Manel Velasco graduated in maritime engineering in 1999 and received the PhD degree in automatic control in 2006, both from the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain. Since 2002, he has been an assistant professor in the Department of Automatic Control at the Technical University of Catalonia. He has been involved in research on artificial intelligence from 1999 to 2002 and, since 2000, on the impact of real-time systems on control systems. His research interests include artificial intelligence, real-time control systems, and collaborative control systems, especially on redundant controllers and multiple controllers with self-interacting systems.

Control systems

• Self-Triggered Networked Control Systems: an Experimental Case Study (document not available)
  In IEEE 2010 International Conference on Industrial Technology (ICIT2010), Valparaiso, Chile, March, 2010.
  Authors: Antonio Camacho, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Camilo Lozoya, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes, Eulàlia Griful
  
  
• Design of an Embedded Control Systems Laboratory Experiment (document not available)
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, to appear, January, 2010.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Antonio Camacho, Giorgio Buttazzo
  
  
• Experimental evaluation of slack management in real-time control systems: coordinated vs. self-triggered approach
  In Journal of Systems Architecture, to appear, January, 2010.
  Authors: Scott Brandt, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Pau Martí, Camilo Lozoya
  
  
• On Lyapunov Sampling for Event-driven Controllers
  In 48th IEEE Conference on Decision and Control (CDC09), Shanghai, China, December, 2009.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Enrico Bini
  
  
• Preliminary Approach to Lyapunov Sampling in CAN-based Networked Control Systems
  In 35th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON09), Porto, Portugal, November, 2009.
  Authors: José Yépez, Camilo Lozoya, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Schedulability Analysis for CAN-based Networked Control Systems with Dynamic Bandwidth Management
  In 14th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Techonologies and Factory Automation (ETFA09), Mallorca, Spain, September, 2009.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, José Yépez, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Equilibrium Sampling Interval Sequences for Event-driven Controllers
  In European Control Conference 2009 (ECC09), Budapest, Hungary, August, 2009.
  Authors: Enrico Bini, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco
  
  
• Demo Abstract: Implementation of Self-triggered Controllers
  In Demo Session of 15th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS09), San Francisco, CA, USA, April, 2009.
  Authors: Enrico Bini, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Antonio Camacho
  
  
• The Optimal Boundary and Regulator Design Problem for Event-Driven Controllers
  In 12th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC09), San Francisco, CA, USA, April, 2009.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Enrico Bini
  
  
• Draco: Efficient Resource Management for Resource-Constrained Control Tasks
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, Vol. 58, No. 1, January, 2009.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Caixue Lin, Scott Brandt, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Control-driven Tasks: Modeling and Analysis
  In 28th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS08), Barcelona, Spain, December, 2008.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Enrico Bini
  
  
• Analysis and Design of Networked Control Loops with Synchronization at the Actuation Instants
  In 34th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON08), Orlando, Florida, US, November, 2008.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• The One-Shot Task Model for Robust Real-Time Embedded Control Systems
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 3, August, 2008.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí
  
  
• Control Performance Evaluation of Selected Methods of Feedback Scheduling of Real-time Control Tasks
  In 17th IFAC World Congress, Seoul, Korea, July, 2008.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Performing Flexible Control on Low-Cost Microcontrollers Using a Minimal Real-Time Kernel
  IEEE Transactions on Industrial Informatics, Vol. 4, No. 2, pp. 125-133 , May, 2008.
  Authors: Ricardo Marau, Pedro Leite, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Luis Almeida, Paulo Pedreiras, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• On the Timing of Discrete Events in Event-Driven Control Systems
  In 11th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC08), St. Louis, MO, USA, April, 2008.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Camilo Lozoya
  
  
• A 10-Year Taxonomy on Prior Work on Sampling Period Selection for Resource-Constrained Real-Time Control Systems
  In Work-in-progress Session, 19th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS07), Pisa, Italy, July, 2007.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí
  
  
• Effective Real-Time Wireless Control of an Autonomous Guided Vehicle
  In 2007 IEEE International Symposium on Industrial Electronics (ISIE07), Vigo, Spain, June, 2007.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• A Preliminary Approach to Feedback Control of Server-based Real-Time Systems (document not available)
  In Poster Session, Second IEEE International Workshop on Feedback Control Implementation and Design in Computing Systems and Networks(FeBID07), Munich, Germany,, May, 2007.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí
  
  
• Toward Flexible Scheduling of Real-Time Control Tasks: Reviewing Basic Control Models
  In 10th International Conference on Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control (HSCC07), LNCS 4416, pp. 710–713, Pisa, Italy, April, 2007.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco
  
  
• Quality-of-Control Management in Overloaded Real-Time Systems
  IEEE Transactions on Computers, vol. 56, No. 2, pp. 253-266, February, 2007.
  Authors: Giorgio Buttazzo, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí
  
  
• A CAN Application Profile for Control Optimization in Networked Embedded Systems
  In 32th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON06), Paris, France, November, 2006.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Rosa Castañé, Josep Guàrdia, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Resource Management for Control Tasks Based on the Transient Dynamics of Closed-Loop Systems
  In Proceedings of the 18th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS06), Dresden, Germany, July, 2006.  [ BibTex ]
  Authors: Rosa Castañé, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Anton Cervin, Dan Henriksson
  
