Sonia Martínez Díaz

Sonia Martínez Díaz is a Spanish mechanical engineer whose research applies control theory to the coordinated motion of robot swarms and mobile wireless sensor networks.^[1] She is a professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at the University of California, San Diego.^[2]

Education and career

Martínez was the first in her family to study at a university, the University of the Basque Country.^[3] She has a licenciatura in mathematics from the University of Zaragoza,^[4] awarded in 1997,^[5] and she completed a Ph.D. in engineering mathematics at Charles III University of Madrid in 2002,^[2]^[3] working with Manuel de León Rodríguez [es] of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences.^[1]^[6]

After working as a visiting assistant professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia, she came to the US on a Fulbright Fellowship for postdoctoral research with Francesco Bullo at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and University of California, Santa Barbara.^[2] She took her faculty position at the University of California, San Diego in 2005,^[2]^[3] and became a full professor there in 2014.^[5]

In 2018, Martínez was named an IEEE Fellow, affiliated with the IEEE Control Systems Society and IEEE Robotics and Automation Society, "for contributions to geometric mechanics and control".^[7]

Martínez, Sonia; Cortés, Jorge (2002), "Design of oscillatory control systems", Proceedings of the 41st IEEE Conference on Decision and Control, pp. 1509–1514, doi:10.1109/cdc.2002.1184733, S2CID 17157138. Winner of the CDC Best Student-Paper Award.^[8]
Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia; Karataş, Timur; Bullo, Francesco (April 2004), "Coverage control for mobile sensing networks", IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation, 20 (2): 243–255, doi:10.1109/tra.2004.824698, S2CID 2022860
Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia; Bullo, Francesco (August 2006), "Robust rendezvous for mobile autonomous agents via proximity graphs in arbitrary dimensions", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 51 (8): 1289–1298, doi:10.1109/tac.2006.878713, S2CID 15117155. Listed as a "classic paper" by Google Scholar.^[9]
Martínez, Sonia; Cortés, Jorge; Bullo, Francesco (August 2007), "Motion coordination with distributed information", IEEE Control Systems Magazine, vol. 27, no. 4, pp. 75–88, doi:10.1109/mcs.2007.384124, S2CID 14017918. Winner of the 2008 IEEE Control Systems Magazine Outstanding Paper Award.^[10]
Zhu, Minghui; Martínez, Sonia (January 2012), "On distributed convex optimization under inequality and equality constraints", IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, 57 (1): 151–164, doi:10.1109/tac.2011.2167817, S2CID 11818107

Bullo, Francesco; Cortés, Jorge; Martínez, Sonia (2009), Distributed Control of Robotic Networks: A Mathematical Approach to Motion Coordination Algorithms, Princeton University Press, ISBN 9781400831470
Zhu, Minghui; Martínez, Sonia (2015), Distributed Optimization-Based Control of Multi-Agent Networks in Complex Environments, Springer Briefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering: Control, Automation, and Robotics, Springer

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