Curriculum Vitae
Name: Gerard Olivar Tost
Date: 9th May 2006
Surnames: Olivar Tost
Name: Gerard
Spanish
Passport: Date of birth : 22/10/1963
Sex: V
39673831G
Nationality: Spanish
Colombian Foreign Identification:
323888
Actual Professional Situation
Institution: Universidad National de Colombia, sede Manizales
Faculty: Faculty of Engineering and Arquitecture
Department: Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and Computer
Science
Postal Address: Campus La Nubia, Manizales, Colombia (South-America)
Telephone: +57 6 8743048 ext 723
Fax: +57 6 8743032
Email: golivart@unal.edu.co
Specialization (UNESCO Codes): 120404
Professional
category:
Associate Start Date: 1st September 2005
professor
Administrative situation
Staff member
Dedication
Full time member
Partial time member
Exclusive dedication
Research interests
Non-linear Control, Piecewise-linear dynamical systems, Bifurcations, Chaos, DC-DC
Converters, Modelling, Simulation
Academic Background
Degree
Date
Degree in Mathematics
Centre
Faculty of mathematics, University of
01/09/1987
Barcelone
Ph D
Date
Ph D. in Mathematics
Centre
Faculty of Mathematics,
University of Catalonia
Technical
01/07/1997
Previous activities (scientific-professional)
Activity
Lecturer
Assistant Professor
Associate Professor
Institution
Dates
Department of Applied mathematics and
Telematics, Technical University of 02/11/1987
Catalonia
Department of Applied mathematics and
Telematics, Technical University of 16/03/1990
Catalonia
Department of Applied Mathematics 4,
06/02/1999
Technical University of Catalonia
Participation in R+D Projects with Public Funding
(national and international)
Project title: Advanced Systems of Nonlinear Control
Funding Institution: CICYT
Participant entities: C.S.I.C., U.P.C.
Dates, from: 1/01/1994
to: 31/12/1996
Main researcher: Jordi Riera Colomer
Number of researchers in the project: 9
TOTAL: 52.635 EUROS
Project title: Non-linear control of an energetic bus
Funding Institution: CICYT
Participant entities: C.S.I.C., U.P.C., U.R.V.
Dates, from: 1/01/1997
to: 31/12/1999
Main researcher: Enric Fossas Colet
Number of researchers in the project: 15
TOTAL: 110.391 EUROS
Project title: Non-holonomic systems and Control
Funding Institution: CICYT
Participant entities: U.P.C.
Dates, from: 1/01/2000
to: 31/12/2002
Main researcher: Miguel Carlos Muñoz Lecanda
Number of researchers in the project: 8
TOTAL:15.028 EUROS
Project title: New Generation of Ocean Bottom Seismometers
Funding Institution: MCYT
Participant entities: U.P.C., C.S.I.C.
Dates, from: 1/01/2001
to: 31/12/2003
Main researcher: Antonio Mànuel Lázaro
Number of researchers in the project: 9
TOTAL: 94.930 EUROS
Project title: Digital Controllers of variable structure for reversible converters back-toback
Funding Institution: MCYT
Participant entities: U.P.C., C.S.I.C, U.R.V.