  
• CICLIC: A Tool to Generate Feasible Cyclic Schedules
  In Proceedings of the 6th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communication Systems (WFCS06), Torino, Italy, June, 2006.
  Authors: José Yépez, Josep Guàrdia, Manel Velasco, Jordi Ayza, Rosa Castañé, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Asignación Dinámica de Recursos en Sistemas de Control de Tiempo Real
  Revista Iberoamericana de Automática e Informática Industrial (CEA-IFAC), April, 2006.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Caixue Lin, Scott Brandt, Manel Velasco, Jordi Ayza, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Stability of Networked Control Systems with Bounded Sampling Rates and Time Delays
  In 31th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON05), Raleigh, USA, November, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• A Probabilistic Approach to the Stability Analysis of Real-Time Control Systems
  In 16th IFAC World Congress, Praha, Czech Republic, July, 2005.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes, Jordi Ayza
  
  
• Key Aspects for Co-designing Real-Time and Control Systems
  n 1st International Workshop on Real-Time and Control (RTC05), satellite workshop of the 17th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, July, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Rosa Castañé, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Bandwidth Management for Distributed Control of Highly Articulated Robots
  In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA05), Barcelona, Spain, April, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Manel Frigola
  
  
• Managing Quality-of-Control in Network-Based Control Systems by Controller and Message Scheduling Co-design
  In IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, Volume 51, Number 6, December, 2004.
  Authors: Pau Martí, José Yépez, Manel Velasco, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Optimal State Feedback Based Resource Allocation for Resource-Constrained Control Tasks
  In 25th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS04), Lisbon, Portugal, December, 2004.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Caixue Lin, Scott Brandt, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• A Control Approach to Bandwidth Management in Networked Control Systems
  In 30th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON04), Busan, Korea, November, 2004.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Caixue Lin, Pau Martí, Scott Brandt
  
  
• Managing Quality-of-Control Performance Under Overload Conditions
  In 16th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS04), Catania, Italy, July, 2004.
  Authors: Giorgio Buttazzo, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Gerhard Fohler
  
  
• Improving Control Performance Using Discrete Quality of Service Levels in a Real-Time System
  In Work-in-Progress Session of the 10th IEEE Real-Time and Embedded Technology and Applications Symposium (RTAS04), Toronto, Canada, May, 2004.
  Authors: Caixue Lin, Pau Martí, Scott Brandt, Scott Banachowski, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• The Self Triggered Task Model for Real-Time Control Systems
  In Work-in-Progress Session of the 24th IEEE Real-Time Systems Symposium (RTSS03), Cancun, Mexico, December, 2003.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Process Data Abstraction/Accessibility Via Internet
  In 9th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA03), Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2003.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Pau Martí
  
  
• Modelling Self-triggered Tasks for Real-Time Control Systems
  In Co-design in Embedded Real-time Systems (CERTS03), satellite workshop of the 15th Euromicro Conference on Real-Time Systems (ECRTS03), Porto, Portugal, July, 2003.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Peer-to-Peer Communication for Virtual Industrial Devices
  In 4th IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS02), Västerås, Sweden, August, 2002.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Distributed Supervision and Control of Fieldbus-Based Industrial Processes
  In 3rd IEEE International Workshop on Factory Communications Systems (WFCS00), Porto, Portugal, September, 2000.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Juan Carlos Aguado, Fabio Rolando, Manel Velasco, José Colomar, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• A Java-Based Framework for Distributed Supervision and Control of Industrial Processes
  In 7th IEEE International Conference on Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA99), Barcelona, Spain, October, 1999.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Juan Carlos Aguado, Fabio Rolando, Manel Velasco, José Colomar, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Distributed Internet-based Remote Control of On-board Processes (document not available)
  In 1st International Congress on Maritime Technological Innovations and Research, Barcelona, Spain, April, 1999.
  Authors: Juan Carlos Aguado, Pau Martí, Fabio Rolando, Manel Velasco, José Colomar, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  

• Optimal On-Line Sampling Period Assignment
  Research report ESAII-RR-09-04, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, December, 2009.
  Authors: Anton Cervin, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Antonio Camacho
  
  
• Simulation study on control performance and resource utilization for resource-constrained control systems
  Research report ESAII-RR-09-01, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2009.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Schedulability Analysis for CAN-based Control Applications with Dynamic Bandwidth Management
  Research report ESAII-RR-08-04, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, November, 2008.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Proposal for an Embedded Control Systems Laboratory Activity
  XXIX Jornadas de Automática, Tarragona, Spain, September, 2008.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Camilo Lozoya, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• An Embedded Real-Time Control Systems Laboratory Activity
  Research report ESAII-RR-08-03, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, August, 2008.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Giorgio Buttazzo
  
