Carlos J. Pérez del Pulgar Escuela de Ingenierías C/Ortiz Ramos s/n 29071 Málaga (Spain) Landline: +34 951952324 Email: carlosperez@uma.es www.isa.uma.es/cperez Updated: 6/10/2015 PERSONAL PROFILE Since 2010 I have been a part-time Assistant Lecturer at the System Engineering and Automation Department, University of Malaga, giving lectures in Robotics, Control and Automation. Also, in 2003, I was given a permanent position as a member of Technical Staff at the same University, collaborating in the teaching and researching activities of this Department. Member of the Surgical Robotics Team since 2003 with several scientific contributions, and Project Engineering Coordinator of the 7 th FP European Project GLORIA (2014) whose objective was to develop a network of robotic telescopes for citizen science. EDUCATION 2005 2007. Doctoral courses in Mechatronics Engineering, University of Malaga. Qualification: 9 out of 10. 2001 2004. Master in Computer Science Engineering, University of Malaga. Master Thesis with Honours. 1997 2000. Bachelor in Information Technology, University of Malaga. Dissertation Work with Honours. EMPLOYMENT 05/2001 02/2003. Undergraduate fellowship at the University of Malaga. Surgical Robotics Team. 03/2003 present. Member of the Technical Staff at the University of Malaga, System Engineering and Automation Department. 10/2010 present. Part-time Assistant Lecturer at the University of Malaga, System Engineering and Automation Department.
RESEARCH PROJECTS Title: Robotized HALS, Collaborative Robot for Hand Assisted Laparoscopic Surgery. Grant institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Government). Budget: 140.000 Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez Title: Robotic Platform for assistance in NOTES/SILS (DPI2010-21126-C03-01). Grant institution: Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación (Spanish Government). Budget: 270.000 Duration: Jan. 2011 Jul. 2013. Title: Autonomous Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery (P07-TEP-2897). Grant institution: Consejería de Innovación, Ciencia y Empresa. Junta de Andalucía (Regional Government). Budget: 379.618 Duration: Jan. 2008 Dec. 2011. Title: Auto-guided Surgical Robot for Minimally Invasive Surgery (DPI2007-62257). Grant institution: CICYT. Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia (Spanish Government). Budget: 218.000 Duration: Oct. 2007 Sept. 2010. Title: Modular Robotic System for Minimally Invasive Surgery (PI0-21708). Grant institution: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. Fondos de Investigación Sanitaria. (Public Institution). Budget: 112.355 Duration: Jan. 2003 Dec. 2005. Title: Robotic Assistant for Laparoscopic Surgery (FIS-00/0050-02). Grant institution: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. (Public Institution) Duration: Jan. 2000 Dec. 2002. Position in this project: Undergraduate Fellowship. Title: GLORIA: Global Robotic Telescope Intelligent Array. Grant institution: 7 th FP European Union. Budget: 2.500.000 (Assigned to University of Malaga: 318.000 ). Duration: Oct. 2011 Oct. 2014. Main researcher: Francisco M. Sánchez (Universidad Politécnica de Madrid). Position in this project: Project Engineering Coordinator.
