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Francisco Javier Vargas Parra

Assistant Professor

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

Líneas de Investigación


Networked Control Systems. Stabilization under communication constraints; Autonomous vehicle platooning. String Stability. Performance limits under communication constraints; Optimal Estimation and Control. Multiagent systems.

Educación

  •  Licenciatura en Ciencias de la Ingeniería, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA. Chile, 2006
  •  Electronic Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA. Chile, 2009
  •  Electronic Engineering, UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA. Chile, 2013
  •  Ingeniero Civil Electrónico, UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA. Chile, 2009

Experiencia Académica

  •   Postdoctoral Fellow Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2013 - 2015

  •   Assistant Professor Full Time

    UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2016 - A la fecha

  •   Visiting Research Student Full Time

    City University of Hong Kong

    Hong Kong, Hong Kong

    2011 - 2012

  •   Researcher Other

    Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2016 - 2019

Experiencia Profesional

  •   Trainee Other

    Endesa

    Antuco, Los Angeles, Chile

    2006 - 2006

  •   Research Assistant at the Bioinformatics Unit Other

    Centro de Genomica Nutricional Agro acuícola (CGNA)

    Temuco, Chile

    2008 - 2008

  •   Technical staff (Wireless TV service evaluation) Other

    Universidad de La Frontera

    Temuco, Chile

    2008 - 2008

  •   Lecturer Part Time

    Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

    Valparaiso, Chile

    2014 - 2015

Formación de Capital Humano


The researcher has contributed to human capital training during the last years by supervising undergraduate and graduate thesis and also by teaching both undergraduate and graduate courses. A summary of the supervised or co-supervised thesis is presented below:

Undergraduate Thesis

3 Completed thesis as supervisor
2 Ongoing thesis as supervisor
1 Completed thesis as co supervisor
1 Ongoing thesis as co supervisor

Postgraduate Thesis

2 Completed MSc thesis as supervisor
2 Ongoing MSc thesis as supervisor
1 Ongoing PhD thesis as supervisor

In teaching, 4 different courses are lectured every year, including two mandatory courses for undergraduate students, and two courses for graduate students. Specifically,
the courses are:

Undergraduate Courses

- Linear Systems Analysis: A course where continuous and discrete time systems and signals are studied in both frequency and time domain.
- Automatic Control Lab: An experimental course where the automatic control theory is put in practice in different experimental setups, including a coupled tank system, a levitation system, and an inverted pendulum.

Postgraduate Courses

-Probability and Stochastic Processes: Here, random variables and related concepts are revisited and extended to stochastic processes. Then, optimal linear estimation and statistical inference methods are studied.

- Multivariable Control: The main properties of multi-input multi-output systems are studied and, based on such properties, different control strategies are presented considering the multivariable nature of the control problem.


Premios y Distinciones

  •   Outstanding Reviewer

    Automatica, Journal by IFAC

    Estados Unidos, 2014

    Every year Automatica identifies around 20 individuals, from a pool of about 2000 reviewers, as outstanding reviewers. The selection is done following a nomination process that involves the Editors and Associate Editors of Automatica and is based on outstanding performance an individual has shown as a reviewer, consistently during the indicated period.


 

Article (18)

A Cooperative Control Algorithm for Line and Predecessor Following Platoons Subject to Unreliable Distance Measurements
A Kalman-Based Compensation Strategy for Platoons Subject to Data Loss: Numerical and Empirical Study
Plant and buffer state estimation for networked predictive control over multiple erasure channels
Mean square stability conditions for platoons with lossy inter-vehicle communication channels
An Algebraic Formula for Performance Bounds of a Weighted H-infinity Optimal Control Problem
Comparison of Simple Strategies for Vehicular Platooning With Lossy Communication
PL-TOON: A Low-Cost Experimental Platform for Teaching and Research on Decentralized Cooperative Control
On the Existence of a Stabilizing Solution of Modified Algebraic Riccati Equations in Terms of Standard Algebraic Riccati Equations and Linear Matrix Inequalities
Mean Square Stabilization Over SNR-Constrained Channels With Colored and Spatially Correlated Additive Noises
Feedback control over lossy channels: Optimal estimation considering data-loss compensation strategies
Optimal estimation in feedback control loops with packet dropouts compensation strategies
Optimal state prediction in feedback systems with data loss compensation strategies
Performance Bounds of a SISO H-infinity Control Problem with Non-minimum Phase Plants
Optimal control over multiple erasure channels using a data dropout compensation scheme
Stabilization of Two-Input Two-Output Systems over SNR-Constrained Channels
Optimal ripple-free deadbeat control using an integral of time squared error (ITSE) index
Fuzzy Logic in Genetic Regulatory Network Models
Fuzzy Logic in Genetic Regulatory Network Models

ConferencePaper (18)

An Alternative Setup to Study Stabilization of Networked Control Systems Over Correlated Fading Channels
Platoon Stability Conditions Under Inter-vehicle Additive Noisy Communication Channels
A low cost experimental platform for the study of scalability issues in multi-agent systems
Design of an experimental platform for the automation of the goalkeeper of a foosball table
Effects of speed saturation in a predecessor-following vehicle platoon
Equivalence between feedback systems with correlated multiplicative noisy channels and with additive noisy channels
Performance bounds of a SISO H? control problem with non-minimum phase plants
Stabilization of MIMO systems over additive correlated noise channels subject to multiple SNR-constraints
String stability for predecessor following platooning over lossy communication channels
Control with erasure channels: performance characterization using an equivalent SNR constrained problem
Stabilisation over signal-to-noise ratio constrained channels: Robust analysis for the discrete-time case
On stabilizability of MIMO systems over parallel noisy channels
Optimal design of remote controllers for LTI plants over erasure channels
Explicit conditions for stabilization over noisy channels subject to SNR constraints
Optimal design of a class of controllers and data-dropout compensators for LTI plants controlled over erasure channels
Necessary and sufficient conditions for mean square stabilization over MIMO SNR-constrained channels
Stabilization of TITO systems over parallel SNR-constrained AWN channels
Analysis and design of partly networked architectures for two-input two-output LTI systems

Proyecto (11)

CHARACTERIZING THE CAUSAL RATE-DISTORTION FUNCTION AND EXTENSIONS TO NETWORKED CONTROL PROBLEMS
OPTIMAL ESTIMATION AND CONTROL OVER COMMUNICATION CHANNELS SUBJECT TO DATA LOSS
Advanced Center for Electrical and Electronic Engineering
CONTROL OF MIMO PLANTS SUBJECT TO INDIVIDUAL SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO CONSTRAINTS
Control problems subject to concurrent communication constraints
Modeling, optimization and control with applications to networked systems using wireless communications (Associative research project [Anillo project], ACT-53)
Control Problems Subject to Communication Constraints
Stabilization of Networked Control Systems Over Parallel Additive White Noise Channels Subject to Signal-to-Noise Ratio Constraints
Centro de genómica Nutricional Agroacuícola (CGNA)
Impact on performance of using restricted complexity models in linear control design for multivariable plants
Desarrollo de un prototipo de móvil para discapacitados que pueda ser comandado mediante voz u otro mecanismo no convencional
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Francisco Vargas

Assistant Professor

Electronic Engineering Department

UNIVERSIDAD TECNICA FEDERICO SANTA MARIA

Valparaiso, Chile

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Andrés Peters

Profesor Asistente

Universidad Adolfo Ibánez

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Alejandro Maass

Investigador FONDECYT Postdoctoral

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Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

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Eduardo Silva

Associate Professor

Electronic Engineering

Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María

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Alejandro ROJAS

Associate Professor

Ingeniería Eléctrica

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Millaray Curilem

Académica

Ingeniería Eléctrica

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Temuco, Chile

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CARLOS MUÑOZ

Profesor Titular

Departamento Ingeniería Eléctrica

Universidad de La Frontera

Temuco, Chile

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Gonzalo Carvajal

Assistant Professor

Electronics

Universidad Tecnica Federico Santa Maria

Valparaiso, Chile

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Horacio Miranda

ACADEMICO

PRODUCCIÓN AGROPECUARIA

UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA

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SONIA SALVO

Coordinadora LICSA

Matemática y Estadística

Sonia Salvo Garrido

Temuco, Chile

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Jaime Bustos

Profesor asociado

Departamento de Ingeniería de Sistemas

Universidad de La Frontera

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