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Francisco R. Rubio

Universidad de Sevilla
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An integral predictive/nonlinear H∞ control structure for a quadrotor helicopter

GV Raffo, MG Ortega, FR Rubio - Automatica, 2010 - Elsevier
This paper presents an integral predictive and nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the
path following problem for a quadrotor helicopter. The dynamic motion equations are …

[BOOK][B] Advanced control of solar plants

EF Camacho, M Berenguel, FR Rubio - 1997 - Springer
The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer
in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology impacts all areas of the …

A survey on control schemes for distributed solar collector fields. Part I: Modeling and basic control approaches

EF Camacho, FR Rubio, M Berenguel, L Valenzuela - Solar Energy, 2007 - Elsevier
This article presents a survey of the different automatic control techniques that have been
applied to control the outlet temperature of solar plants with distributed collectors during the …

Application of new control strategy for sun tracking

FR Rubio, MG Ortega, F Gordillo… - Energy conversion and …, 2007 - Elsevier
The application of high concentration solar cells technology allows a significant increase in
the amount of energy collected by solar arrays per unit area. However, to make it possible, …

A survey on control schemes for distributed solar collector fields. Part II: Advanced control approaches

EF Camacho, FR Rubio, M Berenguel, L Valenzuela - Solar Energy, 2007 - Elsevier
This article presents a survey of the different advanced automatic control techniques that
have been applied to control the outlet temperature of solar plants with distributed collectors …

Backstepping/nonlinear H control for path tracking of a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle

GV Raffo, MG Ortega, FR Rubio - 2008 American Control …, 2008 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a nonlinear robust control strategy to solve the path tracking problem
for a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle. The helicopter motion equations is obtained by the …

Formation control of autonomous underwater vehicles subject to communication delays

…, L Orihuela, I Jurado, FR Rubio - IEEE Transactions on …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the formation control problem for fleets of autonomous underwater
vehicles (AUVs). The solution is based on the virtual leader approach, with the main goal of …

An artificial vision-based control system for automatic heliostat positioning offset correction in a central receiver solar power plant

M Berenguel, FR Rubio, A Valverde, PJ Lara… - Solar energy, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper presents the development of a simplified and automatic heliostat positioning offset
correction control system using artificial vision techniques and common CCD devices. The …

Self-tuning control of a solar power plant with a distributed collector field

EF Camacho, FR Rubio… - IEEE Control Systems …, 1992 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A self-tuning proportional-integral controller for a solar distributed collector field that is based
on a pole-assignment approach employing serial compensation to cope with measurable …

Systematic design of weighting matrices for the H∞ mixed sensitivity problem

MG Ortega, FR Rubio - Journal of Process Control, 2004 - Elsevier
A systematic design of weighting matrices for the H ∞ mixed sensitivity problem is presented
in this paper. Once a nominal model has been chosen, an initial design of the weighting …