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Joaquín Gutiérrez graduated with a BSc in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Instituto Politécnico Nacional in July 1988, majoring in computer science. He received his Ph.D. in Artificial Intelligence in 2004 from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Monterrey, México. He is a Researcher of the Engineering Group at the Centro de Investigaciones Biológicas del Noroeste, S.C., La Paz, BCS, México. His current research interests include the development and experimental validation of robotic systems for biological research applications.
An underwater caterpillar vehicle has been designed and developed to profile along the beach and shoreface. This prototype is employed for zones that are unsuitable to study through bathymetry or manual measurements. The system consists of a metallic structure propelled by two caterpillar tracks. An electronic accelerometer and a GPS receiver measure the profile data. These components provide the seabed slope and the traveled distance along a path. The data are recorded locally and transmitted to a host computer with a radio modem, conforming a wireless duplex link, which is also used for controlling the vehicle and reporting the status. The profiler system has been tested in several zones in the Pacific Coast of the Baja California Peninsula, Mexico and the results were compared with an Electronic Total Station. Based on the obtained results, the underwater caterpillar system evinces to be a reliable profiler option.
Juan Francisco Villa-Medina; Joaquin Gutierrez; Victor Manuel Gomez-Munoz; Miguel Angel Porta-Gandara. Underwater Caterpillar Profiler. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 2021, 70, 1 -1.
AMA StyleJuan Francisco Villa-Medina, Joaquin Gutierrez, Victor Manuel Gomez-Munoz, Miguel Angel Porta-Gandara. Underwater Caterpillar Profiler. IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement. 2021; 70 ():1-1.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJuan Francisco Villa-Medina; Joaquin Gutierrez; Victor Manuel Gomez-Munoz; Miguel Angel Porta-Gandara. 2021. "Underwater Caterpillar Profiler." IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement 70, no. : 1-1.
An open-field cultivation combined-type aquaponic system (OCAS) was developed to effectively utilize saline groundwater and prevent soil salinization while ensuring food production in drylands. To achieve the sustainable food production of the OCAS in power-scarce areas, a stand-alone photovoltaic system (PVS) for the OCAS was designed through a feasibility study of utilizing solar energy to meet its power demand. As a case study, the OCAS was established in La Paz, Baja California Sur, Mexico, with power consumption 22.72 kWh/day and annual average daily global horizontal irradiation (GHI) 6.12 kWh/m2/day, considering the 2017 meteorological data. HOMER software was employed for performance analysis and techno-economic evaluation of an appropriate PVS. Thousands PVS configurations were evaluated in terms of total net present cost (NPC) and levelized cost of energy (COE). The PVS that fulfilled the power demand and had the smallest NPC was proposed, for which the NPC and COE were calculated as $46,993 and $0.438/kWh, respectively. The relationship between its annual power supply and power demand of the OCAS was also analyzed in detail. It was found that the operation hours and the amount of power generation by the proposed PVS were 4156 h and 19,106 kWh in one year. Additionally, it was predicted that the excess power would occur almost every afternoon and reach 43% of the generated power. Therefore, the COE can be further reduced by rationally utilizing the excess power during operation.
Bateer Baiyin; Kotaro Tagawa; Joaquin Gutierrez. Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System for Combined Aquaponics on Drylands. Sustainability 2020, 12, 9556 .
AMA StyleBateer Baiyin, Kotaro Tagawa, Joaquin Gutierrez. Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System for Combined Aquaponics on Drylands. Sustainability. 2020; 12 (22):9556.
Chicago/Turabian StyleBateer Baiyin; Kotaro Tagawa; Joaquin Gutierrez. 2020. "Techno-Economic Feasibility Analysis of a Stand-Alone Photovoltaic System for Combined Aquaponics on Drylands." Sustainability 12, no. 22: 9556.
SUMMARY A versatile architecture is presented to implement autonomous vehicles. The focus idea consists of a set of standalone modules, called wireless robotic components wireless robotic components (WRCs). Each component performs a particular function by means of a radio modem interface, a processing unit, and a sensor/actuator. The components interact through a coordinator that redirects asynchronous requests to the appropriate WRCs, configuring a built-in network. The WRC architecture has been tested in marine and terrestrial platforms to perform tasks of waypoint and wall following. Results show that the tested system complies with adaptability and portability that allow conforming a variety of autonomous vehicles.
