Miguel Ayala Botto

Miguel Ayala Botto was born in Lisbon in 1965. He graduated from Instituto Superior Técnico, Technical University of Lisbon, in 1989, and received his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in mechanical engineering from the same university in 1992 and 1996, respectively. He has held two visiting research positions at the Delft University of Technology in The Netherlands. He is currently an Associate Professor at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of IST and a Senior Researcher at IDMEC. He is a Member of the IFAC Technical Committee on Discrete Events and Hybrid Systems, Head of the Portuguese Association on Automatic Control (the Portuguese IFAC NMO), and an Associate Editor of the International Journal of Systems Science. In 1999, he received the Heavise Premium from the Council of the IEE (The Institution of Electrical Engineers), UK. His research interests include identification, estimation, and control of hybrid systems.

Biography Updated on 4 September 2007

Personal Home Page

http://www.dem.ist.utl.pt/~migbotto/

Articles in Scholarly Journals [Incomplete List]

  1. Simultaneous state and input estimation of hybrid systems with unknown inputs?
    Automatica, vol. 42, no. 5, pp. 755–762, 2006
  2. Vibration control of a very flexible manipulator system
    Control Engineering Practice, vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 267–277, 2005
  3. Intelligent active noise control applied to a laboratory railway coach model
    Control Engineering Practice, vol. 13, no. 4, pp. 473–484, 2005
  4. Approaches for dynamic modelling of flexible manipulator systems
    IEE Proceedings - Control Theory and Applications, vol. 150, no. 4, p. 401, 2003
  5. Robust control of dynamical systems using neural networks with input-output feedback linearization
    International Journal of Control, vol. 76, no. 18, pp. 1783–1789, 2003
  6. Multibody System Dynamics, vol. 7, no. 1, pp. 79–100, 2002
  7. Robust stability of feedback linearised systems modelled with neural networks: dealing with uncertainty
    Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence, vol. 13, no. 6, pp. 659–670, 2000
  8. Predictive control based on neural network models with I/O feedback linearization
    International Journal of Control, vol. 72, no. 17, pp. 1538–1554, 1999
  9. A comparison of nonlinear predictive control techniques using neural network models
    Journal of Systems Architecture, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 597–616, 1998