Scholar
Yancy Diaz-Mercado
Google Scholar ID: h9Gpe0MAAAAJ
University of Maryland
Citations & Impact
Citations
683
H-index
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21
Publications
20
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Research Experience
- Before joining UMD, he was a senior professional engineer with the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (JHU/APL) and a member of the Advanced Concepts section within the Guidance, Navigation, and Controls group. Since 2018, he has been an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Maryland, College Park, where he established the Collaborative Controls and Robotics Laboratory (CCRL).
Education
- Earned his PhD degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2016; obtained an MS degree from the same institution in 2014; graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez in 2011.
Background
- Research interests include networked control systems, particularly with applications to the control and coordination of mobile robots. Focuses on developing collaborative autonomy for multi-agent and robotic systems using tools from control, optimization, and graph theory, aiming to enable safe and natural human-robot swarm interactions.
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