Robotic website of Alejandro Alonso-Puig

Mar. 2007	Robotics at Automec
	From the 26th till the 30th of March, "Automec", the Fair of Innovation, Technology and Industry will show at Elche (Alicante-Spain) eight robots that Quark Robotics will show there during a conference called "The farm of robots".
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Mar. 2007	Conference "The new human capital. Between the man and the machine"
	Past 21st of March, Alejandro Alonso-Puig did the conference "The new human capital. Between the man and the machine" ("El nuevo Capital humano. Entre el hombre y la máquina"), at the Instituto El Monte, as part of the executives event "Encuentro de Directivos 2007". In that conference Alejandro spoke about the importance of the Innovation in the Human Resource Management. Sam finished the conference with some words to think about.
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Mar. 2007	Interview in "A Ciencia Cierta" of TV1
	Past 19th of March, Alejandro Alonso-Puig was interviewed in the robotics TV program "A Ciencia Cierta" broadcasted by "La 1 de Televisión Española" and the International Channel to all Europe and America.
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Feb. 2007	Sam Project. Bust finished
	It has been finished the phase for the construction of the Bust of Sam. Sam is a protocol robot, for interaction with people. The robot has been made as a project of Quark Robotics and has a human aspect to ease the interaction with people.
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Jan. 2007	Finished the Econobot project
	The goal of this project was demonstrating that imagination and creativity could substitute the lack of budget. That it is possible to make a robot without money, using recycled materials and items not needed anymore by the rest of people. The robot, programmed in LOGO and controlled from a PC finally moved around and avoided the obstacles found in it's way.
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Mar. 2006	Robotics at Campus-Party X Anyversary
	Campus-Party Organization and Quark Robotics come to an agreement so Quark Robotics will coordinate the Robotics area (CampusBot) in Campus-Party 2006. Such area will include robotics contests, workshops, conferences and robotics exhibitions among other activities. It will be held from the 24th till the 30th of July, 2006 at the Trade Fare of Valencia (Spain). Also the Robotics Society of Spain (ARDE) will collaborate in such event.
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Dec. 2005	Visit to the company Eventronic Alicante-Spain
	Visit to the company Eventronic at Alicante (Spain). The manager, Javier Asensi showed the R&D works they are aiming at this moment.
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Dec. 2005	Visit to the Information Technology Institute (ITI). Valencia (Spain)
	Visit to the Information Technology Institute (ITI), located in the Innovation City, at Valencia (Spain). Juan Carlos Pérez, Research Director of ITI showed the facilities and projects they are working on actually.
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Nov. 2005	Visit the Robotics Group at the URJC (SPAIN)
	Visit to the Robotics Group of the University "Rey Juan Carlos" at Madrid (Spain) as one of the activities of the Robotics Association of Spain.
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Nov. 2005	Robotics at the University of Cadiz (Spain)
	From the 9th till the 11th of Noviembre 2005 there was at the Engineering School of Cadiz (Spain), the 2nd Week of the Science and Technology. Between the activities of the event they were conferences, workshops and robotics demonstrations in three days were students and other interested people filled up the venue. They were conferences from Alejandro Alonso Puig (Quark Robotics), Antón Civit Balcells (University of Seville), Arturo Morgado Estévez (University of Cadiz), Julio Pastor Mendoza (University of Alcalá de Henares), Juan González Gómez (IEArobotics/UAM), Andrés Prieto Moreno (Ifara Tecnologies), José Pichardo Gallardo (AMUCA), Daniel Berdugo (AMUCA), Rafael González (AMUCA) and Daniel Quintero (AMUCA)
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Oct. 2005	*A.R.D.E. Agrupación Robótica De España* (Robotics Group of Spain)**
	Has born the Robotics Group of Spain (Agrupación Robótica De España), focused on the promotion of robotics in Spain. On October 1st meet its Coordination Group (Alejandro Alonso, Vicente Torres, Elisenda Bou, Isidro Ruiz, Paco Valbuena, Jorge Montero, José Antonio Ale, Jesús Leganés) With Juantomás García, President of HispaLinux. On October the 2nd it was the public Presentation of the group at Madrid.
