Ricardo-Franco Mendoza-Garcia
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Contact Information
Universidad de Tarapaca (UTA), Campus Saucache,
Edificio de Ingenieria Mecanica, Oficina 7
18 de Septiembre 2222, Arica, Chile
phone: +56-58-2205091
fax: +56-58-2205281
e-mails: rmendozag AT uta.cl; r.f.mendozagarcia AT ieee.org
url 1: www.eudim.uta.cl (School of Mechanical Engineering at UTA)
url 2: www.eudim.uta.cl/creas (CreAs Lab at UTA)
url 3: www.ricardomendoza.cl (Personal)
(Not so) Technical Bio:
I studied Electronics Civil Engineering at the Universidad de Tarapaca (UTA), Arica, Chile, but I wrote my final thesis at the School of Engineering of Odense (Odense Teknikum), Odense, Denmark.
In Odense, I decided to pursue an International Master's Degree in Robotics at the Maersk Mc-Kinney Moller Institute, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark.
When I finished the M.Sc. Degree, I was lucky enough to be selected to pursue a Ph.D. Degree in Robotics and Modern Artificial Intelligence at the USD Modular Robotics Research Lab at the same institute. In parallel, I got an academic position at UTA waiting for me to finish my studies, and I also spent six months as a Ph.D. visiting student at the Cornell Creative Machines Lab, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA.
When I finished my Ph.D. Degree, I came back to my country, Chile. I am now trying to concrete my dreams of helping at the development of this part of the world. Not easy, but lots of fun!



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Journal Papers (refereed)
  • Vergara, A., Lau, Y. S., Mendoza-Garcia, R. F., & Zagal, J. C. (2017). Soft Modular Robotic Cubes: Toward Replicating Morphogenetic Movements of the Embryo. PloS ONE, 12(1), e0169179. Vergara-pone2017.pdf
  • R.F.M. Garcia, J.D. Hiller, K. Stoy, and H. Lipson, A vacuum-based bonding mechanism for modular robotics, IEEE Transactions on Robotics, vol. 27, no .5, pp. 876-890, Oct. 2011. Garcia-tro2011.pdf
Conference Papers (refereed)
  • P. Mayorga, H.-R. Valenzuela-Coloma, Y.-s. Lau-Cortes, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, ProGim: Parallel Robot Gimbal, in Proceedings of the XVI Chilean Congress of Mechanical Engineering, COCIM XVI, Valparaiso, Chile, 2015. Mayorga-cocim2015.pdf (Spanish)
  • H.-R. Valenzuela-Coloma, Y.-s. Lau-Cortes, R.-E. Fuentes-Romero, J.C. Zagal, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, Mentaca: An Universal Jamming Gripper on Wheels, in Proceedings of the IEEE Congress Chilecon 2015, Santiago, Chile, 2015. Valenzuela-Coloma-chilecon2015.pdf
  • L.-R. Landa-Hurtado, F.-A. Mamani-Macaya, H.-R. Valenzuela-Coloma, M. Fuentes-Maya, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, Kinect-Based Trajectory Teaching for Industrial Robots, in Proceedings of the 14th Pan-American Congress of Applied Mechanics, PACAM XIV,  Santiago, Chile, 2014. Landa-pacam14.pdf
  • A.H. Lyder, K. Stoy, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, J.C. Larsen, and P. Hermansen, On sub-modularization and morphological heterogeneity in modular robotics, In Sukhan Lee, Hyungsuck Cho, Kwang-Joon Yoon, and Jangmyung Lee (Eds.), Intelligent Autonomous Systems 12, volume 193 of Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, pp. 649-661. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013.
  • R.F.M. Garcia, U.P. Schultz, and K. Stoy, On the Efficiency of Local and Global Communication in Modular Robots, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2009), St. Louis, USA, pp. 1502-1508, 2009. Garcia-iros09.pdf
  • R.F.M. Garcia, A. Lyder, D.J. Christensen, and K. Stoy, Reusable Electronics and Adaptable Communication as Implemented in the Odin Modular Robot, in Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA2009), Kobe, Japan, pp. 1152-1158, 2009. Garcia-icra09.pdf
  • A. Lyder, R.F.M. Garcia, and K. Stoy, Mechanical Design of Odin, an Extendable Heterogeneous Deformable Modular Robot, in Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2008), Nice, France, pp. 883-888, 2008.
  • R.F.M. Garcia, K. Stoy, D.J. Christensen, and A. Lyder, A Self-Reconfigurable Communication Network for Modular Robots, in Proceedings of the First International Conference on Robot Communication and Coordination (ROBOCOMM2007), Athens, Greece, Article No 23, 2007. Garcia-robocomm07.pdf
Workshop Papers (refereed)
  • H.-R. Valenzuela-Coloma, Y.-s. Lau-Cortes, R.-E. Fuentes-Romero, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, Mentaca: Universal Mobile Jamming Gripper - Hardware Summary, in Poster Session at the X Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 15-18 December, 2014. Valenzuela-Coloma-evic2014.pdf
  • M. Torrico-Claure, A. Fuentealba-Orrego, C. Huanca-Mendoza, R.-F. Mendoza-Garcia, Ball and Beam: Design and Control, in Poster Session at the X Latin American Summer School on Computational Intelligence, University of Chile, Santiago, Chile, 15-18 December, 2014. Torrico-Claure-evic2014.pdf
  • R.F.M. Garcia, J.D. Hiller, and H. Lipson, A vacuum-based bonding mechanism for modular robotics, in Proceedings of the ICRA Workshop on Modular Robots, State of the Art, pages 57-62, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010.  Garcia-icra2010-workshop.pdf
  • A. Lyder, R.F.M. Garcia, and K. Stoy, Genderless Connection Mechanism for Modular Robots Introducing Torque Transmission Between Modules, in Proceedings of the ICRA Workshop on Modular Robots, State of the Art, pages 77-81, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010.
  • J.C. Larsen, R.F.M. Garcia, and K. Stoy, Increased Versatility of Modular Robots through Layered Heterogeneity, in Proceedings of the ICRA Workshop on Modular Robots, State of the Art, pages 24-29, Anchorage, Alaska, May 2010. 
  • D. Brandt, J.C. Larsen, D.J. Christensen, R.F.M. Garcia, D. Shaikh, U.P. Schultz, and K. Stoy, Flexible, FPGA-Based Electronics for Modular Robots, in Proceedings of the IROS Workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots, Systems and Applications, Nice, France, pp. 9-13, 2008.
  • K. Stoy, A. Lyder, R.F.M. Garcia, and D.J. Christensen, Hierarchical Robots, in Proceedings of the IROS workshop on Self-Reconfigurable Robots/Systems and Applications (IROS2007), San Diego CA, 2007.

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