IntechOpen Book Series Mobile Robotics Volume 1

Efren Gorrostieta Hurtado has a Doctorate in Engineering with specialization in Mechatronics, and a Master of Science and Technology with specialization in Automation and Control. He is an electronics engineer with a specialty in control and biomedical engineering, and graduated in 1992 from the Technological Institute of Higher Studies of the West (ITESO), Guadalajara Jalisco, Mexico. He has worked as a professor at

ITESO in the area of control, and at the National Technological Institute in the Morelia and Queretaro units, where he worked as a professor, coordinator, and head of the postgraduate unit. He also worked as a professor at La Salle Bajío University. He is currently a research professor at the Autonomous University of Querétaro in the Faculty of Engineering. He is the author of several articles and editor of books on robotics and automation. His current research interests are in the fields of control system mechatronics, robotics, and machine learning. He is a founding member of the Mexican Mechatronics Society.

#### **Book Series Editor and Editor of Volume 1: Efren Gorrostieta Hurtado**

Engineering Faculty of the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico
