Joseph Jean-Baptiste Mvogo Ahanda
Université de Yaoundé I, University of Bamenda, University of Maroua
Papers
10
Total Citations
150
H-Index
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About
Joseph Jean-Baptiste Mvogo Ahanda is a robotics and control systems researcher whose work spans advanced robot control, continuum manipulators, and autonomous mobile navigation. His primary contributions lie in developing sophisticated adaptive and robust control strategies for complex robotic systems, particularly electrically driven and flexible-joint robot manipulators operating under real-world uncertainties. Mvogo Ahanda has made significant strides in applying intelligent computational techniques to robot control, most notably through his pioneering use of support vector regression within command filtered adaptive backstepping frameworks — work that has garnered over 30 citations across related publications. His 2014 backstepping-based exponential tracking controller for flexible-joint robots established an important foundation for his subsequent adaptive control research. He has also advanced the understanding of continuum manipulators, addressing their inherent limitations in position accuracy and speed through adaptive kinematic schemes and novel forward kinematic modeling approaches for conical-shaped designs. More recently, Mvogo Ahanda has extended his expertise to autonomous mobile robot navigation, combining artificial potential field methods with neuro-fuzzy controllers to achieve robust path planning. With a growing body of work accumulating over 150 total citations, his research consistently bridges theoretical control design with practical robotic applications, making meaningful contributions to both academic robotics literature and real-world manipulator performance improvement.
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- 7Forward Kinematic Modeling of Conical-Shaped Continuum Manipulators11 citations · 2021
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