. 872- 877, 2022, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9447814
- Gerardo Flores and M. Rakotondrabe, "Output Feedback Control for a Nonlinear Optical Interferometry System," in IEEE Control Systems Letters, vol. 5, no. 6, pp. 1880-1885, Dec. 2021, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9296334
Vision systems and artificial intelligence
- Daniela Esparza and Gerardo Flores, "The STDyn-SLAM: A Stereo Vision and Semantic Segmentation Approach for VSLAM in Dynamic Outdoor Environments," in IEEE Access, vol. 10, pp. 18201-18209, 2022, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9706470
- S. Salazar-Colores, H. M. Jiménez, C. J. Ortiz-Echeverri and Gerardo Flores, "Desmoking Laparoscopy Surgery Images Using an Image-to-Image Translation Guided by an Embedded Dark Channel," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 208898-208909, 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9261326
- S. Salazar-Colores, E. U. Moya-Sánchez, J. -M. Ramos-Arreguín, E. Cabal-Yépez, Gerardo Flores and U. Cortés, "Fast Single Image Defogging With Robust Sky Detection," in IEEE Access, vol. 8, pp. 149176-149189, 2020, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9164932
- A. Flores and Gerardo Flores, "Transition control of a tail-sitter UAV using recurrent neural networks," 2020 International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), 2020, pp. 303- 309, https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9213919
Contact:
Gerardo Flores, PhD
gflores@cio.mx
+52 (477) 441 42 00 Ext. 146
Office 843 Buliding D
Centro de Investigaciones en Óptica, A.C.
Loma del Bosque 115, Col. Lomas del Campestre
León, Guanajuato, Mexico. CP 37150
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