Development of Fractional Order Tools for Stability, Estimation and Control of Systems and Applications, $193.096.000, 2019, Marzo de 2019 a Febrero de 2023 (4 años), Fondecyt Regular Nro. 1190959, Co-Investigadora.

Profesora Asociada
Departamento de Electricidad Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.
Investigadora. Advanced Mining Technology Center (AMTC), Universidad de Chile.
DATOS ACADÉMICOS
GRADOS ACADÉMICOS
- Doctora en Ingeniería Eléctrica, 2014, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
- Máster en Informática Industrial y Automatización, 2010, Instituto Superior Politécnico José Antonio Echeverría, Cuba.
TÍTULOS PROFESIONALES
- Ingeniera en Automática, 2003, Universidad Central Martha Abreu de las Villas, Cuba.
- Revalidado en la Universidad de Chile como Ingeniera Civil Eléctrica (Mayo 2019).
CURSOS DE CAPACITACIÓN
- Conocimiento general de tecnología OMROM, 2009, 12 horas, Empresa de Automatización Integral. Cuba.
- Energy & Carbon Management Course, Abril 2013, Universidad de Chile, Chile.
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EXPERIENCIA DOCENTE
ÚLTIMOS 10 AÑOS
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PROYECTOS ADJUDICADOS CON FINANCIAMIENTO INTERNO O EXTERNO
ÚLTIMOS 10 AÑOS
PROYECTOS FINANCIADOS POR CONICYT
Investigación y Desarrollo de un alimentador electrónico para máxima eficiencia en motores de inducción, $199.999.000, Enero de 2018 a Diciembre de 2019 (2 años), Fondef Idea Nro. ID17I10338, Investigadora.
Improving the energy efficiency using fractional controllers: Design, analysis and applications, $61.080.000, 2017, Noviembre de 2017 a Mayo de 2021 (3 años), Fondecyt de Iniciación en Investigación Nro. 11170154, Investigadora Responsable.
Diseño y estudio de controladores adaptivos fraccionarios con aplicación al proceso de molienda de minerales, $83.458.950, 2014, Noviembre de 2014 a Marzo de 2018 (3 años), Fondecyt Postdoctorado Nro. 3150007, Investigadora Responsable.
Fractional Error Models in Adaptive Control and Applications, $120.200.000, 2015, Marzo de 2015 a Febrero de 2019 (4 años), Fondecyt Regular Nro. 1150488, Co-Investigadora.
PROYECTOPROYECTOS CON FONDOS INTERNOS UTEM
Cluster de Computación Acelerada por GPU, $39.980.000, 2018, Marzo de 2019 a Febrero de 2021 (2 años), Concurso Interno de Fomento a la I+D+i o Creación 2018. Línea 3: Proyectos de Fortalecimiento para Equipamiento Científico y Tecnológico, Co-Investigadora.
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PUBLICACIONES
Web of Science
- Travieso-Torres, J.C., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N. “Classical Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) extended for a class of MIMO nonlinear dynamical system with accessible state. Part 1: Nonlinear Time-Invariant plants and known control direction”. Under review at Journal of Robust and Nonlinear Control, 2020.
- Travieso-Torres, J.C., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N. & Hernández-Abarca, F. “Adaptive feedback stabilization of affine nonlinear systems using Taylor Polynomials Theory”. Under review at Journal of the Franklin Institute, 2019.
- Gallegos, J., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Adaptive $PI^{\lambda}D$ passivity-based control of nonlinear systems”. Under review at International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing. 2019.
- Gallegos, J., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Switched systems with changing derivation order: stability and applications”. Under review at Journal of the Franklin Institute. 2019.
