Our group is called ‘Percepción y Control Inteligente’ (in Spanish) and the acronym is PCI. It belongs to ‘Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales’. The name of the group in English should be ‘Perception and Intelligent Control’. We are also very proud to belong to an Excellence Center in Colombia called ‘CeiBA Complexity’.

We work on very different areas such us
•    Artificial Vision
•    Control and Automatics
•    Seismology
•    Industrial Innovations

but the most related ones to the GSD Network are the following:
•    Nonlinear Dynamics, Bifurcations and Chaos
•    Control Systems
•    Nonsmooth Systems
•    Complex Networks
with applications to
•    Sustainability Development
•    Landslides
•    Medical Stress
•    Biotechnology and Agroindustry

We are a very interdisciplinary group. The members are:

From left to right ‘Gerard’, ‘Fabiola’ and ‘Gustavo’

Fabiola Angulo
•    Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad

Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    Ph.D. in Advanced Automatics and Control, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelone (Spain).

Gerard Olivar
•    Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelone (Spain).

Jorge E. Hurtado
•    Professor at the Department of Civil Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    Ph.D. in Civil Engineering, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelone (Spain).

Johnny A. Tamayo
•    Associate Professor at the Department of Industrial Engineering, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    Ph.D in Industrial Organization, Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña (UPC), Barcelone (Spain).

Gustavo A. Osorio
•    Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    Ph.D. in Systems and Informatics, University of Naples ‘Federico II’, Naples (Italy).

Juan B. Gómez
•    Associate Professor at the Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
•    M.Sc. in Automatics, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales (Colombia), actually pursuing his Ph.D.

plus about 15 Ph.D. students and 10 M.Sc. students in the areas of Automatics and Applied Mathematics.

Contact information

E:  golivart(at)unal.edu.co

Gerard Olivar
Department of Electrical & Electronics Engineering and Computer Science.
Universidad Nacional de Colombia, Sede Manizales.
Campus La Nubia,
Manizales
COLOMBIA (South America)