Dates, from: 1/01/2001
to: 31/12/2003
Main researcher: Jordi Riera i Colomer
Number of researchers in the project: 121
TOTAL: 67.326 EUROS
Project title: Modelling, Simulation and Control of Non-smooth Dynamical Systems
Funding Institution: European Comission (5th Framework Program)
Participant entities: U.P.C., INRIA, LMGC-UM2, UJM, DIS, CRB,UNIV BRIS, KTH,
TU/e, ETHZ,TUD, UNITILB, TWEN
Dates, from: 1/09/2002
to: 31/08/2006
Main researcher: Gerard Olivar Tost
Number of researchers in the project: 6 (Spanish team)
TOTAL: 2.000.000 EUROS (Parte española: 229.476 EUROS)
Project title: Development of a new oceanic autonomous observation platform
Funding Institution: MCYT
Participant entities: UTM-SARTI(UPC-CSIC), SRV y DMI (U.I.B), Imedea (UIBCSIC)
Dates, from: 15/12/2003 to: 14/12/2006
Main researcher: Gerard Olivar Tost
Number of researchers in the project: 18
TOTAL: 107.600 EUROS
Publications and Scientific-Technical Documents
(KEY: L = Book, CL = Book chapter, A = paper, R = “review”, E = editor)
Authors: G. Olivar, R. Ramírez, N. Sadovskaia
Title: Polynomial Vector Field on the Plane with a Given Liapunov Function
Journal/Book: Vestnik RUDN Serie Matemática
Key: AVolume:
1
Pages, initial: 108 final: 124
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 1/02/1995
Authors: E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Study of Chaos in the Buck Converter
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I: Fundamental
Theory and Applications
Key: AVolume:
43
Pages, initial: 13
final: 25
Date:
01/1996
Editor:
Publication:
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas
Title: Multiple Pulsing in the Buck Converter
Journal/Book: Zeitschrift für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik ZAMM
Key: AVolume:
75
Pages, initial: 367
final: 368
Date:
12/1996
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits in Variable Structure Systems. Application to DcDc Power Converters
Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Key: AVolume:
6
Pages, initial: 2635
final: 2643
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 12/1996
Authors:M. Di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, F. Vasca
Title: Secondary Bifurcations and High Periodic Orbits in Voltage Controlled Buck
Converter
Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Key: AVolume:
7
Pages, initial: 2755
final: 2771
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 12/1997
Authors:L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, E. Toribio, G. Olivar, L. Martínez
Title: Characteristic Curves for Analysing Limit Cycle Behaviour in Switching
Converters
Journal/Book: Electronics Letters
Key: AVolume:
35
Pages, initial: 687
04/1999
Editor:
Publication:
final: 689
Date:
Authors:A. El Aroudi, L. Benadero, E. Toribio, G. Olivar
Title: Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos from Torus Breakdown in a PWM VoltageControlled Dc-Dc Boost Converter
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, Part I: Fundamental
Theory and Applications
Key: AVolume:
46
Pages, initial: 1374
final: 1382 Date: 11/1999
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Buck Converter by Time-Delayed
Feedback
Journal/Book: International Journal of Circuit Theory and Applications
Key: AVolume:
27
Pages, initial: 617
final: 631
11/1999
Editor:
Publication:
Date:
Authors:G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: Bifurcations and Chaos in Converters: Discontinuous Vector Fields and
Singular Poincaré Maps
Journal/Book: Nonlinearity
Key: AVolume:
13
Pages, initial: 1095
Editor:
Publication:
final: 1121
Date: 07/2000
Authors:E. Toribio, A. Elaroudi, G. Olivar, L. Benadero
Title: Numerical and Experimental Study of the Region of Period-One Operation of a
PWM Boost Converter
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Power Electronics
Key: AVolume:
15
Pages, initial: 1163
final: 1171
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 11/2000
Authors:F. Vasca, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: A Closer Look at Sampled-Data Models for Power Converters
Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits
Key: CL Volume:
Pages, initial: 38
final: 52
Editor: IEEE Press
Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Date: 2001
Authors:E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Coexisting Attractors, Basins of Attraction and Crises
Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits
Key: CL Volume:
Pages, initial: 101
final: 110
Editor: IEEE Press
Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Date: 2001
Authors:M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, F. Vasca
Title: Routes to Chaos in the Voltage-Controlled Buck Converter Without Latch
Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits
Key: CL Volume:
Pages, initial: 208
final: 228
Editor: IEEE Press
Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Date: 2001
Authors:M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, C. Batlle
Title: Control of Chaos
Journal/Book: Nonlinear Phenomena in Power Electronic Circuits
Key: CL Volume:
Pages, initial: 393
final: 406
Editor: IEEE Press
Publication: Piscataway, NJ, USA
Date: 2001
Authors:L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, E. Toribio, E. Gómez
Title: Two-Dimensional Bifurcation Diagrams. Background Pattern of Fundamental
DC-DC Converters with PWM Control
Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Key: AVolume:
13
Pages, initial: 427
final: 451
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 02/2003
Authors: A. Manuel, S. Shariat, J. del Río, S. Ventosa, M. Papis, H. Torruella, G.