- Travieso-Torres, J.C., Vilaragut-Llanes, M., Costa-Montiel, A., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N., Contreras, C. & Álvarez-Gracia, A. “New Adaptive High Starting Torque Scalar Control Scheme for Induction Motors Based on Passivity”. Energies. Vol 13(5), 2020. DOI: https://doi.org/10.3390/en13051276.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., Duarte-Mermoud, & Orchard M.E. “Fractional order controllers for throughput and quality control in a grinding mill circuit”. European Journal of Control 2019. Vol 51, 2020, pp 122-134. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejcon.2019.08.002.
- Gallegos, J., & Aguila-Camacho, N. “Vector Lyapunov-like functions for multi-order fractional systems with multiple time-varying delays”. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation. Vol 83, 2020, pp 1-12. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2019.105089.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., Gallegos, J., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Analysis of fractional order error models in adaptive systems: Mixed order cases”. Fractional Calculus and Applied Analysis. Vol 22 (4), 2019, pp 1113-1132. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/fca-2019-0058.
- Gallegos, J., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Smooth solutions to mixed-order fractional differential systems with application to stability analysis”. Journal of Integral Equations and Applications, Vol 31(1), 59-84, 2019. DOI: https://doi.org/ 10.1216/JIE-2019-31-1-59
- Delgado-Aguilera, E., Duarte-Mermoud, & Aguila-Camacho, N. “Adaptive synchronization of Lorenz systems using a reduced number of control signals and parameters without knowing bounds on system parameters and trajectories”. IMA Journal of Mathematical Control and Information, Vol 35(1), 149-164. 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1093/imamci/dnw042
- Duarte-Mermoud, M.A. & Aguila-Camacho, N. “Fractional adaptive systems in the presence of bounded disturbances and parameter variations”. International Journal of Adaptive control and Signal Processing, Vol 31(9), 1273-1284. 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1002/acs.2763
- Aguila-Camacho, N., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Le Roux, J.D., & Orchard M.E. “Control of a grinding mill circuit using fractional order controllers”. Journal of Process Control, 53, 80-94. 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jprocont.2017.02.012
- Aguila-Camacho, N. & Duarte-Mermoud, M.A. “Boundedness of the solutions for certain classes of fractional differential equations with application to adaptive systems”. ISA Transactions, Vol 60, 82-88. 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2015.11.013
- Aguila-Camacho, N., Duarte-Mermoud, & Delgado-Aguilera, E. “Adaptive synchronization of fractional Lorenz systems using a reduced number of control signals and parameters”. Chaos, Solitons and Fractals, Vol 87, 1-11. 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chaos.2016.02.038
- Gallegos, J. A., Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Castro-Linares, R. “On fractional extensions of Barbalat Lemma”. System & Control Letters, Vol 84, 7-12. 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sysconle.2015.07.004
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Comments on «Fractional order Lyapunov stability theorem and its applications in synchronization of complex dynamical networks». Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol 25, 145-148. 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2015.01.013
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., Aguila-Camacho, N., Gallegos, J., & Castro-Linares, R. “Using general quadratic Lyapunov functions to prove Lyapunov uniform stability for fractional order systems”. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol 22, 650-659. 2015. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.10.008
- Milla, F., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., & Aguila-Camacho, N. “Hierarchical MPC secondary control for electric power systems”. Mathematical Problems in Engineering, Vol 2014, 1-14. 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2014/397567
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Error model 1 in fractional adaptive control: results and main challenges”. IEEE Latin America Transactions, Vol 12, 449 – 454. 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/TLA.2014.6827872