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Sept. 2005	Collaboration in three chapters of "España Innova"
	As the result of a collaboration between Alejandro Alonso-Puig (Quark Robotics) and the media company Co.eficiente, born three chapters of "España Innova", broadcasted at "La 2 de Televisión Española", national coverage TV channel (Spain), during the months of July and September, with an estimated audience of 1.000.000 people. "España Innova" are small chapters of 3 minutes, sponsored by Telefónica, with the collaboration of the Industry Ministry (Ministerio de Industria) and CDTI. They cover different aspects of technology, with the purpose of promoting innovation of the Spanish companies.
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Sept. 2005	Clawar 2005
	From the 12th to the 15th of September of 2005 the Climbing and Walking Robots scientific congress took place in London CLAWAR 2005. In this congress, that counted with an ample Spanish representation, were 120 conferences from speakers of 30 countries, a workshop of robotics, a contest of climbing robots, visits to a climbing robots design laboratory and several exhibitions of robots. Melanie-III was there.
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Sept. 2005	Published article about Melanie-III presented in congress CLAWAR 2005
	Published the article "Application of waves displacement algorithms for the generation of gaits in an all terrain hexapod" presented and accepted in scientific congress CLAWAR 2005 (Climbing and Walking Robots) held in London from the 12th to the 15th of September. The article explains the mathematical model of generation of waves used by Melanie-III to walk on rough terrain and will be published by the prestigious publishing house Springer Verlag.
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August 2005	CampusBot 2005
	The past month of July was celebrated the ninth edition of Party Campus. As newness there was a new area of robotics called CampusBot, that had 200 participants who, during one week enjoyed in activities such as conferences, round tables, exhibitions of robots, contests and a workshop of assembly of robots. The event was carried out from the 25th to the 31st of July of 2005 in the Fair of Samples of Valencia (Spain) and was coordinated by Alejandro Alonso Puig.
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July 2005	Quark Robotics S.R.L.
	Alejandro Alonso Puig creates the company Quark Robotics S.R.L. whose mission is to promote the diffusion and the growth of the Robotics by means of R&D activities , engineering, training, consultancy, collaboration in diffusion events and promotion of the Robotics, etc. Quark Robotics will assume the activities of Robotics that previously were carried out in Plan-8 S.A.
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June 2005	Visit to the Laboratory of Robotics and Planetary Exploration. Center of Astrobiology. INTA.
	Alejandro Alonso Puig visited the Laboratory of Robotics and Planetary Exploration of the Center of Astrobiología (CAB), belonging to the National Institute for Aerospace Technology (INTA). The PhD. Javier Gómez Elvira, Assistant director of the Center of Astrobiology showed some projects in which the Center is working in the area of Robotics.
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May 2005	Visit to the Department of Systems and Automation Engineering. University of Malaga
	Juan González (IeaRobotics) and Alejandro Alonso Puig Visited PhD. Alfonso García Cerezo, Professor and Director of the Department of Systems and Automation Engineering of the University of Malaga.
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May 2005	Visit to the Laboratory of Robotics and Vision. UMA
	Juan González (IeaRobotics) and Alejandro Alonso Puig visited the Laboratory of Robotics and Vision of the University of Malaga, directed by Cristina Urdiales, where interesting researches are carried out on augmented reality and robots control.
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May 2005	V Robotics Event. University of Málaga (Spain)
	Juan González (IeaRobotics) and Alejandro Alonso Puig were in the “V Robotics Event” celebrated in the University of Malaga, organized by the Branch of students of the IEEE and the group of Robotics and Vision
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May 2005	Mundobot.com, becomes the Robotics Division of the company Plan-8 S.A.
	Alejandro Alonso, co-founder of the Spanish company Plan-8 S.A., reaches an agreement with the other partners of the company to open a Robotics Division for which he will be responsible. Mundobot.com will be the mark used by this company refering the activities of the Robotics Division .
April 2005	Visiting Seguritron
	Juan González (IeaRobotics) and Alejandro Alonso Puig visited Jose Luis Martinez Fraile, designer and constructor of the Seguritron robot, who very amiably showed them in his house this work of art in operation and explained interesting details of its construction. The robot is a real engineering work designed piece by piece by Jose Luis, a personage of exceptional capabilities.
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April 2005	Robotics at the University of Valladolid (Spain)
	Days 6 and 7 of April, in the occasion of the celebration of the Robolid'05 contest, events related to the world of Robotics were carried out in the Technical School of Industrial Engineers of Valladolid, between which they were an exhibition of the robot Melanie-III, during the conference “Those estrange Robots” by Alejandro Alonso Puig. Later Juan González (IeaRobotics) gave a lecture on apod robots, presenting his robots Cube Revolutions and Multicube.