Olivar, A. Bermúdez, R. González, J.J. Dañobeitia, T. Owen
Title: A robust and compact recorder system for ocean bottom seismometers
Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint
Key: AVolume: 1
Pages, initial: 7
Editor:
Publication:
final: 10
Date: 10/ 2003
Authors: A. Alvarez, G. Olivar
Title: CORMORAN, development of a new mobile and autonomous ocean
observation platform
Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint
Key: AVolume: 2
Pages, initial: 4
Editor:
Publication:
final: 4
Date: 04/ 2004
final: 7
Date: 04/ 2004
final: 6
Date: 04/ 2005
Authors: G. Olivar
Title: SICONOS
Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint
Key: AVolume: 2
Pages, initial: 6
Editor:
Publication:
Authors: F. Angulo, G. Olivar
Title: Nonsmooth Bifurcations in Electronic Circuits
Journal/Book: Instrumentation Viewpoint
Key: AVolume: 3
Pages, initial: 4
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:A. El Aroudi, M. Debbat, G. Olivar, L. Benadero, E. Toribio, R. Giralt
Title: Bifurcations in DC-DC Switching Converters: Review of Methods and
Applications
Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Key: AVolume:
15
Pages, initial: 1549 final: 1578
Editor:
Publication:
Date: 05/2005
Authors:F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Feedback Control of Limit Cycles: A Switching Control Strategy Based on
Nonsmooth Bifurcation Theory
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part I
Key: AVolume: 52
Pages, initial: 366
02/2005
Editor:
Publication:
final: 378
Date:
Authors:F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Transition From Periodicity to Chaos in a PWM-Controlled Buck Converter with
ZAD Strategy
Journal/Book: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos
Key: AVolume:
15
Pages, initial:
3245
final:
Date: 10/2005
Editor:
Publication:
3264
Authors:F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, S.J. Hogan, P. Kowalczyk, G. Olivar
Title: On Two-Parameter Nonsmooth Bifurcations in Power Converters
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part II (submitted)
Key: AVolume:
Pages, initial:
final:
Date:
submitted
03/2004
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Técnica ZAD Aplicada a un Convertidor Tipo Buck
Journal/Book: Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática RIAI
Key: AVolume:
2
Pages, initial: 25
final: 35
Date: 10/2005
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:M. di Bernardo, C. Budd, A. Champneys, P. Kowalczyk, A. Nordmark, G.
Olivar, P. Piroiinen,
Title: A Review of Codimension-One Nonsmooth Bifurcations
Journal/Book: SIAM Review (submitted)
Key: AVolume:
Pages, initial:
10/2004
Editor:
Publication:
final:
Date:submitted
Authors:T. Griffin, S.J. Hogan, G. Olivar
Title: Dynamics of Stochastic Nonsmooth Systems
Journal/Book: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems, part II (submitted)
Key: AVolume:
Pages, initial:
final:
Date:submitted
10/2004
Editor:
Publication:
Authors:F. Angulo, C. Ocampo, G. Olivar, R. Ramos
Title: Nonlinear and Nonsmooth Dynamics in a DC-DC Buck Converter: Two
Experimental Set-ups
Journal/Book: Nonlinear Dynamics (accepted)
Key: AVolume:
Pages, initial:
12/ 2004
Editor:
Publication:
final:
Date:submitted
Authors:F. Angulo,M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: Switching and Sliding Control of Limit Cycles in Planar Systems
Journal/Book: Advances in Variable Structure and Sliding Mode Control
Series: Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences , Vol. 334
Key: CL Volume:
Pages, initial:
final: Date: 2006
Editor: Springer Verlag
Publication:
1
Contributions to Congresses
Authors: G. Olivar
Title: Bifurcaciones y caos en un convertidor Buck
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI'94
Publication:Memoria técnica del SAAEI'94
City: Tarragona (Spain)
Date: 12/09/1994
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas
Title: Multiple Pulsing in the Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: The Third International Congress On Industrial and Applied Mathematics
ICIAM’95
Publication:Book of Abstracts of ICIAM’95
City: Hamburgo (Germany)
Date: 03/07/1995
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas
Title: Órbitas periódicas en sistemas de control
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: XIV CEDYA / IV Congreso de Matemática Aplicada
Publication:Resúmenes de las Ponencias XIV CEDYA
City: Vic (Spain)
Date: 18/09/1995
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Stabilization of Periodic Orbits in Variable Structure Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 4th International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems
