Papers
17
Total Citations
139
H-Index
6
About
Fernando Ardilla is a robotics researcher whose work centers on control systems, autonomous navigation, and real-world robot applications, with a particular focus on balancing robots and omnidirectional mobile platforms. His most influential contribution is the development of a cascaded PID controller for two-wheeled balancing robots, which has garnered 34 citations and established a foundation for tilt-based stability control. Ardilla has also made significant strides in robot vision, creating ball tracking and goal detection systems using omnidirectional cameras for RoboCup Middle Size League soccer robots—a work cited 30 times. His research extends to path planning, where he has explored bicycle path planning methods and fuzzy logic controllers for omnidirectional robots, and to practical service robotics, including the E-TrashBot, a self-monitoring trash collection robot. Notably, Ardilla has contributed to the emerging field of cyber-physical systems with his work on topological twins for mobility support robots. With over 125 total citations across his publications, Ardilla’s work bridges theoretical control theory and practical robot design, making him a key figure in advancing autonomous mobile robotics for both competition and service applications.
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Top Papers
- 1Movement control of two wheels balancing robot using cascaded PID controller34 citations · 2015
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- 3Tilt set-point correction system for balancing robot using PID controller14 citations · 2015
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- 10Topological Twin for Mobility Support Robots4 citations · 2022