- Aguila-Camacho, N., Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., & Gallegos, J. “Lyapunov functions for fractional order systems”. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation, Vol 19, 2951–2957. 2014. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2014.01.022
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. “Fractional adaptive control for an automatic voltage regulator”. ISA Transactions, Vol 52, 807-815. 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isatra.2013.06.005
Scopus
- Govea-Vargas, A., Castro-Linares, R., Duarte-Mermoud, Aguila-Camacho, N. & Ceballos-Benavides, E. “Fractional Order Sliding Mode Control of a Class of Second Order Perturbed Nonlinear Systems: Application to the Trajectory Tracking of a Quadrotor”. Algorithms, 11 (11), 1 – 18, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/a11110168
- Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Gallegos, J.A., Aguila-Camacho, N. & Castro-Linares, R. “Mixed Order Fractional Observers for Minimal Realizations of Linear Time-Invariant Systems”. Algorithms, 11 (9), 1 – 18, 2018. https://doi.org/10.3390/a11090136
- Aguila-Camacho, N. & Duarte-Mermoud, M.A. Improved adaptive laws for fractional error models 1 with parameter constraints. International Journal of Dynamics and Control, Vol 5(1), 198-207. 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40435-016-0244-z
- Pacheco-Oñate, C., Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N. & Castro-Linares, R. Fractional-order state observers for integer-order linear systems. Journal of Applied Nonlinear Dynamics. Vol 6(2), 251-264. 2017. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5890/JAND.2017.06.010
- Aguila-Camacho, N. & Duarte-Mermoud, M.A. “Improving the control energy in model reference adaptive controllers using fractional adaptive laws”. IEEE/CAA Journal of Automatica Sinica, Vol 3, 332-337. 2016. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/JAS.2016.7508809
- Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N. & Castro-Linares, R. “Position control of the Thomson’s ring system using fractional operators”. International Journal of Circuits, Systems and Signal Processing, Vol 9, 344-352. 2015.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Gallegos, J. “Sufficient condition on the fractional integral for the convergence of a function”. The Scientific World Journal, Vol 2013, 1-4. 2013. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/428428
CAPITULOS DE LIBROS
- Duarte-Mermoud, M.A., Aguila-Camacho, N., Gallegos, J. & Travierso-Torres, J.C. “Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Controllers for First Order Integer Plants”, In: Clempner J., Yu W. (eds) New Perspectives and Applications of Modern Control Theory. Springer, Cham, 121-151, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319- 62464-8_6
- N. Aguila-Camacho, M.A. Duarte-Mermoud, M.G. Mayol-Suárez. “Fractional order error models with parameter constraints”. In: Taher Azad A., Radwan, A.G., Vaidyanathan, S. (eds.) Advances in Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos (ANDC), Mathematical Techniques of Fractional Order Systems. Elsevier, USA, 159-183, 2018. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-813592-1.00006-4.
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ASISTENCIA TÉCNICA, CONSULTORIAS Y ASESORIAS
ÚLTIMOS 5 AÑOS
- Benchmarking process control of Los Pelambres copper concentrating plant. December 2018-June 2019. In collaboration with Sustainable Minerals Institute – International Centre of Excellence SMI ICE – Chile
- Identification of opportunities to increase the energy efficiency at Huasco pellets plant. Aug 2019-Dec 2019. In collaboration with Sustainable Minerals Institute – International Centre of Excellence SMI ICE – Chile.
EXPERIENCIA LABORAL
ÚLTIMOS 10 AÑOS
- Abril 2018-Actualidad. Profesora Asociada, Universidad Tecnológica Metropolitana.
- Noviembre 2014-Marzo 2018. Investigadora Postdoctoral, Universidad de Chile.
- Agosto 2010-Octubre 2014. Estudiante Doctorado, Universidad de Chile.
- Enero 2006-Junio 2010. Especialista en Automática, CEDAI Cienfuegos Cuba.
- Diciembre 2003-Diciembre 2005. Técnico B en Sistemas Automáticos de Control de Procesos Tecnológicos, CEDAI Cienfuegos Cuba.