NDES’96
Publication:Proceedings of NDES’96
City: Sevilla (Spain)
Date: 27/06/1996
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 1st International Congress on Energy, Power and Motion Control EPMC’97
Publication:Proceedings of EPMC’97
City: Tel Aviv (Israel)
Date: 05/05/1997
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of the Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 1st International Conference on Control of Oscillations and Chaos COC’97
Publication:Proceedings of COC’97
City: San Petersburg (Russia)
Date: 27/08/1997
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Time-Delay Stabilization of Periodic Orbits of the Current-Mode Controlled
Boost Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 1st IFAC International Workshop on Linear Time Delay Systems
Publication:Proceedings of IFAC’98
City: Grenoble (France)
Date: 06/07/1998
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: Modelling a Buck Converter by a One-Dimensional Complex Map
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 6th International Specialists Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of
Electronic Systems NDES’98
Publication:Proceedings of NDES’98
City: Budapest (Hungary)
Date: 16/07/1998
Authors: A. El Aroudi, E. Toribio, G. Olivar, L. Benadero
Title: Chaos via Torus Breakdown in the Boost Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’98
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’98
City: Pamplona (Spain)
Date: 16/09/1998
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: Non-Smooth Continuation of Periodic Orbits in a Chaotic Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Symposium of Circuits and Systems ISCAS’99
Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS’99
City: Orlando (U.S.A.)
Date: 30/05/1999
Authors: G. Olivar
Title: Modelling Switching Networks by a One-Dimensional Complex Map
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: The Fourth International Congress On Industrial and Applied Mathematics
ICIAM’99
Publication:Book of Abstracts of ICIAM’99
City: Edimburg (U.K.)
Date: 05/07/1999
Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, L. Benadero, E. Toribio
Title: Modelling PWM Boost and Buck-Boost Converters by 2-Dimensional
Approximated Nonlinear Mapping
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems NDES’99
Publication:Proceedings of NDES’99
City: Ronne Bornholm (Denmark)
Date: 15/07/1999
Authors: J. Franch, E. Massat, G. Olivar
Title: Diagramas de bifurcaciones 2-dimensionales de un convertidor DC-DC Buck
controlado por PWM
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99
City: Madrid (Spain)
Date: 22/09/1999
Authors: A. El Aroudi, D. Gastón, E. Toribio, L. Benadero, G. Olivar
Title: Stabilization of Power Electronic Converters by Time Delay Feedback Control
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99
City: Madrid (Spain)
Date: 22/09/1999
Authors: L. Benadero, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, L. Martínez
Title: Análisis de convertidores DC-DC conmutados con la condición de campos en
oposición
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’99
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI’99
City: Madrid (Spain)
Date: 22/09/1999
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: One More Step Towards Proving Chaos in Converters
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Workshop on Nonlinear Dynamics of Electronic Systems
NDES’2000
Publication:Proceedings of NDES’2000
City: Catania (Italy)
Date: 18/05/2000
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: From Floquet Exponents to Control of Chaos in Piecewise Linear Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk in a Special Session
Congress: IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems ISCAS’2000
Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS’2000
City: Geneve (Switzerland)
Date: 28/05/2000
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: Chaotic Behavior in Converters. Transformations in the State Space
Sort of Participation: Talk in Minisimposium
Congress: No Lineal 2000
Publication: Proceedings de No Lineal 2000
City: Almagro (Spain)
Date: 31/05/2000
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, A. Ras
Title: A Smooth Version of the Dc-Dc Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Poster
Congress: 3rd European Congress of Mathematics
Publication:Book of Abstracts del 3ECM
City: Barcelona (Spain)
Date: 10/07/2000
Authors: C. Batlle, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, A. Ras
