S. Bellakehal

Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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S. Bellakehal is a robotics researcher whose work centers on the control of parallel robots, with a particular focus on integrating force and vision feedback for enhanced precision and safety. Their most influential contribution, "Vision/force control of parallel robots" (2011, 36 citations), established a foundational framework for combining visual servoing with force regulation, enabling robots to adapt to uncertain environments while maintaining high accuracy. Building on this, their follow-up study on force/position control using exteroceptive pose measurements (2011, 12 citations) demonstrated how external sensors can replace or augment internal encoders, reducing calibration complexity. Bellakehal’s research addresses critical challenges in human-robot interaction and assembly tasks, where compliance and real-time adaptation are essential. While their citation counts reflect a focused but impactful niche, their work has been cited in subsequent studies on parallel robot control, medical robotics, and industrial automation. By bridging vision-based perception and force-sensitive manipulation, Bellakehal has contributed to making parallel robots more versatile and reliable in unstructured settings—a key step toward their broader deployment in manufacturing, surgery, and collaborative applications.