  
• Clock Synchronization for Networked Control Systems Using Low-Cost Microcontrollers
  Research report ESAII-RR-08-02, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2008.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Camilo Lozoya, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• A Taxonomy on Prior Work on Sampling Period Selection for Resource-Constrained Real-Time Control Systems
  XI Jornadas de Tiempo Real, Palma de Mallorca, Spain, February, 2008.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, José Yépez, Frederic Pérez, Josep Guàrdia, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• The One-Shot Task Model for Real-Time Embedded Control Systems
  Research report ESAII-RR-07-17, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, November, 2007.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Camilo Lozoya
  
  
• One-Shot Task Model for Implementing Real-Time Control Tasks
  II Congreso Español de Informática (CEDI2007), Zaragoza, Spain, September, 2007.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Ricard Villà, Jordi Ayza, José Yépez, Camilo Lozoya
  
  
• Control de Servidores en Sistemas de Tiempo Real
  XXVIII Jornadas de Automática, Huelva, Spain, September, 2007.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí
  
  
• Implementing Flexible Embedded Control on a Simple Real-Time Multitasking Kernel
  Research report ESAII-RR-07-10, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, April, 2007.
  Authors: Ricardo Marau, Pedro Leite, Luis Almeida, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Control Performance Optimization in Networked Control Systems
  X Jornadas de Tiempo Real, Barcelona, Spain, February, 2007.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep Guàrdia, Frederic Pérez, José Yépez, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• One-Shot Task Model for Real-Time Control Systems
  X Jornadas de Tiempo Real, Barcelona, Spain, February, 2007.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco
  
  
• Gestor Avanzado de Comunicaciones entre Dispositivos y Aplicaciones para Red Modbus Ethernet TCP/IP
  XXVII Jornadas de Automática, Almeria, Spain, September, 2006.
  Authors: Frederic Pérez, Manel Velasco, Jordi Ayza, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Estimación del Retardo en una Red Wifi: Estimación del Retardo
  XXVII Jornadas de Automática, Almeria, Spain, September, 2006.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes, Jordi Ayza
  
  
• Wireless Network Delay Estimation for Time-Sensitive Applications
  Research report ESAII-RR-06-12, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Camilo Lozoya, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Distributed Control Systems (DCS) Group: Activity Report
  Researh report ESAII-RR-06-11, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep Guàrdia, Rosa Castañé, Camilo Lozoya, José Yépez, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Control Optimization in Networked Embedded Systems
  2es Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica, Visió i Robòtica, internal workshop of the Automatic Control Dept. at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes, Ricard Villà, Jordi Ayza, Manel Velasco, José Yépez, Josep Guàrdia, Rosa Castañé
  
  
• A Novel Control Model for Real-Time Control Tasks
  DCS Research report DCS06, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Rosa Castañé, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco
  
  
• Optimal Sampling Period Selection for Real-Time Control Tasks
  2es Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica, Visió i Robòtica, internal workshop of the Automatic Control Dept. at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Rosa Castañé, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Josep Guàrdia, José Yépez, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Feedback Scheduling in S.Ha.R.K.: a First Approach
  Research report ESAII-RR-06-13, Research report ESAII-RR-07-10, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2006.
  Authors: Rosa Castañé, Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Josep Guàrdia
  
  
• Enabling Feedback Scheduling in TrueTime
  Research report ESAII-RR-06-05, Automatic Control Department, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2006.
  Authors: Josep Guàrdia, Pau Martí, Manel Velasco, Rosa Castañé
  
  
• Asignación de Periodos a Tareas de Control en Función de la Predicción de la Dinámica de cada Planta
  IX Jornadas de Tiempo Real, Valladolid, Spain, February, 2006.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes, Ricard Villà, Jordi Ayza, Manel Velasco, José Yépez, Josep Guàrdia, Rosa Castañé
  
  
• CICLIC: Herramienta para Crear Planificadores Cíclicos Factibles
  XXVI Jornadas de Automática, Alicante, Spain, September, 2005.
  Authors: José Yépez, Josep Guàrdia, Manel Velasco, Jordi Ayza, Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Practical Implementation of an Optimal Bandwidth Allocation Policy for Distributed Real-time Control Systems
  In I Congreso Español de Informática (CEDI2005), Granada, Spain, September, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, José Yépez, Rosa Castañé, Josep Guàrdia, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Stability Test for Real-Time Control Systems using Interval Algebra
  DCS Research report DCS05, Barcelona, Spain, July, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Distributed Bandwidth Management in Networked Control Systems
  VII Jornadas de Tiempo Real, Bilbao, Spain, February, 2005.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, José Yépez, Ricard Villà, Jordi Ayza, Josep M. Fuertes
  
  
• Real-Time Tasks Scheduling Policy for Control Systems
  In Primeres Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica Visió i Robòtica, internal workshop of the Automatic Control Dept. at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2004.
  Authors: Pau Martí, Josep M. Fuertes, Ricard Villà, Jordi Ayza, Manel Velasco, José Yépez
  
  
• Modelling Self-Triggered Tasks for Real-Time Control Systems
  In Primeres Jornades de Recerca en Automàtica Visió i Robòtica, internal workshop of the Automatic Control Dept. at the Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona, Spain, March, 2004.
  Authors: Manel Velasco, Pau Martí, José Yépez, Jordi Ayza, Ricard Villà, Josep M. Fuertes