University Collaborations

Technical University of Catalonia (UPC - Spain)

2019: F. Karimi Pour spent 4 months in CRAN as Junior Visiting Researchers.

2015: J.C. Salazar Cortés spent 5 months in CRAN as Junior Visiting Researchers.

2014: D. Rontondo spent 5 months in CRAN as Junior Visiting Researchers.

2013: Dr. V. Puig spent one month in CRAN as Invited Professor.

2008: Dr. Sebastian Tornil spent 6 months in CRAN during a Post Doctoral period.

2007: 1 week in the Technical University of Catalonia (UPC - Spain) for a Course in the PhD Program on Control, Vision and Robotics organized by Dr. V. Puig (Call for Course July 2007 “FAULT DIAGNOSIS AND FAULT TOLERANT CONTROL USING RELIABILITY ANALYSIS”) and for scientific exchange with members of SAC research Group directed by Pr J. Quevedo (http://websac.upc.es/wwwsac/).

Concordia University (Montréal - Canada)

2022: Dr. Y. Zhang has visited  CRAN during a week.

2011-2012: Visiting Professor in Departement of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering with Dr Youmin Zhang (Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University, Canada).

2011: Dr. Y. Zhang has spent two months at CRAN as Invited Professor.

September 2008, two weeks in Concordia University, Montréal, Canada for scientific exchange with researchers of Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering and for a plenary talk on “Fault Tolerant Control System Design based on Reliability Analysis under Dynamic Behavior Constraints”.

Since 2004: Common research activities with Dr Y. Zhang (http://encs.concordia.ca/Faculty/FEG/MIE/YZhang.html) on Active Fault Tolerant Control System Design applied to Three Tank System (Real time simulator benchmark) and Avionics (ADMIRE software).

University of Denver  (Colorado - USA)

2022: Pr. K. Valavanis has spent one month at CRAN as Invited Professor.

Shenyang Institute of Automation (Shenyang - RP China)

Since 2015: Permanent visiting Professor at Shenyang Institute of Automation
2013-2015: Visiting Professor as Senior International Scientists of Chinese Academy of Sciences in Shenyang Institute of Automation

Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (Mexico City – Mexico)

2023: Dr. L Torrez will spend one month at CRAN as Invited Professor.

since 2015: Common research works with Dr. L Torrez.

University of Western Ontario (London - Canada)

2011: Visiting Professor in Laboratory of Control, Instrumentation and Electrical Systems (Director Pr. J. Jiang) – for an invited plenary talk “FDI/FTC based on Components Health”.

2010: Pr. J. Jiang spent two months at CRAN as Invited Professor.

2002: 1 week in University of London (Ontario – Canada) for an invited plenary talk aims on FDI/FTC based on a multiple model approach and to collaborate and to establish some scientific exchange with Dr Y. Zhang and Pr J. Jiang (http://www.eng.uwo.ca/people/jjiang/website/ts.htm) with the support of a french-canadian project untitled «Design, analysis and applications of Fault Tolerant Control System ».

National Center for Research and Technological Development (Cuernavaca – Mexico)

Since 2012: 5 Phd Students in co-tutelle.

2010: Plenary Talk untitled “Fault diagnosis and fault accommodation in metal processing – Practical issues” in CENIDET supported by AMCA, 8-9 July.

2009: Dr. Carlos Astorga spent one year in CRAN during a Post Doctoral period.

2007: two weeks as an Invited Professor in National Center for Research and Technological Development (Cuernavaca – Mexico http://www.cenidet.edu.mx/) for a Course on “Fault diagnosis using reliability analysis” (Call for Course – October 2007) supported by National Project untitled “Diagnóstico y control de sistemas electromecánicos y mecatrónicos”and for scientific exchange with researchers of CENIDET.

2002: 1 week in Mexico in order to establish collaboration between CENIDET/CRAN on FDI/FTC domain and invited to participate to Oral Presentation for MS degree (http://www.cenidet.edu.mx/).

University of Sheffield (Sheffield - UK)

2010: Dr. Musa Abdulkareem spent two weeks in CRAN to study "FTC in Tensegrity Structure".

Since 2005: four months in University of Sheffield (UK) for scientific exchange with Pr M. Mahfouf (http://www.shef.ac.uk/acse/staff/mm) in order to collaborate on the design of a FDI/FTC strategy for the hot rolling Hille mill of IMMPETUS (The Institute for Microstructural and Mechanical Process Engineering http://immpetus.shef.ac.uk/imm/).

Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon (Monterrey – Mexico)

November 2008: Dr. Efraín Alcorta García spent one moth in CRAN.

Since 2006: Research activities with Dr Efraín Alcorta García (http://gama.fime.uanl.mx/~ealcorta/) on design of a model-based fault diagnosis method for non linear systems (Newton-observer approach) applied to Winding Machine.