Alma Y. Alanís
Alma Yolanda Alanís García is a Mexican electrical engineer and control theorist specializing in intelligent control, and in particular in the use of artificial neural networks for applications including the control of electric motors, robot manipulators, and unmanned aerial vehicles. She is a chair professor and researcher in the Department of Computational Sciences at the University of Guadalajara.
Education and career
Alanís was born in Durango in 1980, and earned an electrical engineering degree from the Durango Institute of Technology in 2002. She did her graduate study in electrical engineering at the Guadalajara unit of CINVESTAV, earning a master's degree in 2004 and completing her doctorate in 2007. Her dissertation, Discrete-time Neural Control: Application to Induction Motors, was jointly supervised by Edgar N. Sanchez and Alexander G. Loukianov.She took her present position at the University of Guadalajara in 2008.
Books
Alanís is the coauthor of books including:- Discrete-Time High Order Neural Control: Trained with Kalman Filtering
- Decentralized Neural Control: Application to Robotics
- Discrete-Time Neural Observers: Analysis and Applications
- Bio-inspired Algorithms for Engineering
- Neural Networks for Robotics: An Engineering Perspective
- Neural Networks Modeling and Control: Applications for Unknown Nonlinear Delayed Systems in Discrete Time
- ''Artificial Neural Networks for Engineering Applications''