Maurício de Oliveira

In Brief

I am an Adjunct Professor at the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, University of California, San Diego, teaching and conducting research in the area of Optimization, Dynamic Systems and Control.

I concluded my Ph.D. in 1999, M.S. in 1996 and B.S. in 1995, all in Electrical Engineering from the University of Campinas, Brazil. Prior to joining UCSD I was an Assistant Professor at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Campinas, SP, Brazil from 2001 to 2003. From 2005 to 2006 I was the Chief Research Engineer at Dynamic Systems Research, Inc., San Diego, CA, where I led a large team on the development of an energy-harvesting station-keeping sea drogue. Since 2008 I have worked as a consultant to one of the world's largest sovereign wealth funds in the area of portfolio optimization. I have also worked as a consultant for Cymer — an ASML company, and in research and development with Solar Turbines — a Caterpillar company.

For my consulting work in finance, see efportfolio.com and vicbee.net.

This website contains material published from a time when I was much more active at UCSD. Pardon the occasional broken links.

Research & Publications

Books

• Fundamentals of Linear Control: A Concise Approach
  Cambridge University Press, 2017 · book site · Amazon
• Tensegrity Systems
  with Bob Skelton · Springer, 2009 · Amazon · figures in color (PDF)

Topics

• Delay Systems
• Frequency Domain Inequalities
• Model Reduction
• Noncommutative Symbolic Algebra
• Robust & Decentralized Control
• Robust Filtering & Estimation
• Robust Stability
• Sensor & Actuator Selection
• Semidefinite Programming & Convex Optimization
• Tensegrity

If you are interested in any of my publications please email me and I will be glad to send you a PDF. Full list on Google Scholar or ORCID.

Teaching

Undergraduate

Graduate

COSMOS — California State Summer School for Mathematics & Science

EMSTrack

An open emergency-response platform. See the work of the UCSD Global TIES students, featured in this news release, and the EMSTrack web app and Android app.

Software

NCAlgebra — a Mathematica add-on for working with symbolic expressions with noncommutative products (e.g. matrix multiplications), bundled with noncommutative Gröbner basis algorithms and a semidefinite programming solver. Grab the latest version.

ctrl — a Python suite for systems and control that eases the implementation of feedback controllers on embedded systems, supported on the BeagleBone Black and the Raspberry Pi. Repository.

rcpy — a set of Python bindings for the Robotics Cape library. Repository.

Other open-source projects at mcdeoliveira on GitHub.