Title: Lie-Group Theoretic Control of a Buck-Like Converter
Sort of Participation: Poster
Congress: 3rd European Congress of Mathematics
Publication:Book of Absatracts del 3ECM
City: Barcelona (Spain)
Date: 10/07/2000
Authors: A. Manuel, E. Trullols, G. Olivar, M. Moreno
Title: Measurement of the Parameters of the Mains of the Oceanographic Vessel
Hesperides
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Oceans 2000 MTS/IEEE
Publication:Proceedings of Oceans 2000 MTS/IEEE
City: Providence (Rhode Island, USA)
Date: 11/09/2000
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: OGY Method Applied to a Buck DC-DC Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2000
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2000
City: Terrassa (Spain)
Date: 13/09/2000
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas, C. Batlle
Title: A Second-Order Approximated Map for the Voltage-Controlled Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2000
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2000
City: Terrassa (Spain)
Date: 13/09/2000
Authors: R. Ramos, A. Manuel, G. Olivar, E. Trullols, J. Del Río
Title: Application by Means of FPGA of an Adaptive Canceller 50Hz Interference in
Electrocardiography
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2001
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2001
City: Budapest (Hungary)
Date: 21/05/2001
Authors: A. Manuel, R. Ramos, G. Olivar, M. Moreno, P. Rodríguez
Title: Automatic Measurement in the Oceanographic Vessel Hesperides
Sort of Participation: Poster
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2001
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC’ 2001
City: Budapest (Hungary)
Authors: G. Olivar
Date: 21/05/2001
Title: Analysis and Control of Piecewise-Smooth Systems
Sort of Participation: Poster invitado
Congress: Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: where should we go from here?
Publication:Proceedings of the Workshop
City: Bristol (UK)
Date: 08/06/2001
Authors: G. Olivar, E. Fossas
Title: Bifurcations and Continuation in a Smooth Model of a Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: European Conference on Circuit Theory and Design ECCTD 2001
Publication:Proceedings of ECCTD 2001
City: Espoo (Finland)
Date: 28/08/2001
Authors: J.J. Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, J. Prades, P. Rodríguez, J. Díaz, T. Owen, A.
Manuel, X. Roset, G. Olivar, J. Del Río, E. Trullols
Title: Nueva Generación de Sensores Submarinos Autónomos Ligeros
(Sismómetros)
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’2001
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2001
City: Matanzas (Cuba)
Date: 17/09/2001
Authors: A. Manuel, J. Del Río, G. Olivar, P. Rodríguez, J. Sorribas
Title: Distributed Acquisition System for Oceanographic Data Processing
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2002
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002
City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA)
Date: 21/05/2002
Authors: J.J. Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, J. Díaz, T. Owen, A. Manuel, X. Roset, G.
Olivar, J. Del Río, H. Torruella
Title: New Generation of Ocean Bottom Seismometers
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2002
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002
City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA)
Date: 21/05/2002
Authors: G. Olivar, R. Quiles, A. Manuel, J. Del Río
Title: Two-Dimensional Bifurcation Diagrams with Data Acquisition
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2002
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2002
City: Anchorage (Alaska, USA)
Date: 21/05/2002
Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar
Title: Quasi-Periodic Phenomena and Phase-Locked Orbits in DC-DC Boost
Switching Regulators
Sort of Participation: Talk en sesión invitada
Congress: 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
Publication:Proceedings of 15th IFAC World Congress on Automatic Control
City: Barcelona (Spain)
Date: 21/07/2002
Authors: A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, M. Debbat, J. Calvente, R. Giral, L.M. Salamero.
Title: Stability Analysis and Bifurcations in Hysteritic Controlled DC-DC Switching
Regulators
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPEPEMC 2002, (Croatia)
Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002
City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Date: 09/09/2002
Authors: L. Benadero, V. Moreno, E. Toribio, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar, E. Gómez.
