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LIRA Invited Seminar - Dr Rodolfo Haber (Center for Automation and Robotics, Spain): Research Challenges and Opportunities of Automation and Robotics in 21st century: Some Successful Stories

Speaker: Dr Rodolfo Haber

Title: Research Challenges and Opportunities of Automation and Robotics in 21st century: Some Successful Stories

Abstract: Recent progress on information and communication technologies and the fast evolution of digital transformation, have significantly impact on all sectors, levels and domains of the economy and society. In recent decades, Internet, embedded systems, advanced computational architectures and Artificial Intelligence have consolidated Automation and Robotics as cross-cutting and cross-fertilized areas plenty of multidisciplinary approaches and methods. Upcoming years will require a great scientific-technical effort to generate new knowledge driven by research and cutting-edge technologies that lead to a qualitative change towards a more inclusive and sustainable Society and Industry 5.0. This seminar will briefly review some successful stories in the field of Automation and Robotics in which the conjunction and intersection of techniques and methods supported on different paradigms have been key and are reflected in successful applications and solutions for intelligent mobility, sustainable and precision agriculture, smart manufacturing and health and well-being of people.

Brief bio: Rodolfo Haber (IEEE, IFAC member) received the Ph.D. degree in Industrial Engineering from the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain, in 1999. Since January 2020, he has been appointed Director of the Center for Automation and Robotics of the Spanish Council for Scientific Research (CSIC) and Polytechnic University of Madrid (UPM), formerly Vice-Director (2015-2019). He has more than 25 years of experience in higher education and research. He has lead several European projects and Spanish research projects including 12 contracts with industry since 2002. In particular, he is now involved in two European projects related with Artificial Intelligence and Industrial Cyber-physical systems: KITT4SME (2020-2024) and Power2Power (2019-2022). He has authored 3 books, 14 patents, 1 trade secret, 21 book chapters, and more than 70 articles in indexed journals and dozens of conference papers. He has been co-founder of Kinequo S.L. (2015) and Xymbot Digital Solutions SL (2020). Since 2002, he has belonged to the IFAC’s Technical Committee 3.1 Computers for Control, ASME Technical Committee on Model Identification and Intelligent Systems and IEEE IES Technical Committee on Industrial Cyber-Physical Systems (ICPS). Since 2002, he has been an expert evaluator and Vice-Chair for the European Commission collaborating with various research agencies such as REA and EACEA. He has been associate editor and member of the Editorial Board of journals such as Scientific Reports, Processes, Sensors, Journal of Control Engineering and Applied Informatics, and Computational Intelligence and Neuroscience, among others.

His main research activities are focused on Industry 5.0, cyber-physical systems, intelligent systems, control and supervisory systems, and artificial cognitive systems.

LinkedIn link: https://es.linkedin.com/in/rodolfo-haber-43b82b14

Researchgate link: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rodolfo-Elias-Haber-Guerra

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