Rocío Castañeda | Photos: UPIIZ
Students from the Interdisciplinary Professional Unit of Engineering, Zacatecas Campus (UPIIZ) at the Instituto Politécnico Nacional (IPN) gained international recognition at the 5th International Conference on Electrical, Computer, and Energy Technologies (ICECET 2025) in Paris, France.
Under the guidance of M.Sc. Rafael Reveles Martínez, the students presented three peer-reviewed articles in the field of applied robotics, all accepted for publication in proceedings indexed by major international scientific databases, including IEEE Xplore, Scopus, and Web of Science.
The first article, “Deployment of an Agricultural Mobile Robot for the Detection of Damaged Areas in Bean Crops Using Artificial Intelligence,” introduces an agricultural mobile robot that employs artificial intelligence to identify affected areas in bean fields, advancing precision agriculture and supporting sustainability in Mexican farming.
Authors include mechatronics students Edgar Ricardo Ruvalcaba Castro, Israel Herrera Álvarez, and Luis Eduardo Escareño Fernández.
The second paper, “Design and Implementation of an Autonomous Robot Beach Cleaner,” describes the development of a low-cost, autonomous beach-cleaning robot designed to collect waste along coastal areas. Contributors include students Sebastián Burciaga Sosa, Francisco Emiliano Romo Castañeda, Jorge Eduardo Hernández Esquivel, and faculty Addried Samir Moreno Castro and Ramón Jaramillo Martínez.
The third study, “Design of a Low-cost AGV with Robotic Loading System,” presents the design and validation of an economical automated guided vehicle (AGV) with a robotic loading system to optimize logistics in resource-limited industrial settings. Authors include UPIIZ graduates Priapo Chew Saldaña, Alan García Quiroz, Carlos Huitrón López, and professors Flabio Darío Mireles Delgado, Umanel Hernández González, and Carlos Daniel Rico Mandujano.
The international exposure of these projects not only highlights the innovative capacity of Zacatecas and the IPN in applied robotics but also underscores the ability of young Mexican engineers to compete at the highest levels of scientific research.
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