Papers
8
Total Citations
106
H-Index
4
About
Javier Sarria is a pioneering robotics researcher whose work spans agricultural automation, legged locomotion, and humanitarian demining. His most influential contribution is a multisensory system for fruit harvesting robots, which demonstrated remarkable versatility by detecting and locating various crops in natural, unstructured environments—a paper that has garnered 40 citations and laid crucial groundwork for precision agriculture. Sarria also made significant advances in hydraulic-legged robots, developing a high-resolution indirect force measurement technique for feet-ground interaction that achieved 33 citations; this innovation, tested on the ROBOCLIMBER quadruped, enabled stable, heavy-duty locomotion for climbing and walking machines. His biomimetic leg design using hybrid actuators further pushed the boundaries of dynamic legged locomotion, addressing the fundamental challenge of replicating biological muscle performance in mid-to-large-scale robots. Beyond agriculture and locomotion, Sarria has applied his expertise to humanitarian causes, designing an instrumented scanning manipulator for landmine detection—a robotic arm equipped with a metal detector and 3D camera that enhances safety in demining operations. His work on reconfigurable climbing robots and mobile demining platforms underscores a career dedicated to solving real-world problems through adaptive, sensor-rich robotic systems.
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Top Papers
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- 3Design and development of a biomimetic leg using hybrid actuators17 citations · 2011
- 4Reconfiguration of a Climbing Robot in an All-Terrain Hexapod Robot7 citations · 2015
- 5Indirect Force Measurement for Hydraulic Walking Robot3 citations · 2007
- 6Instrumented Scanning Manipulator for Landmines Detection Tasks2 citations · 2015
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- 8Robots móviles para tareas de desminado humanitario2 citations · 2013