RESEARCH PROJECTS WITH ENTERPRISES Title: Patent Transfer for Manufacturing and Trading. Contract number: 8.06/5.56.2605-3. Company: SENER- S.A. Duration: 2007 current Main researcher: Víctor Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Patent coauthor. Title: Design and Development of a Control System for Avoiding Bed Sores (Spanish Patent P200502159). Contract number: 8.06/5.56.2797. Company: INDUVAR S.A. Duration: Dec. 2006 Apr. 2007. Main researcher: Víctor Muñoz Martínez. Budget: 12.337. Title: Automation of Communication Systems Company: Tartessos Technologies S.A. (Now owned by Sony-Ericsson) Duration: Mar. 2004 May. 2005. Main researcher: Alfonso García Cerezo. Position in this project: Project Engineer. PUBLICATIONS (JOURNALS) Authors: Muñoz V.F., García Morales I., Pérez del Pulgar, C. Gómez-de-Gabriel J.M., Fernández-Lozano J.J., García Cerezo A., Vara C. y Toscano R. Title: Control cartesiano de un asistente robótico para cirugía laparoscópica. Journal: Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática. Vol. 3, No. 4., pp. 63-74, ISSN electronic version: 1697-7920. ISSN printed version: 1697-7912. Year: 2006. Authors: Muñoz V.F., Fernández-Lozano J., Gómez-de-Gabriel J., García-Morales I., Molina Mesa, R. and Perez-del-Pulgar C. Title: On laparoscopic robot design and validation. Journal: Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering (JCR Impact index: 0,444, Q2) Vol. 10, No. 3, pp: 211-229, ISSN: 1069-2509. Year: 2003. PATENTS Authors: Victor Fernando Muñoz Martínez, Isabel García Morales, Jesus Fernández Lozano, Jesús Manuel Gómez de Gabriel, Alfonso García Cerezo, Carlos Jesus Pérez del Pulgar, Javier Serón Barba, Francisco Domínguez Fernández, Carlos Vara Thorbeck, Rafael Toscano Mendez Title: Robotic System for Assisting in Minimally-Invasive Surgery, which can position a surgical instrument in response to orders from a surgeon, is not attached to the operation table and does not require pre-calibration of the insertion point. Publication: 1/2/2008 Patent number: WO2008012386 A1
CONFERENCES Authors: M.C. López Casado, C.J. Pérez del Pulgar, et al. Title: GlSch: a novel scheduerl for a heterogeneous telescope network. Conference: 30 th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC), April 13-17, 2015, Salamanca, Spain. Authors: M.C. López Casado, C.J. Pérez del Pulgar, et al. Title: A fuzzy logic based decision algorithm for a heterogeneous telescope network Conference: IEEE International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT), March 17-19, 2015, Sevilla, Spain. Authors: Carlos J. Perez-del-Pulgar, V.F. Muñoz Title: Control Scheme with Tissue Interaction Detection for a Single Port Access Surgery Robotic Platform Conference: IEEE International Conference on Biomedical Robotics and Biomechatronics (BIOROB), August 12-15, 2014, São Paulo, Brazil. Authors: Carlos J Perez-del-Pulgar, VF Munoz, Juan J Velasco, Ruben Gomez Title: Parallel force-position control scheme with fuzzy gain tuning for single port laparoscopic surgery Conference: 13th International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS), 20-23 Oct. 2013, Gwangju, South Korea. Authors: Carlos Jesús Pérez-del-Pulgar, Raquel Cedazo, Juan Cabello, Esteban González, Víctor F Muñoz, Fernando Serena, María C López, Fernando Ibáñez, Francisco M Sánchez, Alberto Castro, Ronan Cunniffe Title: GLORIA: The First Free Access e-infrastructure of Robotic Telescopes for Citizen Science Conference: World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST), 27-30 Mar. 2013, Algarve, Portugal. Authors: VF Muñoz, Isabel Garcia-Morales, C Perez del Pulgar, JM Gomez- DeGabriel, Jesús Fernandez-Lozano, Alfonso Garcia-Cerezo, Carlos Vara-Thorbeck, R Toscano Title: Control movement scheme based on manipulability concept for a surgical robotic assistant. Conference: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 15-19 May. 2006, Orlando, EEUU. Authors: Muñoz V.F., Gómez de Gabriel J.M., Fernández-Lozano J., Azouaghe M., García Morales I. y Pérez del Pulgar C. Title: On laparoscopic robot design and validation. Conference: Third International Naiso Symposium On Engineering Of Intelligent Systems (EIS), 27-27 Sept. 2002, Malaga, Spain. Authors: Muñoz V.F., Gómez de Gabriel J., Fernández-Lozano J., García Morales I., Vara C., Pérez del Pulgar C. y Azouaghe M. Title: Development of a telerobotic camera manipulator for laparoscopic surgery. Conference: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control, 21-26 Jul. 2002, Barcelona, Spain.
