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248
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About
B. Castillo–Toledo is a leading researcher in aerial robotics and autonomous systems, with a primary focus on unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for infrastructure inspection and advanced control strategies for complex robotic platforms. His most influential work, "Power line inspection via an unmanned aerial system based on the quadrotor helicopter" (2014), has garnered 179 citations and addresses the critical need for safer, more cost-effective inspection of high-voltage transmission lines using quadrotor helicopters, reducing reliance on dangerous manned flights. He has also made significant contributions to robust control design, as seen in his 2013 paper on backstepping control with sliding mode estimation for hexacopters (43 citations), which tackles trajectory tracking under aerodynamic disturbances. In the realm of autonomous navigation, Castillo–Toledo developed a robust filter-based monocular SLAM system (14 citations), enabling single-camera localization and mapping for mobile robots. His work extends to bipedal locomotion, where he pioneered the use of conformal geometric algebra and sliding mode control to achieve robust tracking of bio-inspired gaits. With a career spanning foundational UAV applications to advanced control theory, Castillo–Toledo’s research continues to shape safer, more intelligent autonomous systems.
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- 2Backstepping control with sliding mode estimation for a hexacopter43 citations · 2013
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- 4An algorithm for dynamic obstacle avoidance applied to UAVs6 citations · 2025
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