Title: Multistability and Global Bifurcations of DC-DC Converters with High Switching
Modulating Frequency
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPEPEMC 2002, (Croatia)
Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002
City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Date: 09/09/2002
Authors: Gerard Olivar, Carles Batlle, Alícia Miralles, Imma Massana, Yolanda
Zúñiga
Title: Bifurcation Phenomena in a Sliding-Mode Controlled Boost Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 10th International Power Electronics and Motion Control Conference EPEPEMC 2002, (Croatia)
Publication:Proceedings of EPE-PEMC 2002
City: Cavtat & Dubrovnik (Croatia)
Date: 09/09/2002
Authors: J. Del Río, A. Manuel, G. Olivar, L. Rolín, R. Nogales
Title: Bus de campo abierto para la medición de múltiples parámetros ambientales
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI’ 2002
Publication:Proceedings of SAAEI 2002
City: Alcalá de Henares (Spain)
Date: 18/09/2002
Authors: A. Manuel, J. del Río, S. Shariat, H. Torruella, M. Papis, G. Olivar, J.
Dañobeitia, A. Bermúdez, T. Owen
Title: Small-size Ocean Bottom Seismometers
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 28th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society
IECON/IEEE 2002
Publication:Proceedings of IECON 2002
City: Sevilla (Spain)
Date: 05/11/2002
Authors: G. Olivar, O. Gonzalez
Title: Nonlinear Dynamics in Techtonics: A two-blocks Stick-Slip Model
Sort of Participation: Poster
Congress: XV Congress National de Ingeniería Mecánica
Publication:Proceedings of XVCNIM 2002
City: Cádiz (Spain)
Date: 10/12/2002
Authors: L. Benadero, V. Moreno, E. Toribio, E. Gomez, A. El Aroudi, G. Olivar
Title: Birth and death patterns of Large Limit Cycles
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Conference on Industrial Technlogy ICIT
Publication:Proceedings ICIT 2003
City: Maribor (Slovenia)
Date: 10-12/12/2003
Authors: G. Olivar, M. di Bernardo, F. Angulo
Title: Discontinuous bifurcations in DC-DC Converters
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Conference on Industrial Technlogy ICIT
Publication:Proceedings ICIT 2003
City: Maribor (Slovenia)
Date: 10-12/12/2003
Authors: E.Trullols, J.Sorribas, J.del Rio, R.Morillas, A.Mànuel, G. Olivar, C.Samitier
Title: LabVir: A Virtual Distributed Measurement System
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2003
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2003
City: Vail, Colorado USA
Date: 20-22/05/2003
Authors: A.Mànuel, J.Del Rio, G.Olivar, H.Torruella, J.J.Dañobeitia, T.Bermudez, T.
Owen
Title: Design of a Geophone for Marine Seismology
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement Technology Conference IMTC
2003
Publication:Proceedings of IMTC 2003
City: Vail, Colorado USA
Date: 20-22/05/2003
Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar
Title: Bifurcations in a Two-Blocks Stick-Slip Model
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Conference on Scientific Computation and Differential
Equations (SciCADE)
Publication:Proceedings of SciCADE
City: Trondheim, Norway
Date: 30/06-04/07/2003
Authors: G. Olivar, I. Merillas
Title: Non-Smooth Continuation of Periodic Orbits in a Chaotic Buck Converter
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Workshop on Continuation and Analysis of Bifurcations 2004
Publication:Proceedings of the workshop
City: Seville, Spain
Date: 19-21/05/2004
Authors: F. Angulo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar, M. di Bernardo
Title: Controlling Limit Cycles in Planar Dynamical Systems: A Nonsmooth Bifurcation
Approach
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Sysmposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS
City: Vancouver, Canada
Date: 23-26/05/2004
Authors: G. Olivar, F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo
Title: Hopf-like Transitions in Nonsmooth Dynamical Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: International Sysmposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)
Publication:Proceedings of ISCAS
City: Vancouver, Canada
Date: 23-26/05/2004
Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar
Title: Bifurcaciones no suaves en sistemas Stick-Slip
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: NoLineal 2004
Publication:Proceedings of NoLineal 2004
City: Toledo, Spain
Date: 01-04/06/2004
Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: On Some Non-smooth Bifurcations Appearing in Variable Structure Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 8th International Workshop on Variable Structure Systems VSS 2004
Publication:Proceedings of the VSS 2004
City: Vilanova i la Geltrú, Spain
Date: 06-08/09/2004
Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, E. Fossas, G. Olivar
Title: Feedback Control of Limit Cycles: a New Strategy Based on Non-smooth
Bifurcation Theory
Sort of Participation: Poster
Congress: Piecewise Smooth Dynamical Systems: Analysis, Numerics and
Applications
Publication:Proceedings of BCANM
City: Bristol, U.K.
