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Ricardo Franco Mendoza Garcia

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Ancestral Technologies SpA

Arica, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Robótica Modular; Robótica Blanda; Sistemas Mecatrónicos

Educación

  •  Licenciado en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACA. Chile, 2004
  •  Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACA. Chile, 2006
  •  MSc in Computer Systems Engineering, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK. Dinamarca, 2008
  •  PhD in Robotics, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN DENMARK. Dinamarca, 2011

Experiencia Académica

  •   Academico Jornada Completa Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD DE TARAPACA

    Arica, Chile

    2008 - 2017

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Part-Time Electronics Engineer

    Universal Robots Aps

    Dinamarca

    2006 - 2007

  •   Professional Trainee of Electronics Engineer

    Codelco Norte, División Radomiro Tomic

    Chile

    2003 - 2003

  •   Professional Trainee of Electronics Engineer

    Compañía Minera Cerro Colorado

    Chile

    2002 - 2002

  •   CTO Full Time

    Ancestral Technologies SpA

    Arica, Chile

    2017 - At present


 

Article (4)

Soft Modular Robotic Cubes: Toward Replicating Morphogenetic Movements of the Embryo

Vergara, Andrea; Lau, Yi-sheng; mendoza-garcia, ricardo-franco; Zagal, Juan Cristóbal

Article ISI SCOPUS
PLOS ONE  (2017)

Mentaca: An Universal Jamming Gripper on Wheels

Valenzuela-Coloma, Harold-Rodrigo; Lau-Cortes, Yi-sheng; Fuentes-Romero, Ricardo-Enrique; Zagal, Juan Cristobal; Mendoza-Garcia, Ricardo-Franco

Article
2015 CHILEAN Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies (CHILECON)  (2015)

A Vacuum-Based Bonding Mechanism for Modular Robotics

Garcia, RFM; Hiller, JD; Stoy K.; Lipson H.

Article ISI SCOPUS
IEEE Transactions on Robotics  (2011)

Mechanical Design of Odin, an Extendable Heterogeneous Deformable Modular Robot

Lyder, Andreas; Garcia, Ricardo Franco Mendoza; Stoy, Kasper; Chatila, R; Kelly, A; Merlet, JP

Article ISI
2008 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ROBOTS AND INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS, VOLS 1-3, CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS  (2008)

ConferencePaper (10)

Mentaca: An universal jamming gripper on wheels

Valenzuela-Coloma H.-R.; Lau-Cortes Y.-S.; Fuentes-Romero R.-E.; Zagal, J. C.; Mendoza-Garcia R.-F.

ConferencePaper ISI SCOPUS
CHILECON 2015 - 2015 IEEE Chilean Conference on Electrical, Electronics Engineering, Information and Communication Technologies, Pro  (2015)

ProGim: Parallel Robot Gimbal

Mayorga, P., Valenzuela-Coloma, H. R., Lau-Cortes, Y. S.

ConferencePaper
 (2015)

Kinect-based trajectory teaching for industrial robots

Landa-Hurtado, L. R., Mamani-Macaya, F. A., Fuentes-Maya, M., & Mendoza-Garcia, R. F.

ConferencePaper
 (2014)

On sub-modularization and morphological heterogeneity in modular robotics

Lyder A.H.; Stoy K.; Garciá R.F.M.; Larsen J.C.; Hermansen, P

ConferencePaper SCOPUS
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing  (2013)

Increased versatility of modular robots through layered heterogeneity

Larsen, J. C., Garcia, R. F. M., & Stoy, K

ConferencePaper
 (2010)

On the efficiency of local and global communication in modular robots

Garciá R.F.M.; Schultz U.P.; Stoy K.

ConferencePaper
1604-2004: SUPERNOVAE AS COSMOLOGICAL LIGHTHOUSES  (2009)

Reusable electronics and adaptable communication as implemented in the odin modular robot

Garcia, R. F. M., Lyder, A., Christensen, D. J., & Stoy, K

ConferencePaper
 (2009)

Flexible, FPGA-Based Electronics for Modular Robots

Brandt, D., Larsen, J. C., Christensen, D. J., Garcia, R. M., Shaikh, D., Schultz, U. P., & Stoy, K.

ConferencePaper
 (2008)

A self-reconfigurable communication network for modular robots

Garcia, R. F. M., Støy, K., Christensen, D. J., & Lyder, A

ConferencePaper
 (2007)

Hierarchical robots

Stoy, K., Lyder, A., Garcia, R. M., & Christensen, D

ConferencePaper
 (2007)

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Ricardo Mendoza

Chief Technology Officer (CTO)

Ancestral Technologies SpA

Arica, Chile

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Juan Cristobal Zagal

Assistant Professor

Ingeniería Mecánica

UNIVERSIAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile