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Juan Cristobal Zagal Montealegre

Assistant Professor

UNIVERSIAD DE CHILE

Santiago, Chile

Robotics; Soft Robotics; Digital Fabrication

Automática, 1. Chile, 2007
Ingeniero Civil Electricista, 1. Chile, 2000
Scientific Computing, 3. Suecia

Postdoctoral Researcher Full Time

CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Main Campus

Ithaca, Estados Unidos

2008 - A la fecha

System Engineer Full Time

European Org. for Astronomical Research,

Santiago, Chile

2004 - A la fecha

Recent Teaching (last three years):
ME4707, Robotics
ME560, Digital Fabrication

Master Thesis (3 During last 3 years).
Memoria Ingeniero (7 durante los ultimos 3 años)

Dissemination in Conferences during the last three years:

A.A. Calderon, Joakin Ugalde, J.C. Zagal, N.O.Perez-Arancibia, “Design, Fabrication and Control of a Multi-Material–Multi-Actuator Soft Robot Inspired by Burrowing Worms”. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, IEEE ROBIO, Qingdao, China, 2016.

A.A. Calderon, J.C. Zagal, N.O.Perez-Arancibia, “A Pneumatically-Driven Soft Robot Biologically Inspired by Earthworms”, Southern California Robotics Symposium, SCR2016, San Diego, CA, 2016.

R.F. Mendoza-Garcia, H.R. Valenzuela-Coloma, Y.-s. Lau-Cortes, J.C. Zagal, “Mentaca: An Universal Jamming Gripper on Wheels”, IEEE Congress Chilecon, Santiago, Chile, 2016.

J.C. Zagal et al. “Fab Lab as an Implementation Tool of the CDIO Program”, in Proceedings of the 9th International CDIO Conference, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, June 9 – 13, 2013.

ROBIO 2016 Best Paper Finalist Award

IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics

Estados Unidos, 2016

ROBIO 2016 Best Paper Finalist Award IEEE Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, Qingdao, China, 2016.
SCR2016 Best Poster Award

Southern California Robotics Symposium

Chile, 2016

SCR2016 Best Poster Award at the Southern California Robotics Symposium, San Diego, CA, USA, 2016.


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)
Evolutionary design of a satellite thermal control system: Real experiments for a CubeSat mission Escobar, Emanuel; Diaz, Marcos; Zagal, Juan Cristbal Article ISI SCOPUS APPLIED THERMAL ENGINEERING (2016)
New opportunities offered by Cubesats for space research in Latin America: The SUCHAI project case Diaz M.A.; Zagal, J. C.; Falcon, C; Stepanova, M; Valdivia, J. A.; Martinez-Ledesma, M.; Diaz-Pea, J.; Jaramillo, F.R.; Romanova, N.; Pacheco, E; Milla, M.; Orchard M.; Silva J.; Mena F.P. Article ISI SCOPUS ADVANCES IN SPACE RESEARCH (2016)
Growing scale-free networks with tunable distributions of triad motifs Li, SG; Yuan, JP; Shi, Y; Zagal, JC Article ISI SCOPUS Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications (2015)
BeamMaker: an open hardware high-resolution digital fabricator for the masses Calderón A.; Griffin J.; Zagal, JC Article ISI SCOPUS RAPID PROTOTYPING JOURNAL (2014)
Self-modeling in humanoid soccer robots Zagal, JC; Delpiano, J; Ruiz del Solar, J Article ISI SCOPUS ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS (2009)
Spectral sensitivities of photoreceptors and their role in colour discrimination in the green-backed firecrown hummingbird (Sephanoides sephaniodes) Herrera, G.; Zagal, JC; Diaz M.; Fernandez, MJ; Vielma, A; Curé M.; Martinez, J.; Bozinovic F.; Palacios, AG Article ISI SCOPUS JOURNAL OF COMPARATIVE PHYSIOLOGY A-NEUROETHOLOGY SENSORY NEURAL AND BEHAVIORAL PHYSIOLOGY (2008)
Combining simulation and reality in evolutionary robotics Zagal, JC; Ruiz del Solar, J Article ISI SCOPUS JOURNAL OF INTELLIGENT & ROBOTIC SYSTEMS (2007)
An application interface for UCHILSIM and the arrival of new challenges Zagal, Juan Cristobal, Sarmiento, Ivan, Ruiz-del-Solar, Javier Article ISI LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION, LION 15 (2006)
Learning to kick the ball using back to reality Zagal, JC; Ruiz-Del-Solar, J Article ISI LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION, LION 15 (2005)
UCHILSIM: A dynamically and visually realistic simulator for the RoboCup four legged league Zagal, JC; Ruiz-Del-Solar, J Article ISI LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION, LION 15 (2005)
Evolving visual object recognition for legged robots Zagal, JC; Ruiz-Del-Solar, J; Guerrero, P Article ISI LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION, LION 15 (2004)
How contests can foster the research activities on robotics in developing countries: Chile - A case study Ruiz-del-Solar, J; Zagal, JC Article ISI LEARNING AND INTELLIGENT OPTIMIZATION, LION 15 (2004)