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Carlos Villegas

carlos@villegasramos.net
Tel. +353 (0)1 7084536
Fax. +353 (0)1 7086269

Postal address:
Hamilton Institute,
National University of Ireland Maynooth
Co. Kildare, Ireland

I am a final year Ph.D. student at the Hamilton Institute working on Automotive Control.
My areas of interest are multivariable control, vehicle dynamics, decentralised control and mechatronic systems. Besides, I am fond of programming and working with free software like Debian Linux.


Academic Background

I have a Bachelor degree at Mechanical-Electrical Engineering from Tec de Monterrey in Mexico City. Besides I obtained the Master of Science Degree in Mechatronics from CINVESTAV with the thesis "Influence of an Active Suspension on the Lateral Dynamics of a Passenger Vehicle". The latter thesis project was developed in DaimlerChrysler Research in Stuttgart, Germany.

Research

Complex Embedded Automotive Control Systems.
As part of the PhD, I worked on the CEmACS project. The European Union-funded project was a partnership between DaimlerChrysler Research, the Hamilton Institute at NUI Maynooth, Lund University, Glasgow University and SINTEF (Norway). The objective of CEmACS was to contribute to a systematic, modular, model-based approach for designing complex automotive control systems. The main topics of research and development were integrated chassis control, active safety, vehicle state observation and control design theory.

My work in CEmACS was mainly within the topic of Integrated Chassis Control. It consisted on the development of decentralized controllers for a vehicle equipped with 4-wheel-steering and an active hydropneumatic suspension. These controllers were part of an integrated chassis controller of a generic prototype test vehicle, i.e., a test vehicle capable of being configured to emulate any desired car dynamics. The generic prototype would bridge the gap between computer-aided virtual prototyping and using hardware proof-of-concept prototypes.

The project ended in November 2007 with excellent reviews.

cemacs webpage

Publications and EU Project Reports

Villegas-Ramos, C. (2004, August).
Influence of an active suspension system on the lateral dynamics of a passenger vehicle,
      Master's thesis, CINVESTAV-IPN, Mexico city.

Villegas, C., D. Leith, and R. Shorten (2005, February),
Deliverable 2: Integrated Chassis Control --- State-of-the-Art,
      In CEmACS Project Report.

Villegas, C., M. Akar, and R. Shorten (2005, October),
Deliverable 8: Integrated chassis control --- controller specification,
      In CEmACS Project Report.

Barreras, M., C. Villegas, M. Garcia-Sanz, and J. Kalkkuhl (2006, October),
Robust QFT tracking controller design for a car equipped with 4-wheel steer-by-wire,
      In Proc. of the IEEE International Conference on Control Applications, Munich, Germany.

Villegas, C., M. Readman, M. Akar, and R. Shorten (2007, July),
D21:Integrated Chassis Control,
      In CEmACS Project Final Report.

Villegas, C., D. Leith, R. Shorten, and J. Kalkkuhl (2007, June),
A Disturbance Response Decoupling Controller for Emulating Vertical Dynamics of Vehicles,
      In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV'07, Istanbul, Turkey.

Villegas, C., M. Akar, R. Shorten, and J. Kalkkuhl (2007, June),
A Robust PI controller for Emulating Lateral Dynamics of Vehicles,
      In IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium IV'07, Istanbul, Turkey.

Villegas, C., M. Corless, R. Shorten, M. Readman, and S. Solmaz (2008, April),
Decentralised control design of lateral and vertical vehicle dynamics using passivity,
      In 79th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Bremen, Germany.

Readman, M. C., M. Corless, C. Villegas, and R. Shorten (2008, April),
Adaptive road disturbance decoupling for active suspensions,
      In 79th Annual Meeting of the International Association of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, Bremen, Germany.

Readman, M. C., M. Corless, C. Villegas, and R. Shorten (2008, June),
Self-tuning for disturbance transmission decoupling in active vehicle suspensions,
      In Proceedings of the American Control Conference, Seattle, Washington.

Readman, M. C., M. Corless, C.Villegas, and R. Shorten (2008),
Adaptive Williams Filters for Active Vehicle Suspensions,
      Transactions of the Institute of Measurement and Control.    In press

 
Carlos Villegas - PhD candidate at the Hamilton Institute,
NUI Maynooth - Co. Kildare - Ireland
Tel. + 353 (0) 17084536 - Fax. +353 (0) 17086269
email carlos@villegasramos.net