Carlos J. Perez del Pulgar
Escuela de Ingenierías C/Ortiz Ramos s/n 29071 – Málaga (Spain) Landline: +34 951952324 Email: [email protected] www.isa.uma.es/cperez Updated: 18/2/2015 PERSONAL PROFILESince 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 7th FP European Project GLORIA whose objective is 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: 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.
Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Assistant Researcher.
• 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.
Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Assistant Researcher.
• 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.
Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Assistant Researcher.
• 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.
Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Assistant Researcher.
• Title: Robotic Assistant for Laparoscopic Surgery (FIS-00/0050-02). Grant institution: Instituto de Salud Carlos III. (Public Institution) Duration: Jan. 2000 – Dec. 2002.
Main researcher: Víctor Fernando Muñoz Martínez. Position in this project: Undergraduate Fellowship.
• Title: GLORIA: Global Robotic Telescope Intelligent Array. Grant institution: 7th 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 €.
Position in this project: Assistant Researcher. • 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., 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.
• 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. 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
CONFERENCES
• 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 (Paper accepted) • 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: 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. 19-2001, Toulousse, France.
• 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.
UNDERGRADUATE TEACHING • 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) DISSERTATION WORKS
• 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
AWARDS
• Outstanding Paper Award: 2013 13th 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
