Dr Victor M. Cedeno-Campos

I did my bachelor in Mexico in mechatronics engineering, then I worked in industry for 2 years, then I did a master in mechatronics in Germany, I continue with the PhD in automatic control and system engineering in the University of Sheffield. I worked at that university as a postdoc for 3 years and then I got a lecturer position in Mexico at the ITESM university for about 2.5 years. Finally, I became a lecturer at The University of Leicester.

My research area focuses on designing and building mechatronic systems to automate processes, I like to focus on manufacturing, but there could be just didactic prototypes or retrofitting and reengineering equipment. Another research interest is the use of multi robot systems of mobile robots and/or industrial arm robots for automation of logistics and assembly operations.

My research interest focus on designing and building mechatronics systems for automation. This can include but is not limited to:

• Process automation
• Prototype design and construction for novel (manufacturing) processes
• Selection and assembling of components
• Retrofitting and reengineering (manufacturing) equipment 

I had experience in a variety of fields such as: 

• Composites manufacturing
• Bespoke motion systems
• Industrial robotics and Cobots
• Designing, analysing and implementing equipment to work under about 40G of Earth's gravity within geotechnical centrifuges
• Multi-robot systems for highly flexible manufacturing

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, Towards mould free composites manufacturing of thermoset prepregs. Incremental curing with localised pressure-heat (ICULPH), CIRP Conference on Composites Material Part Manufacturing 2019, pp.237-242. DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.09.020

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, Towards mold-free composites. A novel control method to cure carbon fiber through punctual force, 2019 Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019), pp. 1461-1465, DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2019.8869454.

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, Online non-intrusive curing identification of CFRP assisted by pattern recognition with a novel in-situ curing apparatus, 2019 System, man and cybernetics (SMC 2019), pp. 391-396. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914371.

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, U. Martinez-Hernandez, A. Rubio-Solis, A motion control system to use robots at 100 times Earth’s gravity,  In: Kuo CH., Lin PC., Essomba T., Chen GC. (eds) Robotics and Mechatronics. ISRM 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 78. Springer, Cham, pp 334-345, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30036-4_30.

U. Martinez-Hernandez, V. Cedeno-Campos, A. Rubio-Solis, Active visual object exploration and recognition with an unmanned aerial vehicle, 2019 Int. Joint conference in neural networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-7, DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8851738

U. Martinez-Hernandez, A. Rubio-Solis, V. Cedeno-Campos, A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, Towards an intelligent wearable ankle robot for assistance to foot drop, 2019 System, man and cybernetics (SMC 2019), pp. 3410-3415. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914170

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P.A. Trodden & T.J. Dodd, An interactive methodology to explore optimization scenarios of a self-reconfigurable factory, on IEEE ETFA 2015 conference, pp. 1-7. 

V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P.A. Trodden, T. Dodd, Highly flexible self-reconfigurable systems for rapid layout formation to offer manufacturing services, on IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Manchester 2013 conference, pp 4819-4824. doi: 10.1109/SMC.2013.820

At the UoL I supervised four MSc thesis with focus on electrical and electronic engineering projects.

I have co-supervised a master thesis during my PhD, and I co-supervised six PhD students during my postdocs in areas of geotechnics and composites manufacturing. 

At the University of Leicester I teach the modules as main module convenor:

• EG3323 Digital control and actuators

Also, I teach partially in the following modules:

• EG1122 Digital electronics and communications
• EG1004 Engineering experimentation
• EG2006 Integrated engineering design

Before teaching at the University of Leicester, I taught the following modules in a highly flexible (half group using zoom, half group in classroom) and digital environments (all group by zoom) to cope with Covid-19 pandemic:

• Digital control (equivalent to EG3323 Digital control and actuators)
• Mechatronics laboratory
• Instrumentation laboratory (partly equivalent to EG1122 Digital electronics and communications)
• Project of mechatronics engineering (partly equivalent to EG2006 Integrated engineering design)
• Integration of manufacturing systems

