Alejandro Astudillo

Alejandro Astudillo

Postdoctoral Researcher

MECO Research Team, KU Leuven

Biography

Alejandro Astudillo received his B.Sc. degree in Electronics Engineering and his M.Sc. degree in Automation Engineering from Universidad del Valle, Colombia, in 2015 and 2017, respectively. He joined the MECO Research Team at KU Leuven as a PhD researcher in 2018. His research interests focus on strategies for reducing the engineering effort and the computational burden of real time motion planning and model predictive control of robotic and complex mechatronic systems.

Interests
  • Robotics
  • Optimization
  • Model Predictive Control
  • Motion Planning
Education
  • Ph.D. in Engineering Science - Mechanical Engineering, 2023

    KU Leuven, Belgium

  • M.Sc. in Engineering - Automation, 2018

    Universidad del Valle, Colombia

  • B.Sc. in Electronics Engineering, 2015

    Universidad del Valle, Colombia

Recent Publications

(2024). Towards the Analytical Computation of Time-Optimal Trajectories of Unicycle Robots Within Corridor Environments. IEEE ECC 2024.

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(2024). Time-Optimal Model Predictive Control Using Feasibility Governors. IEEE ECC 2024.

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(2024). An Almost Feasible Sequential Linear Programming Algorithm. IEEE ECC 2024.

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Awards, Grants & Distinctions

ASME DSCD Raising Star 2022 Award

  • Year: 2022
  • Granting Agency: American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) - Dynamic Systems and Control Division

Best Student Paper Bronze Award

  • Year: 2021
  • Granting Agency: Modeling, Estimation and Control Conference (MECC) 2021

Summer School Scholarship for the Robotics for Future Industrial Applications Programme

  • Year: 2017
  • Granting Agency: RWTH Aachen University - International Academy

Travel Grant to Attend the Colombian Conference on Automatic Control (CCAC) 2017

  • Year: 2017
  • Granting Agency: Universidad del Valle

Early Career Research Grant for Young Researchers

  • Year: 2016
  • Granting Agency: Colombian Ministry of Science & Universidad del Valle

Recent & Upcoming Talks

Towards real-time MPC of robotic systems with full dynamic models: results, challenges, and opportunities