Experience of Manuel Ferre Perez
Laurea Degree in Control Engineering and Electronics in 1992 and PhD in Automation and Robotics in 1997, at the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), and worked as a PostDoc in the Human-Machine System Laboratory of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1997. He is currently a Full Professor at UPM and Director of ‘Centre for Automation and Robotics UPM-CSIC’.
He has participated and coordinated several research projects in Robotics and Automatic Control, both at national and international programs. His research interest is focused on Automatic Control, Advanced Telerobotics, and Haptics. He has four patents of haptic devices and stereoscopic video cameras. He is author of more than 150 publications and editor of the 'Springer Series on Touch and Haptics System'.
He is a member of EuroHaptics Society, IEEE, euRobotics and CEA. He has served as chair of serveral committees. Currently, he serves as a chair of the euRobotics Technical Committee on Telerobotics and Teleoperation. He has participated in the organization of several IROS, ICRA and EuroHaptics conferences.