Competences-based learning modules in the novel educational model Tec21:

• Mechatronic integration (digital electronics section)
• Dynamical design (one degree of freedom systems and vibration)
• Automation of manufacturing systems (module convenor)
• Cyberphysical systems (module convenor)
• U-Lead project to design and simulate a Incremental Sheet Forming ISF machine (project to develop researching and problem solving skills in 5th semester students in the Tec21 model)

Travel grants for international conferences:

• International symposium on robotics and mechatronics (ISRM) 2019
• Systems, man and cybernetics (SMC) 2019
• Emerging technologies and factory automation (ETFA) 2015

PhD funding:

• CONACYT Scholarship (Mexican national council for science and technology)
• Roberto Rocca fellowship

Master funding:

• CONACYT Scholarship (Mexican national council for science and technology)

Bachelor:

• Scholarship of 80% during 8 semesters
• Graduation with honours (Grades of 9.3 (1^st Class according to UK Gov overseas degree equivalency))
• Performance award called “Forged cross” (i.e. average of semester is higher than 9.7), autumn 2004

• "Towards mould free composites manufacturing of thermoset prepregs. Incremental curing with localised pressure-heat (ICULPH)", V. M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, CIRP Conference on Composites Material Part Manufacturing 2019, pp.237-242. DOI: 10.1016/j.procir.2019.09.020.
• “Towards mold-free composites. A novel control method to cure carbon fiber through punctual force”, V.M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, 2019 Emerging Technologies and Factory Automation (ETFA 2019), pp. 1461-1465, DOI: 10.1109/ETFA.2019.8869454.
• “Online non-intrusive curing identification of CFRP assisted by pattern recognition with a novel in-situ curing apparatus", V.M. Cedeno-Campos, P. A. Jaramillo, C. M. Fernyhough, J. P. A. Fairclough, 2019 System, man and cybernetics (SMC 2019), pp. 391-396. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914371.
• “A motion control system to use robots at 100 times Earth’s gravity“, V. M. Cedeno-Campos, U. Martinez-Hernandez, A. Rubio-Solis,  In: Kuo CH., Lin PC., Essomba T., Chen GC. (eds) Robotics and Mechatronics. ISRM 2019. Mechanisms and Machine Science, vol 78. Springer, Cham, pp 334-345, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-30036-4_30.
• "Active visual object exploration and recognition with an unmanned aerial vehicle", U. Martinez-Hernandez, V. Cedeno-Campos, A. Rubio-Solis, 2019 Int. Joint conference in neural networks (IJCNN), pp. 1-7, DOI: 10.1109/IJCNN.2019.8851738.
• "Towards an intelligent wearable ankle robot for assistance to foot drop", U. Martinez-Hernandez, A. Rubio-Solis, V. Cedeno-Campos, A. A. Dehghani-Sanij, 2019 System, man and cybernetics (SMC 2019), pp. 3410-3415. DOI: 10.1109/SMC.2019.8914170.
• “An interactive methodology to explore optimization scenarios of a self-reconfigurable factory“, V.M. Cedeno-Campos, P.A. Trodden & T.J. Dodd, on IEEE ETFA 2015 conference, pp. 1-7. 
• “Highly flexible self-reconfigurable systems for rapid layout formation to offer manufacturing services“, V.M. Cedeno-Campos, P.A. Trodden, T. Dodd, on IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), Manchester 2013 conference, pp 4819-4824. doi: 10.1109/SMC.2013.820.

• PhD in Automatic Control and Systems Engineering by The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom.
• MSc in Mechatronics, by The University of applied sciences FH Aachen (FachHochschule Aachen), Germany.
• BSc in Mechatronics by The Autonomous Popular University of the State of Puebla (UPAEP Universidad Popular Autonoma del Estado de Puebla), Mexico.