Dr. Alejandro Ramirez-Serrano
Positions
Professor
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Founder & Director of the Robotics Robotarium Research lab
Schulich School of Engineering, Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering
Contact information
Background
Educational Background
Ph.D. Mechanical Engineering, University of Toronto (CANADA), 2000
M.Sc. Computer Science / Artificial Intelligence, Monterrey Tech (ITESM) (MEXICO), 1996
M.Sc. Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering, Illinois Institute Technology (USA), 1993
B.Sc. Mechanical Engineering, Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana (MEXICO), 1992
Biography
Dr. A. Ramirez-Serrano is a full time professor at the University of Calgary, where he has served on diverse roles including a former director of the graduate program and current founder and director of the UVS Robotarium Research Laboratory. Dr. Ramirez-Serrano performs research and development activities in the area of unmanned vehicle (ground as well as aerial) systems (UVS).
Dr. Ramirez-Serrano is also the founder and CEO of 4Front Robotics, a Calgary based robotic company that develops highly maneuverable drones and custom field unmanned vehicles for deployment in highly confined spaces such as collapsed building.
His industrial experience include mechatronic engineer at ABB Corporate Research (Sweden), and research engineer at Argonne National Laboratory - West (USA) where he developed smart field robotic devices.
His areas of expertise are in the design of VTOL (Vertical Takeoff and Landing) and transitional aircrafts, control, navigation, and modeling of UVS and robots for deployment in confined spaces. His work also includes the development of humanoid robotics with applications to pediatric care where Dr. Ramirez-Serrano has employed robots to significantly reduce children stress, increase children’s hospital experience, and reduce the time nurses and doctors take to apply a given procedure in some cases by more than 50 per cent.
Research
Areas of Research
Unmanned vehicle systems
Development, and testing of diverse methodologies such as Artificial Intelligent (e.g., autonomous agents) and formal techniques (e.g., adaptive control) applicable to unmanned (aerial, ground, underwater as well as humanoid) vehicles.
Control and navigation
Our research laboratory also studies, develops, and tests diverse control methodologies such as Artificial Intelligent (e.g., autonomous agents) and formal techniques (e.g., adaptive & model predictive control) applicable to ground, aerial, and underwater autonomous vehicles. The laboratory investigates navigation, localization, cooperation, collaboration techniques, and mapping mechanisms applicable to mobile robots. The laboratory performs research activities that involve software, hardware design, human-robot integration, embedded and distributed systems.
Awards
- 2023 SSE Departmental Research Excellence award, Schulich School of Engineering . 2023
- 2023 Create the Future award and recognition, NASA Tech Briefs Magazine & SAE Media Group. 2023
- 2023 GRASS Robot Design Innovative Solution award, Intl. Conf. on Social Robotics. 2023
- 2022 Finalist: Urban Air Mobility Challenge (TechConnect), Vertical Lift Consortium . 2022
- 2020 Falling Walls International Breakthrough of the Year, Falling Walls. 2020
- 2020 Best Paper Award CDSR Conference, Intl. Conf. on Control, Dynamic Systems, and Robotics. 2020
- 2017 (finalist) UAE Drones for Good award competition, UAE. 2017
- 2017 Schulich School of Engineering Achievement Award, Schulich School of Engineering. 2017
- 2015 TechRev Innovators, TechConnect. 2015
- 2014 ASTECH award: Applied Technology & Innovation, Technology Alberta. 2014
- 2014 Drones for Good Community award, UAE - Drones for Good. 2014
- 2014 Price of Excellence World Innovation Competition, Innovation for Health Competition. 2014
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