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PARTICIPACIÓN EN CONGRESOS O EVENTOS CIENTÍFICOS
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Gallegos, J. Switched Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Control for first unknown linear time invariant systems. Accepted at IFAC 2020 World Congress, 12-17 July 2020, Berlin, Germany.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Gallegos, J. Switched Fractional Order Model Reference Adaptive Control for first order plants. IEEE Chilecon 2019, Valparaíso, Chile.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Ponce, C. Improving the control energy use for first order plus time delay plants with fractional proportional integral controllers: a preliminary analysis. IEEE International Conference on Automation/XXIII Congress of the Chilean Association of Automatic Control IEEE ICA-ACCA 2018, Temuco, Chile.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Combined Fractional Adaptive Control, IFAC 2017 World Congress, 9-14 July 2017, IFAC, Toulouse, France.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., Aguila-Camacho, N. & Mayol-Suárez, M.G. On the fractional order high-gain adaptive control, Eighteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, K.S. Narendra (eds), 21-23 June 2017, New Haven, United States.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Analysis of the control energy for first order plus time delay plants with fractional integral controllers, International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Its Applications ICFDA16, 18-20 July 2016, Novi Sad, Serbia.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., Aguila-Camacho, N., & Castro-Linares, R. Fractional Order Control of the Thomson’s Ring Magnetic Levitation System, 6th NAUN International Conference on Circuits, Systems, Control and Signals (CSCS ’15), 10-12 January 2015, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Fractional error models 1 with parameter constraints, International Symposium on Fractional Signals and Systems, 1-2 October 2015, Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., & Aguila-Camacho, N. Some advances on the stability of fractional order adaptive control, Seventeenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems, K.S. Narendra (eds), June 24-26 2015, New Haven, United States.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Fractional error model 1 in adaptive systems, International Conference on Fractional Differentiation and Applications ICFDA14, 23-25 June 2014, Catania, Italy.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., & Aguila-Camacho, N. Some useful results in fractional adaptive control. In Sixteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems. S. Narendra (eds.), 5-7 June 2013, New Haven, United States.
- Aguila-Camacho, N., & Duarte-Mermoud, M. A. Modelo de error 1 en control adaptable fraccionario: Resultados y retos. In XX Congreso de la Asociación Chilena de Control Automático. Santiago, Chile, November 12-16, 2012, pp. 36-41.
- Duarte-Mermoud, M. A., & Aguila-Camacho, N. Fractional order adaptive control of simple systems. In Fifteenth Yale Workshop on Adaptive and Learning Systems. New Haven, United States, 6-8 June, 2011, pp. 57-62.
- Aguila-Camacho, N. & González Santos, A.I. Identificación del secador rotatorio de la fábrica Cementos Cienfuegos S.A, CLCA. In XIV Congreso Latinoamericano de Control Automático. August 2010, Santiago, Chile.
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LINEAS DE INVESTIGACIÓN, ÁREAS DE DESARROLLO O CREACIÓN
1.Diseño y análisis de esquemas de control fraccionarios con aplicaciones a molienda en minería.
Diseño y análisis de estrategias de control fraccionario, tanto adaptivas como no adaptivas, aplicables a un circuito de molienda minero, con el propósito de lograr mantener la estabilidad del sistema en lazo cerrado, mantener la calidad del material procesado de acuerdo a los estándares establecidos aún en presencia de perturbaciones y variaciones paramétricas, maximizar el flujo de material procesado y minimizar el consumo energético.
2.Disminución de la energía de control usando controladores fraccionarios.
Diseñar estrategias de control, tanto adaptivas como no adaptivas, introduciendo los operadores fraccionarios en el diseño de estos controladores, de modo que la estabilidad del sistema controlado se preserve y la energía que se usa para hacer control sea menor que en los casos en que se usan los controladores clásicos, sin deteriorar el desempeño del sistema controlado. Realizar un análisis de los esquemas de control resultante no solo en condiciones ideales sino además en presencia de perturbaciones externas, variaciones paramétricas, ambiente ruidoso, etc.
3.Análisis de la estabilidad y desempeño de sistemas adaptivos fraccionarios.
Estudio de la estabilidad y desempeño de sistemas adaptables fraccionarios, desde el punto de vista analítico, de simulaciones y aplicaciones. El estudio se lleva a cabo bajo condiciones ideales y también en presencia de perturbaciones externas, ruidos y variaciones paramétricas.