Short Biography

I am a PhD student at Universidad Nacional de Colombia (UNAL). My doctoral project is the development of an integrated motion planning strategy for a robot arm to solve a multi-object picking motion query in a controlled environment.

I was born in Bogotá, Capital city of Colombia. My interest in engineering started in childhood. I was always amazed to see robots in tv shows, cars on highways, and simple appliances at home. I got my BSc in Mechatronics Engineering from UNAL. While studying for my degree, I joined a research group called UNRobot, using the knowledge I acquired there, I designed in detail a delta robot for my thesis, which was later built based on my proposal. Subsequently, I obtained an automatic admission for the MSc in Industrial Automation at the same University. My master's thesis was related to trajectory optimization for a 6 DOF industrial robot using metaheuristic algorithms.

In the professional scenario, I worked as a research and development engineer for Colsein, one of the largest suppliers of automation spare parts in Colombia. I was part of the team responsible for designing and implementing a 3D laser scanner used in tank gauging and building reconstruction through point clouds. Moreover, I was an assistant professor at the UNAL. At the same time, I worked as a collaborator in the Laboratorio de Sistemas Inteligentes Robotizados. Since 2018 I've been a full-time professor in different universities dictating the subjects of Industrial Robotics, Robotic Platforms, Actuators, Deepening Elective (programming in Matlab) and Fundations of Automation and Robotics. I have also carried out research activities through degree projects and support to seedbeds.

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