Jorge Jorge Pomares

Jorge Pomares (Prof. Dr.) obtained his degree in Computer Engineering in 1999 and his PhD from the University of Alicante in 2004. He has been a member of the Department of Physics, Systems Engineering, and Signal Theory at the University of Alicante since 2001. Since December 2017, he has been a Full Professor in the aforementioned department in the area of Systems Engineering and Automation. He is also the founder of the Human Robotics research group. His research career has focused on space robotics, visual servoing, robot control and manipulation, and machine learning. He has participated in more than 15 R&D projects, serving as the principal investigator in five of them. The projects he has led are primarily in the areas of space robotics, vision-based robot guidance, visual servoing, and robot control. These projects have contributed not only to the development of robot guidance strategies but also to the design of novel approaches for controlling robotic systems. His research addresses control challenges for the optimal and robust guidance of robotic manipulators, autonomous vehicles, and space robots. The methods he has developed are generic and applicable to a wide range of robotic systems. The control techniques have been applied to various types of robots, including multi-DOF rigid-link robots, manipulators subject to input/output delays, underactuated robots, redundant manipulators, closed-chain robotic systems, exoskeletons, flexible-link robots, and space robots. Dr. Pomares leads the Orbital Robotics Laboratory within the Human Robotics research group at the University of Alicante. In the field of space robotics, he has expertise in manipulator control in space, visual-force control of robotic arms in orbit, trajectory planning for space robots, satellite guidance in formation flight, satellite guidance with visual feedback, and the development of simulation and control systems for orbital robotics. His work also includes machine learning and reinforcement learning applications for on-orbit service robotics. Dr. Pomares belongs to the euRobotics Topic Group on Space Robotics. Jorge Pomares currently holds three six-year research periods recognized by the CNEAI for the years 2001–2019.