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Feb 20th, 2005	Campus-Party 2005 will have a Robotics Area
	Campus-Party Organization and Mundobot come to an agreement to include a Robotics area in Campus-Party 2005. Such area will include robotics contests, workshops, conferences and robotics exhibitions among other activities. It will be held from the 25th till the 31st of July, 2005 at Ciudad de las Artes y las Ciencias in Valencia (Spain). For more information, please send a mail to infomundobot.com

Jan 23rd, 2005	New section "Media"
	It has been added a new sección called "MEDIA" (last button at the left). This section includes articles related with Mundobot at the media.
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Jan 17th, 2005	Published new article about a PID controller
	It has been included at the "publications" section a new article titles "PID control of two motors speed via serial port", that includes not only the design of the controller, but also the methodology for adjusting gains.
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Nov 24th, 2004	Visit to the Industrial Automation Institute (Madrid)
	Melanie-III visits the Industrial Automation Institute, from the CSIC. Research institute focused on the development of new technologies in the areas of process automation and advanced systems.
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Nov 1st, 2004	Melanie-III showed at RoboNexus Congress and Carnegie Mellon University at California
	Melanie-III traveled to California on October 2004. The robot was showed at RoboNexus in Santa Clara Convention Center and was invited to stay at the Robotics Society of America booth. Also Melanie-III was showed to the HBRobotics Group from Carnegie Mellon.
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Oct 31st, 2004	*Robotics at Cádiz University* (Spain)**
	Starting on Thursday March the 4th, at the Cádiz University (Spain) and during the Week of the Science, it is showed Melanie-III, hexapod robot of 3 dof/leg, during the conference "Those extrange Robots" by Alejandro Alonso-Puig. Later Juan González (IeaRobotics) give a lecture on polybot robots, showing his robot "Cube Revolutions".
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Sep 21st, 2004	Melanie-III
	Melanie-III has born as an evolution of Melanie v2.0. It's public presentation will occur next September 22nd at Clawar 2004 (Climbing & Walking Robots Scientific Congress)
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Jun 12th, 2004	Melanie v2.0 - Complete documentation available
	The complete documentation of Melanie v2.0 is already available. The version 2.0 that is showed in this technical report is an evolution of Melanie v1.0, to which some interesting capacities have been added, like the direct programming, the generation of movements by displacement of waves combined with inverse kinematics, or the capacity to walk on rough terrain.
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Apr 30th, 2004	Melanie v2.0 - Winner of the National Robotics Contest Hispabot 2004 (Spain)
	Melanie v2.0 get the first position in the National Robotics Contest Hispabot 2004 celebrated at Alcala de Henares (Spain) on the 29th and 30th of April 2.004. The robot showed its capacity to take on its body a weight superior to 4 kg (the double of its own weight), to obtain sequences of manual movement by direct programming, or to walk by the generation of space coordinates with algorithms of displacement of waves combined with inverse kinematics. Additionally its capacity to detect obstacles by the measurement of the power consumption of its legs allowed her to walk on obstacles adapting the gaits to them.
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Mar 24th, 2004	Melanie v1.0 - Complete documentation available
	The complete documentation of Melanie v1.0 is already available. Melanie is an hexapod robot of 3 degrees of freedom by leg, that by the novel design of legs which it has, can transport several kilograms on its body without excessive power overload. The version 1.0 that is in this technical report refers the simplest version of the implementation of the robot, in which the robot is connected to an external PC by serial port (RS232C) for its control by a Visual C++ application.
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Mar 21st, 2004	Robotics at SICFIMA 2004
	Next Thursday 25 of March, during the IX edition of SICFIMA (Week of the Investigation and the Culture of the Faculty of Computer science of Madrid - Spain), will be showed Melanie v1.0, hexapod robot of 3 dof/leg, during the conference "Those estrange Robots" that Alejandro Alonso-Puig will carry out starting at 10:00 CET. Later Juan González (IeaRobotics) will give a lecture on polybot robots, showing his robot "Cube Revolutions".
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Most of the developments include files with formats zip (compressed - WinZip), avi (video - Windows Media Player), pdf (Acrobat) y sch/brd (Eagle). There are versions of the programs that could be downloaded for free (freeware) for opening the files. With the following links you could access to the webpages of the mentioned programs.