Date: 13-16/09/2004
Authors: I. Merillas, G. Olivar
Title: Some non-smooth bifurcations in a stick-slip model
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: Workshop on Bifurcations and Hybrid Dynamical Systems
Publication:Proceedings of the Workshop on Bifurcations and Hybrid Dynamical
Systems
City: Milan, Italy
Date: 21-22/10/2004
Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: Switching Control of Limit Cycles in Planar Systems: A Nonlinear Dynamics
Approach
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 43rd IEEE Conference on Decisión and Control CDC
Publication:Proceedings of the 43rd CDC
City: Bahamas
Date: 14-17/12/2004
Authors: F. Angulo, G. Olivar
Title: Smooth and Non-smooth Bifurcations in a DC-DC Buck Converter with ZAD
strategy
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005
Publication: Proceedings of ENOC
City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands
Date: 07-12/08/2005
Authors: M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar, F. Angulo
Title: Bifurcation-based switching control of smooth systems: a novel design
approach
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005
Publication: Proceedings of ENOC
City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands
Date: 07-12/08/2005
Authors: M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: Structural Stability of Boundary Equilibria in Piecewise-Smooth Dynamical
Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005
Publication:Proceedings of ENOC
City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands
Date: 07-12/08/2005
Authors: T. Griffin, J. Hogan, G. Olivar, V. Moreno
Title: Dynamics of Stochastic Non-Smooth Systems
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 5th EUROMECH Nonlinear Dynamics Conference ENOC-2005
Publication:Proceedings of ENOC
City: Eindhoven, The Nederlands
Date: 07-12/08/2005
Authors: F. Angulo, E. Fossas, C. Ocampo, G. Olivar
Title: Stabilization of Chaos with FPIC: Application to ZAD-Strategy Buck Converters
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 16th World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
IFAC
Publication: Proceedings of the 16th IFAC
City: Praga, República Checa
Date: 4-8/07/2005
Authors: F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo, G. Olivar
Title: Control of Limit Cycle Amplitude Through Nonsmooth Bifurcations
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 44th IEEE Conference on Decisión and Control CDC - ECC
Publication: Proceedings of the 44th IEEE CDC-ECC
City: Sevilla, Spain
Date: 12-15/12/2005
Authors: G. Olivar, F. Angulo, M. di Bernardo
Title: Corner-Sliding Bifurcations for Control Design
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 1st IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems
Publication:(submitted)
City: Reims, France
Date: 28-30/06/2006
Authors: F. Angulo, I. Massana, G. Olivar
Title: Bifurcations on a Boost Converter with hysteresis
Sort of Participation: Talk
Congress: 1st IFAC Conference on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems
Publication:(submitted)
City: Reims, France
Date: 28-30/06/2006
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Organization of Congresses
Title:6th International Conference on Teaching Astronomy
Activity: Congress
International
Date: 23 – 25 November 2000, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)
Title:Seminario Anual de Automática y Electrónica Industrial SAAEI 2001
Activity: Congress
International
Date: 17 – 19 September 2001, Matanzas (Cuba)
Title: XI Congress Universitario de Innovación Educativa en las Enseñanzas
Técnicas
Activity: Congress
National
Date: 23 – 25 July 2003, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)
Title:General Meeting SICONOS
Activity: Workshop
International
Date: 10 – 11 November 2003, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)
Title: Variable Structure Systems 2004
Activity: Congress
International
Date: 06 – 08 September 2004, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)
Title: Trimestre de Control, Geometría e Ingeniería
Activity: Congress
International
Date: January to March 2005, Bellaterra (Spain)
Title: 1st International Meeting on Non-Smooth Dynamics: Industry Applications
Activity: Congress
International
Date: 19 – 23 September 2005, Manizales (Colombia)
Title: International Workshop on Marine Technology
Activity: Congress
International
Date: 17 - 18 November 2005, Vilanova y la Geltrú (Spain)
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Other research and administrative activities
Academic Secretary of EPSEVG (Technical University of Catalonia): years 19982000
Academic Secretary of the Departament of Applied Mathematics 4 (Technical
University of Catalonia): years 2000-2004
Panel Member of Selection of Personnel in the Department of Applied Mathematics
4, and in the EPSEVG (Technical University of Catalonia).