Authors: Muñoz V.F., Gómez de Gabriel J., Fernández-Lozano J., García Morales I., Molina-Mesa R., Pérez del Pulgar C., Serón-Barba J. y Azouaghe M. Title: Design and control of a robotic assistant for laparoscopic surgery. Conference: 9th International Simposium on Intelligent Robotic Systems (SIRS), 19-20 Jul. 2001, Toulousse, France. UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING 2014/2015 o Instrumentation and Industrial Computing (EHEA Graduate in Electrical Engineering) o Mechatronics (EHEA Graduate in Electronic, Robotic and Mechatronic) o Electronics and Automation (EHEA Graduate in Industrial Design and Product Development) 2013/2014 o Instrumentation and Industrial Computing (EHEA Graduate in Electrical Engineering) o Control Principles (EHEA Graduate in Electronic, Robotic and Mechatronic) o Electronic and Product Automation (EHEA Graduate in Industrial Design and Product Development) 2012/2013 o Automatic Control (EHEA Graduate in Health Engineering) o Control Principles (EHEA Graduate in Electronic, Robotic and Mechatronic) o Electronic and Product Automation (EHEA Graduate in Industrial Design and Product Development) o Industrial Robotics (Master in Automation and Industrial Electronics) o Complex and Big Systems (Master in Automation and Industrial Electronics) o Automation (Bachelor in Telecommunication) 2011/2012 o Control Engineering Laboratory (Master in Telecommunication) o Industrial Robotics (Master in Automation and Industrial Electronics) o Automation (Bachelor in Telecommunication) o Equipments for Automation (Bachelor in Electronic Engineering) 2010/2011 o Industrial Robotics (Master in Automation and Industrial Electronics) o Control by Computer (Master in Electrical Engineer) o Automation (Bachelor in Telecommunication) SUPERVISED DISSERTATION WORKS Title: Low cost mobile platform for terrain recognition Student: José Ricardo Sánchez Ibáñez Date: Sept, 2015. Qualification: Graduate in Electrical Engineering Title: Teleoperation of robots in laparoscopic surgery Student: Ignacio Alzugaray López Date: July, 2014 Qualification: Graduate in Electrical Engineering Title: Service Oriented Architecture for a robotic telescope network Student: Alfredo Cueto Jiménez Date: June, 2014
Qualification: Master in Computer Science. Title: Implementation of Control Algorithms in the Robotic Platform CISOBOT Student: Juan J. Velasco Manzanares Date: Nov. 2013 Qualification: Master in Computer Science. Title: Implementation of a PLC using an Arduino Microcontroller Student: Juan Ignacio Llamas Rodríguez Date: Feb. 2013 Qualification: Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Title: Implementation of a DC Motor Control System in a Microcontroller Student: Alfonso Vilchez Quirós Date: Oct. 2012 Qualification: Bachelor in Electronics Engineering Title: Implementation of a Real-Time Platform for Control Algorithms in a 6DoF Manipulator Student: Rubel Gómez Ojeda Date: Apr. 2012 Qualification: Master in Electrical Engineering Title: Weight Compensation for the CISOBOT Platform Student: Miguel Fernández Doblas Date: Nov. 2011 Qualification: Bachelor in Electronics Engineering AWARDS Outstanding Paper Award: 2013 13 th International Conference of Control, Automation and Systems (ICCAS). Inventum Award: Best Patent at the University of Malaga for the Surgical Robotics Team (2007). Best SPIN-OFF at the University of Malaga (2005). COURSES Biomedical Engineering and Control (30 hours) Date: 16-20 Jul. 2007 Institution: Universidad Internacional de Andalucía Specialization on Control (20 hours) Date: 23-28 Jun. 2003 Institution: University of Malaga