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GAUNAL
Group of Automation
of the National
University of
Colombia
Prof. Dr. Ir. Jairo Espinosa
Calle 80 No.65-223 Bloque M-8
Medellin-Colombia
South America
Location in the World
Colombia is the northest country of South
America is about.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia
Facts and Figures
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About 45000 Students
7 Locations around the
country
2862 Professors and
Assistants
Largest university in
Colombia
Public institution
Group of Automation of the
National University of
Colombia
Facts and Figures
 Created in 2000
 Permanent staff:
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13 Professors (distributed in 3 campus)
Classified as an A type group by Colciencias (high
rank)
International cooperation with Universities in
Belgium, Spain, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela
and Argentina
Member of the excellence center on sensor
networks together with 8 national research groups
and 2 telecommunication companies
Group of Automation of the
National University of
Colombia
Research Areas
 Computational Intelligence
 Modeling, Simulation and Control of Dynamic
Systems
 Formal methods for the design of discrete
event control systems
 Artificial Vision Systems
Group of Automation of the
National University of
Colombia
Experience and record of the group in the area of
predictive control
 More than 20 works including applications to nonlinear
systems
 2 Books one of them with the Advances in Industrial
Control series of Springer
 Areas:
 pH control
 Alcohol production and Biofuels (fermentation and
distillation)
 Enzyme production
 Batch and continuous polymerization reactors
 Food production
Group of Automation of the
National University of
Colombia
Current research including MPC
 Studies on plant wide control applied to CDU
 Studies of POD model reduction applied to MPC control
 Studies on identification for MPC in distillation columns
 Studies on applications of MPC in batch polymerization
 Studies of MPC in the production of bio-fuels: alcohol and biodiesel
 Studies on stabilizability of Batch reactors
 Early applications on Embedded Platforms together with
microelectronics group