Juan Francisco Villa-Medina; Miguel Ángel Porta-Gándara; Joaquín Gutiérrez. Wireless Robotic Components for Autonomous Vehicles. Robotica 2020, 39, 1202 -1215.
AMA StyleJuan Francisco Villa-Medina, Miguel Ángel Porta-Gándara, Joaquín Gutiérrez. Wireless Robotic Components for Autonomous Vehicles. Robotica. 2020; 39 (7):1202-1215.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJuan Francisco Villa-Medina; Miguel Ángel Porta-Gándara; Joaquín Gutiérrez. 2020. "Wireless Robotic Components for Autonomous Vehicles." Robotica 39, no. 7: 1202-1215.
This paper describes the implementation of an event-based Internet robotic system to monitor water quality and feed crayfish in a shadehouse, guided by a model-based development methodology. The robotic system consists of a mobile robot to transport a water multiparameter sonde and six containers for distributing food onto the pond surface, a dispatcher unit to dispense a precise amount of food from the containers, and a computer running as a server to define, over the Internet, the feeding and monitoring schedule through a client application. The development methodology starts by making an abstract functionality model to accomplish the tasks. Next, the functionality model is described using the unified modeling language (UML) that specifies the structure and behavior of the system components. Later, the methodology translates the UML dynamic description depicted by statechart diagrams into Petri net (PN) formalism. PN models are merged and analyzed based on their behavioral properties to validate the design as a stable event-based Internet system. Following the UML and PN designs, the robotic system is implemented. Local and remote experiments were performed to show the usefulness of the robot operation via the Internet for intensive cultivation of the freshwater redclaw crayfish (Cherax quadricarinatus).
Fernando Daniel Von Borstel Luna; Edgar De La Rosa Aguilar; Jaime Suarez Naranjo; Joaquin Gutierrez Jaguey. Robotic System for Automation of Water Quality Monitoring and Feeding in Aquaculture Shadehouse. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 2016, 47, 1575 -1589.
AMA StyleFernando Daniel Von Borstel Luna, Edgar De La Rosa Aguilar, Jaime Suarez Naranjo, Joaquin Gutierrez Jaguey. Robotic System for Automation of Water Quality Monitoring and Feeding in Aquaculture Shadehouse. IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems. 2016; 47 (7):1575-1589.
Chicago/Turabian StyleFernando Daniel Von Borstel Luna; Edgar De La Rosa Aguilar; Jaime Suarez Naranjo; Joaquin Gutierrez Jaguey. 2016. "Robotic System for Automation of Water Quality Monitoring and Feeding in Aquaculture Shadehouse." IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics: Systems 47, no. 7: 1575-1589.
This paper describes an analytical method for modeling the positioning error of a robotic vehicle and examines how the metric of this error can be used to compare the geometries of various steering configuration. Positioning error can be caused by many factors stemming from the robot's hardware and software configurations and the interaction between the robot and its environment. A slip motion model that captures the effects of key factors that contribute to positioning error is presented. Robot kinematic models with and without slippage are reformulated and used to perform an in-depth assessment and characterization of positioning error. The method is applied to three characteristic advance and steering configurations: Ackermann, articulated, and explicitly steered. This analysis serves as a quantitative evaluation of the properties of the steering geometries for path tracking under identical slippage conditions. The method can also be used as a tool for comparing robot configurations to make trade-off decisions early in the design process, as it allows for derivation of predicted performance values of alternative steering geometries.
Joaquín Gutiérrez; Dimitrios Apostolopoulos; José Luis Gordillo. Numerical comparison of steering geometries for robotic vehicles by modeling positioning error. Autonomous Robots 2007, 23, 147 -159.
AMA StyleJoaquín Gutiérrez, Dimitrios Apostolopoulos, José Luis Gordillo. Numerical comparison of steering geometries for robotic vehicles by modeling positioning error. Autonomous Robots. 2007; 23 (2):147-159.
Chicago/Turabian StyleJoaquín Gutiérrez; Dimitrios Apostolopoulos; José Luis Gordillo. 2007. "Numerical comparison of steering geometries for robotic vehicles by modeling positioning error." Autonomous Robots 23, no. 2: 147-159.