ACCESS Laboratory Members

Jose Angel Matute is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, North Carolina A&T State University.  He received his Ph.D. in Control, Automation, and Robotics from University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) in Spain 2021. He received his M.S. and B.S. degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Simon Bolivar University (USB), Venezuela, in 2008 and 2012, respectively. His research interests include development, deployment, control, and coordination of automated driving vehicles and transportation technology.

• Ph.D., Control, Automation, and Robotics, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Bilbao, Spain, 2021 

• M.Sc., Mechanical Engineering,Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela, 2011

• B.Sc., Mechanical Engineering, Simon Bolivar University (USB), Caracas, Venezuela, 2008

• Matute, Jose A., Sergio Diaz, Asier Zubizarreta, Ali Karimoddini, and Joshue Perez. "An Approach to Global and Behavioral Planning for Automated Forklifts in Structured Environments." In 2022 IEEE 25th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), pp. 3423-3428. IEEE, 2022. 

• Matute, J.A., Vaca-Recalde, M., Perez, J. (2021). MPC-Based Speed Tracking for Automated Urban Buses Performing V2I Communications with Traffic Lights. In 2021 IEEE 24th Euromicro Conference on Digital System Design (DSD). IEEE.

• Matute, J.A., Diaz, S., Zubizarreta, A. (2021). Assessment of an Adaptive Cruise Control Based on Model Predictive Control for Buses Under Passenger Load Distribution Variation. In 2021 IEEE 24rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC). IEEE.

• Matute, J. A. (2021). Design and validation of decision and control systems in automated driving. Ph.D. Thesis.

• Matute-Peaspan, J. A., Marcano, M., Diaz, S., Zubizarreta, A., & Perez, J. (2020). Lateral-Acceleration-Based Vehicle-Models-Blending for Automated Driving Controllers. Electronics, 9(10), 1674.

• Gonzalez, L., Matute-Peaspan, J. A., Rastelli, J. P., & Calvo, I. (2020, September). Longitudinal Collision Avoidance Based on Model Predictive Controllers and Fuzzy Inference Systems. In 2020 IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

• Matute-Peaspan, J. A., Zubizarreta-Pico, A., & Diaz-Briceno, S. E. (2020). A Vehicle Simulation Model and Automated Driving Features Validation for Low-Speed High Automation Applications. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

• Marcano, M., Díaz, S., Matute, J. A., Irigoyen, E., & Pérez, J. (2020). A cascade steering shared controller with dual-level dynamic authority. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 53(2), 15353-15359.

• Lattarulo, R., Matute, J. A., Pérez, J., & Gomez Garay, V. (2020). Dual-modular architecture for developing and validation of decision and control modules for automated vehicles. Revista Iberoamericana de Automática eInformática industrial.

• Matute-Peaspan, J. A., Perez, J., & Zubizarreta, A. (2020). A Fail-Operational Control Architecture Approach and Dead-Reckoning Strategy in Case of Positioning Failures. Sensors, 20(2), 442.

• Lattarulo, R., Matute, J., Pérez, J., & Gomez Garay, V. (2020). Arquitectura dual-modular para desarrollos yvalidación de módulos de decisión y control en vehículos automatizados. Revista Iberoamericana de Automáticae Informática industrial, 17(1), 66-75.

• Matute, J. A., Lattarulo, R., Zubizarreta, A., & Perez, J. (2019, June). A Comparison Between Coupled and Decoupled Vehicle Motion Controllers Based on Prediction Models. In 2019 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) (pp. 1843-1848). IEEE.

• Matute-Peaspan, J. A., Gonzalez, L., & Zubizarreta, A. (2019, June). A study of a comfortable vehicle motion predictive control with no speed limit reference. In 2019 6th International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems (MT-ITS) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

• Matute, J. A., Marcano, M., Diaz, S., & Perez, J. (2019). Experimental Validation of a Kinematic Bicycle Model Predictive Control with Lateral Acceleration Consideration. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 52(8), 289-294.

• Sarabia, J., Matute-Peaspan, J. A., & Zubizarreta, A. (2019). Caracterización de los sistemas de actuación para vehículos altamente automatizados.

• Lattarulo, R., Heß, D., Matute, J. A., & Perez, J. (2018, September). Towards conformant models of automated electric vehicles. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Vehicular Electronics and Safety (ICVES) (pp. 1-6). IEEE.

• Lattarulo, R., González, L., Martí, E., Matute, J., Marcano, M., & Pérez, J. (2018). Urban motion planning framework based on n-bézier curves considering comfort and safety. Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2018.

• Matute, J. A., Marcano, M., Zubizarreta, A., & Perez, J. (2018, April). Longitudinal model predictive control with comfortable speed planner. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC) (pp. 60-64). IEEE.

• Lattarulo, R., Martí, E., Marcano, M., Matute, J., & Pérez, J. (2018, May). A speed planner approach based on Bézier curves using vehicle dynamic constrains and passengers comfort. In 2018 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS) (pp. 1-5). IEEE.

• Rooker, M., Horstrand, P., Rodriguez, A. S., Lopez, S., Sarmiento, R., Lopez, J., ... & Leppälampi, T. (2018, April). Towards improved validation of autonomous systems for smart farming. In Smart Farming Workshop.

• Lattarulo, R., Marcano, M., Matute, J. A., Pérez, J. P., Murgoitio, J., & Peña, A. (2018). Highly automated driving bus in urban scenarios.

• Marcano, M., Matute, J. A., Lattarulo, R., Martí, E., & Pérez, J. (2018). Low speed longitudinal control algorithms for automated vehicles in simulation and real platforms. Complexity, 2018.