Juan Augusto Paredes Salazar

Juan Augusto Paredes Salazar

I'm a Research Fellow at UMBC with research interests in Guidance, Navigation and Control of UAVs and aerospace systems.

Welcome to my research site!

Hello! I’m Juan Augusto Paredes Salazar, PhD. in Aerospace Engineering.

I built this site to compile all of my academic and personal work in one place. Feel free to explore the sections and learn more about my research.

Below, you’ll find a figure related to my latest work, and at the bottom of the page, citation maps showing where my work has been referenced around the world.

Illustration of application of CBF to Multicopter Lateral Flight
Illustration of application of CBF to Multicopter Lateral Flight. Project details here.

Research Interests

My research interests are the development of Guidance, Navigation and Control algorithms with applications to Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and aerospace systems. In particular, my reserach interests are in the following topics:

  • Adaptive Control
  • Optimal Control and Model Predictive Control
  • Data-driven Learning for Control
  • Control Barrier Functions for Safe Control Synthesis
  • Kalman Filtering for State Estimation

Webpage Overview

Feel free to check my projects and their associated multimedia, as well as the provided code. The tabs above lead to the following content:

  • CV: My latest Curriculum Vitae. Click here to see the file online.
  • Publications: Academic publications I have authored over te years. Click here for more details, such as links to the papers.
  • Projects: Projects in which I have worked over the years. Click here for more details, such as associated papers, code, and media.
  • Videos: Collection of videos associated to my work. Click here to get access to the videos and more details about them.

Citation Map with Location of Citing Authors

A citation map that shows the location in the world of the authors that have cited my work is displayed below. This citation map was created by using the CitationMap Python tool available in here.

Full map is available here.

Last Updated: 10/12/2025

Citation Map with Number of Citing Authors

A citation map that shows the number of authors that have cited my work at different locations in the world is displayed below. This citation map was created by using the MapCitator code available in here.

Full map is available herehere.

Last Updated: 10/12/2025