President of Selection Examinatiions for the University (1999 - 2004)
Reviewer of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
Part I (1998 - actual) and the Congress ISCAS International Sysmposium on Circuits
and Systems (1999 - actual).
Reviewer of the international journal IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems,
Part II (2004 - actual).
Reviewer of the international journal Physics Letters A (2003)
Reviewer of the international journal Journal of Nonlinear Science (2003)
Reviewer of the international congress IEEE Instrumentation and Measurement
Technology Conference (2003)
Reviewer of the international congress IEEE Conference on Decision and Control
(2004 - 2005)
Reviewer of the international congress IEEE International Congress on Industrial
Technology (2004)
Reviewer of the international congress IEEE International Symposium on Industrial
Electronics (2005)
Member of the IPC (International Programm Commitee) of the 1st IFAC Conference
on Analysis and Control of Chaotic Systems, CHAOS'06, 28-30 June 2006, Reims,
France
Member of the societies SEMA (Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada), SCM
(Sociedad Catalana de Matemàtiques), IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronic
Engineering), IEEE-CAS (Circuits and Systems Society)
Member of the Unidad Asociada Tecnoterra (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones
Científicas CSIC-UPC)
Member of the research group ACES (Advanced Control of Energy Systems)
Member of the research group SARTI (Remote Acquisition Systems and Information
Processing), Responsible of Scientific Production.
Member of the spanish net DANCE (Dinámica, Atractores y Nolinealidad: Caos y
Estabilidad)
Thesis supervisor of the Ph. D students Ivan Merillas and Imma Masana
Participation as an adjoint organizer in the doctorate programm in Applied
Mathematics of the Technical University of Catalonia, quality mention of the spanish
Ministerio de Educación y Ciencia.
Member of the panel of the Ph. D Thesis students: Mohammed Debbat (2004),
Nonlinear Analysis of Multiple Configurations and High Order Power Electronic
Systems, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona (Spain); and Tom Griffin
(2005), University of Bristol, Bristol, U.K.
Evaluator of the CIRIT Prizes (Departamento de Universidades del Gobierno
Catalan)
2 favorable research evaluations granted from the Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia y
Tecnología MCyT .
Research visits in University of Bristol, Department of Engineering Mathematics,
Bristol, U.K. during the following dates: 26/01/2004 to 09/02/2004, 06/03/2004 to
14/03/2004, 11/09/2004 to 25/09/2004, and 27/01/2005 to 05/02/2005
Research visits in University of Naples Federico II, Departament of Electronic
Engineering, Naples, Italy, during the following dates: 16/07/2003 to 20/07/2003, and
04/10/2003 to 08/10/2003
Research visit in Universidad de Sevilla, Department of Applied Mathematics,
December 2005
Research visit in Universidad de Granada, Department of Mathematics, December
2005
Sabbatical Year Granted from the Technical University of Catalonia for the period
September-2004 to August-2005, to be in the Departament of Electric, Electronic and
Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, sede Manizales. Adjoint
Profesor in this university.
Co-Editor of the journal Instrumentation Viewpoint, ISSN: 1697-2562