Neural Networks for Robotics: An Engineering Perspective

About Alma Y. AlanisCarlos Lopez-FrancoNancy Arana-Daniel

Nancy Arana-Daniel received her B.Sc. Degree from the University of Guadalajara in 2000 and her M. Sc. And Ph.D. degrees in electric engineering with the special field in computer science from Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute and Advanced Studies CINVESTAV in 2003 and 2007 respectively. She is currently a research fellow at the University of Guadalajara in the Department of Computer Science México where she is working at the Laboratory of Intelligent Systems and the Research Center for Control Systems and Artificial Intelligence. She is IEEE Senior member and a member of National SystemofResearchers (SNI-1). She has published several papers in International Journals and Conferences and she has been technical manager of several projects that have been granted by the National Council of Science and Technology (CONACYT). Also she has collaborated in an international project granted by OPTREAT. She is Associated Editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute (Elsevier). Her research interests focus on applications of Geometric Algebra to Geometric computing machine learning bio-inspired optimization pattern recognition and robot navigation. Carlos Lopez-Franco gained his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 2007 from the Center of Research and Advanced Studies CINVESTAV Unidad Guadalajara Jalisco México. Currently he is a full professor at the University of Guadalajara México Department of Computer Science. He is currently working with the Intelligent Systems group and he is the head of the department of Computer Sciences at CUCEI Universidad de Guadalajara. His current research interests include geometric algebra computer vision robotics and pattern recognition. Alma Y. Alanis received her B.Sc degree from Instituto Tecnologico de Durango (ITD Durango Campus Durango) in 2002 and her M.Sc. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering from the Advanced Studies and Research Center of the National Polytechnic Institute (CINVESTAV-IPN Guadalajara Campus Mexico) in 2004 and 2007 respectively. Since 2008 she has been with the University of Guadalajara where she is currently a Chair Professor in the Department of Computer Science. She is also a member of the Mexican National Research System (SNI-2). She has published papers in recognized International Journals and Conferences along with two international books. She is a Senior Member of the IEEE and Subject and Associated Editor of the Journal of Franklin Institute (Elsevier) and Intelligent Automation & Soft Computing (Taylor & Francis); moreover she is currently serving on a number of IEEE and IFAC Conference Organizing Committees. In 2013 she received the grant for women in science by L'Oreal-UNESCO-AMC-CONACYT-CONALMEX. In 2015 she received the Marcos Moshinsky Research Award. Since 2008 she has been a member of the Accredited Assessors record (RCEA-CONACYT) evaluating a wide range of national research projects. She has belonged to important project evaluation committees for national and international research projects. Her research interests are in neural control backstepping control block control and their applications to electrical machines power systems and robotics.